Anyone remmember a TV show called the " Life Of Riley"; with William Bendix?

Any hair band junk that didn't have a cool guitar part on it went. That was about 99% of them. Granted, most people don't take into account that a lot of those musicians were studio musicians with impeccable technique and abilities, but the songs were just soooo cheesy. Unfortunately it was either that, or Billy Ocean--ewwww. Course we had Metallica and such so not all was lost.

Like I said if it wasn't a classic (Stones, etc....,I hadn't listened to it in at least a year, and it was something that could be replaced later, out it went...

Now equipment is another matter. My main system until this fall was a 1978 Kenwood Integrated amp and same year tuner with a set of Polk Monitor 5B's. But after hearing the Stoetkit and other tube amps at Waynes, I have future plans for a tube system. Unfortunately, I don't make much money and with two kids it'll probably take me a year or so to just gather all the parts to build that 6EM7 amp.

Oh well.

I know that in the Fitzmaurice forum there's a lot of musicians.

But the stuff they build -- you know for rock bands and stuff--
how many of _them_ do you think are tone deaf or have tinitus?

As to the live vs reproduced . I think I good argument can
be made for the is it live or is it Memorex question. By this I
mean that the critical faculty is using a false comparison:
radio or other prerecorded processed sound.

I got into all that after a bad build. What the guy said about
the build in a very professional hobbyist way had to be bs.
He had to be tone deaf. I've come to think this about anyone
using a driver under 4 inches like the Tangband W871. My TB's
have gone into everything: TL, sealed box ported out the back.
I did get sort of a good effect from open baffle on a board
but that is less than handy or elegant.

Hey, maybe it's me who's tone deaf. I really don't have any
good baseline for comparison. That's why I proposed
audiology exams. I mean if you can spend thousands of dollars
on a rig, it should be small change to have an exam you
prob'ly haven't had since grade school.