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SEAWOLF97

10-15-2008, 02:38 PM

a break in the weather today, so did the 8 mile loop..Columbus Day meant half price day at the thrift, so.....

I guess I got Estephan's guitar teaching disk from back when he was Stefan Grossman..3 Dog Nights "Joy to the World"..I've really been enjoying that tune by Hoyt Axton on the JBL Sessions set, but always wondered who wrote it...had to look at this LP to see it was Hoyt himself.

picked up Hoyt & Linda Ronstadt doing a duet of "Yellow Rose of Texas" ...very sweet and personal sounding. So I looked up a little Hoyt history.

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

had no idea that among his best-known compositions (or co-writing credits) are:

"Greenback Dollar" covered by (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cover_version) The Kingston Trio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingston_Trio)
"The Pusher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pusher)," covered by Steppenwolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28band%29) on their debut album in 1968
"No-No Song," which became a #3 hit for Ringo Starr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr) in March 1975
"Never Been To Spain", covered by Three Dog Night (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night), Waylon Jennings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylon_Jennings), and Elvis Presley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_Presley)
"Joy to the World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_to_the_World_%28Hoyt_Axton%29)", the Three Dog Night (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Dog_Night) hit from April 1971 which held US #1 for six weeks
"Snowblind Friend" (1971), covered by Steppenwolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28band%29)

LRBacon

10-15-2008, 03:58 PM

Hey Tom, since you're into vinyl have you ever checked out http://www.recordsbymail.com/home.php? Craig Moerer is the owner and is located there in Portland somewhere.

Larry

SEAWOLF97

10-15-2008, 04:30 PM

Hey Tom, since you're into vinyl have you ever checked out http://www.recordsbymail.com/home.php? Craig Moerer is the owner and is located there in Portland somewhere.

Larry

thanx for that, Larry. I did not know about the place..some look rather high while others are reasonable...Portland actually has a map of vinyl sellers around the city...I still do best at thrifts as they undervalue LP's a lot.

picked up these 3 today...guess I've cherry picked the best and so now am having to branch out a bit ....Loretta Lynn - dont know much about her, but liked the movie....Red Rider ?? good condition, cool cover...we'll see,,,,and more Flamenco.

LRBacon

10-15-2008, 07:04 PM

I think RBM might be an online store only, not sure though.

I'd rather listen to Loretta Lynn's sister, Crystal Gayle.
She's better lookin', too.

SEAWOLF97

10-21-2008, 07:14 PM

Sunny, but cold today...did the 8 mile bike loop and hauled these home.

Santa Esmerelda - WOW..pop flemenco covers done by the International sensation - LeRoy Gomez- their vesion of
"Dont Let Me be Misunderstood" is in movies and commercials often.

Tommy ....dont think either disk has ever been played...when buying used, I normally find a chair and sit to really examine LP's (gotta buy clean untill an RCM falls into my lap) b4 buying,,anyway I have bought new , shrinkwraped disks that are not as clean as these were....:)

SEAWOLF97

10-23-2008, 01:09 PM

hjames

10-23-2008, 07:02 PM

was playing one of those "Greatest Hits of the 50's & 60's" comp LP sets and ran across Peggy Lee doing "Fever" ...WOW that woman could sing...dont know much abt her..are there any other of her cuts to look for ??
GOTS to have some Peggy Lee !!!
Here's a few I have in current rotation ... (25,000 total tracks in iTunes)

Is that All There is?
Hey Big Spender!
The Alley Cat Song (you'll know this once you hear it ...)

Where or When - (Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman)
Gee Baby (Ain't I good to you) - forget Diane Krall, Peggy takes the old Nat King Cole standard as her own

One of her later claims to fame is being cheated by Disney Corp -
See - http://www.peggylee.com/library/910219.html
Disney violated their original 1952 contract by releasing the tape without her permission. Lee co-wrote six songs and performed the voices of four characters in the film, which has earned more than $140 million altogether – $90 million alone from the video sale, according to her attorney.

In Lady and the Tramp, Lee provided the voices for the characters of the torch-singer dog Peg, the Siamese cats Si and Am, and Lady’s owner Darling – and was paid $3,500. She and her writing partner, Sonny Burke, earned another $1,000 for the use of six songs he and Lee collaborated on for the movie. The pair retained all rights for phonographic recordings and transcriptions, but their contract – like the contracts of most performers of the day – didn’t foresee the advent of video and the huge audience it would provide for their work.

whizzer

10-27-2008, 01:06 PM

Steppenwolf 7: "Snowblind Friend" remains one of the more powerful and evocative "drug songs" of the so-called psychedelic era. The only real competition came a little later, "Sam Stone," by John Prine.

SEAWOLF97

10-29-2008, 02:25 PM

Steppenwolf 7: "Snowblind Friend" remains one of the more powerful and evocative "drug songs" of the so-called psychedelic era.

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

had no idea that among his best-known compositions (or co-writing credits) are:

"Snowblind Friend" (1971), covered by Steppenwolf (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steppenwolf_%28band%29)

Did the 8 mile loop...great biking weather...high 60's & sunny

2 Alan Parsons LP's like new , more Hoyt and "Canciones de mi Padre" (some surface defects ,,,but they were all $.19 today)

later: just finished "I, robot" .....very nice

SEAWOLF97

11-01-2008, 03:22 PM

Mr.Marx (Bottom-feeder/D*ckhead) shud like the bottom one ....($1.50 total)

MJ Bing

11-02-2008, 11:07 AM

Into the Blue :D

Ducatista47

11-02-2008, 07:21 PM

A later release. He probably already had ALS, but it all sounds great. The writing - as is usual for Mingus - is fabulous, and the playing is as good as it gets. The recording is very good, too. If you like Jazz, highly recommended.

Clark

whizzer

11-05-2008, 08:08 AM

[quote=Ducatista47;226372] The writing - as is usual for Mingus - is fabulous, and the playing is as good as it gets. The recording is very good, too. If you like Jazz, highly recommended.

Mingus was a jazz genius. I'm always reaffirmed in this opinion whenever I listen to "At Antibe." There are so many threads leading to so many musical sources, styles, genres that the wholeness and seamlessness of the amalgam is almost shocking. I think of it as a classic. It never fails to blow what's left of my mind.

Ducatista47

11-05-2008, 08:47 PM

It never fails to blow what's left of my mind.

Unfortunately, I think I know exactly what you mean. :applaud:

Heavy Jazz is my drug of choice for some years now. It doesn't kill brain cells and it challenges and stimulates the ones I have left. You and I seem to be fellow travelers about a lot of things.

I don't know what happens after a person dies, but I hope I get to hear the Arkestra. :)

Clark

whizzer

11-06-2008, 02:05 PM

I don't know what happens after a person dies, but I hope I get to hear the Arkestra. :)

Clark

I think that if that's what you want, than that's what you get.

Krunchy

11-06-2008, 03:20 PM

I think that if that's what you want, than that's what you get.
I like the sound of that ;)

I've been listening to Kimya Dawson lately, she got lots of attention after the Juno soundtrack became quite popular. Only slightly less complicated than Mingus' music :D there is something very refreshing about the deceivingly simple music and almost child-like lyrics. Not everyone's cup of tea, lots of people dont like her, but I'm certainly glad I was able to hear her songs, some are quite poetic and beautiful.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/616RhUo2q0L._SS500_.jpg

SEAWOLF97

11-06-2008, 04:55 PM

Wow, that P,P & M GH disk (couple of posts back) was really nice ...."Too much of Nothing" was really outstanding !!

Grabbed these 2 today, the Santana must be a reissue, its on lighter vinyl and in VG condition...the CCR disk is the most expensive LP that I've ever seen in a thrift ..$6.95, nobody pays that much so it ended up in the salvage section for 19 cents ...Santana was 50 cents...Cheap classic tunes !!!!! Kewl !!

Krunchy

11-09-2008, 04:48 PM

hjames

11-09-2008, 06:36 PM

Dont have much exposure to Tony but I love Bill Evans and this is certainly a great collaboration. Nice way to wind down the weekend.

Any Tony Bennett fans, got any suggestions?

Take care guys (& gals) ;) hope you all had a good weekend!:)

Yes - thanks to Ducatista47 (http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/member.php?u=2257) I wound up tracking down some Bill Evans stuff last year - I have the Tony Bennet/Bill Evans album, but found Conversations with Myself a lot more interesting, tho I'd imagine it might have offended some purists (due to the multi-tracking performances) ...

I also got the final concerts (Consecration, and Turn out the Lights) - VERY nice stuff,tho quite sad, considering the situtation.
I think I overplayed it for last summer, but Emma didn't complain ...

Krunchy

11-10-2008, 05:57 AM

Hi Heather,
I too am very grateful to Clark's vast musical knowlege, he has turned me onto a lot of great music, thank you Sir, I am deeply indebted to you ;)

I think you are right about "conversations with myself" the jury's still out on that one. Not familiar with the other two cd's you mentioned, I'll have to take a look at them, but I can imagine the sad quality to them as a lot of his music has that touch of melancholy and something else which I cant really describe (genius?!).
Like everybody else, I dig "everybody digs Bill Evans" :D Peace Piece just blows me away, breaks my heart every time I hear it, soooo beautiful.

In general I have to keep the Bill material to a minimum for fear of od'ing on it.

If you like Bill you'll probably find this interview incredibly interesting........
Enjoy! :)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=46474288

SEAWOLF97

11-10-2008, 07:28 PM

The Cruel Sea (band name, not disk)

my Aussie friend sent me this disk, had never heard of them, but really pretty good :applaud:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Cruel-Sea/e/B000APC6C0/ref=ntt_mus_dp_pel

The disk I got was "The Honeymoon is Over" ...this Aussie band is very listenable..wudnt mind getting more ...read that they sell out every concert..!

Ducatista47

11-10-2008, 11:24 PM

Yes - thanks to Ducatista47 (http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/member.php?u=2257) I wound up tracking down some Bill Evans stuff last year...

I also got the final concerts (Consecration, and Turn out the Lights) - VERY nice stuff,tho quite sad, considering the situtation.
I think I overplayed it for last summer, but Emma didn't complain ...

Hi Heather,
I too am very grateful to Clark's vast musical knowlege, he has turned me onto a lot of great music, thank you Sir, I am deeply indebted to you ;)

I think you are right about "conversations with myself" the jury's still out on that one. Not familiar with the other two cd's you mentioned, I'll have to take a look at them, but I can imagine the sad quality to them as a lot of his music has that touch of melancholy and something else which I cant really describe (genius?!).

In general I have to keep the Bill material to a minimum for fear of od'ing on it.

While you are both too kind, I thank you for the warm feeling I get knowing others who I care about share the feelings I have when listening to some artists. In any case, in sharing this the privilege is all mine. Thank you both so much.

For me the last works of Bill Evans have something in common with most of the work of Sun Ra and the Arkestra. It is amazing that the improvisations of what were the last embers of Evan's life sear us with the same flame as the Arkestra's massive, ultra rehearsed presence. In my case, heavy Jazz of the highest order - and here are examples as searing as any other we will ever hear - immerses my body and soul in a bath of ice cubes and fire.

I really do not know how else to describe it. Less challenging music seems like having a cup of hot chocolate. Warming, comfortable and nice, but no comparison.

About overdosing on Bill, I was afraid of that too. Given the material I am not sure it is possible. Easy for me to say, I'm old. With most of my life behind me, it makes sense to seek out the best there is with whatever time I have left. I can listen to some later Coltrane recordings five times in a row and I keep hearing more and more, deeper and deeper. I don't worry about overplaying the great stuff.

Krunchy, your avatar "hints" at the level of your passion. :D To reverse the saying, you got it good and that ain't bad.

Clark

hjames

11-11-2008, 06:43 AM

If you like Bill (Evans) you'll probably find this interview incredibly interesting........
Enjoy! :)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=46474288

Thanks - its VERY nice, we are enjoying it now over coffee (got the day off for the holiday) ...

Krunchy

11-11-2008, 07:39 AM

Hello Heather, I'm glad you are enjoying it, one of the best profiles I've heard on him, another one that you might like is the one with Marian McPartland, very insightfull, probably due to the fact that its Marian as she's no slouch either imo.

Here's the link (Bill Evans)... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92185496

For me the last works of Bill Evans have something in common with most of the work of Sun Ra and the Arkestra. It is amazing that the improvisations of what were the last embers of Evan's life sear us with the same flame as the Arkestra's massive, ultra rehearsed presence. In my case, heavy Jazz of the highest order - and here are examples as searing as any other we will ever hear - immerses my body and soul in a bath of ice cubes and fire.
About overdosing on Bill, I was afraid of that too. Given the material I am not sure it is possible. Easy for me to say, I'm old. With most of my life behind me, it makes sense to seek out the best there is with whatever time I have left. I can listen to some later Coltrane recordings five times in a row and I keep hearing more and more, deeper and deeper. I don't worry about overplaying the great stuff.

Krunchy, your avatar "hints" at the level of your passion. :D To reverse the saying, you got it good and that ain't bad :bouncy:.

Clark

Hello Clark!
Its always a pleasure dicussing music with you and especially Bill. I'm not too technically oriented but thankfully none of that is necessary for listening or talking about music. The Sun Ra analogy has piqued my curiosity, I have but one of Sunra's cds and while I am still very green on some of the more complex artists in the jazz cannon I do seem to be getting some of it. Two of my first jazz albums that I acquired years ago were birth of the cool and something from Charlie Parker, probably not the best introductions to jazz as they both seemed very demanding of the listener. That turned me off from jazz for a while but I eventually made my way back to it. The one Sun Ra cd I have is kind of like that for me at as is some of Mingus material, I find it difficult to digest/absorb some of it. Again maybe I'm just not mentally ready for some of it as has happened with some artists whom I now really enjoy, Coltrane would be a good example of that for me.
OD'ing, Im always cautious when I really like something as I tend to get obsessive with it but I know that you are right, it would be very hard to do that with some of these guys, thankfully in part to the massive amount of material that they have left us with. Thank God for that! Plus, can one really od on something so beautiful as good music regardless of genre although that would probably be a lot harder to do with Jazz than say Rock, Maybe!

As for the avatar, I alway liked that picture of Bill, Kind of sums him up perfectly I think ;)

Speaking of Coltrane, here is a great interview with McCoy Tyner
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94547798

BTW, For All Jazz lovers-The Jazz Profiles program on NPR and Marian McPartland's piano jazz program both have some fantastic stories on some of the greatests artists in the Jazz world. The Duke Ellington features are great as are the Coltrane, Cab Calloway, Mingus, Oscar Pettiford, Tommy Flanagan ETC.
Good Stuff ! :) :D:applaud:

Jazz Profiles...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10208861

Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz...
http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=24&agg=1

Ducatista47

11-11-2008, 09:56 AM

Krunchy, since you are already understanding much of what Bill has to offer us, try this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm6V7bWnVpw

That is part one of five. More are available on YouTube. A huge bonus is the comentary of Steve Allen, one of the best all around communicators our society ever produced (and a hero of mine from childhood, the composer of thousands of jazz songs, renaissance man extordanare, etc.)

Consider this film one possible Rosetta stone, maybe the best we have, to Jazz understanding and appreciation. By the way, if you wanted to save these and other videos, try a free tool called Easy Video Downloader. Click on the "Download high quality..." box, copy and paste the url and off you go.

http://www.videodownloader.fdrlab.com/download.html

Clark

Krunchy

11-11-2008, 10:24 AM

Thank you Clark, Its always interesting to hear Bill explain his thoughts and approach to music. the McPartland interview also offers great insight into his talent and although fairly technical at times it is certainly accesible to most of us. I think if one has any sense of music theory or if one plays an instrument it is always interesting to hear someone like Bill or McCoy or Herbie give us some insight into their approach to their music and in turn something can certainly be gleaned from this that would probably be helpful in our own musical path, be it passive of active :D.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the pieces and thanks for the links :)

Ducatista47

11-11-2008, 11:06 PM

I hear the Arkestra in my dreams

Whizzer, I don't know how I missed that title until now. I can only hope that phrase will be a fitting epitaph for my life. I live hand to mouth and I am not known to many, but I consider my life a success in the things that matter to me. If I can say "I hear the Arkestra in my dreams" on my deathbed and even one person I love understands, no life could be better than mine.

In any case, the best phrase I have heard since I walk on gilded splinters.

