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[SpeakerLabFan]

Juarez - Self Titled
(1970, Decca) session players: Joe Osborn, Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel and James Burton

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[SpeakerLabFan]

West, Bruce & Laing - Why Dontcha
(1972, Windfall)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Who - The Story Of The Who
(1976, Polydor) 2 LP UK pressing

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[hjames]

Mobil Fidelity Sound lab - Steppenwolf (1st)

'Cause sometimes nothing else hits the spot!

[Titanium Dome]

Paul Kantner, Grace Slick - Sunfighter
(1971, Grunt) w/ Slick's 10 p. illus. lyric booklet; daughter China on the cover
w/ Jerry Garcia, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady

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That is one exceptional album. I have a copy myself. :bouncy:

[hjames]

That is one exceptional album. I have a copy myself. :bouncy:

Got the complete set?
Blows, Sunfighter and Chrome Nun?

... Old man get some soldiers,
keep them close at hand ...

Love Jerry's playing on that one!

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - More Hot Rocks (Big Hits And Fazed Cookies)
(1972, London) 2 LPs; STERLING in the deadwax

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Kantner, Slick - Sunfighter

That is one exceptional album. I have a copy myself. :bouncy:

Great record. I picked up a pair of Altec Bolero 809c a couple of years ago, and .... this was among the first things I listened to. I knew the Boleros were something special when "Diana" track 2, side 1 came on. No mistaking the LF coming out of those "bookshelf" speakers.


Got the complete set?
Blows, Sunfighter and Chrome Nun?


Oh yeah. and 10 years later Kantner assembles a contingent for another run... Planet Earth Rock And Roll Orchestra, 1983, RCA. :hyp:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
(1970, Columbia)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa - Black Orpheus original soundtrack
(1963, Fontana)

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[demon]

hello!

todays aural breakfast is an ironic, iconic and philharmonic :) journey through the most refreshing musical ideas of the last century (what a phony write up i got in again)
jim hall: textures

http://www.artistshare.com/artists/007/7/images/137.jpg

image taken from: http://www.jimhallmusic.com/albuminfo.aspx?ID=16

its easy to listen to orchestrated jazz, not demanding at all, BUT very rewarding when payed close attention. perfect! highly recommended :)


Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
(1970, Columbia)


i love this record. generating a unique energy, i can only grasp as "metropolis electric night fever". dont ask me why. a friend of mine said that he empathizes the pressure on the musicians put out by miles davis, the stress they feel.
actually very much the opposite of the jim hall album above. very demanding! it was my soundtrack when driving to get my 2360s...:drive:

have a nice sunday--
mikey

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Who - Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy
(1971, Decca)
A copy from a collection I picked up a couple of years ago, had been in a basement, mold got the cover & label
but the vinyl cleaned up very nicely. The poster is long gone. :(

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jim hall: textures



its easy to listen to orchestrated jazz, not demanding at all, BUT very rewarding when payed close attention. perfect! highly recommended :)



I'll have to look for this one. I like all the Jim Hall I've heard, great jazz guitar.

[SpeakerLabFan]

George Benson - Body Talk
(1973, CTI) MASTERED BY VAN GELDER in the deadwax

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[SEAWOLF97]

Bundled up yesterday and was trekking in the rain..picked up these 6 ..have never seen any of them B4...the Sinatra is a double and my first of his. (the FONZ poster was missing :( )

[hjames]

Leo Kottke? 6 & 12 String Guitar is one of his finest - hope you enjoy it!
Fine stuff, with no overdubs - they guy was just fast and amazing (he's older now and not the hotshot 21 year old he was then ...)


Bundled up yesterday and was trekking in the rain..picked up these 6 ..have never seen any of them B4...the Sinatra is a double and my first of his. (the FONZ poster was missing :( )

[SEAWOLF97]

Leo Kottke? 6 & 12 String Guitar is one of his finest - hope you enjoy it!
Fine stuff, with no overdubs - they guy was just fast and amazing (he's older now and not the hotshot 21 year old he was then ...)

yes, I listened today...he is quite the player....thot I heard some Jimmy Page riffs mixed in there....3 tracks on side2 are unusable (some gunk on there) but everything else OK.

AFAIR : Kottke was the first CD I ever heard....it was on the car radio and the lack of pops and crackles was so incredible, that I pulled the car over to finish the cut...:D

I want to say "Mudlark" , but not sure...

[SEAWOLF97]

last night I read : The Beatles US LPs: Where They Came From & How They Charted

http://www.amazon.com/Beatles-US-LPs-Where-Charted/dp/0965325415/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263869381&sr=8-1

http://indra.com/~cliffcan/buslp.htm#buslp_cover



lots of interesting facts in there..lot of fun ...Capitol sure did not realize the goldmine that they were sitting on ...and botching. :o:

TRIVIA QUESTION #1

In 1964 the Beatles released 4 albums. In 1965 they were nominated for 10 Grammys based on the '64 work.....how many did they win (and in what categories - if you know) ?????

[Ducatista47]

I second Leo Kottke's godlike status in the acoustic music world. He plays differently than in his early days because he had to overcome a physical breakdown of his tendons in his right hand. Continued music making necessitated a change of playing style.

Another keeper in that vinyl buy is Ian & Sylvia. There is no more legendary figure in Canadian folk, country and beyond than Ian Tyson. Sylvia Fricker was his partner and equal. Both still perform. I met them once and they are really down to Earth. Good thing, or being in the presence of such unbelievable talent would have given me the shakes. Damned if he didn't think enough of me to ask me to be his roadie. Because of that I cannot honestly say that I regret nothing.

Clark

[SEAWOLF97]

I second Leo Kottke's godlike status in the acoustic music world. He plays differently than in his early days because he had to overcome a physical breakdown of his tendons in his right hand. Continued music making necessitated a change of playing style.

At least he has an interesting BIO :)

[JoMoCo]

Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas Vinyl on Tomato TOM-2-7001 highly recommended 1977 if you like this sort of music...

[demon]

hello!

i listened to miles davis' "AURA" the first time last week, and a couple of times since then. it features robopercussion, mclaughlin razorsharp and miles appears (as always) simply haunting. with orchestra, that playes in a "contemporary classical" direction.
it scares me, but im fascinated. anyone know it? care to share a thought?

best,
mikey

ps: back cover attached

cheers,
mikey

[SEAWOLF97]

So Portland, OR was 55 degrees and sunny = TREK vinyl safari :applaud:
( I always feel so good after a ride...and new vinyl acquisitions make the day even better)

The Mozart & Rossini are doubles ...finding a lot of ELO lately, I'm warming up to Alan Parsons and Rare Earth is classic ..."I just want to celebrate" !! ...I have "one world" already, but in poor condition..the cover is very matte...this one is high gloss , just looked at it...yes, a German pressing...all 3 of my different German albums are high gloss...is this common for their vinyl ?

(everything for under $4)

Oh yeah..I got "The Capitol Albums" (Beatles)vol2 ..... 4 disk set at the lib too...

[SpeakerLabFan]

Fever Tree - Another Time, Another Place
(1968, Uni) Monarch symbol (circled MR) in the deadwax

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Milt Jackson, Coleman Hawkins - Bean Bags
(1959, Atlantic) 1963 pressing

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[SEAWOLF97]

TRIVIA QUESTION #1

In 1964 the Beatles released 4 albums. In 1965 they were nominated for 10 Grammys based on the '64 work.....how many did they win (and in what categories - if you know) ?????





OKAY ...the response to the trivia question was so overwhelming , that there is now a second one

TRIVIA QUESTION #2

which Steely Dan album was "FM" on ?



(answer to #1 ? ) zero

[LRBacon]

Linda Ronstadt - Hand Sown....Home Grown
(1969, Capitol) 1970 pressing

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I wish! :( I wish I'd see the Byrds (or the Flying Burrito Brothers for that matter). Didn't do alot of concert going until about 1972/73 (age 16, 17), so I pretty much missed the train for the Byrds.

I bought most of their early records, and I have at least a couple of nice "360 Sound" mono pressings. I listened to the "Untitled" double LP last weekend, really like the live side including their version of Lover Of The Bayou.



I'm thinking McGuinn was a good student!?

Yep, more than one table here. I do some listening on the bedroom system with the JBL 4425s (Technics SL1800 + Shure M97xe) -- like now. :bouncy:


I got to see the Byrds at the St. Martins College (now university) in Lacey, circa late '68 early '69. It was a dance, they had a light show and a large strobe light. The strobe light was cool.

Larry
P.S. "FM" wasn't originally released on a Steely Dan album. It was first released on the FM (the movie)soundtrack album released in 1978. Later it was on their compilation releases.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Fleetwood Mac - Penguin
(1973, Reprise)

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I got to see the Byrds at the St. Martins College (now university) in Lacey, circa late '68 early '69. It was a dance, they had a light show and a large strobe light. The strobe light was cool.



Nice. yeah the strobe lights were mind blowers. :hyp:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
(1962, Verve) V-8432; V6-8432; playing the mono pressing
"recorded in Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington DC, Feb 13, 1962"

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[hjames]

Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba
(1962, Verve) V-8432; V6-8432; playing the mono pressing
"recorded in Pierce Hall, All Souls Unitarian Church, Washington DC, Feb 13, 1962"


Hmm - local recording!
Less that 2 weeks ago we had brunch with someone who grew up
attending All Souls Unitarian Church - she's moved and now attends the UU church
in Harrisonburg, VA where I met her.

- I'll have to look that one up - thanks!

Looks like you have multiple copies
- is the mono one the preferred version?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Miles Davis -Porgy And Bess
(1958, Columbia)

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Stan Getz, Charlie Byrd - Jazz Samba


Hmm - local recording!
Less that 2 weeks ago we had brunch with someone who grew up
attending All Souls Unitarian Church - she's moved and now attends the UU church
in Harrisonburg, VA where I met her.

- I'll have to look that one up - thanks!

Looks like you have multiple copies
- is the mono one the preferred version?

Hah. It's interesting history, I'd do the same if I was local. I have heard some nice music in some Unitarian churches out here but nothing that ended up on Verve, AFAIK.

I've never done a comparison between the Mono and Stereo, and too much time since I listened to the stereo. I usually prefer mono recordings from this period, I don't know how this record was mixed for stereo. The mono was stunning last night on the JBL 4425s - Charlie Byrd's jazz guitar was very present in the room.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Clark Terry - In Orbit
(1958, Riverside) 1987 Fantasy OJC

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[SEAWOLF97]

TRIVIA QUESTION #2
which Steely Dan album was "FM" on ?






"FM" wasn't originally released on a Steely Dan album. It was first released on the FM (the movie)soundtrack album released in 1978. Later it was on their compilation releases.

If anyone was to get it right, my guess wudda been Larry...yes, it was on the FM soundtrack..1978....then a lot later on the "Decade of SD" 1985

VG..LR :applaud:

[SpeakerLabFan]

John Lennon - Mind Games
(1973, Apple) "Manufactured and Distributed by Capitol Records (Canada)"
cleaning up an Apple and MFP copy, both play great

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[LRBacon]

If anyone was to get it right, my guess wudda been Larry...yes, it was on the FM soundtrack..1978....then a lot later on the "Decade of SD" 1985

VG..LR :applaud:

Thanks, Tom.:D

[SpeakerLabFan]

Eye To Eye - Self Titled
(1982, Warner Bros) Produced by Gary Katz; STERLING in the deadwax

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[SpeakerLabFan]

XTC - Black Sea
(1980, Virgin/Geffen) G "heart symbol" JVC in the deadwax, both sides

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Emmylou Harris - The Ballad of Sally Rose
(1985, Warner Bros) MASTERFONICS in the deadwax, both sides

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[SEAWOLF97]

got out on 2 wheels Saturday and made the long trip to near Mt. Hood CC ....weather was good and picked up the ELO best and Linda R's best....she sounds better on LP vs CD. yesterday was the 9 mile circuit in driving wind & rain (to test my rain gear , which is not up to the task of really wet trips) and found nothing....today a little better , overcast and did the 6 mile loop and found these 4 @ a quarter each ...all fine condition :applaud: ..this is prolly the 10th copy of the LR hits that I've found , never got one in good enuff condition to buy till now.

