What are your favorite reference CD's and WHY??

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G3 and LTE....

....Don't want to make ya feel bad but I got to sit in row 7 for G3 up in Deeeetroit. Also got to go to the post concert party. Met Portnoy, Petrucci, Vai, Denati, LaRue....and almost met Satch...

He (Satch) was so cool. The ushers were rounding us out of there and Satch got up and came right over to me and thanked me for coming to the show...

...I walked out of there on a friggin' CLOUD. :D

As far as LTE - I've got the second CD...

Buy it - it's killer. :)

I think I'm going to shake the couch down and buy the new DT CD today... :)
 
Depends on what I'm recording!

Weezer...the Blue Album
RHCP...BSSM
Garbage...Pink Album
 
Beatles White Album
Dire Straits On Every Street
Marcus Miller The Sun Don't Lie
Cheryl Crow Globe Sessions
Pink Floyd WYWH
Def Lepard Hysteria
 
I can't think of all my favorites right now, but
I can throw at a couple of beautifully recorded CDs....

1) Michael Penn, 'Resigned'

2) Grant McLennan, 'Horsebreaker Star'

3) XTC, 'Nonsuch'


All of these records represent a 'perfect' blend of yesterday's warm recording techniques and today's sonic wizardry.

The vocals on Penn's record are particularly special, as are the acoustic instruments on McLennan's record. 'Nonsuch' is special just because of the clarity of the mix, considering the complexity of the songs.

BE the music,
jsr
 
Re: G3 and LTE....

zip said:
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I think I'm going to shake the couch down and buy the new DT CD today... :) [/B]
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NO YOUR NOT!!!!!

You go out and by some cdr's.............NOW!!!! :D
 
Re: G3 and LTE....

zip said:
....Don't want to make ya feel bad but.....
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Zip,

That can't make me feel Bad...

Back in 95, I was invited to the first G3...Front Row, back stage pass and the special party given by Paul Allen at Pauls house. My friend Dave asked me to go but my son had just passed away and I wasn't feeling up to leaving the wife at home while I went out splurging and hob knobbing. I met Vai in 93 during S&R, that was cool and I got into a staredown with Zakk Wylde after the show...poor guy was drinking a beer and this drunk guy was being obnoxious to him...

Peace,
Dennis
 
OK well...(not to one up ya)

My friend Patrice and I are going to Chicago to see Dream Theater at the VIC. Since she knows Portnoy we're a lock for front row...:D

Isn't Vai like the most down to earth dude?? Actually all of the musicians I met that night were. Refreshing not to have that "I'm a rock Star and too good to talk with you" attitude. :)

BTW...

Pick up Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence!! I'm listening to it right now. It's different but bad to the bone...WARNING...massively complex prog...not for the faint of heart! LOL

The first part of 6 degrees is almost classical...like listening to a symphony...wild!!

I can't WAIT for the show...

lata D!

zip >>
 
"Puzzle" by Dada

Produced by Ken Scott

It's an engineering masterpiece!


Buck
 
Re: Re: What are your favorite reference CD's and WHY??

atomictoyz said:
XTC bruce...That surprises me...
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I hear ya, but the English Settlement album's record engineering is vastly different (and very much improved) compared to many of their other albums.

Bruce
 
Silvestre Revueltas - Musica de Feria, Cuarteto Latinoamericano, New Albion Records NA062
That dark modernism that I love. Fine performance. Excellent recording and mastering by a good friend. But mostly they are a great reference for me since my very own barefoot sound speakers were used as monitors.

Susana Baca - Eco de Sombras
Beautiful voice, great musicians, and a super polished NY production like maybe this style of music has never seen before. Depth and dynamics. I think David Byrne is the exec producer.

Ravel - Piano Trio in A minor, The Borodin Trio, Chandos 8458
Beautiful music, outstanding performance, and an open shimmering recording that makes you feel like the Trio is right there in the same room with you.

Stanley Clarke - If This Bass Could Only Talk
Once again, sounds like you're there.

Tosca - Suzuki In Dub, G-Stone
Super hip beats with cutting edge, transparent, 3-dimensional sound. My newest favorite.:)

There are a few more, but I can't remember them right now. I'm at work.
barefoot
 
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Blue Bear Sound said:
It was alternative before "alternative" ever existed as a genre... "British alternative" maybe???

Bruce
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I believe it was called "new wave."
 
Hmmm... I don't think XTC can be described as New Wave.... New Wave was Gary Numan, The Cars, etc....

XTC never fit that slot - they were more like The Cure without all the depressing lyrics and minor chords! ;)

(and yes, I am a huge Cure fan, but you have to admit I have a point about the chords and lyrics!)

Bruce
 
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C'mon. The tubes, B-52's, XTC, Devo, Thomas Dolby, (early) Clash, Men at Work (to an extent) . . . new-wave.

But the Cars? Let me think on that one.

(lol on the Robert Smith reference by the way)
 
Listen to it if you have a chance chess... no way it's new wave - not even remotely similar. (seriously!)

Bruce
 
"Tosca - Suzuki In Dub, G-Stone
Super hip beats with cutting edge, transparent, 3-dimensional sound. My newest favorite."


Most definitely with ya there Barefoot. Great album and great reference cd.

I also use Floyds WYWH and DSOTM for fairly obvious reasons.

Radioheads OK Computer and KID A are both great as the freeely drift from extreme to extreme, very full with lots of tracks and incredible stereo seperation.

I also use (sorry DJ haters) Sasha&Digweed's Northern Exposure Disc II as it has the most incredibly bathing synths ever as well as some crazy filter sweeps. Granted it's all synthetic but it tests the limits of sythn oriented tunes.


Laj
 
Re: OK well...(not to one up ya)

zip said:

Isn't Vai like the most down to earth dude?? Actually all of the musicians I met that night were. Refreshing not to have that "I'm a rock Star and too good to talk with you" attitude. :)
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Yeah, I think its mostly because they became musicians out of love of music, whereas the Motley Crews and others were into music as a means to an end...i.e. Sex and Parties. Maybe thats why I drifted away from the Big hair Party bands into the Vai, Zappa and DT strains...Progressive and Instrumental Rock... Have fun Zip at the show...Im not sure I like John switching to EB guitars though, the 90th anniversay JPM is beautiful... Ill see If I can find the new DT, I bought the Box set from Steve Vai, its got unreleased Zappa and some Alcatraz.. 80 bucks, 3 disks and more coming...

Bruce, isn't it amazing how the engineering choice can vastly change how a band comes across. Ive heard a few CD's where the demo done in small studios on a budget outshines the sophmore release done by an engineer picked by the corporate machine. Me, personally I never like my own engineering, overtly critical of my choices. I suppose if I had a bigger budget I would have more choices of sounds I'd be more proficient at getting there. I think its the MD8... I really do.


Peace,
Dennis
 
I think Bruce was refering to a song by gary numan called cars...

The Cars were well done though. not a bad choice for reference.

And Bruce of my favorites is I.G.Y. when I am listening thu monitors.
 
When I think of New wave,

Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, The Go Go's, Howard Jones, OMD, The Thompson Twins, The Spoons.....Come to mind

The Cars were modern pop/rock... Sort of Like how we see 3rd Eye Blind or Matchbox 20 now....


Of course, in my opinion at least :)
 
My Dad says Led Zepplin was the Bon Jovi of the 70's *LOL*

Seriously, he says that....

Joe
 
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