Whats on your turntable tonight?

You may have done more from your absence,????? ha!

WOW u

Johnathan Wilson "Gentle Spirit"

Glad to help Jim!

Remember, I'm your senior by 4 years ,  still working, 

i am catching up on milage..

Lucinda - Live at the Fillmore… ( server )….. this is really, really fine…

If you like this..,

You should, check out all of his output...

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut. 1983 Columbia pressing. Great SQ.

Updated my Clearaudio Concept TT with the Satisfy Carbon Fiber tonearm and updated the cart from the Hana EL to the Hana SL.

So far so good. Sounds great.

Ok,  Hear goes Safs

Isaac Stern/Alexander Zakin
Franck Sonata in A; Debussy Sonata in G for Violin and Piano
Columbia Masterworks 1960

Wilhelm Kempff piano
Beethoven 
Piano sonatas 31 and 32
Deutsche Grammophon 1964

Jethro Tull - Stand Up. 1973 Chrysalis pressing of their 1969 album. 

Stones - Some Girls ( OP w banned cover )

As normal, a lot of great music being played (also appreciate the cleaning advice!) 

+1 middlemass for "Mark Lanegan"

My Bloody Valentine / MBV
Thanks Puffball08! 

Last night & today.

Marvin Gaye  'What's Goin On'

Alan Parsons Project 'I Robot'  UHQR that I bought new in 1983.

Pink Floyd  'The Wall'  UK pressing, that I bought new when it first released. Excellent!

Isaac Hayes  'Black Moses'  Sides 1 & 2, Craft reissue.  I pulled the trigger on buying this issue.  However, as @slaw said, the Craft pressing is just OK.  Correct, just OK but not really great.  Oh well...

John Klemmer  'Touch'  Very smooth and relaxing album.  The saxophone sounds so good.

The Dan - Everything Must Go ( RSD )….. just love it…..

Puffball,
The MBV album was great & I'll check out your other Roy Montgomery suggestions. Thanks again

Byla + Jarboe / ST 

The Dan - Two Against Nature ( RSD )…….. ah, the smile grows….

Chicago Transit Authority, MFSL 

Dire Staits
Making Movies
WB 1980 original release...so good!

Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria / Sing Sinck, sing 

Alison Moyet-"ALF" Side 1 SQ 4,4
The Tubes-T.R.A.S.H. Side 2 SQ 4
Los Lobos-La Bamba Side 1 SQ 4,2
Barry Goudreau-ST Side 1 SQ 4.2
Willie Nelson & Ray Price-San Antonio Rose Side 1 SQ 4,3
The Staples-Unlock Your Mind Side 1 SQ 4.3
Claudia Schmidt-ST(Flying Fish 066) Side 1 SQ 4.4
The Yellowjackets-Mirage A Trois Side 1 SQ 4.5

Yup @tomic601 and @slaw. Sheila Berdan is moving the business to Washington State, but my email and phone message asking to where in Washington and when have gone un-resonded to. I’m assuming up north; I’m sure it’s not to Vancouver, and there’s almost nothing between Vancouver (just across the Willamette River from Portland, Oregon) and way up in the Seattle area. Just millions of trees!

I haven’t talked to Sheila since I bought the Music Reference RM-9 Mk.2 amp from her a while back. I wish she was bringing along her tech Tom Carione (the best I’ve ever dealt with), but I doubt it; he has a career in television/radio station electronic maintenance in Los Angeles.

Hilary Hahn - Paris. Prokofiev, Chausson, & Rautavaara. Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France conducted by Mikko Franck. Deutsche Grammophon 2LP 45 rpm 2021

I'm back from The Great North Woods and hope to listen to some records this week. Gonna rain all week, so no biking this week unless the forecast changes. Might as well use the time catching up on some listening.

Have to go to my LRS - Plaid Room Records on Friday to pick up my Pre-Order - Black Pumas - " Capitol Cuts: Live from Studio A [Blood Red Swirl Vinyl - Plaid Room/Colemine Records Exclusive Color]". Hope to pick up some additional LPs while I'm there. Haven't added much to my collection lately.

Have a good week all. Happy Listening!

Welcome back Reubent!

Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch / Mystery of heaven 

@bdp24 i heard about a month ago that locale was TBD and that Tom the wonder tech was on his last month of accepting repair work…..he rebuilt my RM-9 w wonderful results…i hope he sets up shop somewhere….

Gaucho..beater club edition, quite convinced thru planetary alignment it is a white hot …something…. How can the sax lie ?

Hey I've got that "Gaucho" edition as well :-)

Yonder Mountain String Band / ST
Forgot I even had this one  

Crosby - Name ( German pressing )

Kreator - pleasure to kill. 
Y&T - down for the count. 
Mercyful l fate - nuns have no fun Ep. 

Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy

my favorite high speed guitarist……

+1 "Alf"

Playing my beater copy of Chicago Transit Authority.  Warped, scratched, and scuffed.  Still sounds pretty darn good.

@boxer12, Tim, you're welcome, glad you enjoyed "mbv".  Maybe today I'll have a chance to get the tape measure out.  But laundry and yard work are the rule of the day.  When that's done, a load of stuff for Goodwill.


Plus, I cracked open another box of goodies from the past.  This will take another couple days of sloshing through the Spin Clean then Degritter.  Some nice surprises are in there. (Hint: Red Crayola, Lora Logic and Fred Frith)

Now, a question for the group.  How much does your spouse/significant other appreciate what you listen to?  Me, well, my wife isn't very impressed with things like Reagan Youth or Dead Kennedys or even Boards of Canada.  But most classical and especially flamenco gets her attention.

