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Randy, the CheapAudioMan, just released another cool video on copy protection, greed, and how some things come full-circle. Was pretty interesting.

Dirty Loops, + Cory Wong, + the Wongnotes horn section:

Yup. There was an offer from another mag (believe it was Absolute Sound) to fill out our subscriptions, but their link never worked for me (AS was a sh*t snakeoil magazine, so no biggie). I still subscribe to paper versions of Car & Driver, Pop Mechanics, and Cooks Illustrated, but I no longer...

Always enjoyed the sound and the intense rhythms of the tabla, but this 3+hour collection had to be broken up into 4 or so sessions. Pretty interesting (and over my head) writeup in Wikipedia on how these are played and the rhythms used. Oooh, and a sing-along! :D

Any other fans here of Metallica's "smoove jazz" period?

Between 2016 and 2018 Chick and his bandmates got back together and did some shows, and this live two-CD set was released right before his death. And I didn't know a thing about it until yesterday! Been listening to it on Tidal several times since; beautifully recorded (the drums sound...

An interesting afternoon. I saw this "demo" of the new Nord Organ 3 (I have the Nord Lead I and Nord Electro II, which has fantastic B-3 emulations), by a collection of monsters led by an organist named Kevin Powell, whom I've not heard of: I haven't heard this much in-the-pocket fawnk in...

Jellyfish, live in the studio. No autotune, no overdubs, no click track, all acoustic instruments; just four musicians who knew what the f*ck they were doing. Damn this is beautiful.

Vulfpeck, live at Red Rocks. Kinda gospel-ly, hope the whole show comes out on Bluray.

I've seen this before, maybe twice, but Rick Beato's review of Chicago's Make Me Smile is just amazing (and it's not one of my favorite Chicago tunes). My very first bar band was a Chicago/EW&F/Doobies cover band, in '78. I played trombone, and a single conga with a drumstick during the...

Okay, Vulfpeck are virtually unknown (I've mentioned them here before) but here's a clip of one of their songs, from a three-week sold-out series of shows, in some place called Madison Square Garden. But what I really want everyone to notice, is that the whole crowd is singing along with the...

I can't remember who it was, but sumbuddy here got frustrated with me for watching Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives; I admit Guy Fieri can be an acquired taste. Tonight it ended up on the TV, and there were two episodes back-to-back where he had a back-up Camaro SS built up for him, stripped...

Learned on CBS this morning that these guys have 76 Grammy awards between them! First album in 17 years.

There's also a growing market for old 1970s receivers that you used to be able to pick up for $50. (and Randy the CheapAudioGuy just did a video at the obscene prices ($1,400) that some prerecorded cassettes are getting) :oops:

I don't know how this kid does it, but Jacob Collier just performed a live version of his remake of "Bridge over Troubled Water", with Tori Kelly and John Legend, and it KILLS.