finishing with R Lee J - It’s Like This
almost, almost worth buying a beater Rolls to put in the garage…..The Dan knew things…..
almost, almost worth buying a beater Rolls to put in the garage…..The Dan knew things…..
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We Get Requests Oscar P, w/ Ray Brown of course. @bkeskePale Pale Moon has been a fave for a long time, I'm still looking for the second album. Another from that era I can't find new is: Mark-Almond Band To The Heart. Billy's drums blow me away - but I need a new copy! My original is kind of elderly... |
You guys got me thinking about playing Rickie Lee Jones so I pulled out my two albums for play, later today. I have Pirates, in perfect condition, and also her eponymous album, a perfect condition MoFi issue. I got both of these albums when first released. @almosthome I have that Mark-Almond Band album, and also the one before that. Both are in perfect condition but both are less than stellar pressings. The recording quality is good, but the physical production quality is not so good. Still very listenable but what a shame, they could have been better. I haven't checked, but possibly a clean copy on Discogs? Good luck to you for that. I saw them in concert in 1970 or '71 and it was a very memorable experience, still to this day. |
@almosthome @bkeskePale Pale Moon has been a fave for a long time, I'm still looking for the second album. May have to pull mine and play it. It’s literally been over 30+ years since I listened to it. |
Rickie Lee Jones 'Pirates' I forgot how good this album is. A pleasure, from start to finish. Mark Almond Band 'Mark Almond II' I forgot about this one, it's their second album, in between the S/T album and 'To The Heart'. I have all 3 albums. I'll play the other two very soon. Miles Davis 'Kind Of Blue', the latest issue on UHQR. Fantastic! |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Music Charles Rosen, Piano fonè 2020 Sonata in A minor KV 310/300d unfinished suite KV399/385i Sonata in A major KV331/300i The Piano is an 1884 C.Bechstein made in Berlin and it’s not like other pianos. It’s beautiful and beautifully recorded but it sounds different, hard to describe, maybe smaller and dryer sounding than concert pianos I’m accustomed to. |
Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live In Philly, 1972 Atlantic/Rhino 2021 RSD Really cool story about this record and it’s fun music and the vinyl is well produced with transparent sound but it was a mess of a recording with the band out of balance and Aretha only occasionally singing with the benefit of the microphone. |
Greg - my audio crack dealer in San Diego plays ( and sells ) the Vanessa disc - sounds great - big fun Lyle Lovett / Shawn Colvin live tonight streaming after food truck visits neighborhood this eve, so playing some stuff to get War Dept warmed up…. I agree on same headshell if interested in evaluating with the FET effect is…. But fun never the less…. |
Sonny Rollins – Way Out West Great Contemporary reissue from 80x. Much better than 99% of audiophile remastered 180/200 gram records !!! "Wagon Wheels" https://youtu.be/4JNcg7_qYag "Solitude" https://youtu.be/h_gq7-cClXI |
Minor tweak surgery to the mighty and ancient SOTA - removed the Sumiko PIB ( DIN to RCA box to a constrained layer Mount utilizing MyMat scraps provided by @slaw. All this to allow me to use my AQ Fire cables closer to source … Yowsa :-))) Yes I know zero connections between end of tonearm and phono is better ( as implemented with my Triplaner ) That will wait here…. lucinda - World Without Tears |