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Found quite a bit of jazz and such at my usual flea markets this weekend. Spent my afternoon listening to my finds
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
Dee Dee Sharp - All The Hits
mikes Davis - Nefertiti
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I finally allowed the grandkids and nieces and nephews into the inner sanctum yesterday. Trying to show them what a good system sounds like, and maybe get the next generation interested in hi-fi.
Twenty-One Pilots - Trench
Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
Queen -The Game
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
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just got back from visiting family in Maine. Time for a few records until my wife’s family arrives from Michigan
Duke Ellington & Coleman Hawkins - Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins
Djavan - 14 Grandes Sucessos
Twenty One Pilots - Trench ( My granddaughters recommendation) |
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On
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Been down in North Carolina helping my brother move into his new house. On the drive home to southern Maryland last night I ran across a couple antique malls and started digging. Tonight I began listening to a couple of records I found.
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Dance the Ska
Carl Malcolm - Tonight! |
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Spandau Ballet - True
ELO - Out Of The Blue |
My father-in-law gave me some of his old jazz records before he passed away. Finally decided to take some out and play them this afternoon.
Yusef Lateef - Jazz Mood
Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth
Benny Goodman - The King Of Swing - Complete 1937 Jazz Concert No. 2 |
Had a buddy come by for a visit and we listened to a few of my records at his selection:
Elba Ramalho - Coração (Great forro classic)
Willie Nelson - Yesterday’s Wine
Soul Stirrers - The Golden Gospel |
@slaw , just found a beautiful copy of All Things Must Pass for $1. Since I already have a NM copy, this goes to my niece.
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Flashdance Soundtrack (don’t judge me...)
Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man
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Nice chill afternoon. Catching up on my reading while listening to music:
Crack The Sky - World Of Motion 1 (Really enjoying this group. Thanks for the heads up, guys!)
Jimmy Buffet - Last Mango In Paris (meh)
Rush - Grace Under Pressure (not their best...)
Pretty Purdie And The Playboys - Stand By Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) ( hmmm, funky, and Gil Scott-Heron, too)
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Nice quiet Fathers Day. The wife out of town. My son visited for a while, I called my dad.
Big Bill Broonzy - S/T
Gloria Lynne - Miss Gloria Lynne With Wild Bill Davis And His Group
Jimmy McCracklin - The Best Of Jimmy McCracklin
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@slaw yep, I have had a light schedule lately, being a semi-retired government contractor. Wife out of town on business and I decided to cull my collection. Got down from 2500 to 1850 or so, sold the culls at a flea market today for $1 each and dropped the rest at the Salvation Army. I have been listening to lots of them while culling, and have been brutally honest as to my change in tastes over the years. The good news is I have space for more records and money to buy them. And since the other posters on this forum have great tastes I always get suggestions for my next purchases, to wit I found several Crack The Sky albums today.
Crack The Sky - S/T
Elvis Presley- S/T crappy fake stereo version. Thought I screwed up my cartridge...
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The Kinks - The Kinks Greatest Hits
Moody Blues - Search For The Lost Chord
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
U2 - Rattle and Hum |
Blondie - Plastic Letters
Rita Moss - Reigns at Islandia |
Richie Richie Havens - Alarm Clock
Syreeta - S/T
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Kate Bush - The Sensual World
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Super Blue - Bacchanal Time
Uzi Fuch - Ken Ken
Bill Haley and The Comets - Rock Around The Clock
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Tambu - The Cry
Fat Larry’s Band - Off The Wall
Explainer - Man From The Ghetto
Frank Sinatra - Come Fly With Me
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My uncle who started me on hi-fi 40-some years ago is visiting. I put on a half-speed mastered Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here for him to listen to. He won’t admit it, but I think I saw a tear...
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Early ‘B’ - Ghostbusters
Etta James - Seven Year Itch
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Michel Legrand - Legrand Sings; picked this up at a flea market for $1, and it was a very pleasant surprise. Who knew he could scat?
Miles Davis - Tutu |
Dinah Washington- The Queen
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Doing some major culling today. I was gifted about 300 records and suddenly realize I don’t have the shelf space for them. Been meaning to cull my collection, so just started pulled out stuff I don’t want and listening to music along the way.
