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| New Forum Format Sucks A new thread can have a dozen posts before noon now. This is much better--we are finally operating in real time. I may check in more than once a day now. | |
| Evening Classical Music; listening for relaxation Beethoven, Symphony no. 9, movement III: Adagio molto e cantabileRavel, Pavane pour une infante defunte (see if you can find the Julian Bream/John Williams duo guitar version, but piano or orchestral versions are great as well) | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Marty, thanks for that list. I will check them out (I've probably already heard some of them, but it was long, long ago). | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Bdp24, sometimes I feel like having Italian food with a complex sauce and an elaborate salad. Other times it's a few slices of pizza and a beer. It's great either way.Brian Wilson was my first hero. I "still dig those sounds." Thanks for the "musi... | |
| Disappointing audition after great review Theophile, nice post, but isn't there some subjectivity involved? I know from checking out fine musical instruments that some might be obviously superior quality but just not my cup of tea while another is right up my alley. | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Back on track a bit--I always enjoyed hearing Squeeze when I encountered their music years ago. I never felt compelled to buy their albums. I saw them (current version) on Jools Holland recently and enjoyed that performance as well. But it never o... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Schubert, 60's pop/rock is no different from any other genre. There's a lot of horrible-to-mediocre stuff and then there's good, better, great and the very top. The Beatles were at the very top. If they produced something that wasn't top-shelf the... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Frogman, I totally disagree with your assessment of the Beatles' instrumental musicianship. To me Lennon was the weak link but he was good enough. Many good drummers cite Ringo as being at or near the top of great rock drummers. He's not in the sa... | |
| What music do you use to audition equipment/cables I like to start with solo guitar, solo piano, gradually adding complexity. I want something that works well for classical chamber and jazz combos and is pretty good with a rock band or full orchestra. I think it's good to mix well-recorded and so-... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit FWIW, after the very early years McCartney and Lennon hardly wrote together--they just kept the legal credit arrangement intact. | |
| Gene Simmons says the rock business is dead There's something of a progression from Screaming Jay Hawkins to Arthur Brown to Genesis, Bowie and Alice Cooper. Not sure who or what predated Screaming Jay, if anyone, in the use of props. Arthur, of course, set his headpiece on fire, which was ... | |
| Gene Simmons says the rock business is dead Gene should know--his music drove a lot of the nails into the coffin. I never considered KISS a worthy group. | |
| Artists that use the same song structure... Czarivey, trust me, it takes genuine talent to play bluegrass well. I don't care for most of the modern examples of it but I respect the musicianship. You can also sing Folsom Prison over the changes to Pinball Wizard, and vice versa, but that doe... | |
| Rock with strings The first Spirit LP had some nice moments with strings. | |
| Artists that use the same song structure... Phasecorrect, I agree--good is good and bad is bad, regardless of whether it's primitive, complicated or somewhere in between. Of course, it's subjective and there are no absolutes in this matter. |