Synthesizer Patel

no, i think he has heard Born To Run; it's Born In The USA he hasn't. well, i think that's the case anyway.

If you've heard everything up to Darkness, then you've only got 2 classics left - The River and Nebraska. I'd put Nebraska up there with The Wild, The Innocent blah blah blah; it's fantastic. Apart from those, I personally think Born In The USA is the only other one I'd recommend getting - to me, after that, he just got boring and started repeating himself. The Promise is good, though - that's worth getting too and it's definately not for completists; I'd say everything after Born In The USA fits into that category.

Thanks very much for replying. Well, I'll go into some more detail for you. The drums were recorded seperately. I've only got a hi-hat, snare and kick - so I play the beat through using one mic to capture the sound, and then I go back over it all again playing each part seperately. Sounds complicated, I know - but I've not got enough mic imputs into my (line 6 UX2) to do it any other way. Then I use tom samples to make the tom sounds along with hitting the snare without the snare on so that it has a similar feel to the rest of the kit. I am recording everything with an ADK TC - tube mic

I've been mucking around recently trying to put down a bunch of songs i've got. This is all done at home so not in a studio environment, and i'm coming really unstuck with getting the sound right. I'm recording the parts well - they all sound full and how i want them individually, but putting them all together (whilst it still maintains the general feel of what i want) it is too boomy, and things are competing for space in the mix too much. How in the hell do you get the bass to sound bassy without muddying the mix, whilst having the drums full and up front, without leaving no room for anythin

i think all back catalogue reissues have to be judged against neil young's approach to it all. actually, van morrison is another one, but he seems to make it clear he's just pissed at his record label, whereas neil young seems to imply he's doing it out of some kind of benefit to his fans. as for darkness - i haven't seen it advertised or available anywhere. i mean, it might come out in a bit after the box set stops selling, but it's just as likely to never come out. the worst thing is that i've seen the japanese vinyl replicas available now very cheaply - which are far better than the stand

what makes me worry about Bruce remastering his crappy sounding cds is that he hasn't actually done it with Darkness, unless you can fork out £70, or whatever it is, for the box set. it's not being remastered and sold seperately - but, The Promise is; which is just fucking annoying - almost Neil Young level of annoying. so if he does this with everything i'm not going to be wasting my money. unless by some miracle he stop ignoring his first 2 albums and does a deluxe edition of them - then i'll pay out!

Well I was listening to Rosemary Lane a while ago too! I actually managed to pick everything he's done up to moonshine on remastered cd - for £2.99 a cd recently, so i gave away the few albums i had from that period and updated them all. We should start a club. Louie or Froggie, have either of you picked up the 3 Charisma albums they reissued last year (in the uk, anyway - don't know about the rest of the world)? In many ways 3 of my favourite albums by him. NP. (although i'm a naughty boy, and didn't pay for it!)

well then no.8 has to be ok, is no.2 maybe it's because they all sound really crap, apart from no.3 and no.8 - but i just can't work any of these out

i haven't got a scooby doo about most of them. i only recognise two of them and can only name the wilco track. is number 8 and are any of them actually drum fills, or just intros? hmmm, i also think i recognise no.2 but only from the sound of the single bass note at the end - but maybe my mind is playing tricks on me.

Jet's on there. I think a couple of those other songs - Let Me Roll It & Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five - being two examples are in audio, I think. I'll have to check. Edit: Hang on, I'm getting all confused now. You've got Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five on the track list. Here's what it says on Amazon/ Disc: 1 1. Band on the Run 2. Jet 3. Bluebird 4. Mrs Vandebilt 5. Let Me Roll It 6. Mamunia 7. No Words 8. Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me) 9. Nineteen Hundred and Eighty Five Disc: 2 1. Helen Wheels 2. Country Dreamer 3. Blue

nope. i don't think the "one hand clapping" dvd is complete. i read somewhere that a couple of tracks aren't on it - however it is 52 minutes long - so it's still going to be good. i still think it's a very good deal, all the same - especially when you see how much that "darkness on the edge of town" set is costing - that really is a rip off. i watched that jools holland - i didn't really like it, but i never like seeing that kind of thing - leave the past in the past. i can't wait to see what they do with Ram and McCartney - i can't see how they're going to do 2 discs and a dvd with them,

