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So Logitech is still maintaining their on-line Harmony One programmer? That's great news, and what I'll do if that's the case; thanks!

Think I mentioned in another thread that I would be adding a streaming box to my 15-yr-old Yamaha receiver, since it's working again. It arrived on Friday: I'd been eyeing the Wiim boxes, but after watching a lot of EweTube reviews it sounded like the actual DAC in each got better as you...

B-U-M-P! Well, no one can accuse me of being an impulse shopper. The Yamaha RS-V6A is on sale again for Xmas, and I still don't have a good full connection between my disk player and my new Sony TV (thought the HDMI output on my receiver had gone bad). I started "refresh-reading" the...

This popped up on my ewetube. One of the most haunting movie themes ever written; one of those classic movies that I need to see one of these days.

Stumbled onto this VERY old Roy Clark video. The facials, the humor, and the pickin‘, dayam!

For decades, I thought Rick Wakeman was a dick. Every interview I'd read in Rolling Stone, Musician, and Keyboard magazines over the years, he came across as an absolute dick! I know a couple folks who have met him, and their opinion was quite different (and I've always wanted to play...

Liquid Tension Experiment; 3/5ths of Dream Theater with Tony Levin on Stick/bass, no vocals. When I'm in the mood for fast athleto-prog, these guys scratch the itch.

It takes melon-sized Swedish balls to re-orchestrate a Stevie tune, and then blow it out of the water like these guys do. Dayam!

I saw that too. But I couldn't see myself buying anything old from either of them, either.

I was mistaken above, The Dirty Loops are their own trio, just collab'd with Cory and the brass above. Yowza!

Cory Wong (of the Vulfpeck gang) has his own band called Dirty Loops. Here's their cover of Thriller, and it smokes!! Synth pads are identical, brass section sounds identical, drum sounds sound identical, even the lead vox sound like (actually better than) MJ; and yet this goes so far...

A lot of my musician friends mock me for liking Duran Duran, and at first I thought they were a "pretty boy"/made-for-MTV band, but their melodies had me singing in the shower many mornings. I eventually grew to be a huge fan. I've performed "Rio" on stage many times (one of the few tunes I...

After the news I scanned the college FB channels on EweTube TV again, apparently ISU has a bye week. Then I saw, Poltergeist. I'm not a big movie buff, much less the horror genre, but I do remember watching this one when it came out, so I clicked it on and kinda enjoyed seeing it again. I do...

Today they did an hour interview with Anthony Marinelli, who programmed the drums (LynnDrum machine) and the synths for all the parts on Michael Jackson's Thriller. (all the parts were played, one at a time, by Greg Phillinganes, over the course of two days). Fascinating discussion covering how...

When the hell did Mike Portnoy re-join Dream Theater?!?! Nobody tells me anything! This just blew my socks off. And Jordan Rudess adding anti-skid tape* to his keyboard is next-level badass! *after watching this a second time in a half-hour, they might've been Smurf band-aids; I can't...

I was really intrigued by the nice stereo systems I saw in dorm rooms my first year of college, 1978. I had a clock radio, but was soon hanging around Team Electronics and got a subscription to Stereo Review. Had my first nice system by 1979, and have been a fan since, and always held a...

And to continue on a Bond theme, how about two of them? The guitars didn't use the same tuning standard; let's call it extreme chorusing...

Here they interview Wendy Melvoin, guitarist who joined Prince at the ripe old age of 19 (and, today, she reminds me of... my Mom!). They start out discussing the funk of Earth Wind & Fire, talk a lot about how it was to work with Prince, and also bring up the exact same artists that I've held...

The late, great Roy Clark playing Malagueña; what a master!

L-110, that's it! I ended up with a pair of "new" Advents, which I still have and love.