Her specific point was that musicians often used the "B" side for introducing new, experimental ideas to their audience. Without it, the only thing that gets sold is the formulaic songs that they know people will buy.

I seem to recall, and certainly Bithead can clarify this, that radio stations only play what's been released on a single, which means that adding experimental tracks to a full album doesn't accomplish the same thing.

I was more partial to "Been a long time since I rock and rolled...". I burned through three copies of Dark Side of the Moon before I got to college. Ah, the good old days.

"Hey, hey momma said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove...."

Going back a bit earlier, In the 9th grade, I would play both sides of "Led Zepplin II" every night upon getting in bed. Fell asleep with "Thank You" floating thru my head.

That was a pretty good year...

James has probably concluded he has created a monster.

But I just cranked up the system. References have been made in the thread "where were you?"

Well, so where were you when you first heard at full throated, maximum energy and emotion (and yes, in vinyl)?:

"Hey, hey momma said the way you move
Gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove...."

(freight train...)

Well, you know how to contact me. I'm in Naperville, BTW. You could listen to the system first hand.......and we could raid the wine cellar.

Not sure how much black music influence AC\DC music.

You might want to research who Angus Young's guitar influences are. The influence is all over his solos.

I have family near Chicago and find myself there a few times a year. Love to buy you a drink sometime.

A couple last points. Yes, both type of planar speakers, Maggies and Stats, are beautiful for transparency and sound staging because of the basic physics.....you are only moving thin films.

However, if you want what the reviewers call "dynamics" which really means moving alot of air to create that gut sense of weight and excitement (symphonic crecendos, rock) you need dynamic (cone) speakers.

High end cone speakers will give you all the things that stats or magnetic planars can, but its expensive. Eg. The Maggie 20.1's are appx $20K. Good, say, Martin Logan stats might be $15K. My dynamic Strads are $45K.

That all said, if you want to dream, the best speakers in the world today.....I think there can be no doubt: Magico. The M5 is a home version, and a cool $90K. I've heard them. They make you wilt.

Studio version (or extreme home) is the Ultimate II. So heavy they assemble on site. Think $300K.

Having fun yet?

Just for fun you should have a listen in a high end St. Louis shop (St Louis, right??)

If you can't find them, then in Chicago: Quintessence Audio. They are on the web. Ask for Mick.

Philosophically speaking, and this is true of most things and not just audiophile equipment, it isn't always true that you get what you pay for but it is almost universally true that you won't get what you don't pay for. When I spent more time on it in the past, finding the best value in audio equipment was a friendly challenge, just like finding really good wines for under $20.

I had a good friend who had Magnapans and they were very nice for some music, though seemingly a little light on the low end, and really cool to see the first time. I've always liked the warm tube sound, but never owned any myself.

Thanks to you and anjin-san for the tips. I appreciate it.

with Sonny Rollins contributing the sax solo

Theres more to the story. Rollins was suffering from something of a creative block, with no idea of what he wanted to play and time to come up with something running out. (I suspect the unfamiliar environment of a rock & roll recording messed with his head a bit).

Jagger was dancing around the studio during a playback of his vocal track. Suddenly inspired, Rollins grabbed his sax and asked Mick to keep dancing. The solo is Rollins' interpretation of "The Mick dance".

Wouldn't even consider NT for a server though, get yourself a Debian CD.

Didn't notice this before.

The reason that 7000 is on NT is a complex one, involving the RAID array. It'll support 12 spindles on one array, (Meaning with today's SCSI drives you can make absolutely HUGE physical arrays, well beyond the limit of NT, in fact) but the drivers only work under Windows, and the thing simply won't go to 2000. I know, I tried to sneak the NT driver in under 2000, as I have for other things. It won't go. And their support for Linux variations on the thing was always a little limited. Officially IBM approved versions of lin/unis would work, but I never got around to it. Much easier to hack up an old desktop for the purpose. Heh... cheaper too, since they come free, except for the bigger drives I use.

I'm running W2K on them since I got the licenses a number of years ago. Running an old style Windows domain soles a few complications for me.

Well, that's better than NT 3 or 4. You'd still probably get better performance out of Linux and Samba though, especially if it has some memory to spare.

Why Debian over Suse or even Solaris? ... Just asking. Hell, if I could afford a small Sunfire, I'd run Solaris meownself.

Mostly personal preference. I find Apt a better package manager than RPM, and light years ahead of SysV packages. I generally use Ubuntu these days, but there's not much difference between that and Debian on a server install.

I'd recommend Linux over Solaris on any non-Sparc architecture just because it has better hardware support, but if you have a Sparc then Solaris is definitely a good option. The GNU userland is generally better supported than Sun's also.