[Bonehead7171]

You may want to try the app, NIOSH SLM. Also search for this on Amazon or anywhere else: Dayton Audio iMM-6 Calibrated Measurement Microphone for iPhone, iPad Tablet and Android,Black

Thanks!

 

[chronoso]

He did have his demons for sure. I believe that they may have held him back. I saw him several times, the last time at the Roxy on Sunset Strip, sober and on top of his game. Very small venue. He was great.... His last album "The Wind" is incredibly good. He recorded it knowing that his end was near.... I listen to it often.

Much like the discussion of best first albums, one could also put together best last albums. Top of mind would be two from people who knew they would be their last.

Johnny Cash ending American IV with "We'll Meet Again" is beyond spooky and into heartwrenching.
Zevon ending The Wind with "Keep Me in Your Heart" gets my eyes welling up just thinking about it.

the posthumous Enjoy Every Sandwich tribute album is pure icing after that.

 

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An instrumental. I'm sure you didn't recognise that.

 

[ArmchairPhilosopher]

John Prine comes to mind

Who?

 

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An instrumental. I'm sure you didn't recognise that.

John Cage’s 4’33”?

 

[33na3rd]

Also search for this on Amazon or anywhere else: Dayton Audio iMM-6 Calibrated Measurement Microphone for iPhone, iPad Tablet and Android,Black

the paid calibrated version of Audio Tools by Studio Six seems to correspond with actual dbSPL meter readings in factories where I have used it.

The modestly priced paid version of Audio Tools also has a Real Time Analyzer and Fast Fourier Transform functions, and works with the Dayton Audio microphone mentioned above. While it's not as accurate or powerful as REW, it's very easy to use and low priced. It really comes in handy to set up a sub, or measure room response of different loudspeaker locations.

 

[Plautus001]

Blues Traveller 100 Years

 

[liamo]

A question for y'all:

Has there ever been a musician more under-appreciated than Warren Zevon? Because I don't think there is. Outside the US and Canada, Zevon is only known to a really tiny group of listeners, and even over here he never really got the appreciation he deserved. If it weren't for Letterman, I doubt that anyone would still talk about him at all. Breaks my heart.

I’d say a contemporary of his Marshall Crenshaw. A lot of great tunes, original melodies and snappy lyrics.

 

[LobalWarming]

John Cage’s 4’33”?

No.

Spoiler: Original lyrics (and score):

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[Paladin79]

 

[dhcarquinez]

I'm enjoying the lyrics tangent! I'm inspired to post many different lyrics, but I'll try to be disciplined.

Dylan, of course. So many to choose from, but one that grabbed me recently: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.

Hunter, of course. So many to choose from, but I'm inspired by the Donovan post to offer The Eleven, very much "of its time" in the late '60s:

No more time to tell how
This is the season of what
Now is the time of returning
With our thought jewels polished and gleaming

Now is the time past believing
The child has relinquished the reign
Now is the test of the boomerang
Tossed in the night of redeeming

Eight-sided whispering hallelujah hatrack
Seven-faced marble eye transitory dream doll
Six proud walkers on jingle-bell rainbow
Five men writing in fingers of gold
Four men tracking the great white sperm whale
Three girls wait in a foreign dominion
Ride in the whalebelly
Fade away in moonlight
Sink beneath the waters
To the coral sands below
Now is the time of returning

Prine, of course. To which I'll respond: Townes Van Zandt. He wrote some of the most miserable songs you'll ever hear. Try "Marie" for a sad, sad song.

Not sure I've seen mentioned: Leonard Cohen. Recently saw a PBS special with dancers interpreting his music called Leonard Cohen: Dance Me – Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Amazing, and it barely scratched the surface of his work.

Not sure I've seen mentioned: Paul Simon. So many to choose from, but I'll propose Duncan (1971):

Couple in the next room
Bound to win a prize
They’ve been going at it all night long
Well, I’m trying to get some sleep
But these motel walls are cheap
Lincoln Duncan is my name
And here’s my song, here’s my song

My father was a fisherman
My mama was the fisherman’s friend
And I was born in the boredom
And the chowder
So when I reached my prime
I left my home in the Maritimes
Headed down the turnpike for
New England, sweet New England

Holes in my confidence
Holes in the knees of my jeans
I was left without a penny in my pocket
Oo-we, I was about destituted
As a kid could be
And I wished I wore a ring
So I could hock, I’d like to hock it.

