Country Joe And The Fish – Together (Vanguard 1968)
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For you Ry Cooder fans, have you ever hear "
Drive Like I Never Been Hurt" from his concept album "I, Flathead"? Unfortunately, I don't believe it is available on vinyl...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY0MZHNJdac |
Ry Cooder 'Bop Till You Drop' This was one of the very first DAT (digital audio tape) recordings and made to a vinyl record. You can tell. But still, a good sounding record and very dynamic. Stevie Wonder 'Talking Book' I have had this since it was first released. In perfect condition. Sounds great! Stevie is wonderful. Thunderclap Newman 'Hollywood Dream' You should know the song on this album 'Something In The Air' which is very melodic but actually is a very radical and instigating song. I got my first copy when it released in 1970, I was a sophomore in high school. Of course, it became partied-out. I got my first real hi-fi in 1973 and bought a fresh copy, a reissue, and still on Track Records. It's in perfect condition. SQ is good, but not great. The music is wonderful. Great album! |
@mammothguy: Bop Til You Drop was the first Pop album recorded digitally. Ry is a fanatic about his recorded sound, and was gung ho on trying the new recording medium. That enthusiasm was extinguished when he heard the recorded results: He hated it! Ry's search for good recorded sound quality eventually led him to Water Lily Records, home of the recordings of master recording engineer Kavi Alexander. Kavi uses tube microphones and a recorder, all of which contain electronics custom made by tube genius Tim de Paravicini (designer and maker of the excellent EAR Yoshino line of electronics). When Ry heard his first Water Lily LP, he asked "Why don't my records sound this good?" Ry's Water Lily Meeting The River album won Kavi a Grammy for best recording of the year. @tomic601: Ry Cooder's Jazz album (which Ry now disavows!) is available in a great pressing on Mobile Fidelity. I have an original on WB and the MoFi, which, if you like the album enough to warrant the cost, is quite a bit better. MoFi also offer Ry's Chicken Skin Music, Boomer's Story, and Paradise & Lunch albums, all of which are about to go out of print. Grab 'em while they're still $34.99! |
Eric - I have the Chicken and Lunch MoFi discs.. I just dig the guys music - sorry that he disavowed Jazz. I love the lyrics to the songs on Bop and the cover art. Reminds me of mixing sound for bands w cheap, oddly colored Fenders.. ha also in that time I had a home brew HQD system, BOP sounded wonderful on it in the midrange ( as it should - stacked Quads ) |
Thanks @big_greg. I learned of Hi-Voltage (correct spelling ;-) from Vinyl Community member Mazzy (Norman Maslov), who after being born and living in San Francisco since 1954 moved to Seattle six years ago. Property values are so high in SF that what he sold his house there for completely paid for his new one in Seattle. Pearl Harbor also had a house in Frisco, and it’s sale paid for the cute little 2-bd Craftsman she bought when she relocated to Los Angeles, just off Sunset Blvd., a mile east of the Capitol Records building at Vine St. (I can’t say that without hearing in my head Van Dyke Parks’ eerie version of the Randy Newman song of the same name, found on his amazing Song Cycle album). Pearl is really into burlesque, and her house is decorated in all-50’s decor and posters/pics of strippers from the era. Guitarist Sherman Leroi and I rehearsed with her in the front parlor of her house, and all the T & A were distracting (not to mention hers ;-) . Pearl entered showbiz as an onstage-dancer in the early performances of The Tubes, then got herself a record deal with Columbia in the U.S. and Stiff in the U.K. She lived in England for a few years, toured around with the Stiff artists (Costello, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, Ian Gomm, etc.), and The Clash. Pearl and Clash bassist Paul Simonon married and eventually divorced (I kept my opinion of his playing to myself ;-) . She was amazed I knew of the pianist in her English band: Geraint Watkins. Geraint played in Dave Edmunds band, as well as that of Stones bassist Bill Wyman. Wish Geraint followed her to L.A.! He has made a few unusual---odd even, interesting albums of his own. |
Tomic601, I promised I’d get back to you with a Graham Bond Organisation recommendation after listening to the four albums of theirs I have, so here goes. I checked out some Youtube videos too. This band went through some permutations in it’s recorded history. It started out as a decent straight ahead jazz band around the very early sixties, up until ’63 maybe. That’s when John Mclaughlin played with them before Ginger Baker reportedly fired him. You can find some of that music on their "Live at the BBC and Other Stories" four album set, which covers that period, and more. You can find that material on Youtube, maybe the full box set. I listened to about an hour of it to hear the McLaughlin material. There are three more Mclaughlin cuts from 1963 on the album Solid Bond. In 1964, the line-up of Bond, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall Smith were recorded live twice, at Klooks Kleek (which I thought I had ) and the eponymous "Graham Bond Organisation" live at the Railway Station (which I do have). The second has a more horn oriented sound in a Mod vein. Next are the two legitimately released Graham Bond Organisation albums from 1965 with the same line-up, "The Sound of ’65" and "There’s a Bond between Us". The first is the better of the two and continues the bands mod blues-jazz-rock sound. It’s more horn oriented than let’s say early Who. You can hear the sound of Colosseum or the first Ginger Baker Air Force in there. The early Cream song Traintime was first recorded on "The Sound of ’65". They were also playing Ginger Baker’s Cream tour de force "Toad" then, but that doesn’t show up on either record. A curiosity from this period, a movie clip featuring this band on a British equivalent to "Beach Blanket Bingo", can be seen and heard on Youtube. It’s quite good. Try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPEAK3RjfLk Last but not least, a later version of the band in 1966 is recorded on the compilation "Solid Bond", along with the material from 1963. By that time Ginger Baker had fired Jack Bruce and later quit himself to form Cream with Bruce and Eric Clapton. John Hiseman replaced him and did a credible job on "Solid Bond" before he and Dick Heckstall -Smith also departed to join John Mayall’s band, and later form Colosseum. The 1966 sessions were not released when first recorded. "Solid Bond" was a later compilation of that 1966 session and some earlier 1963 Klook’s Kleek material with McLaughlin, predating the Klook’s Kleek live album from 1964. All of it is decent. If I were you I’d start with the "Sound of ’65", but that might be a little too horn heavy for your taste. There’s a number of their recordings on youtube you might want to sample first as their output was so varied. There is another boxed set that contains their two major label releases plus numerous odds and ends which may be worth picking up if you’re looking to acquire a single Graham Bond Organisation set. That’s " Wade In The Water-Classics Origins and Oddities." Mike |