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1: Vinyl Asylum, Irony yes, sarcasm no. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-08-03, 11:56:24 (208.201.160.3)
There was no sarcasm intended in my reply to tketcham, merely wistful envy. For most of my adult life I have been a frequent and far-flung traveler, and I've bought vinyl - and tape! - in some pretty .......
2: Vinyl Asylum, That's the kind of post makes me feel I'm just not making the best use of my time on earth. Wow. .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-08-01, 20:10:57 (208.201.160.3)
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3: Vinyl Asylum, J, I hear ya, and I'm not trying to do the blue meanie here, but... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-31, 16:07:44 (208.201.160.3)
again, if you're going to use pure logic, even OT posts here still fall into the category of "pure" conversation. But the minute you point to a "FOR SALE" sign, you're introducing to the discourse a t .......
4: Vinyl Asylum, :-) Spoken like a true devotee, Teresa! .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-31, 14:58:26 (208.201.160.3)
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5: Vinyl Asylum, Re: How about this... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-31, 14:55:32 (208.201.160.3)
J, once I become familiar with my newspaper, I know where the Letters section is, and go straight to it, so I'm not passing over any advertizing. The same applies when I come here - that's its actual .......
6: Vinyl Asylum, How would you feel if you opened your local newspaper... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-31, 11:55:12 (208.201.160.3)
to read the Letters section and you found it larded with letters from people announcing that they have something for sale in the Classified section? Or if you were reading a World news section article .......
7: Vinyl Asylum, Did you see my reply to your post about John Handy? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-28, 13:06:51 (208.201.160.3)
I didn't realize it was you when I posted just now, so I basically repeated myself in my previous post. .......
8: Vinyl Asylum, Re: ARTHUR BLYTHE "Illusions" on LP... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-28, 13:04:56 (208.201.160.3)
As I said in a post to Jazz-Vinyl a couple of days ago, I can heartily recommend Illusions, Lenox Avenue Breakdown and In The Tradition. In The Tradition in particular, is a really fine LP. IMHO, on t .......
9: Vinyl Asylum, Re: John Handy - Alto Player + Arthur Blythe (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-26, 19:13:35 (208.201.160.3)
I have Carnival and Hard Work. Sound on Carnival may be a tiny shade better, but I prefer the tunes/performances on Hard Work - the title track is a classic. If you're into Arthur Blythe, I can hearti .......
10: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Recommendation for first Blues albums (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-22, 17:07:37 (208.201.160.3)
Good luck in exploring a genre of music that repays interest the deeper you get. Here are a few recordings by some classic blues artists that I think would make a good starter kit. Bessie Smith - The .......
11: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Culling your records? - time and motion study (medium long) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-12, 16:15:28 (208.201.160.3)
This is a fraught issue, jdarby, good as your suggestion is. I'll leave aside the AA protocol side of it and just tell you briefly about my personal situation. I have two main sources of cheap, used v .......
12: Vinyl Asylum, Love the flash of Jimmy Saville in high drag mode at the end, cheers! .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-10, 14:44:47 (208.201.160.3)
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13: Vinyl Asylum, Wot, no sponge??? .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-08, 13:33:44 (208.201.160.3)
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14: Vinyl Asylum, WIth all props to jbarleycorn, Video of the Day - American Rock (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-05, 13:04:29 (208.201.160.3)
Think about it, Don Van Vliet and Dick Cheney were born within 15 days of each other in 1941. By 1972, when this clip was made, Don had consolidated his position as the most righteous freak in the sol .......
15: Vinyl Asylum, Nothing. But I did get out my clarinet and play "America the Beautiful" for my Yankee neighbors :-) .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-04, 21:23:44 (4.237.235.193)
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16: Vinyl Asylum, Oh goodie, an opportunity to speak ill of the dead! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-03, 14:51:40 (208.201.160.3)
Last summer I read three different "biographies" of the Rolling Stones, and the more I learned about them the more forcefully was I driven to the conclusion that, with the exception of Charlie Watts, .......
17: Vinyl Asylum, magic! who let that dang hippie in there!??!! keep 'em coming, j! -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-07-01, 15:52:06 (208.201.160.3)
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18: Vinyl Asylum, The Immortal Charlie Parker on Savoy, last night, for free. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-30, 09:41:53 (208.201.160.3)
I was over at a friend's place last night, three of us were listening to music and while I was looking through the records, which included a lot of great, rare jazz LPs, I came upon The Immortal Charl .......
19: Vinyl Asylum, Thanks, even if my info turns out to be slightly obsolete! ... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-28, 09:34:05 (208.201.160.3)
I'm afraid I can no longer remember the name of that store in Philly. It's been a few years since I was last there. I do know that it was also a book store, a large one in the center of town, and it h .......
20: Vinyl Asylum, I could just puke, but if figures - Manhattan is f$cked... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-28, 09:21:55 (208.201.160.3)
Used to be, I'd go to parties and hear people who lived in Manhattan ask people who lived in Brooklyn why they would want to do that, like they were not quite right in the head. Nowadays, I go to part .......
21: Vinyl Asylum, There are 8 million stories in the Naked City... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-27, 22:43:18 (208.201.160.3)
Frank might be right, however, here are a few suggestions from someone who moved to New York from London 24 years ago and has to this day retained a core of outsider perspective all things Noo Yawk. T .......
22: Vinyl Asylum, Thanks, j. barleycorn, that made my day! .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-27, 17:34:11 (208.201.160.3)
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23: Vinyl Asylum, Oops, forgot how to post pictures here. This should work.. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-22, 14:55:56 (208.201.160.3)
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24: Vinyl Asylum, Nice. Really nice. Reminds me of this, one of my earliest LP purchases: (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-22, 14:48:13 (208.201.160.3)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Skip-bifferty-lp.jpg .......
25: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Dr, Buzzard's Original Savannah Band... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-22, 14:29:18 (208.201.160.3)
Thanks, P. I might just go home and do the same thing. If ever there were a candidate for LP cover of the day here it would be Meets King Pennet. I was hoping to post it here but am disappointed to fi .......
26: Vinyl Asylum, Here's a few - let me know if they keep you awake! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-17, 13:20:21 (208.201.160.3)
JJ Cale - Ridin' Home (from Really LP) Little Feat - On Your Way Down (from Dixie Chicken) Frank Zappa - Twenty Small Cigars (from Chungas' Revenge Horace Silver - Song for My Father (from same) Olive .......
27: Vinyl Asylum, Buckminster-Fuller: The Clock is Stopping -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-07, 13:25:55 (208.201.160.3)
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28: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Yuze guyz is wimps! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-07, 13:06:05 (208.201.160.3)
Mike, "I know a guy," who bought Teach Your Parrot to Sing and Marcel Marceau Speaks on the same day, took them home and played them and wondered what it would be like to teach a parrot to speak like .......
29: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Nice Wagner find (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-06-02, 19:28:13 (208.201.160.3)
TIME-LIFE put out an edition of the Solti cycle, including an extra disc which analyzes the motif structure, that I can heartily recommend to anyone who comes across it. (That said, I must confess to .......
30: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Complete Beethoven pno works - Schnabel, any good? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2006-01-10, 19:08:15 (208.201.160.3)
If the boxes are at the right price, then you could go ahead and get them if only to familiarize yourself with the performances. Schnabel's renditions of the late sonatas in particular have a transcen .......
31: Vinyl Asylum, Nothing. Listening to WKCR's annual 24-hour-a-day Bach festival. /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-12-23, 20:04:12 (208.201.160.3)
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32: Vinyl Asylum, Re: "Mundell Lowe"; yes he is good; I have a Benny Goodman album... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-11-22, 13:18:13 (208.201.160.3)
Hey, Mundell rocks. The cover of Guitar Moods is one of my favorites - got it on a wall in my apartment, and the music is good too. .......
33: Vinyl Asylum, This one goes to eleven. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-11-19, 18:30:24 (208.201.160.3)
Hapshash and the Colored Coat - Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection White Noise - An Electric Storm Family - Music in a Doll's House Jimi Hendrix Ex .......
