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| Best progressive rock album side Oh @larsman, you’re quite right about PH not sounding "just like" any of the other English Blues-based bands; they couldn’t with Gary Brooker singing! My feeling is that they became "just another" English Blues-based band. Perhaps too fine a disti... | |
| Today By the way, I saw The Dead live only once: in The Panhandle in Golden Gate Park, Summer of '67. Also appearing that day were The Airplane and Country Joe & The Fish, all performing on a large flatbed truck parked on the lawn in the park. Food ... | |
| Atma-Sphere M60 monoblocks + ML ESL 11 = Inferior combo Andy, Roger Modjeski designed his Music Reference RM-200 tube amp specifically to deal with low-impedance loudspeakers. When they occasionally become available on the used market, they fetch around $2,000 for the original version, a grand more for... | |
| Today Surrealistic Pillow was playing on the turntable just as I was "taking off" on my last trip. ;-) My favorite Dead song is "Friend Of The Devil", which I have performed live on stage. | |
| Best progressive rock album side @larsman: Procol Harum’s first three albums include the contributions and influences of organist Matthew Fisher, whose musical education greatly informed the groups music (his organ part in "A Whiter Shade Of Pale" is well-known to have been coppe... | |
| Soundstage and image height, does it exist? This first time I heard height reproduced through a hi-fi system was when I played Boult's recording of Holst's The Planets (EMI ASD 2301) on a Thorens TD-125 Mk.2/SME 3009/Decca Blue pickup turntable, feeding pair of Magneplanar Tympani T-I's bi-... | |
| Best progressive rock album side Has anyone already nominated Procol Harum's "In Held Twas In I", the 5-piece suite filling almost all of side 2 of their Shine On Brightly album? | |
| What's your favorite lyric from a song? I may have already nominated one or more of these, but they're worth repeating: - "No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive". Hank Williams didn't have to wait long; he died at only 29 years of age. - "How can ... | |
| Atma-Sphere M60 monoblocks + ML ESL 11 = Inferior combo Too bad more audiophiles don’t investigate the suggestion of @ticat, myself, and a few others, and look into the Eminent Technology LFT-8b. A planar-magnetic loudspeaker, in some ways very much like the Magnepan, but in other ways dissimilar. The... | |
| New In 2022 Dang, hip crowd ;-). Yeah, I’m big on Pub Rock. Like Graham Parker’s first coupla albums. And I just found Taxi To The Terminal Zone by Ducks Deluxe (also produced by Dave Edmunds) on LP. And The Groovies are actually still limping along. I was ... | |
| New In 2022 Yup @jafant, Edmunds did their Tuff Enuff album, and it’s followup Hot Number. Interestingly, Dave’s partner in Rockpile Nick Lowe had produced Tuff Enuff’s predecessor, T-Bird Rhythm. Dave and Nick go way back together; Dave had produced (and en... | |
| Top Songs You Can Sing Along with When Highly Intoxicated (or Other Compromised State) The chorus of Randy Newman's "Rednecks". | |
| Tune of the Day "Cadillac Walk", original by it's writer Moon Martin, and the cover by Mink DeVille. Both are fantastic. | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @bslon: Excellent! I too just found a copy of the Records' self-titled debut, as well as it's followup (which introduced new member Jude Cole, who had previously been a member of Moon Martin's band). Excellent Power Pop. The Records' main songwri... | |
| New In 2022 @jafant: The Groovies are one of the two or three most revered bands by Power Pop enthusiasts (of which I am), and Shake Some Action their masterpiece. Produced by my favorite 70’s/80’s producer, Dave Edmunds (The Fab T-Birds, The Everly Brothers,... |