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| Which artists' music do you buy without audition Guarneri String Quartet. | |
| Paco De Lucia R.I.P. Wait, you saw Paco playing a 12-string? Are you sure about this? That would be interesting to hear. | |
| Paco De Lucia This is a huge loss to the world of music. IMO he was the greatest guitarist of our time in any style. I consider myself fortunate to have heard him a few times in person. The last time was 2 or 3 years ago and he was more amazing than ever. I am ... | |
| The State of Jazz "Jazz is not dead--it just smells funny."--Frank Zappa | |
| Your favorite J.S. Bach Gould, 2nd Goldberg; Lucy Van Dael, unaccompanied violin S&P;Eliot Fisk or Oscar Ghiglia, guitar transcriptions | |
| Recommend an "adiophile worthy" pen? It's not just about the pen--there's paper conditioners, optimum pen-handling angles, etc.And what kind of image do you want--clear and clean vs. round and warm edges, and so forth. The pen, my friend, is just the tip of the iceberg. You are embar... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Schubert, thanks, but the 10X rule came from the teacher of a teacher in music school--which perhaps goes to prove the point that education does expand listening tastes. | |
| Beatles Tribute Tv special.... Mapman,what I meant was "modernized just for the sake of modernization," or, in this case, commercialization--i.e., to get the younger viewers to tune in.As I said, I liked Ed Sheeran very much. On a previous program I liked Corinne Bailey Rae and... | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? Exposure and, to some degree, repetition, are the bottom line.If a piece doesn't hit you, listen again and again. If after ten times it does not connect then it is clearly not for you.I remember spinning the LP of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club ... | |
| A speaker so loud it can kill you The size, shape and conditions of the room can be a huge factor. The most earsplitting thing I ever heard was a show by the 13th Floor Elevators at the Safari Club in Baytown, Texas ca. 1968. I know that PA system could not have been so very big a... | |
| Beatles Tribute Tv special.... For me it just smacked too much of "something for everyone."The Beatles already have a young audience--they don't need their music "modernized" by the young artists-of-the-moment.I think more of their contemporaries and fewer of the younger set wo... | |
| Most underrated composer of 20th Century? If by "underrated" we simply mean deserving more acclaim than we think has been afforded so far, I would say Prokofiev. But maybe I'm just "out of the loop." | |
| Has education expanded your listening tastes? I'm a garage rocker who initially went back to music school (7 years more) to learn more about what's inside the music of Bartok and Zappa. I learned to appreciate so much that I did not "get" before (or had never heard or heard of). And I'm still... | |
| Beatles Tribute Tv special.... Lwin, if you're talking about the fellow who sang "In My Life" it is Ed Sheeran.Mapman, yes, you may be the only one who enjoyed Imagine Dragons doing "Revolution." I couldn't find the "alternate channel" button quickly enough.Pops, I wouldn't bla... | |
| Beatles Tribute Tv special.... I looked forward to the show then had to bail out as soon as the first group of youngsters launched into a Beatles tune--it was fingernails on a chalk board to my ears. I kept popping back and was lucky to hear some good performances and quickly b... |