34: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Axis: Bold as Love (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-11-08, 14:10:43 (208.201.160.3)
Trust me on this, of all of Hendrix's studio LPs, the one on which the difference between the first pressing and subsequent versions is greatest is Axis: Bold as Love. I don't know why that is, exactl .......
35: Vinyl Asylum, Here ya go (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-28, 16:48:29 (208.201.160.3)
http://www.goofspot.com/bamboo/images/cvr_sesamefever.jpg .......
36: Vinyl Asylum, It's pilonidal cyst actually from the latin for hairy nest -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-27, 15:27:55 (208.201.160.3)
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37: Vinyl Asylum, I've had success with this method too. You need a strong, fixed magnifier and very steady hands. .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-22, 22:59:04 (208.201.160.3)
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38: Vinyl Asylum, Yes. Not so loaded with comedy classics as other LPs, but is better as straight ahead music - they could actually play! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-20, 18:39:50 (208.201.160.3)
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39: Vinyl Asylum, Cool photos of some composers with their instruments and, lower down, the covers of two LPs (so it's vinylasylum legit!) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-12, 17:51:30 (208.201.160.3)
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/cpemc.html .......
40: Vinyl Asylum, That's it. Cheers. .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-12, 17:18:58 (208.201.160.3)
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41: Vinyl Asylum, Some really great and beautiful works inspired by morbid events: (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-12, 17:14:18 (208.201.160.3)
Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, "Baba Yar," dedicated to the memory of the thousands killed there by the Nazis during World War II. Olivier Messaien's Quartet for the End of Time, written while Messaien .......
42: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry, that didn't come out well - no disparagement intended to the other Moussorgsky posters in this thread. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-12, 16:59:08 (208.201.160.3)
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43: Vinyl Asylum, Get your Moussorgsky right... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-12, 16:51:18 (208.201.160.3)
If you're going to include Moussorgsky in this exercise, the work you should be listening to is Songs and Dances of Death. It's actually one of his best, indeed one of the best song cycles I know, and .......
44: Vinyl Asylum, Ronnie Barker dies..."These Jamaican ginger cakes are not from Jamaica!".... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-04, 12:01:25 (208.201.160.3)
"So, we sell Mars bars too, don't we?" (Remember not to turn over too quickly or the little crystal pyramid will fall off your forehead.) ;-) .......
45: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Sophomore Slump? HELL NO! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-10-04, 11:54:13 (208.201.160.3)
With the Beatles Cream - Disraeli Gears Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow Steve Miller Band - Sailor Grateful Dead - Anthem of the Sun The Tubes - Young and Rich The New York Dolls - Too Much, .......
46: Vinyl Asylum, As my friend Alan (50,000 LPs and counting) says, we're all just collecting for someone else.../nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-09-24, 21:09:36 (208.201.160.3)
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47: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-09-24, 20:07:58 (208.201.160.3)
I think I lowballed the Doors LP. A mint Mono of that has a Goldmine book value of about $200, I think. Whatever. The important things are how rarely you will come across a copy, what good shape it's .......
48: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Recent Haul aka OH MY GOD! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-09-24, 20:04:26 (208.201.160.3)
The Doors Mono is worth $80. Surrealistic Pillow Mono is $60. (Based on my memory of checking Goldmine for my own copies.) According to my regular dealer, he sees a lot of the Who My Generation LP an .......
49: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Pink Floyd Relics LP - MFP or Starline pressing? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-09-24, 19:54:55 (208.201.160.3)
Well, ideally you should get the original Harvest release, but barring that, the MFP would be next, and the Starline third. Bear in mind also that, as I recall, there's only one track on Relics, Embry .......
50: Vinyl Asylum, Re: How long will vinyl collecting last? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-09-24, 19:45:17 (208.201.160.3)
Vinyl collecting will last as long as data-bearing vinyl, and humans with ears to listen it it, does. The question is how large the community, or market, it you must, will be. People have been swappin .......
51: Vinyl Asylum, Finicky? The Mk. V??? Fie, Sir, surely you jest. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-07-08, 12:32:30 (208.201.160.3)
Aside from the trickiness involved when you first install the driveband, the Mk. V is about as tinker-free a turntable as I can imagine. I have had mine three years now, play it an average of 15 hours .......
52: Vinyl Asylum, Subjective appraisal of someone who has heard many different versions... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-03-19, 17:51:59 (208.201.160.3)
Of all the reissues of Jimi Hendrix LPs over the years, the Hendrix Family-approved series has by far the best (i.e. authentic) acoustic qualities. Of those, Are You Experienced is most worth having b .......
53: Vinyl Asylum, Rundgren/Ballad of; Beach Boys/Sunflower-SurfsUp; Dr. Alimentado/Chicken; Wonder/Talking Book; Lightnin Hopkins/Mojo..nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-03-03, 17:52:10 (208.201.160.3)
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54: Vinyl Asylum, Thank you, Mike! My sentiments exactly. /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-02-21, 11:51:59 (208.201.160.3)
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55: Vinyl Asylum, We're Only In It For the Money - comparing mono demo v. stereo copy I bought this a.m. at flea market (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-02-13, 14:28:28 (208.201.160.3)
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56: Vinyl Asylum, Yeah, but 1959's music came with an option for STEREO! /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-02-09, 11:11:56 (208.201.160.3)
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57: Vinyl Asylum, One of my favorite documentaries is The Man Who Bought Mustique. (david has been there on his hollies) -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:34:29 (208.201.160.3)
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58: Vinyl Asylum, Did you know that the English word for white trash is chav? Amazing what you learn from reading the Financial Times -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:28:45 (208.201.160.3)
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59: Vinyl Asylum, Did you know that Donald Fagen has a lisp? Amazing what you learn from reading AudioAsylum -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:25:59 (208.201.160.3)
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60: Vinyl Asylum, I hope the Japanese had the sense to print the word Horses in white on the cover. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:21:19 (208.201.160.3)
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61: Vinyl Asylum, Tortola? Give my regards to Mister Fish in Road Town -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:07:59 (208.201.160.3)
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62: Vinyl Asylum, Japanese press? No comment. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:03:15 (208.201.160.3)
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63: Vinyl Asylum, Thank heaven he had slowed down by the time he recorded this. Not a badly recorded LP either. :-) -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 18:01:11 (208.201.160.3)
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64: Vinyl Asylum, I always used to think Joni Mitchell's finest moment was singing "in the sun" on Laughing, but since I got my step-up... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 17:58:26 (208.201.160.3)
I'm starting to think it was actually Emmylou Harris! .......
65: Vinyl Asylum, I've been playing "Mirror Moves" this week. Great recording. (yes, I'm doing this on purpose) -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 17:54:27 (208.201.160.3)
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66: Vinyl Asylum, I've been playing "My Tribute to the Best Damned Fiddle Player in the World" this week. Great recording. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 17:49:05 (208.201.160.3)
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67: Vinyl Asylum, One of the best-sounding LPs I've ever encountered -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2005-01-18, 17:45:17 (208.201.160.3)
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68: Vinyl Asylum, The Skiffle Sessions. And Irish Heartbeat, with the Chieftains... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-12-14, 11:34:16 (208.201.160.3)
and watch out, because contrary to what some people on this thread have said, he turned out some real shite in the late 70s and 80s. .......
69: Vinyl Asylum, Ultra-anorak question about Electric Ladyland covers (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-12-14, 11:27:13 (208.201.160.3)
I have four copies of the American release of Electric Ladyland. Three are first pressings and the fourth a 1980s re-issue. Now on two of the first pressings, inside the gatefold, in the lower right c .......
70: Vinyl Asylum, Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats; Slim Gaillard; The Paris Six; Cassandra Wilson /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-12-03, 15:43:22 (208.201.160.3)
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71: Vinyl Asylum, Check out Bill Kirchen's Too Much Fun releases (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-11-23, 13:46:44 (208.201.160.3)
My best friend in New York is from Ann Arbor and remains friends with Bill (Hot Rod Lincoln) Kirchen who, as luck would have it, has worked often with an old English friend of mine who now lives in Te .......
