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| Disappointing audition after great review Theophile, nice post, but isn't there some subjectivity involved? I know from checking out fine musical instruments that some might be obviously superior quality but just not my cup of tea while another is right up my alley. | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Back on track a bit--I always enjoyed hearing Squeeze when I encountered their music years ago. I never felt compelled to buy their albums. I saw them (current version) on Jools Holland recently and enjoyed that performance as well. But it never o... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Schubert, 60's pop/rock is no different from any other genre. There's a lot of horrible-to-mediocre stuff and then there's good, better, great and the very top. The Beatles were at the very top. If they produced something that wasn't top-shelf the... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit Frogman, I totally disagree with your assessment of the Beatles' instrumental musicianship. To me Lennon was the weak link but he was good enough. Many good drummers cite Ringo as being at or near the top of great rock drummers. He's not in the sa... | |
| What music do you use to audition equipment/cables I like to start with solo guitar, solo piano, gradually adding complexity. I want something that works well for classical chamber and jazz combos and is pretty good with a rock band or full orchestra. I think it's good to mix well-recorded and so-... | |
| Squeeze Concert including one odd tidbit FWIW, after the very early years McCartney and Lennon hardly wrote together--they just kept the legal credit arrangement intact. | |
| Gene Simmons says the rock business is dead There's something of a progression from Screaming Jay Hawkins to Arthur Brown to Genesis, Bowie and Alice Cooper. Not sure who or what predated Screaming Jay, if anyone, in the use of props. Arthur, of course, set his headpiece on fire, which was ... | |
| Gene Simmons says the rock business is dead Gene should know--his music drove a lot of the nails into the coffin. I never considered KISS a worthy group. | |
| Artists that use the same song structure... Czarivey, trust me, it takes genuine talent to play bluegrass well. I don't care for most of the modern examples of it but I respect the musicianship. You can also sing Folsom Prison over the changes to Pinball Wizard, and vice versa, but that doe... | |
| Rock with strings The first Spirit LP had some nice moments with strings. | |
| Artists that use the same song structure... Phasecorrect, I agree--good is good and bad is bad, regardless of whether it's primitive, complicated or somewhere in between. Of course, it's subjective and there are no absolutes in this matter. | |
| Hi-Fi can be less expensive than anything And a great deal of the money is still "there"--you can get half or more back if you ever sell. Unlike a car that's ready to trade in. | |
| Anyone Attend RMAF? Mapman, perhaps we really are dying off more quickly than we are being "replaced." | |
| Why does most new music suck? Bdp24 I still like Elvis Costello and Talking Heads. "Stop Making Sense" is still at the top of my list of concert movies--and I'm a child of the damn 60's. | |
| Artists that use the same song structure... Czarivey, you are wrong about bluegrass. I've taught and played enough of those songs to know that it's not so one-dimensional. There are subtleties and musical variations that you apparently have not yet encountered--I know it's not a matter of t... |