n80
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| Best 80s New Wave Always liked Squeeze. Never thought of them as new wave though. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Music From Big Pink - The Band | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @noromance : " Better to fail trying to succeed than regret not trying and die."You mean I'll die if I don't try playing the drums? ;-)Seriously, I agree with you. It doesn't mean we should try everything that pops into our heads...........but I ... | |
| Best 80s New Wave What about The Cars? | |
| ADVICE PLEASE On my lower end system I made my own speaker cable with 12 AWG pure copper low oxygen "lamp cord' as @millercarbon calls it. Put decent banana plugs on it and I'm happy with it. Can be done with little skill and no tools. Its a step up from the 18... | |
| DIY speakers of solid/reclaimed wood? I would think the biggest problem would be cost. Thick dense old growth walnut is very stable. Stable enough to be the preferred wood for gun stocks. But nice, dense tight walnut is insanely expensive. | |
| Best 80s New Wave I used to despise all those bands. Gave my little sister no end of grief over those Duran Duran girly boys. (At the time I was into Led Zep, The Who, Rush, U2, REM, Sabbath and various other heavy metal stuff.)But now I like some stuff by Squeeze,... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? @bigkidz : That Rundgren song is always in my head. | |
| Take up drums at age 56? Thanks for the encouragement guys. Will have to see if that used electric kit hangs around the music store a little longer. I've pretty much concluded that an acoustic set would be my preference and also the best bang for the buck but would also g... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Steely Dan - Two Against Nature. CD.Not my favorite Steely Dan album but it is probably the best produced CD I've ever heard. Just unreal. It is my reference and system show-off CD. | |
| Can one ever be "done" in this hobby? Me a couple of days ago: "I'm pretty much done. And happy."Then I saw a glowing review of the very inexpensive Schiit Mani. Now I want one. I'm a sucker for something that is reasonably cheap and reasonably good.So the answer to the original quest... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Pete Townshend - White City. Amazing album except for the song Face the Face which is so bad I leave it off the CD rip. | |
| Speakers under $50k that rival $200k+ speakers? I bet all $50k speakers rival $200k speakers. But for speakers above $500k...........well, nothing can touch them.Edited to add: ;-) | |
| Take up drums at age 56? Excellent references @bdp24 . Fortunately those are many of the people I like to listen to already (without knowing who the specific drummers were).I think I am very sensitive to timing and rhythm when I listen to it. It seems very common for a lo... | |
| Take up drums at age 56? Here is the sort of thing that inspires me to want to play the drums. The Song is "Laughs and Jokes and Drinks and Smokes".With a cursory listen it might sound like the drummer is playing a very simple repeating pattern but if you listen closely, ... |