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| Whats on your turntable tonight? The Larry Page Orchestra Arranged By Ray Davies - "Kinky Music" [Rhino repro LP '83, orig. '65] Never released in US at the time, strictly for dancing fun but audaciously early in the band's career for an affair of this kind, the newest tune on th... | |
| Review: Technics SL-1200Mk2 Turntable Well with the above post causing this most excellent review thread to pop up once again, I'm prompted (after re-reading all activity) to update my findings based on further modifications since I last posted.Three more significant mods have been in... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ossipov Russian Folk Orchestra [Melodiya LP '69] Pieces by Rachmaninov, Schumann, Debussy, Stravinsky, Sibelius and Lyadov arranged for Russian folk instrumentationDel Shannon - "Runaway Hits" [Bug comp. LP '83]Sun Ra - "Strange Celestial Road" [R... | |
| exactpower ep 15A Hi Nsgarch, thanks for the update (actually I haven't followed any other Exact Power threads lately, so sorry for making you reiterate stuff you've posted before).Let me state for the record that, while you may be qualified to commment on an elect... | |
| Veracity of albums for sale being "sealed"? Not that this has much to do with what I'm personally after when I go record shopping, but technically speaking, even a genuine SS is no guarantee of Mint condition on the inside -- a wide variety of undiscovered defects are possible, some not kno... | |
| The Hub: News, events, gossip - Sound by Singer to close I've never been in his store, never talked to them on the phone or anywhere else. (But then I tend not to go to dealers or shows period.) Heard a couple of stories alluded to over the years, but my only real exposure was to his Stereophile ads. I'... | |
| exactpower ep 15A I am also an EP-15A owner, and spoke with MAP a few months ago about my sentiments regarding the excellence of that product and my disappointment that the new company has abandoned it. However, although I can't recall a name, I'm sure I was only s... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Wow Jerico, you're a fast worker dude! Agreed and agreed.King Crimson - "In The Wake Of Poseidon" [Atlantic LP '70]Sparks - "Kimono My House" [Island LP '74]Nilsson - "Pandemonium Shadow Show" [RCA LP '67]Sagittarius - "Present Tense" [Columbia re... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Notec, glad you were inspired to respond, and hope next time you will post what you've been listening to. Sorry if my wisecrack rubbed wrong...without arguing what I regard to be near-meaningless terminology at this point, I actually did say wh... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey Airegin: I admit I'm not much on current 'indie' rock (mostly quit that back before the Seattle thing exploded and 'indie' eventually came to stand for "industry") and have never heard the artists you mention -- and that I myself do mainly lis... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Quincy Jones And His Band - "I Dig Dancers" [Mercury LP '60]Wes Montgomery - "Down Here On The Ground" [A&M LP '68]Tax Free - S/T [Polydor LP '70] Wally Tax of the (Dutch) Outsiders fame, here not sounding like that earlier group's Pretty Thin... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hi Jerico, my own personal Thompson faves are the first three Fairport Convention albums (they lose me at "Liege & Lief" onward, when things got less freewheeling and eclectic, not to mention rockin' -- they also missed Denny's songwriting aft... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Hey Jerico, re "Unhalfbricking": In my queue recently have been Sandy Denny "Sandy" [A&M LP '72] and "The Best Of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Years" [Island/Def Jam CD '00]...(Sorry Richard & Linda, both of whom appear on "San... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ray Charles - "What'd I Say" [Atlantic LP '59]Magic Sam - "Easy Baby" [Charly LP '85, rec. '57-'66] Early singles from the Cobra, Chief and Crash labelsPerez Prado - "Exotic Suite Of The Americas" [RCA LP '62] A Living Stereo engineered by one Ed ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? V/A - "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968" [Rhino 4CD Boxset '09] Sprawling and yet unavoidably arbitrary but undeniably admirable comp representing one of the white-hottest concentrated pop-music scenes ever, packaged in a swell a... |