mrmitch
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| Have you been Shpongleized? Try Zero 7 if you enjoy spacey mood music, the title is "When It Falls" on Elektra. Or Popul Vuh's "Shepherd's Symphony (Hirtensymphonie) on SPV. | |
| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? My favorite 3 are Jack Bruce and Jaco for their innovative lines and ability to propel the music forward and Tony Levin for his technique and ability to be incredible no matter what group he was playing with. And this will make a lot of you laugh ... | |
| Rolling Stone top 100 Guitarists - Howe/Van Halen Have to agree with Tvad about Steve Howe. I'm a musician (played guitar and bass in area bands in the late 60's and early 70's)and most of my friends were also musicians. All of us marvelled at Howe's facility on guitar which encompassed not only ... | |
| Why Doesn't Contemporary Jazz Get Any Respect? Just my two cents worth but I believe the way in which we listen to music informs our tastes at any given time. Some may listen to music in an analytical way and "true" jazz may be what they do that with. Some may find the emotional message enough... | |
| The Great Vinyl Debate I bought the bulk of my over-1000 LP collection during the 80's and early 90's so I can just sit back and utter a deep Lewis Black-like "BBWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"-sorry! | |
| any new BLUES recomendations? Check out Hillstomp, "Darker the Night" or "One Word". Theyre on In Music We Trust label or Fuzzmonster label. Hard to find, might need to go to specialty sites to order but if you like R.L. Burnside, they will float your boat. Also second the Ain... | |
| Best Rock Drummers Thanks Marty, did not know that, will do! Too slick by half on their choice of names though, lol. | |
| Album which you have listened to most? King Crimson's "Three of a Perfect Pair". | |
| Song covers that are better than the originals Clapton's cover of J.J. Cale's "After Midnight" | |
| Best Rock Drummers Danny Serafine of Chicago.--Mrmitch | |
| Best Rock Drummers Another vote for Bruford!--Mrmitch | |
| Jazz must have pressings??? Hi Coltrane1! I'm a guitar player and bassist, these are some of my favorite pressings: 1. Kenny Burrell and John Coltrane on Prestige 2. Guitar Player (2 LP's)on MCA-Joe Pass, Lee Ritenour, Herb Ellis,Irving Ashby, Barney Kessel and others 3. Th... | |
| Advantages of bi-wire? I went from using single-wire Analysis Plus Oval 9 with gold plated jumpers on my Unity Audio Signature 1's to shotgun biwire Acoustic Zen Sartori. Huge difference for the better-improved bass extension and slam, better separation of instruments a... | |
| How Many Turntables Have You Owned Four-a Technics DD (NOT what you guys are thinking!), a German made PE(Precision Ebner), a VPI HPWIV, and my current Akustic Raven One.--Mrmitch | |
| Ortofon RS-309D opinions Curio, I have an Ortofon AS 309S arm on my Raven One (its the 12 inch arm),and a Dynavector cartridge, and use a Synergistic Research Tricon Analog tonearm cable going to the new Fosgate phono stage and Joule Electra LA-150 Mk 2 preamp. The combo ... |