But right now I am listening to Black Bats And Poles and life could not be better.

Clark

whizzer

11-13-2008, 05:54 AM

In any case, the best phrase I have heard since I walk on gilded splinters.

But right now I am listening to Black Bats And Poles and life could not be better.

Clark

I know that only from Humble Pie, what with Steve's size five boot and all.
What's the best recording for someone who has no Bill Evans to get as a starter?

hjames

11-13-2008, 06:23 AM

Walk on gilded splinters ...

I know that only from Humble Pie, what with Steve's size five boot and all.

Doctor John's first album, from 1968, , where he does the whole 8 minute creole voodoo chant right!
http://www.amazon.com/Gris-Gris-Dr-John/dp/B00004SW9R/

hjames

11-13-2008, 06:37 AM

What's the best recording for someone who has no Bill Evans to get as a starter?

Well - if you don't have it already, I highly recommend the Miles Davis album - "Kind of Blue".
Bill plays on it and its a landmark album every jazz buff ought to own.

The blurb on Amazon says: "The band itself is extraordinary listing John Coltrane (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/27627/$%7B0%7D) and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/34126/$%7B0%7D) on saxophones, Bill Evans (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/artist-glance/101941/$%7B0%7D) (or, on "Freddie Freeloader," Wynton Kelly) on piano, and the crack rhythm unit of Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums. Coltrane's astringency on tenor is counterpoised to Adderley's funky self on alto, with Davis moderating between them as Bill Evans conjures up a still lake of sound on which they walk."

I think some of the coolest stuff Bill did was his early trio of Scott Lafaro and Paul Motian - try Sunday at the Village Vanguard [LIVE] - the original recording is available pretty cheap, tho there is an expanded 3 disc version of all the tracks from that session: (heck of a deal for $26!) The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 [LIVE] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] -
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Village-Vanguard-Recordings-1961/dp/B000AMJEKA/

I was reading Bill Evans CD reviews on another site. http://www.billevanswebpages.com/ Specifically a review of the remastered release of his album "You Must Believe in Spring". They liked the playing and mentioned it was almost like a concept album it fit together so well.
They also raved about the production work:

This remastered reissue is a gem, and with its three “new” tracks, it is almost foolhardy not to have it. It was already one of the more well-regarded Evans albums for its absolutely superb sound quality, as engineered by veteran sound wizard Al Schmitt, whose amazing work on Steely Dan’s “Aja” (also 1977), George Benson’s “Breezin", Natalie Cole's “Unforgettable” , and so many others has been highly praised. Schmitt just won another Grammy this year for Diane Krall’s “The Look of Love”.

whizzer

11-13-2008, 09:36 AM

[quote=hjames;227725]Well - if you don't have it already, I highly recommend the Miles Davis album - "Kind of Blue".
Bill plays on it and its a landmark album every jazz buff ought to own.

I'll say. I listen to it all the time. I was wondering if there is a given album under Evan's own name that would be best as a "starter."

Ducatista47

11-13-2008, 10:00 AM

I read a strange take on the title origin. The ugly British Empire pejorative "WOGS" was suggested by a poster. Given the frightening lyrics of the tune, I suppose it is possible. I don't know, you decide. Vivid invocation of Voodoo or a mighty statement against racism? Either way it is very, very New Orleans. His reading of Season Of The Witch may be informative in this respect. In other words, I think Voodoo.

I'll get back tonight with a Bill Evans suggestion.

Clark

SEAWOLF97

11-13-2008, 03:25 PM

picked up abt a hundred LP's including 3 DOORS and some LZ, but threw most back due to condition except these .....I'm not a fan of "Little Feat" but this double of "Hoy,Hoy" was pristine ....if anyone is interested in it, give me a PM..........LATER: the LF is boxed and waiting pickup ...only 1 copy, sorry to others that wanted it.

johnaec

11-13-2008, 03:43 PM

PM sent.

John

Krunchy

11-13-2008, 05:16 PM

What's the best recording for someone who has no Bill Evans to get as a starter?

Hi Whizzer!
I think Heather nailed it on the head there, thats a very good start. I also like his post LaFaro trios, and of course his second album- Every Body Digs Bill Evans. Its all good really, very few duds if you can even call them that, just not liked as much as his other releases.

If You like Cannonball Adderly here is a treat for you, Cannonball & Bill Evans...That is a Great Album!

Clark, I checked out the Universal Mind of Bill Evans pieces on youtube, very cool, Thanks :)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41MW9ET3J6L._SS500_.jpg

Krunchy

11-13-2008, 05:33 PM

Just got this the other day, looking forward to hearing it more but so far I really like it. Very well recorded as well, which seems to be the case with most of the Village Vanguard performances. ;)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/416JCM4SBHL._SS400_.jpg

Ducatista47

11-13-2008, 10:34 PM

I firmly believe the last ten years' work of Bill Evans to be his best. One CD (and LP) which is available and not at all hard to appreciate is Quintessence from 1976.

The other musicians - Harold Land on tenor, Kenny Burrell on archtop guitar, Ray Brown playing the stand up bass and Philly Joe Jones pounding the skins - are all ensconced in the gallery of the greats and did their very best. Hearing the result, you can imagine these august artists gasping to themselves, "Crap! It's Bill Evans! I have to step it up." Especially when they heard how he was playing by that time. They had the same reaction I had when hearing this session. We thought we knew Bill Evans and we were wrong.

Each of my best friends who love Jazz had the same thing happen to them. I played them this album and now Bill is one of their favorite musicians, period. And this is one of their favorite albums. (They bought it on vinyl.)

Down the road, if you grow to appreciate Bill as we do, eventually you will have to rob a bank or whatever it takes to acquire the Consecration and The Last Waltz sessions. Get them on Japanese CD's with Obi if you can.

For a more classical take on Bill, see this: http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-essential- (http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-essential-bill-evans)bill-evans (http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-essential-bill-evans)

I don't have it, but You Must Believe In Spring must be a keeper! Crosscurrents from 1977 I can also vouch for.

Clark

BMWCCA

11-14-2008, 09:20 AM

One CD (and LP) which is available and not at all hard to appreciate is Quintessence from 1976. Just ordered it brand-new off Half.com for about $10, shipped. I'll try for the others at my local record store before I go the Amazon route (You Must Believe in Spring for $11). Thanks. The sample tracks were great!

SEAWOLF97

11-17-2008, 04:17 PM

did the 12 mile bike loop today ..(weather is STILL holding up) ...found these 8. going to need some cleanuo, but couldnt beat the price ....Wow, that Beatles WHITE ALBUM really is white !!!:)

BMWCCA

11-21-2008, 02:13 PM

I firmly believe the last ten years' work of Bill Evans to be his best. One CD (and LP) which is available and not at all hard to appreciate is Quintessence from 1976. Just received it today and going through it for the second time now. My only complaint is: It's too short! :D Even with the "bonus" track.

Love listening to Ray Brown's acoustic bass. Nice remastering job, too. Beautiful sounding recording. The L7s love it. I'll be looking for more at the local record shop soon. Thanks for the tip!

(Do you detect a little break-up in the sax in the right channel at around 6:28 on track 2? Artifact of the original recording?)

paragon

11-21-2008, 03:50 PM

"Arrow Classic Rock", a dutch one. 70 `s and 80 `s Rock. Great !!:D

Ducatista47

11-25-2008, 10:03 PM

Just received it today and going through it for the second time now. My only complaint is: It's too short! :D Even with the "bonus" track.

Love listening to Ray Brown's acoustic bass. Nice remastering job, too. Beautiful sounding recording. The L7s love it. I'll be looking for more at the local record shop soon. Thanks for the tip!

(Do you detect a little break-up in the sax in the right channel at around 6:28 on track 2? Artifact of the original recording?)

Really glad you like it. I can't help you right now with the glitch, my copy is an old vinyl disc. I'll get out a stopwatch.

Sad but true, many of the Jazz albums from the classic period are not very long. A typical Blue Note session from the sixties would be about 35 minutes of vinyl. Perhaps the intensity of the playing on those great dates limited the production; perhaps it was a money move. I don't know.

I'm just grateful for the 35 minutes! But I wish there was a lot more too... If they were 70 minutes they would still seem too short.

I can't remember, did you check out Jackie McLean's Jacknife? One of my favorite sessions. Pretty short, to. ;)

Clark

lofi-ear

11-30-2008, 01:28 PM

They were 'Back To Earth' from Eat Static and 'The Last Days Of Gravity' from Younger Brother and they sounded GREAT from both musical and HiFi perspective :D

SEAWOLF97

11-30-2008, 05:32 PM

Did the 9 mile loop yesterday (that first mile after a 3 week layoff is a b1tch), no joy... Cant believe bike riding weather still OK..did the 10 mile loop today and walked into the store as the new inventory was coming out ...picked up abt 30, but eliminated poor condition ones down to 11 keepers...

I dont really care abt FOGHAT or MARSHAL TUCKER , but they look like had never been played ...If you like/need them..PM me.

Is that Sydney on the 10cc cover ?

Krunchy

12-01-2008, 07:45 AM

"March 16.1997,Tommy Flanagan came to Village Vanguard to celebrate his 67th birthday.The result is this splendid record.This is Flanagan at his very best,beautifully recorded and in outstanding form.Peter Washington plays bass,and Lewis Nash,a great young musician,is the drummer.Tommy Flanagan pays tributes to the great Thad Jones,member of the Jones family with his brothers Elvin and Hank,in two tunes ("birdsong" and "let's"),to Dizzy Gillespie ("tin tin deo" and "I waited for you"),Tom McIntosh ("with malice toward none" and a masterpiece,a medley "the balanced scales/the cupbearers") and of course Duke Ellington,playing one of Duke's rarest tunes,the very emotional "Sunset and the mockingbird",the first movement of Duke's "Queen's suite".What more is there to say?"

:D :thmbsup:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41J0MBXXJJL._SS500_.jpg

SEAWOLF97

12-01-2008, 04:16 PM

lots of cheap vinyl out there when you start looking...:) and its getting me to listen to genre's that I've ignored :D (plus I must have the strongest legs of any 59 y.o on this forum ...will miss biking during winter :( )...really enjoyed the "Grand Canyon Suite" at dinner..and that Eagles album was full of favs and others that I'd never heard....
Vinyl LIVES !!!!! (at least in PDX)

BMWCCA

12-01-2008, 04:50 PM

I remember the first time I heard Pure Prairie League. It was on my friend's system of L100s and SA660 back in 1971 when he returned from his first year away at college. (I stayed home to go to a local U.) I thought it sounded fantastic! Then I bought the album and played it on my own 030 and Crown D150 system. Yeah, that was better! Later that Summer we got "Fallin' in and out of Love," and "Amie". Good times; playing Pure Prairie League and Little Feat.

SEAWOLF97

12-01-2008, 05:21 PM

. Good times; playing Pure Prairie League and Little Feat.

I won 2 tickets to see "Little Feat" abt 2 years ago,,about halfway thru the show I said "enough of this crap" and walked out....I know some of you like the old group, but IMHO , the new one sux.

BMWCCA

12-01-2008, 06:55 PM

I won 2 tickets to see "Little Feat" abt 2 years ago,,about halfway thru the show I said "enough of this crap" and walked out....I know some of you like the old group, but IMHO , the new one sux.Little Feat without Lowell George is worse than The Dead without Jerry. They might as well call it the "Paul Barrere Band with special guest Bill Payne". If you didn't ever see them, you can't imagine.

"Waiting for Columbus" only hints at their energy and talent but, like much of The Dead toward the end, it took a lot of studio enhancements to make the legendary tightness come through on a live recording when the leader was wasted. Give it a try, though, if you're so inclined.

SEAWOLF97

12-01-2008, 07:47 PM

Little Feat without Lowell George is worse than The Dead without Jerry. .

OR ..the Doors without Jim, OR The Holding Company without Janis OR Queen without Freddy OR The Experience without Jimi ?? I think the picture is coming....;)

toward the end, it took a lot of studio enhancements to make the legendary tightness come through on a live recording when the leader was wasted.

Right on there ....I saw the Doors live with a wasted Morrison ...The opening band "The Chambers Bros" ran circles around a wasted Jim.

SEAWOLF97

12-04-2008, 04:49 PM

this is what will be playing this week ... Abbey Road was not in acceptable condition, but just wanted it for nostalgia....:)

SEAWOLF97

12-04-2008, 04:52 PM

always liked Dave Brubeck - Take 5 - his wife was my journalism teacher in HS. The Bach organ T&F in D minor shud give the control 250's a workout LATER: yup that pipe organ had the LE14's working pretty hard and the 2 M&K subs too,:D

whizzer

12-05-2008, 10:45 AM

The sight of that Manhattan Transfer album cover inspired me to drag out a really old album--the very first Manhattan Transfer Album: "Jukin." with Gene Pistelli (I'm not sure about the spelling of his last name), who thereafter left and went his own Nashville oriented way. "Jukin" has a few tunes that point toward what came to be the Manhattan Transfer trademark, but was heavy on country-western flavored stuff--but everything on the album is extremely well played. Of special note is the '50's send-up, "Guided Missiles," which must be heard to be believed. In its own way, it's fully as much fun as "The Eggplant that Ate Chicago," by Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band ("brain"child of Norman Greenbaum), was in its own inimitable way. Dr. West featured first and second jugs, stringed instruments of various sorts, a Tibetan temple bell, and a 1949 Buick bumper bracket as instrumentation, along with what was called a "Taiwan Finger Piano," I suppose to differentiate it from some kind of piano played with toes or feet or elbows or something.

SEAWOLF97

12-08-2008, 09:04 PM

and there was a great bluesy number going on XM...didnt catch the group, but the cut was called "Key to the Hghiway" , looked it up and turned out to be The Steve Miller Band ,,,I filed that away...then the same thing happened, a cut called "Baby's calling me back Home" ....turned out to be SMB also..

So I've been listening to a lot of early SMB ..... wud really like to find the album called "Children of the Future" ...mebbe make a hint to my son for Xmas. :bouncy:

Was reading abt them on wiki ...they started out as "The Steve Miller Blues Band" ....and I always thot they were just a top 40's pop band.

OH YEAH .....XM played "Quicksilver Girl" which I always assumed was by QMS ...nope...SMB !!

whizzer

12-09-2008, 08:40 AM

OH YEAH .....XM played "Quicksilver Girl" which I always assumed was by QMS ...nope...SMB !!

The only Steve Miller album I ever had was a Steve Miller Blues Band Album--I think it was simply called "The Steve Miller Blues Band." I wish I still had it. I remember it as quite good. He's a great guitarist. I always thought that song was Quicksilver, too.

SEAWOLF97

12-09-2008, 08:59 AM

I always thought that song was Quicksilver, too.

Sailor (CD) Album By Steve Miller Band (Artist) 1 Song For Our Ancestors 2 Dear Mary [ 3 My Friend 4 Living In The U. S. A. 5 Quicksilver Girl 6 Lucky Man 7 Gangster Of Love 8 You're So Fine 9 Overdrive 10 Dime-A-Dance Romance

and
I didnt know about BozScaggs

Long before Steve Miller discovered the art of writing great short pop songs with infectious guitar licks, he led a dynamite band that featured Boz Scaggs. This incandescent album was their last together and for the vast majority of Miller followers ... Full Descriptionit remains the pinnacle. Sandwiched in between the band's love for the blues and R&B with "Gangster Of Love" and "You're So Fine" are great rock tracks such as "Living In The USA" and "Dime-A-Dance Romance."

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1109090

LRBacon

12-09-2008, 09:18 AM

Sailor (CD) Album By Steve Miller Band (Artist) 1 Song For Our Ancestors 2 Dear Mary [ 3 My Friend 4 Living In The U. S. A. 5 Quicksilver Girl 6 Lucky Man 7 Gangster Of Love 8 You're So Fine 9 Overdrive 10 Dime-A-Dance Romance

and
I didnt know about BozScaggs

Long before Steve Miller discovered the art of writing great short pop songs with infectious guitar licks, he led a dynamite band that featured Boz Scaggs. This incandescent album was their last together and for the vast majority of Miller followers ... Full Descriptionit remains the pinnacle. Sandwiched in between the band's love for the blues and R&B with "Gangster Of Love" and "You're So Fine" are great rock tracks such as "Living In The USA" and "Dime-A-Dance Romance."

http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1109090

I used to have Sailor and Children of the Future on LP. My favorite on Sailor is Song For Our Ancestors. I always liked the beginning with the fog horn.
Only have SMB Greatest Hits 1974-78 and The Best Of 1968-1973 on CD now.

