What's Playing Now

[Fritz The Cat]

Underrated live versions on this film soundtrack. Recorded live at Madison Square Garden, NYC, 27.-29. July 1973.
Listen to "The Rain Song" A4, because it's much superior to the original studio version on LP "Houses of the holy".
And "No Quarter" is still a wonderful live version!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Buckingham Nicks - s/t
(1973, Polydor) STERLING in the deadwax; gatefold cover

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[Fritz The Cat]

This one had faded away in 1978 because Punk rock was "IN". But after 40 years we know better.
Drums by Gerry Conway, Dave Mattacks and Steve Jordan.
Produced by Paul Samwell-Smith.
Fine dynamics on this German pressing for Swiss market.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - My Favorite Things
(1966, Columbia) -2D/-1A

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[bonanzadave]

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[Fritz The Cat]

Recorded live at Teldec Studios, Hamburg. The 45rpm maxi single was recorded Direct-to-Disc.
Listen to B2 "Er ist nicht mein Präsident".

[Fritz The Cat]

Finger picking and slide guitar playing of first quality. The guitar man.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Challengers - Surfbeat
(1963, Vault) MONO

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The Chico Hamilton Quintet - s/t
(1956, Pacific Jazz) MONO

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[SEAWOLF97]

A great album with a superb remaster. Includes STEREO on 1 disk
and the original MONO on a second disk.

lots of debate over the best of the 2
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Days-50th-Anniversary-Expanded/dp/B075VGX1DV#customerReviews

album review
https://soundblab.com/reviews/albums/19380-the-doors-strange-days-50th-anniversary

IMHO: the mono version sounded lifeless next to the airy STEREO disk, although
at some points I hear better detail on the Mono.

[Fritz The Cat]

Fine guitar playing. The finest in Jazz since 1990. Recorded at Marathon Recording Studio, NYC, on December 21, 1988.
Listen to Jazz-samba "90 Minute Cigarette". Anybody knows this talented jazz guitar player?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jack Nitzsche - St. Giles Cripplegate
(1972, Reprise) WLP

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Harmonium - L'Heptade
(1976, CBS) Canadian pressing; Don Mills, Ontario

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art-rock from Quebec. Piano, electric piano, synthesizers, drums, woodwinds, and electric guitar with symphonic orchestra backing.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!
(1966, Verve)

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Harvey Mandel - Shangrenade
(1973, GRT) TML in the deadwax, mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Ry Cooder - The Long Riders
(1980, Warner Bros)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Ear cinema. His masters guitar speaks...
Listen to Johnny Cash's "Don't take your guns to town" B3.

[Fritz The Cat]

"Harvey Mandel got 16 musicians together between gigs whenever they could. They jammed, improvised, laid down vocals, and had a good time. They created this album of blues, jazz and rock in just three nights." (Cit. notes on front cover)
Wonderful cover art work by John Craig. (-> Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie...)

[SpeakerLabFan]

David Grisman - David Grisman's Dawg Jazz/Dawg Grass
(1983, Warner Bros) Artisan, Monarch; GF - mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders by Greg Fulginiti

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w/ Martin Taylor, Stephane Grapelli, Earl Scruggs, Tony Rice.

[Fritz The Cat]

Black & white together in magical harmony. The vision of Rhasaan.The beginning of War.
Listen to the dedication to Roland Kirk "Roll on Kirk" A2 and the fantastic suite "Tobacco road" A3.

[Fritz The Cat]

Iconic cover art by Thomas Warkentin: die-cut octagonally in the shape of a stop sign.
Which traffic had to be controlled?
Listen to the jazzy piano played by Terry Ryan in "Gotta get it on" A2.

[Fritz The Cat]

Does humor belong in music? Yes. Look at the funny art work on cover.
Listen to B2 "Can you hear me". A lost gem.
Achtung: Suchtgefahr!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Danny Kirwan - s/t
(1976, DJM)

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US issue of Kirwan's 2nd LP, Midnight in San Juan.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Weather Report - self titled
(1971, Columbia) -1C / -1A

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes
(1978, Tomato)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Superb dynamics on this US-pressing. Who were the musicians on this record? The bass player sounds a little bit like Carol Kaye. Anybody knows?
Someone stupid has shot a whole through the cover and the label...
Listen to "Evil ways" A1 and compare it with Santana's version!

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Leaves - Hey Joe
(1966, Mira)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
(1973, Rolling Stone) Monarch pressing

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Great record. recorded in Jamaica.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Alice Cooper - Easy Action
(1970, Straight) -1A / -1A

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[Fritz The Cat]

Purchased yesterday. Runs on 45rpm. Should be with good dynamics. But there is no pleasure. Hey, Bob Ezrin, where are you? This one should have been your production job.
On CD: Live in Columbus OH, May 6, 2016

[Fritz The Cat]

Listen to A1 "Jorge Ben". A surprise!

[Fat Point Jack]

"Harvey Mandel got 16 musicians together between gigs whenever they could. They jammed, improvised, laid down vocals, and had a good time. They created this album of blues, jazz and rock in just three nights." (Cit. notes on front cover)
Wonderful cover art work by John Craig. (-> Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie...)

I found this one a few weeks back at the record store in Port Charlotte, Fl.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
(1971, Warner Bros) Artisan

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
(1990, Reprise) Kdisc DMM in the deadwax; mastered by John Golden at K-Disc

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[Fritz The Cat]

Ohrenkino vom Feinsten.
Listen to Willie Dixon/Al Perkins' "Don't know which way to go" B2. Great Buddy Guy/EC guitar duet.

[SEAWOLF97]

I just checked out the 40th anniversary 3 disk remastered Hotel California.

It has the album on D1 , Live concerts on D2 , the album again on a BluRay for D3. sure does sound nice.

https://www.google.com/shopping/product/4659992443798324054?

The BD disk is very good, but not hugely better than the CD

Bass seems more articulated and nice top end. Playback on my Sony SACD deck thru the big a/d/s's.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Backstreet Crawler - The Band Plays On
(1975, Atco)

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[Fritz The Cat]

The Vertigo label had lost interest in these 1972 recordings. They were much too unspectacular. Vertigo was the label for progrock then. So this one was released by Mooncrest in 1974.
Jerry Donahue, guitars. (->Fotheringay & Fairport Convention)
Listen to Moman/Penn's "Do right woman".
A quiet one.

[Fritz The Cat]

Produced by Gus Dudgeon. Spooky cover art by Hipgnosis. On this release 2 tracks are missing which are included on the US version: "Indian summer" and "It brings a tear".
Included here instead is B2 "Eye to eye" which is missing on the US release. Why did they change these songs? Anybody knows?
Listen to "You're not smiling" A2.
Important album in progrock!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Vince Guaraldi Trio - s/t
(1956, Fantasy) MONO

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[Fritz The Cat]

Telecaster played clearly as a mountain creek in spring. Lurrie Bell guitar solos on 4 tracks.
Listen to the guitars on "Blues for a living" B5.
Very good dynamics on this US pressing.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street
(1972, Warner Bros) WLP -1A/-1A

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Dammit man, the Doobie Brothers broke up! %$#&! When did that happen?
Joan Wilder: How long have you been down here?

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Nanci Griffith - Once In A Very Blue Moon
(1984, Philo) MASTERPHONICS in the deadwax

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great songwriting and tasty playing from Bela Fleck and others.

[Fritz The Cat]

Hype or masterpiece? Note on front cover: "File under science fiction"!

[Fritz The Cat]

Rock opera. A forgotten masterpiece. A funny one. Music and art work of foldcover and booklet in Monty Python style.
Have a cigar!

[Fritz The Cat]

Nicky Hopkins, piano. Ry Cooder, guitars. Plus 3 Rolling Stones.
Sound quality of Jaggers voice and of the piano is really very very poor. Also very poor production work by Glyn Johns. But the bottleneck-guitar playing by Ry Cooder on "Blow with Ry" B1 is first quality.
Cover (art?) comic by Nicky Hopkins: poor Edward is loosing his head. No surprise. Who is Edward?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jerry Jeff Walker - Jerry Jeff
(1978, Elektra) WLP

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[Fritz The Cat]

"Don't tell me nothing" A4 performed by Willie Dixon, produced by Robbie Robertson. Some interesting songs.

[SpeakerLabFan]

King Sunny Ade And His African Beats - Synchro System
(1983, Mango/Island)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Lou Reed - Street Hassle
(1978, Arista) -1B / -1C STERLING

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Jaco Pastorius - s/t
(1976, Epic) -1B/-1E; STERLING

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with Herbie Hancock, Lenny White

[SEAWOLF97]

In the mid 60's my Dad called me in to listen to his new record. I looked at the titles and
thought "YUK" :eek:
BUT then he played it , I'd never heard anything so clear and direct . cover said "No microphones were used" . Direct.
Later on he gave me the album. Like a fool I loaned it to a friend , but never got it back :banghead:

Yesterday I found another copy (in VG condition) . While still not my genre, it's fidelity is so high that it's just super enjoyable. Looks like each instrument had it's own piezo pickup and fed directly into the console.

The record was produced in 1964 and I've yet to heard ANYTHING on LP that sounds better , even most CD's. :bouncy:

this is only the second copy I've ever seen . IF you run across a good condition copy, do yourself a favor and pick it up (if only to see how good LP's can sound ;))

https://www.amazon.com/Exhibition-Collection-Done-Without-Microphones-Featuring/dp/B00JU8HXGW

[MikeBrewster77]

80519

[Fritz The Cat]

1970 Krautrock from Berlin. Echt schräg und selten. Originalpressung. Kerzen anzünden, auf die Knie und beten!

[Fritz The Cat]

80519

Thorens: great stuff from Switzerland. A beauty! Congratulations!

[SpeakerLabFan]

The J.J. Johnson Quintet - J.J. In Person
(1958, Fontana) Netherlands pressing

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w/ Nat Adderly, Albert Heath, Tommy Flanagan

[SpeakerLabFan]

Dolly Parton Linda Ronstadt Emmylou Harris - Trio
(1987, Warner Bros)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Produced by Andrew Loog Oldham (->Rolling Stones, Immediate Records)
Bluesrock in Bad Company style. Well made.

[Fritz The Cat]

Live at Bill Graham's Fillmore East.
Notice on inner fold sleeve by Taj Mahal: "and besides, this album has all the time in the world in it...."

