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| Springsteen and Clapton on their favorite, heh, band. The Weight is such a key song in Easy Rider it cemented The Band’s place in rock history, if for no other reason…and Chest Fever was unlike anything most people had ever heard before. There are other quality cuts but overall, compared to the “brow... | |
| What is your favorite album cover? T. Rex - Electric Warrior (rock personified)Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (also see Santana Abraxas & Miles Live)Any Roger Dean cover (Yes, Osibisa, Uriah Heap, Asia, etc.)It's a Beautiful DayZappa - Hot RatsBowie - Ziggy StardustJane's Addiction... | |
| Favorite Guitar Solo Hendrix: Message To Love, Voodoo ChildMick Taylor (Stones): Can't You Hear Me KnockingClapton(Cream): Badge, White RoomPage: Dazed and Confused, HeartbreakerFunkadelic (Eddie Hazel): Maggot BrainThe Guess Who: Rain DanceChuck Berry: (you choose)Th... | |
| Interesting thought No one has mentioned the DJ phenomenon, which has been around for awhile. Massive crowds listening at rock concert sound levels through (I assume) accurate, full-frequency systems.I believe most young people value mobility, and they switch jobs fr... | |
| MSRP, diferentiation and the illusion of value As Harry Haller in Hesse’ Steppenwolf listens to Mozart explain, after Mozart places a transistor radio playing Handel on the table (substitute “audiophile system” for “radio”): Please, no pathos, my friend! Anyway, did you observe the ritardando?... | |
| What Is The Most Romantic Song That You Have Ever Listen To? Hats off to Mickeyb for Grant Lee Buffalo and Honey Don’t Think….unique vocal style.Can’t believe I’m saying this but, ELO - Telephone Linestops me every time.Unrequited love doesn’t really qualify as romantic…or does it?Elvis Costello - She is my... | |
| Cat Scratch Fever? What a ride this discussion has been!The Amboy Dukes had some great material, and Ted forged hi$ career playing to people he later relegated/editorialized to the garbage heap of society. So much for gratitude and compassion.Never cared for the ham... | |
| WHAT IS THE MOST UNIQUE SONG THAT YOU HAVE EVER HEARD? White Bird - It’s a Beautiful Day21st Century Schizoid Man - King CrimsonInterstellar Overdrive - P Floydunique has many meanings.... | |
| Can someone please explain When I look at a painting I generally view it as a whole creation.....not individual components of paint colors/textures, tints, composition, view angle, etc. (abstract stuff too).With music, for me, the same thing goes....and I either actively en... | |
| What would be your favorite 3 tracks that demonstrate how great your system sounds? Joy Inside My Tears - Stevie WonderInto the Mystic - Van MorrisonWhole Lotta Love - Led Zepp All selections are BluRay audio except Led Zepp, which is DVD audio. | |
| How loud are you typically listening? I’d like to add that after an exceedingly loud session I usually don’t listen to my system for a few days.The danger/fear of developing tinnitus is real enough to keep me in check. | |
| How loud are you typically listening? Music is therapy. Concerts can be therapeutic.When i therapeutically need Rip This Joint or Communication Breakdown the decibel level is irrelevant ...however many db that ends up being.Time is best kept short at those levels, and I’m thrilled to ... | |
| Ready, set, comment! Speaker cables don’t make a difference? In the 70’s I bought Acoustic Research speaker cables to go with my AR-3a’s: 50’ of zip cord x2 with spades as I recall.Used them for 25+ years, even with my Khorn upgrade, until my brother mailed me a pair of Monster Cables he didn’t need.To hono... | |
| If you had access to a time machine, what concerts would you go back to see? Obviously I would see the classical creators/masters...Bach especially....too many to do justice by mentioning.Miles Davis in the 50's; Charlie Parker and the great bands he was in; Jimmy Reed for sentimental reasons; Jimi Hendrix; Cream in 1968; ... | |
| Worst Concerts You Have Attended ?? BTW, RIP Keith Emerson.In New Orleans, early 80's, was looking forward to Johnny Winter; he injured his fretting hand before the show and played the whole concert with a slide...LOUD x7 .....he clearly adhered to a rigorous regimen of painkiller(s... |