Ive actually gotten into vinyl again in the past few years. nothing audiophile mind you but I was buying RSD releases and realized I needed something to listen to all of it so I picked up these two pieces and for me they are prefect
Odd you mention this. I have been thinking about the same as a sort of project thing. Much of music I love is coming out on vinyl and it would be cool to support that part of the industry.
Music services have changed things for me. I didn't have much of a record/cd budget in my 70s/80s youth, then later I had $ but no time. Now I have more time and a music service which has got me into going deep on Artist Catalogues I did not know in detail back in the day - stuff like GV above, Steely Dan, older Fleedwood Mac, Rush, Sabbath, ... love having that deep access - so many tracks that got by me when all I'd have is one or two of an artist's albums or a greatest hits - I do wish they'd provide full rez pix of all the original album liner notes and graphics since it's now within the digital realm of possibility. Toto another good example - I was first exposed to Toto while playing CB radio tag as a 17yo - CB Radio tag was game where by a few of us would drive around in pairs, in separate cars all night, trying to find each other just using the signal strength meter on CB radio - so lots of driving around the city for hours doing not much of anything with final destination having Chinese food at 3am. Anyway, my friend had the first Toto album like permanently installed in his car's cassette deck always playing - and he loved to keep requeuing "Hold the Line" - now I cannot hear that song without being transported back to CB radio tag lol!
I've thought about going back to vinyl for warmth of tone that I remember, but man the price of vinyl - expensive.
Record stores were a prized outing for sure. Up here (Canada) we had Sam The Record Man - the place would be packed on a Friday night - really hopping. I remember a lot of now iconic albums at first release - they would have a mountain of them stacked in the middle of the store. As a kid with paper route and limited $ + not knowing a lot of the history related to many of these bands I'd often choose albums to buy just by the look of the cover and the infectious interest of people in the store looking at it - was like "wow man, what's this with the prism n the light going thru it? - everybody's getting this! - $3.99, k, I'll give it a try!...". Back then, there were no remote ways to know about, or participate in, any kind of event, hype or buzz - you had to go out, be there, with people, interacting, at some sort of.. "happening" (though that word, used in that way, was a few years dated by the early 70s)
By no means am I saying that music services are bad for the most part, as I use iTunes and I have an expensive library on that) but none of the others but they did change how music is made. But yes my favorite pastime used to be going to a local record store picking up whatever and then popping the cassette into my deck and causing around just soaking in the latest album. And yea I agree vinyl prices are crazy. I picked up the Ozzy boxset a few years ago and while worth it to me it was a bit insane spending 500 on it, I also have all of the Metallica anniversary boxsets.
He is one of the original Session guys, not many people know of them but at one point or another everyone has heard them.
I get that but I guess what im saying is it's not like anyone can develop any new note choices. And believe me, Im not trying to discredit this musician or anyone with a great ear/musical vocabulary. Great note choices, outside note choices, etc all sound great to me. Idk i guess im alone in that thought then
For me it's like speakng in any given language. The words list is the same for all, but we have unlimited variations of speaking style from dramatic to funny to crazy to boring to ... millions of unique talkers, all choosing from the same word list but each having their own signature style of presentation. When do the returns of a given set of words start to diminish? Perhaps once a point has been made in whatever style it was presented. Some styles (ie SL) seem quite brilliant.
i can get on board with that explanation!
good one eh! juss b careful not to stomp on anybodi's copywrite wit doze notes yur choosin lol!.
