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Politics and Music
I lied. One more, by the great Laura Nyro. I love the way she curls up her hands into fists and pounds the keyboard at 0:23    
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@mahgister  i have all of his work on LP. I have the Oppens performance of People United, but the performance I shared here by a student at SUNY Stonybrook is remarkable.  The performance of Cottonmill Blues shared here is also insanely good.  ... 
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I have the performance on an HMV 78 in near mint condition. Hard to find on YouTube in similar shape. I guess I’m lucky: I’ll have to put it online myself. This is it for today.     
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This is a late 20th century masterpiece. Lyrics, by a leader of the Attica uprising. He was killed. "I think the combination of age and a greater coming together is responsible for the speed of the passing time. It’s six months now, and I can tel... 
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As someone who is an artist himself, and whose work involved political commentary and often found himself in court over speech and other constitutional issues (see https://www.oyez.org/cases/1994/93-1525), I find this discussion to be impossibly b... 
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Mimi is Joan Baez’s kid sister. Richard was a beat poet and writer most famous for his only novel that he completed “Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me” before he died in a motorcycle accident in his late 20s. ”It’s a protest song!”    
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Give it a minute or two. Unless you have good audio, the opening few minutes of notes are barely audible.       
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God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols comes to mind. The entire Blows Against the Empire album by Paul Kantner and The Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra is another, as are Volunteers, Crown of Creation by the Airplane. Then there’s Gorecki’s ... 
Is There A Device For Home Use That Can Measure How Low The Bass In My Speakers Is?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiotools-db-sound-audio/id325307477    
Old CDs and records
I don’t listen to streaming.  I listen not my 6,000 LPs.  Full stop.   
Best progressive rock album side
I don’t know if this qualifies, they came after the period that I associate with prog rock (late 60s-70s), and they are in fact associated with another genre, but: Scraping Fetus Off the Wheel: - Nail - Hole  
Turntable sub $4k buy decisions too many.
I had a VPI HW MK II with an original 1st generation Koetsu Black. I upgraded to a VPI HW MK IV with a SAM and a Koetsu Onyx. The arm is the Sumiko MMT. I have had the VPI/Koetsu setup for 37 years. I couldn’t be happier. To see my complete sy...