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[SpeakerLabFan]

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




nice

[SEAWOLF97]

went down to CRM yesterday, the first time I've been skunked there

anyway, they have a lot of free publications by the door ....I picked up
Record Collector News and it had a good article on the Moody Blues ...

can be read online .... http://www.readoz.com/publication/read?i=1049287#page10

also, picked up ELMORE: Saving American music ...had an interesting trivia bit

Trivia
ElmoreMagazine.com | February 19th, 2012 by Elmore Magazine

In February, 1949, RCA Victor introduced the 45 RPM record. To distinguish between styles, these were color-coded, each using a different color plastic. Rhythm & blues records were cherry red, pop records were black, classical came in red, with blue, yellow, and green for other styles of music. The first set of 45s was sent in a group of seven, each representing one style of music.

[SEAWOLF97]

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"One of the biggest mistakes the music industry ever made was letting Tower Records fail.
Big records sell anywhere, but unlike Best Buy or Wal-mart, Tower insisted on a knowledgeable staff
who could recommend music. The industry spends hundreds of millions promoting records, and
bailing out Tower would have been cheap. Tower was responsible for 50% of the back catalogue sales
in the US -thats a lot of money." -Arnie Goodman


picked up GH's "Wonderwall Music" and BG's "Odessa" (red velvet cover) today.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
(1977, Mercury) MASTERDISK G.K. in the deadwax; mastered by Gilbert Kong

[SpeakerLabFan]

Jerry Garcia - Garcia
(1972, Warner Bros)




the cover art and photography by Bob Seidemann, who also did the Blind Faith, On The Beach and Late For The Sky covers.

[hjames]

I've been buying some speakers recently and had a need to create a small, portable playlist of demo tracks.
Ive got most of my music loaded in iTunes at home and nearly everything is in Apple lossless format on my system. So, I created a demo tracks playlist in iTunes that I can load to my iphone or ipod and take with me. I've got a cable with a pair of RCA connectors on the end so I can feed audio into their gear.

I don't always play every track all the way through - some tracks have a specific quirk - like a bass line that starts the song, and that's all I need to hear to compare how it sounds. Like Steely Dan's Cousin Dupree - I don't like the lyrics, but that bass line is a fantastic. Same thing with the intro to "In A Big Country" those crisp techno drums at the beginning tell me a lot about how a speaker handles bass. I don't need to let it play into the lyrics.

This is NOT an exhaustive list, of course, but if I have these tracks handy,
I can try a piece here and there and have an idea how a pair of speakers (or a system) sounds.

Some are a little obscure, and I get raised eyebrows when I play Sinatra -
but its such a well recorded song ... and its Frank!

Anyway - here is the list - (song title - Artist - Album)


One For My Baby - Frank Sinatra - Songs for Only the Lonely

Long Distance - Muddy Waters - Muddy Waters, Folk Singer

Bird's Lament - Moondog (the older, quicker version from his early recordings)

The Cisco Kid - War - The World is a Ghetto

Easy Money - King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic

Oh the Warm Feeling - Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher (usually just the instrumental part at the beginning)

Pick up the Pieces - AWB - Average White Band

Inca Roads - Frank Zappa & the Mothers - One Size Fits All (bits here and there)

Assault and Battery part 1 - Hawkwind - Warrior on the Edge of Time

Amelia & Hejira - Joni Mitchell - Hejira

Heat Of The Moment - Asia - Asia

In a Big Country - Big Country - The Crossing (just the opening drums)

Robber Dub - Clash - Super Black Market Clash

Romantique - Yo Yo Ma & Claude Bolling - Suite for Cello & Jazz Piano Trio

Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth

Orpheus - David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

Streets of Bakersfield - Dwight Yokum & Buck Owens - Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (Work out the mid & tweeters!)

