Synergistic Red Fuse ...
^^^ Agreed, Charles. I thoroughly enjoy the Belafonte album. In Impex's 45 rpm reissue the sound quality is exemplary and very much alive. For your pleasure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48aQbh1lV1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtNZm9KXm8w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCqEOboRctY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duRp_avXtMM And here's the tap root of the blues and jazz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-zlSq4mWiE |
Just as a public service just noticed a Yamamoto YDA-1 pop up in the classifieds........ https://www.audiogon.com/listings/da-converters-yamamoto-soundcraft-yda-01-dac-2016-05-30-digital-18... No affiliation just a very happy owner of the same Dac as is Charles and I know they come up very rarely so thought someone might appreciate a heads up. Happy Memorial Day all! |
oregonpapa: Here is my cell phone - five- seven-five-six-four-four-one- four- six- two. Those You Tube posts were great. I would listen to Lightning Hopkins play live on AM radio on the Jim Lowe Blues Show late at night. Alligator clip from the window metal screen to the antenna of my (4 transistors) radio and the music going to my single ear plug. No air conditioning in my parent's house (Dallas, Texas) in the 50's and early 60's. You could hear the sweat in Lightning's voice and I could feel the sweat lying in bed with my head pressed against the window screen hoping for a little bit of cool air. I still love the old blues from the 30's to the 60's. A hundred hours now on the 300b amp that I have nicknamed Cutie Pie. It is small in size and light weight - 25 lbs. But with it's very good circuit design, high quality part utilization, new Psvane 300 WE output tubes, and Synergistic Research fuse it is really driving my horn system with emotion . The amp is based on a design by Shannon Parks' Get Set Go circuit and was built by Greg Johnson. David Pritchard |
^^^ Thanks David ... We have a lot in common, David. During the early 50's I lived in Los Angeles with my Mom in a studio apartment. She slept on a sofa bed and I slept on a bed that folded down from the wall. I'd listen to the blues on my small radio late at night under my covers so that I didn't wake my Mom up. I remember the few times that I did wake her and her response was always the same ... "Frank, are you listening to that music AGAIN??" I'd always say ... "but Mom, listen to these guys sing!" It was her fault, David, because she's the one who instilled the love of music into me. Its one of the things I'm most grateful for and love the most about my Mom. Under those covers, I used to listen to a radio station that originated inside of a record store in South Central Los Angeles at Vernon and Central Avenues. The disc jockey's name was "Huggie Boy." His sponsor was "Mister Jim's BBQ." The commercial for Mr. Jim's BBQ was .... "You need no teef, to eat mah beef." *lol* I think my laughter at that ad woke my Mom up a few times. I still laugh when I think of that great show and ad. From listening to those early blues, things naturally evolved into Earl Bostic, Joe Houston, Big Jay McNeeley ... and then into West Coast Jazz, and then into BeBop and big band. And, here we are today ... still talking about and listening to that great music ... and in debt to our Black brethren for their wonderful contributions to great American music. Looking forward to meeting you at Newport ... Take care ... |
