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    "Kids are tired of buying air." - Alice Cooper

    The truth is this: Vinyl: Although it's inaccurate to express vinyl in term of bit rate, it is the equivalent of lossless. That is because Edison's original invention captured sound waves i.e. actual vibrations. However, vinyl adds it's own distortion - the warmth many speak of is not...
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    STEVEN TYLER's 'Love Is Your Name' Single To Debut On Season Finale Of 'American Idol

    I love country music....unfortunately Steven Tyler has morphed into a press bating, self obsessed idiot. Get your band back together, sack the Diane Warren ballads and get some dirt under your finger nails, man! Your last LP sucked and that will be your final Aerosmith legacy unless you act on it.
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    Pete Townshend No Longer Finds the Who’s Concerts ‘Fulfilling’

    Brilliant, "come and pay £80 a ticket to see me do something that millions would love to do....but I'm bored out of my ass". He should keep that to himself. Too much honesty. Rock music is supposed to be escapism and the idea of a "show" is that you put it on even when you don't feel like it...
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    Super-producer Bob Ezrin Slams State of Music Today

    I agree that it takes years, decades even, to gain proper perspective on anything that is lasting (classic). An interesting choice of bands there - I really like all three especially Rival Sons but each of them is to these ears very derivative of a classic band - Rival Sons (The Doors...
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    Super-producer Bob Ezrin Slams State of Music Today

    Well, it's an impossible point to prove until at least 20 - 30 year's time I guess but for me it's the law of diminishing returns - how many times can rock be truly ground breaking before it repeats itself? I share an opinion with many that said event happened circa 1992- 1994. And yes if you...
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    Whitesnake's final "Big Rock" album?

    A true legend, but there's no excuse for his current The Purple Album re-hash. A shameless cash in. I'd have preferred if he'd gone out with a big, well recorded LP of new songs...one last hurrah to the classic rock album (see Black Sabbath).
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    "Kids are tired of buying air." - Alice Cooper

    I agree with all of this. I cherish all of my digital files as much as I did during the CD era. I buy vinyl too, but main collection is now digital. And the inferior sound thing is only true if you download crappy files then listen on poor equipment. Anything above 200kbps is picking up most...
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    Super-producer Bob Ezrin Slams State of Music Today

    Leaving aside Ezrin's personal credentials, the undeniable truth is that we are way, way (way) past the golden age of rock and for that matter pop. That has bugger all to do with entrenched nostalgia, it's beyond opinion. The 60's had The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Motown, Stax, The...
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    The great 180 gram vinyl rock n roll swindle

    Yeah, CD has now of course been deemed "not cool" but when record companies began to get the reissue programme right (after around 1995) some of the mastering quality was excellent. Led Zeppelin's first Jimmy Page sanctioned re-masters in particular were like removing a gauze from the music...
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    The great 180 gram vinyl rock n roll swindle

    Music plays an enormous part in my life and I'm sure for all of you reading this or, well, you wouldn't participate in this forum. I currently feed said fixation via a mix of the highest quality downloads I can lay my hands on (ALAC or FLAC where possible) and lately have gone back to vinyl...
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    Lynyrd Skynyrd to Reissue First Six Albums on Vinyl

    Need to be released as individual items or it's just a way of cashing in. There may be some 20 something Skynyrd-virgin out there but mostly this is aimed at folk who already have these albums in one form or another i.e. the people who have commented here (including me).
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    The return of...Autograph

    Sorry, no Plunkett no Autograph. It's like Ratt without Stephen Pearcy or the failed attempt of Crue without Vince Neil.
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    Richie Sambora not coming back

    It's no longer Bon Jovi without Richie Sambora. It's as vapid a concept as Zeppelin without Jimmy Page or Aerosmith without Joe Perry (remember). What you're left with is a multi-million dollar vehicle for Jon Bon Jovi's empire. And the fact that Jon sounds more upset about a tanked American...
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    Frampton tosses fan's phone

    It's the musician's prerogative not to be filmed. They're not museum waxworks: that's their art up there, it belongs to them and it's their call to make. Fair enough, some are more relaxed than others. It's still their prerogative.
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    Aerosmith: 'records don't make sense'

    I still think albums have a long, long way to run. They may not sell any longer but the artistic compulsion to record something that is 40 mins + stems from a basic human requirement to create a musical journey long enough to have an impact. It's why classical musicians recorded symphonies...
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    Neal Schon talks new Journey album

    Greatest hits shows breed the impression of a band as a museum nostalgia act. I get why people who only skim the surface of a band's output would enjoy such a show, but real music fans generally want and need more than that. And btw since when has the market and sales been an accurate barometer...
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    Aerosmith: 'records don't make sense'

    Excuses aside, it simply was not a great album. Sabbath's 13 sold more than double in its first week and went straight to US number 1 and the point was made above that AC/DC's Black Ice sold by the bucketload (£6m and counting). They tried to second guess the market with that last LP...
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    KISS to release the Ultimate Boxset

    I forgot about the Revenge LP. Maybe skip the t shirt!
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    KISS to release the Ultimate Boxset

    Here's what you need assuming you have no Kiss whatsoever: Kiss (1974 debut), Hotter Than Hell, Dressed To Kill, Alive!, Destroyer, Rock N Roll Over, Love Gun, Alive II, all 4 solo albums (OK maybe not the Peter Criss one), Dynasty, Creatures Of The Night, Lick It Up, Animalize, Asylum, Sonic...
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    Interest in music

    I've been thinking and pondering on this one for years. Especially the point about the folks around me being patient and culturally tuned in enough to get excited about books or new movie releases....but rarely music. One thing is for sure, this is not the result of music representing an...
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    Neil Young unveils his music player

    ...and what litigation exactly are you talking about? This isn't Napster, Apple paid for music licenses. And if we're blaming Apple for the evils of the world, what exactly do you think would have "saved" the music industry? Certainly not the record companies that Apple beat to the game. Am not...
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    Neil Young unveils his music player

    If we're talking facts, Steve Jobs was an audiophile and a massive supporter of higher quality files and another fact is that iTunes files have now been increased to a standard 256kbps, directly in response to accusations of low-fi library transferral. Check the facts.
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    Neil Young unveils his music player

    Interesting debate. Having heard VH I on both vinyl and remastered CD I'd personally question whether the guitar growl you're hearing is the warmth of vinyl distortion? Then again who am I to say what you're hearing or not hearing! My point is that there's a massive gulf in Mp3 quality based...
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    "KISS should NOT be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame"-Dave Marsh

    I still don't understand why Kiss are so maligned. They never pretended to be anything other than exactly what they were, released a live LP that is a recognised classic (Alive!) and much of what they got up to was a lot of fun. There's always room and the music industry would have been poorer...
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    Neil Young unveils his music player

    It's really not difficult to attain great sound: the main reason Mp3 sounds shit is that people don't pay enough attention to source quality or follow that through to the output system. That was also true of vinyl and CD and it's true now. Simple solution: 1. Don't download Mp3s of less...

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