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Jackie Greene
Saw him a few times with Phil Lesh & Friends. Very talented, indeed. 
The pizza tapes
I just picked this up, and can definitely recommend it, Jerry Garcia and John Kahn, acoustic, from 1986:http://www.dead.net/features/release-info/jerrys-back-and-weve-got-him 
Beatles covers: better than originals?
I LOVE Shirley Bassey's cover of "Something"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmjwFYWNlO0Honorable mention:I think the Grateful Dead did a good job covering Beatles tunes. 
The little guys?
A lot of their stuff is not cheap, but it is manufacturer direct, that is Ridge Street Audio. http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fb.pl?user=Ridgestreetaudio I bought one of their interconnects and really like it. I have also bought from http://www.us... 
the dead on tour again. ---two questions:
I'm going to the Madison Square Garden Show April 25.The Dead were here in NYC on Monday 3/30 and they played three free shows (tickets were distributed via a lottery--I recommend anyone interested in The Grateful Dead get on the GDTS-TOO mailing ... 
Movies that featured High End equipment
In "Philadelphia" Tom Hanks had what appeared to be Audiostatic speakers 
Which James Bond Theme Recording
I have soundtracks Diamonds Are Forever, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and You Only Live Twice. Great stuff. It's through the the Bond films that I got turned on to Shirley Bassey. She is incredible!My favorite live version of Goldfinger: http:... 
Bruce at The Super Bowl....
I thought Silvio was in a coma and not expected to survive. I was gratified to see him. 
CD's you bring for auditioning
Grateful Dead--Reckoning (acoustic), any other live electric recording that I'm fond ofPink Floyd--Wish You Were HereShirley Bassey--Live At Carnegie Hall, SomethingIt is more important to me how the equipment sounds on stuff I play a lot rather t... 
My new CDP does SACD too....
The Bob Dylan SACDs are great 
Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps
Bassey the Belter is quite capable of raising goosebumps with quite a few songs, just to name two, "I (Who Have Nothing), and "This Is My Life."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0pOAVGvePQ 
Who R U?
I'm going to be 50 this year. I first became interested in good music when I got turned on to classic rock when I was in the 11th grade. Up to that point I listened to top 40, which looking back did have some great stuff that I still enjoy. But th... 
Speaker cable suggestions for MBL 101E's
If you click on it does say, "MBL has tested many cables and Wire World reference speaker cables is among the best." So they are not saying Wireworld is the only good choice. Besides, it seems to me that whatever profit they make from a sale on th... 
Speaker cable suggestions for MBL 101E's
On the mbl-usa website, they sell Wireworld, presumably that means they feel Wireworld is an optimum match.http://www.mbl-usa.com/Browse.aspx/398/Accessories 
source for posters and photographs of musicians
I have two suggestions. http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/http://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/