Like most gear and music fans who aren't superrich and who live in small urban apartments, Wolf has heard enough gear that he likes to find value: the gear ordinaire that sounds like a grand cru. But you may need some therapeutic help making sure you don't get in too deep." When you come to the realization that even a cable going from the preamp into the CD player can make so much difference, you start walking into a terrain that's pretty fascinating. We went through Conrad-Johnson and different tube things, different cartridgesit was very exciting and very interesting. there was a certain sluggishness about the tubes that worked for certain music very well, but all around, it didn't have a certain sharpness, that certain presence. At first I thought tube equipment would be the answer, but once I had some very fine tube equipment, I realized my ears were used to. "Living in Boston and, at the time, having someunfortunately, many of them have closed down nowa good amount of audio shops to check out, I got to know a lot of the people in different stores, and they would bring over different kinds of gear that I could test in my room. But it was my decision to try different equipment to upgrade the listening experience. I remember being in his shop and listening to something, and I asked, 'Where's the Loudness button?' And he looked at me and said, 'We don't have Loudness buttons on this kind of equipment, Peter.' He started to explain to me the world of what became components and parts. He had people like Leonard Bernstein, Itzhak Perlman, and Jascha Heifetz people from the theater worldMoss Hart. As business progressed, he moved to Madison Avenue. It was right underneath the Thalia movie theater, which was a fine-arts theater in the Bronx. "When I was growing up, I knew a gentleman who founded one of the first audiophile businesses in New York, Thalia Music. Peter Wolf has been into high-end gear for many years. I'd called to talk to Wolf about his latest solo record, A Cure for Loneliness, but he interviewed me. Yesthe lean, bearded, gifted scat tawker, who spent five years of the late 1970s married to actress Faye Dunaway, is a longtime Stereophile subscriber who wanted to talk, in calm, measured tones, about power conditioners and turntables (he has a Rega). "Here's the $64,000 question: What's in your system?" I don't know what I was expecting from himrock-star gibberish, perhapsbut it wasn't this: Geils Band's second live album, Blow Your Face Out (see above), Wolf is the man millions of women wanted to have for most of the 1970s, when he fronted the band. Peter Wolf? Famously extroverted onstage, a Boston-cum-Bronx character best known the world over for his stream-of-consciousness introduction to the song "Musta Got Lost," from the J. It's always good to find another member of the cult, someone else interested in music and sound, and proud to be called an audiophile. Geils Band's Blow Your Face Out (1976)ĭon't get me wrongit was a nice surprise. You know I think I musta, I musta got lost" You know I think I musta, you know, baby, I think I musta You grab ain't gon' last and I believe I musta You better grab it fast 'cuz sometimes the love "Because this is the Wooba Gooba sayin' to ya Hey Reputa the Beautah flip me down your hairĪnd let me climb up the ladder of your love "Hey Rapunzel, hey Reputa, hey Reputa, Reputa the Buta What's the name of that chick with the long hair? Rapunzel That's only gossip that they tellin' you down the wise crack of lies" Was at the party as friends, do not believe what they say This is Wooba Gooba with the green teeth, let me in"Īnd then you just kinda walk up to her and say, "Baby"Īnd you say "Oh my darlin', you know her and me You start poundin' on her door and you say You get over to her house, you walk over to her door I know that you're home and I know you ain't all alone" You say, "Baby there's somethin' on my mind The radio don't seem to get the click so you sayĪnd there's somethin' there you got to overlookĪnd you say "Baby, you know there's somethin' on my mind" Segueing right into the Tomorrow show but that don't got the go So you put on the TV and you're watchin' Johnny Carson On your little machine tryin' to look and keep it cleanĪnd you're goin' to be playin' bingo all night all aloneĪnd that's why you're sittin' there by the telephoneĪnd you know that she ain't goin' to call you Things ain't gon' be so fine, you're gon' to be sitting there 'Cuz you ain't gon' have it further on down the line This is a song about L O V E and if you abuse it you're gon' lose itĪnd if you lose it you're gon' 'buse and if you 'buse it It ain't supposed to be sad though you might feel it that way Well, hold on this song has a little introduction to it
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