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Hey, I thought this one was easy. Easy Rider? Someone might cross reference this and see the light.
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In the meantime, someone guess the last "name that song" challenge!
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Yeah, its been in and out the last few hours.
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For what it is worth, the analog outs on my "digital cable" motorola box also sound horrid. No ground loop problem, just bad. Every time I ask when HD will be available with spdif audio outs, I get the answer of next year, or after this spring or some such it's not soon answer. Charter Cable, slow to get with the times here. Be glad you have actual digital outs.
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Nothing I saw got out of hand, but I could have missed something while cooking dinner and watching the first period of the 'canes vs. 'wings game.
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The movie has a famous motorcycle which does not exist anymore, but was the subject of an awful movie starring two women in search of it.
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Good question, Jeff. I thought that the discussion was as civil as one would imagine also. The only thing I can think of is that the last few posts I read used an abbreviated form of a term for a nationality that in this hypersensitive PC world might have caused either a reaction from someone, or the perceived threat of a reaction from the administrators of this board. I hope that I am wrong (it certainly would not be the first time) but as you said, either we missed something or the French have a term for it: "I don't know what."
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It was covered in the movie, not sung by the writer.
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I would imagine it would make them sound differently. The tweeters are now vertical, changing the dispersal pattern. This would be the most obvious difference. Since you are using a sub I am not sure how bass response would differ.
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Hint: from the same movie as The Pusher.
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The Pusher--
steppenwolf
Next:
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying
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Federal reserve regulations specify the maximum float allowed. I believe that today that figure is three days.
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Correct you are.
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I am still looking for Quartets if anyone has a pair for sale. The guy in Tulsa never communicated to make a deal and today I see them here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5852161062&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT
Hopefully someone will have a pair within driving distance of Denton, Texas. Thanks to all.
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They had help from Moussorgsky on this one.
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Congratulations Jeff! It sure is a beauty.
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I totally agree with you on the location of the diamond logo. They should have asked us about it. [4) diamond thing - good idea although you will scratch all that up when you vacuum around the things. Also a flat-black anodised aluminum would look better. Frankly my woodstove has a better look to it, and its black, too.
The PWK diamond logo applique should have been at the TOP CENTER of the bass cabinet, not part of the bloody kick panel! Seems like a shame to me that evidently nobody at Klipsch has a clue as to what looks elegant and what looks like just putting lipstick on a pig. Putting alot of chrome on a Pinto isn't going to make it a Porche. Not better - it's worse.
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However, I do think it looks great overall & like the veneer. I want one! Hopefully in 10 years I'll find one on Craigslist. (yea right)
I appreciate Klipsch keeping these speakers going (esp. adding the Cornwall to the re-releases) & not ditching them in favor of tall skinnies that need a sub.
Fat girls make the rockin' world go 'round.....
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Without a doubt, jpm.
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really! they were at Monterrey Pop? I guess between Hendrix and Joplin I must have gone to pee. Oh well, nothing lost.
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Maybe mikebse2a3 is Amy's or Trey's pseudonym.
D-man and edwin what can I say?
I have noticed in the last few months how much Klipsch and its People do for the people on this forum(yearly pilgrimages for example and if anyone has talked to Tech Support and how they will go out of their way to help for example I called Tech Support and spoke with Stephen Philips late one evening about the older crossovers and as we were finishing talking I realised he had stayed well past his quitting time.). People have talked of the support for the Heritage Line wasn't what it should be But I say these days business is hard and the going mentality is Older Technology isn't good and alot of companies give in to the lets introduce something new to keep sales up whether its really an improvement. Klipsch is working to hold onto the Heritage Line and I honestly don't think many companies do that these days.
I've owned Klipsch since 1987 and have had the privilage of a tour of the Hope Factory twice in the early 1990s. Back then I got to know Ginney Sanders and Jim Hunter also who personelly helped me when I had some problems with some La Scalas I had bought and they tried to arrange a meeting with PWK on one of those tours I was given but unfortunatley I just missed him.
ALSO for those that will understand this after years of wanting and finally getting my 1979 Khorns(bought in 1990) and can appreciate the Genius of PWK's Design, Build Quality, Craftmanship and The letters stamped U.S.A. on the back of them then yes I do take pride in owning such a High Quality Product both then and now.
So again I will say Thanks to Klipsch for being the kind of company with the kind of people that will treat a customer such as me so well over so many years!!!
mike[
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Plus it is hard to argue with a chihuahua.