Larry

SEAWOLF97

12-09-2008, 02:18 PM

As the title states; anyone have a copy of the Stephen Stills CD released in the early '90s, "Stills Alone"? It's been unavailable for some time and used originals bring up to $200 used. I'm not that crazy, but I would love a CD-R "archival copy" (is copying really so reprehensible if the publisher won't publish the original?) if anyone has the ability to provide it. Cover your expenses, for sure, or something else to trade?

Just thought I'd ask. Thanks in advance.

I found this file as an albumwrap on my drive and copied it to the pod last night...its an interesting double close miked recording....the offset between the 2 mics really makes a nice effect,,and of coarse the performance is stellar ....worth seeking out ... (OMG, I agreed with BFDH again :o:)

SEAWOLF97

12-13-2008, 06:14 PM

and liking the music he played when I was young .....the NKC set is 8 albums in wonderful shape ,,,the Gershwin is a really dynamic , well recorded disk :)

hjames

12-13-2008, 08:10 PM

and liking the music he played when I was young .....the NKC set is 8 albums in wonderful shape ,,,the Gershwin is a really dynamic , well recorded disk :)

Not your father ... Nat really is fine!
If you haven't run across him, look up some of his TV shows!
Lately I've been running through Mel Torme's stuff from the 50s and 60s ...
"Mel Torme Sings Fred Astaire" is really nice ...what a voice!
The Velvet Fog ...

whizzer

12-15-2008, 11:20 AM

Not your father ... Nat really is fine!
If you haven't run across him, look up some of his TV shows!

I loved Nat King Cole's TV show when I was a kid--I got to see jazz legends who would otherwise have been only names I'd read--like Louis Armstrong before he became a pop star. Nat had one of the all-time finest singing voices, full of nuance. Are his shows available somewhere? If so, where?

hjames

12-15-2008, 11:29 AM

SEAWOLF97

12-15-2008, 11:39 AM

I loved Nat King Cole's TV show when I was a kid--I got to see jazz legends who would otherwise have been only names I'd read--like Louis Armstrong before he became a pop star. Nat had one of the all-time finest singing voices, full of nuance. Are his shows available somewhere? If so, where?

PBS ran a show about him a couple of months ago .... I remember the racisn he encountered and the fact that he died young of cancer

from wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat_King_Cole

On November 5, 1956, "The Nat King Cole Show" debuted on NBC-TV. The Cole program was the first of its kind hosted by an African-American.
It initially began as a 15-minute show on Monday night, the program was expanded to a half hour in July 1957. Despite the efforts of NBC, as well as many of Cole's industry colleagues—many of whom, such as Ella Fitzgerald (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald), Harry Belafonte (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte), Mel Tormé (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Torm%C3%A9), Peggy Lee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lee) and Eartha Kitt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eartha_Kitt) worked for industry scale in order to help the show save money—The Nat King Cole Show was ultimately done in by lack of a national sponsorship.Companies such as Rheingold Beer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheingold_Beer) assumed regional sponsorship of the show, but a national sponsor never appeared
The last episode of "The Nat King Cole Show" aired December 17, 1957. Cole had survived for over a year, and it was he, not NBC, who ultimately decided to pull the plug on the show. NBC, as well as Cole himself, had been operating at an extreme financial loss. Commenting on the lack of sponsorship his show received, Cole quipped shortly after its demise, "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."] This statement, plus the passing of time, has fueled the urban legend that Cole's show had to close down despite enormous popularity. In fact, the Cole program was routinely beaten by the competition at ABC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company), which was then riding high with its travel and western shows. In addition, musical variety series have always been risky enterprises with a fickle public; among the one-season casualties are Frank Sinatra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra) in 1957, Judy Garland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland) in 1963 and Julie Andrews (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Andrews) in 1972.

Cole, a smoker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco) of three packs of cigarettes a day, he was a heavy smoker of KOOL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOOL_%28cigarette%29) menthol cigarettes. He believed smoking kept his voice low. (He would, in fact, smoke several cigarettes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarettes) in quick succession before a recording for this very purpose.) He died of lung cancer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer) on February 15, 1965

whizzer

12-18-2008, 11:37 AM

Well, there are except discs ...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006CXGS/

Okay. I ordered the dvd, 47 songs performed originally in the series, many of Cole's big hits along with a lot of "roots" jazz performed with some of the greats who appeared on Nat's show. One big plus is that the dvd is incredibly cheap. I can hardly wait--It's probably even better than I remember it as being. Thanks for the tip.

SEAWOLF97

12-18-2008, 05:14 PM

I used to have Sailor and Children of the Future on LP. My favorite on Sailor is Song For Our Ancestors. I always liked the beginning with the fog horn.
Only have SMB Greatest Hits 1974-78 and The Best Of 1968-1973 on CD now.

Larry

I have to agree with you Larry ... I picked up "Sailor" , tho on MP3, and it may be the best SMB that I've snagged, so far ..... had been listening to it on iPod, but today connected pod to real stereo and with lots of power pushing it thru the 250's, it sounds great ( even on mp3) :bouncy:

Was just playing "Shure Era IV - an audio obstacle course" it does many system and trackability testing...so the tt is in phase, balanced, and tracks abt 99% of the obstacles...L&R were switched, but not now ..:D

SEAWOLF97

12-18-2008, 08:08 PM

http://www.bluecoastrecords.com/baas.html

( I had to right click and "save as" )

"These two flamenco pieces were performed by Blue Coast Artist, Jason McGuire, on Sept 13, 2008 as part of a microphone placement seminar for the Bay Area Audiophile Society. Cookie Marenco, founder and producer of Blue Coast provided a visual and audio demonstration of her favorite micing techniques for solo guitar. The attendees for the two sessions were able to hear each microphone as it compared with the natural sound of the guitar.

The stereo mixes are CD quality wav file (44.1kHz 24bit sampling) for burning to disc mixed as we might for Blue Coast Records. The multitrack files can be imported to a multitrack recorder for the user to hear the individual microphone tracks with the addition of a stereo effects track. The user can create mixes with or without effects to their own liking. These files are also 44.1kHz 24bit.

The files are large to keep the quality high. We don't advise downloading on a phone modem.
Thanks again to Bob Walters for allowing us to demonstrate our techniques and to BAAS.

Enjoy!
Cookie Marenco"

SEAWOLF97

12-21-2008, 01:23 PM

as some of this threads readers may recall ,,,I've spent most of the summer gathering firewood & records ...... well we've had snow on the ground nearly a week with at least another week outlook ....

enjoying FleetWood Mac "Rumors" on LP this AM
its cold outside but JBL's are warming us up !!! (and stove too) :D

don't worry...the heat doesn't go sideways ...speakers are nice and cool

SEAWOLF97

12-24-2008, 07:33 PM

been listening to a lot of Steve Miller Band , Muddy Waters and Linda Ronstadt (a real likely combination ?),

but today , (and let me first say I really like Stephen Stills) XM played Stills doing "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" live in a falsetto ( think Tiny Tim ) voice that was incredibly BAD , sounded like his skivies were on too tight ..BAD , really BAD. :(

JBL 4645

12-25-2008, 02:13 AM

http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=36046&stc=1&d=1229890854

I like this picture with the kittle on the fire so fill kittle up and have hot cosy cup of chocolate with the feet up and play some warm smooth classics. I read somewhere years ago that bass generates heat? Now I don’t know what the person was smoking at the time, but that does sound rather funny.

Oh, like that change in scenery picture with the snow hope its still there as we haven’t got one single snow flake fall around Dorset, now that is just so wrong.

Merry Christmas to you Tom and you're wife

:tree::happyh::sleigh::window::presents:

SEAWOLF97

12-25-2008, 01:22 PM

I like this picture with the kittle on the fire so fill kittle up and have hot cosy cup of chocolate with the feet up and play some warm smooth classics. I read somewhere years ago that bass generates heat? Now I don’t know what the person was smoking at the time, but that does sound rather funny.

Oh, like that change in scenery picture with the snow hope its still there as we haven’t got one single snow flake fall around Dorset, now that is just so wrong.

Merry Christmas to you Tom and you're wife

thanx Ash , we've had snow on the ground for nearly 10 days, a record for us, I think...have kept the woodstove going 24/7 since the first dip under freezing. The kettle on the stove is to keep the houses humidity up, the stove tends to dry out the air..We do keep a beautiful 1940's/50's heavy chromed electric water kettle going all day...between hot cocoa and Vietnamese instant coffee and packet apple cider , we stay warm inside. The mantle has had wet socks & gloves hanging out to dry every day.
Been checking out the LP's that I have been buying all summer and culling out the ones for extra cleaning and then do a big batch..went thru the old throwaway LP's that someone gave me, looking for extra slip jackets and pulled out a couple of Beethoven disks, so they are in the waiting line.

My 26 y.o. is flying to NYNY tomorrow to watch the ball drop, hope he makes it, has been his dream for a while.

Looks like you arre settled in well, I knew when things looked grim last year, that they could only get better :) Sooty is a great name for a black cat :applaud:

Happy Holidays to you too, Ash

SEAWOLF97

12-27-2008, 05:55 PM

Have got WAR "the World is a ghetto" going on LP,,,wow, what a great album :applaud:

hjames

12-28-2008, 08:21 PM

Just heard that Delaney Bramlett, of Delaney and Bonnie fame, has passed.
He produced the 1970 "Eric Clapton" album (Bottle of red wine, Let it rain, etc)

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-passings28-2008dec28,0,6491699.story

Delaney Bramlett; Songwriter who wrote 'Let It Rain'
December 28, 2008

Delaney Bramlett, 69, a singer, songwriter and producer who penned classic rock songs such as "Let It Rain" and worked with musicians George Harrison and Eric Clapton, died Saturday at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Los Angeles as a result of complications from gallbladder surgery, his wife Susan Lanier-Bramlett said.

Born in Mississippi in 1939, Bramlett came to Los Angeles in the 1960s and played guitar in the house band for the TV pop show "Shindig."

With his then-wife Bonnie Lynn he formed the short-lived Southern blues-rock band Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EOxy3TF3OY). The band toured as the opening act for Blind Faith, the supergroup that featured British guitarist Clapton.

After Bramlett and his first wife divorced in the early '70s, they parted professionally as well, and he faded from the spotlight.

During his career, Bramlett performed, co-wrote or recorded with stars such as Harrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Lennon, Dave Mason, Billy Preston, J.J. Cale, the Everly Brothers and Mac Davis. He also produced artists including Etta James and Elvin Bishop.

Bramlett also co-wrote "Let It Rain" with Clapton, who also recorded it, and "Never Ending Song of Love," which was recorded by more than 100 artists including Ray Charles, George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

Bramlett recently released an album, "A New Kind of Blues," on independent label Magnolia Gold Records.

4313B

12-28-2008, 08:31 PM

I was on Amazon looking to replace some of my vinyl and wanted to pick up a CD of this album.

Maybe someday it will get reissued. :p

Groovin on a New York afternoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US6QAO9nR8k)

*****

I found a rip of the CD in case anyone wants it - Rare Silk - New Weave (http://myjazzworld.blogspot.com/2007/12/rare-silk-new-weave.html)

4313B

12-28-2008, 08:33 PM

Just heard that Delaney Bramlett, of Delaney and Bonnie fame, has passed.I've been trying recently to find CD's of old vinyl I have and I'm finding out alot of people are gone. :(

Ducatista47

12-29-2008, 01:00 AM

Delany & Bonnie Bramlett live on in their daughter, Bekka. She is one of the most talented singers working. Not generally a leader, she is heard behind a lot of talented artists. IMO, she was the best female singer Fleetwood Mac ever had.

Thinking about Delaney & Bonnie takes me way, way back and makes me feel very, very old.

Clark

hjames

12-29-2008, 07:27 AM

Thanks G - Nice stuff ...

I was on Amazon looking to replace some of my vinyl and wanted to pick up a CD of this album. Rare Silk - New Weave

Maybe someday it will get reissued. :p

Groovin on a New York afternoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US6QAO9nR8k)

But there are some You Tubes of the earlier group with Benny Goodman ...!
See Aurex Jazz Festival", Sep.3, 1980 at Budokan(Tokyo)

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ggZe0CkpXgk&NR=1

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm-LXCcASuw&feature=related

Apparently there is a movie of that 1980 Benny Goodman concert with Rare Silk in Japan ... I gather its not formally available - but an ebay seller has a DVD of the concert for $10 - ebay for Benny Goodman - Aurex Jazz Festival - 1980

SEAWOLF97

12-29-2008, 04:26 PM

about 2 weeks ago, I pulled the pretty, wood sided CD player from the main system and replaced it with the industrial looking Sony ES player (mainly to get remote capability back) ...there was a HUGE improvement in sound , I said "Oh that's what the 250ti's really sound like !!!!" ( have been using LP's & XM)

Anyway, I'm rediscovering CD's ...went to pull some out and the rack is a big disorganized mess ...so reorg day today. while sorting, I found a DELOS 20th anniversary special CD ....tossed it and and abt got knocked over :bouncy::bouncy:

Copeland's "Fanfare for the common Man" - Seattle Symphony- WOW !! , now I know what they really can do ..
(when the boss is away) ..and they are good !!

those kettle drums (timpani ?) really are dynamic !!! and #16....the pipe organ ...whew,,everything was shaking !!

SEAWOLF97

01-01-2009, 12:36 PM

yesterday I picked up Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970.

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Song-Sing-Francisco-1965-1970/dp/B000PHX0VE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1230838010&sr=8-1

its a 4 CD set with a big glossy book of photos & background commentary...lots of group staged photos. One of them struck me as different as I had never seen this person ......

10 forum status points to the person who can guess her identity

BMWCCA

01-01-2009, 01:06 PM

10 forum status points to the person who can guess her identity

Grace Slick? :dont-know

http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/scraps/photos/photo_promo21.jpg

SEAWOLF97

01-01-2009, 03:52 PM

Grace Slick? :dont-know

You really think that looks like Grace ??

Ducatista47

01-01-2009, 04:32 PM

Isn't that Signe Anderson, the Airplane's first vocalist?

Clark

jeenie67

01-01-2009, 04:33 PM

Hey! How old are you? Jeez, I'm 54 and still swattin' a Les Paul and bendin' the neck off a Strat with the wanger bar! Grew up with Airplane...Fresh Cream was the first album I ever bought...still have it! Looks like Grace, but it also looks like some other flower child that used to hang with the Dead....I can't remember.... even high school is a fog.....

hjames

01-01-2009, 04:42 PM

Nope, doesn't look anything like Grace -
well, other than them both being non-blondes (grin) ...

Grace Slick? :dont-know

http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/scraps/photos/photo_promo21.jpg http://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=36225&stc=1&d=1230838557

hjames

01-01-2009, 04:44 PM

Nope, doesn't look anything like Grace -
well, other than them both being non-blondes (grin) ...

Grace Slick? :dont-know

http://www.jeffersonairplane.com/scraps/photos/photo_promo21.jpghttp://audioheritage.org/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=36225&stc=1&d=1230838557

Ducatista47

01-01-2009, 04:45 PM

BMWCCA

01-01-2009, 05:58 PM

Here she is. Jorma, Paul, Skip, Marty, Signe and Spencer! Seawolf's photo must have been when she was pregnant just before Grace got brought in. I have to admit I wasn't a real Airplane fan, not living on the West Coast. The Dead took the time to visit us in the great Midwest, but the Airplane, not so much. In my high-school daze we saw the Dead often live, but the big groups like The Airplane and, later, The Doors we had only on the radio. I know only of the pre-Slick days by reading about them. Meant very little in the midwest in the '60s until later after Grace joined the group. We listened to The Yardbirds, The Who, Fleetwood Mac, and I even saw the Byrds on a trip to Boston. But the Beatles sort of dominated the music scene. My first live concert was the Four Tops! I figured the midwest was about ten-years behind the west coast in the late Sixties/early Seventies. I was fifteen when I got a hall-pass to go to Woodstock.

SEAWOLF97

01-01-2009, 06:22 PM

Grace was brought in, from The Great Society I think, to replace the departing Signe. Don't ask me how I remember this stuff.

