Copyright © 2011-
Please note that this archive has been arranged with the oldest entry first.
15/02/2011 Greek Audiophile
The Ken Barnes 20 min documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs1aUws0Lrs
15/02/2011 Open G tuning guitar lesson Rolling Stones Black Crowes use
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szeklc_Pnck
Nice explanation of “how to sound like Keith Richards”. At about 6:20 into the video Marty “shows the point to his explanation”. Interestingly Keith Richards is very specific both in his recent autobiography and in previous comments that he doesn’t just use a normal 6 six string guitar with open tuning but restricts himself to 5 strings, which in practice means a bespoke guitar, not just removing a string.
15/02/2011 Skip James sings Crow Jane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytVww5r4Nk0&playnext=1&list=PL2387CCE0031BCDA0
15/02/2011 Beethoven Symphony 7 -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sw97NzvvsE
YouTube has removed the video of the fifth and also a video of the second movement of the seventh. However, here is another seventh instead, this time the complete symphony.
There are various other Carlos Kleiber items on YouTube.
23/02/2011 Not The Nine O’Clock News -
I remember watching this at the time. And I remember some of the arrogant ******s that this depicts. Still some of them in our industry today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSINO6MKtco
19/03/2011 The Loudness War
This video has been around for quite a while, but is a really straightforward explanation of what is wrong with so many modern cd’s -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