Recent content by Johnny B

Spice Girls: The Greatest Hits (2020 Virgin Records, original release 2007) I think chronological order is a poor choice for this one. It’s really front loaded.

I bought my Marantz blu ray player (new) from them in 2013. I’m pretty happy. It’s a bit more of a drive for me now, but if they had something I wanted that I couldn’t get locally, I’d buy from them again.

It would appear so. This appears to be the original release: https://www.discogs.com/Brahms-Arthur-GrumiauxConcertgebouw-Orchestra-Amsterdam-Eduard-Van-Beinum-Violin-Concerto/release/4154846

Made it home from Florida. That’s quite enough for one weekend.

King Buffalo: Dead Star EP (2020 self-released) What a day. Got in from my vacation in Florida at 1 AM. Spent today buying all the stuff I didn’t stock up on before I left and picking up some stuff from work. Will be working from home until further notice. At least this came in the mail today.

I saw last night that all LiveNation & AEG were suspending touring through the end of March. I’m pretty sure Parsons was on the AEG list. Now, of course, I can’t find the list, but the announcement is on Rolling Stone’s website and other places.

I’m on vacation in Florida and getting ready to head home. I was supposed to go to a beer festival in Tampa tonight that got cancelled. Going down there to pick up my bottles and hit the road. Right now, at my mom’s in central Florida and it hasn’t seemed bad yet. We were at the grocery store on...

Is it turning on shuffle mode or just starting at a random track and playing through from there if you unpause it?

I have multiple copies of a few things. Sometimes it’s CD and vinyl. Occasionally, it’s multiple CD copies, usually for different bonus tracks on reissues. I think I have seven copies of Dark Side of the Moon: Original vinyl, 2016 vinyl, 20th Anniversary CD, CD from the Shine On box set...

Bandcamp. Lots of new and lesser-known artists and small record labels have music for sale. Sometimes there are physical releases, sometimes not. But there are always downloads available. I have yet to find anything that wasn’t available as a FLAC, but they aren’t always hi-res. For playing...

I’m so sorry, Sandy. To everyone else: listen to the man. I used to do trusts and estates work, and you’re doing all of your loved ones a favor, and maybe yourself, if you take care of these things while you’re healthy and able to.

Not a band, but what comes readily to mind is St. Vincent. I like the self-titled album from a few years ago, but I never really cared for much of the rest of her music. And that includes the follow-up to that album. Also, I haven’t heard all of the albums, but the only Sleater-Kinney record...

No, it doesn’t. It looks like a bootleg.

If you’re getting a vinyl master, it would be for the actual vinyl mastering. You give that version to the cutting engineer. The other master goes to everyone else (Bandcamp, Spotify, etc.). It’s probably not that different. Slightly different eq, different limiting, that sort of thing. For low...

I don’t know why you would go for the Ortofon 2m series over an upgrade VM95 stylus. The Red isn’t great, especially at the price. Once I noticed the weirdness in the high-end, I can’t unhear it. For a little more money than what the Red costs, you can get the ML for the VM95. Or I think the...