martykl
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| The Beach Boys IMO, the greatest (and certainly one of the most celebrated) novel(s) of the last century (Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow") was written by an author who (by his own admission) used LSD extensively during its creation. Beyond that, the book i... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! I go both ways on this one. Jimi just went about playing the guitar in a new and different way. While I tend to agree with Bdp on both of his main points:1) Playing should generally be in service to the songand2) Jimi's songs weren't often compe... | |
| The Beach Boys Peter Green was another sad LSD casualty and Jeremy Spencer may have been, as well. | |
| Best Drum Solos And now for something completely different:I was driving today and Culture Club's immortal hit "The War Song" (key lyric: War is stupid, People are stupid) popped up on XM. I had completely forgotten that this song featured a real, honest to good... | |
| If I were to upgrade from the Gallo 3.5? If you like the 3.5, you may struggle to find a lot that you'd prefer near that price point. Because that tweeter has such with de dispersion and crosses so low, the 3.5 behaves a bit like an Omni. I find that sound quite distinctive (and quite ... | |
| The Beach Boys Nice post bdp,I discovered all of that Smile sessions material only with/after the relatively recent Smile album release and I agree with your take. It feels like a view into a warped mind, sometimes dark, sometimes child-like, always much more i... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! Slaw,I think you conflated my response with the one that followed - "panties in a bunch" wasn't me. I was actually trying to reconcile what you posted with what bop posted. IMO, Neil Schon is a highly skilled player whose taste does not comport ... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! Funny that we got a Neal Schon response to Bdp. I was considering making one myself. I was roped into seeing Journey last year and was struck by two (and a half) things:1). The concert overall struck me as a completely soulless exercise in nosta... | |
| The Beach Boys From a pop songwriting standpoint, I'd argue that one great challenge of the '60s was merging traditional western song craft with "pure" rock n roll (read Chuck Berry, for short). Early Rock n Roll almost entirely eliminated the single most essen... | |
| What's Up with Magnapan at Shows? Lots of manufacturers go for the wow! Factor when demoing their products. The big sound (or big bass) from a small speaker probably accounts for the curtain trick. Bose used to do something similar at CES. The fact that Magnepan does this at au... | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! Yoko Ono deserves special mention here.The Plastic Ono Band included (at various times): Clapton, Jim Keltner, Alan White, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Billy Preston and John, George, and Ringo, among others.Actually, this one might be tough to beat. | |
| Your picks of mediocre or lousy vocals with great musicians! Warren Zevon isn't exactly Jussi Bjoerling (well, maybe next to Dylan he could pass), but his cover of "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" blows away the original IMO. Maybe knowing that Zevon was dying of cancer when he recorded it colors my judgement he... | |
| Best Drum Solos I'll toss in a personal guilty pleasure:Mick Fleetwood - "World Turning" from Fleetwood Mac Live in Boston | |
| Are Ohm-Walsh micros and 1000 series disrespected because of omni-directional design?? Jim,Your observation is on point. The current Ohms are less true to the original Walsh design than are the HHRs. Just one question:What makes you think that that is a good thing (for HHR)?BTW, I've never heard the HHR. For all I know, it blows ... | |
| Are Ohm-Walsh micros and 1000 series disrespected because of omni-directional design?? On most material, I find that the imaging/staging from the Ohms is unusually convincing. Placement in space is specific enough that sources can easily be located and the spread across the room, between and beyond the speakers, is continuous in wa... |