Here she is. Jorma, Paul, Skip, Marty, Signe and Spencer! Skip later made one of the best albums I have, Oar.

Clark

I think Clark wins...tho I dont know the real answer ...in all the photos of Grace in the book, she is always thinner and doesnt wear that ring or smile, that girl doesnt impress me as a model

she is credited as Signe Toly Anderson in a different section, not the pic.

Ducatista47

01-01-2009, 06:32 PM

Don't worry, It's Signe. She wore her hair like that in every picture I have ever seen of her SF days. The beautiful smile is also unmistakable.

Clark

Ducatista47

01-01-2009, 08:20 PM

I think Clark wins...tho I dont know the real answer ...in all the photos of Grace in the book, she is always thinner and doesnt wear that ring or smile, that girl doesnt impress me as a model

Maybe not much of a model, but she sure has a mouth on her. Two nuggets I remember are her saying that her function "in the Airplane is to be the asshole. Every band needs an asshole." :D

On being charged thousands of dollars for service for her Ferrari, "I don't mind getting screwed, but I like to be able to come."

Interesting woman when she's not drinking and doesn't have the shotgun. Perhaps bad models can turn into good singers. By the way, a lot of models in those days never smiled in public. It was part of a sought after aloof attitude. Pouting also often holds sway in that most unnatural of communities.

Clark

jeenie67

01-07-2009, 12:15 AM

Howdy! Sons of the Pioneers on vinyl. Oh yodel lady oh, yodel lady oh, yodel lady oh lil lady lil le lo....ooooOOOO!

SEAWOLF97

01-07-2009, 11:12 AM

Howdy! Sons of the Pioneers on vinyl. Oh yodel lady oh, yodel lady oh, yodel lady oh lil lady lil le lo....ooooOOOO!

(http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=203656&postcount=1119)
Oh NO !!!!

so I'm at GW yesterday and pick up 2 vinyl albums. "Cool Water" by SONS OF THE PIONEERS and "Victory at Sea" - Richard Rogers.

start playing them today and find myself knowing the words and melodies. A really funny sense of deja vu.

I start thinking back and Oh Oh. These are 2 of the albums that my father had in the early 60's and really the ones that I played over and over at 12 years old on his stereo as I didn't own any.

Am I following my father subconsciously or just a fantastic coincidence ?? :blink:
(http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=203656&postcount=1119)

jeenie67

01-07-2009, 10:20 PM

Hi, Guess what, I have Victory at Sea also...primo! Bought it at Goodwill for .19 ! DVD's have their place. I really like my Oppo disc player and the music I here, BUT...there is absolutely, positively, no holds barred, indisputably, and without any possible attempt at presenting a question......nothing...nothing that moves the air like vinyl!!! For Pink Floyd fans, particularly Roger Waters fans like me....try his album: Radio K.A.O S. Columbia stereo FC 40795. In the traditional Pink Floyd/Waters style, it tells a story throughout... of poor Billy, and his Ham Radio and later teenage ....life. Tanx, Gene

Krunchy

01-08-2009, 02:55 PM

Kinda rough punk/hard rock.
A couple of real fun tracks on this nonetheless, Timothy Leary features/talks all the lyrics on Gila Copter (probably best song on album). They also do a really funny version of Rod's da ya think im sexy.
Gotta be in the mood for this kind of stuff though, but it has its entertainment/charm value.

Mix it up! :D

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61mAADNL5GL._SS500_.jpg

jeenie67

01-08-2009, 08:57 PM

Ry Cooder just followed Diana Krall, Live in Paris.....smooth....

jeenie67

01-09-2009, 09:13 PM

Just before I go out for Friday's evenings activities....on DVDA: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Kiev Symphony Chorus, and the Children's Choir of Greater Cincinnati performing Tchaikovsky 1812. Telarc Surround DVDA-70541.:applaud:

SEAWOLF97

01-10-2009, 10:46 AM

Watched the DVD of "Mystery Train" the other day,,,the hotel clerk is hilarious , had forgotten that he was played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins , and naturally pulled out some of his tunes.

I put a spell on you ....A unique version
Constipation Blues ....how can I describe this ?

lots of fun

Also went thru "John Wesley Harding" & "Between the Buttons" (BTB - a very nice remaster - box says same file was used for the SACD)

my son thinks .....? (get funny looks) when I mumble a couple of lines from "Something happened to me Yesterday" :D

jeenie67

01-10-2009, 08:09 PM

aye never heard of the Coors...what genre? tell me more...jeenie

jeenie67

01-10-2009, 08:11 PM

sorry 'bout the spelling....habit !

SEAWOLF97

01-12-2009, 05:44 PM

the CCR "more gold" is going to need a second trip thru the cleaning proc, but sounds appropriate for the music, liked Linda Ronstadt's first album with Nelson Riddle and so picked up this follow up. Rodrogo ? The incredible "Concerto de Aranjuez" , and always liked the 5th Demension and have never seen this early album before , and lastly, wellll , Country Joe ...

what more can you say ? :bouncy:

LATER....just bot tix, gonna see CCR next Friday :applaud:

hjames

01-18-2009, 03:55 PM

We are One - Barack Obama Concert event - Live on HBO HD in the clear - (we are not HBO subscribers, but this was a special deal).
With Springsteen, Mellancamp, Seegar, U2, Stevie Wonder, Usher and all kinds of other folks - plus various bands and orchestras, plus lots of choirs and choral groups. Very nice audio feed, HD video. Watched on the Philips HDTV with the biamped 4341s ... whoa!

In the all the establishing shots it looked like the Potomac and the Reflecting Pool are frozen over.

I know we aren't Wisconsin, but its been cold for Dc lately below 32F for the week ... some days around 15, and down to 5 or so overnight!
I know I can walk out on my little pond right now - it looked cold, but looked like a nice concert- replays at 7:30 and 11:30 tonight, apparently also in the clear!

paragon

01-19-2009, 03:49 PM

Tommy Emmanuel - Classical Gas:applaud:

Great !!!

SEAWOLF97

01-19-2009, 08:42 PM

[email protected]

01-19-2009, 09:02 PM

Bringing It All Back Home: Bob Dylan

Huge Bob Dylan fan. I only have five or so of his CDs so far. Plan on expanding that real soon.

SEAWOLF97

01-19-2009, 09:47 PM

Bringing It All Back Home: Bob Dylan

Huge Bob Dylan fan. I only have five or so of his CDs so far. Plan on expanding that real soon.

Bob has a weekly radio show "Theme time Radio Hour" on XM . its not his music, but his droll delivery and offhand jokes are great. :applaud:

Just watched him as "Alias" in "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" ... read that he lobbied hard to get a part and do the soundtrack.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070518/

and if you like Dylan, you should catch him in "Masked & Anonymous"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/

Bob Dylan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001168/) ... Jack Fate (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0094139/)
Jeff Bridges (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000313/) ... Tom Friend
Penélope Cruz (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004851/) ... Pagan Lace (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0052879/)
John Goodman (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000422/) ... Uncle Sweetheart
Jessica Lange (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001448/) ... Nina Veronica (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0052880/)
Luke Wilson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005561/) ... Bobby Cupid
Angela Bassett (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000291/) ... Mistress
[/URL][URL="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001136/"]Bruce Dern (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000874/) ... Editor
Ed Harris (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000438/) ... Oscar Vogel
Val Kilmer (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000174/) ... Animal Wrangler
Cheech Marin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001507/) ... Prospero

[email protected]

01-19-2009, 10:12 PM

Bob has a weekly radio show "Theme time Radio Hour" on XM . its not his music, but his droll delivery and offhand jokes are great. :applaud:

Just watched him as "Alias" in "Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid" ... read that he lobbied hard to get a part and do the soundtrack.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070518/

and if you like Dylan, you should catch him in "Masked & Anonymous"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319829/

I've heard about Theme Time Radio Hour. I have one of the episodes ("Money") on my iPod. What channel and time is it exactly on?

I've seen parts of Masked & Anonymous. Seems like a decent movie, but the critics apparently hate it. The music video for Cold Irons Bound is good though.

By the way, have you had a chance to pick up Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Bob Dylan yet?

JBL 4645

01-20-2009, 07:13 AM

I've started to sort thru all the vinyl that was acquired last summer ... about 2 weeks ago this one crossed the platter and has been in 4x/week rotation ever since ..... not much into show tunes, but somehow G. Gershwin speaks to me...great stuff. Chacksfield does a perfect presentation....enjoyed the "Porgy & Bess" tunes so much that I've put holds on the DVD and CD from library...and of course, Rhapsody is Blue is incredible... GG died at 39 from a brain tumor and worked feverishly during his productive years to try to put it all down for posterity ....

recommended ( esp if you are getting tired of pop/rock , like me)

George Gershwin now he rules. First heard some of his classics on the TV and radio 2 simulcast back in the mid 1980’s BBC at the The Proms or Royal Albert Hall where many of his works where played out to packed house.

The stereo feel wasn’t too bad of course I didn’t own JBL back then and no I’m not saying what the speakers where. no they weren’t BOSE but something better but I’m not saying.

Today his works can be heard online with Classic FM without the hissy FM noise getting in the way of the reception.

And yes I listen with JBL. :applaud:

SEAWOLF97

01-20-2009, 02:20 PM

took a thrift run (too cold for bike) and found The White Album in pretty good shape , got it home and opened to find the wall poster and 4 mini portrait posters ... also a double of the 50's best , like new, an EmmyLou Harris greatest hits , still sealed (anybody interested ? ) and the "Beatles Again" , also in acceptable condition.

jeenie67

01-21-2009, 07:46 PM

.......The Electric Flag....Long Time Coming.....

SEAWOLF97

01-28-2009, 04:49 PM

WAR Anthology & some Ludwig Van ...

SEAWOLF97

02-01-2009, 05:44 PM

total=$4.70 ...The Marty Robbins is a double ...all in at least good condition,some vg.

Titanium Dome

02-03-2009, 11:05 AM

Titanium Dome

02-03-2009, 11:09 AM

Currently running Buddha Zen Trance Chillout Trip 1: Nirvana Lounge, "Soothe" on the L250s.

Yep, probably no one else here listens to this, but sometimes at work it's how I get through some of the BS of the work day.

SEAWOLF97

02-07-2009, 04:56 PM

23 records for under $10 .... all VG or better condition :applaud: the last listing is a 9 disk boxed set...looks like new !!

Glasshouse27

02-13-2009, 10:00 AM

Currently cranking out some Genesis - Foxtrot...:applaud: Supper's Ready just mind blowing!!!:blink:

BMWCCA

02-18-2009, 05:56 PM

Cool. Glad you're back to listening.:)

Umm, I'm still a bit stunned. The family left for a while so I figured now would be a good time to play the 4345s loud. Of course if you ask my family, I've been playing them TOO loud already, but you all know what I mean.

I've been real good, playing lots of jazz and some mellow stuff for weeks but tonight I pulled out Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad. The Crowns are still turned down quite a ways, in fact the input attenuators are set at half-way—straight up—on both amps. At 12-o'clock on the pre-amp my wife and daughter can't stay in the room, and my wife likes the level at 9-o'clock. It gets pretty close to too loud about 3-o'clock, so that's where I had it tonight.

I often hear people say they hear new stuff in some speakers, or amps, they never heard before in their music. Well, I've had Kamakiriad for about sixteen years and I never knew there was actually a second voice (likely Fagen, too, maybe Becker) who mumbles something and then shoots off a flair at about 4:48 on Snowbound, right on cue as Fagen sings ". . . some loser fires off a flair . . ."! I played it over about five times just laughing at it. It's that clear, even at that volume. I'd forgotten the CD had Amy Helm and Curtis King singing background. Like old friends. Rediscovering music is really the fun part. Great recording. Amazing speakers! :D

pos

02-19-2009, 01:46 AM

I often hear people say they hear new stuff in some speakers, or amps, they never heard before in their music.
So now do you hear all the saturations in your favorite Norah Jones album, Come Away With Me? ;)
I can't listen to this album anymore. When you start noticing them they become really annoying.

BMWCCA

02-19-2009, 07:01 AM

So now do you hear all the saturations in your favorite Norah Jones album, Come Away With Me? ;)
I can't listen to this album anymore. When you start noticing them they become really annoying.Actually, as I've said before—maybe to you—her Not Too Late is my favorite album. The one Donald Fagen points to as a model of how-good recordings can still be with respect to saturation and compression. I don't listen to the others. But yes, even good recordings have things in them you'd rather not hear that become more obvious with better speakers. A great recording certainly sounds even better, but warts become more obvious on the bad ones. Whether that's a feature or a benefit I'll leave to the individual. With the current state of music these days, it might be a selling point for lesser speakers. :no:

Let's just say there are many CDs that are best listened to in the car.

Shut down the thread? Where else can you find so much misinformation on speaker phasing, crossover design, house wiring, and wonks adding to the cacophony without comprehending the playing field? I was thinking of preserving it in the Internet Forum Hall of Shame.

SEAWOLF97

02-22-2009, 12:44 PM

ok vinyl safari yesterday , including the ultra rare Judy Collins interp of the Musgorski classic :D

BMWCCA

02-22-2009, 01:56 PM

Just installed a "new" Soundcraftsmen Pro-EQ-44 and Pro-Control-Four to replace one of my venerable DX-4200s in my living-room system with the 4345s. Went from an octave EQ to a third-octave in preparation for EQ-ing the room. Trying out those bastard, improperly wired, badly built 4345 clones right now with a newly acquired second album by a favorite bunch of kids:

Crooked Still: Shaken By A Low Sound (http://www.amazon.com/Shaken-Low-Sound-Crooked-Still/dp/B000GCG60K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1235335358&sr=1-1) (2006)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CYEQVFYZL._SL500_AA240_.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/Shaken-Low-Sound-Crooked-Still/dp/B000GCG60K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1235335358&sr=1-1)

I came upon them after being transfixed by cellist Rushad Eggleston when he filled in for Mike Marshall at a Darol Anger—Mike Marshall concert. Rushad had played with Anger's "Republic of Strings" band and he just killed it that night at the Paramount Theatre in Charlottesville, VA. And he was equally entertaining to talk to. Whacked-out!

I then looked up out about his group, Crooked Still, and got their first album "Hop High" (2004) (http://www.amazon.com/Hop-High-Crooked-Still/dp/B000NI3FII/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_b) that I've pushed here to anyone willing to listen. "Shaken by a Low Sound" is the last album Rushad did with them before disapearing off the face of the earth. I've talked about him with local musicians who attended the Berklee College of Music with him but he's basically dropped out. Too bad. The group went on in a different configuration, but the original vocalist, Aoife O'Donovan (http://www.puremusic.com/72still1.html), is just too good to be missed. She shines on both "Hop High" and "Shaken by a Low Sound". If you like double bass, incredible cello, superb banjo from an MIT biology Phd., then maybe Crooked Still will wow you, too.

It helps to have 18" woofers, but I like them on the 030 and L7s, too!

paragon

02-22-2009, 02:57 PM

Little River Band - Rearranged.:applaud:

SEAWOLF97

02-26-2009, 04:28 PM

yeah , I know ...modern bubble gum,,,but it sure is fun in short bursts....40 remastered tracks :applaud:

jeenie67

02-28-2009, 01:52 AM

:rockon1:........and a new CD: Johnny Winter Second Winter. When I don't feel like cuing up the album. Tommy Shannon sure lets my Altecs go for a ride! This one I push the boundary with....snows in my living room....the popcorn ceiling...what's left!

BMWCCA

03-01-2009, 08:01 PM

Larry Carlton - Alone/But Never Alone.
Just enjoying the music I'd put away a while ago. Renewing old acquaintances.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41mUMOSToFL._SL500_AA240_.jpg (http://www.amazon.com/Alone-But-Never-Larry-Carlton/dp/B000002O2I/sr=8-18/qid=1166564697?ie=UTF8&s=music)

jeenie67

03-03-2009, 02:50 AM

.... never heard of Infinity digital, but...Strauss: The Blue Danube and other Waltz Favorites. QK 57238. DDD. ..wonder what that stands for? DDD? St. Petersburg Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra. Stanislav Gorkovenko, Conductor. I really like this one! After Mettalica has rearranged the furniture for me....a little domestic realignment.
There's something about bi-amping right/ left. I played with a couple of HF/LF arrangements and thought I'd just try it while I had all the cables accessible. I do note a minute difference in the two Crowns though...wonder why?

