Teskey Brothers - Run Home Slow. Gets better every time I listen to it. It pretty much stays on my TT.
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Music From Big Pink - The Band |
Bukka White- Early Recordings |
RL Burnside - Sound Machine Groove |
Music From Big Pink - The Band |
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction |
@tomic601 : "Windjammer!!! Ya man"
That place was so cool in the mid 1980's. Cheap beer. Beach and volley ball out front. Dogs and kids inside. Locals and us college kids. Decent hotdogs and bar food. Great local bands. We liked The Killer Whales. But our all time favorite was a cover band called The Spongetones. Best cover band in the history of the universe. They played some of our senior parties too. They'd start with Herman's Hermits and Paul Revere and the Raiders, move up through the Beetles, end up with Led Zep, Black Sabbath and Hendrix. What a band!
I think they are still around. |
@slaw : I just discovered JJ Grey and Mofro today. Pretty good stuff. I need to dig deeper.
They will be playing at the Isle of Palms this summer and I'll have to decide if it is worth the trip down there. They're playing at a joint called the Wind Jammer. I used to hang out there a lot when I was in college. Hurricane Hugo destroyed the original bar which is a shame, it was a classic run down beach front bar back before Isle of Palms was such a tourist destination. The new place is pretty cool to.......but not the same. |
Led Zeppelin - Presence.
Bought this vinyl in about 1981. It is fairly clean because I never did like this album much and didn't play it often. Still don't like it all that much. |
@slaw : I found the thread. I think the problem is that the '@' function here at Audiogon is kind of wonky and often does not work. It didn't work in the post above or in the post in the Audio Clubs forum.
Anyway, I am interested.
I'll continue this conversation in the clubs forum. |
@slaw : "I invited you to join a group of audiophiles on the "audio clubs" thread around 9 months ago. We aren't really that far apart."
I don't remember seeing that. Sorry, I must have missed it. Was that on a thread here on Audiogon?
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@tomic601 : That is an excellent article indeed. It gives me a lot of hope for contemporary music. |
The Teskey Brother's album has not been tested on the DR database. The CD is definitely 'louder' than my older 'reference' CDs but less so than most contemporary CDs I have which is a good sign. Global compression on CDs seems ubiquitous these days. Vinyl seems to fare a lot better and sometimes HD Tracks as well. Not sure why CDs seem to get the raw deal. |
@slaw : I did not know that Montrose played on that album. Good info. I have an early pressing but paid $20. It sounds pretty good though.
"Nothing about the The Teskey Brothers (lp) is compressed!"
Excellent. At $11 its a steal then. As tomic601 mentioned it is on back order right now but hopefully that won’t last. I might even check my local record store. It will cost more but I like to support local business when I can.
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@tomic601 : Agree about the Teskey Brothers. They seem like the real deal. I think @slaw or maybe it was @gosta that turned me on to them. Would really like to see them live. I've got the CD. It seems a little compressed but not bad. The vinyl album is not expensive at all. I might give it a try.
@slaw : I like Chris Isaak's Wicked Game album and the song Wicked Game is definitely in my top ten songs. Maybe top 5.
Right now: Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey. I think I like every song on the album. |
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I’ve got some warped albums. Mostly thin 1980s stuff. How do you fix that? |
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey. Old vinyl. Sounds good but lots of clicks and pops....that probably aren't from dirt. |
Regatta de Blanc- The Police
The Who-My Generation. In mono. This is a new album. Geffen. The thing is as thick and heavy as a dinner plate. SQ is great even in mono, which is how it was originally released I'm assuming. |
Alan Parsons Project- Eye In The Sky |
Van Morrison- Tupelo Honey. I like every song on the album. There are a few Morrison album where I don't like any of the songs. |
The Who-My Generation.....in mono. Don't know anything much about vinyl but this was new record but the vinyl is thick and heavy. Feels like one of those old 78s. Despite it being in mono it sounds great. |
@tomic601 : Will look into the Ruth Moody album. I don't know anything about her but she sings on Mark Knopfler's best solo album (IMHO), Tracker, and she does have a beautiful voice indeed.
