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Saturday night spinning - after a week of enforced silence....

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Posted on November 7, 2009 at 17:06:13
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 .....due to problems with the tubes in my line stage. I got so desperate for music that last night I got out my little headphone amp and listened to vinyl through headphones.

But my tubes arrived as scheduled today - sometimes FedEx doesn't meet their date.

Spun today:

June Tabor and the Oyster Band - Freedom and Rain.
Culture - Two Sevens Clash

Up now:

Beethoven, Piano Concerto #5, Curzon/Knappertsbusch with the Vienna, on Decca SXL 2002, a very clean first-label wideband in a blue-highlights cover.

Kenny Dorham/Sonny Rollins "Jazz Contrasts"(nt), posted on November 8, 2009 at 06:59:33
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T Rex - Electric Warrior, posted on November 7, 2009 at 23:41:37
danj
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 Get It On!

hot tuna burgers, posted on November 7, 2009 at 22:22:54
Tao
 blows against the empire, it's a beautiful day self/titled and leon russell and the shelter people

Jazz finds mostly, posted on November 7, 2009 at 21:30:43
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 Bought a few yesterday and spent some time on the VPI 16.5 today cleaning stuff.

Johnny Griffin Sextet with Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams, Kenny Drew, Wilbur Ware & Philly Joe Jones. German Contemporary DMM reissue.
Johnny Griffin: Live in Tokyo. Double LP with Horace Parlan, Mads Vinding & Art Taylor. Inner City Records, 1976
Modern Jazz Quartet: Blues at Carnegie Hall (live). Red label Atlantic stereo, 1966.
Dave Brubeck: Jazz Impressions of New York (Columbia mono 2-eye)
Dave Brubeck: Jazz Impressions of Japan (Columbia mono 2-eye)
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
This lot wasn't cheap, but well worth buying.

Still to come, a couple of 50-centers from the thrift:
Willie & Leon: One for the Road
10CC: The Original Soundtrack Phillips red label ffrs

and one oldie cleaned and ready to play
Bobby Humphrey: Flute In, featuring Lee Morgan and Billy Harper. Blue Note United Artists blue label (a reissue?).

Back to spinning LPs:, posted on November 7, 2009 at 21:13:52
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 10CC - Greatest Hits
Vibrators - V2
Weather Report - Heavy Weather

The Worst of Jefferson Airplane (nt), posted on November 7, 2009 at 21:12:23
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"I'll play it and tell you what it is later..." - Miles Davis
RE: The Worst of Jefferson Airplane (nt), posted on November 7, 2009 at 21:24:24
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 I have a copy of this record. This is a good record, and a funny title.

RE: God Bless Their Pointed Little Heads was a funny title too..nt, posted on November 7, 2009 at 21:33:20
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Did you make that one up?, posted on November 7, 2009 at 23:38:50
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 It's called BLESS ITS POINTED LITTLE HEAD. See picture



One of the all-time great live albums.

RE: it's been many, many years.....nt, posted on November 8, 2009 at 23:34:16
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If you like Jefferson Airplane, posted on November 9, 2009 at 10:04:46
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 You need this record. As mentioned in my previous post it's one of the all time great live (in concert) recordings. The versions of "Plastic Fantastic Lover" and "Fat Angel" are classic.

RE: Saturday night spinning - after a week of enforced silence...., posted on November 7, 2009 at 20:46:25
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 How about Bill Evans at Montreux vol.2 CTI,David Crosby If I Could only Remember My Name,MJQ Space,Gabor Szabo with Charles Lloyd,Vivaldi Flute Concertos-Rampal and Boccherini Quartets, Quintets

David Crosby - 1971, posted on November 8, 2009 at 09:18:54
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 Played that David Crosby album from '71, all through my HS years (graduated 1976) and through all phases of my life - getting married, working 10-12 hrs M-F. buying first home, watching my kids grow up, buying first new truck and car, seeing kids go out on their own, becoming a Grandpa last year...played that David Crosby LP last night...

I have given instructions that "If I Could Only Remember My Name" to be played when I leave this earth (hopefully many years from now)

It is a classic in my mind, from a bygone era.

Ed
"Some Folks Need An Education ... Don't Give Up Or We'll Lose The Nation" C. 1970 MARK FARNER of Grand Funk Railroad from "Sin's A Good Man's Brother"
Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Live Oblivion vol 1 & 2, posted on November 7, 2009 at 20:28:23
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RE: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Live Oblivion vol 1 & 2, posted on November 9, 2009 at 10:13:55
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 Just spun a Brian Auger record, a recent flea find. Side B features singer Julie Driscoll. Side A has some nice Jimmy Smith style jazz organ playing. Good guitar work as well.

"The torture never stops"

Greetings Freek.
All that Skynyrd talk earlier..."Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd" /nt, posted on November 7, 2009 at 20:22:41
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"More music and Les Brown."
I think it's there best.(nt), posted on November 8, 2009 at 06:57:11
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Street Survivors packs a good punch too. /nt, posted on November 8, 2009 at 08:34:15
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"More music and Les Brown."
Country Joe and the Fish-"Electric Music for the Mind and Body" nt, posted on November 7, 2009 at 20:01:25
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 nt

"25 O'clock" "Psonic Psunspot" "English Settlement", posted on November 7, 2009 at 19:59:32
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 A bit of songwriting genius tonight.

