“Banstead” / Atomic Rooster “Luck Of The Draw” / Bonnie Raitt – with a very fine guitar solo from Mr Richard Thompson “Rip Her To Shreds” / A live version from Blondie The picture below is of Bonnie Raitt
Month: February 2021
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Looks interesting to me. Might well go ahead and dip my toe in the water. Read more it HERE
Paul McGowan writes: I was mentioning to a reader yesterday that one of the reasons I am so convinced a subwoofer is a critical component in a reference sound system is the ability it offers me to hear the subway rumbling below Carnegie Hall in some of the early recordings. “Why in the world would […]
We often joke around PS Audio’s halls that CODE is a four-letter word—especially when there’s a bug. In fact, we use other four-letter words not appropriate for these pages to describe uncooperating code. But, as much as we tongue-in-cheek bash-software code, we also have a deep appreciation for its power as well as its pervasiveness in […]
The Trick Is To Breathe is the first solo album in a decade from Sid Griffin (The Long Ryders, The Coal Porters). After recording in the UK for most of the past two decades it Sid decided to do everything differently from his last solo album.”Billy Bragg told me his last album was recorded by […]
We are told: This radio broadcast from 1979 contains all the early hits from Sammy Hagar, including Feels Like Love, Young Girl Blues and BadMotor Scooter. One of the most versatile and admired hard rock vocalists, Sammy Hagar´s first great success came between the era that made his nameand the era that sealed his fame. […]
We are told ….. Gene Clark & Chris Hillman, team up as Flyte at California’s Palomino Club in 1982. As founder members of the Byrds, Gene Clark and Chris Hillman will need no introduction to fans of folk-rock, country-rock or singer-songwriting. In 1982 the legendary singer-guitarists teamed up with Herb Pedersen (guitar / banjo), Al […]
There’s an old story about a famous sculptor – it may even have been Michelangelo — who was asked by one of his admirers how to carve a marble statue of a horse. His answer (paraphrased and translated, of course) was “It’s easy; all you have to do is find a block of marble that […]
Conny Plank’s work behind the desk for Kraftwerk, Neu!, Eno, Can and Cluster, among others, is being collected in a four disc set, titled Who’s That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank. The box set includes a two CD collection containing 21 tracks produced by Plank, from the likes of Arno Steffen, Möbius, Rödelius, […]
Paul McGowan writes: A recent post explained a bit about how a switch mode power supply works – it uses a simply electronic switch to chop up the incoming AC into smaller, faster bits so we can use a much smaller power transformer working more efficiently than a giant beast like those you find in […]
‘How does it feel?’ – The Creation ‘Climbing up the wall’ – The Action ‘Get Yourself Together’ – The Small Faces
We are told ….. 13 previously unissued solo acoustic demos Remastered from the original analog tapes and acetate Book includes in-depth interview with Buckley’s lyricist Larry Beckett In 1967, the face of rock was changing. In that year alone there were debut albums from The Velvet Underground, The Doors, and Pink Floyd, to name a […]
This new four-disc collection revisits the albums Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet) recorded with the Magic Band in the early Seventies —Lick My Decals Off, Baby, The Spotlight Kidand Clear Spot. It includes all three albums, which have been remastered for the first time, as well as a disc of unreleased material. The fourth […]
Collister was born in Douglas, Isle of Man.[2] In 1985, she joined the Richard Thompson Band as a backing vocalist,[3] also singing with Thompson on many songs which had been previously performed as duets with ex-wife and former collaborator Linda Thompson. Collister was a part of this band for four years, contributing vocals on six […]
Formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1975 Molly Hatchet cut their first demos in Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 8 track recording studio with Ronnie Van Zant due to produce the first album until his tragic death in October ’77. Turned down by Warner Brothers they were picked up by Epic Records who released their debut album ‘Molly Hatchet’ […]
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Paul McGowan writes: Music servers are little more than computers in fancy boxes. So, what’s stopping us from simply buying a computer, installing some software and building our own media server at far lower prices than what we might pay a high-end audio company? Not too much, actually, but it turns out that won’t be […]