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Rush Dead Can Dance, Into The Labyrinth - Mobile Fidelity Silver reissue - sonically scruptious, this 2 LP reissue is better than the original, and musically interesting and complex. How is this better than the original 4AD if you can explain I would appreciate. I have all the Dead Can Dance LPs since 1984. ("This Mortal Coil.") |
09-14-13: Donjr I own a music library with such diverse content, some is certain to offend everyone :-). Drive is a great indy movie starring Ryan Gosling, a young (about 30) year old actor. Ryan strikes me as a real person in a field of actors that rely on overdone facial expressions, gestures and special effects to pull them through. Ryan reminds me a tiny bit of Steve McQueen when he was young and doing action movies. Both are different enough to remember and believable enough to connect with as the movie unfolds. I really liked the movie, among my favorites this past year. The music is as different as the movie, you should go to Amazon and play the MP3 samples and see how it strikes you. Music I played today: Felix Laband, "Thin Shoes In June" Rickie Lee Jones, "The Sermon On Exposition Boulevard" Porcupine Tree, "Stupid Dream" Harold Land and Kenny Dorham, "Eastward Ho" Frazy Ford, "Obadiah" |
Ahhhhh. Our Tuesday night listening session. Really mixed bag of tunes this evening, including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Johnny Cash, The White Stripes, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Jimmy Reed, Eminem, Keith Jarrett and Charlie Hayden, Bill Evans, Buena Vista Social Club and Frank Sinatra. |
Tuesday night music sessions with the gang. This is what I remember, (we played other titles). Peggy Lee, 1956 mono LP, "Black Coffee." Rickie Lee Jones, "Traffic From Paradise." Ella Fitzgerald, 1960 Stereo, "Let No Man Write My Epitaph" Vitaly Gnutov, "Balalaika Favorites" Rudolf Belov, Osipov State Carmen McRae, 1990 Stereo, "Carmen Sings Monk" Billie Holiday, "Lady In Satin" (45 RPM) Tina Brooks, "Back To The Tracks" (45 RPM) |
Last night was music night for our group, eight showed up and this is what we spun on the Walker TT. Eels, "Electro Shock Blues" Terry Clark "Cool Struttin'" Sonny Rollins, "Way Out West" Dead Can Dance, "Serpents Egg." Bjork, "Gling Glo" Patsy Cline, "Patsy Cline Story" Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" Miles Davis, "Tutu" Bill Evans, "At the Montreux Jazz Festival" Nirvana, "Nevermind" Stevie Ray Vaughn, "Riviera Paradise" |
Yea, Tibbetts is great. I have all his LP's, including three copies of "Yr.' Yr, was released on the ECM Records label, catalog number 1355 (1988), and is probably the recording you are enjoying. However, this was originally released on Frammis Records (in 1980), some of which was recorded at Atma-Sphere. I have the original LP and my cover is the "night sky" art work. I believe it was also released with "day sky" artwork. The day and night sky art work images are drawings by Steve Tibbetts himself. On the rear of the dust jacket is a photograph of Steve standing in his front yard. Looks to be about 8 years old at the time. The ECM is edited from this original LP. If you really love this music, try to find the original. Not only is the ECM NOT FROM the master tape (but a copy of) one of the tracks has instruments missing. I heard rumor that ECM could not get rights to that particular musician, so they edited him out. |
Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois, "Wrecking Ball", Cost me plenty to get this on LP, BUT I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE IT ! Also, just bought the two new direct to disc releases in NYC (Stereophile Show) from Chad at Acoustic Sounds. Amazing recordings and superb music. New Direct to Disc from Chad |
That same thing happens to Technics DD tables when one of the antique electrolytic caps fail. The good news is new caps are inexpensive, you should probably replace all of them when you go into the unit. I did that to my MK2 and I'm having it done to my MK3. I suspect your P3 is suffering from the same problem. |
Slipknot, the comment Lloyd was supposed to have made about my Walker TT was a joke (worked verbally Tuesday night but not all that well in print :^). On topic, the following LP's were "on my turntable" for Lloyd Walker and the rest of my music loving group: Red Hot Chili Peppers "By The Way" Goldfrapp "Felt Mountain" Eels "Beautiful Feak" Eels "Electro Shock Blues" Kate Bus "Aerial" Lee Morgan "Candy" Reiner-Chicago "Scheherazade" Lonnie Johnson "Blues and Ballads" Royal Ballet "(Gala Performances) Ernest Ansermet" Cassandra Wilson "New Moon Daughter" Kate Bush "Sensual World" Ricki Lee Jones "Traffic From Paradise" Miles Davis "Siesta" Miles Davis "Tutu" Donald Fagen "Morph The Cat" Jan Jelineck "~Scape 007" Bjork 'Debut" Dave Brubeck "A la Mode" Jellyfish "Bellybutton" Man Jumping "World Service" Yello "Flag" Dead Can Dance "Aion" The Streets "Original Pirate Material" Actually quite a few more than these, we listened all day Saturday and again Tuesday night. Lloyd did say (and this is the truth) that he was pleased I played a variety of music. Seems he's bombarded with (only) audiophile LP's when visiting most audiophile groups. He now has a copy of Kate Bush "Aerial" and wrote down titles of several other LP's. |
This last Tuesday night we played music I've acquired over the last few months as well as old favorites. Some I remember are: Gotan Project, "Lunatico" Katie Melua, "Call off the Search" Cassandra Wilson, "New Moon Daughter" The Eels, "Electro Shock Blues" Kylie Monogue, "Can't get you out of my head" Squirrel Nut Zippers, "Hot" Antony and the Johnsons, "I am a bird now" Tom York, "The Eraser" Jolie Holland "Escondida" Gnarls Barkley (12" single), "Crazy" The Best of Eddy Arnold, "Cattle Call" |