Randy, it was interesting to hear of the backgrounds in music that you and your father had. All I needed to see was that you were in serious need of expanding your classical collection(there's a whole world of great music out there waiting for you)to set me into action. Tower Records has four more days to go on their current sale and here are some suggestions of favorites of mine that I think you'd enjoy: the Ravel Ma Mere is included in a fine collection by Ozawa ; absolutely sure-fire is the Holst Planets in my favorite version by Mehta ; a bargain is the nearly complete orchestral output of my favorite composer, Rachmaninoff, by Ashkenazy ; Dvorak's delightful Slavonic Dances by Kubelik . Good prices, free shipping.

Ha! I wonder if the zombie moans in Resident Evil 4 would have more warmth w/ tubes.

The tube amp is being broken in w/ some 10 ohm terminations and an FM tuner. I'm relegated to solid state tonite.

I'm listening to East of Eden by Everything But the Girl on LP, circa 1984 before they went techno and lost me. Very jazzy, me like it.

Rhapsody, Dream Theater, and Queensryche.

Queensryche? Wow, that's blast from the past. I had their first LP.

Gaia Epicus, Children of Bodom, Arsis, Edguy and.... some Sarah Brightman in between.

Right now I have some Lynyrd Skynyrd playing.

Right now Dire Straits - not remastered - is playing. Brothers in Arms to be specific.

Later - another round of the Police singles.

Even Later - Enigma if the MRS is up for it. HAHAHA!!!!

Well I heard some Van Morrison on the way home from work on Sirius satellite radio. I sometimes forget how much I like him till I hear him. I think I'm going in the other room and I will start with some Van the man and, see where that soul groove takes me.

oz

I just put on some Eric Sardinas,Treat me right.Right now Murdering Blues is playing...............sounding good too

Buy the way... I love this thread already.
later,
oz