Dusty Chalk

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, New Year's Eve set -- right in the middle, they play a mashup of Evil Woman and All Along the Watchtower that ... is surprisingly smooth (I think I have it linked correctly so you should go to about a minute before the song starts):

I’ve always wanted my best speakers to be omnidirectional. MBL would do. I need to set up my Gallos.

Also watched the Nikki Glaser episode of The Degenerates. She’s filthy. I like her. Just finished the new Dracula. https://newsthump.com/2020/01/04/new-power-station-to-be-powered-by-bram-stoker-spinning-in-his-grave/

Goulash 20200104 -- fucking delicious! I really like the flavours that baby zucchini, okra, and celery added. Only a smattering of meat, though -- should have put in a second packet.

His DJ sets suck so hard, though. But yeah, you’re right, I’m glad he didn’t stop there.

Younger Brother, The Last Days of Gravity

Happy belated! (party favour noise)

https://music.carygrace.com/album/lady-of-turquoise Stylistically all over the place, but if I had to pick one word to describe it, the word would be, ‘prog’. A lot more hook-laden and alternately soft pop and hard rock than that one word would imply, but it would prepare you for the flurry of styles.

French Onion Soup -- smells delicious! Was loosely following this recipe

Actually, the original link says it’s called the BH 770. Where did you see DT330/DT660? Oh, good, please do report back. I am very curious, myself.

Yeah, I'm no lawyer, so I'm literally doing that thing that we all hate: hypothesizing. Oh, also, persecuting, convicting, and judging.

They're marketing it as a clone -- clone==reverse engineered. But your point is taken as well. I would phrase it thusly: after they reverse engineered it, they forward engineered it from there -- presumably to give them some cost-cutting options, but also maybe so that they could protect it as a different design.

If they used a different size driver, then it’s technically a different design.

Best wishes also!

It was a year ago, but I only just learned of it: James Calvin Wilsey, the king of slow, and sometime Chris Isaak’s guitarist. I want to be him when I grow up.

https://www.electric-kingdom.net/post/behringer-releases-clone-of-beyerdynamic-dt-770-studio-reference-headphones See, this is why I hate Behringer, they reverse engineer technology, and then undercut the original. I’m alright with it when the technology is long since out of the market, as is the case with many of their synthesizers, but this is ubiquitous! Grr...

Did he ever really do better than this? IMHO, this is -- far and away -- his masterpiece. I know people worship Richard D. James Album and Druqks, but nothing he did on those was as mind-blowing as this was to my 31-year-old brain (actually, probably 32 by the time I heard it, I was not exactly "in the know").

It's a bit...schizophrenic. Dusty in love.

https://universe217.bandcamp.com/album/change Really digging this. Like a proggier, slighltly more psychedelic Led Zeppelin.

Happy new year, friends! (party favour noise)

I love all of those (except Actors, not familiar, will have to check them out). The live album you are thinking of is Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends, Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer. such a great album.

Okay, that was pretty terrible. Switched to this, and then moving on: