Steve Tilston's An Acoustic Confusion
John Tobler, ZigZag, 1971
THERE IS SOMETHING very satisfying about listening to live music in small smoke-filled rooms. It creates an intimacy between artist and audience that cannot exist when listening to a postage stamp image coming through two thousand watt p.a.
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