72: Vinyl Asylum, In his own words, My country is the world, my religion is the good. /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-09-06, 14:20:17 (208.201.160.3)
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73: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Since Audio Asylum has gone political..... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-09-06, 14:18:51 (208.201.160.3)
Well that makes two of us. You've been here a year longer than I. .......
74: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Tom Pain---as in THE Thomas Paine ? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-09-04, 13:04:01 (208.201.160.3)
Ahem... Born in England, which disowned him and issued a warrant for his arrest owing to his efforts on behalf of independence for the colonies. Granted citizenship by France but then thrown into jail .......
75: Vinyl Asylum, A copy of Fleetwood Mac'sThen Play On with label for Joni Mitchell's Clouds on one side -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-11, 18:11:10 (208.201.160.3)
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76: Vinyl Asylum, Them's fightin' words! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-11, 15:15:17 (208.201.160.3)
All right, since you put it that way, I have not option but to don my Mutant Ninja Vinyl Hound cape and publish yesterday's finds at my local thrift store, at the extortionate rate of $2 per disk: Bil .......
77: Vinyl Asylum, Thanks, reading that was a treat. You've helped convince make a Rhea my next upgrade. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-09, 13:26:41 (208.201.160.3)
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78: Vinyl Asylum, This is why I love Internet fora -- when you wind up at posts about Turkish keyboards - thanks! nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-03, 12:30:37 (208.201.160.3)
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79: Vinyl Asylum, 1969 French first pressing is the best I've heard. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-03, 12:18:16 (208.201.160.3)
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80: Vinyl Asylum, Yes... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-03, 12:12:05 (208.201.160.3)
I have a Delphi Mk V with an RB600 and it works great - in fact the combination was suggested to me by one of Oracle's owners. The only hitch is you'll need to pick up a couple of 0-ring washers that .......
81: Vinyl Asylum, That's the first time a purchase list post has actually made my jaw drop. Enjoy! /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-07-03, 11:55:21 (208.201.160.3)
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82: Vinyl Asylum, That's only because I'm kinda slow and haven't come with a good enough epithet yet, poopyhead! :-) /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-30, 13:37:35 (208.201.160.3)
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83: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Have you ever heard Leonard Bernstein's (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-30, 13:24:15 (208.201.160.3)
I'm familiar with Bernstein's classical music programs but I don't think I've ever seen that one on jazz. I have too many fine jazz albums recorded after 1970 to be happy saying that the genre ended t .......
84: Vinyl Asylum, Oh, I forgot to say, about Bitches Brew...(sorry, feeling awfully yappy this afternoon!) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-30, 11:37:40 (208.201.160.3)
Kava, do you know the British poet Philip Larkin? I guess he's most famous over here for the line "They f**k you up, your parents," but he was also a jazz critic, rather a conservative one, in line wi .......
85: Vinyl Asylum, Vizualize whirled peas... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-30, 11:22:41 (208.201.160.3)
There's an album called simply Jimi Hendrix - Blues that I've only heard on CD but is out on vinyl too. It's a compilation of stuff from the Experience years that includes an acoustic rendition of Hea .......
86: Vinyl Asylum, The difference between Axis: Bold As Love and Electric Ladyland is a good case in point... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-30, 10:28:45 (208.201.160.3)
Just a few days ago, a colleague at work was playing the family-approved remix of Axis on CD and we got to talking about the solo at the end of the final track, Bold As Love, how it really sounds as i .......
87: Vinyl Asylum, BTW, last week I bought the Arcama re-issue of Mojo Hand and it is fabulous... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-29, 16:42:18 (208.201.160.3)
nifty bonus tracks too. Other vinyl purchases that day, to boast my genre-busting activities: The Fall: The Rough Trade Anthology Lucinda Williams: Whatever Her Current LP is Called Luciano Berio: Lab .......
88: Vinyl Asylum, And isn't that just the point...? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-29, 16:30:06 (208.201.160.3)
that there's a lot of intercourse, if you'll excuse the expression, between the two genres. "Jazz," "Blues" and "Rock" are, after all, just terms for popular music at different stages of development. .......
89: Vinyl Asylum, F**k Me Forever by Connie Lingus - a 7-inch classic, so to speak -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-21, 12:41:53 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
90: Vinyl Asylum, Buddy, go to Rocks In Your Head on Prince Street west of West Broadway... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-21, 12:30:12 (208.201.160.3)
They have a selection of used turntables all under $100. Or you could call them up and ask what they have in stock. The guys there are very friendly. ...Just thought I'd suggest a local outlet in New .......
91: Music Lane, Odd, that's not what they told me, but Touche! nonetheless. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-21, 12:16:15 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
92: Music Lane, Ornette & Abby at Carnegie is NOT sold out, as of Sunday 1:30 PM (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-20, 11:43:18 (208.201.160.3)
I just checked at the box office on my way to work and they have several dozen tickets still available. Unfortunately, it looks like I won't be finished in time to make it. Too bad. BTW, do you know i .......
93: Vinyl Asylum, Ah the tyranny of historians... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-17, 14:41:53 (208.201.160.3)
I used to go see people like Horslips and Steeleye Span in concert in the UK during the early 1970s, and I can tell you that back then the term progressive rock was applied much more broadly than it i .......
94: Vinyl Asylum, Call Anthem. Their people are very helpful. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-15, 09:37:16 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
95: Vinyl Asylum, Here's one five-step program you could try... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-14, 17:52:08 (208.201.160.3)
John Handy - Hard Work Gene Ammons - Boss Tenor Horace Silver - Song for My Father Louis Armstrong - Satch Plays Fats The Lester Young Story Volume 1 - Lady Sings the Blues (with Billy Holliday) I cho .......
96: Vinyl Asylum, It's the quasi-accidental aspects of the Hound Dog solo that I think makes it so great... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-07, 13:58:45 (208.201.160.3)
And yeah, Cliff Gallup was a great picker too, actually more revered in my old home of England than over here, I think. Another guy I thought of in response to this question is Bill Kirchen, who was .......
97: Vinyl Asylum, No contest: Scotty Moore on Elvis Presley's Hound Dog. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-06, 15:51:30 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
98: Vinyl Asylum, Nossuh. Whassat, Choo-Choo? Do I need a 'scription for my eyes? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-03, 13:37:23 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
99: Vinyl Asylum, Hey, kava, that Cannonball Adderley LP is one of my favorites! -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-06-02, 11:07:01 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
100: Vinyl Asylum, Charles Lloyd - Discovery; George Russell - The Africa Game; Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen; Brecht... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-30, 23:42:08 (67.192.240.208)
Weill - The Seven Deadly Sins; Charlie Parker - Massey Hall Concert Vol. One; Eddie Harris/Les McCann - Second Movement... Chilean sea bass in a ginger and plum marinade; a nice Spanish red; Scharffen .......
101: Vinyl Asylum, Great! I've always wanted a turntable with a moat filled with water and tiny goldfish. /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-24, 11:30:10 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
102: Vinyl Asylum, Not in my experience. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-21, 11:12:02 (208.201.160.3)
Hi Alan. Like you, I decided that my budget wouldn't stretch to a turbo, but I went ahead and got a Mk V anyway and I have to tell you that I was immediately impressed, really and truly impressed by i .......
103: Vinyl Asylum, Yes (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-19, 08:55:43 (208.201.160.3)
In the late 1950s, RCA released three LPs of Waller material under the titles Ain't Misbehaving, A Handful of Keys and One Never Knows, Do One? The selections on each are excellent, even some of the " .......
104: Vinyl Asylum, Sounds good to me... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 14:19:51 (208.201.160.3)
The main advantage I see to your method is that you avoid contact with the vinyl, and therefore friction, altogether. Vacuum cleaners require the close passage of an upholstered orifice (excuse my Fre .......
105: Music Lane, Please ignore my last sentence: I'm a very stupid individual. /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 13:53:57 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
106: Music Lane, It's true, I didn't take my medication today. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 13:50:28 (208.201.160.3)
I'm not entirely sure of the protocol, but I believe the normal thing to do after making an ass of oneself in public is to apologize for wasting the time of those who were not otherwise entertained by .......
