The Next Track

By Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn

Doug Adams and Kirk McElhearn discuss music and musicians, and how we listen to music, whether it be analog or digital, downloaded or streamed, audio, or video.... more

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December 01, 2017Episode #81 – Ask Andy: Ohms and Decibels
We bring back our regular guest Andy Doe to discuss some of the technical terms we read about with audio equipment: Ω and dB, also known as ohms and decibels.
This week’s guest:
Andy Doe
Proper Discord
Show notes:
Ohm (Wikipedia)
Resistor color code chart
Episode #73 – Kirk Wants to Buy an Amplifier
Decibel (Wikipedia)
Comparative Examples Of Noise Levels
dB SPL
dBFS (Wikipedia)
Episode #35 – Musician and Developer Peter Chilvers on Brian Eno’s Album and App Reflection
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Brian Eno: Another Green World
Doug: Dixie Dregs: What If
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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November 24, 2017Episode #80 – John Cage
We welcome Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust, to discuss the life and legacy of composer John Cage.
“I am most interested in music that doesn’t say anything.” John Cage, 1991
This week’s guest:
Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust
Show notes:
The Selected Letters of John Cage
John Cage Unbound: A Living Archive (New York Public Library)
Episode #69 – Brian Brandt of Mode Records on John Cage, Morton Feldman, and the Music Business
Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (1991)
John Cage / Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings I – V
John Cage & Morton Feldman Radio Happenings (book and DVD)
John Cage performing Water Walk on I’ve Got a Secret (1960):

John Cale on I’ve Got a Secret (1963):

