@spiritofradio what a good call on the Freddy Johnston - gave "This Perfect World" a twirl last night then slipped right into Buffalo Tom, "Big Red Letter Day" - BT was a local music scene hero back in the 90's. Had them and Letters to Cleo play a charity gig at my spot back in '94... what a great show and fun night that ran VERY late and ended with me having $200 in eats delivered to my office from the 24hr diner around the corner. Nothing better than washing breakfast sammys down with Rolling Rocks and red wine at 5am with Kay Hanley sitting on your office floor, lol!
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Elton John, “Tumbleweed Connection” & Jayhawks, “Hollywood Town Hall.” Well, my table is still bugging. Motor needs a re-alignment so back to streaming. Jayhawks are so much fun. Moved in a set of JM Reynaud Twins on some nice Target open stands; really glad I did. What a fabulous set of monitors. So open & detailed w/just the right amount of pop & punch. They mate perfectly with a late 80’s Tandberg 3012 integrated & Rega Dac. Gonna enjoy these for a while... |
@slaw its a live album that just dropped benefiting Durham Public School students in NC. I streamed after it after JI cause my table is acting poorly. Put it on my to buy list. https://www.jambase.com/article/hiss-golden-messenger-live-album-forward-children |
@slaw - yikes, dark mood huh?! Finally watching Peaky Blinders so, not so much playing/listening. Table not performing at its best last couple sessions. Maybe look around for something new soon but, last night Jason Isbell, The 400 Unit “Live from The Ryman” - (decent production) & His Golden Messenger, “Forward Children” needed a fix for some live performances |
@slaw Yeah, autocorrect... owner explained it but kinda blew past me (again, too much Beaujolais). Had a conventional tone arm though and a second smaller arm that was used to relay disc conditions to the the autocorrecting two piece platter. It’s fuzzy but that’s what I remember. That was the only one I’ve ever seen and used albeit only a handful of times. It looked fabulous but was and still is more table than I’d ever be able to appreciate. Appeared incredibly temperamental as well. I prefer to just load up and play... keep it all simple. Rory Gallagher “Tattoo”, Pat Travers ”Putting It Straight” & Aerosmith “Live Bootleg” - good god, talk about getting in the Way Back Machine, lol! |
@slaw - 80’s front you back was a great time in my life... living in Belgium & then The Netherlands. Met a local pub owner who I got to know pretty well. He/they (he and his wife) used to have me and some teammates over for wonderful dinners and always way too much wine. He had a rig with a Nakamichi Dragon table which was about the coolest thing I’d ever seen. Had some KEF 105.4s with a massive stack of Naim electronics to fire it all. I couldn’t wait for them to invite us over to hear this kit play. He had some of the greatest music too & to my shock and surprise, they’d let me fumble around with this gear although to be honest, I was always a bit intimidated by that TT. Spent a lot of time in the club business in Boston when I returned home for good in the late 80’s. Been at this all since then and have had various systems & components since my time in Europe (and before) but it took a really great system to turn my head and hear just how good great music could sound |
“Across a Wire” (live) - Counting Crow’s, “These American Blues” - Levi Parham & “Carolina Confessions” - The Marcus King Band. Picked up a Rega DAC and going back and forth vinyl to streaming Tidal for a bead on its performance. Boy, it’s a great sounding unit. Really analog in its presentation and runs really close to my TT & Cart combo which is pretty modest but plays great for me. Was a nice pickup! |