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Post by fitchmeister on Jul 26, 2005 16:46:00 GMT
Found some tracks on Napster - (the legal - pay for it , software that Napster is now) if you got it have a look for.
'Comin up Aces' by Preacher Boy , - great reso playin.
And also 'Too wet to plow' by Johnny Shines is well worth a look listen too.
rgds
Roj
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Post by Michael Messer on Jul 26, 2005 17:47:45 GMT
'Too Wet To Plough' is an album recorded in Edmonton, Canada, in 1977/8. It features Johnny Shines with Sugar Blue on harp & Louisiana Red on slide guitar and one or two vocals. It is a wonderful album which I don't think is currently available.....apart from at your local Napster. Highly recommended.
Preacher Boy is an interesting artist. I haven't heard that song, but I like what he is about and where his influences come from. I always (probably wrongly) think of his music as being similar to Rainer Ptacek, especially Rainer's 'Worried Spirits' album. If you like good rockin' R'n'B try a copy of 'Barefoot Rock with Rainer & Das Combo', it's a great record.
Thanks for the info Roj.
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2005 12:17:59 GMT
I saw Preacher Boy (the band) a number of years ago and they were amazing. But since that time Chris Watkins has gone solo as Preacher Boy; I got his first solo album which was great. He was working with Eagle Eye Cherry but I haven't seen anything about him recently. Check out his albums on Amazon (UK & USA).
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Post by fitchmeister on Aug 10, 2005 9:52:44 GMT
Took a leap of faith here and bought Rainer's 'Worried Spirits album off amazon - very good. Thanks Roj
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Post by Alan on Aug 10, 2005 10:14:17 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 10, 2005 12:22:55 GMT
I am interested to know how many of our members buy their music via a download service?
The free downloads, apart from material in the public domain, is something that is really bad for the industry and should not be supported. I don't know how anybody can stop it now, with 'I Tunes' and file sharing it is probably too late.
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Alan on Aug 10, 2005 13:33:49 GMT
I think I'd use it more if there was a decent UK service. Most people I know use www.allofmp3.com/ , because its the cheapest and most decent service - lots of different file types and qualities etc. The interesting thing that they do is to offer a free sample in a very low quality. Also a digital dowload is classed as a radio transmission in Russia, so you pay the royalty fee. I did recently read that the biggest downloaders are also the biggest buyers of music. What will be amazing to see is what happens when a 'western' musician gets popular in China over the next few years. The market is so big, even with piracy...... Quickly re-write the site in Chinese, its not un common for bigger companies to now have their sites in a few languages. Its difficult to know how things work on the web now, I think that everytime someone downloads a song its a bit of pulbicity for the artist, especially as the same bit of info can be passed to thousands of people so quickly. I imagine quite worrying if its your 'bread and butter'. I thought this was interesting and simple to do www.coreyharrismusic.com/ch/Music_Section/Music_Home.aspa bit of each song and some visuals. If you like the song, you buy it from where ever, if you like the album you buy that.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2005 15:59:39 GMT
I'm addicted to the Napster (now legal) service and use it pretty much every day ! I probably buy more CDs now, using Napster to preview / explore artists back catalogues. 'found some real gems using the service, that i'd never have found staring at the racks in music shops. There are some gaps in the catalogue but overall i'd say there's a good selection (although no Mr Messer!). if you use this service check out my playlists (username Duggyk) ! dk.
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 11, 2005 16:45:30 GMT
My back catalogue of albums and a brand new one (just finished) are being released worldwide by Cooking Vinyl in January 2006. Cooking Vinyl is a well established company and my albums will stay in print and readily available for many years.
It's great that people are starting to use this new way of buying music. Being able to listen to tracks and decide whether or not you want to buy an album, is really like going back to the old way of going into listening booths in record shops.
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2005 20:01:34 GMT
I must admit that I haven't got into downloading (partly down to dial up connection and my age!!) - really much prefer to have a CD. I convert most of my CDs to MP3 & take out minidisks of music using my computerised library (5-10 mins to transfer 3-5 albums). Even though I don't listen to the actual CDs very much, I still need to have them around ('just in case' syndrome? - just in case the computer crashes!) to read the inserts etc. However, that said I rarely use music shops - much prefer to browse online as many online stores have snippets you can listen to. Despite some great music around these days, there was something about the old days when I brought home real vinyl albums to listen to, and cassettes were a new form of tape that might not catch on!!!
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 11, 2005 21:17:16 GMT
Does any body worry about the sound quality of mp3 files? When you download mp3s on your mp3 players, what sound quality settings do you choose?
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Alan on Aug 11, 2005 22:50:09 GMT
I think that people do worry, especially if your paying for it! If its a taster no. Files usually come in 128 (low quality), 192 (high quality), and 320 kbps (cd quality). The lower the quality the smaller the file size; like pictures. Then there is the file type - mp3 and mp4 , wma, ogg vorbis. People still use the MP3 name whatevere they download. Lots of DVD players only play mp3, although mp4 exists (Mac users will kno this). Its all to do with the quality of sound that can be got from as small a file as possible. What I dont like is when paid for downloads can't be written to disc. I must say though I also have a record player and go in record shops to get some real cheap bargains £2 - £4 all day long, bang them on the Dansette and away you go. Why does nothing sound as good as those old Dansettes? They even smell good!
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Post by Michael Messer on Aug 11, 2005 23:15:28 GMT
Thanks Alan. From my experience, even the 320kbps files do not sound as good as a manufactured CD. Even though they call it CD quality, they still sound compressed. I have opened both wav & mp3 in Wavelab and found that the mp3 at 320kpbs actually looks slightly different to the wav. What I notice when listening to an mp3 and A/B-ing it with a CD quality wav of the same recording, is that it sounds slightly thinner and has less bottom end. Give me a mono 45 on a Dansette anyday!
Shine On, Michael.
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Post by Pete01 on Aug 12, 2005 6:35:19 GMT
After listening to the scratchy recording of many early blues artists, I couldn't give a monkeys about the slight difference between MP3 and CD. I love the new age of MP3s I can have all of my music with me all of the time. I had great fun copying all my CD's to MP3 and found loads of albums that I forgot I had. However im still not convinced buying MP3s, its great if all you want is one song but when it come to albums I still like to have a CD.
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Post by Alan on Aug 12, 2005 8:45:10 GMT
I think the packaging is an essential part of the whole music buying/owning experience.
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