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    Sorry to hear that Mark. It is rough when you have a connection like that with someone. There is a true love or hate relationship among musicians.

    My mother had me late in life and growing up I was always around older people and naturally gravitated toward them. I joined my first band when I was 13 with a group of older guys in the town I grew up. One of the guitar players in that band just turned 85. I'll be 50 in a couple months. I can't believe I just typed that. Uhg. ☹️

    So far I've lost 5 guys I was in bands with. The worst was the drummer Ron from the first band I joined back in 84. We were together 7 or 8 years iirc?. I still can't believe he's gone and it's been 4 or 5 years now.

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    What are your musical influences...

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    I'd have to say the ones who influenced me the most were The Beatles. They motivated me to pick up a guitar and sing, particularly McCartney's harmony parts. The very first song I learned to play without the music in front of me was Misery. I learned to play guitar from The Pocket Beatles For Guitar and a huge book called The Beatles Complete or The Complete Beatles. Can't quite remember now. I can't find it anywhere online now. It had a red cover with stripes across it at the bottom iirc?

    If I had to pick a top 5 (In order of importance to me):

    Elvis & The Beatles

    The Everly Brothers

    Hank Williams Sr.

    Chuck Berry

    There are a lot of others that I learned from. There are too many to mention from the 50's and 60's on the country and oldies chart, but none had the same impact on me the way those 5 groups/people did.

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    Pink Floyd!!!

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    12 minutes ago, paulo said:

    Nah, the best sound system in the world wouldn't make it not boring.

    Taking something to make it not boring is the equivalent of beer goggles - she didn't get any better looking, you just think she did.😉

    I didn't say I took it to make it better. :) I can take it or leave it but I will admit I heard things I didn't before. I certainly wasn't doing that when I was a little kid which is when that album came out, but I still loved the album then. As well as the Beatles.

    When you lose all the dynamics like in new these new 'remixes' and 'remasters' and compressed lossy formats it's not the same. It is funny what some people find boring and others think is great. My true love is 50 ~ 60's country music. Puts most people to sleep but it triggers my brain. Some of those old recordings back when they were micing a real band in a real room in 1 take through all that analog gear just sounds amazing, to me but puts most people to sleep. 

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    Pink Floyd!!!

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    41 minutes ago, paulo said:

    I had also never properly heard it, so I loaded it up on my mp3 player to take on holiday with me a couple of years ago thinking that I should probably see what all the fuss was about. I never made it past the track with all the clocks in it. 

    That's part of the problem. The format. 

    I have the Mobile Fidelity 1/2 Speed Master recording of DSOTM as well as The Moody Blues Days Of Future Passed and Queen's A Night At The Opera. MFSL's version of Days Of Future Passed is the best recording I've ever heard. MFSL DSOTM comes in 2nd IMO.

    As for the Beatles and younger people, I think they'll come around to them like they did Johnny Cash. He was more popular with young people toward the end of his life than he ever was in the 50's and 60's. Funny how that can go. It's hard to argue with McCartney's $1.2 Billion Dollar catalog of music. He's the richest musician in history. Not a very good bass player though imo.

    Add in the proper ingredients whilst listening to any of those 3 albums I mentioned and well, you'll see. I don't partake anymore but I hear it's all pretty much accepted nowadays. That's how I discovered the slowed down then sped up harmony part on side B of Abbey Road. I never heard it then one night ... I was like, what the ____ is that?! Years later I read an article about how they slowed the tape down, McCartney sang along with it, and he sounded super high pitched when played back at normal speed. It's during the 'love you, love you, love you' bit toward the end.  I also saw John Fogerty's head come out of my speakers one night, but that's another story for another time.

    What's that you ask?

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    1 hour ago, InstrEd said:

    Now that would be a Pol*** thing to do 😆

    That's what I was getting at in my Shmenge Brothers post in the other thread, but I don't think anyone picked up on it. They're from there, so was the OP ... N.M. LOL. 😁

    Pink Floyd!!!

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    3 minutes ago, garybrun said:

    I have here the vinyl LP of Dark Side Of the Moon here...  only played by the Mrs  a few times.

    This is what I dont understand... what is so special??  I dont get it??
    Money with a cash machine ringing out....   I am a musical person...      but dont understand!!

    It was the sound quality and how it flowed I think. And the album cover too. It all just seems to flow like one piece of artwork. It's hard to explain. And back then those sound effects were ahead of their time. Now days it's super easy to do those kind of things with loops and DAW's and samples so it may not seem so revolutionary now. Also it had the F word in it which was kind of unheard of at the time too.

    What fascinates me is the story behind the album, but I didn't know any of that until recently. Some of the songs were done as demo's for other projects. The clock chimes were part of another project they were doing. The voices in the background were just random recordings they made of various people around the studio. The woman's voice was just an off the cuff thing. I think that was the first take of her warming up iirc. In other words, the entire album was sort of pieced together and not this big 'concept project' everyone thought it was at the time.

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    Pink Floyd!!!

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    They went through a lot of changes over the years. When they started they were more of a 60's psychedelic band. When their lead singer OD'd on acid and went nuts and left they got more serious. Then came Dark Side Of The Moon and it's the best album, ever. Literally. The Wall is extremely overrated. Mother and Whatever Happened to Vera Lynn (who actually died recently) are my favorite songs on the entire 2 LP set.

    That's the entire Pink Floyd story.

    What's that you ask?

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    5 hours ago, Wibbles said:

    One thing we do well in the UK* is our plugs for electrical devices - the fuse in the plug might blow, but your device should be safe.

    * We seem to be making a total bollocks of nearly everything else.

    None of your appliances came with plugs until 1992?! Zoinks Scoob! :) We do all of that here too but voluntarily. The child safety outlets aren't required. One thing I want to do is install the combo GFCI/AFCI breakers right in the breaker box but they are expensive. I would think code will require them eventually.

    We have a whole house surge suppressor from the power company on the meter plus I have GFCI's through the house. I also have one of these ...

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    We had a big outage this summer too. The neighbors kid rammed their lawn mower in to the transformer box in their yard and moved it and shorted out the mains coming from underground. We were without power for over 12 hours. It fried my coffee pot which is on a GFCI, took out the ARC HDMI port on my TV so I can't use the surround via HDMI now, blew up the subwoofer amp. It was all connected to the Monster Power thing in the pic except for the coffee pot. Sometimes there's just nothing you can do. The whole house surge suppressor comes with a warranty but you have to jump through a 1,000 hoops to get anything out of them. This time I might try and also make them pay for the TV and surround and coffee pot as well.

    So far it's looking like the only thing that got fried is the oven but a lot of times you can't tell until days or weeks after.

    What's that you ask?

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    Power came back on. So far the only thing that verifiably let the magic smoke out was the oven in the kitchen. Dead as a doornail. 

    What the h e double hockey sticks are those blue eyes in the pic I posted!!!???

    I'm not joking, what the??

    Cue Rod Sterling again. 

    What's that you ask?

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    Oh just me trying to stay warm in the 6 degree ice stormy weather while the power is out.

    Sitting here alone with my sickly dog while my wife is in Waikiki for work for the next 2 weeks.

    I was using my DAW when it happened several hours ago. Power went on and off 4 times and there were 3 explosions up the street. Roads are icy and someone wrecked into the transformer substation a couple miles away. I could smell the magic smoke before I got a chance to yank the plug.

    Maybe it's God's way of telling me it's time to pack in the music Hah

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