107: Music Lane, Is it just me, or has this Forum gone "soft"? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 13:44:40 (208.201.160.3)
I just noticed that of the 375 posts on this page as I write, a total of two could, perhaps, be construed as having hardware as their topic. The rest are mainly about music, for which I believe there .......
108: Music Lane, Last week at my local fleamarket I saw a guy pay $20 per for boxes signed by the performers /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 13:29:57 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
109: Music Lane, Ah, white vinyl - one reason I love Stereolab's Dots and Loops... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 13:25:41 (208.201.160.3)
One of the two LPs that make up Dots and Loops is white, the other a blend of blue and green. The white, with its op-art partern on the label, is mesmerizing to behold on my Oracle. And then the music .......
110: Music Lane, Suggestions and advice (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-17, 13:17:00 (208.201.160.3)
You might try Steve Reich's Tehillim, Stockhausen's Stimmung (both chiefly vocal pieces) or Le Livre des Oiseau (for solo piano) by Olivier Messaien. Or check out Xenakis, Penderezcski and Berio, all .......
111: Vinyl Asylum, Why I love the WFMU Record Fair - longish (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-05-03, 13:14:46 (208.201.160.3)
Every time I go to the WFMU fair I have cool and interesting experiences. This time around, I was looking for just a few items in particular, one of which was Ivor Cutler's Life In A Scotch Sitting Ro .......
112: Music Lane, Most structurally rational - the Italiano, most emotionally fulfilling - the Vegh /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-27, 14:41:16 (208.201.160.3)
nt .......
113: Vinyl Asylum, I have recently acquired copies of Is This What You Want and Home Is In My Head... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-26, 11:55:50 (208.201.160.3)
that you can have for a nominal amount if you're interested. Otherwise, they'll be going towards my account with my favorite record store. I live near Lincoln Center and work in midtown, so it would o .......
114: Vinyl Asylum, A white vinyl LP sitting on a brushed aluminum Oracle Delphi V -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-25, 22:54:57 (67.192.240.48)
nt .......
115: Vinyl Asylum, I'm old, tired and in the way... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-14, 09:36:25 (208.201.160.3)
Sorry Greg, I was a little careless in my reading of your post yesterday. I neglected to register that the title of your box was "9 symphonien" - plural - not "9 symphonie" - single. I assumed, in oth .......
116: Vinyl Asylum, Is the box covered in maroon cloth? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-13, 14:24:03 (208.201.160.3)
If so, it's likely an original or early pressing. I think, but don't take my word on this, that if it bears the Grand Prix du Disque sticker, it's a later pressing. I don't have my copy in front of me .......
117: Vinyl Asylum, Re: What is your most treasured and or most rare LP? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-06, 15:05:57 (208.201.160.2)
The first LP I ever bought was Frank Zappa's Hot Rats, and on account of Willie the Pimp I went out the very next day and bought Captain Beefheart's Safe As Milk. This was when I was 14. Somewhere alo .......
118: Vinyl Asylum, Long ago, in another forum far beyond the Horsehead nebula... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-04, 21:09:15 (208.201.160.2)
I used to post as several different personae, one of whom was Win E. Bago, a Venezualan short-order chef trapped, through no fault of his own, in Reykjavik. Once I'd run out of smoked herring jokes, I .......
119: Vinyl Asylum, Generally, you want to buy vinyl from the country of origin of the recording. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-04, 13:18:30 (208.201.160.2)
Thus, if it's the Beatles, the Clash or the Academy of St. Martin's in Fields, you want to get a UK pressing. If it's Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis or the Philadelphia Orchestra, you want the US pressings .......
120: Vinyl Asylum, Stitt Meets Brother Jack, Pink Floyd's More soundtrack, Hapshash & The Colored Coat, Burning Spear, Velvet Underground (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2004-04-03, 12:38:48 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
121: Vinyl Asylum, Try contacting the Society of Indian Record Collectors (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-12-15, 15:10:03 (208.201.160.2)
It's based in Mumbai, has about 100 members and you can contact by email at sschand@tifrvax.tifr.res.ini. They should be able to put you onto retail sources for vinyl. Otherwise, I'd hit the yellow pa .......
122: Vinyl Asylum, Re: When Good Rockers Go Bad #27--Rod Stewart (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-11-29, 19:35:03 (208.201.160.2)
Middle age has no monopoly on bad taste or schlock. How old was David Bowie when he recorded "The Little Drummer Boy" with Bing Crosby? Or Paul McCartney when he wrote "When I'm Sixty Four"? How many .......
123: Vinyl Asylum, Human Version of Xmas Classic Said to Rival Dogs'! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-11-29, 19:18:19 (208.201.160.2)
Look out also for the The Hysterics' recording of Jingle Bells, rendered entirely by laughter. Rather amusing. In fact, The Hysterics' entire first (and only?) LP is worth picking up if you ever see i .......
124: Vinyl Asylum, UK mailers are generally less sturdy than in the USA because the Post Office is usually less abusive than US Mail -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-10-16, 16:17:10 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
125: Vinyl Asylum, Ah, John Peel...a slightly long and rhapsodic reminiscence. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-10-15, 13:58:28 (208.201.160.2)
There are all too many occasions lately when I find myself lamenting the fact that I happen to be stuck on this planet at the same time as this or that individual disgrace to the species. What a joyfu .......
126: Vinyl Asylum, A DIY tweak and a comment on the HeavyWeight (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-21, 12:31:07 (208.201.160.2)
I have an RB600 on an Oracle V with a Lyra Lydian B. About six months ago, after reading about this tweak here, I got hold of some lead pellets which I shaped into rectangular strips (small hammer nee .......
127: Music Lane, My current faves are Plays Duke Ellington and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonius Monk -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-19, 13:15:34 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
128: Vinyl Asylum, The legendary Delia Derbyshire was the person who "composed" the Dr. Who theme. Perhaps... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-12, 15:00:30 (208.201.160.2)
the bloke you spoke with was a techie or otherwise helped out on the project. A Google search like this: +"White Noise" +"Electric Storm", or just "Delia Derbyshire" should pull up more than you would .......
129: Vinyl Asylum, Looks like I was the only one who thought this bloke was pulling our chains. hmmmm.... -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-12, 08:26:05 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
130: Vinyl Asylum, Do a Google search. There is a LOT of info related to White Noise out there. .nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-12, 08:19:45 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
131: Vinyl Asylum, The reason I use a toothbrush rather than a paintbrush... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-11, 10:18:37 (208.201.160.2)
is because the best modern toothbrushes are made of synthetic microfibers with polished tips intended to gently scrub delicate but complex surfaces inside the mouth. The bristles of toothbrushes made .......
132: Vinyl Asylum, If you like the blues, check out the greens and reds too. Vinyl comes in all colors. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-11, 09:55:16 (208.201.160.2)
Actually, my favorite blues band is Blue Man Group. Those dudes are seriously blue. Like intense, you know? I think they made a CD, but I'm not sure. Anyway, check them out. They've got to be better t .......
133: Vinyl Asylum, Henry Miller Recalls and Reflects; Brown and Roach, Inc.; Reiner/CSO's Ein Heldenleben... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-08, 09:16:48 (208.201.160.2)
Cootie Williams in Hi-Fi (Columbia) Rubinstein Plays Chopin - the Waltzes (RCA) Mez Mezzrow's Mezzing Around (RCA) Eight Newly Discovered Piano Rolls by Fats Waller (10-inch Riverside) Patti Smith's H .......
134: Vinyl Asylum, Do a search here - there's a ton of posts about DIY cleaning machines, photos too... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-05, 09:55:53 (208.201.160.2)
Some of the efforts I've seen here are really impressive. People have put together very nice machines out of such things as cannibalized TTs and vacuum cleaners they got for next to nothing at thrift .......
135: Vinyl Asylum, Oh, BTW, I was present at the dumpster incident. :-) nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-05, 09:35:52 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
136: Vinyl Asylum, Yes, it's the 72nd St. Gryphon I was talking about. The Broadway Gryphon... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-05, 09:33:00 (208.201.160.2)
still has a fair amount of decent jazz and pop LPs inside, but less than previously. Like all such businesses, it's suffered lately. Do you remember when Gryphon had that huge annex across Broadway an .......