Dukes of Stratosphear "25 O'clock" Virgin WOW 1 (U.K.)
Dukes of Stratosphear "Psonic Psunspot" Virgin VP2440 (U.K.)
XTC "English Settlement" Virgin V2223 (U.K.)

All have excellent sound for the most part with relatively quiet surfaces - good to have with such great music. The psychedelia of the Dukes, fifteen years after the original era still sounds magical. I noticed recently people posting the Dukes' stuff on YouTube and it's great to see the younger ones exclaiming about how great the music is compared to today's stuff and wondering why they didn't extend their short stay. Listen if you haven't heard it for a while.

Ripple

Love the Dukes!, posted on November 7, 2009 at 21:35:26
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 Better than the real thing in some ways. I first heard 25 O'Clock in a record store, thinking for a minute or two that it must be some 60s psych band I had somehow missed. However, the production values tipped me off that it had to be later. XTC has always been interesting, and I wish the Dukes would do another one.

Oranges and Lemons is another almost 60s psych masterpiece of theirs.

RE: Saturday night spinning - after a week of enforced silence...., posted on November 7, 2009 at 19:08:27
cactuscowboy@bresnan.net
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 Spinning some of yesterday's finds:

Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique
Dayglo Abortions - Corporate Whores
Minutemen - The Punch Line
Bad Brains - I Against I
Tool - Undertow
Concrete Blonde - S/T
D.I. - Richard Hung Himself

And a few CDs while working out in the garage:

Subhumans - EP/LP
Suicidal Tendencies - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
Sublime - 40 Oz. To Freedom

I used to love Concrete Blonde... saw them at the first Lolapalooza tour back in college, posted on November 7, 2009 at 22:20:01
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 ...what a great show that was.


"I'll play it and tell you what it is later..." - Miles Davis
Happiness may not be spinning it tonight, BUT..., posted on November 7, 2009 at 19:06:05
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 Things just got good here at the Dman's house- an early Christmas gift has presented itself to me- the go ahead to retip my Ortofon Kontra A at Sound-smith!!!

I am a happy boy who can soon stumble out of the CD world and get the 'table going again- as soon as they get 'er done!!!!

Oh yes, tonight was CDs, but it was a few spins from the King Crimson Collector's Club, and then KD Lang's Ingenue. Not great, but at least my tubes aren't gone south yet!!!

"We ask our artists to be true. Actually, we demand that our artists be true. When poets, storytellers, & singers lie to us for money, our culture is diseased & in decline."
-Robert Fripp
Szell/Cleveland—Mozart 35, Al Stewart—Love Chronicles, Pink Farries—Kings of Oblivion,, posted on November 7, 2009 at 18:49:28
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 V.S.O.P—The Quintet, Golden Palaminos

RE: Saturday night spinning - Guitar players.................., posted on November 7, 2009 at 18:04:47
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Six stringers.....Fender Strats,Telecasters, Les Pauls, Martins, Nationals, etc etc etc.......standard tuning....open D ....open G.....with Keith taking of the sixth string.........

Tom B.

Chick Corea, "My Spanish Heart", posted on November 7, 2009 at 17:44:33
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 Listen to My Spanish Heart after Return to Forever, "Romantic Warrior" and if you know his early stuff ask yourself if he likes the theme of "Now He sings Now he sobs."

I love hearing the underlying "pasts" in a Jazz musician's later music. Yesterday I hear a Bobby Hutcherson tune, I can't remember the tune's name, but it wasn't "Night in Tunisia" but it WAS!

I looked at the info on XM radio, saying to myself, "I know that tune as well as I know my own name."

Ten minutes later John Pizzarelli did "Night in Tunisia" and I laughed like a hyena.

Speaking of which he did a really cute tune called "Ain't Oklahoma Pretty." What a kick that song is!

But back to Chick...if you haven't listened to my SpanishHeart since you've done some things, changed something, whatever, you'll be amazed at how much better (and it sounded great before) the record sounds...one of those Polydors that's really well recorded.

Listen to the dynamics of the acoustic parts! Great stuff!


There is no such thing as too many records.
There is just too little room for them!
RE: Chick Corea, "My Spanish Heart" now playing, posted on November 8, 2009 at 14:27:44
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 Your post made me go take a look, and I do have this one; a white label promo, and the recording is indeed well done - very clear, punchy and present. I can hear the similarity to the Return to Forever work.

Nice group of pals with him too:
Steve Gadd, drums
Stanley Clarke, bass
Jean-Luc Ponty, violin
Don Alias, percussion
Gayle Moran, vocals
and others

Chick's Crystal Silence with Gary Burton is also a favorite piece. There are a bunch of Gary Burton works on ECM with other artists that are both great performances and recordings.

Next I'll go back to Now He Sings, Now He Sobs, and Sundance (I'm working backwards). My favorite Chick is probably still Light as a Feather with Flora Purim. I found the extended CD with out-takes which is also nice, but the vinyl is excellent on my system.

I'm also a big Bobby Hutcherson fan--seven Blue Note CDs, and probably around ten on vinyl, with lots more to discover.

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