so in other words...It's all b*llocks.
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Quotebitusa2012 I’ve given the album a rest for the past two weeks. Listening to lots of other things like Free, Taylor Swift, Broderick Smith, Gregory Alan Isakov, Mark Knopfler, The Beatles, Cold Chisel, Peter Gabriel and Russell Morris. Enjoyed all that. Today I took out the Carnaby Red version of Hackney Diamonds. Wow, what a record. It is holding up better and better the more I play i
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Underrated as a musician...but overestimated by some in terms so his importance to the band after the first couple of years. Truth is, Brian sadly never found his true musical home...and it certainly wasn't the Rolling Stones. They should have been, for him, a stop on the way.
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Mobile Fidelity half speed masters... Now there's topic in itself. Wonderfully pressed records, dead quiet top notch RCA vinyl. beautiful sweet top end... ...but half the time they flush the baby out with the bathwater by engineering all the Rock N Roll out of it. If you take the MFSL Sticky Fingers for example, there's too much of a smile in the EQ curve and the reco
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..but thoughts of living without SF and Exile are as scary as living without BB and LIB. If I were really put in that position, I just don't know which way I'd jump.
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Right then, here's a difficult question. If you could only listen to albums from the 60s or albums from the 70's ?
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I'm surprised there aren't a few local fans, with a bit of cabby's "knowledge", offering tours of all those Stones sites.
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Weird that we can look at those photos posted by BV and instantly recognise most of those shirt from the little bits visible... ...how sad are we ? Nothing but a bunch of anoraks
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Without the architecture, a big screen is just a big screen... ...it's only what's shown on it that's bespoke. A few flags and banners are never going to impress like the burners of the VL cobra ...but that's just the way things have changed.
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I suspect BV did not intend this thread to be an endless list of folks thanking him for iorr and for all his tireless work down the years... ...but I'm glad it did turn into such a thread...because BV should know how much we have all appreciated his efforts and thank him from our hearts.
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Looking at all those wonderful pictures, kindly posted by Urban Steel, nicely illustrates how the goal posts have moved. When you look at the VL and B2B stages for example, the architecture had to be the thing making the statement because the giant screen technology wasn't then nearly a good as it is today. Those stages were awesome to behold ...but didn't actually enhance the
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QuoteRockman In that case switch to braille Spud ..... Ya can read it in bed with the lights out too ... I've now got this image in my head of the sight impaired kid's mother storming into his bedroom .. "....get those mittens back on Johnny ...it's far too late for reading !"
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I don't like books with too much writing under the pictures !
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Brilliant. Thanks for the tip off.
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Yes....well. Denmark Street has been home to quite a few "wide boys" down the years.
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QuoteDelcoProud London instrument dealer Denmark Street Guitars is selling what purports to be one of those white 4x12 speaker cabinets used on the 75 Tour, and its flight case. $9,999. The promotional email I received claims that Keith used it, though I don't know how they know it wasn't Ronnie's, and there's no Stones stenciling etc.that I can see. According to the shop, it
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Well , I hope he's just sitting at home, in good health and still loving to play guitar for his own enjoyment. He probably hasn't made an absolute fortune down the years but he must be comfortable.
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The Stones themselves are all generous as musicians... But the corporate Stones machine is a hard nosed mother that will not tolerate uppity managers or representatives with ideas above their station.
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The overriding impression with MT [...and he's always come over as a nice enough bloke from what we've been able to see & hear...]is that over the years he's received and been guided by an awful lot of bad advice. Some of it perhaps well intentioned... but some of it based on greed and malice.
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It all baffles me and leaves me totally totally bemused an befuddled. Time was that you got the best tickets by camping outside the booking office
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The wonderful sound, lighting and large screen technology available today should be employed in creating a more intimate stage atmosphere. If well done it would allow a club show performance to be totally effective in a stadium. ...and surely age is now making all that running about on 50 yard wide stages a bit of an issue. [ Imagine that technology being used to put us all front row
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Digital recording technology is now potentially quite wonderful... ..hampered only by poor decisions made in it's processes and by engineers no longer appearing prepared to trust their ears.
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With a decent turntable and system you certainly can hear the difference between new and well worn stampers...but with 50 & 60 year old records this is just one of many factors which will affect the sound. Some the best sounding old records are those which were looked after and kept clean, but played on primitive old record players with very crude styli. Those styli never got anywhere n
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QuoteStonedRambler But yeah, some of his mixes are horrible (like Copacabana or VL Uncut) VL Uncut is appalling... ...sounds like it was recorded on a Dictaphone outside the stadium, transferred to cassette tape and then mastered from a fourth generation copy !
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QuoteNellcote1971 Yeah that's the brilliant US Monarch pressing. Exile is the only record I really dig into. Although it's fairly "easy" as all Artisan pressings are so good I somehow can't stop diggin' deeper and deeper... Thanks for that . Very kind. That's something I've learnt today then. To be honest I'd always presumed it likely to
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QuoteDoxa ...Besides, I don't think any of their albums is that weak, actually. Each contains showcases of their unique greatness. They had just done so many great albums, the peaks being out of this world, and their over-all quality is just so high that the lesser ones or not that memorable albums suffer unjustly by comparison. - Doxa Exactly so . I try to illustrate this by imagi
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I'd call it "Are They Still Going ? ! "
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QuoteNellcote1971 Yeah, the Electrola is fantastic! Found it interesting that the UK 79 EMI is so bad, I thought they are probably the same mastering. The UK Artisan is otherwordly... just so good. What are the matrix numbers on yours, Spud? I found that 1/2 matrices are basically the same, whereas my one D3 side is compressed af. Does anyone have any inside into the Artisan mastering proc
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My UK Artisan was an original I bought new ...still the best I've heard .. ...but I love the Electrola for a bit of slightly more cerebral listening, with a bit less dancin'
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Charlie was one of life's collectors and hoarders...and very eclectic with it. He could probably have opened his own museum
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