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Robert Baird
Majors and Manners
Robert Baird  |  Jul 18, 2006  |  1 comments
Last night, in Manila–like heat, I trekked southward on Manhattan Island to meet with Jim Davis, owner of Music Direct and one of his right hand men, Colie Brice. One of the best online sources for audiophile wares, both soft and hard, (now, now, let's keep those high fidelity minds up out of the gutter!), Music Direct, as many of you know, also owns the revived Mobile Fidelity label. MoFi was and maybe again THE proudest audiophile label of them all. The extra dynamics they squeezed out of Nirvana's Nevermind will forever amaze me.
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Nobody's Fool
Robert Baird  |  Jul 13, 2006  |  1 comments
Last night in a torrential rain storm, I trucked northward along the Hudson to Tarrytown, NY. A half hour's ride across the Tappan Zee bridge and we were in Piermont, NY at a club called the Turning Point.
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What Unchecked Snacking Can Lead To
Robert Baird  |  Jul 11, 2006  |  2 comments
Stereophile's answer to Poppin' Fresh talks with Dr. John backstage at June's HE 2006 show in Los Angeles.
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Music: The Universal Language
Robert Baird  |  Jul 10, 2006  |  0 comments
So let get me this straight. Orrin Hatch, Republican senator from Utah, is one of the heavy hitters whose deluge of 11th hour phone calls not only springs music producer Dallas Austin out of a Dubai jail for coke possession, but it also helps to turn a four year jail sentence into a pardon?
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Mon Key Wo Man
Robert Baird  |  Jul 07, 2006  |  1 comments
In this digital life we’re all now living does it get any better than calling AOL and canceling an account? I hate to be Flashdance about this but—Oh, what a feeling!
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Money, it's a gas
Robert Baird  |  Jul 05, 2006  |  1 comments
Being a sixty year old rock star ain't easy, but there’s gotta be a better way for rock bands to grow old than the one Aerosmith has chosen. A symphony gig? What's next Disneyland on a co-bill with Up With People?
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Willie Nile's a Superstar
Robert Baird  |  Jun 29, 2006  |  1 comments
No matter how you feel about the whole New Orleans fiasco—my two cents: Ray "chocolate city" Nagin’s lack of chops are now going to be exposed posthaste—there are parts of that town that cannot be allowed to go away, first and foremost the musicians, many of whom still teeter on the brink or have fallen head first into the abyss of financial ruin.
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The Booger Waltz
Robert Baird  |  Jun 27, 2006  |  2 comments
Walking to the train this morning I saw a woman who was a dead ringer for Sara Carter, wife of A.P. Carter, whose leaving to marry A.P.'s cousin Coy torpedoed the famous Carter Family.
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Big Fat Tyres and Everything
Robert Baird  |  Jun 27, 2006  |  3 comments
The Seventies. That ancient lost era, that musical wasteland, the decade everyone (who doesn't know music) likes to rag on, continues to supply Madison Avenue with new and exciting fodder.
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Dancing Days
Robert Baird  |  Jun 26, 2006  |  1 comments
Back when everyone was rushing to convert LPs to CDs, the boxed set was a wondrous thing. The rush to "box" every artist propelled the record biz to some of their best Christmas seasons ever. It even inspired some labels to get off their then wealthy asses and dig around the vaults to find that most marvelous of record label offerings, the "bonus track."
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Flash: The King is Cranky
Robert Baird  |  Jun 22, 2006  |  1 comments
This just in:
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A saxophone someplace far off played
Robert Baird  |  Jun 20, 2006  |  2 comments
Overheard (coming out of mine and other nearby mouths) at a tavern in Brooklyn:
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The Download Waltz
Robert Baird  |  Jun 19, 2006  |  0 comments
I had a nice chat recently with Mark Berry, publicist for classical music’s Naxos label. Naxos, for those unfamiliar, is a label with one hell of a back story.
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Achin' To Be
Robert Baird  |  Jun 15, 2006  |  3 comments
It's always bugged me. And now I have just the blog to spew about it in.
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And the Academy Award Goes To
Robert Baird  |  Jun 14, 2006  |  3 comments
In the world of dino rock, several really interesting tidbits today. For some unknown reason (I'm betting the right blend of meds), Brian Wilson did not push Mike Love off the roof of the Capitol Tower in L.A. when the three surviving Beach Boys met up there on Monday to get a framed metal-coated record signifying that their latest greatest hits compilation had turned the sales odometer over to 2x platinum.
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