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I got Racing in the Streets at a used CD store and have been playing these two track a lot.
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Follow Ups:
Side One
Stephen Stills: Do For The Others
Elton John: Levon
Steve Miller: Going To The Country
Chicago: In Terms of Two
Supertramp: School
Loggins & Messina: Be Free
Moody Blues: Ride My See Saw
Tull: Rainbow Blues
Who: Eminence Front
Side Two
Harry Chapin: Taxi
Rod Stewart: Cut Across Shorty
BS&T: And When I Die
Neil Diamond: Bother Loves Traveling Salvation Show (live)
Heart: Love Alive
Pretenders: Middle of the Road
Sea Level: Storm Warning
Sea Level: Song For Amy
I made dozens of these tapes and listen to them all the time. Some are less eclectic, others much more so.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
...nice selection.
"Be Free" is a terrific L & M song.
"Love Alive" is one of my favorite Heart songs.
Mother Lode is my favorite L & M lp.
...with Native Sons a close second.
Those guys could jam.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
Do you have Taxi Sequel ? I think it is about one of the last things Chapin did. Excellent writing. I have somewhere where he did both put right together where he hooks up with her ten years alter or whatever but I am not so sure I prefer that. It almost stands better as two separate songs. Like chapters in a book.
Just one comment here : Look how old some of the stuff we listen to is. Really, 99 % of the new shit is garbage, just like movies and TV. We used to have five TV channels and had to discuss what to watch and now we got 300 channels and there is nothing worth watching. Quantity instead of quality. I can't listen to most of the new shit, and TV and movies is all special effects, an eight year old doing the camerawork and them switching angles or scenes 35 times a minute.
I don't even go to hulu anymore because I have watched all the old stuff. Over 80 % of my music collection, which is pretty good quality because I got it off P2P and used the right software, is over 20 years old. Some of it is older than I am.
Last week I fixed a turntable and for a test record I got handed an all dusty one. It sounded pretty good actually, apparently the dust was on the top in between the grooves. I shit you not, I could not believe that I was not hearing the noise from that. If I had wiped it off half of that dust would have gone down in the grooves and it would sound worse.
I used to do mix tapes all the time and sometimes do a mix CD when necessary, like for the garage stereo where I can't seem to get the wifi to connect to my server. But even in the old days I found very few whole albums listenable, even groups I really liked. One notable exception is Pink Floyd, and there are a few others I can't think of right now but most of them are a band's first album.
This led to a discussion of why. Why ? Why is their first album usually the best ? Because it took them a lifetime to make. After that a record company gets to them and produces and markets the album and that is all cool and the gang but they want another album within a year or two. The contract says how many minutes and all that. They sign because they want the promotion but then they are pretty much slaves. So they write filler tracks, use shit they threw away years ago or do covers.
What was Boston's best album ? Now I do admit that Foreigner put out a really good one with Double Vision, and actually I think it is better than their first album, but that is the exception not the rule.
Pink Floyd is another exception, their early work was too weird, Dark Side Of The Moon got them rolling, and it was nowhere near their first album, but then they were in England and things might be different there.
Actually they were. It was illegal in the past to transmit rock and roll on the radio stations. So some people with money put a radio station on a boat outside of their territorial waters and beamed rock and roll in there. It was call Radio Carolina. Look it up.
Online, at a chat place called Paltalk I corresponded with one of the Beatles' sound guys who now lives in California. He is old and he was there and he has a bunch of tapes from back then he plays once in a while. Yes, you can broadcast music over the net on Paltalk. You can get it for free but if you pay up you get alot better sound quality, though most members don't send all that great quality.
Anyway, his handle there is peyotecoyote and his real name is Gary. He has some seriously seriously rare shit. I stopped going there when they required a software update, but I think you can just do it through your browser now, if you care to.
In fact he sent me this little doodad :
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/29948706/VUMeter.exe
Freeware, no install it just runs on its own. It is not compatible with everything. Certain soundcards, and I am not sure about anything past XP. But it does not have any virus in it or any of that shit. If you use an external DA convertor it is not going to work.
But anyway, looking at the media I see these days indicates that it has all been written. Creativity is dead.
1st 3 tracks on "It's a Good Night for Singin" which are:
Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night
Standing at the Big Hotel
Couldn't Do Nuthin Right
On the original issue LP of course.
I had a good friend and roommate in the '70s that was a huge Jerry Jeff fan. He became real excited when he heard he was coming to town for a concert. The night of the show Jerry J. stumbled on stage drunk, told the audience to get f*^#ed and walked off. Needless to say, my friend lost his enthusiasm for Jerry Jeff after that experience.
"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool, then speak and remove all doubt." A. Lincoln
I had a similar experience with John Prine in Mobile Alabama in the mid 70's.
Can't say I am surprised by your story. It somehow fits the image I have of him.
Wonderful tight band with Ty Tabor from King's X (vocals and guitar), John Myung from Dream Theater (bass) and Rod Morgenstein from Dixie Dregs (drums). Saw them live back in August. They have four wonderful albums. Go from hard and driving to somewhat dreamy and arpeggiated. Poetic lyrics.
nt
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
'Car' and 'Audio'
Exception: Orey Block's Cadillac.
...here at home, the 45RPM re-issue of Aaron Neville's "Warm My Heart" is a rush I have to have at least weekly.
Lots of JAZZ!