LowPhreak

03-03-2009, 06:12 AM

I do note a minute difference in the two Crowns though...wonder why?

I'm a little surprised by that. Perhaps internal component matching could be more consistent with those?

BMWCCA

03-03-2009, 08:44 AM

DDD. ..wonder what that stands for? DDD?

I do note a minute difference in the two Crowns though...wonder why?

I'm a little surprised by that. Perhaps internal component matching could be more consistent with those?Perhaps the difference can be attributed to the difference in assembly from one Chinese slave-laborer to the next? Maybe one worker has just had a kidney removed to sell to a wealthy foreigner? Perhaps one had ingested more lead paint that day than the other? Less beatings? More beatings? Child labor on one, and not the other? :D

DDD is a full-digital recording, as opposed to ADD, or AAD. It's called the SPARS code: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARS_Code

jeenie67

03-03-2009, 06:47 PM

..I shall start a new post in general audio discussion. I'd like to get some input on the difference I hear. For me, it is not a problem, but it does attract my attention...I try not to focus on it.
Playing now as I prepare dinner and study is: Steely Dan, Aja. It was suggested on an earlier post...I think in the CD/ Vinyl Wars. What an excellent example of ....just primo tunes ....every one! My hat's off toyou! Tanx !
:dancin:

SEAWOLF97

03-03-2009, 07:33 PM

Perhaps the difference can be attributed to the difference in assembly from one Chinese slave-laborer to the next? Maybe one worker has just had a kidney removed to sell to a wealthy foreigner? Perhaps one had ingested more lead paint that day than the other? Less beatings? More beatings? Child labor on one, and not the other? :D

Or mebbe day-dreaming of a new Chinese Beamer ??

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2008-01/27/content_6423382.htm

BMWCCA

03-03-2009, 10:00 PM

Or mebbe day-dreaming of a new Chinese Beamer ??The difference is BMW isn't trying to pawn those off on the American buying public as BMWs. At least not yet! ;)

We already get some here that are built in South Africa, but that plant has one of the highest quality ratings of any auto plants in the world.

I make a point of showing my daughter when I'm actually able to buy something made in USA. It more difficult each year. All the Soundcraftsment stuff I've been stocking up on recently has that proud "Made in USA" label right on the front. That impressed her. When I recently replaced my 30-year-old Wahl cordless soldering iron with a new Wahl, I pointed out to her that it was still made in USA. Right after that I had to dissassemble it to put more tension on the safety switch and realign the tip sockets so the damn thing would actually make contact. Oh well.

My favorite thing is trying to guess on which island nation my next pair of Levi's 501 button-fly jeans will have been assembled. :banghead:

LowPhreak

03-04-2009, 12:29 AM

SEAWOLF97

03-07-2009, 04:33 PM

Antonio , Richard , Wilson ( a man and a half ) , Paul/Art and Linda ...good tunes this weekend -they're predicting snow-
March 7 !!! ( nothing like diverse musical tastes , eh ?)

Krunchy

03-08-2009, 06:19 AM

Mr. Seawolf! The Classicals look like a real nice score, how many records per, look like multiple vinyl.
Nice!:applaud:

I make a point of showing my daughter when I'm actually able to buy something made in USA. It more difficult each year.
My favorite thing is trying to guess on which island nation my next pair of Levi's 501 button-fly jeans will have been assembled. :banghead:

Excellent observation on both fronts there, I am actually pretty surprised when I do find "things" actually made in the USA, I think to myself, hey what do you know, we still have the technology to make this here hammer, ah thats great.
To quote the Manchester crooner "Good Times for a change now!"
(who said that?)

Whats playing now!
What time is it anyway?:D
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51vj1YBxGlL._SS500_.jpg

LowPhreak

03-08-2009, 04:13 PM

Patti Rothberg's - "Between the 1 and the 9." (http://www.amazon.com/Between-1-9-Patti-Rothberg/dp/B000002U34)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41SKVPGV9XL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

LRBacon

03-12-2009, 12:37 PM

jeenie67

03-13-2009, 08:39 PM

As the ancient Goddess Minerva pondered an alternative to her mundane existence, a question of meld....it came in a vision.....the Greek GodEros.
.......a proposition presented.

Furor abounded. Minerva, undaunted, set the sails.
She would in all clandestine maneuver...meet.
Circumscriptions agreed....the stratagem advanced.
Eros procured the necessary artifacts and abounded aloft towards the heavens.
Minerva, elated, followed at pace.

Eros positioned this drawn marble disc in circumlunar course. Minerva drew a sliver of her silken hair and with a flare of solar cooperation, crystallized not only the knife of transferal, but the vehicle of adulation.
Eros with coruscation stationed the objects of their ardency.
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon. 30th Anniversary Edition on 200 gram vinyl.
I can hear it all the way to my house!

Ducatista47

03-13-2009, 10:33 PM

This is the kind of stuff that keeps me from being a Jazz & Blues only listener.

Jeff Beck: Performing This Week Live at ronnie scott's Jazz Club

Never mind the hasn't-lost-a-step thing. Maybe "Better Than Ever" is more like it. Bonus, Tal Wilkenfeld is playing bass. :bouncy: A killer set and the sound is very good.

King Biscuit Flour Hour Presents: Mountain (Live)

From 1974. This was a 2003 DVD-A, find it if you can. I have the CD from 2000 and it is OK.

Clark

Ducatista47

03-13-2009, 11:24 PM

I linked to this player from another musician's page. Interesting guy. I like the sound samples. He plays a five string bass.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=1001809686

Anyone familiar with this piece of gear? It is an Avalon Ultra Five Bass Buddy (?)

There must be so much music out there that will never be heard offline.

Clark

jeenie67

03-14-2009, 09:40 AM

.........Just some Cd's I picked up in a package deal....Cheapola ! What a way to go to sleep.....all night ......next morn.and beyond.

:banana:

jeenie67

03-16-2009, 04:56 PM

Jeff Beck. Jeff. Ek86941. Killer!

Titanium Dome

03-17-2009, 08:32 AM

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.

I have all three albums on Tetragrammaton Records vinyl. I've had many copies of Taliesyn over the years to try to find a copy without the infamous pressing defect, but no luck. The original CDs (Pilot Records, I think, in the US) weren't much better than the vinyl as they were copied from the records not the original tapes. Eventually Harvest Records produced marginally better CDs. Actually the 256 kBps MP3 album downloads I got off emusic are the best sounding versions I have of those three albums: Shades of Deep Purple, Book of Taliesyn, and Deep Purple.

When in the UK, I stopped at a small shop in London and got a remastered CD box set of the three albums with a bunch of extras. Very, very nice.

SEAWOLF97

03-17-2009, 01:19 PM

LRBacon

03-17-2009, 04:31 PM

I have all three albums on Tetragrammaton Records vinyl. I've had many copies of Taliesyn over the years to try to find a copy without the infamous pressing defect, but no luck. The original CDs (Pilot Records, I think, in the US) weren't much better than the vinyl as they were copied from the records not the original tapes. Eventually Harvest Records produced marginally better CDs. Actually the 256 kBps MP3 album downloads I got off emusic are the best sounding versions I have of those three albums: Shades of Deep Purple, Book of Taliesyn, and Deep Purple.

When in the UK, I stopped at a small shop in London and got a remastered CD box set of the three albums with a bunch of extras. Very, very nice.

I have the Harvest 3 CD set issued in 1995 that is an import.
Book of Taliesyn doesn't sound real great, but it is better than a CD version I had earlier that must have been transferred from LP. I think I played my LP quite a bit on my girlfriend's (at the time) parent's Magnavox console stereo, which didn't do it any good. I think the stylus needed to be replaced. They had separate Magnavox bookshelf speakers in the family room downstairs. We could turn off the console speakers upstairs, play our tunes and make out on the couch downstairs. Oh, those were the days. Other LPs that we listened to were Iron Butterfly's Ball, Blood, Sweat & Tears 2nd LP, Big Brother & The Holding Co. Cheap Thrills and The Stone's Beggars Banquet.
Blood, Sweat & Tears LP sound very good on the Magnavox for some reason or other.

LRBacon

03-17-2009, 04:45 PM

no I didn't , Larry ..was too poor , just had Dad's TJ Brass albums and what I cud snag from FM on a 3.5 in R2R.

"Shield" is a GREAT tune that is often overlooked.

Tom, do you listen to the TJB any more?
The first LP that I bought with my hard earned money was Whipped Cream & Other Delights. I ended up collecting, back then, all the TJB albums through The Brass Are Comin' with the exception of the Christmas Album and Greatest Hits. I still enjoy listening to most of them. I have all them on CD with the exception of Bullish. Those that have been reissued and what hasn't been, I have versions that have been pains takingly transferred from LP to CD.

SEAWOLF97

03-18-2009, 12:17 PM

Tom, do you listen to the TJB any more?
.

Larry

I had kind of forgotten them , tho I really liked H Alpert's "Rise" , until I found a double LP ..called 4 sider ....like a GH , but remastered ( I Think )

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,42834,00.html

The suitably named Four Sider (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,42834,00.html) contains two LPs -- or four sides -- of material from Alpert (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,396899,00.html)'s back catalog. The higher ratio of well-chosen deep cut album tracks should appeal to those searching for an alternative to the typical "best-of" anthology. "The Lonely Bull" was the one that launched Alpert (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,396899,00.html) into the center ring (http://www.artistdirect.com/#) and quickly established him as a formidable arranger with an ear toward hip and fresh interpretations of practically any musical genre. "Taste of Honey," the Allen Toussaint (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,502661,00.html)-penned "Whipped Cream," "Tijuana Taxi," and "This Guy's in Love with You" are all classic chart hits that are worthy of their respective inclusions. There is also a fair sampling of show tunes from the stage ("Hello, Dolly!" and "If I Were a Rich Man") to the screen ("Casino Royale" and "Last Tango in Paris"), plus the pop standards "More," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Sunny," and Harry Nilsson (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,473594,00.html)'s "Without Her." While the digital revolution has yielded longer and equally thorough Alpert (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,396899,00.html) collections, few (if any) have captured the purity of the artist's progression or the sheer sense of sonic panache that has all but defined him as clearly as Four Sider (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,42834,00.html). ~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide

nice weather so FVS (Fuji vinyl safari) today

SEAWOLF97

03-18-2009, 02:13 PM

nabbed these 4 ...the real prize is Don Henley's "Building the Perfect Beast" ...
easily one of the top 5 albums of all time IMHO. :D

almost as good - the cashier asked if I was "over 55" , even whilst looking at me :hmm: (discount ) :yes:

pic #2 - trusty Fuji with vinyl strapped in for ride home..all Shimano "Deore" 21forward ...tall frame

Titanium Dome

03-18-2009, 07:10 PM

I remember "Candy" the movie.

SEAWOLF97

03-18-2009, 07:20 PM

I remember "Candy" the movie.

I've actually got it on DVD ...lots of stars ...Coburn the surgeon was hilarious .. Astin with the radio plugged into the top of his head to drain off excess electricity ...:D Ewa was a babe ...prolly 300 pounds now...?

Marlon Brando (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000008/) ... Grindl
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIwMzg2MjMxM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTE0MzgxMQ@@._ V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000009/)
Richard Burton (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000009/) ... MacPhistohttp://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjYyNTg3NjIxNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDk4OTcxMQ@@._ V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000336/)
James Coburn (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000336/) ... Dr. A.B. Krankheithttp://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTU2NTk3MzA0Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzg3NTgxMQ@@._ V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379/)
John Huston (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001379/) ... Dr. Arnold Dunlaphttp://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQwMTM1MzUzNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODc5NTQxMQ@@._ V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/)
Walter Matthau (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000527/) ... Gen. R.A. Smighthttp://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE3Nzc2NDgwM15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDI3MjAyMQ@@._ V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823592/)
Ringo Starr (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823592/) ... Emmanuelhttp://i.media-imdb.com/images/tn15/addtiny.gif (http://resume.imdb.com/)Ewa Aulin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0042046/) ... Candy Christianhttp://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEzMzcyNzU3NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTk2ODgxMQ@@._ V1._SY30_SX23_.jpg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040014/)
John Astin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0040014/) ... T.M. Christian / Jack Christianhttp://i.media-imdb.com/images/tn15/addtiny.gif (http://resume.imdb.com/)Elsa Martinelli (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0553349/) ... Liviahttp://i.media-imdb.com/images/tn15/addtiny.gif (http://resume.imdb.com/)Sugar Ray Robinson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0733124/) ... Zero

SEAWOLF97

03-20-2009, 11:04 AM

picked up The Who "Who's Next " deluxe 2 disk set ....really nicely recorded and the alt versions give a lot of insight ...recommended

easily one of my "Top 5" alltime albums

http://www.amazon.com/Whos-Next-Deluxe-Who/dp/B00008LOS1/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1237571768&sr=8-2

Product Description
Believe it or not, this landmark album, the record that changed FM rock forever in the early-'70s, has never been reissued from the original master tapes...'til now! But that's only the beginning...in addition to the original nine tracks, disc one adds six bonus tracks that were recorded at The Record Plant in March 1971, ('Baby Don't You Do It', 'Getting In Tune', 'Pure and Easy', 'Love Ain't For Keeping', Behind Blue Eyes' & 'Won't Get Fooled Again') three of which have never been available and the other three of which are here in their full-length versions for the first time. Then disc two captures a largely-unreleased April 26, 1971 gig at London's Old Vic Theatre (including the previously unreleased tracks - 'Love Ain't For Keeping', 'Pure And Easy', 'Young Man Blues', 'Time Is Passing', 'Behind Blue Eyes', 'I Don't Even Know Myself', 'Too Much Of Anything', 'Getting In Tune', 'Bargain', 'My Wife'

LRBacon

03-20-2009, 01:36 PM

Tom, do you have an earlier version of Who's Next on CD to compare this 2003 edition to? I have one from 1995, nothing in the booklet that indicated it was remastered from the original master tapes. Just curious since I wouldn't mind a version that may sound a lot better.

jeenie67

03-20-2009, 07:14 PM

....Dr. John that is.... The Definite Pop Collection. Atco/Rhino R2 70814. 30 tracks o' New Orleans boogie-woogie shufflin' gumbo!

:rockon2: Kept this one repeatin' all night! What a fine way to wake up finally! Dr. John and that piano with a backup vocal section and Horns! ...Makin' Whoopee! So cool!

MikeBrewster77

03-21-2009, 06:39 PM

... I have some "me [alone] time" tonight! :applaud: It's critical listening time! So far, I've enjoyed:

Blues to the Bone - Etta James: I bought this disc about a year ago, and honestly, totally forgot about it. Cued (or queued???) it up tonight, and wow - great album full of gritty, hard blues tracks done by an amazing artist with the chops and experience to actually perform them. Her rendition of The Sky is Crying alone was worth the purchase price of the disc, but honestly, almost all of the tracks are exceptionally well done, and as an added bonus, the album is very well mastered.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61CKR61Z9PL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn: Another artist with the real-life experience to truly add to her interpretation of the songs she sings. I've had this disc for several years, and continue to enjoy it each time I play it. With a minimalist recording approach, there's a previously unheard rawness to this album, thanks to collaboration with Jack White and the fact that every song was written by Lynn herself. There's honestly not a song on this recording that I don't truly enjoy.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/611IFMnqZZL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Ultra Dance 06 - Various Artists: OK, ok, ok ... yeah, so dance/trance/house (I can never quite figure out which is which) is a guilty pleasure of mine. Some great tracks on this disc from a pure enjoyment perspective. That being said, as with most pop/dance albums, the mastering leaves quite a bit to be desired...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SZ48BSZBL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
Now I've just got to figure out what's next - the night is young! :)

Ken Pachkowsky

03-21-2009, 07:41 PM

...
Blues to the Bone - Etta James:

:rockon1::bouncy:

Great Album!

MikeBrewster77

03-21-2009, 08:22 PM

Definitely - one of those albums that makes you forget that you're listening on JBL speakers with XYZ amp, and ABC interconnects on an EFG CD player, etc. :blah:; you just become completely involved in the music to the point that everything else fades into the background...

