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Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99

Trailer: https://bit.ly/3BWetXc 1 Did we need another look at Woodstock ’99? Not really, last year’s HBO movie was sufficient. I imagine some young people might watch this Netflix series for the trainwreck value, to get a peek at what once was, as for older people, aware when the festival took place… I recommend it only […]

Qobuz

1 It is better. But it is subtle. But wasn’t the goal to get closer to the music in the seventies? If you want to get closer to the music you want Qobuz. But you’ve got to have the equipment to reproduce the sound. Audio split back in the nineties. The main market became all-in-ones, […]

The Instagram Fracas

Evolve or die. Every time a tech company capitulates to its audience and rolls back the future it’s a mistake. The best example being Netflix saying it was going to become a streaming company and the hoi polloi bitching that they still needed to rent DVDs by mail. Who’d want to stream movies? Well, despite […]

Mailbag

From: Tim Palmer Subject: Sandy Roberton Bob, I’m completely devastated to report that my manager of almost 40 years, the legendary Sandy Roberton has died. I first met him while I was engineering for a German producer/client of Sandy’s called Zeus B. Held in London. We were working on the Dead or Alive album. Sandy […]