[hjames]

Got on a Mark Knopfler kick lately - blame it on the new album "Get Lucky".
Anyway, I've been tracking down his post Dire Straits solo career - seems I missed a lot of good music there. Anyway, today I received a copy of "Sailing to Philadelphia" I ordered last week ... and darned if the back of the case isn't stamped HDCD. Tho I haven't had a chance to pop it in the HK CD unit or the Oppo yet (both of them decode the HDCD magic), its really quite nice stuff ...

[SEAWOLF97]

Got on a Mark Knopfler kick lately - blame it on the new album "Get Lucky"..

I checked out "Get Lucky" yesterday and listened this morning..it was pleasant enough, but I felt it lacked the fire/spark/edge of his earlier work, rather "easy listening" very Irish folk song oriented...."Ragpickers Dream" seems to be the pick of the post Dire Straits offerings.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Various Artists - Underground Gold
(1969, Liberty)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Incredible String Band - Liquid Acrobat As Regards The Air
(1972, Elektra) STERLING in the deadwax, both sides

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - Between The Buttons
(1967, Decca) MANUFACTURED IN GERMANY in the deadwax; "Mike Jagger" credited on label
one of my favorites, Something Happened To Me Yesterday has great vocals by Keith

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Changes
(1964, Columbia)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Ten Years After - StonedHenge
(1969, Deram) Bell Sound in the deadwax

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[SEAWOLF97]

one of my favorites, Something Happened To Me Yesterday has great vocals by Keith


yes, that one always brings a smile "if you're out on your bike tonight..wear white"


Ten Years After - StonedHenge
(1969, Deram) Bell Sound in the deadwax


How does that compare with A Space In Time ?

What do you do for record cleaning with that large vinyl collection ?

[SpeakerLabFan]

yes, that one always brings a smile "if you're out on your bike tonight..wear white"

How does that compare with A Space In Time ?

What do you do for record cleaning with that large vinyl collection ?

:D There's an interesting page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Happened_to_Me_Yesterday)on the song on wikipedia with this bit about that spoken word ending:



On the song, Jagger said at the time of its release, "I leave it to the individual imagination as to what happened."[2] (http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/#cite_note-something-1) The most distinct portion of the song is the ending, where Jagger, using spoken word, gives this send off:
“Well thank you very much and now I think it's time for us all to go. So from all of us to all of you, not forgetting the boys in the band and our producer Reg Thorpe, we'd like to say God bless. So if you're out tonight, don't forget, if you're on your bike, wear white. Evening all.”
This 'send off' prompted many in the newly emerging counter-culture music press to speculate about a possible breakup of The Stones. On the ending, Jagger said, "The ending is something I remember hearing on the BBC as the bombs dropped."


I think "StonedHedge" came out before their Woodstock appearance, and certainly doesn't show the studio polish of A Space In Time. It has several great Alvin Lee blues guitar showcases, but it's rough and loose with lots of wierd percussion and sound effects thrown in, which make sense when you consider the time and audience. :blink::D

I use a vacuum RCM - the Nitty Gritty record doctor (http://www.audioadvisor.com/prodinfo.asp?number=NGRD3). It's manual operation but just as effective as the more expensive models like the VPI. A vacuum RCM is the only way to go as far as I'm concerned. By far the single best investment in my system. :blah:

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
(1972, Rolling Stone) Artisan symbol and "PR" in the deadwax; original Unipack cover w/ postcards

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[SEAWOLF97]

I acquired the digi versions of these 2 yesterday ...the TSMR is a SACD rip and really nice quality....the PG album was coool. they both fit on 1 minidisk (minus the end cut from PG) and so I was able to listen to them in the sack last night thru the Senn HD-580's . Most ipods wont drive the Senns very well , but the Sony portable MD player will..
I hear so much more detail on the cans than on speakers ...on TSMR and the 2009 Beatles you can now hear band members giving each other cues during a performance. Now hearing instruments that were masked in prior versions. :bouncy:

I wonder which of my kids made off with my vinyl TSMR ?? :biting:


oh yeah...mebbe the best cut on TSMR is "The Lantern" ...early in the track, I can just barely hear Keiths great guitar...like its being picked up on someone else's mike...then later its like his got plugged in and comes thru loud & clear...anybody else notice that ?

Gomper & 2000 Light Years from Home are VF also :D

[SpeakerLabFan]

Charlie Haden / Hampton Hawes - As Long As There's Music
(1979, Artists House) MASTERDISK RL in the deadwax

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Hampton Hawes Trio - The Green Leaves Of Summer
(1964, Contemporary) Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins compositions; an incredibly nice sounding Stereo pressing

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[SEAWOLF97]

Got in a 9 mile ride yesterday (on track for nearly 50 this week) and picked up this double of Wagner ...looks great. :D Also, after watching "Candy" last week .. http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=276886#post276886 ...I was reading the IMDB forums and they wondered why the soundtrack was never put to CD ? and how to get a copy ? ....

Today was blustery and not up to riding mins, so....

I remembered that I have Candy on vinyl , and that I have a new (2me) PL-560 and new (2me) AudioLava Prem SW...so I hooked up the TT and ran it to the SB card....software has phono preamp sim.....Anyway, it sounded great and I was able to clean abt 40 years worth of noise off the vinyl and save it digi ...the SW will let you monitor just the removed noise , and there was A LOT..nice now & will prolly leave the TT where it is to transfer LP's at will :applaud:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Chet Atkins - Guitar Country
(1964, RCA Victor)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Yardbirds - For Your Love
(1965, Epic) Brian Auger on harpsichord for the title track

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over
(1964, Epic) Mono
Apparently there are 2 different '64 cover photos: w/ and w/o instruments

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Clear Light - Self titled
(1967, Elektra)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Wilson Pickett - The Sound Of Wilson Pickett
(1967, Atlantic)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Duane Eddy And The Rebels - Duane A Go Go Go
(1965, Colpix) Promo/NFS; Stereo pressing

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Laurindo Almeida - Acapulco '22
(1963, Tower / Capitol)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

John Coltrane - Coltrane Jazz
(1960, Atlantic) 1969 pressing; SRC signature in the deadwax > Specialty Records Corporation

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/Coltrane001.jpg

[SpeakerLabFan]

Larry Coryell - Barefoot Boy
(1971, Flying Dutchman) Recorded at Electric Lady studios
This recording is a noteworthy example of the possibilities inherent in the early days of fusion, blending the electrifying energy of rock with the improvisational excitement of jazz. - Allmusic review

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/coryell002.jpg

[SEAWOLF97]

took the 9 mile loop Friday in heavy winds - no joy - then did the 16 yesterday (out to MHCC) ...little joy...but I found a record that I'd only seen once and prolly wont even play it , BUT it was one of my Dad's (1919-1987) favorites (esp. "The Cremation of Sam McGee") and I heard it many times in the 60's ...he'd be happy to know I saved it :)

[SpeakerLabFan]

Philip Glass - Songs From Liquid Days
(1986, FM/CBS) Linda Ronstadt singing along to Philip Glass is interesting

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/glass001.jpg



took the 9 mile loop Friday in heavy winds - no joy - then did the 16 yesterday (out to MHCC) ...little joy...but I found a record that I'd only seen once and prolly wont even play it , BUT it was one of my Dad's (1919-1987) favorites (esp. "The Cremation of Sam McGee") and I heard it many times in the 60's ...he'd be happy to know I saved it :)

very cool, worth it for the cover

[SpeakerLabFan]

Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple
(1968, Tetragrammaton) circled MR in deadwax both sides

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[SpeakerLabFan]

John Mayall - Thru The Years
(1971, London) w/ Mick Taylor, Peter Green, John McVie, Eric Clapton

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Cannonball Adderley Quintet - Cannonball Adderley Quintet At The Lighthouse
(1960, Riverside)

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[SpeakerLabFan]

John Mayall and The Bluesbreakers - The Diary Of A Band
(1968, London) 1970 US pressing; shows from a summer 1967 tour that Mayall taped on a portable recorder
...another reminder of how it took the UK/British Invasion to show us why the blues should be respected.

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Blondie - Plastic Letters
(1977, Chrysalis) STERLING in the deadwax

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown
(1974, Reprise) 1979 Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs pressing, Stan Ricker, Mastering Engineer
landed in the HPB clearance bin yesterday & I grabbed it for 50cents today, plays wonderfully

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Buddy Holly - The Great Buddy Holly
(1967, Vocalion)
R.I.P. Charles Hardin "Buddy" Holley (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959) known professionally as Buddy Holly

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[SpeakerLabFan]

John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton
(1966, Decca) UK pressing; 1st stereo pressing w/ unboxed Decca label

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[SEAWOLF97]

Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple
(1968, Tetragrammaton) circled MR in deadwax both sides

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THAT is a great licorice pizza you got there....one of my favs.
You seem to have a lot of "rarely seen" vinyl too ?

The OL is out shopping so I'm giving the L7's their first "real" audition with "A Space in Time"
.....one of these days now...:bouncy:

In a time when they are remastering everything from the mid 90's on back...cant find where ASiT has been done...mebbe because it was so well recorded initially ?


John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers - Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton
(1966, Decca) UK pressing; 1st stereo pressing w/ unboxed Decca label


funny that you are listening to John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers and it just came to the top of my library que (on CD) today and I just picked it up....but mine has 14 tracks. And in the black box on the cover mine says "Deram":

[SpeakerLabFan]

David Gilmour - Self Titled
(1978, Columbia)

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THAT is a great licorice pizza you got there....one of my favs.
You seem to have a lot of "rarely seen" vinyl too ?



Well, I think there was a 2nd wave (after the CDrom wave in the 8090s) of people dumping record collections in the past 5 years and for that I give thanks to the popularity of those portable I-things and BOSE. I hit some memorable garage sales up here, lots of small collections, and I'm still sorting through a couple of truck-load collections 3 years later. ...18 boxes of rock & jazz records for $50? Ok! a living room full of 6070s records for $75 ... yep! , and still finding lots of 50 cent and dollar gems out there at the sales and thrifts. yay.

I have a couple of external DACs and enjoy a good CD once in awhile but... "vinyl is final".



The OL is out shopping so I'm giving the L7's their first "real" audition with "A Space in Time"
.....one of these days now...:bouncy:

In a time when they are remastering everything from the mid 90's on back...cant find where ASiT has been done...mebbe because it was so well recorded initially ?



That's always been a big favorite here, great studio recording, and I think have the track listing burned to memory so well that it seemed really odd to hear a couple of songs from ASIT out of order when I recently listened to a TYA Greatest Hits LP.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Blues Project - Projections
(1966, Verve Forecast) Mono pressing

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow
(1976, Atlantic)
w/ a nice multi-page gatefold cover

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[SpeakerLabFan]

John Mayall - Looking Back
(1969, London) Bell Sound in the deadwax
w/ Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, Mick Taylor

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/Mayall002.jpg

[SpeakerLabFan]

Grace Slick - Dreams
(1980, RCA) MASTERDISK RL in the deadwax; mastering by Robert Ludwig

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[SEAWOLF97]

9 mile safari yesterday .grabbed these 2 ..had GF's use Palmers song title as an excuse in the past :D

[SpeakerLabFan]

Max Roach / Art Blakey - Percussion Discussion
(1976, Chess) 2 LP compilation of '57 '58 Cadet releases

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[SpeakerLabFan]

The Meters - Cabbage Alley
(1972, Reprise)
great New Orleans funk inspired by New Orleans entry in the Super Bowl tomorrow & the start of Mardi Gras

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Various Artists - A Mercury "In-Store Play Special..."
(1973, Mercury) w/ Ray Manzarek, Kraftwerk, Thin Lizzy, Rush, Vassar Clements
"G.K." in the deadwax > mastered by Gilbert Kong; narration btw. tracks

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/mercury001.jpg

[SpeakerLabFan]

Stealers Wheel - Ferguslie Park
(1973, A&M) Promo/NFS; Mastering: Bob Ludwig at Sterling Sound

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[BMWCCA]

I'm sitting here with 20+ inches of snow on the ground enjoying some serious listening alone in the house, waiting for the power to go off.

So I thought I'd contribute to this thread with the list I'd been posting in the Weather thread in the off-topic forum.