:rockon1::bouncy:

Great Album!

whizzer

03-24-2009, 06:22 AM

IN THE CAR THIS MORNING, on my way to work, something I hadn't heard for too long. This is one of my all-time favorite albums--and this band's best, IMHO; unlike all other Child Prodigy Bolan albums, there's not a stupid klinker in the bunch--every song's a pop-art gem, especially "Mambo Sun." And "Bang a Gong" still sounds like the monster hit it was. Who played bass in this band?--whoever it was, he was a master rock bassist.

Ken Pachkowsky

03-24-2009, 08:51 AM

IN THE CAR THIS MORNING, "Mambo Sun." And "Bang a Gong" still sounds like the monster hit it was. Who played bass in this band?--whoever it was, he was a master rock bassist.

That would be Steve Currie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SheZHMdEQkY

Ken

JeffW

03-24-2009, 01:30 PM

Tom, do you listen to the TJB any more?
The first LP that I bought with my hard earned money was Whipped Cream & Other Delights. I ended up collecting, back then, all the TJB albums through The Brass Are Comin' with the exception of the Christmas Album and Greatest Hits. I still enjoy listening to most of them. I have all them on CD with the exception of Bullish. Those that have been reissued and what hasn't been, I have versions that have been pains takingly transferred from LP to CD.

Not too long ago, I dug some Herb Alpert LPs out of my dad's storage shed. I knew he had some, I remembered them from when I was a kid (Zenith console). Whipped Cream and Greatest Hits were the two I found right off, there might be others.

I give them both a spin now and then, those heavy old vinyl records sound pretty dang good.

SEAWOLF97

03-24-2009, 03:14 PM

found the LP that I've been looking for a long time ..Steve Millers "Sailor" and the condition was not good enough to buy it ...:(

but did get these 3 ...Heart is a PacNW group and this is a double LP , ...CSNY has lots of hits on it too...I've never owned any Peter Gabrial, but I looked at the track listing ...and its like GH too ..."Dont give up" is like the ultimate song of hope...my son should like it too (to go with his new "hope" tat.)

the trax
1. Red Rain 2. Sledgehammer 3. Don't Give Up 4. That Voice Again 5. Mercy Street 6. Big Time 7. We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) 8. This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) 9. In Your Eyes

MikeBrewster77

03-24-2009, 06:36 PM

Heart's a great band - one of my all time favorites. :)

In Your Eyes on the Peter Gabriel LP is a classic - it's just a shame it was lined up as the last track on the album (cursed inner groove distortion!) I have the album, and while some of his cuts tend to be a bit esoteric, others are quite marvelous.

Nice finds! / Mike

found the LP that I've been looking for a long time ..Steve Millers "Sailor" and the condition was not good enough to buy it ...:(

but did get these 3 ...Heart is a PacNW group and this is a double LP , ...CSNY has lots of hits on it too...I've never owned any Peter Gabrial, but I looked at the track listing ...and its like GH too ..."Dont give up" is like the ultimate song of hope...my son should like it too (to go with his new "hope" tat.)

the trax
1. Red Rain 2. Sledgehammer 3. Don't Give Up 4. That Voice Again 5. Mercy Street 6. Big Time 7. We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) 8. This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) 9. In Your Eyes

JBLOG

03-24-2009, 08:16 PM

Relivin' the '80's tonight.

Stop Making Sense.......a great movie too!

Salad

03-24-2009, 09:41 PM

Right now Bill Evans Trio "Waltz for Debbie" (Analogue Prod. 180g) is on the turntable. I'm playing it with a borrowed Dynaco ST-70 and L-100s.

I'm basically in awe while I type this but sad too because I have to give the amp and speakers back this weekend.

jeenie67

03-26-2009, 01:13 AM

Beach Boys....Greatest Car Songs.... Little Deuce Coupe and Others!

hjames

03-26-2009, 05:19 AM

Since the Richmond Highland games last Fall, I got on a kick for Alt-Scottish bands with Pipers ...
One of the featured bands was Seven Nations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Nations), they are very good, but after I went through their back catalog I found I liked an earlier version of the band when Neal Anderson (http://www.antipypr.com/) was the piper ...that guy was astonishing on pipes ...! (his nickname is "the antipyper"!)

Anyway, I was in my Alt-Cletic playlist on iTunes last week and ordered 2 more CDs from bands i'd heard of ...
the 2 CDs came from from Amazon yesterday ...
one is Bad Haggis - Trip ...
they're an amazing band I first heard about from an MP3 at a live local event I missed - notable because they were doing a live version of "Little Wing" with pipes - I can't find that track online right now ...
anyway, quite a versatile band~!

The other CD is Shooglenifty - The Arm's Dealer's Daughter - its not as nice as their earlier albums "Solar Sheers" or "Venus In Tweeds" - but good stuff nonetheless. They're kind of a Techno/tripHop band with pipes, but thats a disservice - they are much broader than that, with huge list of influences ... and can do traditional quite well when they want!

SEAWOLF97

03-26-2009, 03:08 PM

Paul & Gabor still shrinkwraped ...Szabo is the writer of "Gypsy Queen" ..the 3rd part and ending of the Santana trilogy commonly called "Black Magic Woman" long ver. ...did good for under $3.

LRBacon

03-26-2009, 03:37 PM

found the LP that I've been looking for a long time ..Steve Millers "Sailor" and the condition was not good enough to buy it ...:(

Had that LP along with their first one Children Of The Future. I've always liked Song for Our Ancestors on Sailor.
Ol' Steve's got us beat by a few years, Tom. He'll be 66 this year.

SEAWOLF97

03-26-2009, 06:51 PM

Had that LP along with their first one Children Of The Future. I've always liked Song for Our Ancestors on Sailor.
Ol' Steve's got us beat by a few years, Tom. He'll be 66 this year.

Larry-
I've got "CotF" , but dont play it much, but "Sailor" (and its got nothing to do with being an ex-sailor) get multiple replays...agree on SfoA , and "Living in the USA & QS Girl" are always fun. Have started to appreciate Steve more this last year,,,some of the lesser know SMB tunes are a real grab bag,,,some jewels, some turds...Havnt put on todays vinyl find yet. XM sometimes has SMB live playing "Key to the Highway" that is really exceptional, I'll have to leave the MD powered up and grab it off the air on one of its plays. :bouncy:

LRBacon

03-27-2009, 11:00 AM

Tom, I enjoy those SMB tunes, too.

Slapped in the CD changer yesterday, The Doors Strange Days, The Carpenters Horizon, The Beatles White Album and The Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn.

SS is my favorite Moody Blues album. The WA, I listen to the first 5 on what was the first side of the first LP and all of the second side of the second LP sans the two Revolutions. SD favorite Doors' album, I really enjoy Moonlight Drive.

jeenie67

03-28-2009, 04:58 PM

Electric Ladyland

On my third copy...the first two I stole....wore em' out! ..found it at Music direct.
I'm just kinda mad about all the digi scapola and all the Rave reviews....! Remember where it all starts...a stupid $10 guitar cord or $20 mike cable....where's your 1000,000,000,00000000.10000000% pure copper interconnect now?

SEAWOLF97

03-28-2009, 06:17 PM

hjames

03-28-2009, 09:32 PM

Vinyl & speaker safari today..

On forum recommendation, will try "The Firebird" (always liked Pontiacs anyway :bouncy: ) ...Linda was shrink wrapped , the other 2 were , well , they were there and cheap.....:o:
C'mon, Wolfie - everyone knows the classic recording of Georgy Girl was by The Association ... but I guess you can pull skeet with that Seekers album.

whizzer

03-31-2009, 04:38 AM

C'mon, Wolfie - everyone knows the classic recording of Georgy Girl was by The Association ... but I guess you can pull skeet with that Seekers album.

I saw the Association live once back when I was in college, in the '60's. Their harmonies were amazing--they were just as good live as on record. Last year, I got a cd compilation of all the Assciation's recordings from some Dutch outfit through Collector's Choice. That's what I was listening to on my way to work this morning. Now, all you specialists in musical trivia out there--does anyone know what any of the members of this vocal group did later? (This isn't a trick question--I don't know).

MikeBrewster77

03-31-2009, 07:12 AM

I don't unfortunately, but it looks like there were some changes in the group members after their "peak" period. I believe all of the individual group members are listed in this article, and you could likely Google their respective names to find out what they've done subsequently:

http://www.vocalgroup.org/inductees/the_accosiation.html

Also, they're apparently still around, though in a different incarnation than the original line up:

http://www.theassociationwebsite.com/

Best,
- Mike

I saw the Association live once back when I was in college, in the '60's. Their harmonies were amazing--they were just as good live as on record. Last year, I got a cd compilation of all the Assciation's recordings from some Dutch outfit through Collector's Choice. That's what I was listening to on my way to work this morning. Now, all you specialists in musical trivia out there--does anyone know what any of the members of this vocal group did later? (This isn't a trick question--I don't know).

SEAWOLF97

03-31-2009, 09:50 AM

I saw the Association live once back when I was in college, in the '60's. .

I saw them as the opener for the Beach Boys at the Santa Barbara Bowl in 67 or 68...the Bowl is in a canyon about a block from our then home, so I just walked over and sat in the grass on the backside with my dads Leica and tripod...this photo is one of a sequence that was shot of the 2 groups...as photogs say "backlighting IS magic"
Auctioned off my old proof sheets on da bay and a woman contacted me and asked if I could make presentation size prints....she is the GF/fiance/mebbe wife now of the lead singer...the prints were matted and framed and given as a Xmas present to her guy.

(Leica 3C, 200mm slow lens, PAN-X, mebbe 1/30th)

whizzer

04-02-2009, 05:34 AM

I saw them as the opener for the Beach Boys at the Santa Barbara Bowl in 67 or 68...the Bowl is in a canyon about a block from our then home, so I just walked over and sat in the grass on the backside with my dads Leica and tripod...this photo is one of a sequence that was shot of the 2 groups...as photogs say "backlighting IS magic"
Auctioned off my old proof sheets on da bay and a woman contacted me and asked if I could make presentation size prints....she is the GF/fiance/mebbe wife now of the lead singer...the prints were matted and framed and given as a Xmas present to her guy.

(Leica 3C, 200mm slow lens, PAN-X, mebbe 1/30th)

What a great image. That looks like the exact same stage set-up they used at WVU--it was probably the same tour--the time-line's right. Panatomic-X was a great film, one of my favorites--too bad you can't get it any more. I used to develop it at a relatively low temperature in Microdol and make prints on Bromide paper from Agfa--what a complete tonal range, detail, and extreme fine grain--even on prints up to 24 inches, I'd inspect with a powerful magnifier and still see no grain. Leica lenses! Is there any better?

SEAWOLF97

04-03-2009, 07:06 PM

What a great image. Leica lenses! Is there any better?

Thanx Wiz ...My Dad was in Germany in '45 and toured the Leitz factory..he bought 3 complete systems and 1 each of all their lenses.

I'll try not to turn this musik thread into a photo one, but just a little background....

At 15 my Dad had the conversation with me ( very reminiscent of Ben & Mr. Mcguire's "plastics" one in "The Graduate") ...He said we've got a darkroom, bulk pan-x and lots of cameras
"Learn the gear & it will open doors for you"

I became a darkroom rat, learned the gear, stayed away from drugs and trouble ...joined the school paper and yearbook and worked up to chief. Went to every event and met girls way out of my pay range. In the Navy, I was combat camera and the experiencess continued, so many that the standard sailors did not get.

MUSIK connection: B&W analog photography is very very similar to using your turntable...film vs. digi is the same arguement as LP vs. MP3.. film & vinyl are both process oriented, knowledge intensive, for only certain types of people. Caring for your hardware, archiving, continual cleaning...The similarities go on and on....more than just tossing a disk in the tray..you have an actual bond to your medium.....:bouncy:

(all but 1 of my cameras are digi now )

JBLRaiser

04-04-2009, 05:47 AM

I saw the Association live once back when I was in college, in the '60's. Their harmonies were amazing--they were just as good live as on record. Last year, I got a cd compilation of all the Assciation's recordings from some Dutch outfit through Collector's Choice. That's what I was listening to on my way to work this morning. Now, all you specialists in musical trivia out there--does anyone know what any of the members of this vocal group did later? (This isn't a trick question--I don't know).

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

SEAWOLF97

04-05-2009, 03:16 PM

C'mon, Wolfie - everyone knows the classic recording of Georgy Girl was by The Association ...

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

HJ ..I went thru the wiki link on the Assn..cant see that they ever did that.

After a long wet & cold winter/spring , it was finally 70 & sunny today..grabbed the Fuji and did the 10 mile loop ...drug these home...

the Stones is a fun album and acceptable condition, after Peter Gabriel's "So" last week, I got another of his..the Johnny Cash is new to me...and the one you cant read is Moody Blues "Octave" ....it was in the wrong jacket, ( but does not affect sound :D )

hjames

04-05-2009, 06:41 PM

Been outdoors this weekend myself ...
the sound of robins, wind chimes and fish spawning in our pond ...

Backyard GoldFish Sex 2009 - 20 secs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlOpNrQaYxI

Backyard Fishy Sex - 2nd Session - nearly a minute!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFrlz4VHwdE

SEAWOLF97

04-07-2009, 02:57 PM

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.
.

Larry..
I acquire MP3's and dont always have time to sit and listen, so I put them on the pod and catch em when biking.. Did a long vinyl safari and Talesyn came on, WOW ,,,What a great album !!!! :applaud::applaud:...I hadnt heard it in many years, but it was like a long lost friend. Outstanding :applaud::applaud::applaud:

picked up these 2 ...have never seen this jacketed Traffic album..

Krunchy

04-08-2009, 05:18 AM

I'll try not to turn this musik thread into a photo one, but just a little background....

At 15 my Dad had the conversation with me ( very reminiscent of Ben & Mr. Mcguire's "plastics" one in "The Graduate") ...He said we've got a darkroom, bulk pan-x and lots of cameras
"Learn the gear & it will open doors for you"

I became a darkroom rat, learned the gear, stayed away from drugs and trouble ...joined the school paper and yearbook and worked up to chief. Went to every event and met girls way out of my pay range. In the Navy, I was combat camera and the experiencess continued, so many that the standard sailors did not get.

MUSIK connection: B&W analog photography is very very similar to using your turntable...film vs. digi is the same arguement as LP vs. MP3.. film & vinyl are both process oriented, knowledge intensive, for only certain types of people. Caring for your hardware, archiving, continual cleaning...The similarities go on and on....more than just tossing a disk in the tray..you have an actual bond to your medium.....:bouncy:

(all but 1 of my cameras are digi now )

Seawolf, great story, your dad was right, thanks for sharing :)
Only one film camera left, digis have gotten quite good from what I've heard. Do you miss working with film/ the dark room? The convenience of digital is hard to beat, I'm even thinking of getting an ipod just for that reason. I would think that film is more of an artistic medium now, for the end result I mean, as digital offers its own artistic possibilities as well.

Been outdoors this weekend myself ...
the sound of robins, wind chimes and fish spawning in our pond ...

Heather, that was some nice footage, what will you do with the fry if they all hatch, they'd overrun the pond I would think. cool!

Oh yeah, music!...Joe Henderson's Tetragon

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/210M2GWXSVL._SL500_AA130_.jpg

LRBacon

04-08-2009, 11:26 AM

Hey Tom, I see you've picked up a good one of the Moody Blues. I listened to On A Threshold Of A Dream quite a bit when it first came out.
Never bought Octave, I wasn't into them at the time they got back together.

Book of Taliesyn is a good one isn't it?!?
Hey, when you're riding the bike with headphones can you still hear the traffic? I know if I am riding on the streets or roads I like to be able to hear it.

LRBacon

04-08-2009, 12:03 PM

Hey Heather, you must have been pullin' Tom's leg over the Association doing Georgy Girl.

hjames

04-08-2009, 01:44 PM

Hey Heather, you must have been pullin' Tom's leg over the Association doing Georgy Girl.
(laughing) Took this long for someone to catch it, he he he! must be a young crowd!

Yep, one of the first concerts I saw back inna day was The Association (circa summer 1970) at Merriweather Post Pavilion in MD. Back then it was a great place for music!
Another night that summer we saw Steppenwolf there, and on yet another night we caught The Who (Who's Next tour) ...

Admission for those shows was $3.50/4.50/5.50 - we never knew how good we had it!

LRBacon

04-08-2009, 01:58 PM

(laughing) Took this long for someone to catch it, he he he! must be a young crowd!

