Scott Dolan

Just had a hankering to fall down the Dead rabbit hole myself. Going to grab Dick's Picks 29 per jazzbo's inadvertant recommendation!

Yeah, and I really only consider myself a casual fan. To this day I only own Dead Set, Without A Net, and the movie soundtrack box. But goddamn, more and more recently I find myself jonesing for some live Dead. So why not indulge? I almost wish I had ponied up for the 30 Trips Around The Sun box... What a beast that must be to get through!

WOW! I think jazzbo may have nailed it! Thanks, everyone! Oh, and I do have Dead Set. Little Red Rooster and From Of The Devil from that album are my favorite versions. Thanks again! I knew I came to the right place. Oddly enough, one of the concerts that made up DP29 was recorded in Lakeland, FL. Which I used to live 15 minutes away from...

My wife and I were having lunch recently and the restaurant had a Dead concert playing. It was one of the most outstanding sets I've ever heard, that ended with Fire On The Mountain. I know this is probably akin to a blind man looking for a needle in a haystack while wearing heavy winter gloves, but are any of you familiar with any of the released live material where at least one of the discs ends with Fire On The Mountain? I dug through MANY of them on All Music, but came up empty.

Incredibly interesting! Thanks for taking the time to explain that, Kevin. I had no idea that a bad crossover could potentially raise resistance. I agree with you that that isn't what's going on here, but what is is anyone's guess. It's definitely a very bizarre case.

OK, because this is more in your wheelhouse than mine, I have to ask: how would a bad crossover in a speaker effect an amp? And I mean this respectfully, because I find this subject fascinating. If a crossover cuts off at such and such Hz, isn't that where it ends? Does that change the load value? In other words, it's not like it's sending anything back to the amp at that point, right? Or wrong?

Kevin, do you still think it's a bad crossover if he's blowing tweeters in all of his speakers? I can see it in one, but all four? That doesn't make any sense as it would have to be damn near conspiratorial in nature to have four bad crossovers. I would have to think it's the amp. I mean, I've had stereos since the 70's. Boatloads of receivers and amps. Speakers ranging from $50 garbage Fishers, up to my current Dynaudios. Never blown a tweeter once. Ever. I'm guessing he can put all new crossovers in all four speakers, yet still end up with blown tweeters. Am I missing something? BTW, I got kick out of your Ohm question. I had an old pair of Optimus 1's that I got from my father in-law. The tweeters had essentially disentegrated with age. So i removed them to find a suitable replacement at a local stereo shop. They were 12 Ohm! You read that right. I showed them to the cat at the shop and he said, "wow! I'm not sure I've ever seen a 12 Ohm speaker before!" He found me a 10 Ohm solid dome tweeter and told me to give them a try. Worked beautifully, but my amp ran a little warmer than it had before. Still ended up getting many years out of it, though.

Wow, that's really sad. I wonder if the UMRK will stay fully intact? I am looking forward to the new doc, Eat That Question.

This is one of the most bizarre stories I've read in a while. Your bookshelf speakers are essentially midrange and tweeters, so you essentially do have mirage cones as the crossover would be set much higher on a two-way bookshelf speaker. I can't imagine not having tweeters as so much of the human voice and things like cymbals rely on them, but if you say it sounds alright, that's all that is important. Either way, I'm with Kevin. I think you've got a serious problem with your amp. Unless you don't have your speakers wired correctly. And if you have to crank up the EQ, then your amp may simply be underpowered as it isn't able to sufficiently replicate bass at lower volume levels. If you replace the tweeters, you may consider cutting everything above 140Hz on your EQ by 2-4dB and increasing the volume on your amp.

I occasionally have to burn CDs for my wife's car. I've been using Memorex for years with no issues. I never did like their blank cassettes way back when, but the blank CDs have worked out just fine.

Just tried to pull it up on iTunes, got a message saying it is not available from the U.S. store, only from the Laos store. So unfortunately, you will not be able to purchase it, as of now.

Tony Williams and Neil Peart.

Hell, if it sounds half as nice as it looks, it must be awesome. If it sounds as NICE as it looks, it must be downright heavenly!

They simply do not build them like that anymore. I'm glad to say I lived in the age of Ali. It's really sad to see what the heavyweight division has become after Tyson ravaged it in the late 80's/early 90's. I really loved Holyfield, but even I knew he was a blown up cruiserweight. And even worse, the social consciousness in sports died with The Champ. He was one the last of The Great Men in sports, IMO. At least we still have Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos walking this earth at the moment. RIP, Champ. Give Mr. Norman our best.

Thanks, gents! Was out of town and somewhat off the grid this weekend. B-Day was indeed an awesome one. Thanks, again!

Many people trip over the simplest words. I know I sure as hell do, though I can't think of one off the top of my head. I do know there is a race car driver named Matt Kenseth, and I flail like a fish on dry land whenever I try to pronounce his last name. It always comes out "Kentheth".

I meant to say I've "never known" the silent t version as being correct, above. Post edited.

I've always thought pronouncing it with a silent t is just a lazy way of pronouncing the word. A shortcut. For example, here in the midwest the days of the week end in the "dy" sound, not "day". So Monday become Mundy. I'll take the lazy way out at times when I speak. But I've never known often spoken with a silent t as being the correct pronunciation.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/debbie-downer/n11825

Hmmm...this is the first I've heard of it. Thanks, GA. I'll certainly give it a spin.

Yep, that was about the time Chuck Mangione became popular.

Hmmm...I was only 6 at the time, and hadn't really developed any musical tastes of my own. I do remember listening to Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf on my own (though I couldn't tell you the orchestra, or date released). Aside from that is was Frampton Comes Alive if I was hanging out with my sister, or Chicago IX if I was hanging out with my brother.

I'd be willing to bet she thinks far more highly of her than Madonna fans do.

Very well said, king. And kudos for making more of a parenthetical statement than a literal one! Pretty impressive! I think the biggest kink in the argument of "give Brotzmann the resources of Prince, blah, blah, blah", is that those resources actually EXIST because of what Prince was doing. He was producing funky and easily accessible music MEANT for a mass audience. He just did it better than 99.99% of all the rest that have tried. If he had phoned it in and put out a bunch of plastic bullshit like most Pop artists do, the resources wouldn't have been there because the audience would have eventually seen through what he was doing, and moved on to the next flavor of the year. Prince had a vision of making the very best music he could, but making it accessible enough to get regular airplay, sell lots of albums, and fill arenas/stadiums. Brotzmann had a vision of wringing every last goddamn square millimeter out of his horn, and wasn't really concerned about becoming rich by doing so. I'm just not sure why one or the other was supposedly "wrong".

The title track was great, but I personally thought Frozen took the album to all new heights.