137: Vinyl Asylum, Things have changed on 72nd Street... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-04, 11:55:00 (208.201.160.2)
Anyone remember R&A Records, up a flight between Broadway and Columbus? That was one high, high-end vinyl operation. Used to be, you could spend the morning in there hobnobbing with rich classical and .......
138: Vinyl Asylum, Two words, pal: Chuck Berry (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-08-01, 11:38:06 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
139: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Bob Marley Exodus Pressing (Help) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-31, 16:53:40 (208.201.160.2)
Actually, original pressings of Exodus are not expensive. You should certainly be able to find one on ebay, especially the UK ebay, for less than the cost of a reissue, indeed perhaps even for about t .......
140: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Steve, did you get to compare an Ayre K-1 or K-3 with the Hovland? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-30, 13:35:54 (208.201.160.2)
I've been researching full-function pre-amps for a while and, like you, while I've loved the Nagra PLP when I've heard it, it's just a tad too rich for me. So I seem to be down to a choice between an .......
141: Vinyl Asylum, Scratch that! Did a search and it turns out I really do know doodly! :-) nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-28, 13:54:07 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
142: Vinyl Asylum, I had the same thought, Mike, but then I remembered the label he pictures... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-28, 13:30:11 (208.201.160.2)
I don't think I've ever seen a Verve label with that horizontal Stereophonic banner before. I have what I've always assumed to be original pressings of both the G&I Gershwin box-set (the one with the .......
143: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Pass Labs XOno...curious... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-25, 12:36:11 (208.201.160.2)
Hi John, I recall a while back you asked Garth about the Klyne 7PX3.5 and I was wondering if you had a chance to hear that or not. I'm also curious if there was any particular reason that led you to c .......
144: Music Lane, Unlike Chicken Logic, I find Jacobs is just my speed... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-24, 14:37:06 (208.201.160.2)
I qualities you describe are the ones that I like about Jacobs' Preludes too, Elliot. I also have Jacobs' other Debussy LPs, the Etudes and the Etampes collection. Like them very much. And another fav .......
145: Vinyl Asylum, I used to keep a (r)evolving Top Ten List of particularly well-produced pop LPs: (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-22, 14:51:35 (208.201.160.2)
Here's a few I can remember: Marving Gaye: Let's Get It On The Wailers: Catch A Fire Johnny Guitar Watson: A Real Mother Spirit: Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus Thomas Dolby: The Flat Earth XTC: Skyla .......
146: Vinyl Asylum, Twang! Some of the best-sounding LPs in my collection are country. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-20, 14:02:21 (208.201.160.2)
Lucinda Williams first LP, Dwight Yoakum's first three and K.D. Lang's second come immediately to mind. When I was a kid I had a couple of older cousins who were heavily into C&W, big collection, all .......
147: Vinyl Asylum, Add Celia Cruz...nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-18, 15:25:42 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
148: Music Lane, Similar experience here. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-18, 08:55:22 (208.201.160.2)
In school in the UK, I took what they called an "O" level course in Music Appreciation, in which the poor teacher labored mightily to get me and a bunch of other teenage delinquents to "appreciate" su .......
149: Vinyl Asylum, Beauty! Here's an Italian manufacturer currently making similarly aesthetic gear: (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-17, 15:00:27 (208.201.160.2)
http://www.synthesis.co.it/naif.htm They used to make this particular line in a great orange tone. Not so sure what I think of the color on display here, but you get the idea in terms of the beauty of .......
150: Music Lane, ALL industry is to blame. And schools that knuckle to their disdain for the arts. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-16, 10:21:54 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
151: Music Lane, It's actually enjoyed something of a vogue over the last ten years. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-16, 10:16:48 (208.201.160.2)
As others have pointed out, it never really went away in the first place. Benny Goodman was performing into the 1960s. Buddy DeFranco, who's still performing at around 80 years of age, has bestrode th .......
152: Vinyl Asylum, True. Then again, as a friend of mine says, things never were what they used to be. ;-) nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-15, 10:28:18 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
153: Music Lane, Size doesn't count! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 14:11:37 (208.201.160.2)
Sorry, but I don't see how the 78 rpm disc relates to the decay of attention spans for longer pieces of music. Composers of art music from Bach and Couperin through Debussy and Satie were writing many .......
154: Music Lane, The hegemony of dumb-dumber coarseness IS depressing, and interesting... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 13:33:50 (208.201.160.2)
As you no doubt are aware, that apogee of English-speaking culture, William Shakespeare pandered as much to the tastes of the belching, homophobic Billingsgate soak as he did to those of the sturdy, s .......
155: Music Lane, Oh and by the way, Bob Dylan most assuredly did succeed as a write of love songs. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 11:38:34 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
156: Music Lane, Yes, but the high/low traffic has always been an integral ingredient in any art form. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 11:32:53 (208.201.160.2)
Think of medieval German university songs -- composed by the superior young intellects of their time but usually in an addle-headed state in the local bier kellar. And today, five hundred years later, .......
157: Music Lane, Leon Thomas. Slim Gaillard. Fats Waller. Those three. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 10:31:33 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
158: Vinyl Asylum, Me too! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 10:21:50 (208.201.160.2)
Kabalevsky is a favorite of mine. I think the one I like better is on RCA. It's the one with the clown bowing against a blue background. (I'm afraid I'm not near my collection so can't give more detai .......
159: Vinyl Asylum, And Rocks In Your Head now sells used TTs -- Duals, a go-gol!!!!!!!!!!!!! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 10:11:30 (208.201.160.2)
I was in Rocks In Your Head yesterday, first time for a couple of months. It's on Prince Street just off West Broadway; it opened in 1978, was the first music store I visited after moving to New York .......
160: Vinyl Asylum, Slugs and snails and puppy dog tails? -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-14, 09:45:02 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
161: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Cats and vinyl (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-11, 09:45:25 (208.201.160.2)
You've really set yourself a problem there, A. As you no doubt know, until they reach age two or so, kittens just naturally want to leap as high and far as they can go and generally just dash around i .......
162: Music Lane, Or strike at the head and bash Columbia for dropping Arthur Blythe in favor of Wynton... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-10, 15:53:24 (208.201.160.2)
because their sales figures "told them" that Blythe was too out for the "consumers" they wanted to reach. Hey, at the time, Wynton was the perfect "don't scare the horses" play for the industry. So pe .......
163: Music Lane, That's strange, I must have typed my e-mail addy in the Moniker field. -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-10, 12:08:17 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
164: Vinyl Asylum, Great selection, there. Mickey and the Soul Generation, Yo! -nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-09, 11:39:44 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
165: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Looking for R&B/funk reccomendations (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-09, 11:36:28 (208.201.160.2)
Between Clinton, Watson and Gaye, you've already covered a lot of choice funk turf there. But here's a few suggestions others might not have mentioned: Roy Ayers. Some of the corniest lyrics ever comm .......
166: Vinyl Asylum, I recently bought a 1241 that needs a single-record spindle. Does yours have one? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-09, 11:17:52 (208.201.160.2)
I'm talking about the stubby spindle that slips over the automatic spindle boss under the platter mat. I'd be thrilled if you have one you can let me have. I'll pay for postage, naturally. Cheers, Wi .......
167: Music Lane, Agreed. Certain things Herbie did very well indeed. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-09, 09:51:45 (208.201.160.2)
I have most of that HVK Beethoven cycle on DG blue tulips too, and I'd say the 8th in particular is the best version I know, period. Do you have the nice maroon cloth box with 8 & 9 in it? It's a beau .......
168: Vinyl Asylum, You say KOOzma and I say KUHzma, You say GRAYdo and I say GRAHdo... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-08, 11:50:49 (208.201.160.2)
Koozma, Kuhzma, Graydo, Grahdo Let's call the whole thing off! .......
169: Vinyl Asylum, John Wood and Joe Boyd, the Good Cop, Bad Cop of English folk... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-08, 09:31:53 (208.201.160.2)
John Wood was the house engineer at Joe Boyd's Sound Technique studio in Chelsea, and I've always suspected that a lot of the credit for the great sound on those John Martyn, Fairport Convention and N .......
