Thanks Ghost. It makes me very happy that folks are getting into this.
It's a ton of fun to sit 20 feet away from the music as I write about it. The day time is cool here at TuneVilla but it's the night time I enjoy the most. Getting the lighting right, having a candle burning adding it's scent and letting the Vibe of the music fill the air. Sometimes it blows my mind that I get to live during the age of stereo. The age right before mine was reel to reel machines and before that the Victrola. Hard to imagine pre-Victrola times for me as I look at my CD collection. If I wasn't so lazy I guess I would have tapes and vinyl but I'm willing to let that maintenance thing limit itself to CD. Much easier to deal with. The Computer age is here too but I still listen to more CD for my taste being able to squeeze more sound out of them. I will graduate to a hard drive only when the right tweaks are done I guess but that is still some time away quality wise. In the meantime knowing that I am in the last phase of music covers being something you can touch, and having cases to store your music in sitting in their shelving is pretty cool.
I also like the idea of the Long Play vs song by song approach and hope in tomorrow land this concept will never go away. For myself I like to think of a recording as being several songs making a feeling for an hour or so and not having to jump ship in my mind every 5 minutes. The random play idea is cool but I tired of the changing moods being so rapid sometimes. With concert venues I don't mind cause the night always has it's own meaning like a LP and in my own private listening chair I love to float away in my hour head trip concert. Of course it never ends at an hour and a lot of the fun is finding the next CD to listen to after having your mind tweaked for that long.
Most of us today think in music LP concept terms that I just talked about and that's fine by me. We talk about how #2 is different from Houses of the Holy and think of what the artist was laying down during that period of creation. A 6 to 14 song painting if you will. A unique and wonderful invention that plays a part in every listeners head. One of these paintings I can not live without was done during a creative time in TV when "Dunes" David Lynch did "Twin Peaks". Not only were there concepts given birth to on TV but the behind the lines music masterpieces that were being made are some of the tripiest stuff ever done. I was introduced to David and Julee Cruise long before I ever laid my eyes on the TV show. Floating Into The Night is one of my favorite recordings. It's kind of a female version of Pink Floyd in some respects. Where Floyd gives us "Us and Them" Julee gives us "Floating". Julee's soft whispers are nothing shy of mesmerising and the sound stage is huge, breath taking and timely.
Both guy and gal will have their needs met with this recording as there is a perfect blend of male and female mood poured into the seductive production. It's a mix of New Age/Floydish/Pop that takes on it's own life.
enjoy
Edited by
mg1959
on Wed 07/11/12 03:05 AM