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Putting alot of chrome on a Pinto isn't going to make it a Porche. Not better - it's worse.
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No but it might make it more fire proof.............
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Think of Ned from South Park singing Kumbaya and you get the picture.....
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Interestingly enough, the experiments you speak of are being toyed with by today's youngsters. So maybe Klaatu has had more influence on them than the Beatles.
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Its funny, Klaatu is full of weird and delightful surprises. Don't take them to seriously. On the link there is a place where you can read about the individual songs and the techniques utilized - like using a portable radio as the lead guitar amp, a pickle jar of coins as a percussion instrument, discovering that a song on the first album has lyrics that make sense played backwords and using it backwards on the third album as another song, playing a piano with thumb tacks stuck on the hammers at half speed to get a full speed harpsichord sound... they were experimenting. I also noticed that the guy that did all the Rush albums was around helping them.
Now as for Punk's origin, I think it was a hard reaction to Disco. My time frames below may be off a bit with a lot of overlapping of styles, but I have always thought that the recent progression of musical development has been a fairly downward course from musicians making music to non-musicians making non-music. Something like this...
1950s It was expected that any music was performed by musicians and singers that knew how to sing and play, albeit there was a creative and musical movement away from this being just the domain of the professionals. Lots of jazz influence in the mainstream.
1960s The Rock movement, which was based on a new instrumentation and more agressive approach to the blues (in America) and BBC (in England). It was still expected that singers could sing, and musicians could play their instruments, although the acceptable bounds were being stretched a bit. Lots of good stuff in this period.
1970s (early) Progressive Rock, a temporary reversion back to more virtuoso composition and performance while still continuing to explore instrumentation and formats. Lots of good stuff in this period.
1970s (late) Disco takes over and loud comercial drunken boomy bass is pronouced to be music to pick up women by. This is when I stopped buying popular music (because this is about when I think that they stopped making it)
1980s Punk becomes the antithesis of Disco by reverting to a primative approach to Rock-like music with little regard for production values - lots of poor execution of singing and playing
1990s (early) Punk matures and offshoots a more casual and slick 90's sound with a return to singing and playing instruments and catchy edgy tunes
1990s (middle) The Grunge movement seems to come from nowhere - slows everything down and takes a minimalist approach to heavy sound so even well executed tunes don't reveal whether these guys have talent or not. At its best, there are some novel and interesting things here done with new chord progressions, but there is also some confusion begining to build as to what makes up harmony and its relation to melody. Still, for musicians there was some good here.
1990s (late) The Buzz is born, a sort of punk grunge garage band slacker loser attitude sound in which it is clear that the musical composition and execution take second place to comercial driven catchy hooky riffs and lyrics. Expectation is diminishing that singers can sing and players can play. Lots of obvious mistakes in chord progressions (like confusion, ignorance, or just raw disregard concerning major, minor, and dominant seventh). Progressions sound like they were made up by someone without a sense of music.
2000s (early) Rap music, back to boomy bass with an attitude, now the 'singers' forgo attempting to sing and just speak or shout the lyrics, and the 'musicians' no long play instruments but do scratch patches and tape loops of peices of old songs and noise. The concept of chord progession is gone. Although this seems to be an attempt to make the reversion to non-music performed by non-musicians that cannot play or sing fully complete, there is something here that appeals - it may really be a unique and novel kind of musical form (but it sounds like it comes from Saturn or someplace!) - strangely, it becomes extremely popular and covers everything for a while (maybe still does?).
2000s (a little later) Hip Hop spawns from Rap and quite honestly I have no idea what is going on here. Like a teeny bopper form of Rap?
2000s (middle/now) HT movies and TV seem to be becoming a major source of music (some of it older, most of it sort of shlockey to fill dead space in TV and movies where the script writers seem to have stepped out for a coffee and a smoke). It now seems de rigor to list these tunes in the credits scrolling up for however many minutes it takes to list the dozens and dozens of them.
Well, I did not intend to write a book when I started this - hope it does not read to much like a rant... there is no accounting for taste (especially mine!)
Pauln
Not really a rant, just your version of history. The looping and scratching was started way before the end of the 90's though. Take MC Hammer's "You Can't Touch This" for example. A pure Rick James line with dancing and a one phrase lyric. Even before that there was "Just the two of us" which in its chord progression sounds a lot like 50 ways to leave your lover. Yeah disco sucked for rockers but punk was already gaining ground before disco became overbearing. Nice synopsis Pauln.
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this one is for Ray: the Turtles did not write this one either.