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Black and Blue tour 1980. First concert I went to. Ronnie James Dio on vocals and Bill Wards last concert with Black Sabbath until 1985. $9.50 to see two bands at the height of their careers.

Posted this yesterday over in vinyl record spinning.  Sad day for sure.   Well I was shocked yet not shocked when I heard of Richard Betts death from cancer earlier today.  That guy was something else.  He played anything handed to him and his fretwork was amazing.  Quiet yet always came up with something funny if you knew that grin of his.     Ramblin Man?  He flat nailed it everytime I ever saw him play it.  It was just the way he rolled like the rest of the guys.  Southern rock?  The Allman Brothers were the words that rolled off so many tongues.  It's just another sad day.  Ugh     Forrest Richard Betts (December 12, 1943 – April 18, 2024) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer best known as a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band. Early in his career, he collaborated with Duane Allman,[1] introducing melodic twin guitar harmony and counterpoint which "rewrote the rules for how two rock guitarists can work together, completely scrapping the traditional rhythm/lead roles to stand toe to toe".[2] Following Allman's death in 1971, Betts assumed sole lead guitar duties during the peak of the group's commercial success in the mid-1970s. Betts was the writer and singer on the Allmans' hit single "Ramblin' Man". He also gained renown for composing instrumentals, with one appearing on most of the group's albums, including "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" and "Jessica" (which was later used as the theme to Top Gear). The band went through a hiatus in the late 1970s, during which time Betts, like many of the other band members, pursued a solo career and side projects under such names as Great Southern and The Dickey Betts Band. The Allman Brothers reformed in 1979, with Dan Toler taking the second guitar role alongside Betts. In 1982, they broke up a second time, during which time Betts formed the group Betts, Hall, Leavell and Trucks, which lasted until 1984. A third reformation occurred in 1989, with Warren Haynes now joining Betts on guitar. After Betts was ousted from the band in 2000 over a conflict regarding his continued drug and alcohol use; he never played with them again nor appeared with other former band members for reunions or side projects. With the death of Betts in April 2024, Jaimoe is the last living founder of the Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995[3] and also won a best rock performance Grammy Award with the band for "Jessica" in 1996.[4] Betts was ranked No. 58 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list in 2003, and No. 61 on the list published in 2011.   His first solo lp from 1974 went down and cranked big time this afternoon.       Ya think he couldn't do it all?  Riiiiight, not a big hit but one of my favs.       Here ya go  @JohnJ.  Put your feet up.       God's speed brother!  RIP!

I've been struggling to settle on horn/driver combinations to use atop my pair of sealed Altec 416-8B midwoofers. The most likely candidates are SB Audience 65 CDNT, Yamaha JA6681B, B&C DCM50 and Radian 745neoBe.   Regarding the DCM50, I seen posts such as here https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=169189.0 https://community.klipsch.com/index.php?/search/&q="dcm50" &quick=1&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy ,where it seems as if others like me also have struggled with the dilemma of owning or wanting the benefits of high res horn speakers but troubled over how your less than pristine recordings will sound on them.   Indeed, so many of my treasured 60s pop and soundtrack music-many of which otherwise respectably recorded (fairly low noise and distortion)-were then deliberately mastered with lots of compression. No doubt this was done to make them playable on cheap vinyl players, or even the SOTA turntables of the day.   But in Troy Crowe's review of these drivers, please take time to watch this video entirely from 17:15 to the end.   Notice that during his listening test ratings, Troy gives the DMC50 a less than 10/10 rating for dynamic range. My question is would the B&C DMC50 be a much better choice for playing our over compressed recordings than one with more higher sensitivity, and thus more dynamic range, such as the Radian 745neoBE?   Comparing basic specs: https://www.bcspeakers.com/en/products/hf-driver/archive/dcm50-8 https://www.usspeaker.com/radian 745neoBepb-1.htm   And might the DCM50 also be a better choice for playing compressed recordings because it uses a "composite" or paper diaphragm, rather than a beryllium one, like the 745neoBE?

Time to find a farmer selling good beef and snag ya a quarter.  Pricey but w/a freezzer you're good to go then just stockpile every thing else frozen on sale.  I'm on a mission to get mine emptied by fall since mine's already ordered.       60's around here for the next few days then ramping back up. 

Hi Emil,   Please excuse the off topic request but I'm new here and bumped into you at audiocircle while searching for current or former users of the B&C DCM50. https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=pm;f=sent#msg925359 Please share your experiences. Everyone here welcome to chime in too!

https://www.discogs.com/release/3050696-Deep-Purple-Nobodys-Perfect  

https://www.discogs.com/release/807797-Queen-News-Of-The-World  

RIP Dicky Betts, one of the great musicians of rock history!

And... Muireann Bradley... age 17, from Ireland. She started on guitar when she was nine.    

Bronwyn's guitarist on this is smokin'!