Very sad to hear that drummer and instrumentalist Bill Rieflin has died.

Bill was most recently a drummer and keyboardist with King Crimson, though he kept dropping out obviously due to illness.
Very sad to hear that drummer and instrumentalist Bill Rieflin has died.

Bill was most recently a drummer and keyboardist with King Crimson, though he kept dropping out obviously due to illness.
The wonderful Steve Hackett is doing a short series of guitar pieces on YouTube to cheer us all up:
I know a modest amount about hifi, especially the old stuff (nowadays it’s all sample rates and jitter and electronic engineering, of which I know nothing), but I’m not the sort of person who spends hours trying different combinations of tonearm and cartridge, or cabling or other fiddly things. I find something that works that I like, and I use it. Lack of funds puts limits on what I can use.
I have very many lps from the late 1960s onwards. I had a turntable, a Pink Triangle Little Pink Thing, and it sounded great but was so poorly built and was continually breaking down.

I gave up and it went into the trash, it was so unreliable.
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