170: Vinyl Asylum, Nice vicarious thrill post, thanks. Who Juki? nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-07, 14:27:19 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
171: Vinyl Asylum, That store was on East 8th Street. It closed last year... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-07, 09:28:15 (208.201.160.2)
There's a place in Brooklyn and one in the Bronx that I've been told are worth visits, but I don't have the names and addresses with me right now. English labels: pretty much anything on Island or Vir .......
172: Vinyl Asylum, Nice story, Malcolm. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-07, 08:48:34 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
173: Vinyl Asylum, First E-bay buy GOOD, second E-bay buy BAD. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-07, 08:45:35 (208.201.160.2)
First Ebay buy, $4 for a Buddy DeFranco that was in even better condition than advertized, absolutely mint. Seller kindly gave me positive feedback even though I, new to Ebay, neglected to do likewise .......
174: Vinyl Asylum, $15 for a Dual w/Shure cart at my local thrift - I give beat-up looking vinyl a spin on this... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-07, 08:35:52 (208.201.160.2)
in order to decide whether it's worth cleaning properly so I can play it on my Oracle V. .......
175: Music Lane, Funny, I just found an original RCA LP recording by Kapell this weekend.. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-07, 08:14:00 (208.201.160.2)
Khatchaturian's Piano Concerto. I've only listened to the first side so far, but I like what I hear. What's your opinion about this piece? I already have the original RCA LP recording of Beethoven's 2 .......
176: Music Lane, The great Humphrey Lyttleton (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-03, 08:34:55 (208.201.160.2)
Humph is a self-taught English trumpet player whose big band of the 1950s was a dynamite unit, which, if memory serves me, used to provide regular backing for the likes of Duke Ellington on their UK t .......
177: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry my link doesn't seem to be work. Anyway, it was a Davy Graham LP, sold for $279. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-03, 08:19:28 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
178: Vinyl Asylum, Not nuts. Just really annoying. Last week I made the mistake of thinking I would buy this item: (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-03, 08:15:29 (208.201.160.2)
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ViewItem&item=2540548313&category=1075 I gave up at $50. That's my personal limit for any vinyl item. .......
179: Vinyl Asylum, I'd second that. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-02, 09:20:37 (208.201.160.2)
In classical vinyl, I look for really high-quality performances, doesn't have to be by "name" performers. In fact, I'd be more interested in recordings that go a little "against the grain" of prevaili .......
180: Vinyl Asylum, Well, it's magnificent. Very clear recording, and a wonderful piece of music. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-02, 08:45:41 (208.201.160.2)
That staccato a-ha-a-ha choral tic so familiar from the Carmina Burana works strangely well for the first of Catullus' poems, a real erotic panter of a lyric to his beloved Lesbia. Tremendous how much .......
181: Vinyl Asylum, I'm planning an experiment... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-02, 08:38:44 (208.201.160.2)
Now that the hot weather's here in NYC, I'm going to leave a steel plate and vinyl sandwich out in my yard one sunny day and see what happens. I'll let you know how it works out. .......
182: Vinyl Asylum, The best of both worlds is just how I look at it too. Just the facts, as Tom Verlaine would say. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-02, 08:34:10 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
183: Vinyl Asylum, I'm also curious if quarter-inch thick steel plates would be OK instead of glass. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-02, 08:23:10 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
184: Vinyl Asylum, I'm 48, and I remember the Great Punk Age Ceiling of 1976... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-07-01, 08:47:08 (208.201.160.2)
Rubbish, I and my mates said. I was old enough to consider myself a hippie in 1969, and nobody was going to tell me I was too old to be a punk in 1976. This was in England. I was just finishing up uni .......
185: Vinyl Asylum, Just realized that I wouldn't exactly include Tubular Bells in a "best rock" category. Oops. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 14:35:00 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
186: Vinyl Asylum, Both Blodwyn Pig and XTC had single hits from those LPs in the UK... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 14:33:19 (208.201.160.2)
and I believe that Jethro Tull had a Beatlesesque policy at in the late 1960s of releasing different material on their singles and LPs, so it would have been difficult for "This Was" to produce a radi .......
187: Vinyl Asylum, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, naturally... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 14:29:21 (208.201.160.2)
Can there be a less radio-friendly "rock" LP than one that consists two side-long instrumental compositions around 20 minutes long? And the irony was, of course, that the LP became so enormously popul .......
188: Music Lane, Its amazing how small an audience there is for 20th C composers, especially post-WWII.. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 14:19:06 (208.201.160.2)
And you're absolutely right about Berio. One of my very favorite artists, and a wrongly neglected cultural giant. .......
189: Vinyl Asylum, Just a couple of weeks ago, I did a Mozart 40 shootout... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 10:42:45 (208.201.160.2)
I did this just after having found sealed copies of recordings by Marriner/Academy of St. Martins and Tate/English Chamber Orchestra. Other versions listened to included Von Karajan, Davis and Szell. .......
190: Vinyl Asylum, Funny, I just picked up a copy of Orff's Carmina Catulli (25 cents) this weekend... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 10:19:38 (208.201.160.2)
Always been a fan of Catullus, so I figured I'd give this a shot. Once I've listened to it, I'll let you know how it stacks up against the Carmina Burana. It's an old Vox LP, so I don't have huge expe .......
191: Music Lane, Oops. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 10:13:41 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
192: Music Lane, Sad, dood. Sad. nt. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 10:12:14 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
193: Music Lane, Berg, Berio and the Beatles (or even Babbitt, Busoni and Blacher) (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-30, 10:02:27 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
194: Vinyl Asylum, I'm obviously spending too much time at work. Thanks for the heads-up, Kal. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-24, 17:16:09 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
195: Vinyl Asylum, A word about Sound by Singer and another Manhattan store suggestion (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-24, 11:55:08 (208.201.160.2)
I first wandered into Sound By Singer one Thursday evening about ten years ago and encountered a hip cat called Alan who, after we had exchanged a few casual pleasantries, asked me if I liked the blue .......
196: Music Lane, George Antheil. Easily. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-20, 16:18:20 (208.201.160.2)
His Autobiography "Bad Boy of Music" is one of the most entertaining reads out there. Aside from his early epater-les-bourgeoisie career among the Dadaists and Modernists in France, there is the abrup .......
197: Music Lane, I heartily recommend any concertos or chamber music by Handel (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-20, 15:57:37 (208.201.160.2)
Handel, more or less a contemporary of Bach, was blessed with a much happier temperament, and it shows in his music -- in fact, I believe he was known as "the happy composer" for many years. At any ra .......
198: Vinyl Asylum, Lonnie Smith/David Fathead Newman: "Boogaloo to Beck" (yes, that Beck; it's all Beck tunes) (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-20, 12:04:20 (208.201.160.2)
ny .......
199: Music Lane, Monro was more of a British Perry Como... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-17, 14:48:01 (208.201.160.2)
He was at his peak in the late 1950s. By the time the original The Italian Job came out in 1969 he was, sadly, something of a joke in the English pop world -- just another superannuated artefact of a .......
200: Music Lane, Hmmm...reminds me of Von Aschenbach's sip from a fountain in Death in Venice.. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-17, 14:40:28 (208.201.160.2)
Do you think Thomas Mann could possibly have known of that rumor about Tchaikovsky? Intriguing. .......
201: Vinyl Asylum, Looks like you gave a bunch of inmates more than enough rope there, Wilko! ;-) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-16, 16:51:12 (208.201.160.2)
To paraphrase the sages: there's accounting for no sense of humor. .......
202: Vinyl Asylum, Just to give an example of what Mike's talking about below... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-16, 13:19:02 (208.201.160.2)
Last week in my local thrift store I picked up a copy of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro by the Vienna Philharmonic, Erich Leinsdorf conducting. It's the fancy box with the brass clasp from RCA Living Ste .......
203: Vinyl Asylum, Re: To all those having far too large LP collections... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-16, 10:52:09 (208.201.160.2)
Like you, Mike, I tend to buy practically anything that qualifies as jazz. Nonetheless, there are in my collection more LPs by Miles Davis than any other artist. In descending order, the next most pre .......
