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    Quote Originally Posted by hjames View Post
    Thanks! So I guess this means I have to hunt down his solos stuff to have a listen. I liked Metheny with Gary Burton, and even some of his stuff when he branched off, (even the Joni Mitchell work with Jaco) but - there is just so much of Pat's later work ...

    So now I'm loading two discs I just got from Amazon into iTunes -
    Les Paul: 90th Birthday Edition (a greatest hits collection), and Merle Haggard: 20 Greatest Hits.
    Les, of course, from the folks here who prompted me to watch a recent Public TV show about all his innovations, both musical and technical.

    Merle is just curiosity. We recently watched an old concert of "The Highwaymen" in Scotland, we liked their sound and figured "Johnny (Cash) is gone and Waylon (Jennings) is gone and we don't care that much for Chris (Kristoferson) - hmm - better catch Willie (Nelson) while he's still around!" Anyway, we got tickets for Willie Nelson at a small local venue in early September and Merle is the "warm-up" act, so I figured I should check out more of his material at least ...

    I mean, it can't be Eno and shoegazer stuff all the time, right?
    Country is my blind spot. I grew up in the UK did'nt really get much exposure to Willie and the likes. I respect any musician that can produce work with integrity for the amount of time that he has. Johnny gets a nod .
    the last thing he did of cover tunes. To be that big and to be able honour his influence shows the man's class (humility)

    Early Eno , music for airports got a bit cliche after 9.5 weeks. He teaches at the Royal College of Art now ,Multi media. Good course.

    shoegazer ? is that post-ironic ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by richluvsound View Post
    shoegazer ? is that post-ironic ?

    Some critic at melody maker called that genre that - tho I've been a fan of ambient/space music from way back - Jade Warrior anyone?
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    Prunes vs. Elevators

    [quote=SEAWOLF97;179410]I always confuse them with "The Electric Prunes" ..

    Those Prunes are nothing like the Elevators--nothing is. What other rock band had an electric jug? (That was the source of those indescribably strange "bubbly" noises.) Their recordings are not, sadly, of high technical quality, but, in many ways, musically, they were ahead of their time; echoes of them abound, even in the Rolling Stones. When I was at Fort Hood, working as a personnel records specialist in the "Transfer Point" during the VietNam era, a former member of the band was brought in chains to my cubical by armed guards for paperwork connected with his undesirable discharge--he'd been caught with a joint. I recognized him and said I had all their albums, he replied, "Even 'A Bull in the Woods'? That one sucks!" Alas, he was right. "Easter Everywhere," however, to which I was listening in my car on the way to work this morning, is an entirely different matter--I'm especially fond of "Levitation," although most critics mention "Slip Inside this House" as particularly noteworthy. That was their second album; the first "The Psychedelic Sounds of...." album contained their only hit, "Fire Engine," and was an obvious (in retrospect) anticipation of the whole grunge-punk movement of more than a decade later. They are my personal favorite band of the era, with Love and Quicksilver Messenger Service close behind, and I believe their influence on the San Francisco "psychedelic explosion" has yet to be acknowledged.

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    W:O:A 2007

    W:O:A
    Wacken Open Air 2.8. - 4.8.2007


    Is the largest exclusively metal music festival in the world with more than 60.000 attendees in 2006.
    It takes place in northern Germany north of Hamburg (some ten kilometers apart from my home).
    It is not my sort of music but there is a live stream if you want it:
    http://www.wacken.com/en/woa2007/




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    converge "no heroes"
    brutal music but very technical.
    recording makes guitars sound like V8 engines
    (and thats how i like it)

    and SYL.
    in my humble opinion the best metal band ever.
    recording is acceptable, great drumming.vocals are at a lonely hight (for the genre
    finally i have a pair of 604 8g's....there not easy to find in the netherlands

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    Anyone own a copy of "Stills Alone", from Stephen Stills?

    As the title states; anyone have a copy of the Stephen Stills CD released in the early '90s, "Stills Alone"? It's been unavailable for some time and used originals bring up to $200 used. I'm not that crazy, but I would love a CD-R "archival copy" (is copying really so reprehensible if the publisher won't publish the original?) if anyone has the ability to provide it. Cover your expenses, for sure, or something else to trade?

    Just thought I'd ask. Thanks in advance.


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    Smile U2 rattle and hum with shuddering low end.



    Being enjoying some rattle and hum and shuddering low end kick with U2. I made a few adjustments to fit the mix into the room, with a slight boost in the 125Hz range on LCR trimmed the 62Hz and 125Hz on the LFE.1 boosted the 32Hz slightly for the JBL 4645 which shuddered the room “Where The Streets Have No Names” deeply and pleasing on this fine sunny summer day.

