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I think to older cats like Herb Ellis that swinging isn't about intellectualizing it. It's almost intangible. Anyway, I'm writing this in hopes of everyone realizing that writing about swinging is even farther removed from actual swinging than not swinging in the first place. Reading posts by drumm...

I'm going to move this thread along from the Beatles to Herb Ellis. I read an interview with Mr. Ellis where he is asked about playing with musicians who couldn't swing. He said that everybody thinks they can swing, even if they can't. They just can't hear and feel how they're not swinging. It's aki...

Just bumping this to say how great it was dealing with rhythm ranch on this. Excellent seller, well packed and fast shipping. Thanks!

Mudcloth wrote: I'm not sure that eveyone in this thread or on this board has their art spoon fed to them.

I realize you [subatomic pieces] didn't imply that. My apologies.

Oh, hey... look... it's another great thread about how things aren't as cool as they used to be. If you can't be bothered to seek out good music, or if it just seems so much easier to complain about crap as if it represented ALL of "today's music", then honestly, your opinion of "today's music" is ...

I'm not on the cutting edge of what's out there today, especially in the so-called indie rock scene. That being said, Penny Lane is what comes to mind when I do hear some indie rock band's new song, a lot of the time, anyway. The 1/4 note push is all over the place today. . I don't remember hearing ...

If for some reason it's still available, I'm interested. Thanks!

Thanks for the helpful information. Would you concure that there may be no need of adjustment? It's possible that you could just pop the new 6V6's in. There's an audible difference in how a tube biased at 50% m.p.d and at 70%m.p.d. sound, though. There's no way of knowing without measuring what's g...

Also, it's the the bias point for the tubes you need, not the amp. Tung Sol 6V6 have a max. plate dissipation of 12 watts. If you bias them at 60% of m.p.d. [ a good starting point] you'd get 7.2 watts. Divide this by your plate voltage and you'll get the cathode current you'll want. If your plate v...

Like Shelly Manne!

I heard that was Ringo's kid playing drums. He ain't no Ringo, either.

I saw at least two moments where Rog's mouth didn't match what was supposedly coming out of it. I am not exactly sure what to conclude; since his voice was really rough on the first number and then got better--so did he just warm up a bit, or did they just bail on the live vocal at some point and g...

I just went through looking all over for one online. Here it is: http://www.bayoucables.com/altec/ I'm going to be varnishing and baking the output transformers on mine soon. Check this out if yours end up being noisy: http://home.att.net/~chimeraone/vintagetransrebuild.html Good luck and let us kno...

Very cool! Thanks for posting this.
I love Todd Rungren. My band even covers I Saw The Light.
Check out this link to Darryl Hall's sight:
http://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/index.php?page=ep23
Great episode of those two playing together with a crack band.

I'm not an EE, so bear with me here. I can see how unshielded xformer could cause hum in the unit itself, but how is the lack of shielding in an unconnected box causing a hum in the MOTU unit? That's what gets me. It sounded like I was holding a light saber. There's some electromagnetic weirdness g...