[SpeakerLabFan]

Wildweeds - s/t
(1970, Vanguard) WLP

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde - Of Cabbages And Kings
(1967, Columbia) -1A/-1A

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[Fritz The Cat]

This record shows 3 different cat.nrs.: on labels CS 9919, on front and back cover GP18, on runout XSM 150743/4 and XSM 150821/2. Too many numbers....
80ies reissue?
Jesse Ed Davis: fine guitar work on Robertson/Hudson's "Bacon Fat" B4.

[Fritz The Cat]

With steedrums. Music fuh ya': for you and para tu!

[Fritz The Cat]

In the early seventies, everything was possible in popular music: look at the cover art. This one is in the style of early Elton John. Fine guitars, hammond organs and big orchestras. Made in England. Notice on inner foldcover:
"Special thanks to Pauline for the honey and lemon teas"....

[SpeakerLabFan]

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
(1969, Fantasy)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Wonderful dynamics. Listen to the cymbals of the drums, the acoustic bass and Bucky Pizzarelli on Lester Young's "D.B. Blues-Take 1" A4.

[Fritz The Cat]

Simple and pure. Notice on inner sleeve: "Dedicated to the friends who always had time to listen". Remember the times when everything was much more simple than today!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bill Nelson - Savage Gestures For Charms Sake
(1983, Cocteau) French pressing

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Kaleidoscope - Bernice
(1970, Epic) -1C/-1B

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David Lindley's band.

[Fritz The Cat]

With Ralph Towner, Tony Levin, Miroslav Vitous, Joe Zawinul, Alphonse Mouzon ->Weather Report
Listen to "Georgia on my mind" B2.
Look at the advertisements on inner sleeve about the musicassette (the size of a packet of cigarettes!) and the 8-track cartridge (childs play to operate!).

[Fritz The Cat]

Live at Bern Jazzfestival 28. April, 1978
Listen to vocals of Carrie Smith in "Ain't nobody's business" A2.

[Fritz The Cat]

Listen to the rhythm section with Billy Cobham, Charlie Haden and Airto Moreira on "Peace one" and "Piece Two" B1/B2.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Ray Charles, Betty Carter - Ray Charles And Betty Carter
(1961, ABC Paramount) Bell Sound

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they had a hit with Baby It's Cold Outside.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Terry Reid - s/t
(1969, Epic) -2A/-2A

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Shocking Blue - s/t
(1969, Colossus)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Produced by Bob Johnston. Recorded at Kaye Smith Studios in Seattle.
Mastered by Sterling Sound in New York.
Listen to the swinging violin solo by Richard Bowden in "Crawdad train" A5.
No fillers, all winners on this album.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - Flowers
(1967, London) MONO, -1F/-1F

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[Fritz The Cat]

Fantastic live dynamics with guitar genius Harvey Mandel. Listen to Bob Hite speech in "Goodbye for now" B4. English 1991 reissue.

[Fritz The Cat]

Superb live dynamics. English 1987 reissue.
Listen to the incredible guitar work by "Clem" Clempson and the vocals by Chris Farlowe in "Skelington" on side B.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Gene Clark, Doug Dillard - The Fantastic Expedition Of Dillard & Clark
(1968, A&M)

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Gene Clark killer songwriting combined with bluegrass and country.

[Fritz The Cat]

Live at Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall Hamburg, Germany on August 28th and 29th 1975 with Dieter Dierks' Recording Mobile. Produced by Siggi Loch & Klaus Doldinger.
Listen to the vocals of Les McCann in Gene McDaniels' "Compared to what" A1. Important lyrics in 1975 concerning "War" "President" and "Poverty". Still relevant today?

[Fritz The Cat]

Produced in 1984 by Mike Vernon. Recorded at the famous Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire, England. Mo Witham and Albert Lee guitars. Tim Hinkley Hammond organ.
One of the most important voices in England from the 60ies until now. Superb dynamics.
Listen to "Them that's got" A3.

[Fritz The Cat]

Mullgrew Miller piano, Lonnie Plaxico accoustic bass, Terri Lyne Carrington dr.
Recorded live to digital 2-track at A&R Recording Studios, NYC.
Listen loud and test your equipment with this one!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Thin Lizzy - s/t
(1971, Decca) UK

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[Fritz The Cat]

Jazz-rock-blues sessionguitarist Ray Gomez.
Vinnie Appice drums. Jimmy Haslip bass.
What about the vocals by RG?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Airto - Promises Of The Sun
(1976, Arista) KENDUN JG in the deadwax; mastering by John Golden at Kendun

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[Fritz The Cat]

Tracks A1-A7 recorded live. Listen to Pointers Sisters on B2 "Sweet home Chicago".

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bob Weir - Ace
(1972, Warner Bros) -1B/-1B; Artisan

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w/ Garcia, Lesh, Kreutzman, Godchaux - basically another Dead LP.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Black Sabbath - s/t
(1970, Warner Bros) -1A/-1A Artisan

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Clear Spot
(1972, Reprise)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
(1974, Vertigo) Promo; TML-M in the deadwax, "cut by Arnie Acosta at the Mastering Lab"

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[Fritz The Cat]

Tony Hymas is credited as "Hymns" on label. Simon Philips drums. He also plays the piano intro of the little jazz-rock-opera-instrumental "Camino Real parts 1, 2&3) A3.

