Sorry to just pop in here with a kind of off-topic question, but I figured there was more vinyl going on over here and you folks wouldn't steer me wrong. I was reading a thread on another forum with someone claiming the reason turntables have 78 RPM speed is that EPs run at 78. I don't know much from turntables, but that's not the case at all, is it?
EPs and singles ran at 45rpm. 78rpm is from the stoneage and a whole different thing. My friend has a lovely 78 player that he got from his grandparents. That one was probably made in the 40s. I've never seen a turntable that can play 78, but I think they excist. You gotta change the stylus/needle in that case... Playing Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker. Always a good listen
You, Sir, are the true hero of this story. Which would make me Han Solo or something. Or one of the Darths. I discovered YOB a couple of years ago because of the electric version of that acoustic one. That one is like some sort of cozmik meditational thingie where the sound just washes over you in waves that are both purely calm and also loaded with energy, nothing much happens and yet everything happens simultaneously. One of the best things I've ever heard...
When I was a teenager, I had a console cassette/tuner/turntable that had settings for 16, 33 1/3, 45 and 78 playback. No way I could change the stylus on that one as far as I remember. I think the 78 speed was an artifact of the (lack of) fidelity back in the fledgling years of recording. Given what they were able to capture back in the '20s-'40s, it didn't make any sense to spin at a slow speed since it would just highlight the lack of quality. I dunno; maybe I'm way off base. Meanwhile, I just have to listen to this every so often:
Not their best, but "The Book of Love" is such a great song. I like the rest too, but that one is a master stroke. Even if that beastly man Billig Jål stole part of the melody and used it on his absolutely ghastly piece of rancid crapola "Uptown Girl from the Sports Illustrated Cover Soon to be My Girlfriend Because I'm Rich not Talented Blues". LB=the man that transformed FM after 1975 into something viable. Billig Jål=the dog poo under my old white Adidas.
Giant Sand: Is All Over The Map 2004 release - as great a rock record released after 2000 that I’ve heard. Howe and this unknown crew of characters rock hard and mix it up with some of Howe’s greatest stories. Blasting this on my new over the top stock car stereo in my brand new 2018 Ford Mustang. Does this count as my “Gear”? Do I now qualify to talk about sound quality here? Where do I list my car?!?! This stereo seems to about 50% more powerful than the one on my old Mustang Fwiw the first thing I played was Grateful Dead - I chose a fine Cold Rain & Snow from an E72 show...
Same here, every record player I remember had all four speeds, no stylus change involved. (And: "every so often," eh?)
Ol`e Fabulous jam. McCoy Tyner's piano is the best thing about it. The Dead must've loved this record
I saw Milt at the Regattabar in Cambridge, MA back in '93 or so. Sat about 10-12 feet away from him. When he wasn't playing, he'd go to the rear of the stage and just sit there looking like he might fall asleep and then when it came time to play, he'd jump out of his chair and start hammering away these ridiculous flurries of melody. It was truly stunning to watch.
Well, I was pretty critical of this one in another thread, but maybe it isn't really that shabby. Probably the fifth or sixth time I've heard the whole record all the way thru in 31 years. I do not have the typical 'Fear of Anything Eighties', after all. Too bad the keyboards pretty much drowns out the guitar (what little guitar there is being great, of course) most of the time and that the rhythm tracks seems to be programmed (or just plain lame) for the majority of the time. -Buckingham's songs are great, but totally overproduced (which the solo and acoustic live version "Big Love" sadly proved to the world). Well, "You & I" isn't great. It is in fact appalling. -Nicks' go for one great outta three (and that is bad cuz out of the other two, one stink and one is pretty but incredible mediocre and with her worst singing ever). -Christine's are mainly of the plain jane variety, except for that most 1987 of tracks: "Little Lies", which is just as wonderful (tonight) as it was the first time I heard it. On the plus side there's some really great vocal arrangements. The bad side of that is that the vocalists themselves aren't exactly in the best shape of their career(s). Stevie was of course high, drunk and barely in the studio. Still no excuse for being this goat-y. Ever. And Columbia's national product isn't really great for the vocal chords or the nose itself
Guess it's time to pop a can. Getting the led out, letting the beer in. Halfway into disc 1, the animals have run for shelter, shattered shot glass #2 and a watercolor dropped dead from the wall to the sofa. Going over like a 'lead balloon' indeed, thanks Keith. The boys are putting the phrase 'shadow and light' to good effect here, especially with beautiful live renderings from LZIII.
I love Back Into the Future and Wino Rhinos and Lunatics, but this ain't bad, and Deke is on it. Deke Leonard's solo albums are hot shots too. MAD magazine was less than inspired by the cover art. Is that you Alfred?
