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Favorite color? I have to admit that red vinyl turns me on! I know...it's the most common color after black, but orange, yellow, green and blue though beautiful, don't look as great spinning on a table.And the weird ones like Dave Mason's "Alone Together" look cool, but red just looks elegant on a black table!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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I have a copy of Saturday Night Fever on smokey silver vinyl.
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Warning.....can't live without "Warning" by Green Day on the fantastic see-through, richer than rich, primary green vinyl. Man, it's greener than green!
... the translucent yellow wax with glitter pressing of Emperor Tomato Ketchup. Neat. Doesn't sound too bad either.
Here's some orange/red for you. Hmmmm, aesthetics of colored vinyl. I'd bet much of a color preference would be influenced by the surrounding tones. Colors that compliment in some way.Pic above has a disc on the Teres from the Classic Records Jimi Hendrix collection titled: Voodo Child. Not a bad compilation.
-Steve
I always get him to autograph his colored vinyl for me.Tre'
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I have the standard black vinyl pressing. Was that a promo or a reissue?
Promo. My cousin found three, unsealed but new, copies of this and bought them for me.
They are all marked "Demonstration Not For Sale" on the cover.I took two over to Dave's house for him to sign.
I tried to get him to just sign them, thinking they might be worth more without the "To Tre". But he never listens. God love him.
Tre'
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"I took two over to Dave's house for him to sign."Really? Name dropping? You two are buds? ;^)
I haven't seen his act since the late '80s, but by then, I must have seen him a half-dozen times.
Guilty.I worked with Dave for three years and still help out when he needs me. I was on the road with Dave mixing front of house for 13 months, 2000, 2001.
He still puts on a great show. If you're a fan, check out the "Live
at Sunrise" DVD.I didn't have anything to do with the production but I did mix the house. Dave even gave me a credit for that on the DVD.
Just braggin' :-)
Tre'
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While he was very good in concert, his records really started to fall off and get MOR (middle of the road). I give him credit for not doing most of that crap in concert, but I found that he wasn't reinventing himself in concert either. And his concerts tended to be short. I'd see him at places such as the Orpheum in Boston. He'd do an hour set and then leave and come back and do one or two encores. I remember being astounded while listening to a 2LP live set, hearing him say that he'd be back for a 2nd set after a short break!Overall, record-wise, I tend to like his "Dave Mason is Alive!" and "Headkeeper" LPs on the Blue Thumb label (both inexplicably have overlapping material) to be his best.
Yes, Dave tends to play short sets. He catches hell for that. He has added some new material though.Check out these videos posted by the "team". "Only you know and I know", "We just disagree" and "Let it go let it flow" are from the Sunrise DVD. "Keep on running through my mind" and "How do I get to heaven" are new.
BTW, Dave hates Headkeeper. The label released that without his permission. It was the cause of him leaving Blue Thumb. I love that record but I don't dare ask him to autograph it.
Tre'
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"Still Working the Problem"
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You know's you like the color of money.
I keep a trashed ruby red Japanese LP on my Ringmat whenever I'm not spinning - otherwise the humidity makes the mat curl up.
Alas, my sister got my digicam but thanks to Google. This is an LP that's just a trip to WATCH on your TT. Even with the sound off.
"The torture never stops"
...that it is a trip to watch; too bad that the bars are not an accurate speed indicator at 33.3rpm. Just imagine them motionless while the music is playing; better yet, the same scenario under a "chemically-induced" haxe during the 70s. Like, oh mnan, wow!
Dave
Later Gator,
Crank up your talking machine, grab a jar of your favorite "kick-back", sit down, relax, and let the good times roll.
the copy I have is aweful sounding. It like the art work is this press on stuff. I can see the edges on the run in groove. Listening to this album I choose the black vinyl every time.
I was getting into early David Bowie in the early 1990s and the only versions of his first 5 RCA albums I could find were the picture discs (which I have since sold). The music itself sounded amazing--clear, dynamic--but on top of the music there was this "whooshing" sound, like heavy wind. With these records, it looked like a circular piece of artwork (on paper of some kind) was sandwiched between two layers of clear vinyl, and I could see the artwork stick out slightly past the outer edge of the record. Too bad, because this ruined some otherwise very good sonics.Modern coloured vinyl doesn't seem to suffer from this problem.
djprobed
Stereolab's vinyl edition of "Dots and Loops" comes on 2 platters, one of which is mostly white marbled with blue, green and brown; the other is mostly blue/green, marbled with some white.Styx's "Pieces of Eight" was available in clear orange, so you can also enjoy those moiré patterns while listening to classic cuts such as "Blue Collar Man" and "Renegade". What could be cooler than that? :)
djprobed
was probably supposed to look psychedelic, but most of the copies I saw looked kinda like puke. Made it real hard to find tracks too.
My two favorite colored vinyl disks are the translucent medium blue of Killing Joke's "Hosannahs from the Basements of Hell" and the clear vinyl from Nirvana's "In Utero" album. If you watch the grooves as the "In Utero" LP spins, the grooves on the two sides of the LP form moire patterns which constantly move and change.Now the most appropo colored vinyl LP was probably Peter Schickele's soundtrack to Silent Running which was on forest green vinyl.
My very first record, I suppose it was a 45, was "Myrtle the Turtle" with opaque green vinyl. I played that record until it was gray, not green! Top notch unit, cardboard frame and all. I wonder if I ever played anything "real" on it?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Sure looks better than black. But if you have a red vinyl Slayer album, that's the ultimate!
The clear-mint green looks smashing against the wood-grain of my Thorens.
What gives? How plain jane. I do have the 200 gram edition though. Stunning sound quality, and Great Tunes!
Cory
Damn...why did my brain do that? I wrote and deleted that I always wanted U2's LP instead of Nirvana! I suppose I should liste to some U2 now.I always wanted that LP for the colored vinyl than the music. U2's quite good, (Nirvana, idiot! If I only had a brain!) but that vinyl looks great!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
mike: i thought you were going to post about wall-mounted album covers or something similar. :)i agree with you on the red vinyl. unfortunately, all the colored vinyl i own sounds worse than the same album in plain-old basic black. not sure if that's a function of (a) less attention being paid to the colored version as it's considered a novelty or (b) inferior vinyl or (c) something else altogether or (d) just the albums i happen to have.
Hi there.I've been very impressed with the quality of the red Pablo LPs. The few I have are extremely quiet & sound fantastic.
BTW - My favorite vinyl color is bright transparent blue. (Like that Dave Mason LP)
I have "audiophile" LPs with yellow and blue vinyl that are quiet as can be. Pure Audiophile LPs, for instance...you couldn't ask for better sounding vinyl.And anyway, old Jazz sounds good with some noise. In fact I think that there are some Jazz LPs that would lose their panache for me if they were dead quiet. I'm willing to take the risk, however, of automagically listening to those old Fantasy LPs with dead quiet backgrounds.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
...but the percentage of warped LPs i have is higher with colored vinyl, too. maybe just bad luck for me.those fantasy LPs can be noisy. i still enjoy 'em -- but i think i'd take quiet vinyl (assuming what it took to get the vinyl to be quiet) over noisy vinyl any day of the week).
Mike Watt's "Ball Hog or Tugboat" in transluscent blue vinyl is pretty neat on the 'table, as is Marilyn Manson's "Omega and the Mechanical Animals" (one disc is solid white, the other blue).And finally, add in The White Stripes "Elephant". Red and white vinyl as well.
PS- Gee, does Rush's "Hemispheres" count (I suppose only if you are a progger...)...
"David! You can KILL a man with a chopstick!" -Keith Charles, Six Feet Under
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