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| Heard a SOTA and I am pumped to get mine goin Chad-- Great news! I'd love to hear your system sometime. By the time I got back from a little league coaches meeting it was too late to call back. Keep me posted on any upcoming ears and beers events.John | |
| What music do you want to play really loud? Grateful Dead Dicks Picks #10. Also, Guadalacanal Diary "2 by 4" | |
| musical drummers...who are they ??? Jim Keltner. Always overlooked but a great drummer. | |
| Best Guitar CD Recording Most any Doc Watson stuff. | |
| Undiscovered blues gems..... Jimmie D. Lane. He did an album with Double Trouble last year that was produced by Eddie Kramer. I think it's called "It's Time". You can order it from acoustic sounds. | |
| The Smiths. The Stone Roses. James. I have all that stuff from my college days in the early eighties. The The, Mighty Lemon Drops, Cocteau Twins, That Petrol Emotion, The Furs, The Stranglers, Love Tractor, The Call, Guadalacanal Diary, Screaming Blue Messiahs, Beat Farmers, The Hou... | |
| CDs:Otis,Etta, Aretha....Stax/Volt comps.... There is a complete stax/volt cd compilation that came out in the early 90's. I love it. | |
| Great music but poor recording recommendations. Exile on main street | |
| Best movies last two years A Very Long engagement and Downfall. Both foreign and both amazing. | |
| What song best sums up the previous year? Life Durind Wartime--The Talking Heads. | |
| adcom 565 preamp question... FWIW--I had a Audiogoner tweak my Adcom preamp and was totally satisfied with the results. He can be e-mailed at Ardillas806@aol.com for the specifics. | |
| Thinking about an Audio Research PH5 Thanks for all the input. My local dealer is going to let me try an ARC SP16 pre. We'll see what happens. Thanks. | |
| Best Guitar CD Recording Any stuff by Jerry Douglas | |
| Best Blues on CD/SACD? Buddy Guy-Damm Right I Got the Blues, Albert King-Born under a Bad Sign, Freddie King-Texas Tornado?, Mississippi Fred MacDowell-I Do Not Play No Rock & Roll. | |
| Best movies last two years Both of these are foriegn and I don't want to come across as pretentious. They both are war movies that are amazing. The first, "A very Long Engagement", has WW1 as the backdrop. Killer story and great camera work. The second is a German film call... |