[Fritz The Cat]

Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
(1974, Vertigo) Promo; TML-M in the deadwax, "cut by Arnie Acosta at the Mastering Lab"

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Fantastic cover art by Jim Fitzpatrick! What great song: "Still in love with you" A4. Gary Moore plays this fat Gibson Les Paul.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath
(1966, Decca) 1975 German Nova 6.21396 reissue; MADE IN GERMANY

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story
(1972, Reprise)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Buckingham Nicks - s/t
(1973, Polydor) STERLING in the deadwax; gatefold cover

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[Fritz The Cat]

Produced by Phil May. Recorded live on 13th March 1984 at Little Venice, London. The set included several early Pretty Things hits along with R'n'B classics.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Michael Nesmith - And The Hits Just Keep On Coming
(1972, RCA Victor)

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[Fritz The Cat]

"Dreams" B2: southern-jazz twin drums.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jerry Jeff Walker - s/t
(1972, Decca) '75 issue on MCA, STERLING LH in the deadwax, mastered by Lee Hulko

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Takes Off
(1966, RCA Victor)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Sandy Denny - Sandy
(1972, A&M) STERLING LH in the deadwax; mastered by Lee Hulko at Sterling Sound

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gone 40 years, R.I.P. Sandy Denny.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Hajo Weber/Ulrich Ingenbold - Winterreise
(1982, ECM) W. German, GEMA

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[Fritz The Cat]

German Rock. Krautrock. Electric junk. Vorne und hinten mit Humor. (Nearly) everything was possible in the early 70ies in Germany...

[Fritz The Cat]

George goes Latin with a little help of his amigos. German MPS/BASF production means: perfect dynamics. Sigi Schwab, guitars. A hot one. Listen loud and test your equipment...

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Beatles - The Beatles (aka "The White Album")
(1968, Apple) SEBX 1978 reissue on white vinyl

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Yes - 2 Originals Of Yes
(1975, Atlantic) French pressing

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with the 1969 self titled LP and 1971s Time And A Word LP. Original covers on the inner gatefold.

[Fritz The Cat]

Recorded live at the Concord Jazz Festival, Concord, CA August 1982.
"It had to be a great performance as the evening was dedicated to Cal Tjader, our friend who had passed away on May 5, 1982. (...even the neighboring crickets joined in)" (Cit: Liner notes on back cover).
Superb dynamics on this German Bellaphon pressing.

[Fritz The Cat]

Krautrock recorded at Studio 70 in München. German jazzrockfunk power trio. Guitar by Houschäng Nejadepour. Mani Neumaier also plays "Entenfänger". (????)
"Dagobert Duck's 100th birthday" A1.
Sauerkrautrock.

[Fritz The Cat]

Humorous front cover art: gasoline and glacial mountain peaks in the desert sand. Is there still an American dream today?

[SpeakerLabFan]

The New Colony Six - Revelations
(1968, Mercury)

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[Fritz The Cat]

The New Colony Six - Revelations
(1968, Mercury)

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Tell more about this interesting one!

[Fritz The Cat]

Together with The Crusaders and Dean Parks. And Lucille...

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
(1979, Columbia) WLP, -1C/-2A

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[Fritz The Cat]

From their jazz-funk-LPs after their Jazz Crusaders years. 1972-1976 produced by Stewart Levine. Listen to "Ballad for Joe (Louis)" D2 from LP "Southern Comfort". A slow ballad with relaxed atmosphere.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Tell more about this interesting one!


60s sunshine pop, like The Association

[SpeakerLabFan]

Harvey Mandel - Righteous
(1969, Phillips) WLP; -M2/-M1

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[Fritz The Cat]

Great guitar playing by Danny Lademacher and George Kooimans (Golden Earring). Superb horns. Listen to Allen Toussaint's "Brickyard Blues" B2.
High energy blues-rock from Holland.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave Brubeck At Storyville: 1954
(1954, Columbia) '55 pressing, MONO

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[Fritz The Cat]

French 1981 reissue. Liner notes by Stephen Frostberg: "In some ways, Ben Webster is the Frank Sinatra of the tenor saxophone......" Is he?

[bonanzadave]

Manufactured on limited edition opaque blue 180-gram vinyl, features the 2015 remaster by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Mastering Studio and a “red star of the federation” hologram in Side 2 run-out groove. Only 5,000 copies are available worldwide


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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Byrds - The Ballad Of Easy Rider
(1969, Columbia) -1C/-1C

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Not the same as the movie soundtrack album, only the title track has relation to the movie. I dig the folk-rock, banjo + hard rock here and on Untitled.

[Fritz The Cat]

The Byrds - The Ballad Of Easy Rider
(1969, Columbia) -1C/-1C

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Not the same as the movie soundtrack album, only the title track has relation to the movie. I dig the folk-rock, banjo + hard rock here and on Untitled.

Imported to Europe by Sound Express. Listen to Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins track B6. We have a lift off...

[Fritz The Cat]

Respectable debut. Great voice.
Listen to the spirit of Janis Joplin in "Three times as bad" A2. Waltzing Dale Krantz.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - s/t
(1981, Editions EG)

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[Fritz The Cat]

He played the guitars for VIP, Spooky Tooth, Mott The Hoople, Widowmaker and Stealers Wheel.
This album is a platform for his voice: variable and shadowy. Spooky? Listen to "Waiting" B1.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Janis Joplin - Joplin In Concert
(1972, Columbia)

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[SEAWOLF97]

I enjoy RO. Thought I'd hear all that he ever sang until this album
fell into my hands today. All were new to me. 1962.

