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[Fritz The Cat]

Producer Peter Hauke is synonym for first quality german rock music. He discovered this fantastic US female voice for this german production. Bass and keyboards Tony Carey: that's why there's too much synthies on this one. Don't listen to such disco style tracks as A3 "When a man loves a woman". Justine Johns a.k.a. Deborah Williams teaches singing and lives in Nashville: an interesting strong voice nearly unknown.

[Fritz The Cat]

No, this not the usual primitive punk. In fact it's pub rock from Belgium. Sometimes, the music recalls the Kinks in the 80ies. See one of my next posts. Interesting discovery. Look at The Kids' homepage: they still are on the road! Funny:still as kids? No as grandfathers.

[Fritz The Cat]

Underrated. Pub rock by The Kinks. And: "Don't forget to dance". So: "Come dancing". These 2 songs are the highlights of this one. Very good US pressing. Cut out cover. Promo copy.

[Fritz The Cat]

Oh why did they? Why did they let it produce by Leiber & Stoller? Fortunately pop music sometimes went unconventional ways. And it was good. Good US reissue pressing.
It's only rock'n'roll. But we like it. Thanks to Gary Brooker!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
(1968, RCA Victor)




recycled pictures

[SpeakerLabFan]

Thanks for the infos. What do you think about the vocal work of Grace Slick?

I enjoyed her vocals, they suited her strong personality and songwriting. as a woman she transcended a lot of bull__ with her songs and singing. I think her harmonies with Kantner and Balin were sublime ...and so were her looks!

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
(1967, RCA) MONO




listening with the mono switch engaged on the MC-2205.

[Fritz The Cat]

Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
(1967, RCA) MONO




listening with the mono switch engaged on the MC-2205.

This Mono pressing sounds fantastic. This one is the same issue as you show. But your LP looks a little bit mistreated, isn't it? Do these scratches disturb the sound? Shame on those people who don't know how to treat vinyl........Old US high quality vinyl like this lasts forever! And Mono sounds great. Listen to track A5 "Comin' back to me". Does anybody know who is the singer? Is it Paul Kantner? And, yes, play it loud!

[Fritz The Cat]

Does humor belong in music? Is this the worst work of Jefferson Airplane? It's a Jumbo Jet. German reissue.

[Fritz The Cat]

Does anybody know the meaning of the front cover art? Is it humor? Is it Dada Art? Remember the beginning of Dada Art in Zürich, Switzerland 1916. 100 years since then. Yes it's Dada.

[SpeakerLabFan]

The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger (4track 12" single)
(1982, A&M) 45RPM, Holland pressing




Nice sound quality! including the live Message In A Bottle

[SpeakerLabFan]

This Mono pressing sounds fantastic. This one is the same issue as you show. But your LP looks a little bit mistreated, isn't it? Do these scratches disturb the sound? Shame on those people who don't know how to treat vinyl........Old US high quality vinyl like this lasts forever! And Mono sounds great. Listen to track A5 "Comin' back to me". Does anybody know who is the singer? Is it Paul Kantner? And, yes, play it loud!

Yes, I prefer the Mono because unfortunately it seems they produced this with a lot of reverb which really seems to thin out the sound. Kind of tragic that so much incredible music - also Buffalo Springfield, Byrds - suffer from thin production.

The grooves are fine on that copy inspite of the mistreatment, and the record plays VG++.

Those haunting vocals on Comin' Back To Me are Marty Balin, sounds like. He sang most of his songs. I imagine walking through SF golden gate park on a foggy winter day for this track and a few others on this album.

[Fritz The Cat]

Only in Europe? Another one of these 12" 45rpm maxis with big fat sound named disco-single.

[Fritz The Cat]

French reissue 1984. DMM Direct Metal Mastering. Look at the list of those famous musicians on the cover which is reduced to the max. They had great fun in playing these 5 fine tracks. Listen to the accoustic bass of Sam Jones: you may hear every snaring of the strings. And the hi-hat is very clear. Perfect dynamics.

[SEAWOLF97]

Been stuck in the house with a bad head cold for about a week. Conserving energy, I sat down and started reading this thread FROM PAGE 1 (currently up to #37 )

It was fun in the earlier days with more than 2 posting.

Tom, I see you picked up a copy of Deep Purple's "Book Of Taliesyn." Did you have have it when it first came out in '68? It was a favorite album of mine at that time. "Shield" and "Anthem" are my favorites on the LP. I especially enjoy the percussive instruments on "Shield." I no longer have the LP but do have all three of Deep Purple's first LPs on CD.

don't think I ever answered LR's question.

A triple confluence in '68 kept me from that. 1. no money 2. no TT 3. not near any selling place.

now that I have copies, the dynamics on the LP are terrible, maybe the worst treatment of great material that I've experienced. (except , maybe ..."Shades" ) . their mastering sucked in those days.