Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors MCA 1977 UK SQ on this record is pretty mediocre. Very little bass. I guess maybe this era and kind of classic rock record is why some people purchase equalizers or bass boosters. I can see why. I’ve never wanted to put an EQ on an analogue rig. Probably not worth it for me either, but.... EQ works good for me in the car or on my portable rig. Might use it on two out of a hundred records at home. Hmmm..... |
@bkeske Vaughan WilliamsSymphony No. 8 In D MinorAngel right? I have that one James, very enjoyable. Mine pressed in 1969. Of course I’m kinda a sucker for Vaughan Williams.EDIT: Just saw yours is a London release. Sure it’s the same through It’s a compilation reissue no doubt identical to yours. I saw it in a nice classical bin in Northern California awhile back and remembered your posting. It was $5 and Near Mint. Both sides are wonderful music and I think emblematic of the composer’s uncanny way of making music that is, if you want, as cerebrally engaging (as intellectual modern art) as you might like but also as aesthetically and emotionally appealing at the same time. Also, you know he wrote his 8th as an 84 year old codger and had a time with putting the orchestra (especially the drum section) through his tricks. I guess some people think his melodies can be too simple. But there is a moment in the 8th when the violins are about as beautiful as I’ve ever heard. |
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 8 In D Minor Partita For Double String Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult conducting The London Philharmonic Orchestra London Stereo Treasury Series ”Full Frequency Range Recording” Reissue date unspecified “Variations without a theme...”. This is not a fancy record by any means but the music is very nice and the sonics are realistic and lush. |
@tomic601 here is their website: https://strictlydiscs.com/?ns=1 doesn't appear that their used inventory is searchable this way Vinyl Hub listing: https://vinylhub.discogs.com/shop/230270-strictly-discs Discogs store: https://www.discogs.com/user/store1988 Looks like ( only ) about 10k listings on Discogs. Does Discogs have a limit? |
Record Shops in Madison WI (continued) I finally found it on Sunday afternoon, Strictly Discs, one of the nicest places to buy records I’ve ever been in. It’s located along a pleasant historical row of low rise stores on Monroe Street surrounded by what appears to be the hilly neighborhood where the tenured professors live. This store is bright and clean on the first floor with a good selection of new records (including a designated audiophile-oriented section) but the revelation was down a flight. The basement has probably the best collection of used records for sale I’ve ever seen from a single vendor. In a large clean well lit space of probably 2,000 sq. ft. there are many tens of thousands of VG+ and NM records, by category (for example, blues section was best and largest anywhere outside of Memphis) all in nice outer sleeves, tagged, data base indexed, and at low prices. In other words I pretty much nailed my hat to the wall and asked them to shoot me now cause I’d descended right into heaven. This place is so cool they leave the rare stuff right in the bins. Very clean records - no mildew smell in the store at all. Grey’s Anatomy dropped in for awhile and even remarked about how clean it was (the smell of used record stores being her principal objection to them). I bought her an England Dan and John Ford Coley album (magnanimous of me huh?). Had a second really pleasant conversation with the owner over a long checkout ( he had initially done some inventory searches for me off the want list I carry with me). Learned they have quite an appealing routine: Every Friday they release 900 new used records to their inventory, putting them out in their basement and online. They don’t do a newsletter but nearly all of their records are listed on Discogs. Thought you folks would want to know. This place is worth a trip. How it should be done now I think. |
....the record stores of Madison (continued): My next stop was in the “well established long ago” funky old store next to the UofW campus, B-Side Records, which after hearing about the place seemed like it would be promising but wasn’t. It has been there for ages - Met the owner, older than me now but he first started working there when he was a student, 37 years ago I think he said. Sole proprietor with virtually no other staff. All but one crate In the place were new records and all at 3-5 bucks above market. All of his two rows of Jazz records were on the Wax Time label. Rather than the ebullient music fan I had imagined he would be he seemed rather deflated. My questions were met by a gloomy eye and responded to in misery. Maybe things used to be better for him. I came away in a pang of failure, with just one find out of his used bin - a very unusual result for me on a visit to a record store. |
Your Friendly LRS Travel Report Over this past long weekend we were in the clean and tidy town of Madison, Wisconsin for the wedding (lovely niece of Grey’s Anatomy that I’d never met). While I’m pretty sure there are diversions to be found if you’re one of the forty-five thousand students dominating the landscape there, I had little to do so hit three local record stores. Found about a dozen I needed at a MadCity Music, a pretty small downtown storefront shop with a 50/50 balance of new and used LPs for the locals. There I got an O/P “In a Silent Way” and a minty UK pressing of “Street Survivors “ with the unedited cover. Had a wave of feelings flow through me when I saw it on the wall, similar to to sadness, anger, and confusion that I experienced when my friend came over to my dorm room with the news of the crash while he was holding the album in his hands like a bible. Have to go pick up the dog at the sitter, more later. |
@slaw @grey9hound @big_greg. I learned about them from Steve and have since bought several records from them and every one if not sealed was absolutely as advertised. Good fast safe well boxed shipping. I don’t believe they mess around with anything less than NM surface condition. I don’t concern myself much about warps but I haven’t run into any problems there. I think their pricing is fair and at market, especially for sealed stuff. Their prices have, like everybody else’s, gone up significantly just in the last year. So, it’s not a bargain outlet. It’s quality. I have mixed feelings about mentioning retail on here (as I know you do as well Greg). There is already way too much pressure on prices. But hopefully it’s good for the aficionados here in this little corner. |