[Fritz The Cat]

I enjoy RO. Thought I'd hear all that he ever sang until this album
fell into my hands today. All were new to me. 1962.

"Orbiting with" was a budget product with only 4 Orbison tracks. On 1984 released Charly double album "The Sun Years" all 4 songs are included."Domino" was composed by Roy, but credited to Sam Phillips. He had bought the copyright. Some kind of a hostile take-over ....
PS: Who is Bristow Hopper (B1-B5)?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bob Moses - When Elephants Dream Of Music
(1983, Grammavision) MASTERDISK RL

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co-produced with Pat Metheny. w/ Lyle Mays, Bill Frisell, Steve Swallow

[Fritz The Cat]

Bob Moses - When Elephants Dream Of Music
(1983, Grammavision) MASTERDISK RL

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co-produced with Pat Metheny. w/ Lyle Mays, Bill Frisell, Steve Swallow


Hello, how are you? I wish you a beautiful evening. From Switzerland.
Is this one modern jazz or classic jazz music? ( I see the credits to so many musicians and that fact seems to be suspect to me....)

[SpeakerLabFan]

Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair
(1973, Harvest) UK

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[Fritz The Cat]

So many roots. The original 1965 album was performed by Charlie Musselwhite and The Band.
These complete sessions on a very dynamic 2001 Italian pressing were recorded with remarkable guitarists as James Spruill (!!), Billy Butler, Robbie Robertson, Eddie Hinton and Duane Allman. Listen to Duanes slide guitar on D5 Willie Dixon's "Shake for me" played with a whole lotta love. No credits for the sax players on D6 "I'm leaving you".

[Fritz The Cat]

Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair
(1973, Harvest) UK

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A nice pear. A nice pair. And the pipers at the gate of dawn.... Does humor belong in cover art? Yesss!
From Wikipedia:
.........Another picture presents two puns on the album title: a nice pear (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear), and an image of a woman's pair of breasts; the latter is censored with a black bar on some copies, while other US copies opted to cover it with a purple and white sticker over the shrink wrap.........

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Band - Stage Fright
(1970, Capitol) STERLING RL in the deadwax; mastered by Robert Ludwig at Sterling Sound

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Eric Clapton - Slowhand
(1977, RSO) WLP, TML-M in the deadwax, The Mastering Lab, master lathe

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[Fritz The Cat]

Eric Clapton - Slowhand
(1977, RSO) WLP, TML-M in the deadwax, The Mastering Lab, master lathe

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Is there a positive effect of the tiny vibrations of the turntable to red vine?

[Fritz The Cat]

Interesting pressing from Israel. Which way did this album go from east to west?
Listen to the dialogue of the horns with the guitar in the middle part of the title track.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Hello, how are you? I wish you a beautiful evening. From Switzerland.
Is this one modern jazz or classic jazz music? ( I see the credits to so many musicians and that fact seems to be suspect to me....)


Sorry I missed this earlier, Fritz. Cheers from the Pacific Northwest. This is definitely modern jazz, lots of interesting tangents.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Is there a positive effect of the tiny vibrations of the turntable to red vine?


Not sure but the tiny and big vibrations are more positive after a glass of wine!

[SpeakerLabFan]

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
(1970, Apple)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Ramones - Rocket To Russia
(1977, Sire) mastered at Sterling Sound by Greg Calbi

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[SpeakerLabFan]

John Coltrane - The Best Of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years, Vol. 3
(1972, ABC Impulse!)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Blues Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop
(1966, Mercury) MONO

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Loretta Lynn - Singin' With Feelin'
(1967, Decca)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Clash - s/t
(1977, Epic) '79 US issue on Epic; STERLING; Nothing can change.../ The shape of things to Clash, side 1/2

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Silly Wizard - A Glint Of Silver
(1986, Green Linnet)

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recorded and mixed in Edinburgh, Scotland.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything?
(1973, Bearsville) WLP, -1E / -1F; STERLING RL

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Grateful Dead - American Beauty
(1970, Warner Bros) Artisan

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[Fritz The Cat]

Rare. One of the most precious progrock LPs. Cult album.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Eric Dolphy - Last Date 1964
(1964, Limelight) 70's reissue on Trip

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recorded live in Holland, early June 1964. Dolphy had toured Europe earlier in the yearwith Charles Mingus, and stayed. He died June 29, 1964 - liner notes report it as a combination of diabetic complications and a possible heart attack.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
(1968, Decca) UK MONO LK 4955; XARL-8476-6A/XARL-8477-3A

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[Fritz The Cat]

Some fine "laid back" guitar solos by Eric Johnson. Especially in the outro of "Golden man" A5, together with this cool Fender Rhodes played by Reese Wynans.
Who is the golden man?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
(1969, A&M) RL SS; mastered by Robert Ludwig at Sterling Sound

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
(1974, Warner Bros) -1C / -1C

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[Fritz The Cat]

60 years old US vinyl. Plays very well after a Hannl wash. Ultra Phonic Sound! Super HiFidelity. Full Frequency.