204: Vinyl Asylum, Re: OK Radiohead vinyl fans, here is a question... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-13, 14:42:11 (208.201.160.2)
The Amnesiac 10-inch vinyl LP sounds absolutely superb. Definitely a worthwhile investment for a Radiohead fan. I'm only sorry to say that after about two months of listening to it, I finally decided .......
205: Vinyl Asylum, Great Post. Those thriftstore-find posts can also provide useful info about particular pressings... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-05, 12:58:11 (208.201.160.2)
Last week my local thrift had a 25-cent sale on vinyl that happened to coincide with the donation of what was obviously part of an audiophile's collection, and over the course of three visits I took h .......
206: Vinyl Asylum, My Vols. 1 - 3 of Armstrong Story are on blue labels, but Vol. 4, an earlier pressing, is green (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-03, 17:05:46 (208.201.160.2)
The Green Label appears to be the first pressing, going by the numbering in the runout groove. The four-digit release number on the earlier pressings is larger, and the pressing code (e.g. 1A) appears .......
207: Vinyl Asylum, The significant difference in Rega arms occurs at the RB600 level (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-06-03, 16:39:35 (208.201.160.2)
That's what a dealer told me, at any rate. RB600s and above use gold and other fancy materials inside that the RB250 and RB300 don't. There's just more of the fancy stuff as you get to 900 and 1000. I .......
208: Vinyl Asylum, And a final rinse with Listerine is essential for maximum listening pleasure. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-05-27, 08:25:11 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
209: Vinyl Asylum, Butler. Soft. And Biotene toothpaste, natch... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-05-27, 08:20:25 (208.201.160.2)
Just kidding on that last part. .......
210: Vinyl Asylum, My best results? Seriously? A toothbrush. ... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-05-26, 13:50:46 (208.201.160.2)
A few weeks ago, I picked up a first-press copy of the Clifford Brown/Max Roach at Basin Street LP from a street vendor here in Manhattan. It was fairly scuffed and cobwebbed, but I figured for $2 I'd .......
211: Vinyl Asylum, Sidney Bechet in Concert at Brussels Fair, 1958; and New Orleans Rhythm Kings with Jelly Roll Morton (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-04-07, 10:08:38 (208.201.160.2)
and Jazz Volume 2, The Blues, on Folkways; all original 1950s vinyl that I picked up at my local flea market last week. .......
212: Vinyl Asylum, Dennis Hopper has a lot to answer for... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-04-07, 09:45:15 (208.201.160.2)
One of the great ironies of the 60s is the double-edged influence of Easy Rider. As the Biskind book, and now TV series, "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" makes clear, Hopper's and Fonda's biker movie opene .......
213: Vinyl Asylum, Cooked rice looking like maggots? Me too. Circa June 1971. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-04-07, 09:31:09 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
214: Vinyl Asylum, Do NOT waste your time in Bleecker Bob's (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-03-17, 11:36:47 (208.201.160.2)
Try Rocks In Your Head on Prince just off West Broadway, or just go for a wander on 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th Streets east of Lafayette/Cooper Square. The subject of used pop vinyl in NYC has been visited .......
215: Vinyl Asylum, Etched in my memory... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-03-07, 13:06:11 (208.201.160.2)
It was circa 1979, and Desperate Dan, Geoff the Cosmonaut and I were in the living room, sharing vegetable biryani from a local curry house. Parliament's Motor Booty Sunshine was on the turntable, you .......
216: Vinyl Asylum, Re: the 1000 dollar phono pre upgrade (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-03-07, 12:31:26 (208.201.160.2)
This relates to a conversation I had with my usual dealer here in NYC. My current system includes an Oracle with a Lyra Lydian B running through an Anthem Pre-1P phono stage and an Anthem Pre-1L prea .......
217: Vinyl Asylum, Doesn't your Delphi have a built-in bubble level? Mine does (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-02-25, 16:08:59 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
218: Vinyl Asylum, Sorry, that should have been "Get Up With It" not "Get Down With It" :-) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-02-20, 13:27:36 (208.201.160.2)
n .......
219: Vinyl Asylum, Affirmations and augmentations (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-02-20, 10:24:09 (208.201.160.2)
Hi. As everyone says, the Brubeck album to start with is "Time Out." The best of his work prior to that, in my opinion, is "Jazz Goes to College" from 1952. It's a wonderful live set that repays repea .......
220: Vinyl Asylum, Lazy Man's VTA Tweak Surprises (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-02-18, 15:08:18 (208.201.160.2)
I bought an Oracle Delphi V with a Rega 600B arm and Lyra Lydian B cart a year and a half ago, and for a couple of months I played around with a handful of those 2mm and 5mm VTA rings under the arm be .......
221: Vinyl Asylum, Another precinct heard from... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-02-07, 13:11:47 (208.201.160.2)
I bopped my little boots off to The Who in 66, 67, 68...and Live at Leeds is a dandy LP, but personally I'm appalled that the following five monuments to the practice of communal ecstasy failed to gar .......
222: Vinyl Asylum, My record cleaning regiment? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-01-16, 14:49:27 (208.201.160.2)
Same people I use for the stables, old boy. The King's 3rd Household Mopsqueezers. BTW, I hear they're still looking for the regimental silver some blighter tealeafed out the officers' mess last reuni .......
223: Vinyl Asylum, Last weekend's flea market and thrift store buys: (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-01-09, 11:11:15 (208.201.160.2)
Elvis Presley's eponymous first LP on RCA, first pressing in flawless condition, purchased for $3 (yeah, I'm sorry, I'm using this thread to boast over here) Sandy Bull's Fantasias for Banjo and Guita .......
224: General Asylum, Compression as an aesthetic desideratum (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-01-08, 11:04:24 (208.201.160.2)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I spent quite a bit of time in British recording studios around a number of successful and not-so-successful rock, pop and reggae acts, and one of my best friends is .......
225: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Are these albums worth the money and time to collect them? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2003-01-02, 13:57:22 (208.201.160.2)
Reader's Digest put out a boxed cycle of the Beethoven symphonies that is famous for its sound. I actually have a copy that I picked up in a thrift store some years ago, but I must confess it's langui .......
226: Vinyl Asylum, Step-up transformer vs. a phono stage with higher gain (longish) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-12-31, 09:51:35 (208.201.160.2)
My current TT is an Oracle Delphi V with a Rega 600 arm and a Lyra Lydian cartridge. The problem is that my tubed phono stage, an Anthem P1 that I like very much, only provides 48 dBs of gain, about 1 .......
227: General Asylum, Thanks Andy. After 12 years of visiting and buying most of my equipment from your store... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-12-12, 12:33:47 (208.201.160.2)
I still regularly wander down the wrong street in search of your banner. .......
228: General Asylum, Re: closest 'High-End' shop in Manhattan New York ? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-12-11, 14:03:36 (208.201.160.2)
The most convenient from that location is Lyric Hi-fi at Lexington and 83rd, a pleasant walk across Central Park and past the Met Museum. Next closest, but less simple to get to via public transport, .......
229: Music Lane, BTW, for my money the single most exquisitely uplifting vocal moment of her career... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-12-03, 16:20:50 (208.201.160.2)
consists of three syllables: "in the sun" which she sang as back-up vocalist near the end of David Crosby's "Laughing" which appears at the end of side one of "If I Could Only Remember My Name." ::: T .......
230: Music Lane, Good grief, was there ever a pop singer who sang BETTER than Joni? (No) /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-12-03, 16:16:05 (208.201.160.2)
nt .......
231: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Can't decide between two phono stages to buy (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-11-25, 12:19:00 (208.201.160.2)
FWIW, I heard the Chord relaying the new Avid TT at the HES last spring, and thought it was very fine. .......
232: General Asylum, That's wonderful, but why the need to take a swipe... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-11-18, 12:07:32 (208.201.160.2)
at people with bumper stickers on their cars? In my experience, most people who sport the type of bumper sticker you're indicating have invested considerably more than the cost of the decal to the adv .......
233: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Oracle Delphi MkV/SME V arm (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-11-04, 13:08:30 (208.201.160.2)
Second that emotion. .......
