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| Cheap Stuff That Keeps Up? A NAD 3300 PE integrated amplifier - I've had mine since 1986 or 87 and it still performs great, at least four hours a day, almost every day. It's sound is limited only by what is connected to it. | |
| Good 8' speaker cables under 200.00 I like my $90 8-foot pair of DH-Labs T-14 as well as $400+ Cardas. You don't always get better cable for more money. | |
| A Love Supreme "A Love Supreme" is an appealing, inspired, and inspirational set indeed. I've been moved by it for over thirty years: moved to tears, to reflection, to action, to dance.Other Coltrane recordings that move me similarly are "Sun Ship", "First Medit... | |
| I don't remember much, but I remember...... Tireguy,Thanks for this opportunity to take a stroll down memory lane.It must have been 1965, because the first record I bought was a 45 of "Mustang Sally" by Wilson Picket (I can't remember what was on the flipside). I bought it from a Thrifty dr... | |
| REL Strata III vs. REL Q201E Have you heard the ACI Titan II LE? I ask, because I was going to get a used REL (can't afford a new one), until I tried a Titan II.The Titan II has the admirable qualities of the RELs and then some, in my opinion. I'm quite familiar with the Stra... | |
| Girlfriends and wifes, how do YOU cope? I'm always amused by these threads. I don't see how dealing with audio expenditures are different than the various other negotiations, communications, and compromises that are part and parcel of relationships.To some people, I would say that the d... | |
| Ear Candy: Most startling recordings. Toru Takemitsu - "From Me Flows What You Call Time" and "Legacy For The Future"Miles Davis - "Big Fun" and "Bitches Brew"Jimi Hendrix - "Axis Bold As Love" | |
| fusion jazz recommendations My fusion favorites will serve to amplify some of the previous suggestions:Miles- Big Fun, In A Silent Way, Bitches Brew, On The Corner, Miles In the Sky Mahavishnu Orchestra- Inner Mounting FlameHerbie Hancock- Mwandishi, Crossingsmost of Tony Wi... | |
| HELP Who is Herbie Nichols sp ? The Blue Notes do contain his best work, and that 3CD set at J&R is a good deal. I have most of his Blue Note stuff on Japanese (nice) and French (noisy) vinyl. I think I'll get that 3CD set.On Palmetto, I don't see a release by Herbie Nichols... | |
| Amazing Solo Piano Recordings Abdullah Ibrahim's "African Dawn" is majestic. | |
| Your 5 Fav Rock Concerts Jimi Hendrix- L.A. Forum, 1970Jimi Hendrix- L.A. Forum, 1969Jimi Hendrix- Shrine Auditorium, 1968Frank Zappa- Santa Monica Civic, 1974(?)some of Woodstock, 1969 | |
| Your favorite blues album? I have always enjoyed "Hoodoo Man Blues" by Junior Wells. | |
| Best Sax Jazz Billy Harper's SessionsOut of print LPs:Love On The Sudan (Denon)Knowledge of Self (Denon)The Believer (Baystate)Out of print CD:Soran-Bushi (Denon)Currently Available CDs:Destiny Is Yours (Steeplechase)Black Saint (Black Saint)With Randy Weston:S... | |
| Audiogon "RECORDINGS TO DIE FOR" list A few recordings to Live for:John Coltrane "Crescent"Miles Davis "Miles Smiles"Billy Harper "Destiny Is Yours"Jimi Hendrix "Axis Bold As Love"Miles Davis "Big Fun" ... | |
| Best Sax Jazz Billy Harper is an excellent tenor saxophonist who has been around for over 30 years. He comes out of Texas originally and has that big Texas tenor sound a la Booker Ervin. Ecstatic Coltrane and gospel are two of his influences. My wife and I love... |