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
Absolutely Steve. I remember when I first got my SOTA set-up. My first reaction was how quiet it was. It was striking to me vs my old table. From there, everything sprang to life. Then the Zephyr.....and again....
Listening to Mary Lou Lord. I had never heard her before yesterday. I don’t know how I missed her for all these years. She is great. Blows away all these famous female pop stars by a mile. Why didn’t any of you guys and dolls tell me about her! Damn.
Ronnie Laws-Every Generation Side 2 SQ 4.2 Freddy Fender-Before The Next Teardrop Falls Side A SQ 4 Michael Franks-Objects of Desire Side 2 SQ 4.3 The Babys-On The Edge Side 2 SQ 4,2 Nancy Wilson-The Nancy Wilson Show Side 2 SQ 4 Rimsky-Korsakov-Scheherazade(MS 6069 Six Eye)Side 1 SQ 4.5 John Lennon/Yoko Ono-Double Fantasy Side 2 SQ 4.2
@spiritofradio... did you see the article on Neil Peart in Rolling Stone? Excellent, sad, enlightening. Being a drummer Neil/Rush has been a major part of my life since I was a teenager...Â
@bkeske: I feel the same about Harvest, by far my favorite of Neil’s many albums. The NYA (Neil Young Archives) reissue provides noticeably improved sound quality over the original pressing. He also redid all the Buffalo Springfield albums, available in a 5-LP boxset: the debut and BS Again on both mono and stereo LP’s, Last Time Around stereo only, again with improved sound quality. Thanks for the heads up on that one @slaw!
Another audiophile-quality reissue of somewhat related music is the Intervention Records LP of The Flying Burrito Brothers’ album The Gilded Palace of Sin. The common wisdom regarding that album and The Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (the last with Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons, who thereafter left to start TFBB) is that neither found an audience, but that sure wasn’t my experience. Every musician and music fanatic I knew loved both albums, along with Dylan’s John Wesley Harding. All the above albums plus The Band’s albums (and those of CSN & sometimes Y ;-) were in constant rotation on every turntable I knew in the late-60’s/early-70’s. They all hold up extremely well, don’t they?
According to the seller, he said the SOTA package had 10 hours on it. ( I may be able to check if it’s made after a certain serial #). The serial # stickers had been removed. Hum?
Anyway, besides being quiet, the overall presentation has more soul. Me likey!
@slaw When I got to side 3 of the Patricia Barber set there was a glob of white substance on the record. I'm going to see if I can return it. Other than that, it was a fantastic recording and worth the price. Have you held your vinyl up to the light?
The Flying Burrito Brothers’ album The Gilded Palace of Sin. The common wisdom regarding that album and The Byrds Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (the last with Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons, who thereafter left to start TFBB) is that neither found an audience
Interesting you bring up the Flying Burrito Brothers. I could have sworn I had a couple of their albums. But after opening up my long time boxed LP’s, none to be found. Used to listen to them a lot back in the day.
Sweetheart in the Rodeo really is a great album with wonderful SQ. And John Hartford playing banjo on many tracks is a real bonus. Hartford is another musician I have to get some LP’s back in my collection. Aereo-Plain was one of my favorite albums.
Also, need to find some Commander Cody as well. Never had any of those albums myself, but many of my friends did. Really fun stuff.
@slaw +1 on Ryan Adams.  Don’t have that one though.  How does it compare?
@tubegb great to hear from you again.  Really like your music selections.  Hope we hear from you more on this thread. Â
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@spiritofradio... did you see the article on Neil Peart in Rolling Stone? Excellent, sad, enlightening. Being a drummer Neil/Rush has been a major part of my life since I was a teenager…
I did not see it but will look it up today.  Although,,,,, I don’t have much respect for Rolling Stone - sometimes its interesting I guess to hear what they think.  Subscribed all through the 80’s and early 90’s but I just so often absolutely disagreed with their music reviews, both positive and negative, over the years that I pretty much revile that publication.  They’ve changed in more recent years, obviously, but it’s hard to change a grumpy old guy’s opinion…..  anyway, cool that you’re a drummer and into Peart.  He’s my favorite drummer.
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