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| Sad songs- We love them- We need them Crazy Man Michael... Yeah! | |
| Instrumentalists you can recognize after 6 bars..? John Coltrane. Miles Davis Jimi Hendrix. Eric Clapton. Django. Grappelli Mark O'Connor, the fiddler. | |
| The Beatles Revolver I gotta tell you that I don't think I've put any Beatles record on the turntable in this century. The same goes for cueing a Beatles tune up on a streaming site. But, yeah, I do occasionally get out the acoustic guitar and play/sing a Beatles tune. | |
| Streaming I'm another oldster and I gotta say that streaming is truly the beez kneez. Sure, I've got thousands of LPs and hundreds of CDs, not to mention maybe about a hundred 45's. But streaming is truly so much more. It's like having the key to the record... | |
| The Beatles Revolver Maybe my memory fails, but I remember reading in (where was it, in the L.A. Times?) that from the days of "Beatles 65" on, George Martin relentlessly multi-tracked the Beatles' recordings. As my stereo systems continued to get better and better, t... | |
| Sad songs- We love them- We need them A good half the cuts on Emmylou Harris' records of the 1970's. Such as "Making Believe" and "Pancho and Lefty." And don't forget R.E.M. It didn't hurt that Michael Stipe simply has a mournful voice. The band itself could musically express mourn... | |
| Your last concert was to see who and when? Lots of evocative, excellently played street music on the streets of Greece. Played with dash, style, fun and emotion. | |
| Roger Waters and Graham Nash on The Band. What can I tell ya'? I barely tolerated The Band from day one, and hated them more often than not. I liked the song "The Weight," but I enjoyed the cover version that was an AM hit in L.A. (was it by Dusty Springfield?) far more than the one by Th... | |
| What are/were the best sounding cheap components you have ever had? KEF Corelli speakers knocked me out of the park when I wandered into a high end joint and listened to them after auditioning mediocre speakers at a Pacific Stereo. Was it at Northridge Audio? Anyway, it re-lit the high-end spark I got from my fath... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? One of the blessings of living in a large metropolis is having enough dedicated high-end audio outlets to actually be able to listen to components and systems -- to gain a sense of what is truly excellent, what you truly prefer among those excelle... | |
| Why do so many members seem afraid of making an audio decision? The stuff costs a lot of money. It can make a mess of a room. Putting it to full use can drive other family members...not to mention neighbors...nuts. The magazines and websites that cater to the trade possess writers who are talented and convinci... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear dz13 - Yeah, I was a fan of Ultravox. I have at least three of their LPs. I'm pretty sure they're one more band I saw during my Sunset Strip night club-going days. | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear Yeah -- NRBQ. I'd forgotten how tight and fun they were. | |
| are we also coffee connoisseurs? Or wine enthusiasts? Though a little goes a long way for me, I also admit to being a wine lover. I don't have a truly deep knowledge of what is what, but I can say that the times I've been to France the red has been second to none. And yeah, spent time in Burgundy and... | |
| are we also coffee connoisseurs? Or wine enthusiasts? johnto -- My La Pavoni eventually went belly-up and now statue-esqely sits atop my LP shelf. To be sure, me & the wife pulled lots of first class espresso from that machine but when it died there wasn't anybody around to fix it..Even the guy w... |