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| "Peter Gunn" by Mancini: ?other jazz style albums As a teen, Mancini seemed like the lamest brand of cheese, but he wrote some great stuff that is stuck in pretty much everyone's memory bank. The Oranj Symphonette "Plays Mancini" disc is excellent, but maybe a little twisted for older Mancini fan... | |
| The Thugs Not sure if you're looking for the French band Les Thugs, if you are, several of their discs are available at half.com for under $8. You can also find Les Thugs discs at alot of record/cd stores that have a good sized bargain bin or red tag sectio... | |
| looking for best isolation platform for CD player Noticed improvement after replacing Atlantis stock spikes w/ Polycrystal (large) spk. cones. Noticed a bigger improvement after replacing the stock shelf w/ a Neuance shelf. Ejlif,(a guy who has tried alot of stuff) recommends and uses a Vibraplan... | |
| Any Pink Floyd Historians? I guess w/ Floyd, there are alot of different flavors. See Emily Play and Arnold Layne as pop songs had an eerie quality that really stuck out in 67-68 and Interstellar Overdrive had a killer narcotic space rock riff that pretty much gave birth to... | |
| unusual trio? Yer' stepping into some pretty fertile territory. The stuff below should take a good while to absorb (or exhaust) I'm trying and catching a helluva' good buzz in the process. AAB TrioLucas Niggli ZoomMassacre (w/Frith)Tom Guralnick TrioAnderson/Be... | |
| Early 1970's rock: Name some of your favorites Hey Sean, Thanks for the info, I never knew that about Marc Bell. I remember he was kind of a studio player on a few now obscure rock lps I had. I liked the 2nd record (Hard Attack) alot more. The original issue had a killer reproduction of one of... | |
| Which artists do you just not get? Hi Sean, Hope the earlier post didn't come off as a rule 1 or 2 violator. Not really sure what vein of rock you've been hanging out in. Personally, I've never felt comfortable with labels like fusion, jazz or even rock. There's no denying that the... | |
| Which artists do you just not get? Alot of the stuff mentioned above is generic pedestrian and musically pretty dang predictable. Kinda boring or lame maybe, but not hard to "get" at all. The Mahavishnu Orch. at it's peak STOMPS!!! the vast majority of music (especially rock) in te... | |
| 5 best underrated or unknown bands and why? I love Ruins, they can be a tough listen at first (It sometimes seems like they're throwing away way too many good ideas per second). A few months after becoming acclimated, I got lucky and they came to the west coast. I had very high expectations... | |
| 5 best underrated or unknown bands and why? Hey Mike, Gotta agree w/ the Uz Jsme Doma pick. The 1st couple of times I caught them live I thought I was gonna forget how to breathe...totally astounding stuff. The 3rd time (Ears tour) was a dud. I heard the same assessment from a couple of oth... | |
| Who's Your Favorite Bass Players; Why? Gobs of great bassist out there. Crazy 4 beefed up the list pretty good w/ the last post, Here are a few more:Jannik Top- Zeul vibrato pioneer (and king)/MagmaKeith Macksoud-Present/5uu's (sorta takes up where Top left off)Pad Conca-Blast/Otolithe... | |
| Thoughts on Coda gear? Any Coda owners out there? I haven't owned many amps, but the Coda 11 in the system I'm using now sounds better than previous systems I've used w/Perreaux and Bedini amps, (I really liked the 100/100 mk II). A close friend who is using a Levinson 27 expresses big appreciati... | |
| Todays Raido Stations suck I can't muster up any fond memories of radio stations from the past. Where I grew up the ones off campus always sucked. The whole thing was pretty much just a smaller version of the same malignant oligarchy that we're stuck with today. Unfortunate... | |
| Soundstaging and imaging are audiophile fictions. Sometimes at live performances non visual spatial information/"imaging" can be inescapbly apparent. Quite a few experimental/avant garde compositions rely heavily on this fact. Performers can move to different locations in a recital hall and great... | |
| I need a recording with a good drum solo . Jdombrow's question is an excellent one, trying to check out how close your gear can get to the real thing might have nothing to do with getting a dose of percussive genius stuck into yer' head. Here's a (criminally) short list that omits tons of ... |