A young girl in a parking lot
Was preaching to a crowd
Singing sacred songs and reading
From the Bible
Well, I told her I was lost
And she told me all about the Pentecost
And I seen that girl as the road
To my survival

Just later on the very same night
I crept to her tent with a flashlight
And my long years of innocence ended
Well, she took me to the woods
Saying here comes something and it feels so good
And just like a dog I was befriended
I was befriended

Oh, oh, what a night
Oh, what a garden of delight
Even now that sweet memory lingers
I was playing my guitar
Lying underneath the stars
Just thanking the Lord
For my fingers
For my fingers

Then a whole genre of what I call "story songs" from the British folk tradition: Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and I'll throw in Ian Anderson for good measure.

I'm not gonna touch Prog. Supper's Ready for the win.

 

[Paladin79]

I'm enjoying the lyrics tangent! I'm inspired to post many different lyrics, but I'll try to be disciplined.

Dylan, of course. So many to choose from, but one that grabbed me recently: The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.

Hunter, of course. So many to choose from, but I'm inspired by the Donovan post to offer The Eleven, very much "of its time" in the late '60s:

No more time to tell how
This is the season of what
Now is the time of returning
With our thought jewels polished and gleaming

Now is the time past believing
The child has relinquished the reign
Now is the test of the boomerang
Tossed in the night of redeeming

Eight-sided whispering hallelujah hatrack
Seven-faced marble eye transitory dream doll
Six proud walkers on jingle-bell rainbow
Five men writing in fingers of gold
Four men tracking the great white sperm whale
Three girls wait in a foreign dominion
Ride in the whalebelly
Fade away in moonlight
Sink beneath the waters
To the coral sands below
Now is the time of returning

Prine, of course. To which I'll respond: Townes Van Zandt. He wrote some of the most miserable songs you'll ever hear. Try "Marie" for a sad, sad song.

Not sure I've seen mentioned: Leonard Cohen. Recently saw a PBS special with dancers interpreting his music called Leonard Cohen: Dance Me – Ballets Jazz de Montréal. Amazing, and it barely scratched the surface of his work.

Not sure I've seen mentioned: Paul Simon. So many to choose from, but I'll propose Duncan (1971):

Couple in the next room
Bound to win a prize
They’ve been going at it all night long
Well, I’m trying to get some sleep
But these motel walls are cheap
Lincoln Duncan is my name
And here’s my song, here’s my song

My father was a fisherman
My mama was the fisherman’s friend
And I was born in the boredom
And the chowder
So when I reached my prime
I left my home in the Maritimes
Headed down the turnpike for
New England, sweet New England

Holes in my confidence
Holes in the knees of my jeans
I was left without a penny in my pocket
Oo-we, I was about destituted
As a kid could be
And I wished I wore a ring
So I could hock, I’d like to hock it.

A young girl in a parking lot
Was preaching to a crowd
Singing sacred songs and reading
From the Bible
Well, I told her I was lost
And she told me all about the Pentecost
And I seen that girl as the road
To my survival

Just later on the very same night
I crept to her tent with a flashlight
And my long years of innocence ended
Well, she took me to the woods
Saying here comes something and it feels so good
And just like a dog I was befriended
I was befriended

Oh, oh, what a night
Oh, what a garden of delight
Even now that sweet memory lingers
I was playing my guitar
Lying underneath the stars
Just thanking the Lord
For my fingers
For my fingers

Then a whole genre of what I call "story songs" from the British folk tradition: Pentangle, Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span, and I'll throw in Ian Anderson for good measure.

I'm not gonna touch Prog. Supper's Ready for the win.

A prolific song writer who sounds like Dylan is Dan Bern. Some of you may have to search but a few may know of him.

 

[sam6550a]

Bit of an off-topic question to the tube collectors among us (while risking a ban for even asking):

Does anyone of you happen to have a NOS Type 83 rectifier tube lying around you don't need? I know a guy who knows a guy who may or may not be interested in one.

Yes, I do have one or two.

 

[Roy G. Biv]

I've had some fun listening to some Leonid and Friends videos. I know they were mentioned recently by @highgrovemanor but @JohnnyCanuck was first as far as I can tell.

Leonid & Friends - The Speck of Dust​

This is a group from Moscow who have been recognized for their outstanding Chicago & Earth, Wind & Fire covers.



JC

Fantastic fun to listen to and watch. Thanks to both!

A bit more -

 

[Balthazar B]

And banned by the Beeb. So I had to get my Jane fix by spending real money.

Do you remember Woody Allen's famous line, "“If there is reincarnation, I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips.”?

I'd rather come back as Serge Gainsbourg's...