larsman
Responses from larsman
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? @cd318 - Holy cow - another fan of Inspiral Carpets! 'This Is How It Feels' is one of my favorites of their's (beautiful melody, too), along with the 'Revenge of the Goldfish' album.... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? The Animals' version of 'House of the Rising Son' kind of redefined it like Hendrix did with 'Watchtower'.... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? I think Dionne and Burt are a wonderful combo, but I don't have any records by them, whereas I do have every Stranglers album featuring Hugh Cornwell. Very different indeed, but personally I wouldn't say either is 'better' - vive la differance! | |
| E-bay and its sellers @tcotruvo - there are some bad buyers and sellers on eBay? Who would have guessed? 😀 Also, some sellers may consider absurd low-ball offers as insults to their intelligence and will respond accordingly, and I totally understand that. | |
| How did you get started in this hobby Back in 1975 or so, I went to a hi-fi show at San Francisco Civic Auditorium where I got to see all these high end brands and associated gear. SF Civic Auditorium was also a good-sized live music venue, so they had Sensational Alex Harvey Band and... | |
| Does remote control degrade the sound of tube preamps? I doubt I'd hear any difference at all, and the convenience of having the remote would far outweigh any miniscule difference there could possibly be. I've got a Herron Audio tube preamp, and I think at one point, Keith Herron did not offer remote... | |
| Isn't it really about quality of recording? I listen a lot with my Susvara headphones and my tube headphone amp, and that really reveals the good and bad of the recording. But yes, even not-so-great recordings are very enjoyable through this, though it's noticeable that it could have been b... | |
| Quality of recording I'd say most all of them do that want to sell any quantity of music; nobody is depending on audiophiles to sell music to except for MoFi and the like.... I know back a few decades ago - they might still do, I dunno - producers would often liste... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? @pesky_wabbit - Before I even looked to see what the link went to, I was thinking, 'my favorite version of 'Walk On By' is by the Stranglers!!' Big Stranglers fan, here... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? I don't know if it's better than the original, 'cause 'Billie Jean' was a pretty great song to begin with, but the late, great Chris Cornell slowed it down to almost a blues type of song, and he puts so much feeling into the lyrics; I really under... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear @nutty - Indeed it was, Nutty! I think there were 2 Paris albums that came out. I was fortunate enough to see them at Winterland in San Francisco in the mid-70's... Bob Welch was very underrated... | |
| Suggest one obsure album we all should hear @nutty - Paris was a band that Bob Welch started in 1975.... | |
| Music for the Pacific Audiofest show Diana Krall! Norah Jones!! 🤣🤣 | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? @painter24 - I'm so with you on the merits of Graham Nash. Nothing against the guy - I loved him in the Hollies and he's a fine photographer, but his CSN(Y) songs, to me, are about the most insipid things I've ever heard (and back then, I listened... | |
| what’s a song cover that you think is better than the original? @painter24 - I much prefer the JA version of 'Wooden Ships', and Paul Kantner did co-write it with Crosby and Stills. But then, I like JA a whole lot more than I do CSNY anyway. |