martykl
Responses from martykl
| For all you Clapton fans.... I recently posted a review on A'gon of the Clapton/Los Lobos show I attended last month. I note the point Marakanetz was making - Clapton's technique is much easier to learn than many/most other guitar heros - but that does not diminish his very p... | |
| Perfect Debute Albums Tatw,Props on New Radicals, you beat me to it. I'll add Joe Jackson Look Sharp and Marshal Crenshaw (eponymous).Marty | |
| Endless debate: monitor + sub vs floorstanding I'd attribute your ProAc dealer's remarks to the fact that he's a ProAc dealer.IME, properly set up subs are a revelation. Of course, that part about properly set up is important. Few full range speakers can produce clean measured response in the ... | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? To clarify, "Tea Party" also has some great moments, particularly Vol II which I've been told features Joe Walsh, as well as Peter Green, et al. However, these performances are pre Buckingham Nicks. I know that many folks here prefer the earlier l... | |
| Need Blues Rec--burn the house down guitar stuff Onhwy61You're right. Gatton usually plays some of each...blues, country, jazz, surf, etc. But all of it is great, even if not precisely on the OP's original pointMarty | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? QuanmerI believe only one is courtesy of Buckingham. It's the recent CD & double DVD setRegardsMarty | |
| Best live album you've ever heard? I'll add a couple of recent additions, both courtesy of Lindsey Buckingham. His solo "Live at Bass Hall" and Fleetwood Mac's "Live in Boston". Both are beautifully recorded collections of (IMHO) fantastic rock songs perfomed by monster bands.The M... | |
| Need Blues Rec--burn the house down guitar stuff One more for Gatton. The Humbler. Prepare to be humbledMarty | |
| Band with highest success/talent ratio? I'm going with Michael Buble and I actually like the guy. For reasons beyond the scope of this post, I've seen him perform live twice. He's charming and entertaining but his success is WAY out of proportion to his talentMarty | |
| Why do some model names use "MKII"? Interesting question, though not, by any means, restricted to amplifiers (see cars, vaccuum cleaners, etc).A little search on the etymology of the phrase didn't yield a direct answer, but here's a guess based on what I saw.One archaic meaning of "... | |
| Jazz Crossovers to the Pop Charts/Timeless Classic Killer Joe by The Jazztet comes to mind quickly | |
| Duke Ellington question... I never saw Ellington, but I'm told by a friend who has seen him that the song was a staple in Duke's live set for quite a few years. That probably accounts for why the song is so strongly associated with Duke, even though it was written by Earle ... | |
| British sound??? First heard about "British Sound" in the '70's, relative to Kef, Bowers and Wilkins, et al. I always thought that the phrase referred to their popular (in Britain) 2 way systems that were (usually) pretty tonally nuetral but lacked deep bass (rela... | |
| Best active crossover? Dan Ed beat me to it.Digital, if your sources are all digital, offers a lot of (theoretical, at least) benefits.The Marchands have a following, but some of the tubed units can get noisy over time (like the used loaner I tried, briefly, in my syste... | |
| Amp questions I used both a Krell KSA50s and an ARC VT130SE briefly w/Maggie 3.5s some years back. Both worked quite well, although my SPLs were always modest due to sensitive neighbors in my building. Therefore, I can't really report on how well either of thes... |