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
@bkeske. I lived in Buffalo when Michael Tilson Thomas was the Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra when he was barely 30 years old. What a great career!
@bkeske. I lived in Buffalo when Michael Tilson Thomas was the Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra when he was barely 30 years old. What a great career!
Very neat! Hopefully you had a chance to see him conduct.
Very cool Big Greg & Tomic! If either of you (or anyone else who participates in this thread) is ever in West Michigan (it is beautiful this time of year BTW), you're invited to my place for a listening session.
Puffball, What did you think of "Flying Saucer Attack"? I have the album after the one you listened to & have to say that one is creative but out there...
P J Harvey 'To Bring You My Love' Great album, very well recorded.
Thomas Dolby 'The Flat Earth" Had to listen to this again before refiling it. Fun album and my favorite song is "I Scare Myself"
King Crimson 'In The Court of the Crimson King' What a classic album cover, and album. I saw the cover above in @earlflynn comment. I got this copy 2 years ago, a reissue of 200 gr weight. A little noisy vinyl, which was surprising. The original recording is a bit rough but they did a good job remastering and "approved by Robert Fripp". I listened to the original album upon release, in high school.
Nothing on the calendar at this point for West Michigan, but I'll keep that filed away! We're going to try to get the Portland guys up in the near future.
+1 Jim. My youngest fishes in Holland a lot (it's minutes away). In fact, 2 weeks ago I had to help him get his car out of the sand over there. He parked in a soft spot. We ended up pulling him out with my brothers Jeep.
I have that Boz Scaggs album. Bought it new back in about 1974 so it has to be a reissue since it was first released in 1969. The record is in perfect condition and even the jacket is M-. Wonderful music, my favorite Scaggs album. However, my copy is not so great in SQ. I played it a few months back but now I'll give it a deep cleaning with the US machine and see if that helps. Fantastic album!
Joel - I hope that helps...i had a ripped copy on server but the LP is next level...Muscle Shoals grit included. When i get back to the land of surf, let’s get you over ;-) Dudes are whaling on the BFT.....
@boxer12-regarding Flying Saucer Attack, I take it you have "Mirror" (2000) which followed "New Lands" (1997). If this is the only FSA album you have, I might suggest "Distance" (1994) which is a compilation of early 7" releases plus some other gems. Very creative and listenable.
I like many of the spacey shoe gaze (a term most musicians detest) groups of the 80s~90s, particularly the Bristol groups which includes Flying Saucer Attack, Movietone, Third Eye Foundation, Crescent among others. During Dave's (Pearce) Bristol days, members of the aforementioned groups often performed with each other.
Dave recorded everything in the analog domain and for the most part avoided any digital doo-dads. Vocals were meant to be in the background, not necessarily intelligible. Very lo-fi.
Have you listened to Boards of Canada (especially "The Campfire Headphase)? Or the last My Bloody Valentine release "m b v" (recently re-released on Domino UK)?
Edith Peinemann WDR Concert Recordings - I Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Joseph Keilberth WDR Sinfonieorehester Köln Weitblick 2017 (Japan) Mono
Recorded 6th May 1960 in Funkhaus, Klaus von Bismarck Saal
Sonny Criss, Slim Gaillard, Roy Porter Big Band With Eric Dolphy, Helen Humes, Harold Land, Hampton Hawes, Art Pepper – Black California The Savoy Sessions (Savoy 1976)
Puffball, Thanks for the recommendations! I'll check out "Distance" & Boards of Canada for sure. Not much of a "Bloody Valentines" fan. I bought "Loveless" back in the day & was unimpressed. Is their last album like that one or have they cleaned it up a bit? BTW, If you like "shoegaze" you may want to check out the band "Bardo Pond". To this day, "Dilate" is one of my favorite albums of all time.
I’ll give another thumbs up to the great Boz Scaggs song Loan Me A Dime. I have it on the Duane Allman Anthology from 1972. There are a number of great songs on the album from other artists with Duane on guitar. Not to mention Aretha Franklin’s version of The Weight.
@boxer12 -regarding My Bloody Valentine, I agree, not much of the early stuff I care for. However, there was a considerable gap, 22 years in fact, between "Loveless" and "m b v". The gap yielded a matured and creative sound which is hard to compare with their earlier recordings.
With MBV signing to Domino, Kevin Shields revealed, to nobodies surprise, that he's been recording new material which will likely come out later this year.
Bardo Pond, yeah, I have a few of their releases including "Dilate". They prove good things do come from Philadelphia. Roy Montgomery did a collaboration with Bardo Pond under the name Hash Jar Tempo. Worth hunting down if you have a lot of Bardo in your collection.
And look into Roy Montgomery if you haven't already. Any of his recording, early or contemporary are well worth a listen.
@noromance Thanks! That record was a sonic treat. The one I found was a gold stamped promo still sealed and in perfect shape. I have a new demo record.
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