Shame. Doug Grey has been the only original member to keep that mess on the road for years. I know what you mean. Their last show I was interested in just because I knew they had hired a guitar player who was a long time member of the Outlaws from Tampa , Fla. Even at that , with the music being very good , it was a poor show. This is why I am very picky in the classic band shows I let the wife talk me into.
Same here! For me it was discovering new music. The master tape recordings were very high quality in the 50's/60's. There was a lot of musical information that was not heard until recent remastering techniques could bring them out. Even streaming these recordings, you can tell where each instrument is in the studio. What got me in to high end stereo was listening to the album Armstrong & Ellington the Master Takes at a HIFI store thru Maggie speakers. That started me down the rabbit hole buy used equip on Audiogon or Stereomart. Never liked Armstrong due to hearing Hello Dolly on the radio constantly but his remastered recordings are really good. Then I discovered Ella Fitzgerald. One of my test records is Take Five. There are couple of songs with a drum solo. The better speakers you listen to, the better you can hear the drums echoing across the studio room left to right.
I certainly don't have a "high end audiophile" system. But with my vintage amp/preamp and turntable, I get an amazing soundstage with depth. I love vinyl to just sit and listen. If you like Time Out you might like Miles Davis Kind of Blue. Really a reference album.
KOB is in my top 3 favorite albums. For some reason I never tire of listening to it. Your vintage stuff was probably hi end in it's day.
Not even close to high end. In Connecticut we had/have two high end shops, The Stereo Shop and Take Five Audio. Both sell equipment that is orders of magnitude more expensive than my equipment. Heck, a single high end cartridge is more costly.
Hailer, Luxman and Canton were hi end in their day. Hi-end equipment used and new have gotten outrageously expensive. Late 90’s and early 2000’s prices were not bad. Used equipment could be had for half the original price. I’m talking stuff that is only a few years old. Used equipment today is insane. I’m using 26 YO Musical Fidelity pre and amp that still sounds wonderful. It was made in England before they moved manufacturing to Asia.
That song is kind of an odd mix, the solo in "Subhuman" is better, which seemingly the song is about/based on, just IMHO.
Took a flyer and $5 +$4 ship on Fleabay. I was dubious............but it is playing Side one right now and flawless.
Definitely a different time and taste in music.
. They were forced to move on to the more innocuous Hot Tuna. The group began as a pet/side project to Jefferson Airplane intended to mark time while Grace Slick recovered from vocal cord surgery that had left her unable to perform.
I have this LP and a mess of other Airplane and Starship LPs
I have several Hot Tuna LPs
The two guys on the left , original founding members of the Jefferson Airplane , started their own garage band on the side when the Airplane was not busy. When it surprised them and took on a commercially successful , popular life of its own , as a sought after touring act, they had to come up with a name. The first name got turned down flat by the managers + record companies. It was not Hot Stuff either
Hot Tuna is an American electric hard rock & acoustic folk type band formed in 1969 by former Jefferson Airplane members Jorma Kaukonen (guitarist/vocals) and (bass) Jack Cassidy. Although it has always been a fluid aggregation, with musicians coming and going over the years, the band's center has always been Kaukonen and Cassidy's ongoing collaboration. They would open the shows doing their Hot Tuna sets and then play the feature headline set with their band Jefferson Airplane. Eventually demand dictated headline tours and yearly albums by Hot Tuna. For many years they did the double duty in both bands until it became too much... At over 80s years old, today Jack and Jorma are still out there doing shows. Alternating from Acoustic Hot Tuna and Electric Hot Tuna concerts.
The last BOC album I really cared for was the one right after the massive Agents Of Fortune hit called Specters.
I have Spectres CD. I like it
Oh yeah. That album and song took off so fast and for so long it had to be near impossible for them to live up to. Then the foolish Godzilla came along. Ha ha ha.
I really did / still do like all of their 1972 thru 1979 works they released.
"I gotta have more cowbell. More cowbell." OMG. That took on a life of its own.
You are reminding me. We saw a YES show at our local House Of Blues around that same time. Same singer you saw I think. It was a very good show. We had not seen YES since the tour they did for Relayer in the late 70s. Probably 1979 or so. Around that time I had pretty much backed off of a lot of music and shows. Too busy keeping up with two young sons we were having the joy of raising.