I was sad to read about Jon Lucien's death. I was even sadder to go to his website to find an appeal from his family for fans to contribute to medical & funeral expenses via Paypal.
How this country can fail to provide for every citizen's health costs is pitiful.
I've been to see Crowded House and Neil Finn playing solo a lot of times over the years, and every single time - no matter what the venue, and no matter in which country, the sound is superb.
Every single lyric is clearly audible, which is a real treat. It makes the live experience even better than listening to recordings.
It spoils it for enjoying gigs by other artists, where the vocals are consistently drowned out, or where the singer's natural tone is spoiled by the strain they're having to make to get heard.
Either Neil Finn is a control-freak perfectionist (which I suspect), or he's been using the same guy throughout.
Whichever, if you're a band - find someone who has worked the sound desk for Neil Finn/Crowded House on tour, and do us all a favour!
I've started to refer to my iPod as a Walkman - I did so by accident the other day and it just felt so right. After all, its just a digital version of the original concept. If you feel the same way, try it.
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Heh, mine's a Sony, so it actually IS a Walkman. Go fig.