Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
slipknot1

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The first song on II has an upbeat hook that might have caught you.  But I don’t think there is any guitar work even close to what’s on the first album.  

Check it out. Nice and crunchy. Fluffy not stuffy. Spiffy Riffy, And all that.

But probably just the first album - and maybe a few moments on the second album but they went pretty far down hill after that.  

@Uber,   Do you know the first Moxy Album?  The black one with uncredited guitar solos by Tommy Bolin?   Just in case, was thinking might be right in your wheelhouse.  
@noromance I have Michelle Shocked’s ‘short sharp shocked’ and have always liked it. It’s kind of fun if not great music.  Never clicked with any of her stuff after that.  
It would be sacrilege to name a favorite UFO album but if pressed NHP might be it.

I mean, that lead guitar on ‘Reasons Love’ ... unbelievable.
@uber,

Re Woodstock: are you spinning recent reissue or a pp?

i have an old one but I saw they put out a redux last year and didn’t buy it. 
Re: slaw’s lp collection

of the large collections I have known or known about I have never encountered one with so much good stuff that I like too. Envy a perfectly understandable effect.
@slaw. In response to your post earlier about the trick that is your routine, I had been thinking about mine lately. I have added a third element to the source of the flow. To 1) having a song come into my head seemingly from anywhere including nowhere and moving to the table to hear it for real from outside my ears (happens a lot) 2) just going to the heavy rotation/recent purchase rack and picking what suits the mood, ive added 3) inspiration and curiosity engendered by you all on here. So many great ideas. Really dig this thread.
@tomic601 

same thoughts exactly.  MB vastly under-recognized.  If anyone expresses doubt to you about this play for them Minstrel in the Gallery.   Guy can both rock and put up with Anderson’s insanity.   
@uber,

+1 on Woodstock 

really into that stuff lately.  From Richie to Jimmy. Not sure why.  Seems reassuring during these times maybe.  Maybe music is more important than we’re aware sometimes.   
@tomic601 

glad to hear she’s feeling better Jim.  
I’m just here singing Born to Run in German to myself ...
Mapache
From Liberty Street

@tomic601 All best hope and prayers for a speedy recovery and that you don’t catch it too.
Tamaflu not advised or effective for corona viruses. But the flu this year was/is a bummer. I had it bad myself earlier this year so much sympathy. 
Grey’s Anatomy on the front lines of this thing and she’s under quite a lot of stress. She runs 9 clinics in the Bay Area. They are not supposed to be the place for a Covid patient to go for care but still... and they’re considered essential so she and all her folks can’t stay home and away from it.

I just have to be supportive. Presumably easy, right? 
Chief worry of ours is for our elderly parents. 
Know this is off topic. Unloading on you friends. Sorry. 
I find great solace in my music. 
By the way, this new record from Mapache is really sweet. Upbeat. Well recorded. If you’re into roots -folk- country -americana -mexi-Americana stuff like me recommend you check it out if you haven’t already.

Pink Floyd 
AMLOR

2017 Redux

not my favorite but Gilmore’s guitar, you know.   
Hey, can anybody comment on the new dire straits pressings? Especially the first album?  Played my O/P last night and it sounded thin, especially in the outer grooves.  
LOL @j_damon, kinda like trying to find somewhere to buy Music on Vinyl.  A truly unfortunate choice for a label name.  
I’ll do the same “catching up” .  Tonight my old friend Jon is here from out of town and during our long conversation about the music of our mutual association I’ve spun 
Keith Jarrett - Sun Bear (1st record)
Shai Maestro- The Dream Thief
Oregon - Crossing
and now 

CSN 

Tucky BuzzardAllright on the Night

Three Man Army
Three Man Army Two

A Foot in Cold Water 
Eponymous




Alfred Brendel
Beethoven
Emperor Piano Concerto
from the big box collection of sonatas and concertos
@slaw interesting your interest in the strange Federale. They’re from my hometown here. Catch them live next week @ Mississippi Studios a very cool small venue. 
Love Shuggie Otis! My older cousin turned me on to him in about 1974. Like a lot of people, as a kid I had some very definite ideas about boundaries (walls up) between different kinds of music but Snuggie broke them down for sure.
Went out to another concert.  Saw Al Stewart at a nearby college’s concert hall.  The sound through the PA the was really quite bad but Al is such a sweet guy and tells fun stories so on balance it was a nice evening.   His songs have meant a lot to me over the last 45 years.  
Levi Parham
These American Blues

Been really into this since @tomic601 turned us on to it the other day.  Thanks man.