I was wondering where you were going with the faux-southern reference. Then I reached the reveal!
Box of Rain takes me to an emotional, somber place for personal reasons. Celebrate life.
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We were high school kids in Pennsylvania. It was 1970, and he collected civil war stuff. Including replica guns. He identified with the South as an underdog. Possibly his older brother was a bit Yankeeā¦
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Your plotline continues to thicken.
My Deadhead friend who passed too soon was from Orefield near Allentown. I adopted Villanova as a basketball team and went to the Final Four in Detroit in 2009 to support them.
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Damn, our (mid-boomer) music was good. Needed to get away from incessant TV election coverage, re-runs of Oak Island, and car shows Iāve already seen. So remembering the 50th anniversary of the Deadās American Beauty I found the 50th anniversary edition on ROON / Tidal. Found there is no preset for the Audeze LCDi3, but notes say to go for the LCDi4 setting instead of the iSINE 20 setting. Works fine.
Box of Rain, Ripple, Friend of the Devil, Sugar Magnolia. The sound is great with this stream, good enough that I get lost in the music, and even though I know every note, I hear more, like detail in the harmonica that I did not before, and precision in the mandolin parts. And I still mess up at least one or two words per song.
But the layers of memory. This is an album I played hundreds of times. The tracks went through my stereo in all of its iterations over decades. And were the the backdrop or the focus of many a mental state and comfortable mood. High school, college, and decades later.
Nov 3, 2020, Just about midnight.
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Music. Sound. The sound of music. Good stuff. Depending on when we listen to a particular track/album, maybe our ears have changed, or our brains, memory, soul, where we are in life, to pick up or experience something new/different.
When posed with the question of what musical decade I could time transport to, it would be the 70s. Pre personal computer and Internet, pre decline of receiver/equipment construction, when stereo and music ruled popular culture/recreation and there were less distractions/screens, when you could walk into a brick and mortar AV/stereo shop and walk out with a box or brochure. I came across this compilation of vintage stereo commercials: https://youtu.be/HUURuA17n5E.
I donāt have ROON/Tidal but have Amazon HD (will start a Qobuz/Tidal trial shortly now that Iām nearing the end of my Amazon trial and will compare).
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Great link. Goldstar TV. Theyāve come a long way. The full name was Lucky Goldstar, but these days we just use the initials. Lots of vinyl-eating tonearms and 8 tracks to jam . . . I mean jam to.
Halfway through, I did see one black person setting up a stereo for about 10 seconds. I miss the carnival barkers in front of the stacks of TVs. And who could forget JC Penny - fine components.
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This actually makes me a little teary-eyed. I know Brian May didnāt write this song about Freddie, but I was at the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert at Wembley, back in 1992, and when Brian sang this song, I think everyone in the stadium was in tears.
Iāve attached 2 links. I like Brianās solo version better, but it has a terrible video. The other link is Queenās version, with Freddie on vocals, which is also great, but doesnāt have the same emotional connection for me. If thereās a way to listen to Brian while watching the montage of the official Queen video, that would be perfect.
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