Currently I'm spinning the full-digital recording on CD of Joe Jackson's "Body and Soul". Every time I dig out this old classic (1984) I'm extremely impressed, and reading the liner notes on how they set it up impresses me even more (the location was an "ancient" wood-and-stone Masonic lodge with two Neumann M-50 mics suspended fifteen-feet above the artists, for starters). A dynamic recording without being "loud" and with no noticeable compression so the dynamic range is from near-silence flute solos to punchy horns and explosive drums. Anyone with a good system deserves to listen to this at least once. Even if you're not familiar with Jackson's work you'll recognize "The Verdict" and "You Can't Get What You Want". Mine is the original version, hopefully the re-release (2006) is faithful to the original. I can't see how it could be any better.

Horns on horns! :applaud:

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I'd previously spun two full-digital direct-to-two-track recordings, one from Jackson, "Big World" which, though not as consistently superb as "Body and Soul" certainly has its moments.

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And I began this set with another "direct-to-two-track" full digital 1983 release from Tom Scott, "Target" which shows just how fine a simple red-book CD can sound and reminds me of why I gave up the tedious preening process of playing LPs and let my B&O 4002 atrophy so many decades ago:

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[SpeakerLabFan]

David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name...
(1971, Atlantic) Artisan logo in the deadwax

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[BMWCCA]

David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name...One of my favorites of all time. I have it on CD and LP and I've considered getting the re-mastered CD/DVD just for the heck of it!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Girlschool - Demolition
(1980, Bronze Records) W. German pressing

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David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name....


One of my favorites of all time. I have it on CD and LP and I've considered getting the re-mastered CD/DVD just for the heck of it!

Yeah, great record with so many amazing talents coming together, stars aligning. Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Neil Young, and on and on. Basically the same cast of characters working w/ Grace Slick & Paul Kantner on Blows Against The Empire and Sunfighter.

I really enjoyed the interview Crosby did with the NPR weekend guy, Bob Simon, a couple years ago -- they spent alot of time talking about selections from this record and stories behind them, etc, because it's one of Bob Simon's all time favorite records as well. It's worth tracking down if you haven't heard it, there's probably an archive on npr.org...

[SpeakerLabFan]

Dr. John - Gumbo
(1972, Atco)
another New Awlins inspired spin

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/drjohn001.jpg

[hjames]

Blame Phil - he's got me on a Joe Jackson jag ...
I'll play the later 2 track recordings later when I sit in the living room,
with the L200plus and walnut smith horns ...

This is good wakeup energy with a cuppa guatamalan coban coffee
(who wants to shovel snow? - the street's not even plowed yet!)

Joe Jackson - I'm the Man (1979)

[SEAWOLF97]

David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name...
(1971, Atlantic) Artisan logo in the deadwax


since you are listening a lot ...how 'bout including your impressions of performance and quality ?

I listen a lot too ...but many of them go straight to long term storage after one session.

[SEAWOLF97]

Went out on vinyl safari in the gas powered vehicle (yeah I know, how primitive) .....got this hard boxed 4 LP set of the complete soundtrack to "Romeo & Juliet" ...includes 40 page book with dialog.

Also Eagles & Steve Miller double ....not a bad trip...:applaud:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Pete Fountain - The New Orleans Jazz Club Presents Pete Fountain Day
(1960, Coral)
They are celebrating in the Crescent city tonight. I figured that this 60s Coral record would be nice, but I'm still surprised by how well done this live stereo recording is. All the instruments, piano, drums, bass, and clarinet are separately and distinctly placed, and no one is over-miked. And this isn't the expected Benny Goodman swing or dixie land big band schmaltz - it's a quintet, great chops and nice solos here. I will have to listen to more Pete Fountain, hopefully it'll be more of the same and not the exception.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/fountain001.jpg

[SEAWOLF97]

Pete Fountain - The New Orleans Jazz Club Presents Pete Fountain Day
(1960, Coral)
They are celebrating in the Crescent city tonight. I figured that this 60s Coral record would be nice, but I'm still surprised by how well done this live stereo recording is.

THANX...thats what I was looking for :applaud:

I'd been so enjoying ASIT, that I had a big session with everything TYA ....Cricklewood and Pure Blues stand out pretty well.

[Krunchy]

A CD by Steve Winwood from 2003.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/710Y99GSMCL._SS500_.jpg
Get this one.
Clark
Agreed, great recording, forgot how good Steve Winwood can be. The guitar playing is phenomenal, have not heard that level of playing in a long time, its actually hard to believe its from 2003.
Thank you Clark :)


SpeakerLabFan,
You have got one hell of a record collection my friend :applaud: very intersting material.
:dj-party:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Azimuth - Depart
(1979, ECM) w/ Ralph Towner; W. German pressing
I've never encountered a bad ECM pressing, and it's extra nice to have this as a German pressing since the ECM label started in Munich in 1969. Recorded at Talent studio in Oslo where I think Pat Metheny cut alot of ECM titles around this time. Nice airy jazz with female vocals, piano, flugelhorn, trumpet and R. Towner on 12 string and classical guitar. I picked up this copy from a dollar box at Ranch Records in Salem, OR last fall. A nice store if you're in the area - I was in Salem visiting Willamette University, doing some college shopping w/ my daughter. will definitely return to Ranch records often, if she decides on that school.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/azimuth001.jpg

Thanks Krunchy :spin:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jon Anderson - Song Of Seven
(1980, Atlantic) NFS/Promo; STRAWBERRY in the deadwax, both sides

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Jon Anderson's 2nd solo LP. I listened to his 1st, Olias Of Sunhillow, a few days ago - that one was inspired by Yes - Fragile and it sounds like it. This one sounds a bit more conventional with the electronic pop synth crap of the era. One reviewer says this sounds at times like a spiritually informed Supertramp, I wouldn't go that far and it still has it's moments - Everybody Loves You leads off side 2 is very nice.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Loretta Lynn - Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits
(1968, Decca)

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I'm glad I ran across this one for 50 cents a few weeks ago. Country is not my cup of tea but this is the real good old country from Butcher Hollow, KY. My paternal grandmother was from Kentucky, maybe that's it. A nice heavy LP on the Decca label from the 60s. Nice lead guitar and pedal steel from nashville studio players, nicely miked drums and bass, sounds fantastic. Don't Come Home A Drinkin' With Lovin' On Your Mind. classic.

[Ducatista47]

Agreed, great recording, forgot how good Steve Winwood can be. The guitar playing is phenomenal, have not heard that level of playing in a long time, its actually hard to believe its from 2003.
Thank you Clark :)

Well, you are quite welcome. I am always playing catch-up for all the favors you do for me. :) Did you get to check out this video? If it seems boring skip to about 4:50. At about six minutes he takes off and channels Santana and Gilmore. Together. I was astonished.

Searching past the fine link provided, I found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRd0Z37Dt8Y&feature=related

The new guitarist seems a fortuitous combination of Santana, David Gilmore and Akkerman influences. I think his name is Niels van der Steenhoven.

For my taste, some of the nicest music I have heard in years. I'll look for the CD, Focus 9 / New Skin
The drummer is as good as the guitarist, too, I think. It has been a while since I had seen that much talent on one stage.

The metal side of the guitarist is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vs19J1DrNw&NR=1

Clark

[SEAWOLF97]

Got out on a 6 mile ride yesterday (taking it EZ as my knee was sore) , found the Brahms and this 4 LP set of "Superstars of the 70's" ...VG cond. ($1)

[SpeakerLabFan]

Lonnie Liston Smith - The Best Of Lonnie Liston Smith
(1978, RCA Victor)

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Some nice fusion explorations, his work with Pharoah Sanders, Gato Barbieri, and Miles Davis in the late 60s early 70s really shows, with some stretching out on some tracks. Not so much on the vocal tracks which sound like more of a pop-crossover target. Nice recording, cleaned up very nicely on the used VPI 16.5 RCM I picked up today from a friend - it's a step up from the Nitty Gritty RCM that I can already tell I'm going to enjoy.

[SpeakerLabFan]

George Benson - Blue Benson
(1976, Polydor) MASTERDISK in the deadwax

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Well I can tell right away that this is clearly the tasty early Benson jazz guitar, even though the recording wasn't released until 1976 - yep, the back jacket says recorded Feb and Nov 1968. There are a bunch of his early titles that I think are just right, I'm glad I've run across alot of them. Great pressing too.

[Krunchy]

Well, you are quite welcome. I am always playing catch-up for all the favors you do for me. :) Did you get to check out this video? If it seems boring skip to about 4:50. At about six minutes he takes off and channels Santana and Gilmore. Together. I was astonished.
The drummer is as good as the guitarist, too, I think. It has been a while since I had seen that much talent on one stage.Clark

Was not aware of this band, great song, santana & gilmore is very apt description, man that guy can play! Aslo reminded me a bit of Larry Carlton (not familiar with Akkerman, but we're probably talking about the same thing) with his fusiony jazz style, yeah the whole band is pretty amzing.
I also really liked the backdrop during the performance, it compliments the music very nicely and does not compete for your attention or turn into a light show like many show innevitably do these days. Very cool!
I gotta dissagree with you on something though Clark, it is I who is way in the red with you as far a favors go, deeply indebted is a more like it my friend :D ;) Thanks again!

[SEAWOLF97]

Did the 9 mile loop yesterday..it was so nice that I didnt want to come home...I really like the "Phase 4's" and grab them anytime the music fits...couple of backups...Aja and W&tPB...they were in too nice condition to leave there. :D ..the 1812 uses real cannons.

[Punch]

Nice finds Tom...

I have been playing (on guitar) "You Don't Love" by Mayall, but I kick it up a notch and play the Gary Moore version.

[Krunchy]

Vic Chesnut;
Great album, just getting acquainted with his material, but like what I've heard so far. Talented guy, too bad he commited suicide recently :(
Anybody else familiar with his body of work?

Later!


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[Punch]

.....I broke this out after putting it away back in '95. Kevin Connolly "Little Town"....nice vocals and guitar and "Take Me To The Sea" (cut #1) is great to demo gear.

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[SpeakerLabFan]

Young-Holt Unlimited - Mellow Dreamin'
(1970, Cotillion)

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Some tasty soul and jazz instrumental from former rhythm section of Ramsey Lewis' jazz trio. Lots of nicely recorded instruments including piano/organ, flugelhorn/trumpet, but driven by Eldee Young's bass and Redd Holt's drums. Nice cover of Witchita Lineman, and a piece called Trippin' on side 1.


Did the 9 mile loop yesterday..it was so nice that I didnt want to come home...I really like the "Phase 4's" and grab them anytime the music fits...couple of backups...Aja and W&tPB...they were in too nice condition to leave there. :D ..the 1812 uses real cannons.

Mayall did that recording of The Blues Alone by himself in the studio - played all instruments except some drums I think. There's a good write-up on the session on his wikipedia page. Nice grab.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Taj Mahal - Music Keeps Me Together
(1975, Columbia) NFS/Promo; Frankford/Wayne in the deadwax -> Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs, NYC.

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There's a reggae touch here with the usual Taj blues and funk.

[BMWCCA]

Very nicely done. Loaned to me by a co-worker and I dutifully ripped a copy:

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Various Artists - The Fi/ Analogue Productions Sampler:
"A great sampler of early Analogue Productions reissues and APO Records original recordings. Blues, Jazz and female vocal tracks, all cherry-picked for their exceptional sound. Includes a detailed description of each of the 16 tracks. We had been out of this title for several years, but recently found a box of 30 in our warehouse move. Don't wait." (currently NLA)

Track Listings
1. Sonny Boy Williamson & Matt 'Guitar' Murphy: The Sky Is Crying
2. Sonny Boy Williamson: Don't Let Your Right Hand Know
3. Otis Spann: Good Morning Mr. Blues
4. Otis Spann: Goin' Down Slow
5. Jimmy Rogers & The Allstars: Blue Bird
6. Jimmy Rogers & Tha Allstats: Why Are You So Mean To Me?
7. Jimmy D. Lane: Hear My Train A Comin'
8. Nancy Bryan: Blood Song
9. Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
10. Shelly Manne: Poinciana
11. Art Pepper: Straight, No Chaser
12. Art Pepper: Blues For Blanche
13. Miles Davis: It Never Entered My Mind
14. Bill Evans Trio: My Foolish Heart
15. Sonny Rollins: I'm An Ol' Cowhand
16. Chet Baker: September Song

Sample it for yourself here: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:dh3UBDtBHTQJ:www.last.fm/music/Various%2BArtists/The%2BFi%2B%25252F%2BAnalogue%2BProductions%2BSamp ler+fi/analogue+productions+sampler&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Blues Project - The Blues Project Live At Town Hall
(1967, Verve Forecast) German pressing; MADE IN GERMANY in the deadwax

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psychedelic jazz blues rock, that's alot of categories but they explored them, Al Kooper at the keyboards, some nice extended jams here, compare to The Yardbirds.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
(1968, Columbia)

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Simple arrangements just a bass and drums behind Dylan for the most part here, but a nice recording, the Kenny Buttrey drums in the right channel have a wonderful sounding bass kick at times on the title track and Dear Landlord. ...and then there is this collection of rich Dylan songs to ponder.

