stuartk
Responses from stuartk
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? @danager:Thanks for posting that link.I will definitely check it out and hopefully, others will as well. | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? @kennyc:On other threads, bdp24 and I have suggested Americana as a genre that features many highly talented musicians and singer-songwriters.PM me and I will do my best to point you in some directions to explore. @millercarbon:You are correct, in... | |
| What are your top three live concerts of all time? Top Three:Richard Thompson at an old refurbished church in Portland, Maine... early 90's. Best of the best. Oregon at Campbell Hall, UCSB, late seventies. Dave Holland Quintet-- Yoshi's, Oakland. They should've used THAT show for the live cd-- it ... | |
| Speaker Wire for Popular Budget System What is your source ?Is it bright as well? | |
| Can the need for novelty and change be mitigated by rotation? "I believe that "audio nervosa" is real and plagues hobbyists to the extent that it robs them of the ability to enjoy what the machinery they own can reproduce". "What is this need for novelty and change? The need for better I can understand. The... | |
| What do "audiophiles" use to judge equipment? @three_easy_payments:"OP's question dismissed out hand. How dare you inquire whether you can just use your own ears and emotional response to the gear you're auditioning! "I'd ask you to more closley examine the OP's question "Are there any othe... | |
| When are people going to wake up and realize listening is a skill? "Some of our participants are more or less confident/arrogant/opinionated than others...that is what you call "personality""There is also something called "emotional maturity". Ideally, people with very different personalities can manage civil di... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "I think any comment about “the music of today” being somehow inferior or lacking is lazy, complacent and phenomenally ignorant. This from the generation which prided itself on its open mindedness"Yes, and. . . each generation has its strengths a... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? @bdp24:You know about the "No Depression" magazine site, right? | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "...if one diligently seeks out lesser known artists, there is a wealth of good musicians/songwriters to be found".So true. And in fact, this was the case in the 60's and 70's as well ! This opinion probably won't be welcomed but I believe my fe... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? Yeah. I was first drawn to the channel because I play guitar but quickly realized his channel had as much to offer me as a music-lover. I haven't come across anyone who's doing what he does. | |
| Summertime @frogman:Sorry for not having doing a very good job of expressing myself. In retrospect, I suppose what I was trying to express was my uneasiness about Gerswin's motivation for utilizing the Blues/Jazz as source material for composition and then p... | |
| What do "audiophiles" use to judge equipment? @cmariner1:"Are there any others who trust their own ears and go into a music store and BUY something without the psychological hand-holding of a forum or spec sheet?"Are you actually suggesting that walking into a store, sans any prior research a... | |
| Summertime @frogman:The tune is clearly Blues-based in tonality, so having an opera singer perform it, thereby draining it of all its bluesiness, is nothing I personally want to hear. No doubt others will disagree. Simply offered for comparison's sake, here ... | |
| Is today’s contemporary music lacking? "The artist seems to try using a good voice trying to make the song sound good but these songs seem to lack a good “melody."Rick Beato's recently-posted interview with Pat Metheny includes a very interesting discussion of melody. https://www.y... |