On your computer or laptop?

On a USB hard disc?

On a NAS?

In a storage /playback gadget like the Brennan JB7 or one of the Olives?

Pleased with the result?

A search around the blogs reveals a substantial number of the "Massive" listen to progressive rock, and apparently feel strongly enough to post about it. A subset of those might be classed as Van der Graaf obsessives.

And yet....and yet... no review of the new album, no mention of the current tour, no major interview and retrospective? No cover? I know you can do it, kindly editors - I can refer you to Stuart Maconie's Yes article, one of the best I've read in Word magazine since I bought Issue One.

The band are not playing safe with this reunion - new albums, high proportion of new material played live, new approach (as opposed to trundling out the crowd-pleasers, in common with the majority of reunion acts) - surely this bold approach merits a bit of attention from such a mag as Word?

And, for your further delectation and delight:

Alright, stand up if you play in a band.

Sit down if you're a pro.

Sit down if you only play original songs which you and your band have written.

Evening, subset - I assume that you play covers for fun and (small) profit in pubs and clubs, but - as one to another - how do you decide what to play?

Do you take the crowd-pleasing route; or risk a "bottling" to play what you like (I've done both and I know which I preferred)?

When they shout for a Stones number, do you choose Brown Sugar, or do you give them your Let it Bleed?

Are your choices deliberately obscurantist - has the PRS rep ever had to ask you who wrote the songs you've played?

Tell me everything...

And why do I/we obsess over it?

In a thread on Canterbury scene further down the page, viz.

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/what-are-must-have-albums-canterbu...

I rather carelessly suggested "bugger only knows why" this music speaks to me - very lazy, and I've been thinking on...

If we accept "Canterbury scene" as an attitude of mind rather than the geographical place, what is it that keeps us coming back for more?

A certain dry wit in the conversational lyrics; an equal wit at work in the music; music that isn't quite jazz or rock, but certainly isn't the American-style "Jazz-Rock".

Challenging but friendly; evidence of intelligence at work, but not so cerebral as to alienate the punters (ie, me).....

Come on, chaps: help me out here...

If you ask me, these chaps have been listening to White Light, White Heat (a bit):

Evening all. Can anyone identify the unusual electric 12 that yer man is playing on the clip? It's a looker, and it sounds REAL good....

Morning all.

I'd welcome advice on how to access internet radio via the main hifi system. TEAC do a neat little tuner, but it gets mixed reviews. I have read that the Logitech streamers will allow access to internet radio, (digital output connected to yer DAC, and on into the hifi amp), but this is all theory to me - I haven't taken the plunge and networked the house yet....

Reasons for considering it? Potential FM switch off in 2015; rancid quality of DAB; no prospect of Government upgrading to DAB+ in the nick of time.... internet seems the logical alternative. I gather that the sound quality is not as good as FM, but streets ahead of the evil DAB.

Any views? Any advice?

Thanks.

... to be taking issue with comments on the LAST podcast, but I must object to Mark Ellen claiming that Roy Harper stuck to the minor keys. Evidence - almost the complete Bullnamingvase album, awash with wistful major sevenths (One of these days in England, These Last Days), a major key hoedown in Watford Gap....need I go on?

Evening all.

Drawing on the power of the collective mind; you'll be familiar with the Gavin Friday album called Shag Tobacco? There is a song on it called "Caruso" which ends with a short sample of the great man himself.

Can anyone identify the sample and stop my brain hurting?
Gratze tanto....

So here I am, watching the Culture Show tonight, looking out for the John Cale episode, when there's a feature about the new Transport Museum being built on Clydeside, and there's all these punters walking around with white hard hats with the word "BAM" printed on them.....
did nobody tell them??

Any of the troops out there ever buy any of these? There's a few about: Classic rock, Pink Floyd, VDGG, etc, soundly disowned in the main by the bands themselves. It brings to mind the old Zappa quote about rock journalists (you all know it so I won't bore you).

Devil's Advocate Moment - there is one that I'd like to commend to you, having just watched it from start to finish - "Total Rock Review - SAHB in their own words". Just over a fiver and it's a gem - some of the footage is a bit grainy but...it's footage!! The interviews are really with the band members, the critique is kept under control, bit of a nostalgia fest but none the worse for that. If you ever liked the band at all, buy it.

Fascinated to read the article in the current Word about John Byrne, and positively overjoyed that Tutti Frutti is finally going to be available on DVD.

I'm not generally given to ranting on (!), but this was one program which regularly had me emailing the BBC asking for the date when it would finally appear on DVD....or even be repeated. Maurice Roeves at his finest!

Buy it in your millions and marvel...

Morning all - I nailed my colours to the mast when I picked my username, but having listened to Podcast 101, perhaps I should change it to Arch Luddite.

Digital versus analogue - no contest, if we're talking about compressed MP3s, and not much of a contest if comparing to CDs as all the audio content above about 20,000 cycles is binned in the process. I remember Peter Walker of Quad used to say that this was irrelevant as human hearing didn't extend much above this level: perhaps it's the sharp shelving filter that we can feel rather than hear, as a discontinuity (no disrespect to the late Mr Walker - some of the best sounds that I have heard over the years have been played through Quad amps and ESL speakers).

For myself, I had a mystical experience in what used to be The Music Room in Glasgow, the first time I heard a top flight turntable through a valve amp set-up - I had brought along a battered copy of Station to Station. On went Golden Years and it was the first time I realised what they meant about a three dimensional soundstage - I swear if you closed your eyes, you could draw a diagram of where the individuals had been placed (real life or studio construct).

I know that Word is not a hifi mag, and hifi snobbery is not something to be lauded....but.....the difference is there to be heard, and it's not subtle. I am one of the minority who continue to buy hifi mags (although in these straitened times I would rather spend my diminishing spending cash on more music than more hifi).

Neil Young for President, I say, and hang the nationality issues!

So .... the essential ingredient in Motown was...
the tambourine??

At the risk of descending into cliche, any fule no that it was Jamerson's bass. I mean, come on....