[SEAWOLF97]

OK , I picked up 3 Beatles LP's yesterday , including the infamous Vee-Jay "Introducing The Beatles" , I went through the first 10 tests to check for fakes and it passed. I hope it is authentic. That link is the definitive fake eliminator site for this album. Pic is NOT my actual copy.

The worlds most counterfeited album

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Dave Brubeck Trio - Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals
(1951, Fantasy) 3-205,1957 pressing

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[Fritz The Cat]

Hard-rocking blast from the past. Out of the garage...

[Fritz The Cat]

Listening to this one in the kitchen while preparing Ravioli. The finest in the kitchen since 1939. What a beautiful Sunday morning ...

[Fritz The Cat]

Previously not available 1980/1968 studio tracks from Copenhagen. Speedy fingers.

[Fritz The Cat]

Superb stuff on every track by Eric Gale, Richard Tee, Anthony Jackson and Steve Gadd.
Listen to title track A1: some fine sketches from spain.

[Fritz The Cat]

Synthie-Valium of the 70ies. Feels like sinking into severe depressions.....

[SpeakerLabFan]

Fairport Convention - Heyday
(1987, Hannibal) MASTERDISK TD

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[SEAWOLF97]

Got these yesterday ... never knew abt the James Brown album, the Sgt. Pepper's is an empty jacket, tho it does contain the hard to find "cutout page"

[SpeakerLabFan]

Gene Clark - White Light
(1971, A&M) Monarch

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[Fritz The Cat]

Somebody shot a hole into the cover. Agreed! Sometimes Elvis Presley shot a hole into his TV-set....

[Fritz The Cat]

Recorded live at Sandy's Jazz Revival, Beverly, Mass., July 28/29 1978.
40 years have passed since these recordings. Jack Wilkins, guitar. Michael Moore, Bass. Joe LaBarbera,drums.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
(1968, Solid State) Bell Sound

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[Fritz The Cat]

Rare 1967 Austrian item. Hallo Österreich! Interesting vocal productions plus 3 original hits. 50 years. It was all too beautiful!

[Fritz The Cat]

Blue Note? So close to synthies, so far away from blue notes! Superb horns by Brecker Brothers.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Doug Sahm With The Sir Douglas Quintet - Rough Edges
(1975, Mercury) G.K. mastered by Gilbert Kong

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from unreleased studio sessions in late '68/'69

[SpeakerLabFan]

Faces - A Nod's As Good As A Wink To A Blind Horse
(1971, Warner Bros)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Bert Jansch & John Renbourn - Stepping Stones
(1969, Vanguard) -1A / -1C

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[Fritz The Cat]

French 1995 reissue. All the kings men and horses.

[Fritz The Cat]

30th anniversary 2 LP special edition. The death of Ziggy.
45 years since the last show at Hammersmith Odeon on 3. July 1973. Ziggy lives forever.....
Mick Ronson and David Bowie live: eine Sternstunde!

[Odd]

81653

[SpeakerLabFan]

Miles Davis - Live Evil
(1971, Columbia)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Everything is said by John D. Loudermilk in his back cover notes.
Great music representing American culture.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Ry Cooder - Boomer's Story
(1972, Reprise)

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[Fritz The Cat]

Tower of song!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony
(1974, Columbia) Promo stamp, back cover; MASTERDISK G.K. / MASTERDISK G. Kong on side 1/2; Mastered by Gilbert Kong at Masterdisk

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Miles Davis - Water Babies
(1976, Columbia)

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tracks recorded 1967-69 with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock on keyboards. side one is the 1967 quintet doing post-bop, side 2 is a couple of tracks is the same group doing two fusion jams ... on the path to Bitches Brew.

[Fritz The Cat]

Brian Robertson (Thin Lizzy/Motörhead), Bobby Tench (Streetwalkers), Henry McCullough (Grease Band/Wings). Guitars! Plus this remarkable voice.
Listen to B4 Pomus/Spector's "Ecstasy": who will save the last dance for me?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Blind Faith - s/t
(1969, Polydor) UK pressing, 1977 RSO label

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Mishandled Rickenbacker bass by German Jazz-Kraut-Rocker Hellmut Hattler. (Fortunately only on cover art...)

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Hearing "Elizabeth Reed" transported me back to an evening in 1971 where I was returning
to NAS North Island in the MGB and got to our ships parking, heard this and couldn't shut
off the car, just sat there transfixed by the FM radio :)

"Midnight Rider" was a great bonus too. Very nice on vinyl.

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Lead, rhythm and slide guitars by Earl Slick. Superb guitar playing!

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Jimmy Buffett - A1A
(1975, ABC Dunhill)

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Dick Morrissey sax, Jim Mullen guitars. Vocals by Tessa Niles. Great thing!
Original signatures by all the musicians. Dedicated to Yvonne.
Hey Yvonne, where are you? I have found your concert keepsake from 1983 in a Brockenhaus in Schaffhausen between Beethoven and Vivaldi albums......

