Posted on 10/24/2021 5:01:40 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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Live music is the best! Even the little ones hoping to make it big someday!
For the purpose of this thread, my husband tells me that his vinyl collection is roughly 400 albums. Most of them are older ones from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but our kids give us newer groups, now.
Two things of note:
1.) Each of our three kids have working turntables and the accompanying technology to listen their own vinyl. It’s a family thing for us, and the kids all think it’s really cool.
2.) My husband loves both analog and wireless technology. So he has his speakers hooked up to play both versions at his whim. When he wants vinyl, his speakers pump out whatever’s on the turntable. When he wants wireless, his speakers (10 throughout our home) pump out whatever he wants from his phone collection.
Being the audiophile I am I really want to hear this underrated masterpiece on true equipment with top quality sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9lpLm7jwQY
And please read the comments on the song above. They are hilarious.
Guess I’ll hang on to my old vinyls, then!
Surely their value will continue to increase?
Right now, I can hardly give the damn things away!
Rd later.
Many years ago I had one of these machines and it was great. The one I had was heavy as all get out, but produced great results. If I be younger and had to do it over again I would have another one in a heartbeat.
Would anyone be interested in being part of a New Music Pinglist? I have a "calling" to find new music that hasn't been "discovered" and is ignored by the mainstream music industry. Or, maybe it's forgotten music from yesteryear. Or maybe it's quirky yet innovative. But the connective tissue is that it is music that isn't championed by the mainstream but it SHOULD be, and being a capitalist I'd like to see demand in this realm.
I am not employed in the industry (I'm a Shepard..) and don't make money off this effort. It's simply something in which I strongly believe is needed, lest we descend further into Really Bad Pop.
I'll check with the boss (it's JimRob's platform) but assuming he's ok, I'd do something maybe every week...I'd focus chiefly on releases out of Bandcamp but any platform that isn't some front for Sony et al would work for me.
If anyone wants to add music to the list, please do. Wouldn't it be something if a spike in demand for new music came from GenX (or older) Deplorables?
As a sample of what I've heard lately that gets my toes tapping or makes me think :
Autobahn Outlaws by The Gasölines:punkabilly from Norway. Expect to get 2pts on your license with the tune.
Say Something from Yellow by Emma-Jean Thackray: modern Jazz from the U.K. with some quirks that works
A Funny Discovery from Less Is Endless by De Beren Gieren: minimalist kool Jazz from Belgium
True Believer from Damaged Heart by Scotty Saints and the True Believers: street punk from Maine; I've seen them live and they always deliver
I still have an 8 track/LP/radio/cassette combo player upstairs.
I’m prepared.
;)
Sign me up!
Vinyl maybe coming back, but the days of going to Music+ or Tower Records to get a new release for $7.99 are long over. I have been picking up a lot of reissues / Record Store Day new issues the last couple of years. $25 and up is the going rate. Many of the reissues are coming out on Colored vinyl, supposedly Limited Editions, to suck people in.
::raising hand!!!::
I am always up for new music!!! Sign me on!
Interesting read on Electric Lady studio.
Excerpt...
“The sum was $1,032,425.26. That’s how much, in today’s money, that his engineer Eddie Kramer reckons Jimi Hendrix was paying every year renting studio time in the late 1960s. And that’s why, when Hendrix and his manager Michael Jeffery told Kramer they’d bought a venue at 52 West 8th Street in New York’s Greenwich Village and were planning to turn it into a nightclub, he told them they were crazy.”
https://www.hifinews.com/content/electric-lady-ny
“CDs are one bit of modernity that I love.”
Not so modern any more but there’s a lot of drama going on inside the DVD player. It picks the music out of the grooves with a laser focused with a lens. The disk is not entirely flat so the laser follows the groove which goes up and down. The hole in the CD is not exactly in the center so the laser follows the sashaying groove. Also, since the hole is not exactly in the center and for other mechanical reasons the bits don’t come off the disk at an constant rate. So the raw bit stream is buffered and pulled out of the buffer and a constant rate. If bits are coming off the disk too fast, which would overflow the buffer, the rotation is slowed down. If the player is jostled and the laser jumps off the track, that is detected and the laser is moved to the correct track with the buffering allowing the user to not know about the track-jumping.
My car,like many recent models,has a feature which allows me to display on my screen the *exact* location of my vehicle...meaning GPS coordinate (e.g., +042 00 10,-072 23 55) and also the city and state/province. Two weeks ago my better half wanted to go to Niagara Falls,*Canada*...so,of course,we went. Crossing the Rainbow Bridge (a very impressive experience) you see,about half way across,a US flag and Canadian flag within a few feet of each other. Half way between them is the actual border. At that exact point my display changed from "NY" to "ON".
I don't know about you but that *astounds* me!
“I had an idea that the technology involved with CDs (lasers) was complex”
Also it does some amount of on-the-fly error correction.
GPS has also been a game changer, as are the detailed maps generated from satellite data.
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