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| Any others like L. Kottke Clone CD? Haven't picked up Clone yet, Kottke's One Guitar No Vocals is one of his best. Sylvain Luc's SUD discs, Jack West's Big Ideas, or Richard Johnson's Creatures of Habit (this one may be hard to find) are musically superb and are great recordings too. | |
| Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green Not sure Blues music has (or should have) real stictly defined boundries. To claim that one guitarist is the BEST could put some heavy blinders on the concluder. A few other greats that I haven't seen mention of: Eddie Guitar Slim, SRV and Zappa w... | |
| Going SACD or analog? Bomarc makes alot of sense, but pragmatism is not always a strong suit around these parts. If it's any consolation, there are hundreds of cd tiles on ECM, CMP, Tzadik, Intuition, Hat, Enja and other labels that sound better than most SACD releases... | |
| What music is not derivative? It could be argued that there is no such thing as music that is not derivative. I guess Derek Bailey, Edgar Varese, and most Anthony Braxton recordings might come close. Not sure you would want to listen to them much. Alot of great stuff is challe... | |
| little known musicians we should hear There are thousands of little known musicians who have made brilliant recordings and are (imho) criminally under appreciated. Almost everyone hates some great artistic achievments,(most oprea or c&w efforts usually hit the gag reflex here). Fe... | |
| What is the worst recorded CD you have? "Worst recorded", that's kind of a tough call if you only get to pick one, Raw Power (Iggy and the Stooges) is pretty stinko, Soft Machine 3 is a crime too. Lots of stuff was dang lousy in the seventies and then got a poor transfer to digital. In ... | |
| Study finds your Amplifier reveal your personality I know someone who just got a huge Plinius SA 250 and recently listened to his system. He is a communist, and he should be put away for a long time. While he is picking up bars of soap we can all sleep better and I can make sure that no other Marx... | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? Massacre, Meltdown sounds clearer and has more velocity and concussion than 90% of the discs in any collection. Frith, Laswell and Hayward do some of their best work on this one.Harriet Tubman, Prototype, also sonically light years beyond most liv... | |
| Best HDCD Jazz CDs Erik Friedlander - TopazVincent Courtois - TranslucideChristophe Marguet Trio - s/tThe Other Quartet - Sound Stains | |
| Your favorite obscure ECM album Contact Trio, New Marks is an amazing score for anyone who apprecites Mahavishnu Orch., King Crimson, Brand X, or insrtumental Zappa. Superb recording quality, lots of nimble angular almost deranged playing from some incredibly skilled guys. Good ... | |
| Do You Understand Music? Good thread. I guess it's pretty common not to be real absorbent or appreciative when initially exposed to unusual or brilliantly put together artforms. IMO, the sense of discovery that comes when you really dig something that was previously inacc... | |
| Anybody own Shanling CD player? Wow Allied, the Rega and the Classe .3 "were far more musical, layered and textured" than the Shanling? If so, the new version will have to be ALOT better than it's predecessor to be a real contender, even at the $2k price point. Seems like the RC... | |
| 20th Century Composers Allan Holdsworth, Robert Fripp, Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Sharrock, John McLaughlin, Frank Zappa and Carlos Santana may not have inflenced composition as much as Stravinsky, Monk or Mancini*, but those 7 guys sure found some cool ways to extend the voca... | |
| Best used 500 1m XLR interconnects Quattro fils are dang good (generally considered to be a step up from the SPM). If you can use a .55 pair, there are some cooked ones in the classifieds for $550. Don't know what associated equipment you have, but suspect that the fils would be on... | |
| Miles Davis,extreme Jazz and the death of Jazz Ozfly, good observation. Appreciation/absorbtion of innovation does usually seem to lag way behind the work produced by artists who are outside of the mainstream. The (inaccutate) assertion that interesting and challenging music is not being made ... |