I didn't think they'd done so many. I'm not really that interested in any of those earlier albums, but if they've done all those then surely Low must be next in line. Anyway, what's wrong with Labyrinth? I love that film - "you remind me of the babe. what babe? the babe with the power. what power?" etc etc etc... NP.

also - nearly forgot - this is out on dvd in a couple of weeks (in the uk, anyway - don't know about america) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2IfD-6iS3Y# In 1880, following a controversial horse race that led to an unresolved death, Gruff Rhys family split as Dafydd Jones took his young family to join the burgeoning Welsh community in Patagonia, South America. There was to be no contact between the families for almost a century when in 1974 Rene Griffiths arrived in Wales with his Latin infused Welsh love songs and became an over night sensation. Director Dylan Goch follows Gruff

gosh, i knew there was a reason why i clicked on this thread. you've got some seriously good music to check out! i'd say check out Rings Around The World first, not that it's their best necessarily, but it's the one I would tell people to listen to if they want to hear the band. Fortunately every one of their albums is different, and every single fan will say a different album is their best (which is always a good sign of quality). forget this rubbish about bands getting back together - they never work. some examples might be better than others, but that doesn't mean any have ever been good

i think they should go and record in jamaica, it's about time bands started doing that again.

i wish i had the money to buy this. i'm hoping it stays in print and comes down in price at some point. can't stop listening to this at the moment ... the first of the bowie albums that's been given the deluxe edition treatment that i really love, and therefore bought. anyone know if they're doing the same thing with low/heroes/lodger next?

i don't think with these things that the actual music becomes public domain, it's just that the songs themselves do - so you can cover them without paying royalties - at least, that's how i think it works.

Apparently D.A Pennebaker has got his own cut of Eat The Document, maybe that'll come out one day. I don't think too much of Ronaldo & Clara - that is boring to me. I just really like Eat The Document for some reason - it's really funny to me. I can understand why people don't like it, the only thing I have issue with is that you think it's not got much music, and it really does have a lot of music in it, maybe not as much as No Direction Home - but that suffers from the annoying thing of playing a bit of a song and then having people talk over it, whereas when a song comes on in Eat The D

i saw it and thought it was pretty good. i did say in another thread, though, that i don't really like watching older people talking about their younger selves. especially with bruce springsteen - because his music of that time was incredible and i personally don't like his modern music - so whenever his older self talks about the making of the album he slightly spoils it for me. i also think, "well they've had 30 years to come up with that reason", or to justify their actions etc... i therefore see it all as a little revisionist. i think the story could have been told simply by showing the 'i

don't think this has been mentioned yet, but did you lot know McCartney is rereleasing all his solo albums, starting with Band On The Run http://www.amazon.co.uk/Band-Run-Paul-McCartney-Wings/dp/B003W2HKSS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1287303734&sr=8-1 it looks like it's going to be fantastic. 2 cd's and a dvd. it's all been remastered at Abbey Road by the same people that did the Beatles recent remasters; and the really great selling point of it is the dvd includes "One Hand Clapping" which is about an hour long tv show filmed in Abbey Road. there's also loads of other dvd stuff too. th

ok, i just find it revisionist. i am sure you're thinking of another film other than eat the document - i know you've said this before - but it is nowhere near as disjointed or messy as you think. it gives an exact representation of what happened - which is: dylan being thrown around from location to location, and it's edited in a way that makes that experience apparent to the person watching it. the best part in no direction home is the final bit where he looks knackered, and ruined, and is rubbing his eyes (apart from the musical moments) - but the rest of the film doesn't really show why th

Sorry to talk about this, but I wanna see what other people think. And what i'm thinking is this: What I don't like about the No Direction Home, and the reason why i say this is because i am half way through watching The Promise (which suffers from the same problem) and when I'm Not There was mentioned for some reason i thought it was the documentary which is what sparked this thought, is that these modern documentaries always use the people from now talking about the past. I just find it really jars with the older images, and you just end up not really getting engrossed in it - I don't see wh

my bum bum will get hot and burn my leg down in hell. also, at the very least, robert johnson will be playing live - i'm sure there will be others too - but, i'll probably only have time for 1 show a year, as all that other debauchery, and screaming in pain, and whatever else goes on there, will take up most of my time.

what if you die on a desert island? are you allowed more choices?