Whats on your turntable tonight?

Queen - Greatest Hits, 2 disc Target red marble version. Sounds really good! Better than I expected from a "Target exclusive", although I think it might also be available as a (more expensive) Europe release.

Lou Reed / Transformer 

.....I watched M Fremer bash the Two Men With Beards lable as all digital.

Yeah, they’re not all bad though.  The Charles Lloyd record they put out isn’t the greatest but it’s pretty good and way better than my original.  

Luna "Lunafied"

RunOutGroove

My copy is #1585

Love it!!!!

Swans / Glowing man
(Love this album)

Tim, how is your wife doing?

Chuck Mangione: Live at the Hollywood Bowl.

Anyone remember the Graham Bond Organisation (sp) from the early to mid- 1960’s. Band members beside Graham were Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Dick Heckstall-Smith and John McLaughlin. What a talented line-up, who were the first ever to play jazz-rock.

I accidentally came across one of their albums in my collection tonight, "The Sound of ’65", and played it. Even though they all must have been youngsters at the time, these future stars and virtuosos sounded pretty good.

I looked up what other albums they made back then. Their output was four records, "The Sound of ’65"’, " There’s a Bond Between Us", "Solid Bond", and the live "One Night at Klooks Cleek". I checked out what these obscure records were going for on Ebay and Discogs, which was too much.

But fortuitously, when putting "The Sound of ’65" away, I spotted the other three albums sitting on the same shelf. They had been played once and forgotten about for the next fifty years. Made me laugh. I was a completist record collector nut back then too.

Mike

Thanks

Steve,
My wife had her last evaluation/examination at the hospital earlier this week. They are happy with what they see. They confirmed no permanent damage and fully expect her strength to come back to where it was. Very blessed! 

Thanks for asking

"Bonnie & Clyde" 

👍

Fleetwood Mac "Then Play On"

Four Men With Beards?

Casino Royale, Colgems COSO-5005

The soundtrack, like everything else about the movie, was over the top. "The legend is that the original master tape had 'mad' levels on it," says Harry Pearson, editor and publisher of the audiophile bible Absolute Sound and, by general consensus, the person most responsible for creating the "Casino Royale" cult. Mr. Pearson explains that a sound engineer usually adjusts recording levels so that when musicians are playing their loudest, the meters on the console reach zero. "Once the meters pass zero, it means that you're saturating the tape and running the risk of distortion," he says. "On 'Casino,' they used a supposedly very fancy grade of tape, and the engineers really pushed it, so the meters were typically running deep into the red -- plus one, plus two, plus three, plus four." As a result, he says, the record has an "extremely wide dynamic range" -- higher highs and lower lows.
"They weren't afraid to push the medium to the limits of the recording process," Mr. Pearson adds. "It can lead to disaster, but in the case of 'Casino,' it doesn't. There's no saturation, no distortion. The record is as clean as a whistle."
For this reason, ever since the album's release, audiophiles have valued "Casino Royale" as a test for stereo equipment. "The better your system gets," says Mr. Pearson, "the more you get out of that album."
The Look of Love" provides several such tests. Dusty Springfield recorded her vocal in a "tiny isolation booth, so on a really good system, you can hear her voice emerging from what sounds like a little hole in space," Mr. Pearson says. "She's not part of the general orchestral acoustic, and once your system gets to a certain point, you can hear that."
The song also features a sudden saxophone dip and rise that, on less sophisticated equipment, sounds like two or three distinct instruments, and a serrated gourd called a guirot, whose every notch will sound, under ideal conditions, Mr. Pearson says, "like a tooth on a comb. A normal sound system simply can't reproduce this series of very quick transients" -- stiff sound waves -- "at a very soft level. Just cannot do it.
Mr. Pearson founded the Absolute Sound in 1973 when he was still an environmental reporter for Newsday, and he tries to apply objective reporting to the subjective experience of listening to music. 

"Whenever we get a piece of equipment that we think is setting new records," he says, "out comes 'Casino.' "

Tim Godspeed for full healing :-)

@skyscraper.  ...please play them all and make a recommendation IF possible. what a great story

also, you can load your collection in Discogs....at my advancing age, this keeps the repeat buys down....

I’ll get on it tomic60 and will report back. Might take a few days.

That’s good advice to keep from buying doubles. I recently purchased the Van Morrison and the Chieftans album again, ruefully not consulting my check list first. I normally download Allmusic discographies for each artist or group, and with a bit of modification use them for checklists. The links to individual record reviews stays active on downloaded Allmusic discographies, which is handy to use when checking out potential purchases.