[Punch]

[quote=BMWCCA;278658]Very nicely done. Loaned to me by a co-worker and I dutifully ripped a copy:

http://store.acousticsounds.com/images/medium/CAAPFI_SAMPLER__9682__01152009112439-6674.jpg

Various Artists - The Fi/ Analogue Productions Sampler:
"A great sampler of early Analogue Productions reissues and APO Records original recordings. Blues, Jazz and female vocal tracks, all cherry-picked for their exceptional sound. Includes a detailed description of each of the 16 tracks. We had been out of this title for several years, but recently found a box of 30 in our warehouse move. Don't wait." (currently NLA)
quote]

I'm grabbing this!

[SEAWOLF97]

picked up "Sons of Mercury" yesterday,, it was good.

there was enough of Happy Trails on there to make me pull out the real thing , burn to MD and toke on last night on the HD580's :D

[SEAWOLF97]

Got in 9 miles on the TREK today ....got 2 weird albums....animals ? and one something abt the Sun or Moon or something like that...:o:

[Punch]

Tom, by the way, which one's Pink? ;)

[SpeakerLabFan]

Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert
(1973, Polydor)

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A nice live performance w/ friends alongside including Pete Townsend and Steve Winwood - really like Winwood's vocals on In The Presence Of The Lord.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Norman Blake - Lighthouse On The Shore
(1985, Rounder)

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Some nice fiddle, banjo, cello, mandolin, viola, guitar playing here. "President's Garfield's Hornpipe" "Wildwood Flower."

[SpeakerLabFan]

Larry Coryell - The Restful Mind
(1974, Vanguard)

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Several players from the Oregon group (also on Vanguard) on this record including Ralph Towner on another guitar; also tablas, congas and acoustic bass. "Improvisation on Robert de Visee's Sarabande"; "Improvisation on Robert de Visee's Menuet II"

[SpeakerLabFan]

Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs - On Tour
(1966, MGM)

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Ring Dang Doo and (My Gal Is) Red Hot on the same LP, makes it worth the spin even if the rest isn't very interesting. They get that nice mid-60s studio treatment.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Humble Pie - Thunderbox
(1974, A&M)

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Cool cover design by Hipgnosis - original pressing has an opening to the inner cover, apparently that was censored/cleaned for this later pressing. Some basic R&B influenced rock here, turn it up.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Nana Mouskouri - Guantanamera
(1966, Fontana)

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What a voice especially on the title song and a wonderful sounding pressing.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Grateful Dead - Self Titled
(1967, Warner Bros.) Mono pressing

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Ahhhh, time to wallow in The Golden Road. I found this copy at an estate sale a couple of years ago.
dead-icating Cold Rain And Snow to folks dealing with too much ice and snow back east.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Roy Buchanan - That's What I'm Here For
(1973, Polydor) STERLING RL in the deadwax

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Telecaster heaven - an incredible cover of Hey Joe "in memory of Jimi Hendrix"

[SpeakerLabFan]

Chicago - Chicago V
(1972, Columbia)

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I'd heard the earlier titles, but it wasn't until V came out and my little brother (who was playing trumpet in the high school band of course) brought home a copy that I really wanted to listen end to end. A really nice accessible showcase of their playing from Terry Kath guitar to the horns, definitely my favorite title. My brother was a real fan - I remember he went to back to back shows when they toured around this time. They played at a large sports arena (seattle center coliseum) but with one of those stage-in-the-round setups, near one end of the arena, so you could get really close to their playing by walking around the middle balcony seats.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Glitterhouse - Color Blind
(1968, Dynovoice) Bell Sound in the deadwax

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Nice lush production for this psychedelic pop, great stuff. This was recorded in the same NY studio at the same time as The Band was recording Music From The Big Pink.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Yes - Relayer
(1974, Atlantic) PORKY in the deadwax

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Howe, Anderson, Squire + Patrick Moraz. affirmative.:spin:

[demon]

yes yes yes! :applaud: sillysweet pixie music, thats my kind of progrock! i got some albums, and i enjoy them a lot (from time to time).
when running (-sports) i always have the "long distance runaround" in my head, cant get it out. oh my.
here is my favorite reviewer/critic on yes: http://www.markprindle.com/yesa.htm#poop

+++++++++++++++++++

whats playing now:
MARTYN "great lengths"

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2009/3024-005lp.jpg

creative and lush electronic music. if youre not into contemporary electronic music but want to know more, check it out. for what i know, its pretty fresh and shows a good width of whats going on these days with beats and sounds and "ironic citations".

review found here:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=6035

have a great sunday!
mikey

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Boys Of The Lough - Live At Passim's
(1974, Philo)

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recorded live at Passim, Cambridge, MA 11/1974

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Horace Sliver Quintet & Trio - Blowin' The Blues Away
(1959, Blue Note) 1967 pressing w/ "Liberty Records" on the label

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Wow, this has a dynamic and 3D image. another demo record - "here's what jazz sounds like on my system".

[SEAWOLF97]

Chambers Brothers - The Time has come Today ....nearly seminal album .....although best know for the title track.....the others are vfine too..very soulful (was reading Wiki...they were a gospel group for a long time)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambers_Brothers

saw them at an expensive concert in 68/69 (those years are a little foggy) along with The Doors
($2 ticket) at SBCC...LaPlaya Field ....CB's did a better set than Jim & co.

The Time Has Come Today

One night when the group was playing in the Cheetah Club they were met by a man smoking a cigar who said that he was there to bring them to Columbia Records (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records) and that's where they met David Rubinson (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Rubinson&action=edit&redlink=1). Actually, Warner Brothers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Brothers) and RCA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA) wanted to sign them as well but wanted to change the bands image and put them in uniforms and have them put down their instruments. This is something that the brothers did not want! In the beginning it didn't seem much better with Columbia.
Columbia president Clive Davis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Davis) didn't want them to record their song "Time" and said that they didn't record that kind of stuff at Columbia. He also wanted to find a white group to record the song for them. The band said that this would never happen. When they broke the news to David Rubinson he was very heartbroken as he was really looking forward to producing "Time". He found a solution to the problem. He told the brothers that he might lose his job for doing this but they were going to record the song. He told them to come in early for the session. Everything would be ready but they wouldn't have any time to overdub or fix anything on the recording. They went into the LA studio in 1966 and recorded it with Rubinson adding some strange sitar like sounds over the song with some primitive / early Roland Farfisa synthesizers that he found in the studio. It didn't do any good because Columbia refused to put the single out.
Later on when the group had a regional hit with the song "All Strung Out Over You", Columbia allowed Rubinson and the Chambers Brothers to re-record "Time" in 1967. By this time they had expanded "Time" to be the showpiece of their live show. They recorded the new version in one take with all of the effects live in the studio. Rubinson had set up the reverb and reinsertion things with Fred Catero, the studio engineer. Rubinson recalled that it was just one of those incredible magic sessions with all of them reacting to each other and even the trippy time tunnel section in the center of the song was a spontaneous creation. [4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chambers_Brothers#cite_note-3)
The band scored its first major hit in 1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968) with "Time Has Come Today (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Has_Come_Today)" (written (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriter) by Joe & Willie Chambers), from the group's similarly named third album, "The Time Has Come". The song spent five consecutive weeks at #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100), just missing the Top Ten (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_40).

[SpeakerLabFan]

Rick Wakeman - White Rock: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Of The Innsbruck Winter Games
(1976, A&M) Promo / NFS; Canadian pressing

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/wakeman001.jpg

I found this in my shelves filed under Y for Yes. Seems appropriate with the 2010Vancouver games started. All tracks composed arranged performed produced by Wakeman - heavy on the Moog synth and Steinway Grand.

I really like that Chambers Brothers LP - soul psych. There are some gems here besides the hit and they had other interesting LPs in the 60s

[SEAWOLF97]

I really like that Chambers Brothers LP - soul psych. There are some gems here besides the hit and they had other interesting LPs in the 60s

Total agreement here.

Been giving "Cricklewood Green" more time...as a TYA fan, you can really hear the upcoming ASIT trends in CG. got some real keepers on dere,

http://www.amazon.com/Cricklewood-Green-Ten-Years-After/dp/B00005Y7KO

Amazon.com

Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee's hyperactive guitar solos (fretboard attacks a speed-metal guitarist would be proud to unleash) caught the ear of British rock fans and built a bridge to the blues. The well-produced Cricklewood Green, consisting of all-original material by Lee, is the group's best studio effort. For a band that made its reputation with live performances, most conspicuously at the Woodstock festival (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000AVW3/$%7B0%7D), that's probably minor praise, but it's praise nevertheless. The extended workout of the hit single "Love Like a Man" is the centerpiece of the album, one that opens with the frantic buzz of the back-to-back road songs "Sugar the Road" and "Working on the Road." But Lee, ably assisted by keyboardist Chick Churchill, fleshes out the trademark Ten Years After blues frenzy with an assortment of atypical approaches and styles. "Me and My Baby" delivers Lee and the band in a relaxed, almost swinging, mode, while "Circles" is a rare ballad offering. The sci-fi blues of "Year 3000 Blues" and semi-psychedelia of "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" and "As the Sun Still Burns Away" further extend the album's reach without sacrificing any of Lee's guitar excursions. --Michael Point

[SpeakerLabFan]

Uriah Heep - Uriah Heep Live
(1973, Mercury) G.K. in the deadwax - Gilbert Kong, mastering

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/uriah001.jpg

a nice live recording, the rhythm section really thunders; 2 LP set recorded on the 1973 UK tour

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Doors - Absolutely Live
(1970, Elektra) 1970 pressing w/ butterfly label

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/doors001.jpg

The Doors first live album, compiled from performances in the US between August '69 and June '70. Six months later Morrison was dead. I finished watching a PBS broadcast of a 1968 European concert today, so I thought I'd give this a spin.

[demon]

DANG!!

:applaud:

listened for the first time to:
jimmy giuffre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Giuffre#Discography) with bob brookmeyer and jim hall.
this is FUN!! and it sounds so fresh, its amazing. didnt know cowboys had so much funk :D
I LOVE IT!

[hjames]

Total agreement here.

Been giving "Cricklewood Green" more time...as a TYA fan, you can really hear the upcoming ASIT trends in CG. got some real keepers on dere,



Your comments made me pull out my old Cricklewood vinyl ... I'd been a fan of TYA for years, tho I prefer Watt to ASIT most of the time.
I'd forgotten some of the joys of CG - hadn't played it much since the mid 70s but I'd kept the vinyl through all the moves ...
Wow, no kidding - - "50,000 Miles ..." played before, "As the Sun still burns Away" now ... really forgotten this album!

Thanks for this thread guys - you bring back some good stuff!

[SEAWOLF97]

Your comments made me pull out my old Cricklewood vinyl ... I'd been a fan of TYA for years, tho I prefer Watt to ASIT most of the time.
I'd forgotten some of the joys of CG - hadn't played it much since the mid 70s but I'd kept the vinyl through all the moves ...
Wow, no kidding - - "50,000 Miles ..." played before, "As the Sun still burns Away" now ... really forgotten this album!

Thanks for this thread guys - you bring back some good stuff!

Last late I picked down the TYA anthology in 320kbps ...13 albums .plus the BBC ones when these are done...

