Hello, All.

Okay, there's about 50-something nodes connected to this echo and it's dead quiet. Surely someone has something to say about music. ;)

Later,
Sean

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Re: Quiet!
By: Sean Dennis to All on Tue Feb 13 2007 06:15 pm

Hello, All.

Okay, there's about 50-something nodes connected to this echo and it's dead quiet. Surely someone has something to say about music. ;)

... or not. <shrug>

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Hello Sean.

13 Feb 07 18:15, you wrote to all:

Hello, All.

Okay, there's about 50-something nodes connected to this echo and it's dead quiet. Surely someone has something to say about music. ;)

Did you say something? We're all wearing headphones.


Joe

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JOE BRUCHIS wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

Did you say something? We're all wearing headphones.

Ain't that the truth. I've got a set of AKG headphones that I use for
making a radio show for my church and boy those things sound good. I
use them to listen to stuff on the computer now and I just can't enjoy
the music as much from computer speakers or even my home AV system
anymore. Those headphones sound so good!

Kev


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Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to All:

Hello, All.

Okay, there's about 50-something nodes connected to this echo and it's dead quiet. Surely someone has something to say about music. ;)

Nothing about current music, haven't listened to it in decades.

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Hello, Bob.

14 Feb 07 06:51, you wrote to me:

Nothing about current music, haven't listened to it in decades.

I haven't listened to the "top 40" stuff since about 1995 myself (granted, I'm 34, so the "decades" are different for me). I mostly now just trade in MP3s with friends of the same musical tastes.

The problem is that music is no longer music; it's a machine that grinds out talentless idiots for a less-than-intelligent crowd that will settle for anything that remotely sounds like it has a beat. That reminds me of the line that Elwood Blues says on the introduction of the Blues Brothers' CD, "Briefcase Full of Blues". It goes something like "in 2006, blues will only be
found in the classical section at your local public library". It's darn near that now with many types of music, sadly.

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis was overheard conspiring with Bob Ackley <=-

I haven't listened to the "top 40" stuff since about 1995
myself (granted, I'm 34, so the "decades" are different for
me).

I hear ya! I gave up on that "top 40" crap a couple years before you
did ( got 12 years on you, though).

I mostly now just trade in MP3s with friends of the same
musical tastes.

What I don't rip from my personal CD collection, I d/l from LimeWire.

The problem is that music is no longer music; it's a machine that
grinds out talentless idiots for a less-than-intelligent crowd that
will settle for anything that remotely sounds like it has a
beat.

Yup! Thrash about for 3 to 5 minutes, and call it music. So much for
the current state of music. I'm sure Mozart, Mendelsohn, and Beethoven
are twisting about in anguish in their coffins.

That reminds me of the line that Elwood Blues says
on the introduction of the Blues Brothers' CD, "Briefcase
Full of Blues". It goes something like "in 2006, blues
will only be found in the classical section at your local
public library". It's darn near that now with many types
of music, sadly.

Too true! Too True! Now the funny thing about your mentioning this
album is, I actually own a copy of the album...from when it first came
out as an LP.






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Larry,

Too true! Too True! Now the funny thing about your mentioning this
album is, I actually own a copy of the album...from when it first came
out as an LP.

That's a great one. I have it on CD, but I like it a lot. Good stuff. My dad's the one who got me into the blues.

Later,
Sean




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Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to Bob Ackley:

Hello, Bob.

14 Feb 07 06:51, you wrote to me:

Nothing about current music, haven't listened to it in decades.

I haven't listened to the "top 40" stuff since about 1995 myself
(granted, I'm 34, so the "decades" are different for me).

<sigh> I'm not quite twice your age ...

I mostly
now just trade in MP3s with friends of the same musical tastes.

The problem is that music is no longer music; it's a machine that
grinds out talentless idiots for a less-than-intelligent crowd that
will settle for anything that remotely sounds like it has a beat.

The only time I hear it is when a car driven by someone who wants to
be stone deaf by the time s/he's your age is nearby. Some years ago
when I lived in Plattsmouth, NE, I could hear car sound systems two
blocks away - through the closed windows on the house.

That reminds me of the line that Elwood Blues says on the
introduction of the Blues Brothers' CD, "Briefcase Full of Blues".
It goes something like "in 2006, blues will only be found in the
classical section at your local public library". It's darn near that
now with many types of music, sadly.

Didn't see the movie but IMO he was right. FWIW, 'The Bill Miller Show'
is more to my taste in music. He plays stuff from the 1930s through the
late 1960s; he started out as a DJ in radio in 1951 (when I was in the first grade). The show is available on the net (rwpr.net, among other places), and he sells 1-hr CDs of each show. KMA in Shenandoah, Iowa, carries the show
on tape delay.

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Sean Dennis was overheard conspiring with Larry Eggers <=-

That's a great one. I have it on CD, but I like it a lot.

I have to agree. I liked the LP so much, I burned myself a copy (after
I d/l'ed most of it).




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Hello, Larry.

19 Feb 07 12:41, you wrote to me:

That's a great one. I have it on CD, but I like it a lot.

I have to agree. I liked the LP so much, I burned myself a copy
(after I d/l'ed most of it).

I'd keep the vinyl, though. Collector's item there.

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis was overheard conspiring with Larry Eggers <=-

I have to agree. I liked the LP so much, I burned myself a copy
(after I d/l'ed most of it).

I'd keep the vinyl, though. Collector's item there.

That's the plan. I still have a bunch of stuff on vinyl, and
cassettes...at least some of which has either already been burned to
CD, or has yet to be burned.





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Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to Larry Eggers:

Hello, Larry.

19 Feb 07 12:41, you wrote to me:

That's a great one. I have it on CD, but I like it a lot.

I have to agree. I liked the LP so much, I burned myself a copy
(after I d/l'ed most of it).

I'd keep the vinyl, though. Collector's item there.

Been doin' that for over 40 years. Kept the vinyl, kept the bakelite,
kept the lacquer, kept the wax ...

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Hello, Bob.

24 Feb 07 06:17, you wrote to me:

Been doin' that for over 40 years. Kept the vinyl, kept the bakelite, kept the lacquer, kept the wax ...

Do the wax records still hold up after all this time?

Later,
Sean

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Sean Dennis was overheard conspiring with Bob Ackley <=-

Do the wax records still hold up after all this time?

I would imagine that under the proper conditions (akin to museum
archival methods, I would think), I suspect that the wax would hold up
just fine...provided it never left the archival environment.





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Replying to a message of Sean Dennis to Bob Ackley:

Hello, Bob.

24 Feb 07 06:17, you wrote to me:

Been doin' that for over 40 years. Kept the vinyl, kept the
bakelite, kept the lacquer, kept the wax ...

Do the wax records still hold up after all this time?

Don't have any wax records. They're wax *cylinders*. And they
get very, very brittle. I don't think they're playable any more (and
I don't have a cylinder player anyway). They do tend to shatter when
stressed the least bit.

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