Ears, you must be as old as I am [:(] and I never realized then that it would end. Great albums came from everywhere, didn't they? I am beginning to wonder if all that dope they smoked really didn't get the creative juices flowing? I sure doesn't seem the same since they started smokin crack or ecstasy or whatever. What do you think of the comparison to the remastered early ZZ Top vs. the way we heard it on album and 8 track? The remaster is supposed to be closer to the way they wanted it to sound, but to me it makes Beard sound like he is using a drum machine like the later cds. Tap away, brother. Charlie
sometimes you just need to tap your toes
I recently bought some remastered non audiophile approved music on cd like styx greatist hits and foreigner[lou grahm is one of the best rock singers ever]about half the songs are tiresome because of too much radio airplay over the years,but the rest got my foot and leg tapping[it was out of my control like the music possesed my leg and toes.This got me thinking,remebering the days when new records came out and you liked every song,and did not care about soundstaging,sense of space,blacker backgrounds or the like.It was all about the music as most of us were to young and broke to be audiophiles and listened rather to cheap record players and 8 track tapes and liked it not for sound quality,but for the music.If we were lucky, we got a kenwood direct drive turntable for 400.00 when we got out on are own and thought it was the ultimate.I talk to some of my younger employees and nephews and they admit there is rarely any new music where they like every ,or even half of the songs,and some of them actually listen to classic rock of the late sixtys but more so 70,s and 80,s at work on the radio as apposed to the pre determined overly played list that most newer music stations play.So if you grew up in the 70's or 80,s you don't no how good you had it until you talk to some of the younger generation about music.They don't no what it is like to have the latest release and love every song on it like we did when we got are ZZ TOP Tres Hombres or Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs,any Zepplin release or the first time you heard skynryd and liked every song from every release there after.I can remember my dad [big on swing] saying that drummer can really beat those skins[rush live] but do you think you could put on the headphones i bought you, like it was yesterday.The point to all of this is sometimes we need to put are audiophile recordings aside, and throwing caution to the wind ,break out some of the first fun,toe tapping music that started it all for you and let your hair down and tap your toes.This like nothing else will make you realize,it's all about the music and not the gear.