Got Physical Graffiti on the TT right now. I bought the album new in about 1980 and it has all the clicks and pops to prove it. My favorite song on the album, and my favorite of all Zep songs, is In My Time of Dying. Even with the clicks and pops it still rocks. "It feels pretty good up here......." |
@jamesclarke, good question regarding what I was listening to in the early 90's if I had given up on Rush. I had to think back....and I may have some chronology wrong, but.....Black Crows, Counting Crows, Blue Mountain, Son Volt, Pearl Jam and other alt rock...never into Nirvana. U2. REM. Even Hootie.
So, in a word....no prog rock. Sadly. |
Tonight, Junior Kimbrough again, "God Knows I Tried" by Fat Possum Records. Their motto is " We’re Trying Our Best". None of the songs on this album were recorded in a studio. All on location...like Junior's juke joint.
Really enjoying these raw, elemental blues. Don’t think I’ll get into _collecting_ old blues vinyl but kind of like the vinyl process with this basic music and may buy more new or used releases (that aren’t collector’s items).
@millercarbon, my favorite song from Signals is The Analog Kid. However, that album marked the end point of my interest in Rush. Still love everything before it but have not cared for a single Rush song after that album. I don’t hold it against them; they’ve had great success with all the later albums and more power to them...they just didn’t do anything for me. |
Just got back from a blues festival in the Mississippi delta. Bought a new LP of Junior Kimbrough "God Knows I Tried" and a used double LP of RL Burnside "Sound Machine Groove".
Both or these guys are actually hill country blues rather than delta blues but the hill country is just northeast of the delta. Both of the recordings are so-so in quality for various reasons, primarily that they were low budget affairs as most small-time regional blues recordings are. Both of these men are dead but we saw quite a few of their sons and grandsons playing at the festival.
Also got a new 180g LP of Bukka White's early recordings from the 1940s. Mono obviously. Great album. |
My parents had agreed to let me go out of town to Greensboro to see Led Zep about 2 months before Bonzo died. I was 17. Of course that show never happened. Hate that I missed that opportunity. |
@reubent I have not seen that video. Will look it up.
Also, Desolation Boulevard was the second album I ever bought after BTO's Not Fragile. I think The Sweet is a somewhat overlooked band. Ever since then (junior high maybe?) I've been a bit of a glam rock fan. That's part of the reason I'm so crazy about The Struts. They don't mention Sweet as an influence but they sound like them and have covered Ballroom Blitz! |
reubent, I had that album in college. Really a great album. Listened to it again recently. Some songs maybe a little dated and as one reviewer said when the album came out: Face the Face could be used in an ad for headache powders (I thinks that's the one.) I need to buy that one again. |
@slaw : I'm still getting into the Cowboy Junkies. So far I have found Lay It Down to be their most engaging album and I really like it a lot. What others ones do you like? |
Tom Petty - Pack Up the Plantation. Live. I don't even know where this (double) album came from. It might have been my wife's or I may have won it on a radio contest (back in the day). I won a lot of those in med school. Not many other people calling in at 3:00 a.m. Vinyl is clean. |
Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast.
My wife bought it in a used record store while I was browsing 'more serious stuff'. Like new. Vinyl is clean. Very few clicks and pops. SQ is good.
Good album too. |
@stevecham : Wings never had too many songs I cared for but "Rock Show" is one of my favorites and sounds good loud. |
In Through The Out Door - Led Zeppelin. Pretty much all the work of John Paul Jones. And his mark is all over it in a way not seen on any of the other Zep albums.
Not a bad album but again, more Jones than LZ.
I'm listening to the second copy I bought in high school. The first one got scratched and it skipped (still have it) and I loved it so much I bought a second copy. The second copy is in okay shape. Gave it a good wash tonight but a few clicks and pops remain.
The vinyl is as thin as paper. Amazing how chintzy they were in the 80s. |
Last night:
Music From Big Pink
Tupelo Honey |
Huey Lewis and the News- Sports
Not my cup of tea. My wife bought it while I was buying "good" stuff at a used record store.
Have to say, SQ is quite good and most of the songs on it were hits. |
Nothing. Down at my cabin. No TT! |
Thanks, I'll likely buy Hell On.
Will look into Case,Lang, Veirs. |
slaw, I'm fairly new to Neko but really starting to enjoy Fox Confessor and Middle Cyclone. How do you feel "Hell On" compares musically with those? I've previewed it but no serious listening yet. |
I see those going for $500 on eBay. |
Music from Big Pink-don't know anything about the providence of the vinyl. Marked 1971 by the used record peddler. |
