Whats on your turntable tonight?

Larry Carlton
Alone/But Never Alone
MCA 1986

Santana eponymous
Columbia 1969 
Original release

Running an estate sale TT through it’s paces tonight:

Leo Kottke-My Fathers Face
Feat-Mofi S/T
Allmans-Wipe the windows…
Miles-Someday My Prince

Nice stack Steve!!!

Joan Osborne / Relish (CD)
Thank you to whoever recommended this earlier this week (or last week). It is wonderful

Hopefully my wife can say “ running an estate sale TT   Thru the paces.. “….someday long in the future

ha

Hey Jim,
I think you might like this one...

Laura Marling / Once I was an eagle 

thx Tim !

immersive, intimate, emotional = short review of Live at the Shoals Theatre by Cooley, Hood , Isbell

June of 44 / Four great points 

@tomic601 Bummer is the basement is not very warm for 6 months of the year!
Hang in there. 

@bkeske.. I have recently revisited the first three James Gang albums with Joe Walsh after many years of not hearing them and they are even better than I remember. They have aged very well. 

Nilsson - Aerial Ballet 

Harry Nilsson - A little touch of SCHMILSSON in the night

Nilsson - The Point

@spiritofradio,

James, I don't have The Meters on Sundazed but would imagine they would sound great .

Harry Chapin - Verities & Balderdash

Early morning update regarding Orb flattening. 

Last night before going to bed, I took a chance and baked a replaceable color vinyl 12" in the Orb as a test.

The subject:

Ben Watt (with Robert Wyatt) "Summer Into Winter" Cherry Red UK rerelease for 2020 RSD.

When I received the record and opened it, someone at the pressing plant in the EU (not specific which plant) must have been having a bad day.  A-side label was off center and torn at the center hole plus the record itself looks as though it was pulled off the stamper rather violently, probably due to the label being caught on the center hole mandrel in the press.  There were 3 distinct ripples radiating outward from the center hole.

I didn't open the record for a while after receiving thus a return wasn't possible.

So, I set it aside thinking someday I've have the means to flatten it.

I placed the badly warped 12" clear blue vinyl record in the Orb at "normal" temp/time (2 hours heat, 2 hour cool).

I feared the worst this morning.  However, much to my surprise and delight, the record came out with nearly all the wrinkles flattened.  The record plays fine on the turntable. 

Brian - “ every form of refuge has it’s price “ Eagles….

Croft and RM -4 in winter battle dress would bring me to 19

Thanks to Steve - I think the Shoals would have escaped my attention without him and this great thread of contributors 

Thanks for taking the time to post that puffball. I'm thinking about getting one. 

@big_greg,

You’re welcome.  We learn from each other.  The successes and failures are very educational.

If you’re considering an Orb, I believe the sole US distributor is Mockingbird Audio.

Phillip said I snagged his last DF-01iA+.  Deliveries from Orb (based in Osaka, Japan) have been slow lately.  I reckon that has a lot to do with COVID lockdowns over the past several months in Japan.

Second flattened record of the day spinning as I write,

Jan Steele/John Cage “Voices And Instruments” Obscure Records UK  1975

+1 big_greg  Might be Harry Chapin's best recording!

Wooden Wand / Gipsy Freedom
They are playing with the band "Vanishing Voice" on this album so it is pretty weird. That said, been playing it a lot lately & really enjoy it. 

+2 Puffball

David Crosby & Graham Nash - Wind On The Water. 1975 ABC Records pressing. 

Fiery Furnaces / Blueberry boat

Valerie Carter,  Wild Child 

@jusam Love her :-) sad end. Check out her other works also

Warming up with some Lucinda

Finished BS&T MFSL UD1S

Moby Grape "Live"
1966 - 1969 Previously unissued performances
Sundazed

With all the recent accolades on its 50th anniversary….

Joni Mitchell - Blue. Reprise reissue 

thanks @slaw 

My weekend is finally here…

👍 Brian!!
,....................

Fred Neil "Bleecker & MacDougal"
Sundazed
sounds amazing
John Sebastian played harmonica on this lp.

Brian,

Ever get your SoundSmith in?

Depeche Mode - Violator (Mute) original uk.
Chocolate Watch Band - No way out (Tower) original usa.
The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (London) reissue japan.

Not yet Steve. I was thinking of calling them and getting an updated ETA, or, just reach out to the guy who will probably build it. Who stated they (Soundsmith) were way behind.

For the price agreed to, I’m being patient.

Neil Young - Comes a Time. Reprise repress 1978

I'll try to be patient as well.

....."you walked in here
with a hand full of gimme
and a mouthful 
of much ablidged."

Fred Neil

Lucinda again after a deep steam and some changes to the conditioners feeding my front end.

Genesis
Foxtrot
Charisma 1972
Original release

Getz/Gilberto
Analog Productions/45rpm

The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo. Columbia reissue 1972, originally 1968

Working through the changes I mentioned above.....on the Lucinda lp, the bass response became incredible!
Got my EMI meter in hooked up for visual. Will post changes/results tomorrow.

Lotus Plaza / Floodlight

Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead. WB 1970

The Knickerbockers "Lies"
Sundazed/mono

Castanets / Cathedral 

Hot Tuna - First Pull Up, Then Pull Down. RCA Victor 1971

So... I bought another copy of Pretzel Logic. And Katy Lied. And Greatest Hits. I may need a Becker / Fagen intervention. 

John Lee Hooker "Sings Blues"
Sundazed

Greg,
Let me know when you good a great sounding copy of Katy Lied.

Steve, according to Becker and Fagen there is no such thing!

Billy Joel - An Innocent Man