Whats on your turntable tonight?


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
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Badfinger /Straight Up
1971 Apple

Fabulous album, fantastic hair, decent SQ.

Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

2003/2021 XL Recordings 45RPM Reissue

The original release in 2003 was on 45 RPM LP’s also. Someone in their camp must have been ahead of the game. 

Either way, great SQ on this reissue.

JJ Cale & Eric Clapton, "Road to Escondido" - Wilco, "Being There" - Shawn Mullins, "Soul’s Core" - very chill session sorting some new (to me) Bugle Boy and Amperex 6922 tubes. Both sets very nice in my Calypso!

Pink Floyd  Meddle  Japanese pressing

Dark Side of the Moon. 1st Japanese pressing

Takes me back to the Wish You Were Here Tour traveling from Chicago to the Milwaukee County Stadium .  They played the entire WYWH and DSOTM with Echoes as the oncore !  The mushrooms worked their magic that night !

 

Happy Happy African music:

Angelique Kidjo. Doing Talking Heads Remain In Light. Spectacular!!

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Reprise reissue, early/mid 70’s, originally 1969

reunited w my vinyl rig after a Summer away fishing…

In arrears today:

Fleetwood Mac - Future Games

on now: Tom Petty - Wildflowers and All the Rest

Grateful Dead - Steal Your Face

Grateful Dead Records 2LP gatefold 1976

Recorded live at The Winterland

Juilliard String Quartet 

Schoenberg, The Five String Quartets

Columbia Masterworks 3LP box, 1977

  • Quartet No. 1 In D Minor Op. 
  • Quartet No. 2 In F Sharp Minor For Strings And Soprano Op. 10
  • Quartet No. 3, Op. 30
  • Quartet No. 4 Op. 37
  • String Quartet In D Major

Snuffy Jenkins & Pappy Sherrill – 33 Years Of Pickin’ And Pluckin’ (Rounder 1971)

Nat King Cole – A Many Splendored Thing (Longines Symphonette Society 1965)

Classic Sixties. Sounds so much better than every post-tube desk edited recording ever pressed.

Thanks Brian - excellent season but it’s over up North anywayyyy….

Second play thru in as many days… Nagra 70 th , jury out on absolute value but certain bits are excellent sonics…  

 

Robert Craft conducts ‘The Music of Arnold Schoenberg’ Vol. 1.
Washington Opera Society Orchestra, CBC Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, & Columbia Chamber Ensemble
Columbia Masterworks 2LP box reissue 1970’s, originally 1962

  • Erwartung
  • Concerto For Violin And Orchestra
  • Pierrot Lunaire
  • Die Glückliche Hand
  • A Survivor From Warsaw

 

Aeolian String Quartet :
Haydn - Volume Eight, String Quartets 1-6 Op. 3 & The Seven Last Words
London 3LP box 1981
 

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

1982 - Vertigo Records

I’ve always thought that all of my early original Dire Straits pressings sounded great but this record is special. Outstanding sound quality. Probably their least commercial or radio friendly album that doesn’t hurt either. Fantastic album.

A Sam Cooke double LP, "Portrait Of A Legend", Rare Earth ,"Ecology" and an OP of Chilliwack, "Lights In the Valley". Pop night.