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| Latest bin find.....Elton John tablejockey---the Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb, both original (I used to own one) and reissue, is a FANTASTIC sounding amp! Jonny Kaplan played a Gibson Les Paul Jr. through one when I gigged with him, and it was the best sounding guitar I’ve ever hea... | |
| Vintage Mcintosh tuner MR78 designer Richard Modaferri offers his update/optimization of the tuner through Audio Classics. He incorporates everything he has learned about tuner design since the tuner was introduced into his update, improving both the 78's RF performance... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? Oops, I meant to say glorified, not glamourized. My first good table was the AR XA, and I watched Brooks Berdan set up a few LP12's. He wasn't too impressed with it, feeling, as did Peter Moncrieff of IAR, that the Oracle Delphi was a far better t... | |
| Linn LP12......That good?? The LP12 was, in the opinion of some, nothing more than a glamourized Acoustic Research XA. A better bearing and superior machining, but their over-all design basically the same. From a design viewpoint, they are in fact almost identical. Linn use... | |
| Would "Sgt. Pepper's" be a better album if..... I like Ringo's second album, Beaucoups of Blues (recorded in Nashville with the cream of that city's session players), and his third s/t one. He's not much of a singer, but then neither is Mick Jagger. He's certainly far better than was Lou Reed! | |
| Best Drum Solos Stevie Wonder is a gas! Speaking of great drumming by musicians for whom drums is not the main instrument (Stevie), my favorite is Richard Manuel, pianist and singer of The Band. Very creative and unique, better than most drums-first drummers imo.... | |
| Tekton Double Impact & Comb Filtering Geez, and all this time I've been thinking Peter Walker got it right with his Quad ESL back in 1957. Apparently not, as Eric Alexander now proclaims "If you want to hear it all were (sic) the only ones that can do it". Yeah, you and Trump. | |
| Best Drum Solos shadorne, I LOVE Phil Rudd! Love him to death. Nobody plays Chuck Berry-style Rock 'n' Roll better than Phil, and his snare drum sounds just the way they are suppose to. Steve Gadd is an absolute marvel, absolutely one of the very best drummers in... | |
| Best Drum Solos Loomis, I loved Disraeli Gears at the time of it's release (Fresh Cream as well), and played songs off both albums in my High School garage band. But you have just pointed out Ginger's tendency to play for his own benefit, not the song's or the ba... | |
| Best Drum Solos Loomis, Jim Capaldi was a very fine drummer, very cognizant and respectful of the singer’s phrasing and dynamics, as well as the song's structure. Being a singer and songwriter himself, that’s not surprising, I suppose. Now that you mention Jim, p... | |
| Vintage Mcintosh tuner The MR-71 has tube electronics, so of course some will prefer it's sound character/quality to that of the solid state MR-78. The RF section of the MR-78, however, is superior to that of the 71 (higher alternate and adjacent selectivity, etc.), and... | |
| unity gain active tube preamp? Give Roger Modjeski at Music Reference a call. He builds one-off pre-amps, and is a proponent of zero-gain or passive designs of such. | |
| Best Drum Solos I saw Keith Moon live twice (’68 and ’69), and he was as punchy and exciting as any drummer I’ve heard live. The only other I saw like him was Buddy Miles in The Electric Flag (with Mike Bloomfield, of course). A great drummer makes a band his, an... | |
| Best Drum Solos Loomis, I completely agree about John Bonham---"behind-the-beat" is exactly right! Some drummers like to be the engine at the front of the train, pulling the band along. Bonham was at the back of the "pocket", pushing the band from behind. The pla... | |
| Best Drum Solos I believe I’ve already told ya’ll this story Evan Johns told me when I recorded with him in Atlanta GA. If so, it bears repeating. Evan’s good friend and sometimes bandmate, the late, great guitarist Danny Gatton (Vince Gill, himself a fine guitar... |