To answer the question.
I wish that my wife enjoyed the hi-fi even half as much as I do.  About 98% of the time I play my system she leaves the room, no matter what the music is.  I take showers daily so it's not that I smell bad.  She liked the Marvin Gaye album I played on Saturday night, but then left the room after the next album went on.  You guys are lucky that your spouses enjoy the music and the good hi-fi.  I have had from very good and up to great hi-fi systems since the age of 18.  When we dated I had a very large bi-amped, bad-ass Accuphase system, and it was the center of every day living.  She loved it and all of the music styles.  She never used to be the way she is now, but alas, sometimes people change.  It won't stop me from my lifestyle of hi-fi.  

….well, i met her at work..different department but still “ fishing off the company pier “… caught my interest when her weekend plan was NW Folklife festival… asked her how that went and she handed me a Music of the Andes cassette……
I made her a LiL Feat mixtape, the rest is history….

mutual listening waxes and wanes….we do a thing w server, she will do a search of song titles with a word…like rain, heart, river, etc… The NAIm crunches thru 3k plus ripped CD’s and generates a playlist… i let her drive 2
For LP, i just let her have discogs collection view and she picks 4-6 to play……

we call it “ Music Nite “, she Trish is much more Video aligned, so she will often pull me in to Music documentary…Tom Petty ( The Greatest American band, ever ! ), Rush, Eagles, etc… We have decent TV both places w Sonos soundbar….. we don’t suffer much…

Finally, some great shared music while driving experience…one very memorable..coming out of Canada after a long week of fishing together ( with no music ), the Indy College radio station in Bellingham was playing a Train album straight thru….. First time we had heard Train…..hooked us both…..

almost forgot…we also in a very mutual way support musical arts by hosting a house concert most years and a recording studio / production company - great couple, great artists and they have a very high plowback ratio, Engineer sound guy has helped produce pro bono something like 6 - 10 albums during COVID. Patreon is a good thing…..

Now, a question for the group. How much does your spouse/significant other appreciate what you listen to? Me, well, my wife isn't very impressed with things like Reagan Youth or Dead Kennedys or even Boards of Canada. But most classical and especially flamenco gets her attention.

My girlfriend loves music, but her tastes are a little more "mainstream" than mine, mostly west coast 60's and 70's rock.  She likes the way my system sounds, but doesn't really care about the details.  I know what she likes to listen to and it overlaps what I enjoy, so I usually stick to things that we both enjoy.  I don't bust out Excision or Cecil Taylor when she comes over.

Polly Jean Harvey - To Bring You My Love - Demos

Good discussion regarding the wife. She tolerates my hobby and often encourages/accompanies me to our LRS. She will look at vintage(read hippie) clothing, while I peruse records. Her ears perk up to Joni Mitchell, CSNY, or Neil Young, but her interests do not wander far from the stuff we both liked when we met in the 70's. She will watch TV if I wander off the reservation.(which is most of the time). My excitement over a bargain bin find, or sonic excellence is met with "meh". In light of that, tonight:

Neil Young
Harvest
Reprise 1972
Original release. My copy might qualify as a white hot stamper.despite hundreds of plays. And yes, she is grooving to it.

@tomic601

"...coming out of Canada after a long week of fishing together ( with no music ), the Indy College radio station in Bellingham..."

KUGS-89.3 by chance? On more than one occasion when I was sitting in the very long line, well past the Peace Arch park in BC, waiting on US ICE at Blaine, KUGS sure passes the time. Of course that’s been nearly 2 years ago.

Chris Whitley
Living with the Law
Columbia 1991
Debut album.
Mrs. Is out after Neil Young is done.

@flennon

"My excitement over a bargain bin find, or sonic excellence is met with "meh".
Ah, that "yeah, so?" look.  Know it well.  Or that chilling look when the postal carrier or UPS delivers the ubiquitous cardboard record shipper. 

I'll have to sneak in the back door this Saturday, 17 July after RSD drop 2.  I'm sure to snag some "wants" at the local record shop.  As my wife likes to say, I paid the record store's electric bill for the day (heck, maybe the whole weekend) with what I bought.

Yes… already laying pipe for stealthy record day

@puffball08 yes that must be the one - I think that story dates from 1998, but that border and I have a love hate relationship- I normally keep my boat on W side Vancouver Island, so I have killed a lot of time near the Peace Arch…,

are you up here ??? Pac nw ?

Nice discussion! My wife's taste of music is much different than mine. She likes country pop music & I grit my teeth while listening to it. I took her to a Grateful Dead concert at Alpine Valley before we were married & while the band was going through one of their "space" jams, she asked me what they were doing. I told her they were just "lettin' it go man". She replied... They sure are letting it go! I still married her (very blessed to have!) & we still laugh about that. 

Jim,
Was only in Bellingham once. What a wonderful town! It has a nice hippy vibe to it for sure. While walking through town, I remember seeing a guy dancing to a band that was playing & plugging/unplugging his ears to change his perception of the music being played. Was that you? 

Nicolai Dunger / Blues

42 years into this, so we have both learned where the boundaries are, ( no Sly Stone), but I dont wander into her territory either. Fortunately I dont have to contend with any musical preferences she might have that I can't tolerate. She's just not that into it. Records dont raise an eyebrow... Now, expensive equipment that doesn't meet the decor standards...that's a different discusion.😉