Recent content by Harlyquin

I think you can assume Roy knows what he's talking about - he does have a long and impressive track record in these matters. :)

Anybody who likes Bonnie Raitt, might also enjoy Becky Barksdale. There's some good samples here (CD Baby) - I particularly like her first 'Live' album. The cover of Willie Dixon's classic 'I Just Wanna Make Love to You' is well worth a listen.

For all you B3 (and other organ) fans who may not know of it, there's a specialist site Organ1st selling all kinds of organ music on CD - they have a complete Hammond B-3 Jazz category with loadsatitles! I bought an excellent sampler from them called 'Kickin the 3' which features tracks from all...

Well, we're into page 2 and no huffing and puffing from Swindon yet ;)

Thanks Les - very helpful as always!

I've got a bit of kit which has just blown its fuse. There's nothing intelligible on it apart from a type code T2AL250V which doesn't give me a lot of idea what it is and how to find a replacement. Can any of you knowledgeable DIYers out there tell me what this means and point me towards a...

The American Argo label (owned by Chess?) has a lot of jazz titles amongst its releases. Possibly there has been some confusion between the two. The few Decca Argo releases I have are all early music or more esoteric classical. It looks like the label may have been more recently used for...

Re the Decca labels, my recollection is that some (e.g Eclipse, Ace of Diamonds) were lower price releases, mostly of popular classics in the same way that MFP and CFP were produced by EMI in addition to their ASD range. According to Wikipedia the Argo label was originally intended by Decca...

For those who're interested, this CD is listed available as a Capitol pressing by CDZone here

Missed that one but did catch a rather moving BBC4 programme on 2 about Gram Parsons of 'Byrds' and 'Flying Burrito Bros.' fame.

What is it? - a voice activated programmable remote?

Shucks! Tony, that admission's really blown your well-honed aura of omniscience - will PFM ever be the same again ??

AMG is a US-centric site. I've rarely found listings there for releases in Europe or the rest of the World. If you want to find those you probably need to seek out a discography for the specific artist. Ratings on AMG understandably reflect the relative success (or otherwise!) of the...

They introduced the new 'style' in January but ran it in parallel with the old one until some time in April (I think). It may work OK for sellers but the old one was so much simpler and less cluttered and the 'free-text' search worked far better than what they have now. A lot of the problems may...

Phew! - had a few moments extreme panic then - thought the new AMG site might have screwed up all the BIOG links I put into Music Collector, but thankfully it looks like they still work OK. Can't say I'm too impressed with the new look and feel yet, but maybe it'll take time to aclimatise. Plus...