Shawn

You can buy me some equipment since you're stocked up.

As always I'm thankful to my friends and family for their help seeing me through my many "moments".

Great album!

Thanks Michael!

That's cool! I'm in a state of pure fanboy adoration of anything that Scott "Wino" Weinrich is involved in. Saint Vitus, The Obsessed, Spirit Caravan, Place Of Skulls, The Hidden Hand, etc. The guy should be up there with Lemmy in "underground metal God status". Hell, I recently described him as a "heavy metal soul singer"...

My tracks just refreshed today, looks like it's time to do some downloading...(insert evil laugh here)

That's the way it always worked on the PC version, so it sounds like they're mirroring that behavior.

PC or Mac?

Cool, a free Dr. Pepper and I DON'T have to listen to Axl to get it. A great day in America.

I bet Phil had them insert a "pause tooth".

Laswell also produced... Motorhead - Orgasmatron

How are those? Performance, sound quality, etc. I've been thinking of giving them a try. The Stockholm 1970 disc is the better of the two. Parts of this performance have been released as "In Concert" and "Scandinavian Nights", this is the first official release and contains un-edited performances. They were still a band in transition from their earlier progressive leanings to the leaner hard rock future, there are some growing pains along the way but that's part of the fun. The sound quality is excellent. The 1969 date is sloppier but still interesting, though the sound isn't nearly as good as the Stockholm date. *note* - The year of this performance is actually 1970, I edited the post.

Baroness - The Red Album Earth - Hex: Or Printing In The Infernal Method Dead Man - Euphoria Place Of Skulls - Nailed Saint Vitus - Born Too Late Spirit Caravan - Dreamwheel Spirit Caravan - The Last Embrace The Hidden Hand - Divine Propaganda The Hidden Hand - Mother, Teacher, Destroyer Witch - s/t plus Deep Purple - Live in Montreaux 1969 Deep Purple - Live in Stockholm 1970 Thin Lizzy - UK Tour '75

My favorite jazz bassist, period.

THANK YOU!!!! I've been afraid I was the only one on the planet that actually heard this.... Bill Ward is the most underrated rock drummer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWxYTDa6lgs

That's some funny shit right there...

now we know where you hung your ball caps. (had that in our room in college, too. ) I had that poster as well...small world.

Man...this is a tough one.

It sounds like you might be talking about both production and stylistic changes at the same time. My favorite era would also fall between 1967 - 1976 or so, but there are still alot of good sounding records that came out between say 1976 & 1981...I think the slide in quality started around there. You can probably blame the "massive drum sound" on the success of live albums in the mid-70's like Frampton Comes Alive, Kiss Alive, Live & Dangerous, etc. I think engineers started to try and emulate the "stadium sound" on their studio recordings.

Yeah, early digital...ARGH!!!! I bet if you pulled out the master tapes to Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality they would SMELL like weed.

About 2 weeks ago I was talking to Lon and said "I bet Mosaic gets back on the vinyl bandwagon"...

Jim's remark about Abbey Road is dead-on, in the 70's the recording studio became an instrument of it's own. It's understandable why jazz fans would be against that, but if you accept it as it's own entity it's pretty fascinating period of time. Bands like Queen for instance took the Beatles innovations and ran with them, even if you hate the group you have to give albums like A Night At The Opera credit for the sheer genius of the production. I still think one of the best "recordings" I've ever heard is Supertramp's Breakfast In America album, that thing SOUNDS great even if the music isn't your cup of tea.

That's unfortunately the case with 99% of classic rock radio. It could be such a great format with some adventuresome tune choices, but it feels like they only have about 150 songs which they just repeat ad nauseum. No album tracks, no obscure bands, nothing too progressive or heavy, everything right down the middle and hopelessly polite. ARGH!!!!

I think I might print that out and frame it. BRAVO! Many of those tracks are hard to deal with when you happen upon them one at a time...all together though? Jesus...GET ME OUTTA THERE!