# Ten Years After, 1967
# Undead, 1968
# Stonedhenge, 1968
# Ssssh, 1969
# Cricklewood Green, 1970
# Watt, 1970
# A Space In Time, 1971
# Alvin Lee And Company, 1972
# Rock & Roll Music To The World, 1972
# Recorded Live, 1973
# Positive Vibrations, 1974
Live At The Fillmore East, 1970 (2CD live) 2001

..been culling the best for a compilation MD...50,000 miles is there .....I love Alvin's slow windups to supersonic guitar frenzy's...:D

this is what I got so far ..as I'm only up to Ssssh..9 more albums to go...80 minutes on a MD to fill.


50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain.mp3
Spider In My Web.mp3
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.mp3
Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You.mp3
Love Like A Man.mp3
Once There Was A Time.mp3
Help Me.mp3
Boogie On.mp3
One Of These Days.mp3
Working On The Road.mp3

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Three Sounds - Hey There!
(1962, Blue Note) Recording by Rudy Van Gelder

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/3sounds001.jpg

Piano, bass, and drums; great cool jazz, picked-up for a couple of bucks today at HPB.


DANG!!

:applaud:

listened for the first time to:
jimmy giuffre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Giuffre#Discography) with bob brookmeyer and jim hall.
this is FUN!! and it sounds so fresh, its amazing. didnt know cowboys had so much funk :D
I LOVE IT!

Nice - I really like Jim Hall's playing on jazz guitar. that looks like a cool old Atlantic title, I bet it's a well recorded and mastered LP too!

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Section - Fork It Over
(1977, Capitol) Deadwax: MASTERED BY CAPITOL Wally -> Wally Traugott ( Capitol Studio & Mastering , Hollywood )

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/section001.jpg

Session players for Carole King, Jackson Browne, Crosby & Nash - Danny Kortchmar, Craig Doerge, Leland Sklar, and Russ Kunkel; David Crosby, James Taylor provide vocals respectively on the last track of each side of this otherwise instrumental and very dynamic studio album; picked up in the clearance shelves at HPB today.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Rita Coolidge - Nice Feelin'
(1971, A&M) Monarch symbol in the deadwax; recording engineers: Bruce Botnick, Glyn Johns

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/coolidge001.jpg

This is her 2nd LP backed by Marc Benno on guitars & vocals, and The Dixie Flyers; Al Kooper plays organ on a track; Dylan and Neil Young covers; really nice, rich production, and what a singer. I found this in a box of musty records, many w/ water damaged covers at St. Vinnies today.

[demon]

Nice - I really like Jim Hall's playing on jazz guitar. that looks like a cool old Atlantic title, I bet it's a well recorded and mastered LP too!hes a genius! one of very few guitarists that doesnt bore to hell with egocentric virtuosity. i love the colorful sound, and his kind of groove makes me smile!
see: :)
the recording sounds great, totally fresh and natural.
-----------------
whats playing now:
joe zawinul: di-a-lects, 1986.
lets call it nutty-professor-ethnofunk.
im a big fan of the genius DUO in weather report, but this soloalbum here has unique qualities and definitly stands for its own, also leading the way to the late zawinul and the 'syndicate.
joe zawinul was crazy about rythm, and this album is full with creative patterns, featuring a groove i can hardly escape.
also i can find a lot of humor in the melodies, orchestrations and sounds.

favorite track/recommendation: "carnavalito"

cheers,
mikey

[SEAWOLF97]

so I have 0 (zero) C&W music ...no interest , but was out on a 9 mile vinyl trek today and found Luke among others that I bought. Even I knew the picture and figured that there had to be an interesting story.
Its only G condition, and wud normally pass, but dont think any more of these will pass thru my mitts...:D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams

"Luke the Drifter"

In 1950, Hank Williams began recording as Luke the Drifter, an appellation given to him for use in identifying his religion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion)-themed recordings, many of which are recitations rather than singing. Fearful that disc jockeys and jukebox operators would become hesitant to accept these non-traditional Williams recordings, thereby hurting the marketability of Williams's name, the name Luke the Drifter was employed to cloak the identity of the artist.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Smithereens - Green Thoughts
(1988, Capitol/Enigma)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/smithereen002.jpg

described as "power pop" they do remind me a bit of Nick Lowe -- which is a good thing in my book.

Luke The Drifter


so I have 0 (zero) C&W music ...no interest , but was out on a 9 mile vinyl trek today and found Luke among others that I bought. Even I knew the picture and figured that there had to be an interesting story.


Yep, that's an interesting story and probably not a title that turns up much. I've never seen one to my knowledge, although I flip past the C&W titles pretty quickly.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Gil Scott-Heron - The First Minute Of A New Day
(1975, Arista) deadwax: "F/W" -> Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs, NYC.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/Gil-Scott001.jpg

free-jazz / r&b with poetry, Nice playing, really well produced with the instruments distinct and floating free in the soundstage, but the vocals are an acquired taste. This is his second LP w/ Brian Jackson and includes Winter In America.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Golden Earring
(1975, Track)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/golden001.jpg

hard rock guitar combined w/ Dutch prog rock keyboardist Robert Jan Stips, I think this is less polished than Moontan/Radar Love, but interesting.

[SEAWOLF97]

abt 25 bike miles in the last 3 days ...have hauled these home.

[LRBacon]

picked up "Sons of Mercury" yesterday,, it was good.

there was enough of Happy Trails on there to make me pull out the real thing , burn to MD and toke on last night on the HD580's :D

QMS first album is my favorite, Tom. I also like Fresh Air from the Just For Love album. It's one of those tunes that I love to listen to with volume cranked up.

I should be biking, the weather here has been great!

Larry

[SpeakerLabFan]

Eleventh House/Larry Coryell - Aspects
(1976, Arista) STERLING in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/coryell001-2.jpg

Jazz Rock Fusion a touch more on the jazz side of the balance with blistering guitar playing from Mr. Coryell.

[SpeakerLabFan]

3 - To The Power Of Three
(1988, Geffen) Promo/NFS; Artisan symbol in the deadwax; Keith Emerson, keyboards, Carl Palmer, drums, Robert Berry, guitar

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/3002.jpg

It has it's moments with the unmistakeable Emerson keyboards, but unfortunately also lots of bland 80's style vocals/lyrics + digital arrangements, and I'm not sure if I'll make it all the way through. But I want to hear their cover of 8 Miles High.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Freddie Hubbard - Gettin' It Together
(1961, TCB) w/ Curtis Fuller, Yusef Lateef

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/hubbard001.jpg

early 60s cool jazz sounds very nice to these ears, great trumpet from Freddie Hubbard and great flute sounds from Yusef Lateef, trombone from Curtis Fuller from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and a frequent artist on Hubbard's titles.

[LRBacon]

Hey Tom I see you picked an LP of Gary Lewis & the Playboys. One of my favorite oldies groups. "Save Your Heart For Me" is my favorite tune.

Larry, about 130 miles up north.

[SEAWOLF97]

Hey Tom I see you picked an LP of Gary Lewis & the Playboys. One of my favorite oldies groups. "Save Your Heart For Me" is my favorite tune.

Larry, about 130 miles up north.

130 miles ? isnt that "Hendrix country" ? Weather was so nice that I got out on the TREK , but the winds were blustery , so only did 6 miles....pulled into a thrift and went back to the records.....Oh my....
LZ , Jimi , Cream , TYA ..etc.....grabbed up abt 30 and headed for a couch to check them over......Not 1 keeper out of the whole stack...looked like they'd been drug behind a car....:( ...but the GL &tPB's is perfect.....trade you for a Cricklewood Green ....thats become the current high replayer. :bouncy:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Antonio Carlos Jobim - The Composer Of Desafinado, Plays
(1963, Verve)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/jobim001.jpg

from the man who started Bossa Nova with Desafinado; beautiful gatefold cover

[SpeakerLabFan]

Chico Hamilton - Peregrinations
(1975, Blue Note) KENDUN -A in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/chico001.jpg

Arthur Blythe, alto sax; Joe Beck, guitar; there's plenty of advanced jazz/fusion playing here to keep this interesting and not overly commercial/smooth; really nice production.

[SpeakerLabFan]

McCoy Tyner - McCoy Tyner Live At Newport
(1968, Impulse!) VAN GELDER in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/tyner001.jpg

The story in the liner notes is this was a spontaneous quintet - Clark Terry's flugelhorn was locked in a car, Tyner was going on 3 hours sleep and not happy, and he had never played with Charlie Mariano - but Tyner came to life and it came together for the afternoon concert at Newport. and it sounds wonderful, as you'd expect from a Rudy Van Gelder engineered, and an Impulse! label recording.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
(1968, RCA Victor) 1968 pressing w/ black label & dog on top

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/airplane002-1.jpg

looking through duplicates, this one begged to be VPI'd and played; took the Manley tube amp out of Triode mode for the extra juice for full effect of the Jack Casady bass playing.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything?
(1972, Bearsville) STERLING in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/IMAGE_00154.jpg

Another one from the dupe pile to grade - it cleaned up well and plays great. I played disk one "a boquet of ear catching melodies" - love the studio tricks Intro track on side 2. As AllMusic puts it: "a kaleidoscopic odyssey through the mind of an insanely gifted pop music obsessive." Todd is god. (sorry about the crappy pictures - my main camera, a 12+ year old Kodak DC280, is finally giving up the ghost).

[SpeakerLabFan]

Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
(1979, Zappa) MASTERDISK in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/frank.jpg

2 LPs with sides A/D & B/C, Great playing and production, dumb lyrics even for Zappa.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jeff Beck - Truth
(1968, Epic) 1968 pressing w/ yellow label

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/IMAGE_00156.jpg

Jeff Beck's blistering guitar playing is the star here, but there is also some thunderous great bass from Ron Wood, and I can even overlook Rod Stewart's vocals. Blues and hard rock, earliest heavy metal.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Be-Bop Deluxe - Live! In The Air Age
(1977, Harvest) MASTERED BY CAPITOL in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/IMAGE_00157.jpg

double LP/EP; listening to side 1. wow, this is a great sounding live recording. I picked this up along with several other B-BD LPs in a thrift a couple of years ago - someone dumped a collection. Love the Fritz Lang Metropolis inspired artwork

[SpeakerLabFan]

Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
(1982, CBS/Barking Pumpkin) Dutch pressing; "Dinkum" in the deadwax both sides on US and Dutch pressing

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/IMAGE_00160.jpg

Comparing a Made in Holland pressing with a US pressing; in the liner notes:

This album has been engineered to sound correct on JBL 4311 speakers or an equivalent. Best results will be achieved if you set your pre-amp tone controls to the flat position with the loudness control in the off position. Before adding any treble or bass to the sound of the album, it would be advisable to check it out this way first. F.Z. Sounds pretty nice on the JBL 4425s!

[demon]

art ensemble of chicago, FULL FORCE
impressive, play loud!


http://www.artensembleofchicago.com/images/main.jpg
(http://www.artensembleofchicago.com)

cheers,
mikey

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jimi Hendrix - Midnight Lightning
(1975, Reprise)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/hendrix001.jpg

This is another mis-mash of Hendrix playing with posthumous sessions overdubbed on parts of songs, like the Crash Landing title which I purchased new. All the work is from '69 '70 and post-Jimi Hendrix Experience with some great blues playing instrumentals.


art ensemble of chicago, FULL FORCE
impressive, play loud!


(http://www.artensembleofchicago.com)

Nice, I've heard of these guys and would like to track down their stuff. :applaud:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Nektar - Remember The Future
(1973, Passport) STERLING in the deadwax; mastering by Robert Ludwig

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/nektar001.jpg

I'm really enjoying progressive rock in the late evenings lately, mostly Yes releases. This 4th album from Nektar holds it's own with the Yes. Great tasty guitar playing, jazz-quality drumming, spacy lyrics and vocals. "Remember The Future" is in two parts, each consisting of the entire side of the LP, at 17 and 19 minutes respectively. Cool artwork in a gatefold cover; Bob Ludwig mastering.