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grabbed these among others yesterday as the track list looked good

A1 -The Standells Dirty Water
A2 –Count 5* Psychotic Reaction
A3 –Shangri-las* Leader Of The Pack
A4 –Neil Diamond Solitary Man
A5 –Premiers* Farmer John
A6 –The McCoys Hang On Sloopy
A7 –Cannibal & The Head Hunters* Land Of 1000 Dances
A8 –Lovin' Spoonful* Younger Girl
A9 –Rascals* Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
A10 –Tommy James & The Shondells Hanky Panky
B1 –The Happenings See You In September
B2 –Righteous Bros.* Little Latin Lupelu
B3 –Syndicate Of Sound Little Girl
B4 –Ian Whitcomb You Turn Me On
B5 –Ad Libs* The Boy From New York City
B6 –The Vogues 5 O'Clock World
B7 –Chiffons* Sweet Talkin' Guy
B8 –Dixie Cups* Chapel Of Love
B9 –Slim Harpo Baby Scratch My Back
B10 –Jackie Lee The Duck
B11 –Spencer Davis Group* Keep On Runnin'
C1 –Sopwith Camel Hello, Hello
C2 –Neil Diamond Cherry, Cherry
C3 –B.J. Thomas I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
C4 –Leaves* Hey Joe
C5 –Royal Guardsmen* Snoopy Vs. Red Baron
C6 –Yellow Balloon Yellow Balloon
C7 –Tradewinds* New York's A Lonely Town
C8 –Them (3) Gloria
C9 –Ian Whitcomb Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night
C10 –Association* Along Comes Mary
D1 –Lovin' Spoonful* Summer In The City
D2 –Tommy James & The Shondells I Like The Way
D3 –Sunrays* Andrea
D4 –Shangri-Las* Remember (Walkin' In The Sand)
D5 –Music Machine* Talk, Talk
D6 –Davie Allan & The Arrows Blues Theme
D7 –Love My Little Red Book
D8 –The Rainy Daze That Acapulco Gold
D9 –The Olympics Baby Do The Philly Dog
D10 –Seeds* Pushin' Too Hard
D11 –Five Americans* Western Union

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50 years since this one. Guitars by Bobby Womack and Reggie Young.
Produced by Tom Dowd and Wilson Pickett. Listen to the beautiful "Deborah" A5, sung in Italian language for the presentation at the San Remo Festival 1968. Buona notte Italia!

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http://ultimateclassicrock.com/allman-brothers-band-idlewild-south/

Hearing "Elizabeth Reed" transported me back to an evening in 1971 where I was returning
to NAS North Island in the MGB and got to our ships parking, heard this and couldn't shut
off the car, just sat there transfixed by the FM radio :)

"Midnight Rider" was a great bonus too. Very nice on vinyl.

Previously Unreleased Allman Brothers Band Recordings From February 1970 Fillmore East Run Coming

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In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
Hoochie Coochie Man
Statesboro Blues
Trouble No More
Outskirts Of Town
Whipping Post
Mountain Jam

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Kantner, Balin, Casady go AOR. Overproduced. Too much of everything. A typical child of the 80ies.

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Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxter's
(1967, RCA)

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Tim Buckley - Blue Afternoon
(1969, Straight) WLP

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I only took this one for 2 SFr. yesterday because of: Micky Moody's guitar playing.

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Charanga and Pachanga. Mambo, Guaguanco and Descarga. Everything clear?
Sabroso!

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Vocal production. Anybody recognizes the famous (unknown in 1968) singer of most of these songs? Listen to "With a little help from my friends": you know him! He was one of the characteristic voices of rock music in the 70ies! It's not Joe Cocker! The only flaw of this version is the guitar player, because sadly it's not JP who plays the guitar intro solo.

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The Leaves - Hey Joe
(1966, Mira)

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Kenny Burrell w/ The Brother Jack McDuff Quartet - Crash!
(1963, Prestige) MONO

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The Miles Davis Septet and Quintet - Miles At Newport
(1967, Columbia) 1973 Holland pressing

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New Riders Of The Purple Sage - s/t
(1971, Columbia) Artisan

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Happy birthday, Jerry

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A storytellers album. A cross between a novel full of idiosyncratic character studies and a John Wayne Western (cit: Stanton Swihart/AMG). 1971 reissue. Listen to Lee's bariton voice in title track B5.

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A strange one. Mick Green (The Pirates) guitar. Slide guitar solo by George Harrison on "Make love not war" B2. Strange but beautiful: "Let's sleep late" B4. Superb cover art by Tony Wright: he made the cover art for Traffic's "Shoot out at the fantasy factory", "The low spark of high heeled boys" etc.

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One of the most adored Swiss guitar players. Acoustic guitars.

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Superb French pressing. A guitar tête-à-tête.

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Time capsule film and record. 51 years since this one. Today we live in a totally different world. For mankind some things are better today, but...
Enjoy your meal!

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New Riders Of The Purple Sage - s/t
(1971, Columbia) Artisan

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Happy birthday, Jerry



Look at my post of 12-19-2016. A very fine record!
What's the meaning of "marmaduke" (back cover credits for John Dawson)?

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Typical 70ies European Vikings-funkrockjazz. Hot tracks for cool cats. Powerful rhythm group: Jeff, Mike and Joe Porcaro. Listen to "Oriental sign" B4. This track and "Frederick's place" B5 is a salute to Al DiMeola.
Schaffer played the guitars for ABBA. Anybody knows ABBA?

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Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
(1969, Reprise) -1A / -1A; Reprise two-tone label

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I also have a WLP, great record.
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Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
(1969, Reprise) -1A / -1A; Reprise two-tone label

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I also have a WLP, great record.
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Everybody knows: this WLP is nowhere available.

