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Good stuff! Made beer come outta my nose! Peace

So, if two people simultaneously listening to the same audio hear two different things, this could explain the Era Debate :-)

So funny! Just this morning, one of my students played this for me on his phone, and I, along with a VAST majority of the class, clearly heard "Yanny." So much so that I thought he was putting me on as he insisted that it was "laurel." Now, seeing your post and clicking on the link, all that I can hear is "laurel" and I am wondering what the hell I was hearing earlier today. Strange stuff indeed. Peace

Yanny

This is so strange: listening to the same source, I clearly heard Laurel, while my wife sitting next to me insisted she was hearing Yanny!

First a Jimi story... yes, geezer warning... September '67 high school buds/musician friends took me into a small studio in Bethesda MD with huge speakers the size of refrigerators ... age fifteen... played both vinyl sides of Are You Experienced for me at a fairly high volume. It totally changed my thinking on what was possible on an electric guitar, duh. I was listening to the the Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver, Beatles, Kinks, Stones, Yardbirds, Muddy Waters etc but Jimi, OMG. Then Axis was released, a concert tour was announced. My first "rock" show. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ghostsofdc/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/27195159… Not old enough to drive so dear old dad took a few of us down to the Washington Hilton for the 8 pm. During Foxy Lady, someone in a chicken costume jumped on stage and tackled Hendrix, he did not miss a note. It seemed staged but later on the Washington Post ran the story behind it, a random prank. We were in the tenth row of folding seats, forty feet from the stage. I found a primitive bootleg of it on the web a few years ago, telephone audio quality, JHE was on for about 50 minutes, that's it. Fifty years ago... Blind Faith deluxe edition.... never heard these extra bits and jams before, fun Tony Rice Unit: Backwaters Dave Holland Quintet: Dream of the Elders Jaco Pastorius: Birthday Concert Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Left of Cool Bags and Trane Metheny/McBride/Sanchez: Day Trip Hutcherson: Oblique Fahey: Return of the Repressed Eric Johnson: Electromagnets Zappa: Complete Roxy GD: 5/9/77 Buffalo JHE: Axis, cause of all this Hendrix talk of course in the car, on rotation thanks to a kind soul, GD Complete FW69 house concert this Sunday over in New Hampster with Maeve Gilchrist & Friends, four musicians, 35 other friends by invitation, acoustic heaven close encounter as Maeve is incredible on Celtic harp http://www.maevegilchristmusic.com/about/

While hesitant on some level to introduce this (has anyone done so yet? If so, my bad), it was still a very interesting exercise to my ears and of course many of us who love to "listen" might get a kick out of it: First read/listen to this clip to get the jist of the ongoing "debate" https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yanny-laurel-debate-explanation-re… Then, go to the actual, ORIGINAL source and listen: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/laurel This totally did the flip flop on me...AND I was JUST sitting here in my office with one of my colleagues, and we each heard something different from the same source. Aural Oddities Abound. Sixtus

One of the best shows i've ever seen was Taj Mahal at The Ark in Ann Arbor, in January 2002. He played without his band - just him on piano, guitar, banjo, whatever he flet like playing. Just amazing. What a stage presence. We sat behind the piano for the opening act. Young dark haired piano player who had to sit on a big cushion to reach the keys , I guess because Taj was so much taller. She went on to be pretty famous I hear. Went by the name Nora Jones. In between DaP 26 i've been revisiting the '73 Winterland box. Three stellar shows.

Currently enjoying the 41st anniversary of the "quack" Fire On The Mountain, 5/17/77. I love that version and I love that show. It's probably my favorite from the May 1977 Box. Now back to lurk/check in quarterly mode... - Quod

Great band, with Greg Douglass on guitar. Their CD is pretty fine too.