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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Sit: A friend went to see the current Yardbirds with McCarty and Dreja in concert yesterday and gave a very good report -- and he's not even a particularly big fan who owns the old records like I do (I'd planned to attend with him, but unfortunate... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Buzzcocks - "Another Music In A Different Kitchen" [UA UK '78]Buzzcocks - "Love Bites" [UA UK '78]Buzzcocks - "Singles Going Steady" [Liberty UK '79]Buzzcocks - "A Different Kind Of Tension" [IRS '80]Buzzcocks - "Parts One, Two, Three" [IRS '80]Mo... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Ike & Tina Turner - "River Deep, Mountain High" [A&M '69, rec. '66]The Everly Brothers - S/T [Rhino reissue '85, orig. '58]Gene Clark - "Gene Clark With The Gosdin Brothers" [Sundazed reissue '00, orig. '67] The debut from the ex-lead sing... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Orpheus10: Sounds cool, I'll bite, what makes it the most unusual Grant Green music? 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
NRBQ - "All Hopped Up" [Red Rooster '77]Hal Blaine - "Drums! Drums! A Go Go" [Dunhill '65]The Shadows - "Surfing With The Shadows" [Atlantic '63]The Astronauts - "Go..Go..Go!" [RCA '65]Dexter Gordon - "One Flight Up" [Blue Note reissue, '65]Eddie ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Trying to (re)break-in a new/used cart here, so far the best I've had yet in every respect save for the all-important tonal balance, we'll see...The Stranglers - "Black And White" [A&M '78]Savoy Brown Blues Band - S/T [Japanese London '69]Jerr... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Hi Dan! 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
SRW: For how good their classic early albums were, you'd never have known it was coming from listening to Nielsen and Petersson's pre-Cheap Trick album by their band called Fuse (S/T, also on Epic, 1970, only one "s" in Peterson here) -- indulgent... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
JB: Good -- and I even forgot to pimp the hilarious radio promo spots!... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Welcome back Slipknot1 (to your listening room as well as to the thread!), sorry to learn of your illness but glad you're recovering now.Jaybo: I highly recommend treating yerself to the Norton comp, the Bloodbrothers demos are killer (as is every... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Frank Sinatra - "Sinatra's Swingin' Session" [Capitol FDS '61]Tony Bennett - "At Carnegie Hall vol.1" [Columbia 360S '62]Jacques Loussier Trio w/RPO - "Plays Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.5" [London Phase 4 '69]Holst/The Planets - Bernard Herrman... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
"Diggin' Up Down Under!" - V/A [Dig The Fuzz '9?] Way strong Aussie 60's freakbeat compPeter & Gordon - "In London For Tea" [Capitol '66]Gram Parsons/Flying Burrito Bros. - "Sleepless Nights" [A&M '76, rec. '70 and '73]The Persuaders - S/T... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Gladys Knight & The Pips - "Tastiest Hits" [Bell '68]Donald Byrd - "Black Byrd" [UA '73]Mojo - "Mojo Magic" [GRT '69] AKA The Mojo MenBaby Cortez - "The Isley Brothers Way" [T-Neck '70]Spencer Davis Group/Traffic - "Here We Go 'Round The Mulbe... 
Alex Chilton RIP
I grew up seeing Tommy Keene back in the day here in DC when he was on Limp, and knew him a bit though he was older than me. (We briefly crossed paths at UMD, where I "majored" in radio station by default. We also both played Gretsch 6120 thin dou... 
Alex Chilton RIP
"Power poop", as a certain embittered musician friend with an axe to grind calls it...(not speaking of the Posies in particular, just the concept generally, but I never did like the term either)...Listen, I'm sure all the hearts are in the all the...