Whats on your turntable tonight?

Grand Funk - We're An American Band, great album!

Surf Punks / My Beach
1980 CBS

Surf music on another level 😎

Blue Stingrays / Surf-N-Burn
1997 Epitone

High end surf music, high end sonics. Songs like ”Surfer’s Life” keep me coming back for more.

The Beach Boys / Good Vibrations~Best Of The Beach Boys
1975 Warner Bros.

High end surf music, some low end SQ.

Dave Mason - "Certified Live"

Stephen Stills/Manassas - Down The Road. Atlantic 1973

I guess all that Grand Funk record needed was a good cleaning! Went from VG to VG+.

Sly And The Family Stone: Greatest Hits. 

Jethro Tull  -  Thick As A Brick   This is the Steven Wilson remix, just came off of backorder.  Rather disappointing, sounds like a standard CD.  My other Steven Wilson remixes (Benefit, This Was, Stand Up) all sound vastly superior.

The Allman Brother Band  -  At Fillmore East   Great concert, not such a great live recording.  

Paul Simon  -  One Trick Pony   An excellent album, but really, had to play something to make sure that it isn't my hi-fi sounding poorly on those other albums.  It's not, this one sounds fabulous!

And he is very dedicated to vinyl. 

@juanmanuelfangioii 

Thats my first Jack White pick-up. Really like that set after streaming it. Vinyl is really good, but the pressing a tad noisy.

Great addition to the collection. Very creative guy.

Richard Thompson - 13 Rivers. New West 2018 2LP gatefold 

@bkeske Love Jack White. 

Cream: Best Of. 

Another that arrived yesterday, but did not have time to spin….

Jack White - Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016. Third Man Records 2LP gatefold  2016

Recent arrivals, 

Calexico "Carried to Dust" sealed 

The Small Faces "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" 

1985/A Compleat Collection 

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

1970 Apple Records

Traffic - On The Road

1973 Island Records

@slaw 

Gotta +1 you Brian on Eels!

Steve, never even streamed it, so a complete surprise. I like it. Much more of a 'full band' sound. May take a couple more listens, but this could become a favorite Eels album in my collection.

+1 @noromance  

I think I own most of Rhiannon's work. A hometown gal.

Rhiannon Giddens With Francesco Turrisi – There Is No Other (Nonesuch 2019)

Stunning album. Music, recording and vinyl. Recommended. 

It was Jeff Baxter, not Joe Walsh. Jeff played on "Hot Stuff".

Grand Funk - Closer to Home.  This copy isn't as nice as the one I played yesterday.

Steve, that's interesting.  I couldn't find what record of hers he played on,  It would be interesting to hear.  According to AllMusic Joe Walsh has 1,732 credits!

Blind Faith / S-T
1969 RSO

Gotta +1 you Brian on Eels!

Greg, I was reading somewhere that Joe Walsh played on a Donna Summers album. Cool! I know he was called to be a session musician at times 

Justin Hayward~John Lodge / Blue Jays
1975 Threshold

An album better than any Moody Blues effort by some Moody Blues guys.

The Byrds / The Byrds’ Greatest Hits
1967 CBS

Decent sonics, probably sounded best on a stereo ca.1967. “Chimes Of Freedom”, nice…

Neil Young / Are You Passionate?
2002 Vapor Records (German import)

Donna Summer - Bad Girls, Japanese pressing 

Dire Straits - Communique

Rickie Lee Jones - S/T, MFSL 45 RPM 

Yet another new arrival. Have not had this for ages…

Merl Sauders, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, & Bill Vitt - Live at Keystone. Fantasy reissue  2LP 2012, originally 1973

Joe Jackson - Night and Day

Steely Dan - Can’t Buy A Thrill

Another new arrival today…

Eeels - Extreme Witchcraft  (See My Engine Gleam). E Works Records 2022. European pressing

Bill Evans Trio. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings 1961.  June 25th Evening Set. 

Last Night:

George Crumb - Black Angels (Images 1) TV-S 34610
Berio - Sinfonia (1968) MP 38779
John Hassell - Earthquake Island (Tom 7019)
Sun Ra - Angels and Demons at Play (Waxtime 771917)
Tchaikovsky- The Sleeping Beauty (RCA LSC 2177)

 

Just arrived…should be working…but…1st of a wide range of new LP’s today

Pablo Casals & Rudolf Serkin : Beethoven - The Complete Cello Sonatas. 
All recorded at the Prades Festival except Sonata No. 2, recorded at the Casals Festival in Perpignan. 
Vinyl Passion Classical reissue 2LP set 2018. EU release. Originally released 1955.

I have most of these on original pressings/releases, but was attracted by getting new pressings with all these in a single set.

Bill, at first it was daunting, but I'm making good progress.  I've been putting all my new records into Discogs for the last 3 or 4 years, so I often hit big chunks of records that are already catalogued.  It's also fun to re-listen to things I haven't heard for a while, in some cases, probably not since I first bought them.  I will soon be moving into the Grateful Dead :)

+1 Closer To Home…”I’m Your Captain”, love that!

BTW Greg, impressive you’re staying on task A-Z cataloging. That’s challenging. Cheers!

@bslon    +1 Hall & Oates-Abandoned Luncheonette 5* recording.

@mammothguy54    +1 George Benson-In Flight will play on next vinyl night. Not sure about the daily recap but since there was a 36 hour period that no one posted could be the reason?

Grand Funk - Closer to Home

@bslon that’s a great record Bill. I have a number of copies of it.

+1 Bill!