[SEAWOLF97]

Got out on the Fuji Saturday for the trip up to MHCC..got about 100 feet out the driveway and stopped. The headwinds were so strong that it was whistling in my ears. Nearly turned around, but remembered my own advise to my son "If you have to wait for a perfect day - you'll never get out"

Part of the route to Gresham is a long hill (202 & Stark up to 240&Stark) that is a real test under the best of conditions...today was a 15-20mph+ headwind. Resigned myself to the fact that walking the bike up wouldn't be shameful under these conditions..headed up , frequently downshifting until I ran out of gears, went to the next sprocket and down a couple more....but I stayed upright and moving..climbing at abt 1 MPG...made it to the intersection at the top and continued climbing another 1/4 mile b4 stopping....very happy performance for a nearly 61 Y.O.
Pulled into the thrift - NOTHING in buyable condition. Sunday another 8 Fuji miles -no joy-. Monday another 8 on flatter ground ....did p/u this Jackie DeShannon ..the tracks looked good.

Have been having so much fun with TYA - Cricklewood Green that I'd been looking for a better copy...Actually broke down and bought a remastered/extended CD from the Bay...my first new CD in years.:bouncy:

[SEAWOLF97]

Tom, by the way, which one's Pink? ;)

both/neither

[SpeakerLabFan]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition
(1971, Cotillion)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/elp001.jpg

On the lookout for a UK copy on the Island label. The unmistakeable keyboards and muscular bass are solid evidence here, and this just really gets rolling. Sounds great for a live recording.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band - Gorilla
(1967, Imperial/Liberty) w/o booklet

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/bonzo001.jpg

and now for something completely different; includes "Death Cab For Cutie" on side 1 which they also performed on the Magical Mystery Tour film at Paul McCartney's request, according to Wikipedia; crazy, interesting and it's growing on me with each listen; I recently picked up the early 70's Greatest Hits release.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Pat Williams - Shades Of Today
(1968, Verve)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/williams001.jpg

Easy swingin' jazz/pop/big band, nice production sounds like a Bacharach record (and "The Look Of Love" is here), cool valley of the dolls cover. Some nice covers including a couple of McCartneys - Eleanor Rigby and World Without Love.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Chico Hamilton Quintet - The Chico Hamilton Special
(1961, Columbia)

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/chico001-1.jpg

Doesn't get much better than this, except for when Gabor Szabo was at the guitar (Harry Pope plays wonderfully on this session), Charles Lloyd on Alto, flute. A great mono Columbia six-eyes.

[SpeakerLabFan]

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

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/harrison001.jpg

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/harrison002.jpg

Happy Birthday, George Harrison. I haven't listened to ATMP in awhile, was reminded as soon as side one started spinning that this is a classic, great record.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Traffic - Self Titled
(1968, United Artists) Bell Sound in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/traffic001.jpg

There are some strong Dave Mason songs starting with Track 1, and the Winwood/Capaldi songs are great too. Great guitar from Mason and keyboards from Winwood, and this sounds really nice in the high and mid frequencies - I'm not surprised that this is a Bell Sound Studios pressing.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
(1967, International Artists) 1979 repressing with "Masterfonics" in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/13002.jpg

Trippy and hypnotic from the first track, Slip Inside This House, which clocks in at over 8 minutes.

[SEAWOLF97]

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
(1970, Apple)
Happy Birthday, George Harrison. I haven't listened to ATMP in awhile, was reminded as soon as side one started spinning that this is a classic, great record.

really agree here...I have 2 of the boxed sets.....tho disk #3 doesn't get played often. :blink:
(if ever again)

NP:Capitol Records: 1942-2002

you can hear samples here:

http://www.buy.com/prod/capitol-records-1942-2002-deluxe-edition-w-book-limited-edition/q/loc/109/60568674.html

THE FORTIES
1. Freddie Slack & His Orchestra (with Ella Mae Morse) - Cow-Cow Boogie (1942) 2. Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra (with Billie Holiday) - Trav'lin' Light (1942) 3. Jo Stafford - Long Ago (And Far Away) (1944) 4. King Cole Trio - Straighten Up And Fly Right (1944) 5. Stan Kenton & His Orchestra - Artistry In Rhythm (1944) 6. Billy Butterfield & His Orchestra (with Margaret Whiting) - Moonlight In Vermont (1945) 7. Andy Russell - I Dream Of You (More Than You Dream I Do) (1944) 8. Martha Tilton - I'll Walk Alone (1944) 9. Johnny Mercer - Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive (1945) 10. Betty Hutton - Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief (1946) 11. Pied Pipers - Dream (1945) 12. Nellie Lutcher & Her Rhythm - Fine Brown Frame (1948) 13. Peggy Lee - It's A Good Day (1947) 14. The Dinning Sisters - Buttons And Bows (1948) 15. Mel Torme - Careless Hands (1949) 16. King Cole Trio - Nature Boy (1948).
THE FIFTIES
1. Frank Sinatra - Young-At-Heart (1954) 2. Dean Martin - Memories Are Made Of This (1956) 3. Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra - Satin Doll (1953) 4. Nat King Cole - Unforgettable (1952) 5. The Four Preps - 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) (1958) 6. Kay Starr - Wheel Of Fortune (1952) 7. Les Paul & Mary Ford - How High The Moon (1951) 8. Faron Young - Alone With You (1958) 9. Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Be-Bop-A-Lula (1956) 10. The Kingston Trio - Tom Dooley (1958) 11. Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (1955) 12. Peggy Lee - Fever (1958) 13. Ray Anthony & His Orchestra - Peter Gunn (1959) 14. Louis Prima & Keely Smith - That Old Black Magic (1958) 15. Miles Davis - Budo (1950) 16. Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (And One More For the Road) (1955).
THE SIXTIES
1. The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (1964) 2. The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice (1966) 3. Lou Rawls - Love Is A Hurtin' Thing (1966) 4. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations (1966) 5. The Human Beinz - Nobody But Me (1968) 6. The Outsiders - Time Won't Let Me (1966) 7. Stone Poneys featuring Linda Ronstadt - Different Drum (1968) 8. Nancy Wilson - (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am (1964) 9. Merle Haggard & the Strangers - Okie From Muskogee (1969) 10. Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fresh Air (1970) 11. Bobbie Gentry - Ode To Billie Joe (1967) 12. Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman (1969) 13. James Taylor - Carolina In My Mind (1969) 14. The Band - The Weight (1968) 15. The Beatles - Hey Jude (1968) 16. Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun (1970).
THE SEVENTIES
1. John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band - Imagine (1971) 2. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (1970) 3. Ringo Starr - It Don't Come Easy (1971) 4. Badfinger - Day After Day (1972) 5. Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On the Run (1974) 6. Pink Floyd - Time (1973) 7. Pink Floyd - Money (1973) 8. Grand Funk - We're An American Band (1973) 9. Steve Miller Band - The Joker (1973) 10. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves (1977) 11. Linda Ronstadt - You're No Good (1974) 12. Natalie Cole - This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) (1975) 13. Tavares - Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel (1976) 14. Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (1972) 15. A Taste Of Honey - Boogie Oogie Oogie (1976) 16. The Knack - My Sharona (1979).
THE EIGHTIES
1. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind (1980) 2. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (1987) 3. Billy Squier - The Stroke (1981) 4. Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On (1986) 5. Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine (1985) 6. Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra (1982) 7. Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science (1983) 8. The Tubes - She's A Beauty (1983) 9. The Motels - Only The Lonely (1982) 10. George Clinton - Atomic Dog (1983) 11. Duran Duran - Rio (1983) 12. Heart - These Dreams (1986) 13. Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It (1984) 14. The Power Station - Some Like It Hot (1985) 15. Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn (1988) 16. Beastie Boys - Hey Ladies (1989).
THE NINETIES
1. Radiohead - Creep (1993) 2. Beastie Boys - Sabotage (1994) 3. Everclear - Santa Monica (Watch The World Die) (1996) 4. Foo Fighters - Big Me (1996) 5. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees (1995) 6. M.C. Ham
(rest of 90's got cut off)

do you know that John Mayall turns 77 this year ???

wow..from the news: do you know this singer ?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Johnny Cash - Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian
(1964, Columbia) Mono pressing

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Happy Birthday, Johnny Cash. Alot of acoustic + spoken word tracks here, prefer the ones with guitar & rhythm section such as "Custer". Norman Blake, The Carter family play on this record.



wow..from the news: do you know this singer ?

"...I Bet You Think This Song Is About You..."

[SpeakerLabFan]

Accolade - Self Titled
(1970, Capitol) Winchester rifle symbol in the deadwax - capitol mastering winchester, va

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British pop/rock with Gordon Giltrap and Don Partridge - some nice instrumental jams here w/ bass, flute, vibes.

[SEAWOLF97]

Wet day ..put on the rain gear and headed out on a short 6 miler ....this Mike Oldfield double looked interesting...Randy Meisner had been mentioned in a great guitarist thread , so I'll give it a try. :D

[SpeakerLabFan]

Frank Sinatra - Sinatra At The Sands
(1966, Reprise) Mono pressing

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First live album that Sinatra released, it sounds like he's having fun with Basie, Quincy Jones who is conducting, and the audience, with some funny asides and quips in between songs. Piano, percussion and band sounds great and swings and it's Sinatra in the 1960's in his prime at age 51.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Three - Self Titled
(1975, Eastwind) Japanese pressing; "direct cutting"

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Shelly Manne, Ray Brown, Joe Sample; a great sounding recording on the JBL 4425s. Note inside the gatefold cover: "in monitor room the large loudspeaker system, Westlake Model TM-2 is used for this record. In case of listening to this record with small home type loudspeakers proper tone quality is available with the following tone control adjustment: side 1 and 2: Treble Control (6KHz-12KHz) ---- -----+4db"

[SpeakerLabFan]

Redwing - Self titled
(1971, Fantasy) Promo/NFS

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A yard sale pickup this morning, a Sacramento band, they sound a bit like CCR - good stuff. Timothy B. Schmit was w/ earlier versions of this band (New Breed, Glad), before leaving to join Poco in 1970. Glowing liner notes here from Ralph J. Gleason.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Dave Edmunds - Rockpile
(1971, EMI/Regal) Great Britain pressing

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Holy smokes this is a nice sounding record. I'm familiar and a big fan of the later 70s Edmunds / Rockpile records, nice to hear an earlier title, and one of the songs here was recorded in 1966 according to the cover notes.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Gabor Szabo - Mizrab
(1972, CTI) VAN GELDER in the deadwax

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Really enjoy Szabo's playing - described as a "metallic sound and mixture of single-note phrasings with chordal flurries". Nice production here with accompaniment from Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Bob James, Ralph MacDonald. and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Laura Nyro - More Than A New Discovery
(1967, Verve Forecast) FTS 3020

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Ring wear on the cover, but the record looks and plays great, another no-brainer from the dollar box this weekend. Wow a strong first album, I'm going to need to listen to Wedding Bell Blues, Stoney End, and a couple of others again... lovin' the Laura...

[whizzer]

Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Trippy and hypnotic from the first track, Slip Inside This House, which clocks in at over 8 minutes.

Yep, the first group from anywhere to call themselves "psychedelic" was from, of all places, Texas. I have the original pressings of all their albums. One can hear echoes of their performances in the later music of many groups, including the Rolling Stones. Their first album was a blueprint for what would much later become punk; this one, Easter Everywhere, their "masterpiece," defies meaningful description and is one of my all-time favorites, regardless of the poor recording quality typical of all their stuff. Coincidentally, I was listening to a CD of it this morning on my way to work. Isn't the sound produced by, weirdly, the electrified jug (!) unique?

[SEAWOLF97]

Yep, the first group from anywhere to call themselves "psychedelic" was from, of all places, Texas. I have the original pressings of all their albums. One can hear echoes of their performances in the later music of many groups, including the Rolling Stones. Their first album was a blueprint for what would much later become punk; this one, Easter Everywhere, their "masterpiece," defies meaningful description and is one of my all-time favorites, regardless of the poor recording quality typical of all their stuff. Coincidentally, I was listening to a CD of it this morning on my way to work. Isn't the sound produced by, weirdly, the electrified jug (!) unique?

