Feel like a Stranger Alabama Getaway Ramble On Rose Dear Mr. Fantasy Hey Jude Dark Star 1 Cumberland Blues Casey Jones ———— Here Comes Sunshine Scarlet Begonias Viola Lee Blues Spanish Jam / Dark Star 2 Fire on the Mountain Drums Space I Need a Miracle Death Don’t Have No […]

For me it’s like piloting a flying saucer or riding your own sound wave -Phil Lesh For those of you who don’t know about the wall of sound (really…how could you not?) what follows is a brief essay on the topic. U.S. BluesPromised LandBrown Eyed WomenMexicali BluesTennessee JedBlack-Throated WindScarlet Begonias […]

The real surfing music is instrumental – Dick Dale Surf Rock, maybe more than any other genre of music had a uniquely American start. In Orange County, California to be exact. And it was started by one man. Dick Dale. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. But close by and […]

Your everlasting summer and you can see it fading fastSo you grab a piece of something that you think is gonna lastWell, you wouldn’t even know a diamond if you held it in your handThe things you think are precious I can’t understand Are you reelin’ in the years?Stowin’ away […]

Just take those old records off the shelfI’ll sit and listen to ’em by myself – Bob Seger So if you have read my blathering on about turntables, cartridges, tonearms, and phonostages, then you are probably thinking that this is all well and good, but I can see a weak […]

Bring over some of your old Motown recordsWe’ll put the speakers in the window and we’ll goOn the roof and listen to the MiraclesEcho to the alley down below – Rod Stewart This will be the second last article in my expensive stereo series. (Maybe…) And here you thought that […]