Another Music Direct Catalog observation

mijostyn ...

 

• Oregonpappa, what is wrong with Ella or Sarah?

Nothing at all. They are two of my favorites. I just wanted to post some artists that perhaps some folks haven't heard of before. Maybe pick up a couple of converts or two. :-)

Frank

I saw Moby Grape headlining a show in 1967...supported by Tim Buckley and Jimi Hendrix. Grape (along with the supporting acts....I mean seriously...) were astonishingly powerful.

First off, I love the Music Direct Catalogue.  Eye candy...and potential ear candy...galore.  And now that I live in a town and on an island where the best audio store is the Office Max, I can't exactly head down to the cornucopia of high-end stores that surrounded me when I lived in L.A and have toadying salespeople ply me with Class A delights.  Heck, Upscale Audio and Christopher Hanson were just a skip-and-a-jump away from me.

As for the supposed dearth of quality artists nowadays, I'll read a music review about a newcomer and then head to YouTube or Qobuz to check the artist out.  I may be as picky as I ever was but I still hear my share of quality new artists. 

@wolf_garcia, though I've seen a lot artists and bands that others here might more wish to have been able to see live (The Beatles, Hendrix, Cream, The Who w/Moon), it is Moby Grape I most regret having missed. A couple of old friends/bandmates saw Dylan w/ The Hawks in '65 (damn it!), and Billy Swan told me saw Elvis, Scotty, & Bill on the back of a flatbed truck in Tennessee in '55. Wouldn't thatta been somethin'?!

Thanks for those links Oregonpapa.  I'd heard of Jo Stafford but that was my first listen to her voice.  Wow.