I actually watched "You're Gonna Miss Me : A Film About Roky Erickson"

http://www.amazon.com/Youre-Gonna-Miss-Me-Erickson/dp/B000P0J060/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1267559922&sr=1-1

quite a story: from the Amazon description:

Amazon.com

In the annals of spooked rock, Roky Erickson is a legend. When you hear his wobbling, impassioned, vocal yowl, you have to admit: He could've been a sort of psychedelic, proto-punk, American Van Morrison. Alas, history has been less kind to Roky. Kevin McAlester's documentary discloses precisely why (and how) Roky's early status as an icon--a maverick rock genius as demonstrated by his band, the 13th Floor Elevators--went sadly awry. At the center of You're Gonna Miss Me are some crucial dramatic tropes: a terribly broken family; a pressing, age-old "Am I my brother's keeper" predicament; and a relatively simple case of schizophrenia. The film opens in a courtroom, Erickson's aging and awkward mother, Evelyn, and his youngest brother, Sumner, locked in a battle for guardianship over the then-53-year-old, mentally imbalanced singer. The film captures Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Patti Smith, and Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), among others, testifying to Roky's non-pareil genius. Also present, however, are tales of Roky's singular madness--extended acid and heroin binges and, alas, his then-present-day condition, living in cramped, decrepit quarters with an array of transistor radios, stereos, TVs, and keyboards, all cranked fully as he placidly reclines or wanders aimlessly. The film painstakingly shows the Erickson family's longstanding fissures, contextualizing Roky's schizophrenia and, disarmingly, putting his mother's own awkward idiosyncratic behavior on display. Lee Daniel's cinematography brilliantly captures the desolation and desperation of Roky's life, camera shaking and panning and finding hidden angles to show the strange, seemingly endless schizophrenic signs around the singer--dozens of antennae, stacks and stacks of mail strewn throughout his apartment, and Evelyn's complicated obsession with Roky's history--from his highpoints as a rocker to his tragic three-year stay at the Rusk State Hospital for marijuana possession (where, for example, he played in an ad hoc band with a couple of murderers, a rapist, and, improbably, a hospital counselor) to her own, eerie film project where she casts Roky as "the king of the beasts" in a home-movie she undertakes as a "legacy" for the family. The film is all about otherworldly dimensions, centering in large part on youngest brother, Sumner--himself an accomplished musician playing tuba with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra--and his legal battle to become Roky's guardian and get Roky "simple medical care" and medication for his schizophrenia. This is an important chapter in the history of rock, without the underlying humor that made Dig! an indie film hit in 2005 but with a much larger historical purview. --Andrew Bartlett

[SpeakerLabFan]

Isn't the sound produced by, weirdly, the electrified jug (!) unique?

Yeah that jug sound is very cool and a great contribution from Tommy Hall, the bands songwriter and, as a Univ of Texas Chemistry major, I've read that he provided alot of lysergic inspiration for them. Here's a couple of clips of them performing on the Dick Clark show: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2009/02/more_tommy_hall_the_13th_floor.php


I actually watched "You're Gonna Miss Me : A Film About Roky Erickson"


Tragic story. It must have been incredibly grim to navigate the Texas criminal justice system on drug charges back then.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bob Dylan / The Band - Before The Flood
(1974, Asylum) KENDUN in the deadwax; 2 LPs w/ sides 1&4 + 2&3

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/bob002.jpg

documenting the Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Tour, drawing mostly from LA shows; also on shows from New York City, Seattle, and Oakland.
damn, I wish I'd seen this concert. The Band sounds great behind Bob here; very well recorded.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Stan Getz - Captain Marvel
(1974, Columbia)

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w/ Airto, Chick Corea, Stanley Carke, Tony Williams. Recorded in '72. 5 Corea tunes. Latin and electric, Getz plays with cool fire w/ backing from the all star rhythm section.

[SEAWOLF97]

nice day...9 miles on the TREK ....I'm not real adventurous when it comes to new music and I like the Eagles....when I replaced the HT receiver, made sure that the new unit would have a phono stage and was lucky to find a Denon AVR-2105 with same...so I can play vinyl on a 3rd home system..:)
.yes...3 tt's in the livingroom, 1 in the HT, 1 on the PC and XX in storage..:o:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Johnny Winter - The Johnny Winter Story
(1969, GRT)

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another grab from a $1 box at the record show last weekend. A compile of early tracks from the early to mid 60s, early picture on the front cover with the Roy Orbison look. I think this is essentially the same as the Early Winter compilation. Cool gatefold cover includes a 12 page 3x5 booklet of pictures.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Brian Eno, David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
(1981, Sire) STERLING GC in the deadwax - mastered by Greg Calbi

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Ran across this one out of place w/ my jazz records, and decided some Eno would be a good way to start the weekend.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
(1958, Blue Note) 1973 pressing - BN LA189-F

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Oh man is this a nice sounding recording with "the coolness of Miles and bebop funk of Cannonball" as noted in the liner. Now add Art Blakey on the drums, Sam Jones bass, Hank Jones, Piano. wow, nice.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
(1977, Chrysalis)

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I haven't heard this one in too long. This one is a favorite with the folk material and excellent dynamic production, a great LP for demo' ing systems back in the day.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Steeleye Span - Rocket Cottage
(1976, Chrysalis)

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I saw Steeleye Span in a show in the mid 70's at the University of Washington, it was a great show, I'm wondering if they played anything found here. British folk-rock with an emphasis on the rock here. great stuff.

[tom1040]

Just listened to neil young (live-acoustic) in the hot tub in Maine for about twenty minutes on JBL S36IIAW(sp), speakers attached under the eaves. This sounded pretty damn good. Now w/ the 1400 Array's. :D

Stress relief.!

I will still work tomorrow.:)

[hjames]

Yep - we did a bit of yardwork, came in and soaked in the tub for a bit while playing "Waiting for Columbus" through the L200s downstairs.
Been a while since I played it, and I used to see them play at Lisner Auditorium downtown (maybe even that show!) in the 70s ...
forgot what a kickin' album it was ...
Great fun ...

[BMWCCA]

Great album and, of course, great group. But that album is far from "live" if you read the liner notes. Still a great listen but Lowell was quite the pain to work with by then and obsessive about remixing and adding overdubs until the re-worked "live" product sounded the way he wanted. Amazing that it sounds so good after all that!

[Don Mascali]

That is one of my "If I was Marooned on a Desert Island" albums.

LG was one of the best slide players around. Shame he OD'd. It happened at the Twin Bridges Marriott after a show... :(

I play the Fat Man medley at my DJ gigs. People can't sit still.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
(1966, Capitol) Mono pressing

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Thrift pickup this afternoon, looks and plays like it's never been played before. comparing w/ another mono Pet Sounds which has the "File Under: The Beach Boys T 2458" on the cover - top right edge. Today's cover is blank in that location. Record labels are the same, the deadwax matrix on today's ends in "G30", the other one ends in "F37". ...just a different cover, I guess?

[SpeakerLabFan]

Aretha Franklin - This Girl's In Love With You
(1970, Atlantic)

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The wonderful singing and keyboard playing from The Queen of Soul. Duane Allman on guitar. I didn't know this: "Her version of The Beatles' "Let It Be" was the first recording of the song to be commercially issued (The Beatles did not release "Let It Be" as a single until March 1970). Franklin had been sent a demo of the song as a guide." Also includes covers of Son Of A Preacher Man, Dark End Of The Street, Eleanor Rigby, and the Bacharach title song.

[Krunchy]

:D This is actually a really good album, some great songs on it, classic!

Better than a lot of the New Stuff coming out these days :p :rockon2: :hmm::rotfl::dancin: :banana: :rockon1:
Check out Grover on that Les Paul playing it Hendrix style.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51YSSK4onRL._SS500_.jpg

[SpeakerLabFan]

Johnny Winter - Self Titled
(1969, Columbia) 2-eye "360 Sound" label

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Winter's debut record for Columbia, BLUES rock. blistering and pure.
A really nice production, this record jumps out of my speakers from track 1: "I'm Yours And I'm Hers". This is the record to find out what the fuss was about.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Roy Orbison - There Is Only One Roy Orbison
(1965, MGM) Mono pressing - E 4308

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/orbison002.jpg

Orbison's debut record for MGM, w/ the lush 60's studio production.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk - Miles And Monk At Newport
(1964, Columbia) 2 eyes w/ "360 Sound" in black on label = 1st pressing

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Side 1 is a 1958 Miles Davis performance at Newport - one of only 2 non-bootleg pre-1960 live recordings - the "Kind Of Blue" sextet w/ John Coltrane.
Side 2 is a 1963 Monk performance at Newport. A recent thrift find, looks and plays like new.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Raging Slab - Self Titled
(1989, RCA) STERLING in the deadwax = mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/ragingslab001.jpg

Produced by Daniel Rey (who also produced Iggy Pop, The Ramones). A 1989 Guitar World review of Raging Slab described the groups sound as "Lynyrd Skynyrd meets Metallica". I can hear the references, especially the metal side but also some tasty playing with 70s boogie influences. This record cooks especially like a track called "Bent For Silver".

[SpeakerLabFan]

Nina Simone - Here Comes The Sun
(1971, RCA)

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an interesting record with Nina Simone singing 60s hits from George Harrison and Dylan, Angel Of The Morning, O-O-H Child. what a voice. I think her version of Here Comes The Sun is a new favorite. a very nice recording with her voice, piano and percussion out front and well defined, and any string arrangements kept in the back.

[SpeakerLabFan]

John Scofield - East Meets West
(1977, Blackhawk) Promo / NFS

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His debut studio album. A really nice recording and his playing is instantly recognizable for me.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Roy Orbison - The Fastest Guitar Alive
(1967, MGM) 1986 re-release

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"Roy Orbison on the screen at last as a singin' shootin' son of a gun". Orbison actually starred in this film as Johnny Banner - from wikipedia[/URL ([URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fastest_Guitar_Alive)]:

A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco in order to help finance the Confederacy's war effort.
The film features Orbison performing several original songs which appeared on his 1967 MGM record album of the same name.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Yes - Time And A Word
(1970, Atlantic)

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recorded before Steve Howe played w/ the band in 1970 although he's pictured on the US cover; Peter Banks on guitar.

[jcrobso]

Johnny Winter - Self Titled
(1969, Columbia) 2-eye "360 Sound" label

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/winter005.jpg

Winter's debut record for Columbia, BLUES rock. blistering and pure.
A really nice production, this record jumps out of my speakers from track 1: "I'm Yours And I'm Hers". This is the record to find out what the fuss was about.
When I first played I just said WOW!!!!:applaud:

[SEAWOLF97]

Roy Orbison - The Fastest Guitar Alive
(1967, MGM) 1986 re-release
:

After a recent TYA binge..I'd have to give the title "The Fastest Guitar Alive" to Alvin Lee ;)

[tom1040]

?:blink:

[SEAWOLF97]

WOW ..how did "WPN" jump from Music to Lansing Product Forums ??
(http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1)

[SpeakerLabFan]

Ten Years After - Undead
(1968, Deram/Royal Sound) W. German pressing

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Recorded live at Klooks Kleek, Railway Hotel, West Hampstead, London - a small jazz venue. 2nd release by TYA, with a couple of mostly instrumental jams and smoking solos on side 1 including Woodchopper's Ball.



After a recent TYA binge..I'd have to give the title "The Fastest Guitar Alive" to Alvin Lee ;)

:D:yes:


Johnny Winter - self titled


When I first played I just said WOW!!!!:applaud:

:wave::yes:

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jukka Tolonen - Crossection
(1975, Janus)

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Finnish guitarist - rock and jazz; some very nice guitar here - Witchdrum on side 1 smokes.

[SpeakerLabFan]

John Lennon - Live In New York City
(1986, Capitol)

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Mastered by Greg Colby at Sterling Sound, recorded August 1972 Madison Square Garden - Phil Spector, recording supervisor

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Grateful Dead - Europe '72
(1972, Warner Bros) 1973 pressing with Burbank palm trees label; Artisan symbol in the deadwax

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ouch, I need to find another one - appears to be very flimsy lightweight paper used for cover for this 3 record set. The records are great players. Listening to sides 5 & 6 includes a very nice "Walk Me Out In The Morning Dew"

[SpeakerLabFan]

Quincy Jones - Walking In Space
(1969, A&M/CTI) VAN GELDER in the deadwax

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w/ Freddie Hubbard, Eric Gale, Hubert Laws, Grady Tate, Roland Kirk, Bob James, Ray Brown, J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding. Wow, what a band and he gives them alot of room to stretch out. Jones first record after 3 years of movie scores, recorded at Van Gelder studios, June 1969. A nice Creed Taylor CTI gatefold jacket.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Loudon Wainwright III - Album III
(1972, Columbia) STERLING LH in the deadwax

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A fun record with clever songwriting and a very nice folk rock backing band.