The tracks with Sting ("Seventh Son"), George Harrison ("Horse to the Water"), and Paul Weller ("Will It Go Around In Circles") are the kickoff to all road trips.
Cerebrate!
.....keeps finding it's way onto my turntable. Excellent band, excellent music!
Oz
Don't worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps a dozen of my audiophile friends has been using various small (20mm) Synergistic Research Quantum Black fuses. Regardless of the equipment, and where we live, the Black seems to take a loooooooooong time (> a month) to burn-in.If you obtain one, you will have to try it in both directions. One direction will sound congested, uneven, and bumpy, as if someone is holding a funhouse mirror to an object. The other direction will be less colored and inaccurate, more like using a regular straight/flat mirror.
Once you determine the better-sounding direction, let the wait begin.
I am now using a Black in a Simaudio 750D. To push things along, I brought back the Purist Audio Design System Enhancer Rev-B . Sigh, in the mid-90s, I purchased this disc from the late Stewart Ono's Audio Direction Ltd., in Honolulu. 20 years later, Uncle Stu, from his perch above, should be happy to know that the PAD still does its workman-like job.
Edits: 09/28/16
This -
Cheers,
John K
The six discs in the changer, ranging from Bless the Weather to Piece by Piece, have been playing for several weeks.
Steely Dan's "Katy Lied."
I'm rarely in the mood for music (at least not before my 2nd cup of coffee) so I listen to NPR (ok, I surrender to aging lol).
The ride home is another matter, I tend to rock out on a VARIETY of up tempo 70s-80s music ie EW&F, Swing out Sister, etc, and of course a good dose of Hendrix. However-I turn a LOT of heads when I jam Elton John's 'Levon' (live in NY 2004); his voice of course is not the same compared to the original but this production is a snappy, down right Southern gospel hoe-down complete with a full orchestra and choir!
NT
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Jim
http://jimtranr.com
Mostly because I am fortunate enough to going to his concert in Holland, Michigan tonight. Very excited!
...I had a roommate in the 1970s from Holland, Mi.
I'm a fan and I saw Mayall 2 years ago here locally - I think he was 80 then.
I got a photo with him and he signed his latest CD he was selling.
Great music and a terrific band as usual.
It was a very good show. John was gracious to all. He even signed my album cover of Hard Road! I also purchased one of his CD's and he signed it as well.
John is an aging treasure and if anyone has the opportunity to see him please do not hesitate.
Holland is a very nice town and the lake being so close is an added bonus.
Cheers
i am usually wanting to hear something new so the radio in the toyota is on the KCRW HD2 station-ECLECTIC 24 OR something i have grabbed from my piles of CDs on the way to the car.
same hd2 station on the computer or kcsm for jazz. i dislike playing the same things over as i can ruin some great stuff for myself that way. that's how diana krall became the object of ridicule at hifi shows.
that's how i found Trilok Gurtu and Kat Edmonson. change it up!
...regards...tr
A bluegrass "supergroup" fronted by Jerry Douglas. Just superb stuff.
https://www.amazon.com/Earls-Leicester/dp/B00NAX4W26/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475076626&sr=8-2&keywords=earls+of+leicester
Three albums and two movies.
Dark energy? Ridiculous!
We live in an electric universe.
...on a mission from God.
Really? Yes!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
There's a jammed cassette stuck on auto-repeat, been there since the 1980's.
n/t
Be careful bringing up Racing in the streets , around any car guys,
you might get an earful.
aa
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
aa
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Live versions of Mahavishnu Orchestra "You Know You Know". c. 1972
Blazing guitar work by John McLaughlin with Jerry Goodman on electric violin.
Hot shit!
"I can't compete with the dead" (Buck W. 2010)
"It would take me forever. I don't think I have forever" (Byrd 2015)
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"E Burres Stigano?"
Teenage Fanclub, Badfinger, Big Star, 20/20, Shoes, Dwight Twilley, among many others. My all-time favorite genre!
"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony." --Lou Reed
When I want to go all power pop, I first reach for my Shoes.
axolotl
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"E Burres Stigano?"
To start with, you could get a decent compilation, like Shoes Best or Real Gone's 35 Years: The Definitive Shoes Collection, or both. (Each contains a number of tracks that the other doesn't.) If those whet your appetite, you can dig into the original albums or 2012's excellent comeback, Ignition.
What a great, sorely underrated band!
"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony." --Lou Reed
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"E Burres Stigano?"
I listen to a local rock station, 94.1 WHJY The Home of Rock and Roll. They play a lot of Pink Floyd and everything rock from the 70's up to all the latest music. I listen to this on my secondary system which is located in the same room my computer is in.
"There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night,there's dust in my eyes that blinds my sight, there's a silence that speaks so much louder than words........of promises broken"
...I turn on the Comcast cable blues music channel for background music.
And to discover newer artists I don't know.
:-)so NO repeats, at least not for a month or two! ;-)
Too many station promos and program promos, that sound like Ads.
But at least there's very little compression, and they do live acoustic broadcasts in simple-ish stereo.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 09/27/16
Of all Jazz artists, Miles Davis satisfies me the most.
All around. Early, middle or late.. All good, each period in it's own way.
Succinctly, poetically summed up!
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
Back in Black. A copy is in the car and in every CD player. At least 5 copies floating around.
One of my favorite car tunes.
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