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I was fortunate enough in the sixties to see the Kinks live at Manchester University where I was a student at UMIST. They were indeed outstanding and it wasn’t just because of their strange and unusual stage presence, but they really could play their instruments and sing and of course wrote some truly wonderful tunes. […]
Timm Davison, studied Media Communication at University of Washington (2017) replies: For a rock band, bringing it to the stage is supremely important, as much so now as ever before (there could be an entire post about how touring is really the only money-maker these days, as streaming has taken precedence over physical sales, there […]
They say you need a proper stylus force gauge to give a truly accurate reading. Are the mini digital stylus scales £15 on ebay worth buying please? Is that a job done? Cheers.
Gentlemen! I have read that you and many others say that new blood is needed. Agreed, But how do you / we talk to them?” A powerfully relevant question and one I’ve pondered for some years. The fallacy I believe is in hoping that there is indeed ‘new blood’ out there. If so, then how […]
GRAMOPHONE Liszt’s piano music, with Alexander Ullman Alexander Ullman’s new album featuring Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 and the Sonata in B Minor, is released today on Rubicon Classics. For this week’s episode of the Gramophone Podcast, the Award-winning pianist joined Editor Martin Cullingford to explore this extraordinary music, its beauty and its […]
What is a good sound in your opinion? The facetious answer is ‘probably not the same as yours.’ Not much help though I guess. The truth is though that I tend to listen for different aspects of a sound which a comparative novice might not. By novice I mean someone not having 33 years of […]
GRAMOPHONE: Arranging The Four Seasons for solo harp Harpist Keziah Thomas talks us through recreating Vivaldi’s evocative imagery on her own instrument As a child of the 80s, my first encounter with The Four Seasons came from my favourite cassette in my grandfather’s meticulously indexed drawer of classical music albums, ‘Hooked on Classics’. Vivaldi’s music […]
Howard Popeck: As part of my continual effort to broaden my classical music horizons I have applied lateral thinking which has turned out to be rather effective and pleasurable. I’ll share it with you although I recognise that it probably won’t be of use to you if you are already where I want to be […]
ALEX JOHNSTON writes … Yes, indeed. ‘Revolution 9’. Commonly agreed to be the Worst. Beatle Track. Ever. A blot, we are constantly told, on an otherwise great album. And, I mean…it’s hard to disagree. The Beatles were a band whose signature trait was not that they were the heaviest, or the most complex, or the […]
Being a bit too young at the time though, I dearly, dearly would have loved to have seen the Small Faces live. I’ve seen a number of live performance videotapes of them and they were certainly not a studio-bound band. Whilst it’s true that certain effects in the studio such as phasing and backwards guitars […]
“As some may have noticed from other threads I currently have two 1963 Lenco L70s as well as a Spacedeck / Hadcock. I’m starting a thread just to document where I’m up to – it may be a long, long while until this project is finished as I’m still not entirely sure where I’m going, […]
Perfection is only a point of view. Moreover it’s only valid at the instant it happens and only if we accept the challenges of being ‘right there’ in the moment. By this I mean the listener being intimately (inextricably?) involved in that perfection. In other words, a perfect musical performance doesn’t mean the performer made […]
We are told: Together at last! Two folk legends of Laurel Canyon’s countercultural music scene join forces on this gorgeous album of all new recordings! Features captivating versions of classic tunes by fellow folk icons Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen plus a few of their own compositions!
Do you like the music of Elvis Costello? Hmm. Visualise me stroking my chin please. Okay – got that? Good. I’ll begin. But I haven’t met him! I’ve been thinking long and hard about the question you posed, do I like Elvis Costello? Try as I may, no simple answer emerges and I can only […]
We are told ….. Two ‘high octane radio concerts from Husker Du one from 1985 when the band were enjoying an upsurge of interest globally not just locally due to the success of the Byrds cover single 8 Miles High and the albums New Day Rising & Flip Your Wig. Disc 1 Introduction 2. Flip […]
Sorry, what does it all mean? What is considered a low compliance, high..? Searching didn’t get me that far. Asking for general info but also to know just how crap a DV20xH might be on a Technics SL-1200 stock arm with Sumiko headshell. The DV has a compliance of 12 something – is that high […]
“Blown away” for a 3.27% investment: A cursory look at some audio forums will show that a great number of contributors don’t buy the idea that power cables make a difference in a high end audio system. Some of them claim to be engineers and a proportion of them might be. Some write with what […]
In your experience, do mains leads really make a difference, and are the expensive ones really capable of offering value? Mains cables do change the sound of audio equipment. Unfortunately there’s a lot claims made about mains cables that are exaggerated. I suggest that the effect of a mains cable is not as important as […]