She's Already made up Her Mind - Lyle Lovette - Joshua Judges Ruth

Tears Don't care Who Cries Them - k.d.lang - Shadowland

Time After Time - Everything but the Girl - Acoustic

This House - Janis Ian - Breaking Silence

One Time - King Crimson - B'Boom: Live in Argentina

Steam - Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live

One of Us - Joan Osbourne - Relish

Frim Fram Sauce - Diana Krall - All for You: Dedicated to Nat King Cole

Wade in the Water - Eva Cassidy - Songbird

Big Cat - Afro Celt Sound System - Vol 2: Release

Teardrop - Massive Attack - Mezzanine (aka, the theme to House, M.D.)

Obsidian - Banco de Gaia - Igezeh

Harder Better Faster Stronger - Daft Punk - Discovery
(any of the above 3 gives a good idea of techno drums and sharp attacks)

Thanks to You - Boz Scaggs - Dig

Heartattack and Vine - John Hammond - Wicked Grin (John Waits "covers")

Extended theme from Angel - Darling Violetta - Unofficial Soundtrack -

Passenger Fever - Iggy Pop and Peggy Lee - Mashed

Ain't Goin' to Goa - Alabama 3 - Hits and Exit Wounds (just funny)

Benicia (for Paul Canales) - John Zorn - Alhambra Love Songs

Border Reiver - Mark Knopfler - Get Lucky

[SpeakerLabFan]

Buffalo Springfield - self titled
(1966, Atco)




inspired by a piece heard on the NPR Fresh Air broadcast today on James Burton[/URL]. He was called in to play dobro on A Child's Claim To Fame. Also a great record to start off a (US) holiday weekend.

[SpeakerLabFan]

T. Rex - Light Of Love
(1974, Casablanca) AZ in the deadwax; mastered by Allen Zentz

[SpeakerLabFan]

I've been buying some speakers recently and had a need to create a small, portable playlist of demo tracks.
Ive got most of my music loaded in iTunes at home and nearly everything is in Apple lossless format on my system. So, I created a demo tracks playlist in iTunes that I can load to my iphone or ipod and take with me. I've got a cable with a pair of RCA connectors on the end so I can feed audio into their gear.

I don't always play every track all the way through - some tracks have a specific quirk - like a bass line that starts the song, and that's all I need to hear to compare how it sounds. Like Steely Dan's Cousin Dupree - I don't like the lyrics, but that bass line is a fantastic. Same thing with the intro to "In A Big Country" those crisp techno drums at the beginning tell me a lot about how a speaker handles bass. I don't need to let it play into the lyrics.

Good idea to have a playlist/source for auditioning, listening for the specifics from gear and speakers. Nice list, I definitely see the reason to choose many of these well produced tracks. Hejira and Amelia == Jaco Pastorius, bass.

[SEAWOLF97]

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nothing over a dollar

[SEAWOLF97]

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nothing over a dollar

a few more

[SpeakerLabFan]

Laurindo Almeida Quartet - self titled
(1955, Pacific Jazz) MONO




a $1 thrift find today.

[SpeakerLabFan]

Miles Davis - Miles Davis At Fillmore
(1970, Columbia)




Happy Birthday Miles Davis. Miles Davis: trumpet; Steve Grossman: tenor and soprano sax; Chick Corea: Fender Rhodes electric piano; Keith Jarrett: electronic organ; Dave Holland: acoustic and electric bass; Jack DeJohnette: drums; Airto Moreira: percussion, cuica

[Audiobeer]

Big Moody Blues Fan, so Thanks!

went down to CRM yesterday, the first time I've been skunked there

anyway, they have a lot of free publications by the door ....I picked up
Record Collector News and it had a good article on the Moody Blues ...

can be read online .... http://www.readoz.com/publication/read?i=1049287#page10

also, picked up ELMORE: Saving American music ...had an interesting trivia bit

Trivia
ElmoreMagazine.com | February 19th, 2012 by Elmore Magazine

In February, 1949, RCA Victor introduced the 45 RPM record. To distinguish between styles, these were color-coded, each using a different color plastic. Rhythm & blues records were cherry red, pop records were black, classical came in red, with blue, yellow, and green for other styles of music. The first set of 45s was sent in a group of seven, each representing one style of music.

[SEAWOLF97]

Big Moody Blues Fan, so Thanks!

glad you liked it too .... a pretty good article.