[SpeakerLabFan]

R.E.M. - Murmur
(1983, IRS) 1995 MFSL pressing

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/REM002-1.jpg

a wonderful sounding MFSL pressing of REM's debut record.

[SEAWOLF97]

I've inspected prolly 12 copies of PL, and never had found one in good enuff condition to buy , until today ...25 cents :D

Was going thru Alvin Lee's discography , and found "Alvin Lee in Tennessee" ..sounds a lot like Mark Knopfler , and mebbe the inspiration for "Ragpicker's Dream" ...some of the tunes are similar to "Uncle Jam" on ASIT

[hjames]

I've inspected prolly 12 copies of PL, and never had found one in good enuff condition to buy , until today ...25 cents :D

Was going thru Alvin Lee's discography , and found "Alvin Lee in Tennessee" ..sounds a lot like Mark Knopfler , and mebbe the inspiration for "Ragpicker's Dream" ...some of the tunes are similar to "Uncle Jam" on ASIT

But - that's 2 of Elvis' band playing with Alvin Lee!
Is it kinda rockabilly rock'n'roll?

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Beach Boys - The Best Of The Beach Boys Vol 3
(1968, Capitol) 1969 pressing w/ Starline label

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Nice unipack cover with thumbnails of the 16 previous BB's Capitol releases on the inside. an interesting mix of songs from Surfin' to Girl Don't Tell Me to Good Vibrations. sounds pretty good for "duophonic".

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Beach Boys - Wild Honey
(1967, Capitol) ST 2859

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w/ a Beach Boys version of Stevie Wonder's I Was Made To Love Her.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Charles Lloyd - Nirvana
(1968, Columbia) 2 eyes 360 Sound label

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/lloyd002-1.jpg

I picked this one from the jazz shelf at random but there actually is a transition here from the Beach Boys I was listening to earlier, because Charles Lloyd meditated (TM) alot and played alot w/ the Beach Boys in the 70s. Some nice Gabor Szabo jazz guitar; Ron Carter, bass; Tony Williams, drums.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Patti Smith - Easter
(1978, Arista) STERLING in the deadwax

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o240/speakerlabfan/records/patti002.jpg

A nice 1970's Patti Smith record. I like her next release, Wave, more than this one.

[SEAWOLF97]

I met the seller through her CL ad for a Technics SP-15 with arm mounted in an oak table, with Kenwood receiver, cassette and unknown speakers for $125 ....looked up the table & arm and they seem valuable
I was too late on the gear haul.. :(

Kinda suspected that TT I missed would show back up on CL

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Technics SP-15 turntable w/ ATP 12T tonearm - $750 (Portland)

Date: 2010-03-18, 12:28AM PDT

If you know turntables, you know what this is. (Arguably the best 78 rpm turntable ever made, among other things).

Has some minor wear and tear--mostly cosmetic (a few scratches and dings.)

Includes ATP 12T tonearm. Unsure of the cartridge specs. Needs a stylus.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Bill Bruford - One Of A Kind
(1979, EG/Polydor) MASTERSOUND in the deadwax

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Yes and King Crimson drummer, among others (Pavlov's Dog!~). Some beefy well-produced drums and bass here, whether its rock or jazz, it's tasty.

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The Beatles - Love Songs
(1977, Capitol) MASTERED BY CAPITOL in the deadwax

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King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair
(1984, EG/Warner Bros)

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w/ Bill Bruford, drums; Robert Fripp, guitar

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I've always had some affection for TSMR ....tho recordings have never been great....last year I borrowed it - the 2002 version , listed as SACD...it really didnt sound much better on my red book player (as expected).
Now have a computer with BD/SACD drive...so the disc got checked out again... ripped to WAV and now it sounds much better...but,
I now read that is ISNT a SACD , but a DSD encoded CD :blink: , anyway it does sound way better on the BD drive than the actual CD player..

Put it to the pod and listened with the Senn HD-580's ...WOW :applaud:
(and was reading the new Stereophile, and it comparing new 2010 cans to my 15 y.o. 580's :D )

So is a DSD-CD essentially a SACD ?

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Various Artists - Jazz At The Philharmonic, Volume 17
(1953, Clef)

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Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Herb Ellis, Oscar Peterson; 3 LP Box set w/ artist photos

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Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind
(1976, Elektra/Asylum)

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A great collection of songs starting with the Warren Zevon title track, and the two Karla Bonoff songs. It's hard to pick with so many good ones, but I think this and Prisoner In Disguise are my favorite Linda LPs.

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Yes - Self Titled
(1969, Atlantic)

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debut album with Anderson, Squire and Bruford. The signature Yes sound is here with Squire's bass playing and Bruford's drumming.
This record must have a been an eye opener in 1969. includes a great cover of a McGuinn/Crosby psychedelic tune - I See You.

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Dave Mason - Alone Together
(1970, Blue Thumb) Artisan symbol in the deadwax

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w/ Clapton, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, Jim Capaldi, Rita Coolidge, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon; debut record for Mason after playing with Traffic.
I've always enjoyed Mason's songs, singing and playing on stuff like - World In Changes & Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave.

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Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
(1970, Deram/London) Bell Sound in the deadwax

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recorded in 1969 at Olympic Studio 1 with Andy Johns, engineer; lightning guitar playing from Alvin Lee w/ bluesy songs and a thundering rhythm section. inspired by seawolf :thmbsup:

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Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
(1970, Deram/London) Bell Sound in the deadwax

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recorded in 1969 at Olympic Studio 1 with Andy Johns, engineer; lightning guitar playing from Alvin Lee w/ bluesy songs and a thundering rhythm section. inspired by seawolf :thmbsup:

Glad to inspire...that album was good on first listen, but got better on repeated tries....50,000 miles, love like a man , working on the road, the sun still burns are the real standouts .....:applaud:

Got in some 2 wheeled miles yesterday (and headed back out today) and came up with Nana, Justin and Marilyn...:D

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Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) - Chocolate Kings
(1975, Asylum)

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tasty Italian progressive rock.


Equipment provided by: JBL, Zildjian :applaud:

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Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music
(1976, Warner Bros) Winchester rifle symbol in the deadwax = Capitol Records' Winchester, VA pressing plant

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listening to an old favorite while trying out a pass-around pair of 12ax7 tubes in the Onix SP3 amp - TJ Full Music tubes. They sound nice.

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Billy Cobham, Steve Kahn, Alphonso Johnson, Tom Scott - ALIVEMUTHERFORYA
(1978, Columbia)

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recorded during US tour dates November/December 1977. a really nice live recording with thundering drums and bass.
"dedicated to fusicians everywhere"

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Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind
(1976, Elektra/Asylum)

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A great collection of songs starting with the Warren Zevon title track, and the two Karla Bonoff songs. It's hard to pick with so many good ones, but I think this and Prisoner In Disguise are my favorite Linda LPs.

I have most of LR's disc's (including the boxset, Mexican canciones, and Nelson Riddle collaborations ) and think I agree that Prisoner In Disguise is prolly the "go to" one when I need a Linda fix...:D

found it interesting how she brought up a new group in the early 70's who got exposure as her opener ...The Eagles..:bouncy:

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The Strawbs - Deep Cuts
(1976, Oyster/Polydor) MASTERSOUND in the deadwax

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Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind


I have most of LR's disc's (including the boxset, Mexican canciones, and Nelson Riddle collaborations ) and think I agree that Prisoner In Disguise is prolly the "go to" one when I need a Linda fix...:D

found it interesting how she brought up a new group in the early 70's who got exposure as her opener ...The Eagles..:bouncy:

I've always liked her covers of other singer-songwriter's stuff, Jackson Browne, Karla Bonoff, Warren Zevon, JD Souther, Ry Cooder - not better than the originals, just nice alternates. Speaking of which, her cover of Ry Cooder's "The Tattler" is a great example. I listened to the Cooder's version from Chicken Skin Music yesterday - both are GREAT versions.

I have a Ronstadt story - I went to garage sale a couple of years ago - turned out to be a former musician with a basement completely full of records, dozens of boxes. The sale was north of the city and not very well attended. He was moving out, leaving town. Turned out he and his brother played with Linda Ronstadt in Tucson - i.e. he played some bass with the Stone Poneys in the bars around Tucson as an underage kid. They traveled to California and he did the 60s SF music scene. I talked with him while going through all the 60s rock and jazz records. I wish I could have talked with him more, he was happy to find someone interested in 60s music. He asked if I'd heard of the Beau Brummels...of course he had a couple of their records which I snapped up. That first sale he was firm on his $1.50/record price. The next month's Gsale he was gone, left his stuff including a car, to be sold by his girlfriend, who needed it out by the weekend when the lease was up. I hauled off the ~20 boxes of records and a pair of Rectilinear speakers.

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John Hammond - I Can Tell
(1967, Atlantic)

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w/ Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Bill Wyman. Interesting note on wikipedia - he had both Clapton and Hendrix playing together in his band for a week when playing a club in NYC in the 60s. This title has the warm1960s studio production you'd expect, with great blues playing and alot of attitude for a 25 year old.

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Wes Montgomery - The Best Of Wes Montgomery
(1967, Verve)

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What a great sounding jazz guitar.

...dedicating the Montgomery version of Tequila for good luck to Lorenzo Romar's #11 seed Washington team back in the NCAA sweet 16 regional tomorrow (a traditional song played for decades by the UW band).

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The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis Bold As Love
(1968, Reprise)

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Leo Kottke - Burnt Lips
(1978, Chrysalis)

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Includes 2 tracks on the soundtrack of the film Days of Heaven. Recorded by Kottke in his home using Sound 80 Studio's mobile recording unit.

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The Stone Poneys - Self Titled
(1967, Capitol) 1974 re-issue w/ "featuring Linda Ronstadt" and new liner notes

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back cover included for the LR eye candy. produced by Nick Venet, Capitol A&R chief who signed and produced The Beach Boys, Kingston Trio, Fred Neill; lots of folky tunes written by Stone Poneys R. Kimmel and Kenny Edwards, also includes a Fred Neill tune. I noticed that Cyrus Faryar plays here, I have his 1967 title The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds on Elektra.

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Woody Herman - Heavy Exposure
(1969, Cadet)

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heavy on the brass with some nice sax; recorded September 1969, Ter-Mar studios, Chicago

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The United States Of America - Self Titled
(1968, Columbia)

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experimental psychedelic, really nice stuff including the vocals from Dorothy Moskowitz. from wikipedia:


Creating the electronic sounds on the album was difficult because of the technical limitations.[6] Byrd recalled "the only available functioning keyable synthesizers were Robert Moog's at +$20,000. We were left with whatever sounds I could squeeze from three variable wave shape generators, modulating one another."[6] The oscillators were built for the group by Richard Durrett.[6] Electronic devices were also used live and on the album to process other instruments and Moskowitz's voice

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Holy Moses!! - Self Titled
(1971, RCA)

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described as a loose Neil Young/Crazy Horse roots rock sound w/ country and blues, the lead singer/songwriter Billy Batson sounding like "Neil Young on a three-day bender". I wouldn't even need to hear it to know I'd like it, now that I'm listening I definitely like it. Well produced, recorded at Electric Lady Studios, NYC.

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Had planned on a TREK vinyl safari today, but its wet and windy, so I'll process the 5 from over the weekend...Bob Crewe is one that I'd never seen, I'm not big on Xmas music or Sinatra, but the "Sinatra Family wishes you a Merry Christmas" seemed rare too..
The Petula Clarke is a triple..5 good sides, one to X out...thot I'd give Glen Miller a try...4 pristine disks.

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John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
(1961, Atlantic) mid-70s pressing

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w/ McCoy Tyner (piano), Elvin Jones (drums) and Steve Davis (bass); first session by Coltrane on the Atlantic Records label; great stuff picked up on a noon run to HPB yesterday, listened yesterday and I have to give it another spin in the main system today.