PONO - Where Music Lives

just checked celebrity net worth, which suggests ringo is worth about 300 million. neil young is about 65 million.

Forbes puts Paul at $650 million, in part due to his divorce payout:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2013/04/12/why-paul-mccartney-isnt-on-the-forbes-billionaires-list/

But according to this his current wife is so wealthy she put him over the billion mark.

in one of the laurel canyon books someone (one of the Flo and Eddie guys I think?) says that simply due to never having had monster coke habits, Neil and G Nash are presently the least struggling of their coterie.

financially

65 mil

Jesus Neil

Put 20 of that in an interest-bearing account and chill on the PONO

smokin' blunts in Savannah
blow 65 mil like I'm PONO

Supposedly, converting his old-timey cars to electrics costs $40,000. Per car.

He and John and George nearly went bankrupt at various points post-breakup

being bankrupt, legally speaking, is v v different from not having a lot of money. it's not as if george was living on the streets. (did john have bankruptcy issues too, though? that's news to me.)

Supposedly, converting his old-timey cars to electrics costs $40,000. Per car.

and buying a taco, for me, costs $4. which is, relatively speaking, about the same deal.

(did john have bankruptcy issues too, though? that's news to me.)

Yeah, pretty sure it was when he tried to emigrate to the US; most of his money was tied up with Allen Klein.

And granted, it's not like George would come home to his mansion to suddenly find his furniture and guitars out by the curb. But if it wasn't for the Anthology, he would've gone bankrupt (due to a combination of factors including, but not limited to, his film company tanking, and his longtime business manager screwing him over).

i wish i had as much money as some bankrupt celebrities.

god, the tacos

Neil Young spends $40 per taco, but they taste much better because they have more of the essence of the original ingredients.

the Canadian Taco is probably one of those gross sex moves

No one wants a taco made of denim.

that's just how the wealthy roll, money changes you

TACO - Where Heartburn Lives

TAC&O: Find The Cost of Tomatoes

pono asado

Pono hermanos

yoko pono

Pono, there goes Tokyo ...

http://www.nme.com/news/nine-inch-nails/76409

Apologies if there's a better thread for this, but can Upper Mississippi or someone else recommend a $50 or $100 pair of headphones? I need to replace my $5 Walgreens earbuds. Just not doing the trick anymore...

Sennheisers

Koss Porta Pro

^unless you have long hair :-)

Beyerdynamic 251s

whiney otm

iGrado

http://www.amazon.co.uk/AKG-High-Performance-Foldable-Headset-In-Line/dp/B005LBQ7BY

AKG 451s sound great, fold away easily and the cable is detachable so if that part goes first (which it always does on headphones) then you just need a replacement lead. They're £40ish round these parts, not sure about US prices.

the 451s (and 450s, which I think are just the same but without the in-line remote) are v good for that price, yeah. Porta Pros too, I never had problems with them in my shaggy-haired hippie periods? Unlike my Grado SR60s, which are good but enjoyed sucking my hair into themselves and messing up the sound.

I've got the AKG 451s as well and love them. Just the right size. I had to turn the bass down a wee bit on the ipod but after that it was great sound.

Very interested in these AKGs with detachable cable. Always the first thing to go. My hair always got caught in the metal bands of the porta pros. So it'd rip my hair out when I removed them.

I use earbuds right now and I swear they are giving me tinnitus (more than usual anyway).

it's my understanding that hey are much worse for your ears than over the ear cups

I always thought etymotic research style passive noise reduction earbuds were best for your ears? In that they block out so much noise they allow you to listen at lower volumes

that could be, but those are hardly the most common experience for most ppl with earbud, which i think in general is cranking the shit out of regular ones

I bought a pair of Klipsch after a couple of pair of Sennheisers broke for no apparent reason. They have been excellent so far.

I have a pair of Sony MDR-V600s, which I think have been discontinued. They were a little pricey ($100), but I've used them daily for the last 13 years and have had no problems whatsoever (except with the foam dealies, but those are easily and cheaply replaceable).

One thing I hated about "Her" was how he had to wear that earpiece ALL THE TIME. If I had to wear earbuds all the time I think my ear would just die.

Earbuds are worst for tinnitus, closed over the ear cans are second worst, open over the ear cans are best. Or so they say and my own tinnitus reaction has borne this out.

Neil Young's proprietary new headphone, where the mastering engineer sits on your shoulder and sings the song lovingly into your ear.

"Unsuspecting Teens Try Pono": http://vimeo.com/91084885

(I assume "teens" is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the "unsuspecting teens try a walkman" thing, since most of these people are clearly in their late 20s - 30s)

"Unsuspecting" "teens"

Needless to say that video is the most transparently unconvincing piece of marketing I think I've ever witnessed.

i'm seriously so in love with the fact that on the eve of pono's kickstarter success, neil released an album that literally has the fidelity of a 1928 78s recording

that's my dogg right there

...why does that video make the hipster in me want to start hating vinyl ?

Choosy teens choose Pono