Bill Rieflin

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.

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Steve Hackett

The wonderful Steve Hackett is doing a short series of guitar pieces on YouTube to cheer us all up:

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Records

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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