I was rummaging yesterday through some of the boxes I hadn't ever opened since I moved to Bangalore a year ago and I found a CD with no tag or identification of what I'd recorded on it. I have this habit of burning songs on CDs that I play in my car stereo (since it doesn't connect directly to my ipod). I played it and realized it was something I used to play for months in my car stereo in 2008. It contains some of the best songs in a single CD...somehow the mood a collection of songs can create and sustain depends on a thread between them, and in this CD I seemed to have got that thread right. It has an eclectic mix of 39 songs like Hazard (Marx), Comfortably Numb (Floyd), Aerosmith's I don't wanna miss a thing (from the movie Armageddon), How Could an Angel (Kenny G with someone), Patience (GNR), Wish it would rain down (Phil Collins) and those two songs (which I think are some of the best sounds I've heard in Rock) - Lynrd Skynrd's Sweet Home Alabama and Freebird.
After coming to Bangalore and getting mired in a job that really takes its toll - it doesn't leave a single day when you're totally off work - I had decided around Christmas last year that I needed to treat myself to something that I could enjoy, which could really help me switch off from work. I invested the biggest single amount I've ever invested in an asset, buying an extremely refined self assembled music system. There are two floor-standing KEF speakers that stand around 4 feet tall (IQ90) and link with a Denon Amplifier and a source (the source too is a Denon, that sits on top of the amplifier). While I had initial misgivings that I'd probably blown too much money, after I've installed it I haven't felt a single moment of regret. The sound is really refined and the best part is when I hear songs I've heard several times before, I realize they contain sounds that I totally missed out before - specially underlying sounds like the bass guitar. My earlier music system was one of those well advertised Sony Hi Fi 5000 watt PMPO MHC -RV-60 with four speakers. After hearing the new assembled system, I think all other integrated systems like Sony or JVC and their ilk are just power and very little else.
I have a lazy sunday ahead...hearing this cd again today and trying to finish an extremely putdownable and obese novel by Ken Follet called Hornet Flight that I started reading on a flight. I had put a photo on facebook of an Epiphone hummingbird guitar I'd bought in NY. It plays really really well. I was trying this song late last night from Wake Up Sid "Goonja sa hai koi ektaara" which has a prominent G Major running through it. Someday I'll record it and put in on youtube so you can hear the sound...it has a really good sustain for an acoustic guitar and the sound is much clearer than my earlier yamaha (which I'll use now as my travel guitar).
After coming to Bangalore and getting mired in a job that really takes its toll - it doesn't leave a single day when you're totally off work - I had decided around Christmas last year that I needed to treat myself to something that I could enjoy, which could really help me switch off from work. I invested the biggest single amount I've ever invested in an asset, buying an extremely refined self assembled music system. There are two floor-standing KEF speakers that stand around 4 feet tall (IQ90) and link with a Denon Amplifier and a source (the source too is a Denon, that sits on top of the amplifier). While I had initial misgivings that I'd probably blown too much money, after I've installed it I haven't felt a single moment of regret. The sound is really refined and the best part is when I hear songs I've heard several times before, I realize they contain sounds that I totally missed out before - specially underlying sounds like the bass guitar. My earlier music system was one of those well advertised Sony Hi Fi 5000 watt PMPO MHC -RV-60 with four speakers. After hearing the new assembled system, I think all other integrated systems like Sony or JVC and their ilk are just power and very little else.
I have a lazy sunday ahead...hearing this cd again today and trying to finish an extremely putdownable and obese novel by Ken Follet called Hornet Flight that I started reading on a flight. I had put a photo on facebook of an Epiphone hummingbird guitar I'd bought in NY. It plays really really well. I was trying this song late last night from Wake Up Sid "Goonja sa hai koi ektaara" which has a prominent G Major running through it. Someday I'll record it and put in on youtube so you can hear the sound...it has a really good sustain for an acoustic guitar and the sound is much clearer than my earlier yamaha (which I'll use now as my travel guitar).
2 comments:
Hello it's been really long time!
Free bird - Lynard Skynard is one of my favorites too. Also Patience GnR.
I've never had a good sound system. I listen to most of my music in my car and otherwise at home.. on my Mac. Damn now I feel the need to invest in some good sound system too!
Hi ...!
Great to see you're not completely off blogs! Try to hear Lynrd Skynrd's Sweet Home Alabama - it also features in the movie Forrest Gump. There's an absolutely divine guitar sound that starts off the song and defines it throughout (very difficult to play, but awesome to hear)
I've moved jobs (within the same company). Back to making deals and traveling! So work's good again!
Still missing Delhi! But it must be scorching now.
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