A collection of tracks that I like, and listen to and that fit neatly onto a CD-R. In each instance, each of the CDs from which these selection of tracks are drawn are well worth buying i.e the quality of the performance is representative of the rest of the original CD. ======= 01 “I Can’t […]
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Mick Fleetwood has said it is currently “unthinkable” for Fleetwood Mac to continue as a band following the death of Christine McVie. The drummer told reporters on the Grammy Awards red carpet that he thinks the legendary band is probably “done”. “I think right now, I truly think the line in the sand has been […]
Polly Samson, Pink Floyd lyricist and wife of David Gilmour, accuses Roger Waters of ‘antisemitism to your rotten core’ Waters says he entirely refutes the ‘incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments’ by former bandmate’s wife Pink Floyd lyricist Polly Samson has accused the band’s co-founder Roger Waters of being “antisemitic to your rotten core”, in an […]
GUARDIAN / RICHARD WILLIAMS ‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos hen Tom Verlaine wrote his great lyric about Broadway looking so medieval, he wasn’t thinking about the rather down-at-heel recording studio in an office building where his band, Television, made their first demos in December 1974. […]
Touraj Moghaddam, Vertere’s founder and chief designer, gave a detailed description and explanation of the new third-generation of Vertere Reference Tonearm. Some eleven years after the launch of the original Tonearm – one that was considered genuinely revolutionary – the third generation brings additional flexibility, ease of use/fine-tuning and, of course, improved performance. The […]
GRAMOPHONE: Composer and pianist Iain Farrington surveys the interwoven history of classical and jazz as his new album, ‘Gershwinicity’, is released on the Somm label lthough the terms ‘classical’ and ‘jazz’ are frustratingly vague for such a broad wealth of music, they provide a useful distinction for two different musical traditions. When the two styles […]
GRAMOPHONE In 2019, Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Schubert’s great song-cycle in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Erato were on hand to record it. James Jolly caught up with the multi-Gramophone Award-winning mezzo to talk about her unique approach to the work. As one of a handful of women singers who have […]
Eric Johnson (former Radio Promotions Director Remote Engineer at CBS (1990-2002)) replies … Of course he was….Someone once asked if JPJ was, to paraphrase, “the weakest talent in the band” at which point Page just laughed at the foolishness of the statement and said “go sober up sometime and have another listen” and he continued […]
Following a 50-year legal battle, the founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival now owns the global publishing rights to the iconic rock band’s songs. It came after Mr Fogerty, 77, bought a majority stake in the rights to the band’s catalogue from Concord Records, which has owned the rights since 2004 —//— At its peak, […]
THE GUARDIAN / Annie Zeleski When Adele covered Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love on her debut album 19, her interpretation was a sparse piano ballad that exuded tortured romantic longing. “The lyrics are just amazing and summed up exactly what I’d been trying to say in my songs,” Adele said then. “It’s about […]
So what do you believe in, in our industry. Broad-brush rather than precise? I do believe in common – seemingly increasingly uncommon these days – courtesy. Plasma and home cinema may be a viable market sector but I can’t get passionate about it – so I don’t demonstrate them. I don’t stock cables and mains […]
I recently purchased a Benchmark DAC 2 which supports DSD decoding following an article from Robert Hartley indicating that Sony would release all of its music catalog in DSD download format. As of today, there are only 358 DSD downloads available from Acoustic Sounds. On average the DSD downloads is music that is 30-45 years […]
Published a long time ago Dear Sir Howard (well everything is possible). I look forward to your newsletters, Simply-STAX & Listen Carefully ever since their inceptions. Some of it washes over me yet some of the content sticks with me for months. Thank you. By way of example I relate to a comment you made […]
R J HOLLAND … Huge, tough, heavy rock band in the late sixties with some of the best musicians in the business. Tim Bogert, bass guitar and vocals Vince Martell lead guitar and vocals Mark Stein Hammond organ and vocals Carmine Appice drum and vocals. Their sound was big; thunderous drums, the wailing Hammond organ, […]
Howard – I know that you used to be quite keen on the Stereovox range but they are perhaps more expensive than the equivalent LAT? First, I’ve no idea if Stereovox are still in business. I seem to recall they might have changed their trading name. Anyway in answer to your question; no, not […]
Blues pianist Eddie Boyd’s 7936 South Rhodes was recorded in London in January 1968 with three members of the early lineup of Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green (guitar), John McVie (bass), and Mick Fleetwood(drums). It’s a tantalizing setting for Boyd’s straight up Chicago piano Blues, going heavier on the slow-to-mid-tempo numbers than the high-spirited ones. Eddie […]
First published in 2017 It can’t happen here! Oh really? Well ….. take a look at the Dell computer company. They’ve become vast and have done so with having any retailers whatsoever. PCs and laptops are infinitely more complex that audio equipment. All an audio maker needs to do is to have the will and […]
Amy Christa Erano wries … Southern white men in general (“Southern Man”) and white Alabamans in particular (“Alabama”). Those two songs painted a very negative picture of Southern white men, and while the South certainly has a history of racism as well as slavery, Ronnie Van Zant was a Southern white man (from Florida, not […]
Stupid question of course that doesn’t warrant consideration, let alone an answer. Unless of course it is useful as a basis for pondering on the well-intentioned but ultimately futile debate about accuracy – within the current meaning of the word. Only a cretin would fail to recognise that the reproduction of a piano on even […]