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| Danny Gatton & Joey DeFrancesco The overused term, "awesome" is fully justified here. They had a great musical synergy. Danny Gatton is sorely missed. | |
| Live Performances Gone Awry Attended the Stones' "Steel Wheels" tour at Veteran's Stadium in Philly. Besides being far enough away that seeing the jumbotron was a struggle, witnessed a completely drugged out guy stomp the seat off of his chair and hurl it further down the st... | |
| Live Performances Gone Awry Went to a Dixie Dregs concert around 1990 at a downtown NYC venue that is long since closed down. We waited more than an hour past the posted start time for the warm-up band to start, which was a quasi-Kansas progressive fiddle-rock band as I reca... | |
| Wright WPL10V One or more of your phono section tubes has gone microphonic. I have a WPL20 that exhibits the exact same problem when one of the phono tubes goes wonky. Tap each with the eraser end of a pencil with the volume set low and you will hear a hollow m... | |
| RIP Hank Jones Just think of all of the changes in Jazz and in popular music in general that Hank Jones got to witness first hand. The fact that he was a vital, truly outstanding contributor for most of SEVEN decades is awe-inspiring. I cannot think of many huma... | |
| Tube rolling with Wright Sound Co. WPL20 Thanks for the tip Racamuti | |
| what was your wedding song? "I Knew the Bride When She Used to Rock and Roll" | |
| Jazz vocals recommendations please Johnny Hartman and John Coltrane is a superb recording from every perspective. | |
| Best blues vocalist Joe Turner, Howling Wolf, Janis Joplin | |
| Recommendations for a small tube amplifier? The Dared MP-5 is an altogether fabulous little amp. I've never heard anything that can touch it for the money. It has all of the timbral truth and dimensionality typical of tubes but with reasonable extension in the bass and treble. Bass dynamics... | |
| Wilson Sophia 2--- VTL S-150 or Ayre V1-xe? Depends on your space. I have been running my WP7s for several years with the 100 wpc Music Reference RM200, which is a glorious combination in my relatively small room. Bass quality is exceptional, but not Krell-like. Of course, the RM200 is not ... | |
| Les Paul dead at 84 nt. Les Paul was a great guitarist and inventor but he was also an excellent entertainer. I saw him several times during his weekly gig at Fat Tuesday's in NYC and was always blown away by his sparkling on-stage personality. I always felt that he was ... | |
| Does the WATT/Puppy 8 image as well as the 7? I learned a lot about my aesthetic priorities by comparing the 7s and 8s. Heard side by side on the same equipment, which included separate, expensive tube and solid state rigs, there was not a single sonic attribute for which the 8s did not outpe... | |
| Susan Tedeschi I prefer her bluesier material but I think she is a fine interpreter of things that fall into the rock, folk and country idioms as well.But... I REALLY like it when she throws down. I saw her do a version of Junior Wells' "Little by Little" with t... | |
| Any Zorn fans? Masada Live in Seville is one of my favorite CDs. Zorn's technique of setting up a bleating drone with his mouthpiece and then overlaying it with key stops provides a great, percussive element to the quartet that is great counterpoint to Joey Baro... |