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Great choices. Brings back memories. Soul Searching was soon after Steve Ferrone joined. Steve was really funky. Saw them on the Person to Person tour around that time. Their fortunes were on the way out as Funk/Soul/disco was dying and Reggae/Punk was all the rage...
Freeways happens to be another album for a band that had lost its lustre or chart topping success...I really liked this album a lot but it was the last for BTO. So different from Not Fragile - no wonder Turner hated it - no meat for Turner to sink his teeth into like Sledgehammer.
I ride shotgun on his money... just sounded too nice and unconvincing with Randy’s soft vocals. I wonder how the outcome might have been different had Turner sang lead?
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Soul Searching ... Average White Band.
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Freeways ... Bachman Turner Overdrive
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Quentin Tarantino's Mix - awesome |
Had to buy it when I saw this gem sitting in the $1 box.
Putting it Straight ... Pat Travers
Vinyl |
Mapman
Sounds like you have that process down to a fine "art".
I guess I am old and lazy but sounds like a lot of work, maybe not once you have done it a few times and it is second nature.
My daughter has a tt with a USB output as well and I was considering trying to rip some vinyl, which is why I asked. Software is the key it appears.
Never had a decent Goodwill vinyl purchase yet I am afraid.
Glad you found the channel hiatus fairly quickly and easily, that can drive you nuts!
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Uber I use an art usb phono plus a2d converter to usb on my laptop that hosts the music server on attached usb drive.
I use audacity software on the laptop to capture the digital at cd resolution and then master the digital. I play the entire album into one file then edit it down and identify the tracks. I run normalization and click removal processing on the file with Audacity. Then I write the individual tracks to corresponding flac format files on disk.
Next I use Picard software to quickly tag the files. Finally if needed I use the manual file tagging feature of dbpoweramp to fix any tags needed including adding album art.
Then my plex music server software automatically picks up the new files and adds them to its library. I also use logitech media server and Squeeze devices so I run the rescan function in LMS. At this point the new files are available via both plex and Squeeze box devices.
Finally I attach my backup drive and run Seagate backup software to back up the new files.
I think I picked up the album at Goodwill one day. One of my best finds there.
Today when setting up I found I had volume in only one channel playing the vinyl. Isolated things down to a bad tube in my Audio Research sp16 pre-amps’s phono section. Swapped in a spare tube and good to go. That was the first tube I’ve had go on me in several years. I hate when that happens.
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Schubert: Complete Works for Violin and Piano - Julia Fischer
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B,S &T 4 .... Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Vinyl
This one needs a bit of help, definitely a $1 album! |
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Mapman
That's a pretty neat album to have, imagine getting anything like that today!
Just curious as to how you are ripping your vinyl to your server?
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Sending some vinyl to the music server today. Up currently is "All the World Dances" by David Carroll and his Orchestra a 1961 lp on Mercury Perfect Presence label that is what hifi is all about. There is even a diagram on the back cover showing location of the various players in the studio that you can use as reference for what you hear. The music industry and the public really cared about hifi back then when it was all very new. |
First up
Ammonia Avenue ... The Alan Parsons Project.
Near mint vinyl.
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A great day to visit my LRS.
He had just finished throwing a ton of albums into the $1 clearance boxes and there were a LOT of really good albums.
I was good and limited myself to just 20, LOL.
$20 and 20 new to me records to work through.
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Allan Holdsworth -
Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! Allan Holdsworth Album 12 CD Box
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"Ballad of Easy Rider" by The Byrds which for whatever reason is still one of my favorite lp listens start to finish.
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Deadmau5 and Egyptrixx ....family is out of the house : ) |
Pink Floyd, “Obscured By Clouds” On cd |
Red Clay (CTI Records 40th Anniv. Ed.) - Freddie Hubbard |
Our Man in Paris (Rudy Van Gelder Ed.) - Dexter Gordon |
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What I love about these posts
Always finding something new or never heard of or simply reminded about a great band.
Just so much music and so little time!
Never heard of Sniff,n the Tears but will be checking it out.
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@nutty - I always liked "Driver's Seat". Good one...... |
TIDAL, misc but I ran across this one oldie
Sniff 'n the Tears, "Driver's Seat"
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Mascagni, "L'amico Fritz". Pavarotti & Freni.
Red book CD.
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12 Bloody Spies, B sides & rarities. ... Chevelle.
Tidal |
My U.S. copy of the Rockpile album does too, reubent. The last entry, of Los Angeles Dec. 13-15, is the shows I was at. It wasn't really in Los Angeles proper, but over the Hollywood Hills in the center of the San Fernando Valley, on Sherman Way in Reseda. I gotta find a UK copy of the LP. |
Pink Floyd, “DSOTM” MFSL CD
Miles Davis, “Kind Of Blue” MFSL SACD |
@bdp24 - Nope, didn't see them when they graced our shores. I remember, at the time, I didn't understand all the hoopla and didn't even buy the record. Things have changed.......
BTW, my copy of the record has the Rockpile 1980 - Seconds of Pleasure - Weeks of Touring - US Tour dates, printed on the back cover (not a sticker, printed on the back cover of the gatefold). Looks like there were 20-25 nights, spread over 4 weeks - Mid-November to Mid-December 1980. Wish I could say I was there, but......... |
reubent, did you manage to see/hear Rockpile live? They played three consecutive nights at The Country Club in Reseda, CA in 1980, with Moon Martin opening. I went all three nights; now THAT was a Rock 'n' Roll band! Moon was great too. My first wife did his Fan Club, so I got to know him a little. Wonder what became of him. |
Rockpile - "Seconds of Pleasure" on vinyl........ Classic |
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A classic.
Double Vision ... Foreigner.
Vinyl
Near mint and cost me .99cent! Lol |
Beck - "Morning Phase" on Vinyl...... |
All on vinyl:
Bruford - Gradually Going Tornado (just found a mint promo copy in a nearby vinyl shop for $5!)
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Ormandy/Philadephia - Pictures At An Exhibition
Darol Anger/Barbara Higbie - Live At Montreaux
Helios Creed - X-Rated Fairy Tales
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon |
“Do You Know Emperor Joe?” by Werner Pirchner from a 192kps mp3, listening on my 47 year old Infinity 2000A speakers, and I’m loving it. Why? Because it really is all about the music. |
Rumours ... Fleetwood Mac
Vinyl |
reubent
Moxy were a band I started listening to right at the time of my American rock band discovery time from good old England back in mid 70,s.
Along with Styx, Rush, Mahogany Rush, Starz etc.
Not sure as I own any but pretty sure our LRS has a few albums.
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The Rainmakers - "The Good News and the Bad News"
Hoo Dee Hoo........ |
@nutty - Amazing! ...... I thought I would stump everyone with Moxy. Good on you brother.
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Listened to Zenyatta Mondatta earlier this evening. Great album. I really like "Voices In My Head" but invariably the loud reggae shout in the middle makes me jump.
Right now: Steely Dan-Two Against Nature |
Zenyatta Mondatta ... The Police
Tidal
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stereo5
keep me posted on the breaking-in of those Acrolink IC.
Happy Listening! |
Reubent,
Moxy fan here. Tommy Bolin was a guest musician on Moxy S/T.
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Shelby Lynne - "Revelation Road" on vinyl
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MOXY - "MOXY II" - 70's Canadian Rock......
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The Concert for Garcia Lorca - Ben Sidran |
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Steve Gibbons Band - "Down in the Bunker"
No spitting on the bus....... |
Rod Stewart - "Every Picture Tells a Story" - Superb!
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Neko Case tonight-Fox Confessor then Middle Cyclone. |