I missed a trick on the Graham Bond Organisation though, and didn’t have a discography on them. And I’ve other records of early British blues and R&B groups that will now be getting their discographies downloaded. Groups like Alexis Koerner, Lord Sutch, Long John Baldry, Spencer Davis and the like, where a bunch of ’60’s British rockers got their start. At least the John Mayall list is in order, and recently completed I might add.

Mike

Bloomfield, Kooper, and Stills - Super Session 

"Then Play On" again/from the box set

@skyscraper thanks for your comments on the early British Blues scene.  I’m also amazed at all the great Blues coming out of the UK in the ‘60’s.  John Mayall is indeed the Father (or Grandfather) of British Blues and I’m still awed by all the talent he has gathered over all the years......from Eric, Peter and Mick and he is still doing it with some of the best Blues musicians around.  Last time I saw him was out in San Juan Capistrano a few years ago, I think he was 82 or 83, Rocky Athas was on guitar and that show had as much energy as any I’ve ever seen.  I will be searching on some of the names and groups you mentioned and I’m sure I will come away even more intrigued by British Blues.....Thanks!

also, you can load your collection in Discogs....at my advancing age, this keeps the repeat buys down....

I've been going through this exercise and have been putting together a bunch of records to sell. Unfortunately, I'm finding out that I've gotten a lot more picky and have been... you guessed it, buying another copy to replace a less than stellar one.

This is going to take a while.  I'm almost at the end of the letter B.

@boxer12 

Good news indeed. Thoughts and prayers

Todd Rundgren "Live"  lp 2

@mammothguy54 
 

B.B. King  'Deuces Wild' A 2 LP collection of B.B. playing with a variety of top musicians. Really good album!

Fantastic Album 👍

@big_greg,

I tip my hat to you. I need to be doing the same.

Steve, it's a great way to re-visit your existing collection, weed some things out, and improve the quality of the collection.

Van Halen II.  It's been a while since I listened to this.  I remember at the time it came out it was a little bit of a letdown after the debut album (how could they top that?), but it is one of those records that has stood the test of time for me.

Yeah...I think about it as a way to document for insurance purposes.

Gov't Mule "Live @ The Capitol Theatre" Vol 3

BTW, the Todd Rundgren lp is not recommended.

Robert Craft conducts Schoenberg - The Music Of Arnold Schoenberg - Volume One. Erwartung, Concerto For Violin And Orchestra, Pierrot Lunaire, Die Glückliche Hand, & A Survivor From Warsaw. Opera Society Of Washington, Columbia Chamber Ensemble, & CBC Symphony Orchestra. Columbia Masterworks reissue 2LP set, I believe from the early 70’s per label. Originally 1962

The Gov't Mule "Live @the Capitol Theatre" IS highly recommended. Just need Vol 1

The Bangles "Sweetheart of the Sun"
RealGoneMusic
Teal transluscent vinyl

@big_greg,

I have a problem.

My issue seems to be letting go of music in general. 

I'm sure you and others are aware. I guess starting the process will be helpful.

I have a pile of 200 lps in my to sell pile, just need to get "my mind right,"

This, The Bangles lp is awesome!!!

Tony Joe White "Black & White" AP

The Bangles "Doll Revolution"

RealGoneMusic

dbl/lp

Later, last night.

Fleetwood Mac  'Kiln House'   So glad that I have this album.

Stevie ray Vaughan   'The Sky Is Crying'   AP/QRP  My jaw was open for the entirety of this album.  Killer music, phenomenal SQ.

Just bought that Luna Bewitched LP. Had to have it.

These two Bangles reissues...get them while you can...

+1 Brian

PJ Harvey " To Bring You My Love"

PJ Harvey reminds me a lot of Sophia Pfister

Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint ‎– The River In Reverse (Verve Forecast ‎2006)

Panocha Quartet plays Martinů - String Quartets No 2 & 3. Supraphon 1983, Czechoslovakia pressing

Leonard Cohen ‎– Ten New Songs (Columbia 2018 RE [2001])

Brian, Jim,
Thank You

Grails / Black Tar Prophesies IV, V, & VI

Szell conducts Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2 In B-Flat Major. The Cleveland Orchestra w/Leon Fleisher, piano. Odyssey reissue 1973, originally 1963 mono (which I also have).

Asked Jim Hagerman about using a 16v LPS I have sitting around on the Trumpet (15v power supply). He said it should be fine, just run a little warmer is all. So, just hooked it up to try out. Otherwise it is either a doorstop, or a 16v LPS I would have to try and sell. May leave it in, maybe not....we’ll see....