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Rock · 3/15/2023 12:36 am

Jinnistan · 3/15/2023 12:59 am

That must have been too fire.

Jinnistan · 3/15/2023 4:59 pm

crumbsroom · 3/20/2023 11:37 pm

Rock · 3/22/2023 11:29 pm

Rock · 3/22/2023 11:37 pm

crumbsroom · 3/25/2023 1:28 pm

crumbsroom · 4/02/2023 1:47 pm

Jinnistan · 4/06/2023 4:09 pm

crumbsroom · 4/06/2023 6:09 pm

Jinnistan wrote:

I've been listening to lots of John Fahey today. Well, his first record over and over. His other one's are all upstairs and I'm too tired.

crumbsroom · 4/06/2023 6:41 pm

crumbsroom · 4/06/2023 7:22 pm

I made it upstairs!

Jinnistan · 4/06/2023 7:25 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
I've been listening to lots of John Fahey today. Well, his first record over and over. His other one's are all upstairs and I'm too tired.

There's still several of his albums I need to get, including some of the more avant garde sound experiments (Requia) and pretty much anything newer than Live in Tasmania. (I had a CD of City of Refuge once upon a time.)

I picked up the above performance recently, along with some other stuff like a 1985 Kronos Quartet show with Terry Riley and a 1985 John Lee Hooker with Carlos Santana sitting in.

Jinnistan · 4/06/2023 8:56 pm

crumbsroom wrote:
I made it upstairs!

Now you know where Sonic Youth got the "Teen Age Riot" riff from.

Jinnistan · 4/07/2023 4:46 pm

I was inspired to seek out a John Fahey torrent last night, but without confidence, because he's the kind of obscure guy that even if I do find one, it'll just hang there incomplete for months because no one is seeding.

But I got lucky and found a 4 gig set of flacs. I think this pretty much makes my collection complete through the 60s. I skipped some of the more commercial looking ones - After the Ball, Old Fashioned Love, Let Go. After I go through my other digital files, to check on their quality, I may upgrade some of those as well, although I don't think any of these flacs are vinyl rips, and I know a few of my others are.

Anyway, I should have an interesting Easter weekend. (Oh! Damn, I forgot to get his Yes! Jesus one.)

Jinnistan · 4/12/2023 2:44 pm

Apparently Murmur just turned 40.

Rock · 4/12/2023 11:57 pm

crumbsroom · 4/13/2023 6:10 pm

The first four Metallica albums are so fucking good.

Sometimes I can't believe I once preferred The Black Album to Ride the Lightning....or rather, of course I can. I was an idiot.

I actually can't even remember the last time I heard The Black Album. Have never owned it beyond a dubbed cassette. Didn't stop me from having some intense arguments about its greatness in my late teens though. And how those who didn't agree with me were silly purists. Holding onto the past. Keeping their band from growing.

Then I would buy Loaded......

Rock · 4/13/2023 6:27 pm

TBH I’ve never really gelled to And Justice For All. The production is weaker than their previous two, and it trips into that off putting tendency in metal for songs to be long and complex just because they can.

crumbsroom · 4/13/2023 6:53 pm

Rock wrote:
TBH I’ve never really gelled to And Justice For All. The production is weaker than their previous two, and it trips into that off putting tendency in metal for songs to be long and complex just because they can.

I'm biased towards Justice since it is one of the first tapes I bought that wasn't The Beatles. I looooooved that record for a long time. It was my favorite of theirs for a long long time, and one of the many reasons was because of that terrible production that pushes the drums and guitar way up front. I had no interest in bass when I was younger, and that trebly horrible sound it shoots off really resonated with me.

Now I realize what a problem than muddy (non existent) bass is and so only prefer it to Kill Em All. But they are all really good.