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Latest bin find.....Elton John

I found an unusually clean copy of EJ's second album, simply titled "Elton John"

This replaced my okay copy. Just when you've written off certain albums off as unobtanium(condition/cost) a minty copy awaits with persistence!

This Uni domestic press sounds fantastic. Perhaps it's just because it so clean/unmolested.
Ive never heard a Britsh press. Faves include "Take me to the Pilot" ""Sixty Years On" and "Border Song"

I lost interest after "Goodbye YBR" but always keep EJ as a "Hall of Fame" kinda performer.


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I went to Tom Ports apartment in Sherman Oaks (a couple of blocks from mine, just off the Ventura Blvd. that Tom Petty mentions vampires walking down in "Free Falling") a couple of times in the 90's, buying a French pressing of the Magical Mystery Tour LP. I was surprised to learn he had a decidedly mid-fi system through which he made his LP sound quality assessments. At the time his prices hadn't yet become absurd.
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Bill, upon hearing of the flooding in Texas I immediately thought of you in your really cool old (but new to you) house in Austin (I had already seen the pics of it in your Blog postings I received via email). I was relieved when the storm took a turn and headed away from you, though not as relieved as were, no doubt, you! Congratulations on the house, and the good fortune from Mother Nature. I got use to earthquakes in L.A., but flooding is a whole 'nother matter! 
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tablejockey---the Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb, both original (I used to own one) and reissue, is a FANTASTIC sounding amp! Jonny Kaplan played a Gibson Les Paul Jr. through one when I gigged with him, and it was the best sounding guitar I’ve ever heard live. And I’ve heard Dave Edmunds playing his ’58 Gibson dot-neck 335! Dwight Twilley’s original guitarist, the late (heavy smoker, lung cancer got him) great Bill Pitcock IV, played his 335 through a pair of blackface Deluxe Reverbs with an MXR digital delay between the two, to create the slapback that was a big part of his style and sound. His playing on The Dwight Twilley Band’s first album, Sincerely, is just incredible.

slaw, I love David Lindley, and have for years used his albums as demo material for speaker evaluations. He puts on a great live show too.

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