JohnnyB 3,154 Posted August 22, 2015 I've slowly been pawn shopping for components around my phonograph... receiver... and today the speakers. 1st spin? The Pretenders first album. Damn that's a great bunch of tunes. 1st tune? Kid. What a great solo. What phonograph and speakers do you have, and what are you looking for in a receiver? And today I spun: This album wastes no time getting underway. First song on side 1 is "Keep Your Hands to Yourself." This is a great rocker and the recording quality is something else, being an EMI and all. Loved it. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elduave 1,205 Posted August 22, 2015 Sounds like a good night at the MD Matthes! 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mudshark 1,985 Posted August 22, 2015 (edited) i do believe this guy is just about the damnedest guitarist I ever heard... Edited August 22, 2015 by mudshark Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted August 26, 2015 I've slowly been pawn shopping for components around my phonograph... receiver... and today the speakers. 1st spin? The Pretenders first album. Damn that's a great bunch of tunes. 1st tune? Kid. What a great solo. What phonograph and speakers do you have, and what are you looking for in a receiver? And today I spun: This album wastes no time getting underway. First song on side 1 is "Keep Your Hands to Yourself." This is a great rocker and the recording quality is something else, being an EMI and all. Loved it. If you like this album, you will just LOVE Dan Baird's solo album 'Love Songs For The Hearing Impaired.' It rocks every bit as hard with fantastic songs. I actually like it better. One of my favorite albums. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted August 26, 2015 (edited) Killer album. The ultimate version of Season of the Witch. Edited August 26, 2015 by gtrdaddy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnnyB 3,154 Posted August 26, 2015 Yesterday, Frankie's 1st volume of greatest hits on Reprise. These are the ones that charted in the '60s such as My Way, That's Life, The Summer Wind, etc. I'm not a fan of the production of My Way (1st track) so I skip right to The Summer Wind. I love that song. Followed it with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. Great album all around; tight ensemble, killer songs, devlishly clever lyrics, and some of the best sound quality you'll hear on a pop album. Today the wife's at home, so while we were surfing and playing Sudoku, it was this one. Great songs and sonics on a pristine, great sounding LP I plucked from a $1.50 bin. I really like her slide work. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted August 27, 2015 Yesterday, Frankie's 1st volume of greatest hits on Reprise. These are the ones that charted in the '60s such as My Way, That's Life, The Summer Wind, etc. I'm not a fan of the production of My Way (1st track) so I skip right to The Summer Wind. I love that song. Followed it with Lyle Lovett and His Large Band. Great album all around; tight ensemble, killer songs, devlishly clever lyrics, and some of the best sound quality you'll hear on a pop album. Today the wife's at home, so while we were surfing and playing Sudoku, it was this one. Great songs and sonics on a pristine, great sounding LP I plucked from a $1.50 bin. I really like her slide work. Nice choices. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted August 27, 2015 Though Steve Miller had many hits later in the seventies and some, in the eighties that eclipsed his earlier music, the earlier albums are my favorites; the second incarnation of the band with Boz Scaggs just smokes. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Brooks 1,428 Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) just watched this documentary this week, made me download some tunes i lisrtened to in college. newbies should get "truth & soul", it is their finest hour; Edited August 28, 2015 by Brooks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted August 28, 2015 Always a fun listen! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnnyB 3,154 Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) I had a bunch of housework to do and nothing gets me going like some good drummer-driven Big Band. This was recorded about 55 years ago and featured Anita O'Day on vocals and his killer trumpeter, Roy Eldridge. Next I moved on to Count Basie. I picked up this record at a record fair/meet. It was recorded by Metro/Verve, but this edition was mastered and pressed by Deutsche Grammophon and it sounds like they're in the room. Great clarity and dynamics from one of the tightest big bands ever. I finished off the workday with Schubert's symphony no. 9 in this box set. I see these box sets go for anything from $18 to $90 on eBay. I picked up 16 of them at a Goodwill for $1 each. Four records per set. And in general I've found that box sets usually haven't been played. Schubert's No. 9 is named "The Great," aptly I might add. That recording is Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony, originally on RCA's Living Stereo series; the originals can be a lot more expensive. The Time/Life reissue collection ain't too shabby sounding either. Mozart gets most of the press for being a brilliant composer who died too young at 35. Schubert died at 31 and left a similarly large body or very high quality work. In his own time he was a short pudgy guy, les than 5' tall with the nickname of "Schwammerl", variously translated as "Tubby" or "Little Mushroom." Even so, he may have died of syphilis. Edited August 28, 2015 by JohnnyB 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sonny o'hoolighan 120 Posted August 28, 2015 Uncle Tupelo- Anodyne.The Clash- London Calling Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted September 2, 2015 Still as amazing a concert today as it was then. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnnyB 3,154 Posted September 3, 2015 I didn't technically spin this; it came on the radio: I have some CDs and LPs by Narciso Yepes and Goran Sollscher. The Yepes recordings blew me away; the Sollschers from 30 years ago, not so much, but that could have been the recording quality and/or before he mastered the extended range classical guitar, invented by Yepes. Today I heard a movement from a Bach cello suite, transcribed and played by Sollscher. It was obviously an extended range guitar; the bass lines were rich, full, and deep. So was everything else about this recording and performance. Sollscher has followed in Yepes' footsteps and then some. I recommend you chasing down some of his extended range guitar recordings. They are significant in musical performance, development of a genre, and have drop-dead gorgeous sonics. I may have to get off my high horse and buy some of these CDs. I believe Sollscher's playing an 11-string guitar here and I think Yepes mainly played a 10-string. Not only do these guitars have more range, they make the standard guitar range sound better too because it sits squarely in the sweet spot of the guitar's overall range. You also get the benefit of more sympathetic overtones from all those strings. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Disturber 3,564 Posted September 3, 2015 I didn't technically spin this; it came on the radio: I have some CDs and LPs by Narciso Yepes and Goran Sollscher. The Yepes recordings blew me away; the Sollschers from 30 years ago, not so much, but that could have been the recording quality and/or before he mastered the extended range classical guitar, invented by Yepes. A killer player. My best friend took a lot of photographs of him ten years ago for a big exhibition. Apparently he was a great guy. They kept contact for some years after that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mudshark 1,985 Posted September 3, 2015 Fantastic album: 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
belgian 476 Posted September 3, 2015 Fantastic album: Great one - have it in the car for a week now. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
belgian 476 Posted September 4, 2015 Early Gallagher with Taste - not all good but the remastered versions of the studio albums are great. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gtrdaddy 6,299 Posted September 4, 2015 DP-45F? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rj2858 423 Posted September 4, 2015 ^^^Appearing tomorrow in beautiful Wauconda, Illinois & tickets available at the door!www.enuffznuf.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mudshark 1,985 Posted September 4, 2015 early Dave Edmunds 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elduave 1,205 Posted September 5, 2015 Yup! Gifted to me by a customer. Lucked out there! The speed is just a tad off, doesn't bother me when listening but it does if I play along. DP-45F? 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnnyB 3,154 Posted September 5, 2015 Does the speed adjustment dial still work? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
