Is Elvis Costello's new stuff any good?by John Brown
There are a lot of good to great records made in lo-fi. Elvis Presley's Sun recordings, old blues records, garage band records from the sixties are all pretty lo-fi but sound great. The first Rolling Stones album is lo-fi. The early Beatles are interesting, if you have the lo-fi stereo mixes with instruments on one channel and vocals in the other. Punk was lo-fi and exciting in the era oby John Brown
AM Radio.by John Brown
Zack de la Rocha cited the Bad Brains as an influence when he inducted Patti Smith into the Hall of Fame. What are the chances that the Bad Brains will ever be inducted as members of that institution? Post Edited (03-18-07 00:35)by John Brown
I get your point, Scratchie. It just seems funny to me that some major artists made a big deal about not selling their music to promote products outside of selling their own records, and concert tickets, especially in the 1980's. John Mellencamp turned down car commercials when he was hot on the charts, twenty years ago, on moral grounds. He felt that it would be a sell out to use his musby John Brown
I've never heard of any of those people.by John Brown
I saw The Who last week in D.C. In spite of the negative posts that I've written about old rock stars still performing in their advanced years, I felt compelled to see if Roger, Pete and their sidemen can still cut it live. Yes. They concentrated a good portion of their show playing new material from Endless Wire, which is a pretty damned good album, compared to Face Dances and It'sby John Brown
There was a band called The Sonics, who recorded a song called "Psycho" back in the 1960's. It's a garage band tune and rocks like a motherfucker.by John Brown
When I was a teenager, a friend of mine got tickets to a Yes show at The Capital Centre, in Landover Maryland. My god, how fucking boring! Just noodling, long, boring nonsense. The opening act was Donovan. We came in as he was singing his last song, so I don't have much to say about him. The audience was all died-in-the-wool, stoner-hippes. Pot smoke eveywhere. I fell asleep halfway tby John Brown
I hope the first four Beatles albums are put out in stereo this time. They were released in mono when they first came out on CD, even though they were originally released in both formats when they were new albums. I find the stereo version of The Who's My Generation interesting, really stripped down sounding in three track stereo. A lot of the extras on that reissue were released on earliby John Brown
I just saw a Cadillac commercial with "Start" by The Jam playing in the background. Along with John Mellencamp doing car commercials, after refusing to allow his music to be used in that manner for years, hearing The Jam plugging a car was a shock. I guess "artistic integrity" has been dumbed down to a meaningless phrase. If Paul McCartney ever gets the rights to The Beatleby John Brown
Tom, do any of the SACD's you have playback in multi-channel mixes, or are they still two-track stereo? I have some of the SACD's you have but play them back on a normal stereo CD player. They sound fine in that format. I have never heard SACD on a proper SACD player. I read on an audio website that some of the SACD players have been withdrawn from the market. I also see few new SAby John Brown
Thanks for the information, Devlin and Ira.by John Brown
What kind of business is in the space that used to house CBGB? Is it still on to move CBGB to Las Vegas? The old 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. moved to another part of town a few years ago and still thrives. Maybe CBGB can stay in New York.by John Brown
How about a Vegas punk rock review with the living members of The Sex Pistols, PiL, The Clash, Jam, Damned and the drummers of The Ramones in a splashy show with dancing girls, flashy lights and comedians between the musical acts? It could happen. John Mellencamp bitched about musicians selling their songs for commercials for years. Doesn't he schill for Chevy now?by John Brown
Roky Erickson's still performing? Does he still play 13th Floor Elevators songs?by John Brown
How many of you people have gone to see performers from a generation older than your own? Do you think it was worth the price of the ticket? I'm not so much discriminating against older performers as I am asking whether they are really vital past their youth. I am middle-aged, in my forties. What prompts my questions on this topic is that I have seen a few artists that are of a generatioby John Brown
No, I don't feel better. I still heard their lame singles on the radio before changing the dial.by John Brown
As Lewis Black says, soy milk is really soy juice. Wouldn't you want to punch anybody drinking soy milk? Hey, mats84, am I cruel if I say that I hate everyone you mention? They're all a bunch affected assholes.by John Brown
I haven't listened to a whole R.E.M. album since the 80's? Have I really missed out on anything?by John Brown
I also like hearing the old Buzzcocks tune, "Everybody's Happy Nowadays" coming out of the TV. It reminds me of my youth in 1979-80. I loved that record back then. I haven't caught up with their new material and haven't really noticed much of it since Pete's Shelley's "Homosapian" back in the early 80's, though I did see them on the Late late sby John Brown
Rolling Stonesby John Brown
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I wonder why Ian Astbury wants to do an oldies act in Jim Morrison's shoes. He's got his own band where he made his name. Stick to it. The Doors thing is embarrassing.by John Brown
Growing up in the D.C. area, I didn't hear the BBC to comment on it. I've heard an old syndicated show, BBC Rock Hour, and some CD's from their archives. I've heard The Beatles at the Beeb, They Yardbirds and others. My favorite is a David Bowie 3 CD set. As far as great years in music goes, 1965-67 were really great because of all the classic albums and singles releasedby John Brown
I wonder if the reason either format hasn't taken off is due to lack of promotion in the electronis industry or something else.by John Brown
When you say a recording has to have been made after 2001, are you saying that a true SACD mix cannot be made from a multi-track tape recorded before 2001? I get the feeling that the format is dead because I see very few titles in SACD, as well as zero public interest in it.by John Brown
Thank you for your thorough explanation of the technical standards of the SACD, Paganizer. I appreciate it. I bought a few of the hybrid CD's a few years ago because they sound good on a standard Redbook CD player. I was considering buying an SACD player about three or four years ago, when there was still a buzz about them in the electronics industry, but I noticed that most current CD�by John Brown
Do any of you have an SACD player? I'm interested in opions on the sound quality of the SACD format.by John Brown
If only The Ramones' history could have been as those kids think that it was back in the day. It shoulda been, but no, dinosaur rock and disco got the big sales when the Ramones were blazing away at the height of their creative powers. Does anybody like the later Ramones music? Did they jump the shark roughly with, or after, End of the Century, as a creative force? Post Edited (02-03-0by John Brown