Ethel Ennis - This Is Ethel Ennis
Max Romeo - Reconstruction
The Glass Prism - Poe Through The Glass Prism
The Main Ingredient - Bitter Sweet
Michelle Scott - Classy Chassis
John Coltrane - The Best of John Coltrane - His Greatest Years
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Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Rock-Steady-67
Ambrosia - S/T |
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@jamesclarke, I feel your pain. My parents only have a multi-CD player that sends a shock when you turn it on. My dad is either incredibly cheap or is scheming for my moms life insurance😁
My wife took the sister-in-law shopping all day, so I had time to listen to some new records:
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved A Man The Way I Love You
Styx - Kilroy Was Here
Detroit Emeralds - Do Me Right
David Bowie - Station To Station
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By the way, all this talk about Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush...I found the album a few months ago and never got around to listening to it. Put it on the platter last week and Norwegian Wood pulled me in. Good call. This is why I like this forum: I find out about stuff.
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@slaw, sorry, I have family visiting this weekend. Not much time to listen to music right now, although I did manage to pop out to a flea market this morning. I tend to find an eclectic assortment here in southern Maryland, and lately have turned up lots of funk and reggae. And classic jazz. Variety is the spice of life. |
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (mono)
Jan & Dean - Popsicle
War- Why Can’t We Be Friends
Michael Jackson - Ben
All recent $1 flea market finds.
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Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Motels -S/T |
The Voices of East Harlem - Right On Be Free
Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life
Olivia Newton-John - Let Me Be There
Abbey Lincoln - Abbey Is Blue
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Blue Magoos - Psychedelic Lollipop
Ronnie Dove - Cry
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Got tired of cleaning and cataloguing this weekends finds and just sat and listened:
Al Green - Call Me
Curtis Mayfield - Back To The World
Maze - Golden Time Of Day
John Lennon - Imagine
Michael And I - Jah Jah
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Joe Tex - Gotcha (Got my mojo back...) |
Dennis Brown - Inseparable (Keeper!)
Hiroshima - Another Place (*bleh*. Reject bin)
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Dollar find at a flea market: VG+ copy of Sugar Creek “Please Tell A Friend” |
Uberwaltz,
I emphatically agree with you! I love hitting the flea markets for dollar finds. I learn a lot about music, and definitely take more risks at that price point. Just today I got some reggae, jazz, soca, rap, Springsteen and Sinatra at a storage unit sale. Forty-three records for $43 and a whole lot of stuff to talk to my new Jamaican DJ nephew about. And all they need is a quick cleaning before they go on the turntable.
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The Fixx “ React”
Thomas Dolby “ The Golden Age of Wireless”
Alphaville “Afternoons In Utopia”
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington “The Great Reunion”
Bobby Bland “Two Steps From The Blues” |
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Been obsessively tweaking my system, breaking in a new integrated amp and cartridge, balancing my tone arm, etc. Decided today to run everything through its paces with a Prestige OJC pressing of Sonny Rollins “Saxophone Colossus”. Followed by an old favorite performer Bruce Cockburn compilation “Waiting For A Miracle”. Gonna try to cure IGD with a new protractor. Almost there...
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Discovered a VG+ first pressing of Etta James’ “Etta James Rocks The House” in the back of a thrift store today. Sweet.
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I was enticed to come over to an old guys house today. Said he had travelled through Africa and had records. Turned out he was a hoarder with just a few albums I was interested in, but wanted way more than they were worth. He thought everything was a collectors item...how do you deal with people like that? Politely, but firmly, I suppose. Got a couple of albums just out of curiosity and listened to them:
Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age
Alphavile - Afternoons In Utopia
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Uberwaltz
congrats on the great score! I spent the day listening to some jazz albums I scored a couple of weeks ago. Pristine shape for $1 a piece, including some Blue Note OJCs. Listened to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Ugetsu, as well as John Coltrane - The Paris Concert (Pablo Live pressing) |
Gloria Lynne – I'm Glad There Is You
Ennio Morricone - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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@tomic301,
Unfortunately, the moldy records were corroded more than I care for, I.e. the covers had potential to spread the mold throughout my collection. Most of those records were pretty damaged anyway.
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Helped an acquaintance last weekend clean out his storage unit. He let me keep the records (about 300 in all). I have been sorting through them in, culling the moldy and otherwise damaged. All in all, about 20 good ones I will keep with the rest going to the trash or Goodwill
Listened to:
The Dillards- Roots and Branches
Crosby, Stills & Nash - Crosby, Stills & Nash
Pete Seeger - Songs Of Struggle & Protest: 1930-1950
Pete Seeger - We Shall Overcome
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Came across a bunch of near mint Prestige OJC and Blue Note remastered pressings at an estate sale yesterday for $1 each. Reminded me of that old joke about the guy who ran away with his secretary and told his wife to sell his collection and send him the money...
John Coltrane - Soultrane
Dexter Gordon - Go!
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
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Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra - “Lionel Hampton Apollo
Hall Concert 1954”
Danny O’Keefe - “Breezy Stories”
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