From: Bomp-Digest-Sender To: bomp-digest@bolis.com Subject: Bomp V96 #52 Reply-To: Bomp@bolis.com Precedence: bulk Bomp Saturday, 3 August 1996 Volume 96 : Number 052 In this issue: Re: Bomp V96 #50 CD Players Re: CD Players Re: Rip Van Winkle redux Whatever happened to The Count? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Glenn Sadin" Date: Fri, 02 Aug 96 16:02:31 PST Subject: Re: Bomp V96 #50 Bill Jones sez... Glenn Sadin pointed out that his band, The Seen, put out a few mid-80's releases and I can vouch that this is pretty good stuff!! Nice melodic pop with a hint of Byrds-folk thrown in. (BTW, Glenn's home demos are even cooler!) Thanks for the plug, Bill! (My new stuff's even BETTER! ) ************************************************************************** I've talked to people from the British Walkers, etc... they don't even have access to *photos* of their appearances, let alone film or video... Isn't this Roy Buchanan's old band? I have a very cool 45 by the British Walkers: "I Found You"/"Diddley Daddy". Glenn ------------------------------ From: Plattrpuss@aol.com Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 01:17:10 -0400 Subject: CD Players In a message dated 96-08-01 03:35:04 EDT, you write: >Hey, record-collector-with-killer-HiFi types! I have a question for you. >Is it common for a person who has never owned a CD player worth over 250 >bucks to notice all kinds of drop-outs and imperfections when listening >to a 1000+ dollar CD player for the first time? It seems like every CD >is badly flawed. And then when I listen on the old CD player, I can hear >the drop-out, but very subtly compared to the expensive deck. > > I've had the same $180 CD player since Dec. of 1988 and in all that time I think I might have had problems with maybe 2 or 3 discs, and those were only in the first year of owning the player. This is coming from a guy who owns 2000+ CDs so I'd say that the problem probably lies with your machine. Just curious, what made you want to spend that much money on a player when you can get a really good one for under $200? ------------------------------ From: Tony Dale Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:49:06 +0930 Subject: Re: CD Players At 01:17 AM 3/08/96 -0400, Plattrpuss@aol.com wrote: >> >I've had the same $180 CD player since Dec. of 1988 and in all that time I >think I might have had problems with maybe 2 or 3 discs, and those were only >in the first year of owning the player. This is coming from a guy who owns >2000+ CDs so I'd say that the problem probably lies with your machine. >Just curious, what made you want to spend that much money on a player when >you can get a really good one for under $200? That is a matter of opinion of course. It took me ages to find a CD player that I could even listen to without fatigue, and the worst seemed to be the cheap 1DAC bitstream machines using mass-produced chip-sets (liky my Discman). I finally settled on a Teac Esoteric 500 transport and US-made Bitwise D/A converter, at a cost of around $2000 Aust (much less in the US). The best stuff I have heard is the Krell Transport-D/A setup, and the Theta gear also. 6-12K in Aus, well outside my price range, but much more affordable in the US. Drop outs on CDs, however, are usually nothing to do with the equipment, they are usually an indication of a re-issue mastered from deteriorated tapes. o---------------------------------o----------------------------o |Anthony Dale |'That Was Now, This Is Then'| |http://www.adam.com.au/~aadale | - Faine Jade | o---------------------------------o----------------------------o ------------------------------ From: Greg Colburn Date: Sat, 03 Aug 1996 16:08:55 -0800 Subject: Re: Rip Van Winkle redux Nostalgia sells. That's why the Beach Boys are the most influential band of all time. They had 5-6 years of commercial and creative success but have managed to hang on for 30 more years, recycling and repackaging the same ol' same ol'. Note: When I say influential, I'm speaking of the Beach Boys as business entreprise not as creative endeavor. Kansas, Styx, et al. are hoping for that same kind of longevity. It's rather pathetic, isn't it? But everybody's got to make a living. Frank wrote: > > Boy does that decade suck more in retro than it did in life! And look at > that band list (slight hesitancy to include King Crimson). C'mon Dr. > Kevorkian there's work to be done! Surely this part of the apocalypse of > the Great Boredom. > > > > Styx and Kansas > > > > Steely Dan > > > > King Crimson (part of the HORDE Festival) > > > > REO Speedwagon, Foreigner and Peter Frampton > > > > Steve Miller Band and Pat Benatar > > > > Jethro Tull and Emerson, Lake & Palmer > > > > Beach Boys > > > > Marshall Tucker Band, Edgar Winter, Leon Russell (appearing on a bill with > > Hank Williams, Jr.) > > > > Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Doobie Brothers > > > > There are some points that could be made here but, um, where did the last > > twenty years go? BTW, I enjoyed many of these bands during their heydays, > > but I'm astonished that these are acts promoters are relying to sell > > tickets in the mid-90s. > > > > Bob Pisciotta > > Prairie Village, KS > > > > P.S. I just joined this list and I love it. And sorry for the > > non-Bompesque noise--I just needed some commiseration. ------------------------------ From: scaf@pro-net.co.uk (Steve Coleman) Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 21:23:23 GMT Subject: Whatever happened to The Count? OK here's one for all you Bostonphiles. Several years ago while rummaging round the Record & Tape Exchange in Camden Town I found an ep by the Count in the 10p bin. The record was pressed in 1976 on the Varulven label came complete with promo postcards and lyric sheet/chord tabulature. The record is the product of Joseph Allen Viglione and he appears to have been based at Tufts University Branch, Medford, Mass. Some of the photos show him onstage wearing a "Dracula" cape and sailors hat! There's also a rather good shot of him sliding down a rail with his arms (and cape) flung out wide. Onto the music in the grooves. Collectively the songs celebtrate lost innocence and look back to simpler times. The first three tracks also feature some rather good cheesy organ and "trash-kit" drumming. The accompanying notes are full of wit and I particularly like the comment against the chords for 'The Salt Water Summers'. It simply reads "Fifties beat with surf and cola". He is aided by various members of Crystal Sand, Don Q and Bonjour Aviators and other long forgotten New England bands. There are also lots of name checks but the only one I recognise is for John Hovorka. This record is so much fun and puts me in mind of another other maverick from Boston - Jonathan Richman. So my question is who was this guy and what ever happened to him? The Morn of the Confrontation; Whiskey Mama; The Salt Water Summers; Jodi (Varulven Records Inc, 39 Beverly Rd, Arlington, Ma). Steve ------------------------------ End of Bomp V96 #52 ******************* You have been reading Bomp-digest. 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