Mesostics
Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage
4’33” (Wikipedia)
No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”
The Curious Score for John Cage’s “Silent” Zen Composition 4’33”
4’33” score
Freeman Etudes (Books One & Two), Freeman Etudes (Books Three & Four)
Number Pieces (Wikipedia)
Ryoanji Drawings
Recommended pieces; Apple Music links:
String Quartet in Four Parts, Lasalle Quartet
Sonatas & Interludes for Prepared Piano (first recording by Maro Ajemian)
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Third Construction
Cheap Imitation
Ryoanji
Our next tracks:
Kirk: ECM playlist
Doug: Ben Waters: Boogie 4 Stu – A Tribute to Ian Stewart
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Special Guest: Laura Kuhn.
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November 17, 2017Episode #79 – 1977
Doug and Kirk look at how 1977 was a watershed year for popular music.
Show notes:
ECM Records Now Available on Apple Music
Eagles: Hotel California
Billy Joel: The Stranger
Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols
The Clash: The Clash (UK version)
The Clash: Give ’em Enough Rope
The Clash: The Clash (US version)
Four Manchester bands we owe to the Sex Pistols’ Lesser Free Trade Hall gig 40 years ago
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Elvis Costello: Less Than Zero > Radio, Radio on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Fever
Episode #76 – Mirror Balls and Polyester: Looking Back at Disco Music
Grateful Dead Movie
The Hobbit
Abba: The Movie
Episode #59 – 1967 and the Summer of Love
100K+ Descend Upon Central New Jersey For Grateful Dead Show On This Date In 1977
Photos from Englishtown 1977
Grateful Dead: Dick’s Picks Vol. 15, Raceway Park, Englishtown, NJ, 9/3/77
Beach Boys Turn Central Park Into California Dreamin’ (New York Times)
Sha Na Na
Aerosmith: Walk This Way
Run-DMC: Walk This Way
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell
40 Years Ago: Bruce Springsteen Settles 10-Month Lawsuit with Manager Mike Appel
Talking Heads: Talking Heads: 77
Television: Marquee Moon
Marquee Moon (Wikipedia)
The 1977 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll
Okay, I’m not going to link to every album in the Chritsgau list…
“Heroes” (Wikipedia)
Laserium
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Tangerine Dream: Encore
Doug: Eric Clapton: Slowhand
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November 10, 2017Episode #78 – Alexander Joel on the Role of the Conductor in Classical Music
Conductor Alexander Joel talks about the profession of conductor for operas and orchestras.
This week’s guest:
Alexander Joel
Repertoire
Show notes:
Alexander Joel’s Wagner Ring cycle, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
Alexander Joel on Operabase
ARTE TV story about Alexander Joel (in German)
Video of Alexander Joel conducting Verdi’s La Traviata
Conductor killed by conducting staff: The ironic death of Jean-Baptiste Lully
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Tuxedomoon: Desire
Doug: Mountain: Climbing
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Special Guest: Alexander Joel.
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36min
November 03, 2017Episode #77 – How to Get the Most out of Apple Music
Doug and Kirk discuss Apple Music, how it’s changed the way they listen to music, and how to get the most out of the service.
Show notes:
Chris Breen
Bach: French Suites, by Murray Perahia
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Cage / Lutoslawski: String Quartets, Lasalle Quartet
Doug: Greta Van Fleet: Black Smoke Rising
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32min
October 27, 2017Episode #76 – Mirror Balls and Polyester: Looking Back at Disco Music
Doug and Kirk were teenagers when disco hit. They didn’t care for it then, but has their opinion change after 40 years? Is it time to reevaluate disco music?
Show notes:
Chic: Good Times (12″ version)
The Joy of Disco – BBC Documentary
Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On
Saturday Night Fever
New York City blackout, July 13, 1977
Son of Sam
Jumping the shark
Why ‘Disco sucks!’ sucked
Disco Demolition Night
Saturday Night Fever soundtrack
Readers’ Poll: The Best Disco Songs of All Time
Apple Music: Essential Disco Hits
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Lounge Lizards: The Lounge Lizards
Doug: Frank Zappa: Halloween 77
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October 20, 2017Episode #75 – Movies about Music, Part 2: Documentaries
Doug and Kirk discuss their favorite music documentaries.
Show notes:
Synth Britannia (YouTube)
Synth Britannia (BBC)
Rock Family Trees (BBC)
Episode #58 – David Weigel on the History of Progressive Rock
Rock Family Trees (book)
Sinatra: All or Nothing at All
Long Strange Trip
History of the Eagles
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, The Bootleg Series Vol. 7
The Wrecking Crew
Gimme Shelter
Sam Cutler: You Can’t Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead and Other Wonderful Reprobates
Bach: A Passionate Life
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
BBC Four
How the Brits Rocked America: Go West
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Bruce Springsteen: March 19, 1996 – Belfast, UK
Doug: Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out!
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36min
October 13, 2017Episode #74 – Jeffrey Norman on Restoring, Mixing, and Mastering the Grateful Dead
We welcome Jeffrey Norman, who has been mixing, mastering, and restoring Grateful Dead recordings for more than 35 years.
This week’s guest:
Jeffrey Norman: Mockingbird Mastering
Jeffrey Norman’s project list
Show notes:
Mid-side (MS) recording technique
Owsley Stanley (Bear)
What’s Become of the Bettys? The Fate of the Long-Lost Grateful Dead Soundboards
Episode #67 – The Grateful Dead’s Legendary 5/8/77 Cornell Concert, with Author Peter Conners
Plangent Process
The Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72 box set
Long Strange Trip
Kirk’s Next Track pick of the Doc & Merle Watson release – Episode #70 – Movies about Music, Part 1: Fiction
Owsley Stanley Foundation
Grateful Dead – Cornell 5/8/77
Grateful Dead – Sunshine Daydream Veneta, OR, 8/27/72
Grateful Dead – Closing of Winterland, 12/31/78
Correction to Kirk’s next track selection. The New Riders of the Purple Sage came on after the Grateful Dead’s first acoustic set.
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Dick’s Picks Vol. 8 – Harpur College, Binghamton, NY, May 2, 1970
Doug: Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers
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Special Guest: Jeffrey Norman.
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38min
October 06, 2017Episode #73 – Kirk Wants to Buy an Amplifier
Andy Doe helps Kirk and Doug understand “make louder boxes.”
This week’s guest:
Andy Doe
Proper Discord
“You are experiencing audio ennui.”
Show notes:
Yamaha R-N301 network receiver
Recommended Components: Fall 2017 Edition Integrated Amps & Receivers
Richer Sounds
Grado headphones
Episode #71 – Hi-Fi Separates, Part 1: Network Streamers
Bentley Continental
One note about the musical Girl From the North Country. Between the recording and release of this podcast, the show will transfer to the Noel Coward Theatre in London for 12 weeks, from December 29. See it if you can.
Our next tracks:
Kirk: Girl from the North Country, Original Cast Recording
Doug: Dr. John: The ATCO Albums Collection
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Special Guest: Andy Doe.
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34min
September 29, 2017Episode #72 – What’s New in iTunes 12.7
Doug and Kirk take a close look at changes Apple has made to iTunes in its latest version, 12.7.
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Show notes:
This Is Where iTunes Is Bloated
What’s New in iTunes 12.7
Here’s Why Removing Apps from iTunes Is Stupid
How to Copy Apps, Ringtones, and Files to Your iOS Devices with iTunes 12.7
Script to Add or Edit a Playlist Description
How to Share Your Listening History in Apple Music
Doug Adams’ Apple Music profile
Kirk McElhearn’s Apple Music profile
Krystian Zimerman: Schubert Piano Sonatas
John Foxx & The Maths: The Machine
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark: Ghost Star
How to Use Apple Music’s Personal DJ Feature to Create You Own Personal Radio Station
Super Remove Dead Tracks
Track Down Purchases
Music Folder Files Not Added
Find Empty iTunes Media Folders
Apps By Apple ID
Our next tracks:
Kirk: James Blood Ulmer: Odyssey
Doug: Sticky Fingers: Like a Rolling Stone
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33min

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