zaikesman
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| Todays Raido Stations suck Ohlala: Your response is not without validity (or predictability), as far as it goes. But it ignores our ability to develop tastes for musics from cultures foreign to our own, or from eras that can be described likewise. If familiarity with the el... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck The commonly held theory about getting too old to appreciate something new just doesn't hold up under scrutiny. That is, if you construe "something new" to mean something new to the listener - which is what is pertinent - and not necessarily to me... | |
| Concert attendance Jpfl39, I don't think there's much of an analogy between a band that changes their line-up before their career really begins in earnest (Beatles), or bands that lose members along the way (Stones, Dead), or evolve through different lineups over th... | |
| Concert attendance Shubie, are familiar with Gypie's work with roots pub-rockers Dr. Feelgood (not a band on par with the YB's, but not many were/are)? Unfortunately, he was also filling someone else's shoes there - original guitarist Wilko Johnson, who's style he s... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Ohlala, maybe Top 40 radio in the 60's was wasted on you, but it wasn't a waste. You take just about any Billboard Top 40 from the era you denegrate, and I guarantee you that around fully half those songs will be well-known and -loved classics to ... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Unclejeff, I disagree with your analogy about the state of todays radio vs. 50 years ago - it was much more local and diverse then. You can pick a trivial tune off the hit parade, sure, but you're ignoring the rich stew of musics from which rock &... | |
| Concert attendance Shubertmaniac: Glad you enjoyed the show, but I tend to take exception to the billing that McCarty + Dreja = The Yardbirds (What was Box of Frogs?). That's less than 50% of the proper lineup - even less if you include all three (actually four, but... | |
| Perfect Pitch? Aida_w, not to be impolite or anything, but how could you possibly know whether or not you hear the music any differently than me, other than being able to identify pitch names correctly, and maybe being bothered by 'off-pitch' keys? | |
| Cardas Interconnect Placement I didn't think anybody was rude until the thread-head was (is that rude enough for everybody?).Here is the only 'rule' I can give for this kind of question: If you run multiple sources, as I do, it makes common sense to insert your best interconne... | |
| Dealer needs input, next wave of gear? Good grief, if all this crappola is 'the next wave of gear', I'm sure glad I'll be continuing to enjoy vinyl, in addition to snapping up some of those discarded CD's.I think it's guys like me who appreciate it even more than guys like you, every t... | |
| Newbie cartidge help needed Sorry, but I have to punt - I am not familiar with either this TT or these cartridges. But if the cart you're considering is not a high-output moving coil (MC) and your receiver has only a moving magnet (MM) phono input, you will either need to in... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck Yes, we all know that most radio blows, and has for quite some time now. The really scary implication of this lies in the musical atmosphere that the 'artists' of tomorrow grow up in today - I think we've already seen this factor come home to roos... | |
| paradigm studio 100 VS. triangle celius Look in the archives, there was a thread very similar to this a few weeks ago. | |
| Concert attendance I'm always going to shows, at least one or two a month, and it would be much more if there were more bands I liked anymore. Geez Louise, Sean, I don't believe in superstition, but that's a hell of a show not to have attended when you had tix! I di... | |
| JJ-E34L versus EL-34 tubes The E34L tube can be used in any circuit spec'ed for an EL-34 as far as I know, but I wouldn't expect any increase in actual power just from using this tube. That 15% quote probably means something like that the "L" version is capable of yielding ... |