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What SMOKING music are you listening to? (2025)

AVB said:
Monday Morning Blues

They Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesdays Just As Bad)

T-Bone Walker a pillar of Electric Blues wrote this sometime between 1936-38 with 1938 being the most agreed upon year. A very early practitioner of the Electric Guitar he may have been playing one as early as 1935 and certainlt 1936 (B.B. King was 10 then) While 1938 might have beem when written T-Bone wasn't too sure of when he recorded it giving dates in 1940 and 41 but there is proof for a recording date of March 1942. Because of the war that session wasn't released untll late 1945 (1 song) and early 1947 (2 songs} one of them being Stormy Monday. 3 minutes of pure blues that never really got longer than 4:23 for any of his studio versions. 0thers turned it into the 8 minute plus opus we know today.
It took less than 20 years to become an American classic.

The Original


Albert King & SRV

The Allman Brothers
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T-Bone
AVB said:
You do like those "echoey" songs.
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Right...the wispy, echoey, moody stuff. I like that occasionally and mostly go with LDR's Ultraviolence for it. But I listen to zo many genres it's hard not to fine things I WON'T listen to. Commercial HH, New Country and pop/RnB like Katy Perry, Beyonce etc. Although I did go through a Gaga phase lol.

Tuesday was mostly Blues, inspiried by your TBone Walker etc post, today was Mozart, Bruckner and Vivaldi and I can already see today is shaping up to be Zeppelin (HOTH is on now), Santana, The Who and Queen, inspired by my later ZOOM herf with my Uncle Phil aka cigar reviewer The Katman. He's RnR all the way!

Thanks for your TBone etc post. The SRV always gets to me. I got to see him w Jeff Beck not long before he died. Such a talent, such a shame.

CHEERS
 
Corona369 said:
T-Bone

Right...the wispy, echoey, moody stuff. I like that occasionally and mostly go with LDR's Ultraviolence for it. But I listen to zo many genres it's hard not to fine things I WON'T listen to. Commercial HH, New Country and pop/RnB like Katy Perry, Beyonce etc. Although I did go through a Gaga phase lol.

Tuesday was mostly Blues, inspiried by your TBone Walker etc post, today was Mozart, Bruckner and Vivaldi and I can already see today is shaping up to be Zeppelin (HOTH is on now), Santana, The Who and Queen, inspired by my later ZOOM herf with my Uncle Phil aka cigar reviewer The Katman. He's RnR all the way!

Thanks for your TBone etc post. The SRV always gets to me. I got to see him w Jeff Beck not long before he died. Such a talent, such a shame.

CHEERS
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Glad you liked my T-Bone Walker post, I try to do Blues every Monday. As far as the echoey post that was and continues to be an inside tug of war with the Traveler. You'd have to have been here for a while.
 
How many of you Luddites still spin vinyl? Well I do and it seems that everything in my systems needs replacing all at once. 3 working turntables for about 3500 vinyl albums.Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in XP days I started digitizing my albums. That didn't sound great until Win 7 came out and I put in a M-Audio 24/96 Audiophile card. Still not done but that just died. the stylus on my Stanton reached the end of life. My first turntable I ever bought, a 1970 Lenco L75 (which I still have) need it's 20 year overhaul, and an unexpected expense - I found my Signet Moving Coil cartridge which I hadn't seen since 1990. I sent it out for evaluation but that will be an expensive rebuild if it can be rebuilt.

I replaced the M-Audio card and DAC with a Sapphire 2i2 3rd gent for 1/3rd the cost
Replaced the stylus in my Stanton 681 cartridge for twice what that cost originally
Bought a new cartridge for my pre-1964 records
Got new lighter headshells with Litz wires
Bought a record clamp, drive belt, idler ring and tensioner for the Lenco
Got a new phono preamp for my AT-OC9 cartridge - Cambridge Azur Solo if you are looking
And the possible unknown cost to rebuild my Signet.

This should be it until I don't care anymore, I can't hear or I'm dead. The things we do for love.
 
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Prog Friday

Tangerine Dream

Formed in 1967 the Dream are founding members of what we now call electronica and have been hugely influential in New Age and EDM. While you might think you don't know their music you have heard far more than you realize. The group has scored or contributed songs to over 60 films including Thief, Risky Business, Vision Quest, Firestarter and did audio for Grand Theft Auto 5.

While no original members are still in the band it is lead by the hand picked successor of the founder. One of the most prolific bands of all time they continue to put out album quite regularly with well over 100 released so far. That doesn't count a few dozen compilation albums either.

With such a long history it is hard to point to specific records as their best but I'd go with
Zeit (1972)
Rubycon (1975)
Force Majeure (1979)
Hyperborea (1983)
Quinoa (1992)
Just for starters, then there are the Tangerine Tree and Leaves fan albums of 2001-2006 which are up to 10 sets of 92 volumes comprised of 150 CDs. These were quasi band approved but not so much by their lables and are a very good sound quality. For the die hard fan there is Tangerine Leaves which is a side project that put out recording which don't meet the Tree audio standards and that is another 91 volumes with 155 CDs. That gives you a lot to choose from.

Here is one fan's compilation of what he thinks is the best of Tangerine Dream.. It's only 32 videos so kick back and enjoy


If anybody is interested in Trees they are still out there in FLAC format and take about 50 Gb of space.
 
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