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| Best live album you've ever heard? QuanmerI believe only one is courtesy of Buckingham. It's the recent CD & double DVD setRegardsMarty | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? I'll add a couple of recent additions, both courtesy of Lindsey Buckingham. His solo "Live at Bass Hall" and Fleetwood Mac's "Live in Boston". Both are beautifully recorded collections of (IMHO) fantastic rock songs perfomed by monster bands.The M... | |
| Need Blues Rec--burn the house down guitar stuff One more for Gatton. The Humbler. Prepare to be humbledMarty | |
| Band with highest success/talent ratio? I'm going with Michael Buble and I actually like the guy. For reasons beyond the scope of this post, I've seen him perform live twice. He's charming and entertaining but his success is WAY out of proportion to his talentMarty | |
| Why do some model names use "MKII"? Interesting question, though not, by any means, restricted to amplifiers (see cars, vaccuum cleaners, etc).A little search on the etymology of the phrase didn't yield a direct answer, but here's a guess based on what I saw.One archaic meaning of "... | |
| Jazz Crossovers to the Pop Charts/Timeless Classic Killer Joe by The Jazztet comes to mind quickly | |
| Duke Ellington question... I never saw Ellington, but I'm told by a friend who has seen him that the song was a staple in Duke's live set for quite a few years. That probably accounts for why the song is so strongly associated with Duke, even though it was written by Earle ... | |
| British sound??? First heard about "British Sound" in the '70's, relative to Kef, Bowers and Wilkins, et al. I always thought that the phrase referred to their popular (in Britain) 2 way systems that were (usually) pretty tonally nuetral but lacked deep bass (rela... | |
| Best active crossover? Dan Ed beat me to it.Digital, if your sources are all digital, offers a lot of (theoretical, at least) benefits.The Marchands have a following, but some of the tubed units can get noisy over time (like the used loaner I tried, briefly, in my syste... | |
| Amp questions I used both a Krell KSA50s and an ARC VT130SE briefly w/Maggie 3.5s some years back. Both worked quite well, although my SPLs were always modest due to sensitive neighbors in my building. Therefore, I can't really report on how well either of thes... | |
| Are you an Allison Krause and Union Station fan IMHO, Alison & Jerry Douglas are a superhuman 1-2 punch | |
| Lobos/Clapton Show - mini-review John,This stuff is always (in part, anyway) venue specific, so the Lobos sound at your show may well have been abysmal (whoever's fault that was), while the Lobos' LA sound was merely decent.FWIW, I've generally found Los Lobos painfully loud in c... | |
| Lobos/Clapton Show - mini-review John,The Lobos definitely got the short end of the sonic stick at this show, too. Personally, I wouldn't go to "abysmal", but it was "thick", and definitely paled in comparison to the sparkling sound EC's band produced. | |
| Decware - any substance here? Gasm,Thanks for the feedback.Marty | |
| The Feelies are back Kclone,IMHO, the Feelies are a little different animal from Husker Du and The Replacements (although, obviously, those bands differ from each other, too). I like both of the above (Paul Westerberg, in particular), but none were barking up quite th... |