Yep, one of the first concerts I saw back inna day was The Association (circa summer 1970) at Merriweather Post Pavilion in MD. Back then it was a great place for music!
Another night that summer we saw Steppenwolf there, and on yet another night we caught The Who (Who's Next tour) ...

Admission for those shows was $3.50/4.50/5.50 - we never knew how good we had it!

Yep, those were the days. Saw Led Zeppelin once in 1969 and again in 1970 and Iron Butterfly in 1969. After that my money went else where. My future wife and I saw Captain & Tennille at the Opera House or was it the Arena :hmm:(Seattle Center) in the summer of 1976.

SEAWOLF97

04-09-2009, 01:33 PM

Hey Tom, I see you've picked up a good one of the Moody Blues.
Hey, when you're riding the bike with headphones can you still hear the traffic? I know if I am riding on the streets or roads I like to be able to hear it.

I seem to be picking up a lot of the Moody's lately , and Beatles

I ride with earbuds and really dont turn them very loud ...they arent the sound blocking type,
that would be silly in traffic (the only thing they block are the OL's complaints :D ) ....
"Sorry Honey..cant hear you with these things on..." ;)

LRBacon

04-09-2009, 03:59 PM

(the only thing they block are the OL's complaints :D ) ....
"Sorry Honey..cant hear you with these things on..." ;)

I'd really be in trouble if I had ear buds in!! I get in enough trouble when I ask her to repeat what she said without anything in my ears!! :blink:

I see you obtained another enjoyable Moody Blues album.

SEAWOLF97

04-10-2009, 10:09 AM

I see you obtained another enjoyable Moody Blues album.

No new vinyl yesterday , but picked up some old friends -CD- from the library

Best of the Moody Blues
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
CCR - 6 disk boxed set
George Harrison - All things Must Pass

Its the 60's all over again :applaud:

hjames

04-10-2009, 10:29 AM

No new vinyl yesterday , but picked up some old friends -CD- from the library

Best of the Moody Blues
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective
CCR - 6 disk boxed set
George Harrison - All things Must Pass

Its the 60's all over again :applaud:

Ahh - with the Moodies, at least, their early albums were all concept album, music stitched together to flow from one to the next. When I saw them in Baltimore touring for "Every Good Boy Deserves favour" it was amazing to hear them live sequing songs together from album to album ... amazing stuff.
I saw them in Atlanta in '74, touring for "Seven Sojourn" - they were not the same band. yes, it was the same players, but they were abrupt with each other. Songs ended completely before another song began. It seemed obvious to me that they were headed for a break up. And shortly afterwards, they did.

I saw them a few years later in Columbia, MD and it was more of a "greatest Hits" tour. They were playing together again, but, it seemed like between them there was friendship between old friends, but not the same trust or openness.
The oroginal keyboardists Mike Pinder isn't with them any more, they didn't flow songs together on stage. It was just individual songs with applause and the usual band-audience rapor.

Anyway - that flow of music from song to song was part of the charm -
hope the anthology has a touch of that at least!

For the deadheads - How can you have China Cat without I Know You, Rider? Its just incomplete!

MikeBrewster77

04-10-2009, 03:05 PM

Anyway - that flow of music from song to song was part of the charm -
hope the anthology has a touch of that at least!

If it's the same album I have "The Moody Blues Greatest Hits" released in '89, it unfortunately does not. The songs aren't even chronologically arranged on the disc... :(

But, it's still a good listen even if it does the lack the "flow" that was a unique part of their style. I actually pulled it out today and put it on after reading this thread earlier this morning :)

Best,
- Mike

SEAWOLF97

04-10-2009, 03:46 PM

If it's the same album I have "The Moody Blues Greatest Hits" released in '89, it unfortunately does not. The songs aren't even chronologically arranged on the disc... :(

But, it's still a good listen even if it does the lack the "flow" that was a unique part of their style. I actually pulled it out today and put it on after reading this thread earlier this morning :)

Best,
- Mike

This are it .....good tunes, not much flow ,,only ebb :o:

MikeBrewster77

04-11-2009, 07:19 AM

I have a different version, but likewise ;)

This are it .....good tunes, not much flow ,,only ebb :o:

Ducatista47

04-11-2009, 09:15 AM

I have a different version, but likewise ;)
Your version is missing my favorite song, "Go Now." I admit it does not go with the rest, but for me Denny Lane was the lion's share of the talent in the band and I consider the work after his early departure wimpy, straight laced and without soul by comparison. They went from a Blues band to a Pop band. :(

No comment from me on his start to finish tenure with Wings, however. And I know, "He's never been much of a father." But that is not a musical affair.

Clark

MikeBrewster77

04-11-2009, 08:36 PM

Your version is missing my favorite song, "Go Now."

Luckily I have quite a bit of Moody's vinyl to supplement my CD's, and I do have the album ;). You're right that it is a grainy, soulful song, and a great showing by them!

Best,
- Mike

SEAWOLF97

04-12-2009, 09:22 AM

listened to Jeff Wayne's"War of the Worlds" last nite ....although Haywood was the only Moody to have a part, the whole thing had a very Moody flavour ...talk about flow...this is a masterful production :applaud:

http://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Waynes-Musical-Version-Worlds/dp/B0009MAPUO/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1239553152&sr=8-8

DID pickup the dual LP of "All Things Must Pass" at the flea market today ...the box is going to need some restoration, but vinyl looks OK. :applaud:

whizzer

04-13-2009, 05:16 AM

I finally acquired on CD one of my favorites from back in "the day": Spirit's "The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus." Randy California, the guitarist, drowned a few years ago saving his young son from an undertow. Randy was a very tasteful guitarist of tremendous technical ability. Spirit incorporated elements of jazz and so-called "world music" into rock long before it became fashionable to do so and is, at least in my opinion, one of the most original and timeless bands to have come out of the "psychedelic era." The drummer, who's name I can't recall at the moment, was the bald guy seen in profile on the cover of the "Clear" album and was also Randy California's father-in-law. Randy got the "California" attached to his name by Jimi Hendrix. The story is that there were two guitarists named Randy who were vying for the job of 2d guitar for a Hendrix tour, and Hendrix dubbed them by their state names to differentiate between them. The younger of the two, Randy California, got the gig, and the name stuck. I seem to recall he legally changed his last name to "California" at some point.

SEAWOLF97

04-14-2009, 03:44 PM

Randy California, got the gig, and the name stuck. I seem to recall he legally changed his last name to "California" at some point.

thanx for that story Wiz..I always wondered..good that he wasnt from Massachusetts ...I went on a P2P "Hey Joe" spree one time and put 17 different versions on a CD ...RC's was one of the better ones. :bouncy:

speak of old friends ....got ATMP for a buck at the flea market...2 LP's pretty good, but it took about an hour and lots of tape to rehab the box...;)

SEAWOLF97

04-16-2009, 04:46 PM

Ahh - with the Moodies, at least, their early albums were all concept album,

went out on vinyl safari today, but no joy ....did find this MB's CD ....looks like a compile .but I cant find where the Moodies ever did these...:o:

LRBacon

04-17-2009, 09:33 AM

Tom, that looks like an album from the Go Now time period before Justin Hayward joined the group.

SEAWOLF97

04-17-2009, 04:29 PM

Everything in GREAT condition....abt $7 for the whole lot...always liked "Eye of the Zombie" and had never seen it on LP ...the John Williams is a triple and the disks look "never played" as does the Montrose.

SEAWOLF97

04-17-2009, 04:35 PM

more from the same lot ....the Navy Commodores "not for sale" jazz album attracted me with the pic of Zummie on the back...I spent the day with him in '71 and we had coffee in "Admirals Country" ...the most popular CNO in history. :applaud:

SEAWOLF97

04-18-2009, 02:58 PM

Gonna find out if I still like Judy Collins...the Guthrie/Seeger double looks interesting :D

SEAWOLF97

04-19-2009, 04:12 PM

looks like the Seawolf is going to learn to talk with Landwolves ?

I like music boxes & the 4 seasons..the other 2 are gambles...:o:

MikeBrewster77

04-19-2009, 05:31 PM

I do ;)! I was actually spinning one of her greatest hits LP's today. Theres something vulnerable yet strong about her vocals I find alluring.

Best,
- Mike

Gonna find out if I still like Judy Collins...

whizzer

04-20-2009, 06:56 AM

Back in the 1960's, during that period before there were such things as Moog synthesizers and such, there actually were (and had been for awhile) composers of what was called "electronic music." Typically, these composers had to cobble together their own instruments, using a variety of control interfaces for analog circuits, usually a series of oscillators. One day, I think it was in 1966, in a record store, a Nonesuch album entitled "Tragoedia," by a person named Andrew Rudin, caught my eye, The liner notes disclosed that it was a piece of "electronic music" based on the concept of Greek tragedy. Furthermore, it was the first ever piece to have been specifically commissioned by Nonesuch for recording. I bought it and loved it. I played it often, much to the confusion and bewilderment of Wolf, my German Shepherd puppy who would stare in dumbfoundment at one of my Altec 886a's in a close copy of the RCA Victor dog, as well as to the chagrin and annoyance of my room-mates. Unfortunately, in a fit of utterly baseless and misguided generosity, I allowed a drama student to "borrow" the album to use as the backgound music for her senior presentation, and, to make a long story short, never got it back. That's what happened to my original copy of Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies' "American Metaphysical Circus," too. Anyhow, I searched for years in vain for another copy, and, finally, it occurred to me to Google Andrew Rudin, who, as it turns out, is now a professor of music at a small school in Connecticut. Unbelievably, he had none of his old albums himself, but he directed me to a website that specializes in locating out-of-print vinyl, and I was able to procur a copy still in its cellophane for little more than twice its orignal price (+ shipping, of course). I've now transposed it to cd and am happy to report it's just as interesting today as it was back in "the day," even though I no longer have Altec 886a's, but some custom, DIY-made narrow, but deep and tall wonders with four little aluminum cone woofers in a 2.5-way configuration along with a soft dome tweeter--a system that's admittedly very un-Lansing-like, but it doesn't sound bad at all. The first real synthesizer album I owned, "Switched On Bach," actually appeared not long after Rudin's "Tragoedia," and I thought at the time that the widespread availability of the new instrument would usher in an era of inventiveness and boundaries expansion, but somehow, that just never happened (oh--there were some exceptions, like Rick Wakeman's "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"), but, by and large, the old-line "electronic" stuff STILL sounds more avant garde. Oh well. Now if I could just find a copy of Ruth White's "Flowers of Evil"....

MikeBrewster77

04-20-2009, 01:58 PM

About Judy Collins ... I listened to her over the weekend along with Joan Baez, and decided I definitely like Baez better - they're comparable vocally, but I just prefer her delivery, and frankly I think she selected better songs.

As to what's playing now, Al Stewart's Past Present, and Future is on the turntable. Simply awesome album, but then again, I've only ever heard one album of his that I think was a total miss.

On another note, as I was going through my record collection this weekend, I came across a Beethoven record, and thought to myself "huh - I don't remember this one." Well, it's no wonder - it's still fully sealed!!! I can't wait to play it (there's simply nothing like new vinyl :bouncy:) but for some weird reason, I haven't been able to bring myself to open it. It's damned bizarre - somtimes I wonder about myself ... :hmm:

Best,
- Mike

SEAWOLF97

04-20-2009, 05:40 PM

Well, it's no wonder - it's still fully sealed!!! I can't wait to play it (there's simply nothing like new vinyl
- Mike

You gotta clean it anyway.(or at least wipe down the surface) .surprising how so many sealed records open dirty.

whats your phono setup Mike ?

MikeBrewster77

04-20-2009, 09:23 PM

You gotta clean it anyway.(or at least wipe down the surface) .surprising how so many sealed records open dirty.

Yup, happens all the time. Little bits of paper from the liner inserts, dust, etc. FWIW, it's still sealed as I haven't been able to actually bring myself to open it. :o:

whats your phono setup Mike ?

It's the weak link in my system right now unfortunately :(. My standard table is a Luxman PD-284 with a Sumiko Pearl cartridge. Sadly, while adjusting the cartridge a few months back, one of the leads snapped. I intend to have it completely re-wired, and in the interim, I'm using a back up JVC with an Ortofon Super 10 cartridge. I modded it to remove all of the "automatic" functionality (since as we all know that puts unnecessary resistant pressure on the tonearm towards the inner grooves) but the recent upgrades to my system have really made it clear that it's the weakest source component I own.

Ducatista47

04-20-2009, 10:18 PM

Mike, that looks like a higher end model of the line containing my old LA-55. Is it direct drive with a Hall Effect generator to keep the rotation smooth? I know what you mean about upgrades showing it lacking.

I used the table until I started using nice triode power, which showed it up to be very noisy. It sounded fine with my Marantz and Denon amps. (It is amazing to me what most SS amps hide. At the end of the day, I don't care how good they are, triodes simply resolve detail better and are, if done right - no negative feedback in the preamp - so quiet.) I broke the bank and went for a Rega P5 and a Dynavector Karat moving coil cart and matching phono preamp. Expensive but dead silent. I don't think vinyl is anwhere near its potential without a really nice modern turntable, but OMG the cost...

Vinyl is such a good news/bad news story. I love it but it ticks me off that it craps out at 35hz. Acoustic bass...sigh.

So to get back to topic and to prove what a sucker I am, I recently acquired Bill Evan's Quintessence on a 45 RPM limited edition. And I already had it on a vintage 33 RPM. What an album, what a piece of music and what a great candidate for a 45. That is what's playing now, my friends.

Clark

MikeBrewster77

04-21-2009, 10:01 AM

Mike, that looks like a higher end model of the line containing my old LA-55. Is it direct drive with a Hall Effect generator to keep the rotation smooth? I know what you mean about upgrades showing it lacking.

Clark,

Yup, it's a DD, though not quartz locked (it actually has variable pitch control which is an odd feature on their tables.) I mean for what it is, it's not bad, but I miss my Luxman already. Completely OT, but if anyone knowns of someone who restores TT's and can vouch for their work, please let me know.

I don't think vinyl is anwhere near its potential without a really nice modern turntable, but OMG the cost...

Vinyl is such a good news/bad news story. I love it but it ticks me off that it craps out at 35hz. Acoustic bass...sigh.

I have a complete love/hate relationship with vinyl. At least a dozen times over the course of as many years, I've threatened to drop it all off at Goodwill and be done with it! It's heavy, it's bulky, it's impossible to keep perfectly clean, it snaps, crackles, and pops, it wears out after repeated playback, it posseses pretty substantial sonic limitations, inner groove distortion sucks, no one seems to know how to master it right anymore so it's a total crapshoot to buy new music on vinyl, the price point for decent playback equipment is outrageous, pivot turntables are inherently flawed (thus "null" points) and they're an absolute bitch to configure: VTA, tracking force, anti-skate, arm height, mirrors, protractors, magnifying glasses ... you practically need a degree in Physics and a laboratory to set one of these damned things up right! :banghead:

But when the entire confluence comes together just right... and it can be a rare experience - it's pure magic! It's realistic, it has an unbeatable musicality and presence, plus it's tangible and involving - creating the perfect storm of an audio reproduction experience.

Now playing: Autograph, John Denver (on vinyl, of course ;))

SEAWOLF97

04-21-2009, 06:44 PM

Well it was beautiful today, low 80's ..the first day for T & shorts,,so did the vinyl bike safari ...3 stores - no joy (guess I've mined them all out :( )

Anyway ..had the pod going and listening to the Moody's and really marveled at how good the album was...problem was that I get their albums all mixed up as there are so many compilations/permutations...so came home and looked it up on wiki by cut...it was "Every good Boy deserves Favour" ...wiki is cool as I also learned where the title comes from..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Good_Boy_Deserves_Favour_(album)

The title is taken from the student mnemonic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemonic) for the lines of the treble clef (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clef)

When the G-clef is placed on the second line of the staff, it is called the "treble clef". This is by far the most common clef used today, and the only G-clef still in use. For this reason, the terms G-clef and treble clef are often seen as synonymous. It was formerly also known as the "violin clef". The treble clef was historically used to mark a treble, or pre-pubescent, voice part.
The lines on the treble clef staff correspond to the letters E G B D F, and can be remembered with the sayings Every Good Boy Does Fine, Every Good Boy Deserves Fun/Favour/Fudge/Fruit/Football , Every Good Bird Does Fly, Elephants Grow Big Dirty Feet or Ernie Gave Bert Dead Frogs.