234: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Prince Buster on vinyl, LP title sought... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-10-25, 09:50:45 (208.201.160.2)
I can't think of the LP you're describing, but I can tell you that Prince Buster repackaged, recombined and reissued his catalog so often it's likely you will find most if not all of the tracks you me .......
235: Vinyl Asylum, The word "Capitol" appears nowhere on UK EMIs and Harvests... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-09-22, 18:01:07 (209.246.79.125)
but there's an instant tell for the UK Meddle, that shouldn't even require removing the LP from the sleeve: the UK cover has a dimply texture. .......
236: Vinyl Asylum, $53!!! I paid $1 for my copy of that Murtaugh LP in my local thrift store... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-09-11, 00:23:08 (64.152.175.6)
But you make the right point about nutty bidding wars on Ebay. A couple weeks ago I found myself in the midst of one of those involving a collection of mint British copies of John Martyn's first six L .......
237: Music Lane, Would you react like that to George Bernard Shaw? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-08-21, 00:22:07 (209.246.82.23)
In 1915, Shaw wrote that whenever he heard Wagner's Tannhauser overture played on the wireless he would hasten to switch it off, but that he always enjoyed Rossini's William Tell overture, however hac .......
238: Vinyl Asylum, Bring on the Buckinghams! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-08-02, 18:16:46 (64.154.76.218)
Makes me smile to see people identifying compression as a problem on a 60s or 70s RnR record. In all the time I spent in and around studios, compression, the effect of compression on the overall sound .......
239: General Asylum, This post belongs on Whiner's Woad! :-) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-08-02, 18:10:33 (64.154.76.218)
nt .......
240: Vinyl Asylum, Surely YOU jest... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-27, 15:37:58 (64.154.72.1)
Here's an issue of a leading industry rag in which the managing editor, John Atkinson, is quoted as saying, in response to a comment about SACD, that "consumers already have a high-resolution format-- .......
241: Vinyl Asylum, Aren't the Hunt and the Decca just different names for the same brush? /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-27, 15:27:03 (64.154.72.1)
nt .......
242: General Asylum, Re: Non-rhetorical question! Off to Whiner's Woad with thee! /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-24, 00:27:21 (209.246.97.75)
nt .......
243: Vinyl Asylum, Hi, Chris. Haven't lived there...yet, but spent a long stay, my second, earlier this year. /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-23, 21:19:57 (64.152.160.179)
nt .......
244: Vinyl Asylum, Forgot to say that the Porta Portese stalls are precisely where you'll find great 70s ProgRock /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-23, 10:41:27 (209.246.92.46)
nt .......
245: Vinyl Asylum, Try the Porta Portese flea market on Sunday morning... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-23, 10:36:41 (209.246.92.46)
There are a few excellent dealers in used vinyl clustered near the Viale Trastevere end of the market, not cheap but great vintage stuff. Take the No. 7--I think that's the number--from Largo Argenti .......
246: General Asylum, Or you could try Christopher Hitchens' The Trial of Henry Kissinger--short! /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-22, 10:17:19 (209.246.87.194)
n .......
247: General Asylum, Re: That was fast! :-0 (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-22, 09:25:26 (209.246.87.194)
nt .......
248: General Asylum, The in-progress pile next to my bed includes... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-22, 09:23:26 (209.246.87.194)
Anthony Summer's The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. Joseph Heller's Good As Gold, about a scholar who gets a job in the Nixon White House. (Both of the above were prompted by r .......
249: General Asylum, Have you read Edward Said's attack on Bernard Lewis in this month's Harper? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-22, 09:14:06 (209.246.87.194)
I haven't yet, but spotted the headline on the front cover and thought you might be interested. I've read quite a bit of Lewis's writings over the years, and am no fan of Said, but I always enjoy when .......
250: Vinyl Asylum, If Liberace had ever recorded Debussy's Petite Suite by playing both parts... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-19, 22:56:57 (209.246.105.225)
they could have called it "Liberace Plays With Himself." Which reminds me, utterly gratuitously, of one of my favorite talk radio moments. Way, way back in the late 1980s, when I sometimes used to lis .......
251: Vinyl Asylum, Re: AMAZING stuff, inmates. I hope to heck Atkinson et al pay some attention. (nt) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-19, 18:24:39 (63.210.219.169)
nt .......
252: Vinyl Asylum, Ever heard of grassroots politics? Why not start here? :-) (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-19, 18:15:40 (63.210.219.169)
I thought just maybe, if enough inmates here speak up with CONSTRUCTIVE perspectives, it might just get their attention. Cheers, Win. .......
253: Vinyl Asylum, Informal Survey: So what you LIKE to see in Stereophile? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-19, 10:49:37 (209.246.71.239)
Given the content of some recent threads, the sense that something is broken about Stereophile seems to fairly widespread, at least among those audiophiles who include vinyl in their sourcing. Would a .......
254: Vinyl Asylum, This matches my memory. About 20 years ago I bought several box sets by Murray Hill simply because.. (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-19, 10:42:31 (209.246.71.239)
they were so cheap and I figured it would be an economical way to familiarize myself with huge chunks of the classical repertoire--things like all of Mozart's solo piano music or his music for wind in .......
255: Vinyl Asylum, TTs are mainly a G7 phenomenon: US, Canada, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, Italy /nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-19, 10:35:49 (209.246.71.239)
nt .......
256: Vinyl Asylum, Hi J.D. Sorry if I misread your earlier post. You make some great points in this one. Cheers! (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-18, 15:11:08 (209.246.83.119)
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257: Vinyl Asylum, You can perform the same experiment with almost any other newstand magazine... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-18, 11:22:50 (209.246.67.127)
The vast majority of magazines outside of fashion rags, which follow their own calendar, follow the same annual wave from thick to thin to thick again as the holiday, i.e. gift buying, season approach .......
258: Vinyl Asylum, A post I read here long ago recommended 4 mm.... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-15, 11:16:09 (63.210.208.23)
for the Lydian/Rega mating. I was paying attention because I got a Lydian for my Oracle/Rega rig. 4 mm. means you will require two of the 2 mm. spacers, or if your local dealer doesn't have those in s .......
259: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Is there anything like brand new vinyl?... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-12, 20:34:04 (64.152.170.14)
I'll have you know that Madonna's "Ray of Light" is one of the best sounding vinyl releases of the last five years. Listen without prejudice and I think you'll be amazed. The lass has actually learned .......
260: Vinyl Asylum, Re: Record stores in New York city (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-10, 18:41:29 (209.246.110.16)
Bleecker Bob is actually a funny guy, despite being one of the biggest natural disasters on the planet as a human being. His daughter, bless her, is a total sweetheart. I have no idea how someone that .......
261: Vinyl Asylum, You raise a point I've often thought about... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-09, 23:41:26 (209.244.181.40)
Granted, the outlay would seem to be daunting, but I've always been shocked by the fact that not even the best-funded industry review publications seem ever to have set up a true A-B test laboratory f .......
262: Vinyl Asylum, Dead right. I've had some startling results with Beatles LPs... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-09, 23:24:33 (209.244.181.40)
I have five different pressings of the White Album in the house at the moment, and you'd be surprised which sounds best--it's not the UK pressing with the highest stamper rating. A couple of later US .......
263: General Asylum, The purpose of the EP evolved over the years... (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-09, 23:01:15 (209.244.181.40)
In the 1950s and 1960s--I'm talking about the UK since that's the market I grew up in--it was a way to make as many good songs as possible by prolific standout acts, like the Beatles and Stones, avail .......
264: Vinyl Asylum, Better to dry dishes with a cloth or to let them stand in the drier? (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-05, 10:17:02 (209.246.64.3)
Reading smimmy's post about rinsing his records after using Disc Doctor reminded me of a point I've been curious about for some time. Rather than use distilled water, I rinse my own records under a fa .......
265: Music Lane, Great post, Bags. Agree with everything except Oscar Peterson--a bit more of a showoff IMHO. nt (0.00)
Posted by Win A. Chevy-Malibu on 2002-07-04, 07:17:07 (64.154.76.180)
nt .......
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