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Claude Lemaire thinks Led Zeppelin is so seminal to hard rock, he chooses them twice for Episode 3. King Crimson also makes the cut.
Frank Doris continues to mine his experience accrued over 50 years of playing in bands, offering insight into brand identity, having a set list, and playing music you don’t like for the sake of entertaining the crowd!
In this episode, writer and self-taught musicologist Claude Lemaire chooses Iron Butterfly, Jeff Beck, and even the Beatles as pioneering heavy rock influencers.
Welcome to Claude Lemaire’s new series, in which he explores the history of hard rock, heavy rock, and heavy metal—including metal’s many subgenres.
Prices listed in CA$. Like in all the other rooms, the Motet room was playing music when I walked in. I waited to take the seat dead center and when I did, I slipped on my critical listening hat. Right after the song that was playing ended, as luck would have it, the next two…
And what you can do about it.
As the ’60s came to a close, with the dawn of the new decade just on the horizon, many rock bands abandoned references to psychedelics in their music, favouring instead a return to roots, folk, and country.
“In some instances, MoFi’s One-Step transfer gives us a ‘you are there” realism rarely heard on record”
By this point, I felt confident that I could recommend Ian to any of my friends looking to buy audio products—on the condition, of course, that the system we were about to hear sounded good.
Prices listed in US$. $10,000 is a lot of money to spend. Or not. It depends on what you get for your 10K. By the same token, what if that 10K is for an audio system? And when I say a system, I mean it has everything you need to listen to music: a pair…
First impressions All prices listed in USD My wife is not an audiophile. But as a classically trained pianist and a professional musician, she has ears for sound quality. It’s why I sometimes seek her opinion after changing something in my audio system. This year’s T.H.E. Show, held in Long Beach, was her first audio…