Music
No, not my music. I don't play much any more. I spend more time with the band saw than the band.
He forgot to mention "remastering", where great old recordings are piped through a compressor to end up sounding just like today's shite. This is especially ironic for Beatles recordings. The Beatles and George Martin went to great lengths and used a lot of tricks to get the maximum dynamic range out of the primitive recording equipment of the day, and largely succeeded. Only to have the life squashed out of it by money-grubbing record companies who want to sell you the new "remastered" (ruined) version. The original Beatles recordings sound much better, especially the CDs; if you have them, hold on to them !!!
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I actually had this album, what a blast from the past!
Who remembers the Monkees? When I was a little kid, this show was in syndication every day after school. I loved the slapstick. At the end of every episode was a music video that I didn't really appreciate then. Here is the intro to the show:
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Many years ago I saw Eric Clapton at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan. All through the show, I kept hearing Dire Straits. Finally, I grabbed someone's binoculars, and sure enough, there was Mark Knopfler! Since then I found out they are great buddies, and tour together a lot. Clapton was so cool, he let his tour guitarist have the final encore, this:
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He's not doing it here, but Bruno Mars can play pretty much any instrument you throw at him. He's like an even-smaller version of Prince.
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- 7-String Semi-Fretless Bass
- A Force of Nature
- A Joke from the Sixties
- An Oldie but a Goodie
- Back to the '80s
- Back to the '80s Again
- Compare & Contrast
- Depeche Toi, Depeche Toi, Attends
- Don't Click This Link!
- Dr Pinch und ze Pinchtones
- Greatest Prog Band of ALL TIME
- I Was Wrong About Sade
- Just Found a New Dr Pinch Video
- Just Give Me a God-Damn Bass Line !!!
- Lady Gaga, but different
- Lake Street Dive
- Lederhosen
- More '80s, Alphabetically
- More Prog
- Mozart
- One More Charlie Murphy Video
- Parental Guidance Advised
- Post-Modern Jukebox
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T !
- RIP Neil Peart
- Rush
- She Has Great Enunciation
- Signifyin' Monkey
- Some YouTube Random Recommendations
- Steely Dan, but Paul Shaffer won't shut up!
- Still Great - Mark Knopfler
- Swing Out Sister
- Talk Bass Surprise
- Tedeschi Trucks Band
- Tesla & Twain
- The Knack
- Tomorrow Never Knows
- Why is Modern Music so Awful?
- Zooey & Dusty