    Lyrics came though clearly with little competition of the left and right instrumental. Not a bad concert rock film and in no is it dated, no way.

    The film has monaural surrounds that add crowd atmosphere and occasional reverb instrumental along the sidewalls that was handled easily via the JBL control 1, while the control 5 up front in active crossover mode sang brightly with transparency and spackle.

    I see there’s a HD-DVD and Blu-Ray version due out very soon this year.

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    Smile Jean Michel Jarre in China



    Getting into some Jean Michel Jarre in China, it opens with very dynamic orchestral number with shuddering timpani that rocked the pillows of Forbidden City, clarity over the whole range of channels was staggeringly realistic.

    Classic pieces from Oxygen never sounded this good with instrumentals being panned over the fronts and whooshing around the sidewall surrounds.

    I noticed the levels on left and right where mixed quite high with certain parts of music, so little reducing of the master level and slight increase on the centre channel output as well as a few trims on the LF left and right and HF thou not as much as I’d like to maintain transparency of the sounds over the fronts.

    This is JBL chest pounded, with shuddering LFE.1, window rattling JBL sensation, which vibrated the seat, like nobody’s business!

    SPL db levels where kept within safety limits around +80dbA to +105dbc, if I’d trimmed the LFE.1 differently with 62Hz at 0db the depth at the back of room would be too overwhelming, with peaks close to 115dbc. The master fader is at the -10db level and still I seen the Alesis RA300 going into clip thanks to the DCX2496 and its management safety features.

    Chapter 8 has a harmonistic mellow Zen feeling with good percussion of strings, which is backed up by a wonderfully choirs that gives it that heavenly emotion edge. The image on the transfer is remarkable clear for standard DVD.

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    78 year old Lee Hazlewood died August 4th.
    ( Billboard.com )
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    My brother & sister-in-law gave me a $50 Amazon girt card for my birthday, so I went to town and searched for many used CDs and combined as much shipping as possible- here's what will be spinning for the next few weeks:

    Yayhoos- Fear Not the Obvious (Dan Baird from Georgia Satellites)
    Yayhoos- Put the Hammer Down
    Paula Cole- Courage (her new album)
    Pat Benatar- Crimes Of Passion (only had the vinyl)
    Oteil & the Peacemakers- Family Secret (excellent funky smooth stuff)
    Kimm Rogers- Two Sides (liked one song, we'll see what the rest is like)
    Josh Clayton-Felt- Spirit Touches Ground (from School of Fish, which was a favorite. Sad story, posthumous release, really like it so far.)
    Josh Clayton-Felt- Inarticulate Nature Boy
    Big Audio Dynamite- Tighten Up (old favorite)
    Cherry Poppin’ Daddies- Zoot Suit Riot (found it while cleaning my wife's new classroom at her new job)
    Michael Lee Firkins- Chapter 11 (love his stuff, guitar instrumentals of all styles. Excellent player.)

    ...interesting mix of stuff.

    je

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    Stills

    The recent mention of Stephen Stills sent me web searching for new stuff. If you enjoy his work (I think he is one of the best ever), log on to his official website http://stephenstills.com/, but turn on the computer speakers first. 1968 demos, and what a thrill they are!!!!

    Beats me how I forgot to mention him in the Lead Guitar thread.

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    THE ONLY WAY TO TOP THE PREVIOUS POST IS WITH:

    Ennio Morricone - Anthology

    go Clint , go .....

















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    Quote Originally Posted by SEAWOLF97 View Post
    THE ONLY WAY TO TOP THE PREVIOUS POST IS WITH:

    Ennio Morricone - Anthology

    go Clint , go .....

















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    I’ve seen “The Good the Bad and the Ugly” so many times on TV that doesn’t really do it any justice for the scope of such a classic an iconic Spaghetti Western. I’ll have to hunt down the region 2 DVD I’m a (Clint Eastwood) fan, the guy has come along way since the days of “Raw Ride”

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    Quote Originally Posted by JBL 4645 View Post
    I’ve seen “The Good the Bad and the Ugly” so many times on TV that doesn’t really do it any justice for the scope of such a classic an iconic Spaghetti Western. I’ll have to hunt down the region 2 DVD I’m a (Clint Eastwood) fan, the guy has come along way since the days of “Raw Ride”
    Ummm ... that would be RawHide ... sheesh ...
    Raw Ride was that OTHER cowboy movie a few years ago with Jake Gyllenhaal - what happens on THAT mountain stays on the mountain!
    (and Clint wasn't there ...)



    Besides, they've restored "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" a few years back, its a sumptuous film - go rent it or buy it and enjoy again. Its a MAJOR improvement!
    Then go get "Once Upon a Time In the West" and see it on a big screen -
    Robards, Fonda, Bronson, Cardinale - and Jack Elam with that hilarious opening sequence -
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