Music type notwithstanding, I don't see anything wrong with enjoying your cassette collection. Over the years, I have come across a few expensive cassette decks which could stand up to an open reel deck and not be ashamed. Admittedly, such decks did cost quite a bit of money in their time.
I am still clinging on to my Sony TC-K808 ES from 1993. So far, I had no particular problems buying quality cassettes, and it still sound really, really good, especially with Dolby HX. Definitely still a fun part of audio.
I read in the end he was left with one hand functional and still performing!!
What’s wrong with free…
Ornette?
dom?
maybe try the salt peanuts and spirit mix instead? 😉
A lot of question marks!
So, what?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dou3aSZmEg0
George
George,
I can dig it! I can appreciate the free form jazz and his horn playing sounds pretty good even on my laptop.
I found an old vinyl album from a friend of mine, Airto, it seems I have one of the only copies on vinyl ever printed and my copy has been played only once. It was not my style as it was a spiritual album done in his native Brazilian Portuguese but he is sure happy I kept it all these years. I'm going to return it to him as he doesn't have a copy himself it seems. It looks as new as the day he gave it to me.
dvv,
I still have a cassette recorder sitting on a shelf, not sure what I would ever do with it today but it was pretty good at the time. I think I still have some old TDK cassettes somewhere still in the original wrappers but where I would use the tape besides an old car I don't know.
I can dig it! I can appreciate the free form jazz and his horn playing sounds pretty good even on my laptop.
I found an old vinyl album from a friend of mine, Airto, it seems I have one of the only copies on vinyl ever printed and my copy has been played only once. It was not my style as it was a spiritual album done in his native Brazilian Portuguese but he is sure happy I kept it all these years. I'm going to return it to him as he doesn't have a copy himself it seems. It looks as new as the day he gave it to me.
dvv,
I still have a cassette recorder sitting on a shelf, not sure what I would ever do with it today but it was pretty good at the time. I think I still have some old TDK cassettes somewhere still in the original wrappers but where I would use the tape besides an old car I don't know.
The link I clicked on said speaker wire, but this stuff looks like it's 100 years old?
Western Electric 12ga Twisted 1pair Wire 10 Meter for JBL Speaker Amplifier | eBay
Western Electric 12ga Twisted 1pair Wire 10 Meter for JBL Speaker Amplifier | eBay
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I'm sorry. So it is not so free, or is it ?
(hold the peanuts, I'm seeing Minnie the Moocher later on. No telling where they would end up)
Oh, Lord. 1959. The year I discovered Jazz. I know all those tunes by heart, I was 14.
Thanks georges for this moment where i recover all in one, and *exactly* all the smells of my childwood. Unchanged.
How about in a shack behind an old factory.
(roger on the HK cable offer, the wrap is 60 percent asbestos)
Selling asbestos-insulated cable is the height of irresponsibility. Difficult to countenance.
Christophe,
My friends were good friends with Miles Davis and played with him. I got to watch him play with his son near the end of his life when my friends took me along. He was an interesting character to say the least.
Brad,
It's hard to believe anyone would even try and sell anything like that. I would think they would get rid of it as quietly as possible without raising any attention. The cost to dispose of something like that is not cheap and you own it for life even when you get rid of it legally. You would need a special permit just to remove old wiring like that today in California and an EPA permit to dispose of it. Unbelievable really.
My friends were good friends with Miles Davis and played with him. I got to watch him play with his son near the end of his life when my friends took me along. He was an interesting character to say the least.
Brad,
It's hard to believe anyone would even try and sell anything like that. I would think they would get rid of it as quietly as possible without raising any attention. The cost to dispose of something like that is not cheap and you own it for life even when you get rid of it legally. You would need a special permit just to remove old wiring like that today in California and an EPA permit to dispose of it. Unbelievable really.
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In case you haven't seen it All Night Long, 1963 with Patrick McGoohan is a UK jazz scene flick with Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus along with others performing. It even has audiophile interest, Richard Attenburough is a rich bachelor with a posh pad who invites professional musicians to perform at his parties while he tapes them with some nice looking reel-to-reel gear. Way ahead of Hollywood on drugs and race issues.
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Yes, even when he was recording random noises (anything but music) with his trompet during a period, I believe to see how far can go the stupidity and snobism of people ;-)
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[export plus transito of (goods containing) asbestos is allowed in Hong Kong]
A zener needs a CCS or a series resistor, same as LEDs.
Take a look at Morgan Jones's Statistical Regulator. Amazingly quite, superb line rejection.
My favorite band was the quintet with Hancock, Shorter, Williams, Carter, and especially the album ESP. Even more than the previous band with Trane and Cannonball. As he moved into later stuff I didn't follow him that closely anymore. There was an item today about how much his tabla player hated playing in some of those later efforts, and I can't say I blame him.
I know that one album so well I could sing all of Wayne's solos, were it not for the Geneva conventions.
Well, I was not referring to ESP, while I'm not sure J.S Bach would have appreciated each and every details of this Album ;-)
For me, nothing choking in it, or so little. Just It bores-me.
You know, I'm not this kind of guy, able to listen during an hour with a constipated knowing air in a concert to make believe my neighbors that I 'Understand' and am 'hype' (see what I mean ;-). If a piece of music don't emote-me, if I'm not enjoying harmony, even complex (too simple can be boring too), if there is no groove or even swing, you will find-me in the toilets, smoking cigarettes.
For the same kind of reason, I remember a concert of Dire Strait. A compilation of musical cliches and easy effects. After the second tune, as we had backstage passes with a friend of mine, we had spend the rest of the concert playing ping pong with the roadies.
Well, everybody has his own culture, sensibility, history, so I don't pretend any value to my preferences. Just when I don't enjoy, I don't make believe.
I had never understood the 'free' period in Jazz. Happy for me it has no lasted very long and most of the jazzmen quickly returned to something i could enjoy again.
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