martykl
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| Best rock song of all times My stock answer to this question is always Johnny Be Goode, but lots of good choices here.Some missing possibilities, each iconic in its own way:I Fought The Law - Sonny Curtis/Bobby Fuller/ClashSweet Jane - Lou ReedVolunteers - Jefferson Airplane... | |
| Notes on Todd Rundgren Show Jaybo,The Nazz records were absolutely the closest Rundgren recordings to the music I heard this show - and that was a loooong time ago.Marty | |
| Black Gospel With Good Sound I'll second Narrod, all of my Fairfield 4 cds are damn near SOTA recordings. The performances are generallly spectacular as well.Marty | |
| Notes on Todd Rundgren Show Gdoodle,Sound was very, very good. This kind of show can be unlistenable if the sound is sub-par. I'm pretty confident you'll get a good acoustic for Scofield.Desoto, I talked to one fan as I left the show and he was sorely disappointed. TR defini... | |
| Pros and cons of the Magico Mini vs MBL 101E I haven't heard the Magico, but I have heard MBL overload the bass at an LA show. For some reasons of their own choosing, the company demo'd the 101 in a (large) room at unbearably high volume. But...I heard the smaller (111?) MBL floorstander at ... | |
| worst 'long-lived' band I'm headed to NYC this week so I looked around to see who's playing during my stay. Up pops the Jefferson Starship (Not Airplane). Unless you believe in Miracles, they have to be somewhere near the top of this list.Marty | |
| Most Influential American Musician of All Time? Armstrong is the first to come to mind, although you could argue that Sidney Bechet trumps him.IMHO Louis Jordan presaged rock n roll and Chuck Berry perfected it - both were highly influential in that regard.Tvad made a good call on Robert Johnso... | |
| Infinite bafflement? Infinite baffle is a pretty self-descriptive term. If you use Gregm's definition (which is correct), just think of the front baffle of any speaker in which all drivers are front mounted. Now imagine that that baffle is infinitely large. There will... | |
| Best "Island Song" Gotta go with Kid Creole - a couple of dozen contenders come to mind, but I'll go with "Something Wrong in Paradise"or maybe "Haiti" or "Part of My Design" or.......MartyBTW, Marley is a great choice, but so is Harry Belafonte. | |
| Horns for SET: Low budget solutions David,The Overtures are actually very fine performers, provided you go easy on the volume control. All sorts of bad things start to happen as spl goes up, but up to modestly loud levels these speakers are quite neutral, dynamic, and musical. For t... | |
| Horns for SET: Low budget solutions You might want to visit osaudio.com. He's a former distributor for Loth X and Zingali horns and usually has a few pairs of each available on closeout. FWIW, I listened to the SAP (Quattro if I recall) pretty extensively when I was auditioning horn... | |
| Best sounding LP nobody else has ever heard of... Rlawry,I love both of the records which you mentioned, but both of my copies of Any Kind of Lie are strange in that a couple of tracks (I'll have to check for the titles) have severely limited Don Dixon's bass guitar. It almost sounds like two dif... | |
| Best short-lived band? GhosthouseThere is a new release from Mountain - haven't heard it so I can't speak to the quality (or lineup, for that matter) - but thought you might like to know.Marty | |
| Best short-lived band? Lots of good choices already, but I'd add a few more:801The ReiversUncle TupeloThe Delevantes The New Radicals Veg James GangRockpileThe dBsHindu Love GodsThis thread is a good opportunity to remember those who left us (one way or another) too soo... | |
| Best guitar explosion of all time A question for the Fripp "Baby's on Fire" contingent: Anyone else prefer Phil Manzanera's version with 801?Even though it would never qualify as an "explosion" my favorite Fripp solo for Eno is the odd, little elliptical piece on "St. Elmo's Fire"... |