I'm glad the MB's had the good sense not to call their album
"Ernie Gave Bert Dead Frogs"

But I did also listen to "Virtual Moodies" ..which seems to be Haywards singing paired with an orchestral background...The highlight of that was "Tuesday Afternoon" in Spanish. :o:

SEAWOLF97

04-24-2009, 02:45 PM

What a great image. Leica lenses! Is there any better?

The little Leica strikes again ..68/69 ? fixed 200mm , no zoom, you get what you gots.

Ducatista47

04-24-2009, 08:20 PM

Back in the 1960's, during that period before there were such things as Moog synthesizers and such, there actually were (and had been for awhile) composers of what was called "electronic music."
In the 1950's and early 1960's, Pre-Moog, I occasionally heard the work of electronic music composers. There were at least a couple of widely heard works. One was the soundtrack of Forbidden Planet. That one was definitely in the more pop music camp of the genre, but was terrific work nonetheless.

The other one I remember was a stunner. At a World's Fair (I don't remember which one, but Wikipedia points to it being the 1970 Osaka Fair. I remember it being much earlier, perhaps Brussels. So much for memory.), the great one presented his music daily. I saw some national news coverage and I can still see and hear him saying to the audience, with a smile, "My name is Stockhausen." The emphasis was on "haus", by the way, not "Stock." There is nothing like hearing someone pronounce their own name to finally get it right. (Porsche, anyone? Its "e," despite every sickening Yuppie I ever met, is not silent.)

That is correct, one of the greatest composers of our time was, among other things, heavily into electronic music. I don't own a damn thing of his and will try to rectify that at the next Public Radio vinyl sale.

Then it will be what's playing now.

Dig this Stockhausen idea:

In lectures such as “Music in Space” from 1958 (Stockhausen Texte 1:152–75), he called for new kinds of concert halls to be built, "suited to the requirements of spatial music". His idea was
a spherical space which is fitted all around with loudspeakers. In the middle of this spherical space a sound-permeable, transparent platform would be suspended for the listeners. They could hear music composed for such standardized spaces coming from above, from below and from all points of the compass. (Stockhausen Texte 1:153)
As far as electronic instruments, except for the soundtrack of The Outer Limits, I never heard anything as pretty, or as musical, or as intriguing as the Novachord. It ends up that was a Novachord.

Clark

Ducatista47

04-24-2009, 10:02 PM

Mexican Moon. I can't think of another heavy guitar-bass-drums trio fronted by a brilliant, unique contralto. While sounding nothing like them, the only group that reminds me of The Pretenders (also lead by a brilliant, unique contralto). I like to think this is their masterpiece.

I have to watch it with this old favorite. I can't use the Stax headphones because I want to turn it up high enough to hurt my hearing. I am forcing restraint by playing it on my Hammer Dynamics. I did switch the amp from triode to pentode, though. ;)

It is always a shock to suddenly hear Jim Jones ranting.

Apart from the music, Johnette Napolitano is allergic to entertainment business BS and assholes in general, see her prove it here: http://www.fullinbloommusic.com/johnette.html I like her attitude - and she has plenty of it. She reminds me of a 4313B answer to a stupid question. She also reminds me of a lot of my friends, teachers included, in Art School all those years ago. Hope her real estate investments went OK.

Clark

Ken Pachkowsky

04-25-2009, 08:08 AM

Have any of you come across this artist yet?

Wow....talk about playing with passion. She gives me goose bumps to say the least. Take a listen to "Emanuelle" on Chris Botti's new Boston Live DVD or CD.

Or, search for her on UTube and watch her play a killer violin solo and break into "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Led Zepplin. This girl is a prodigy.

PS: Catch her playing with Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)

Ken

Ducatista47

04-26-2009, 08:56 PM

George Benson, Beyond The Blue Horizon. 1971. Some of you, it occurred to me, might be too young to know that George Benson was a first rate Jazz guitarist before he made mainstream records. I am listening to a sterling example right now, on vinyl. CTI6009. Got it for a dollar at a record sale year before last.

Among the sidemen are Ron Carter on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums.

Clark

whizzer

04-28-2009, 07:45 AM

[quote=Ducatista47;248949]I
The other one I remember was a stunner. At a World's Fair (I don't remember which one, but Wikipedia points to it being the 1970 Osaka Fair. I remember it being much earlier, perhaps Brussels. So much for memory.), the great one presented his music daily. I saw some national news coverage and I can still see and hear him saying to the audience, with a smile, "My name is Stockhausen." The emphasis was on "haus", by the way, not "Stock." There is nothing like hearing someone pronounce their own name to finally get it right. (Porsche, anyone? Its "e," despite every sickening Yuppie I ever met, is not silent.)
In lectures such as “Music in Space” from 1958 (Stockhausen Texte 1:152–75), he called for new kinds of concert halls to be built, "suited to the requirements of spatial music". His idea was
a spherical space which is fitted all around with loudspeakers. In the middle of this spherical space a sound-permeable, transparent platform would be suspended for the listeners. They could hear music composed for such standardized spaces coming from above, from below and from all points of the compass. (Stockhausen Texte 1:153)
Stockhausen's idea was based on what Edgard Varese had actually done a few years previously at the World's Fair. It predated stereo. Every instrument in the composition had multiple channels, so there was not only the illusion of space, but also of movement. Check out Frank Zappa's Tribute to Edgard Varese site for more details.

SEAWOLF97

04-28-2009, 05:09 PM

4343

04-30-2009, 08:23 AM

todays safari...for a CCR fan this was a great day....all 4 are in the best shape I've seen..much better than my existing copies..

as it the Cat Stevens GH ...the 12 disk classic set in super condition was 30 cents

Wow! I should look around more. I found a guy at the local Flea Market (Jumble) selling CD's cheap last weekend. Picked up a few:

The White Stripes-eLePHANT, which sent me scrambling for the Low-Cut filter on my homemade subs...
Gato Barbieri-Que Pasa
GRP Digital Sampler-Vol. 1
Manfred Mann's Earth Band-The Best Of
Faces-A Nod Is As Good As A Wink...To A Blind Horse

Currently though I have the big reels rolling Tangerine Dream, it's in the middle of Thief. (The reel has Three O'clock High, Thief & Shy People back to back for 2 hours of mostly instrumental music.)

SEAWOLF97

04-30-2009, 09:30 AM

The White Stripes-eLePHANT, which sent me scrambling for the Low-Cut filter on my homemade subs...

Mike..dont you guys have the worlds largest flea market there in SJ ?

My 27y.o. son got me into "Elephant" a couple of years back...had it going nearly non-stop for a while..very addictive...

SADLY..didn't care for earlier or later WS as much..:(

Those CCR albums are super..its the best I've heard them on vinyl , having never owned a new LP of theirs....the prior owner had put address tags inside the jackets...looked him up and sent a nice email..no reply, so far....

JuniorJBL

05-02-2009, 10:06 AM

At the moment tracking these!!
Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie goes to hollywood
Seeds of love by Tears for fears

jeenie67

05-03-2009, 07:18 PM

....and what a fine album (CD etc.)! I had Frankie, Pleasuredome on cassette. My Akai GX-380(?) player finally seized up after over 20 years (really!) of superb service and like a fool, I trashed my collection of cassettes. I'm now replacing the recorded music on either album or SACD, DVDA, or CD's when I can find them for a reasonable price on eBay. I just bought the Tom Tom Club CDfor $6 delivered new, and am seeking Pleasuredome among others. I'm listening to an album, The Fairlanes which I bought new, sealed, in vinyl...nice New Jersey blues.....just puttin' in my twee cents worth! :barf:

[email protected]

05-03-2009, 08:54 PM

New Bob Dylan album, "Together Through Life". Great listen. Has a fun vibe to it, compared to his last CDs.

JBL 4645

05-04-2009, 07:36 PM

New Bob Dylan album, "Together Through Life". Great listen. Has a fun vibe to it, compared to his last CDs.

LOL I knew you was listening to Bob Dylan, Jon. Is it clearer than those youtube videos. What’s the production quality like over pervious CD productions like in the lyrics is it clear does it cut though without strain as I found the youtube ones too painful to understand over competition of instrumental.

http://blogs.sltrib.com/burger/uploaded_images/26764701-26764706-slarge-763755.jpg

Found this sort samples from his new album on youtube

Together Through Life, the new Bob Dylan album: Preview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_jrwsyKiiw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_jrwsyKiiw)

I still find it hard to understand all the lyrical words providing its not competing with loud instrumental that tends to clash with lyrics. Who the production mixer for his works as there would be music mixer editor?

His voice has husky like sound to it kinder dry.

hugemc

05-05-2009, 12:27 PM

At the moment tracking these!!
Welcome to the Pleasuredome by Frankie goes to hollywood
Seeds of love by Tears for fears

Welcome to Pleasuredome, FGTH sounds fantastic, I worked for their label ZTT for a while and you would not believe how much the album cost to record. All in all it's a forgotten classic.

JMc

JuniorJBL

05-05-2009, 02:42 PM

Welcome to Pleasuredome, FGTH sounds fantastic, I worked for their label ZTT for a while and you would not believe how much the album cost to record. All in all it's a forgotten classic.

JMc

Not forgotten in my house!!:no: ;)

[email protected]

05-05-2009, 07:28 PM

What’s the production quality like over pervious CD productions like in the lyrics is it clear does it cut though without strain as I found the youtube ones too painful to understand over competition of instrumental.

I know those who could never understand Dylan. I can understand him perfectly in this album. His voice has gotten noticeably more course though. Almost approaching Tom Waits.

Who the production mixer for his works as there would be music mixer editor?

His voice has husky like sound to it kinder dry.Jack Frost produced the last three, which is a cover for Dylan himself. I heard he wasn't happy with the sound of Time Out of Mind. It has gotten more compressed. Barely need to turn it to -52 dB on the dial before it gets loud. His last three albums are noticeably louder than TOOM, which was his first comeback into the 90's.

LowPhreak

05-05-2009, 07:43 PM

^ I need to pick up some of the newer Dylan stuff.

Right now I'm spinning Gov't Mule 'Deepest End', and a bootleg King Crimson concert from Nov. 7, 1981 - Savoy Theater, NYC.

Not at the same time, of course. ;)

SEAWOLF97

05-07-2009, 01:18 PM

All 9 of Ludwig Van's symphonies ..WOW ...the Simon & Garf is a common and I have other copies..then noticed the inscription on the cover ,,mebbe real ? "Building the Perfect Beast" is one of my DIDs,,,got a backup copy in wonderfull cond. The FM soundtrack double seemed to have a good playlist :D

If the S&G inscription is real , its kinda funny as it APPEARS that Art made funny eye brows on himself and in an obviously different hand wrote "Me too"

LATER: did a little poking round the web....Simons sig changed over the years, but the P in Paul looks OK ....and this is dated 73 , where the album came out in '72

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_and_Garfunkel%27s_Greatest_Hits

SEAWOLF97

05-07-2009, 01:24 PM

and the rest....:D ....I am not really a "Little Feat" fan , but this is a LGeorge album in VG condition....if anyone would like it,,plse PM me.

SEAWOLF97

05-09-2009, 02:56 PM

Zepp's first is just about a GH album,,,super condition, orig, not a reissue.
the oldies double has a really nice track list.

(even got another tt to play them on ) :D ...

SEAWOLF97

05-13-2009, 10:43 AM

I'm just really enjoying that LZ 1 Lp (in next post up) ....its like a greatest hits disk ...very impressive for their first one out ...tho not quite so sonically dynamic , the "realness" of the performance shines thru ....LP must have been played once and then put away ( I bought from original owner , and she was more into country & western)

I think its an original 1969 , no UPC , but it is NOT 180gram ...does anyone know if they had made the switch to lighter vinyl by then ?
Total album sales: 8 million
Peak chart position: 10

Accolades
The Times (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times) United Kingdom "The 100 Best Albums of All Time"[25] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-24)
1993 Rolling Stone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone) United States The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
2003 Grammy Awards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Awards) United States Grammy Hall of Fame Award (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame_Award)[27] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-26)
2004 Q (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_Magazine) United Kingdom "The Music That Changed the World"[28] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-27)
2004 Robert Dimery United States 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Albums_You_Must_Hear_Before_You_Die)[29] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-1001albums-28)

2006 Classic Rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Rock_%28magazine%29) United Kingdom "100 Greatest British Rock Album Ever"[30] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-29)
2006 Uncut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncut_magazine) United Kingdom 100 Greatest Debut Albums[31] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-30)
2006 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame) United States The Definitive 200[32] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-31)
2007 Q United Kingdom 21 Albums That Changed Music[33] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1#cite_note-32)

its interesting...Plant seems to have no contribution to the writing , at all ?

In 2003, the album was ranked number 29 on Rolling Stone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone) magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_500_Greatest_Albums_of_All_Time).

TRIVIA:"How Many More Times" was listed as 3:30 on the record sleeve deliberately by Jimmy Page in order to trick radio stations into playing the song. (its really 8:28)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Led_zep_1

(only had the tt for 2 days :D )

LATER: I dubbed it to MD ( had to go +10db on rec level ..seems the disk is a little vol shy) ...anyway..it gained dynamics after dub ...thinking that the higher gain on the MD takes less amp and therefore sounds better than the LP ?

LRBacon

05-13-2009, 12:21 PM

Tom, the first and second Led Zep' lps are my favorites of the group. Made it to 2 of their concerts in Seattle late '69 early '70, if my memory serves me correctly.

LRBacon

05-13-2009, 02:08 PM

Larry...you shudda bot extra tix for me ....Oh 69/70 ?? Never mind...I was in a different universe at the time ....(didnt even know about the moon landing till long after the fact :o: )

I haven't a clue as to how much I paid for the tix. I do recall smelling pot being smoked during the concert.
I am pretty sure the second album had been released before attending the first concert.

SEAWOLF97

05-15-2009, 02:50 PM

dont think the woman played them more than once.."The Man" is a 2 LP NKC set

SEAWOLF97

05-15-2009, 02:52 PM

and the rest

Ducatista47

05-17-2009, 10:16 AM

I know I had previously recommended the CD. The DVD is now out and I would say to get that instead. It was only $14.95 at Borders, I think the sound is even better (and Tal is not mixed way back), and there is much for fans to like.

There are additional songs not on the CD, because there were three guest singers. Beck felt that an entire gig with only instrumentals might bore some audience members. There are two numbers with Eric Clapton, who also plays. There is one song with Joss Stone, who rose to the occasion. Two feature Imogen Heap, who I had not previously heard of. Jeff's accompaniment on her song "Blanket" will silence those who feel he is a grandstanding noisemaker. It ends up he is one of the most tasteful, sensitive backup players who ever walked the Earth.

The visuals of the group and the audience members are a joy. You will recognize some folks out there. Of no musical consequence, I am still let down with how rapidly Tal Wilkenfeld lost her charming Australian accent.

The additional features are interviews. The last one is the band commenting on playing Jeff's music. It will explain to those who doubt Beck's genius what is going on, how he is more musical than the usual guitar player. The first interviews are with Jeff and it ends up he is a very modest man.

Clark

SEAWOLF97

05-18-2009, 08:44 AM

threw back many that wernt in good enuff condition and was surprised that "The Time has Come" was OK...geeze ..Gordon & Bob look like bros ?

SEAWOLF97

05-18-2009, 07:13 PM

the "to be cleaned" pile is getting overwhelming ...need to teach the OL how to clean them. :D

SEAWOLF97

05-21-2009, 05:23 PM

did the 12 mile loop on the Fuji .....we'll be rockin tonight !!! JG is a double.

(finding lots of great condition vinyl lately :D )

SEAWOLF97

05-25-2009, 02:04 PM

picked up 24 , too heavy to carry so left them and went back with truck :D

SEAWOLF97

05-25-2009, 02:05 PM

at 5for$1 ...picking up some I'd normally ignore...:)

BMWCCA

05-28-2009, 09:32 PM

Just finished listening to Tori Amos' new CD, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, then went through Lyle Lovett's Joshua Judges Ruth, again! Wonderful stuff. The 4345s are a real piece of work. Nothing's bothering me while I'm in my virtual sound stage!

Working on Clapton Unplugged as I type. I'm into the moment.

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ka7niq

05-29-2009, 12:38 AM