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Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
(1976, Island) -1C / -1B; STERLING in the deadwax

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The lyrics at the end of "Eva Braun" B2: ".....and someday soon i fear they'll sing that song again".
With Sonny Landreth, Richard Tee, Gordon Edwards, Bobby Kimball, Jon Smith.

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Pentangle - Open The Door
(1985, Varrick) F/W Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs

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Simon & Garfunkel - Sounds Of Silence
(1966, Columbia) early 70s UK

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John Hartford - Aero-Plain
(1971, Warner Bros)

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"Did this really happen?" (Liner notes by Albie Donnelly on back cover)
Groovers in Paris....

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Maxi single. Testing my equipment with this one. Close the doors and windows!

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Neil Young & Crazy Horse - American Stars 'n Bars
(1977, Reprise)

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+ The Bullets: Linda Ronstadt, Nicolette Larson & Emmylou Harris

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A calm one by this (in Europe) forgotten actor/singer. Produced by Larry Butler (Kenny Rogers) Anybody knows the musicians?

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RIP.
Listen to "Spirit in the dark" reprise with Ray Charles B3. King Curtis sax. Cornell Dupree guitar. Plus the Memphis Horns.

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Historically interesting tracks. Previously not issued or early 45rpm singles from 1959-1969.
Listen to the bass player: sometimes totally out of tune! Never mind, it's a funny one!

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Jimmy Buffett - Down To Earth
(1970, Barnaby) -1C/-1C

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Earth Opera - s/t
(1968, Elektra) German pressing

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Peter Rowan, David Grisman

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Rare German Krautrock LP. Produced by Dieter Dirks in Stommelen. Fantastic psychedelic cover art. Listen to "Oriental Journey" A2.

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Charles Mingus - Reevaluations: The Impulse Years
(1973, ABC Impulse)

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with Jackie Byard, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, Jerome Richardson

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Bob Dylan And The Band - The Basement Tapes
(1975, Columbia) WLP, -1A/-1A

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Una voce magnifica. Una sala dei concerti fastosa. Italianita!

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Back to the roots: Miller plays the Blues, especially on side B: Jimmy Reed, Willie Dixon, Luther Dixon. With a little help by James Cotton, Lonnie Turner, Les Dudek et al.
Underrated, because this one was not commercial enough for the music market in the late years of the 20th century.

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Barney Kessel - Feeling Free
(1969, Contemporary) '84 OJC reissue

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w/ Elvin Jones, drums; Bobby Hutcherson, vibes.

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These tracks were previously unreleased performances from the private collection of Mrs. Clifford Brown. They were privately recorded in 1956 and they presented challenging technical problems.
Attention! The dynamics are by far not satisfying. Some kind of a "boot leg" product. But for musically historic purpose it's OK.

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Fred Neil - Sessions
(1968, Capitol)

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1967 sessions produced by Nick Venet, with Bruce Langhorn, Cyrus Faryar.

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The Incredible String Band - U
(1970, Elektra)

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Bangor Flying Circus - s/t
(1969, ABC Dunhill) Monarch

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formed by members of the Shadows of Knight and H.P. Lovecraft.

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Chick Corea / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul - A.R.C.
(1977, ECM) MASTERDISK

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recorded in 1971.

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Dick Morrissey, sax&flute. Terry Smith, guitars. Superb French original pressing. Sounds great though it's a mistreated LP.
Jazz-Rock vom Feinsten!

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The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
(1971, Rolling Stone/Atlantic)

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Listen to Jaggers/Richards' "Silver train". This song reportedly was written for Johnny. Alive and well in 1973. 45 years since this one...

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Martin Carthy - Sweet Wivelsfield
(1974, Gamma / Rounder)

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Produced by Ashley Hutchings.

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All stars' recording: Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Dexter Gordon, John McLaughlin, Chet Baker, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, and and and....
Mastered by Wally Traugott at Capitol Recording Studios. A quiet one with the exception of Monk's "Rhythm-A-Ning" B3.

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Side B: the 60ies revisited. B3: jazzy swing version of "Mighty Quinn". Mighty Quintet. Mighty voice.

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B1: "When the guitar gets the blues". Rockabilly deluxe...

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A little bit too much sugarcoating with strings&horns by Bob James. Typical of the late 70ies. But overall its good STUFF. Listen to the beautiful "Red Ground" A2.

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A fine one. Sonny Landreth, guitars.
Listen to the swinging "Who, What, Where, and Why?" B5!

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And he plays it very well. Listen to the Leslie-Speakers. The magic of the sound lies in the "Doppler-Effect"!
Quentin Warren, guitar. Donald Bailey, drums. Listen to "Ain't she sweet" A3.
O, thank you!

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Barry Altschul - Another Time/Another Place
(1978, Muse) MASTERDISK

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free jazz. with Dave Holland

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Bruce Cockburn - Sunwheel Dance
(1971, True North) Canadian pressing

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Poduced by Mike Vernon. Jan Akkerman was elected guitarist of the year 1973 by Melody Maker. Focus from Holland was very innovative in the early seventies. Listen to "Eruption" on side B!

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Ear cinema with hypnotic percussion by Michael Shrieve. Manuel Göttsching (Ashra) guitars.
Richard Wahnfried is a brain-wave of Klaus Schulze.