stuartk
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| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. @digsmithd The seller bought them for use in his NYC recording studio and stated they were not quite as neutral as he'd hoped. They had very few hours on them and his loss was very much my gain. | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. @whart I guess I believe in a little luck, too. Yeah. My first lucky break was the suggestion by a forum member that I grab a pair of "like new" Silverline monitors listed on Audiogon. I had plenty of other suggestions at the time and I still... | |
| Happen to you? Gear chasing because the fundamentals were wrong. I suspect I only narrowly averted getting caught up in this trap! In the past year, I learned the vital importance of two fundamentals -- speaker/amp matching and speaker placement. I messed around with speaker placement for months with little to... | |
| A Black Box to Solve Everything The quest for the holy grail in guitar amps (SS amps that mimic tube amps) has been going on at least since the 70's when companies such as Gibson, Peavy and Yamaha offered such products. You can now buy a tube Fender Deluxe Reverb or its lighter,... | |
| It’s it just me or there are others. @tylermunns Are these actual people or A.I.? I guess we can’t really tell anymore. It’s scary how increasingly fearful we’re becoming of individuals. We’re terrified and insecure if we have an opinion that differs from the masses. We seek val... | |
| Sound and music @rvpiano But even so, if these notes are not heard it is not music as we know it Well; we can agree to disagree. ;o) BTW, I am not a purely improvising player -- I was referring to playing an improvised solo during a tune that has both a ... | |
| Sound and music @rvpiano It's only just occurred to me that it is one thing for a child who has never heard music to "hear" a melody in their head and and another for a child born deaf to do so. A child who has never heard music will most likely have heard the ... | |
| Sound and music @rvpiano Is there music without sound? I don't know the answer to this. Can a melody arise in the mind of a child who has never heard music? I suspect it can. Is the melody not a melody in the split second before it is vocalized by the child? I ... | |
| Sound and music @rvpiano Perhaps you and I define "really significant meaning" differently. It seems to me you might as well assert that poetry in the mind of the poet is only significant if printed on a page. A melody arising in the mind of a composer, songw... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @acman3 Lucky you! | |
| Jazz for aficionados @acman3 Was this show with S. Clarke and Jean Luc Ponty ? | |
| Jazz for aficionados @pjw81563 To be honest, I mostly went to hear DeJohnette. Not that Holland or Abercrombie were disappointing! Yes; I’ve heard Prism. Interesting, how Holland has found it invigorating to re-visit that electric Miles type sound, even to the exten... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Understood. My list of shows runs from Jorma to Ravi Shankar to Richard Thompson to Paul Winter to Santana to Emmylou, etc. -- definitely not all Jazz -- not even predominantly Jazz. I didn’t really get into Jazz until around age 30 ... | |
| jazz/blues piano players Some of these suggestions are stylistically/harmonically a long, long way from Professor Longhair and Charles Brown... | |
| Jazz for aficionados @curiousjim Hah ! I'm sure you've enjoyed your share of live music! It's true, though; we were very fortunate to have access to Yoshi's while we were still young enough to be willing to drive two and a half hours each way. Now, looking back, ... |