We are told ….. Welcome back to the world of Squeeze, a world where previous visitors will find much that is both reassuringly familiar and intriguingly different. A new album, ‘The Knowledge’, offers up another dozen examples of high quality Chris Difford & Glenn Tilbrook song craft, and is the perfect curtain-raiser for a massive […]
Month: February 2021
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A rare broadcast from LINDA RONSTADT that highlights some of the very best material she performed during the first few vital years of her solo career. Live from the renowned Record Plant recording facility based in Sausalito, California. 1. Nightingale 2. I Fall To Pieces 3. Silver Threads and Golden Needles 4. Love Has No Pride 5. Rock Me on […]
We are told ….. Roll With The Punches – Van Morrison’s 37th studio album – sees him simultaneously hand-picking a selection of rhythm and blues classics (by the likes of Bo Diddley, Mose Allison, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Lightnin’ Hopkins among others) and recording a set of new self-written songs. It’s an album that features […]
Paul McGowan writes ….. Televisions and home theaters need remotes, our hi-fi systems do not. For those ancient enough to remember when equipment did not have remotes, we solved the problem of volume adjustment in the same way we made it easy to play a record. The preamp and turntable were next to us. No […]
It took Joe Muggs until his 30s to get into Mitchell’s grown-up music, but once it clicked, the whole history of music was rewritten in his head MORE
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Born in Greenwich, London, Difford has written lyrics for over 40 years, most notably in partnership with Glenn Tilbrook. The two were primary members in Squeeze and Difford & Tilbrook. According to Difford, he stole 50p from his mother’s purse to put a card in a local sweetshop window advertising for a guitarist to join […]
I’m still knocked out by The Jayhawks “Tomorrow The Green Grass” . If you love gentle but far from bland country-rock, you really should get this. I got mine off eBay for £3.70 plus postage. Some tracks are indescribably beautiful. Neil McCauley
This 3 disc collection include two superb CDs containing radio broadcasts of concerts from 1989 and 1993, along with a third disc containing media interviews with the man himself, stretching from 1961 right up to 2008. The man born Leonard Norman Cohen becomes an octogenarian in September 2014 and celebrates this happy event with the […]
THE COMPLETE ALBUM COLLECTION BOX SET of 59 CDs The long wait is over for guitar-music aficionados. Sony Classical is now issuing the first-ever complete collection of recordings by the incomparable John Williams. This Original Jacket Collection comprises 57 original albums made over four decades, including his style-crossing collaborations and a DVD. And Williams’s recordings […]
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece by Dave Simpson and Laura Snapes https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/feb/12/50-years-of-carole-king-tapestry
Neil, what is the biggest danger facing the high-end sector? In a word, hype. In another word, the bullshit. Another word ignorance. Anyone looking in on our tiny and dwindling high-end world would think we are nuts. Not nuts because of the prices. But nuts because of the nonsense published occasionally in some magazines about […]
I rather like these 3. All new to me as of yesterday: Neal Casal: “I’m Only Sleeping” Chris Eckman: “Yellow Submarine” Mark Mulgahy: “She Said She Said” Well worth checking out – I feel
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Paul McGowan: I am reminded about the inevitable followup questions people ask after first hearing a high-end stereo system. ”Can I get that for $1000? If so, sign me up.” always feel so inadequate explaining how this system is a compilation of many hand-selected pieces of equipment, hours of hand tuning and thousands of Editdollars. […]
Chris Difford’s place in the pantheon of great English songwriters is assured – surely nearly everyone can sing along to at least one Squeeze song. So in the wake of the success of the first new Squeeze album in 17 years, 2015’s Cradle To The Grave (which received across the board rave reviews), now is […]
We are told: Limited edition 6CD Box Set featuring four FM broadcasts from 1968 to 1994 An Introductory pre-order price of £14.99 for first 100 orders. Disc 1. Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco – KSAN-FM,28th April 1968 I Got My Eyes on You Born in Chicago Highway Child Fannie Mae Got Love If You Want It […]
Ten time Grammy-Award winner Santana presents “CORAZÓN, LIVE FROM MEXICO: LIVE IT TO BELIEVE IT”, a special CD/DVD concert event. The DVD includes the concert film, and a “making of the concert” 30 minute documentary shot in Puerto Vallarta, Riviera Nayarit, and Guadalajara (“Live It To Believe It”) and the accompanying CD is the live […]
Columbia Records and Legacy Recording have announced The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration- Deluxe Edition will be released on March 4, 2014. The collection will be available in three different formats: 2CD, 2DVD, and Blu-ray disc. The CD version will include unreleased tracks from Sinéad O’Connor and Eric Clapton that were recorded during the sound check for the […]
Paul McGowan writes: I was going to step off into the deep end this morning with the start of our cable series but many of you asked about the results of the latest amp shootout so I thought I’d give you a brief update on that progress. The quick overview is that we made significant […]
Being pretty pleased with my classical music ‘experiments’ via ebay [read earlier postings] I though it might be useful to apply the same technique to Ry Cooder. I didn’t know too much about him other than he’s highly respected. and so his first recording turned up on eBay for £3.00 – post free. Hardly a […]
Paul McGowan writes: I promised a series that included a video of the setup for our new reference system in the PS Listening room – and I will deliver on that promise for those of you interested in following along. Building a reference level sound room is no small task and, while a fun project, […]
Paul McGowan writes: Here’s an interesting fact. If we play our stereo system outdoors we’d have no room problems, yet not much would sound right. Rooms are somewhat of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, their hard boundaries enable our speakers to fill the room with sound. (Imagine your stereo system trying to fill Yankee Stadium). […]