Paul McGowan writes: Over the weekend our kitchen sink backed up. Of course I tried everything I could think of, from pouring gallons of Drano to buying a pathetic 25 foot snake at Home Depot. In the end a call to the plumber solved it. But without that sink life changed immediately. It reminds me […]
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Rare live recording re-mastered specifically for vinyl and audio restored during classic Dolls period featuring the line-up that recorded the two seminal albums. Radio broadcast recorded at My Fathers Place, NY, 14th April 1974. Liner notes by Dolls biographer Nina Antonia. Presented in coloured vinyl as a limited edition pressing of 700 with an insert. […]
Perfect doesn’t mean flawless. Perfect is full of mistakes and errors. A perfect person is a complex mix of learning errors and achievements won. When we think of a perfect recording or concert performance it’s never without flaws. The difference is the flaws add to the new, gives us the unexpected, becomes the perfect. It’s good to […]
We are told ….. Limited edition 7CD Box Set featuring influences, rare live performances with the Flying Burrito Brothers, interviews and cover versions by Emmylou Harris, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Gene Clark, Linda Ronstadt Gram Parsons is the father of country-rock. With the International Submarine Band, the Byrds, and the Flying Burrito Brothers, the songwriter […]
We are told: Fascinating and enthralling promotional radio performances from Joni in the 90’s. The first from February 1991 takes place with Murray McLauchlan on the Swinging on a Star show at CBC-FM, Toronto promoting her “Night Ride Home” album. The second is from KSCA-FM in Glendale, California in October 1994 where Joni plays songs […]
Six-DVD Collection Chronicles The Band’s Special Relationship With MTV Through Live Performances, Award Show Highlights, And A New Feature-Length Documentary From the beginning, R.E.M. and MTV have shared a rich history together. In July 1981, the band released its first single, “Radio Free Europe” while a few weeks later the new Music Television network launched […]
Paul McGowan writes: The damping factor of a power amplifier is a metric used to describe the amplifier’s ability to control the loudspeaker. It’s basically calculated by dividing the amplifier’s output impedance into the loudspeaker’s input impedance when the speaker is operating near resonance. It’s a really important number to know when you’re making a […]
John Rentoul writes …. This list was suggested by my excellent former colleague Matt Chorley, who launched it with ‘Bump N’ Grind’ by R Kelly; ‘Never Ever’ by All Saints; and the Beatles’ ‘All You Need Is Love’. Someone (David Bright) tried to nominate ‘Gimme Shelter’, by the Rolling Stones, but my power is absolute. […]
Paul McGowan: Radio station engineer Jim Mussel invited me to his home to hear what I couldn’t at the station, so poor the Quadraflex monitors were. Jim assured me that there were better speakers, better electronics and “something I’ve never heard before” awaited my arrival at his home. We both lived in Santa Maria California, […]
Paul McGowan … In a recent post we began the story of how MultiWave was invented. We left off at the point where I started questioning what was so sacred about the 60Hz frequency that comes out of the wall socket and started experimenting with higher frequencies in an attempt to “increase” the size of […]
Paul McGowan writes ….. Change can be tough for me, especially when the means to an end make no sense. Like green pens on CD edges, demagnetizers, magic stones, voodoo dots, resonators aligning the earth to my stereo system. Ideas presented to me that I cannot make sense of get put on hold. Sometimes indefinitely. […]
We are told ….. Filmed in high definition and simultaneously released on DVD, Blu-ray and DVD+2CD set. DVD+2CD set is packaged in a CD-sized digipack. Fantastic line-up of guest artists joining Jeff Beck on stage. Includes For Your Love, Beck’s Bolero, ‘Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers, Big Block, Over Under Sideways Down, A Day […]
They tell us ….. Country Joe & The Fish’s “Electric Music For The Mind And Body” was the first genuine psychedelic long player to emerge from the San Francisco Bay Area rock scene. This album was the first where the sound in the grooves matched the new frontier philosophies of the 1960 s generation. Berkeley-based […]
Joining Fleetwood Mac in late 1974, Stevie Nicks arrival coincided with the release of the bands eponymous album, and the start of a period of massive success for the group that lasted more than 15 further years. Stevies first solo album was released in 1981 and she remains the only member of Mac to have […]
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My experience in the power amplifier shootout surprised quite a few of you. Some wrote and questioned why I would publicly announce our new power amplifier wasn’t as good as the $10,000 tube amp we compared it to (no names please). Others wrote in support of my forthright approach. I guess I would suggest that […]
After leaving Glass Records and moving to Creation Records in the late ’80s, the Jazz Butcher recorded a brace of fine albums, four of which are collected on 2018’s The Violent Years. The band’s leader, Pat Fish, embarked on this new venture without recently-gone-solo guitarist Max Eider, but with a vision for big pop songs, […]
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