waltersalas
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| Best Box Sets? Most of my favorite box sets are in jazz. Just a handful you might consider:Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete SongbooksBillie Holiday - Verve and Columbia box setsLouis Armstrong - Portrait of the ArtistThelonious Monk - Complete RiversideArt Pepper ... | |
| Just ordered my Supratek Chenin Preamp Have you seen the "Preamp of the Century" thread? Quite a bit of "talking" there. Try searching the forums. I think you'll find that quite a lot of people are talking about the Supratek. Owners tend to be rather enthusiastic about them, with good ... | |
| Just ordered my Supratek Chenin Preamp With my Chenin...Plinius SA-102/Piega P10An enjoyable combination. | |
| Your vote: Most Useless Audio Adjective Who was it that said that "writing about music is like dancing about architecture"? | |
| How can power cords make a difference? Let be be finale of seemThe only emperor is the emperor of ice cream. | |
| How can power cords make a difference? It's all voodoo--cords, amps, speakers, all of it. Caveat Emptor! Run, kids, run! | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Amen, R F Sayles, amen. What a great band. McLennan's solo records are also terrific, especially Horsebreaker Star.He (and they) will be missed. | |
| Best "album" of 2006 My favorites so far are Centro-matic's "Fort Recovery," an amazing record by a band I'd never heard of until recently--it is sort of reminiscent of Sparklehorse or Varnaline, but better--and the Drive-By Trucker's "A Blessing and a Curse," the tig... | |
| The 5 Jazz Recordings You Would Take With You... Who can resist these parlor game questions? Not me, so here's a shot at it...John Coltrane - "Love Supreme"Thelonious Monk - "Brilliant Corners"Bill Evans - "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"Ornette Coleman - "Change of the Century"Charlie Parker - ... | |
| DLP lamps I have the 52 inch model and had the same probem. I bought my television through Best Buy, and ended up getting replacement bulbs in 7-10 days from both Best Buy and Toshiba. Then, a few days later, we received a letter from Toshiba stating that t... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll A poser, alas. Just a big fan of the band.PS I agree with you about "Cuba"...great album! | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll DC,I'll see if I can track down the Cowboy album you mentioned. Sounds interesting. Do you know if it's in print?I agree with you about the way your view seems to widen the more you get into this stuff. Admittedly, the definiton of country-rock is... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll Sorry I didn't give more specific examples in my first post. If I were going to recommend a beginner's library of great country rock, it would have to include the following, specifically:The International Submarine Band Safe At HomeThe Byrds S... | |
| Best Country/Rock - Poll Look for anything with Gram Parsons, from the Parsons-era Byrds to the Parsons-era Flying Burrito Brothers (especially the classic "Gilded Palace of Sin") and then to his solo records (especially "Grievous Angel"). For something a bit more modern,... | |
| What song best sums up the previous year? Tomryan,No question, Clinton had little more regard for the Constitution than Bush. Although I too may be jaded, I am not quite prepared to sacrifice the Fourth Amendment based on your anecdote, or Bush's judgment of who should be detained, who sh... |