Lindsey Buckingham

Marty, I'd agree with you regarding sound quality. Can't say I found the bass lacking, just Lindsey's preference for upper mid-range exaggeration. Perhaps his hearing has been affected by too much exposure to high db concerts. BTW, if you get a chance to see it, the Music in High Def channel has a really good Fleetwood Mac (sans Christine) reunion concert airing now. Lindsey is in stellar guitar form and Stevie'd voice sounds pretty good too.

I, too, have enjoyed this LP. Lets hope more artists follow his lead and include uncompressed CDs with LP releases. LB's previous CD was less than stellar to me. I was very pleasantly surprised with this LP. Great sonics and very quiet. Will use as one of my test LPs to show off my analogue to friends.

LB's "Out of the Cradle " ablum from 5-6 years ago is incredible - soundwise and music. One of the best sounding CDs in my library. I use it all the time when auditioning equipment, very well recorded and the musicianship is just second to none. Really cool

Good listening

Arkio,

IMHO "Cradle" was more typical of Buckingham - some great songs, some that don't work. As always, his playing is compelling. I agree that "Cradle" has some great sounding passages, too. OTOH, "Screws" is - again just IMHO - brilliant from the first note through the 8th song. The last 2 tracks are also very good, just not up to the first 8. No shot at "Cradle", but I feel that "Screws" is about the best new R&R record I've heard this millenium. The again, it hasn't been a great millenium for RnR.

Marty

Ulf,

I don't play music DVDs by habit, but I'm in the midst of this Lindsey Buckingham infatuation so I took your advice and bought the Bass Hall dvd. Gadzooks! The performance is almost unbelievable - is there anything left of that guy's right hand after a show? - and the sound/picture quality produced the kind of "impact" that really approaches a live show.

I have my listening room and my wife has her movie room. I usurped her territory last night and was really surprised by how good it sounded. I bought her decent stuff, but didn't overdo it because I knew she didn't care about nuance. So good speakers (Vienna) and mid fi electronics (Sony) it was.

I've seen many dvds in there before, but I kind of disconnect my critical listening when I walk in. Very nice to learn that I didn't have to.

I don't have a ton of context, because (as I noted), music dvds aren't my thing, but this one blew me away.

Marty