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  8. neil young, audiophile

    in Miscellaneous Music

    Posted

    . What you have to worry about is that he's sinking a lot of time and money into a medium that's probably not going to have much broad based appeal. There can't be more than a handful of younger people out there who give a rat's ass about sound other than that they have access to it. iPods, for all their convenience, have pretty much put quality reproduction on the back burner. Kudos to Young for fighting the good fight and caring enough to do it. I just hope he's not flogging a dead horse.

    Whatever became of mini discs-speaking of doomed technologies? I bit when they first came out. The sound was flat as hell, but you could store a lot of music in a small space. If you set it on mono you got 2x the time-good for interviews or recording one's gigs. I recorded countless hours of music-then lost the whole collection. Then the machine itself broke-past warranty, of course-and c'est le fin. I thought they were pretty cool though.

    Just read this the other day.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/sep/24/sony-minidisc-20-years?INTCMP=SRCH

  11. Death of CDs?

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    The anti-"pop" thing on this board misses the mark. Pop in general has created more that is absolutely memorable than jazz by miles,and much more that speaks to people's lives and feelings.

    Damn straight. The whole jazz snobbery thing is just so damn predictable...and diehard jazz fans wonder why outsiders see them as elitist pricks. laugh.gif

    Well, to be fair, it is a jazz board!

    Surely, John, you're not arguing that the fact that this is a jazz board is a half decent reason to be contemptuous of others who like other kinds of music?

    I don't imagine there are many people on this board for whom jazz is their sole musical diet.

    MG

    Not at all, I buy a lot of different types of music myself. Just pointing out that a lot of people here are quite passionate about their love for jazz.

  12. Death of CDs?

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    Yes, used cd stores are doing ok, but without new cds, they'll become increasingly antiquarian. I guess I could live with lossless downloads if there were more of them AND if one could always get personnels and liner notes, but the whole point of shifting to downloads is to make the process cheaper, and the accompanying materials cost money. Grrrrrrrr.

    gregmo

    The Disk Union stores are about 1/3 new CD's.

  13. Death of CDs?

    in Audio Talk

    Posted

    The anti-"pop" thing on this board misses the mark. Pop in general has created more that is absolutely memorable than jazz by miles,and much more that speaks to people's lives and feelings.

    Damn straight. The whole jazz snobbery thing is just so damn predictable...and diehard jazz fans wonder why outsiders see them as elitist pricks. laugh.gif

    Well, to be fair, it is a jazz board!

    On the subject of CD's, I am glad to report that the used stores in Tokyo are thriving and as busy as ever. I spend many a Saturday or Sunday in the various Disk Union's around town.

  17. 2012 Olympics

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    But Nationalism sucks. As ever, sport seems to be the most co-opted discipline to support it.

    I don't think it's that simple - a sense of national identity is a pretty vital thing for any country; when that is turned into a sense of superiority and accompanied by jingoism - and we've been guilty of that in Britain over the centuries - then it becomes a hugely destructive force.

    Outside of the Daily Mail/Express world I never got much of a sense of 'we're better than everyone else' over the last few weeks. More a sense of relief that we can pull off something like this and do well on the sport side too.

    Anyway, don't tune into the Last Night of the Proms next month. Expect that's going to be even more over the top than usual.

    Agree with the above Bev.

    I believe that the positives to be taken from the London games far outweigh the negatives. My sense is that most people feel the same way.

  18. 2012 Olympics

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    It also seemed to me the kids that went on to a life more informed by the Humanities, weren't overly blessed with a sporty peer group.

    Yes, in the 1950s when I was in the sixth form (aged 16-18) the split was between jazzers and rugger buggers.

    Anyway, thank goodness this orgy of nationalism is now over!

    I thought London did a marvelous job in organizing the Olympics, the crowds were amazing and the performance of Team GB was something to be proud of and to celebrate. Your comment comes across as rather churlish.

  19. 2012 Olympics

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Well, I'm not watching any of it but even a sportaphobe like me can't help but get excited by the achievements of the Brit Olympians when listening to the news - i even keep checking the BBC site to see if there are more medals.

    As a nation we have self-denigration off to a fine art - even our Prime Minister is happy to talk tosh about our society being 'broken'. So it's great to feel this wave of pride and optimism for a change.

    Well said Bev.

    I have the same feeling here in Tokyo and find myself regularly checking the BBC News website.

    My Japanese colleagues are all very impressed both by the performance of Team GB and the London Olympics in general. The consensus seems to be that the games have been a great success thus far.

  22. Spectrum Road with Vernon Reid, Jack Bruce, John Medeski, Cindy Blackm

    in Artists

    Posted

    ... darned typos ... at least, a funny one, and typically Germon ... ^_^

    Misspelling aside, he is SCOTTISH, and therefore CANNOT be one of the most important British musicians.

    As Scotland (at least at the moment) is part of Great Britain I am not quite sure what you mean.

    It's gotten old already at this point, but, fwiw, is being Scottish the same as being British?

    I have no wish to flog a dead horse but no, it is not the same. Britain consists of England, Scotland and Wales and thus Jack Bruce is both Scottish and British in the same way that I am both English and British. We are both citizens of 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.

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