vinyl collecting ( and surrounding planetary atmosphere )

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:07 pm

shed,

Look inside that gatefold cover on the Bud Powell LP (pretty sure that's the one I'm thinking of). There's a photo from somewhat stage perspective showing a bunch of folks watching Bud perform at little tables, like a cabaret-type setting. It might be a little blurry, but there's a slightly pudgy young white fellow in the audience, enthusiastically digging Bud. That kid grew up to be my drum teacher, the one-and-only Lou Marino...

GJ

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Tue Jun 07, 2016 7:37 am

My copy from 1966 doesn't have a gatefold unfortunately, but I found this tiny pic from that era. Any chance that's Lou Marino to Bud's right there? He seems very intent on what Bud is doing.

The sax players always seemed to get a more enthusiastic response.

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Thu Jun 09, 2016 8:59 am

Huh. It's not that picture, but one very much like it; probably the same session/gig. Now I've got to find out which LP it's on (or where it's originally from that my faulty memory can't access)...

GJ

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Fri Jun 10, 2016 10:39 am

*Other [As Keith] - Robyn Hitchcock
*Album credit for Robyn on Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth liner notes.

Lately when he's in the rotation it's been his Spooked with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, his covers album The Man Upstairs,
the excellent Jewels for Sophia with Jon Brion, Peter Buck and others, and 2010's Propeller Time,

He does a great cover of Dylan's Not Dark Yet. He's got a unique picking style. He can tell a surreal twisted tale on the spot live between songs like nobody's business. He's been around a long time. I still can't figure out what Balloon Man is about. I will figure it out someday.

Supposedly when Paul McCartney wrote "Yesterday, All my troubles seemed so far away", his work-in-progress lyrics were "Scrambled eggs, Oh my darling how I love your legs". Robyn would have kept those.

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Witnessed my second Robyn Hitchcock concert last week, in Sebastopol at the Hopmonk. Intimate solo acoustic set replete with his surreal commentary between songs, either about the song he’s about to play or whatever happened to spark his fancy at the moment.
“I don’t really care if the words make sense, it’s more about following a feeling for me” he said at one point.

In the days following I picked up a vinyl copy of Shufflemania off his Tiny Ghost site, and saw that he’d come out with another album as well, the instrumental Life After Infinity.
This album is stripped of his Barrett, Lennon, Dylan voiced lyric forrays, and just lets his unique picking and strumming take center stage for a change, with a combination of mystical dreamy songs conjuring sitar tones, wandering Gabor Szabo-like passages, and some Nashville americana and psychedelia flourishes.
The more trance-like repeating progressions flow by as if Robyn were working on new verses, about to let fly some trademark stream of consciousnceness lyrics over the top of them, always keeping the best ones.

Robyn's particular use of words as abstractions on feelings and concepts results in a uniquely charismatic vision that is refreshing in its originality and surreal in the best sense, where it draws together disparate elements of this human existence thing in such a way that it leaves you mystically replenished. Repeated listens will reward with the implied connections made, either as intended or filled in by the listener. And that’s a bit of alright.

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 8:19 pm

For those who use protection..
Polypropylene or Polyethylene?

Yes, it is time to discuss something that is a burning question in the minds of all record collectors. (?)
And that question is whether to use
Polyethylene or Polypropylene protective album sleeves. Yes, well I am here to set the record straight.

Here is an album sheathed in Polypropylene

and the same album in Polyethylene

Polypropylene can be produced optically clear (left), while Polyethylene is excellent for sandwich bags and cloudy scuffing (right).

Any questions? I didn't think so.

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 2:07 am

What about propylethylene??

GJ

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:35 am

It isn't currently feasible as the inherent microstranding causes bifurcated isotactic polymere breakup
without the introduction of bonding adherents such as alkylnitrobenzines which are known carcinogens, dude.

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Mon Jul 11, 2016 11:32 am

All the news that's fit to print..
Neil Young Used 200,000 'Comes A Time' Albums As Barn Roof Shingles

Young reportedly bought the massive amount of copies because he was unhappy with the sound, buying the albums so he could do away with them.

"Oh, that was because it was a mastering error," Young said. "The tape got damaged when it went through the airport or something. I had to go back and use a copy of the master -- it was a copy, but it had better-sounding playback than the other one."

When asked if he shot up the 200,000 albums, Young replied with an answer which might have surprised many.

"No, no, I made a barn roof out of them," he said. "I used them as shingles."

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flooring ideas

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:57 am

>>>> Various stuff........ Dude.<<<<

Propylethylpol? Prollyethyloaf? Mollyprobyloaf? Preppyethylalanene?

Have you seen Polythene Pam? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

GJ

apropos of nothing · Post by **apropos of nothing** » Wed Jul 20, 2016 8:01 am

shedshrine wrote:It isn't currently feasible as the inherent microstranding causes bifurcated isotactic polymere breakup
without the introduction of bonding adherents such as alkylnitrobenzines which are known carcinogens, dude.

Ferduh!

markjazzbassist · Post by **markjazzbassist** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:00 am

had some records i bought on ebay waiting for me when i got home yesterday.

jackie mittoo - the keyboard king (reggae/funk at its finest)
james brown - get up offa that thing
curtis mayfield - got to find a way

my wife son and i were dancing all last night, i love vinyl

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Thu Jul 21, 2016 9:01 pm

Can you imagine the three of them in the same band? Jackie easy-skanking and bubbling over funk grooves, Curtis writing amazing material and alternating lead and back-up falsetto, and James B. getting up off of his thing? Making us all feel better?
Prince on guitar! I'm experiencing a reverie right now!!

GJ

markjazzbassist · Post by **markjazzbassist** » Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:03 am

Gregg Juke wrote:Can you imagine the three of them in the same band? Jackie easy-skanking and bubbling over funk grooves, Curtis writing amazing material and alternating lead and back-up falsetto, and James B. getting up off of his thing? Making us all feel better?
Prince on guitar! I'm experiencing a reverie right now!!

GJ

youre speaking to me right now man. jackie is a recent find for me, his mid 70's stuff that's like funk-dub has really helped me get more into reggae. i'm not really into ska, or roots, or rocksteady, but the funky-dub i love.

shedshrine · Post by **shedshrine** » Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:59 am

Thanks for the Mittoo tip. Great stuff!

A little off topic perhaps, but it is related to the necessary gear...

So I was looking for a pair of old Klipsch speakers to go with my old Sansui receiver. I found a pair on Craiglist, and it had had some Bob Crites mods, which apparently is a popular thing. This particular pair was touted as having had all the mods. Crossovers, titanium diaphragms, re-coned woofers and passive radiators ..and the owner had also seen fit to re-veneer the things in zebrawood. The price was fair, I call and I'm in.

I google map the address, and wow. Big gates, long narrow tree covered cobblestone driveway that expands out in front of the house replete with six carefully covered sports cars. Soon I am to find it's the house of Ken Leonard who was a big deal in 1970's electronics among other things.

He was the founder AEA Electronics http://aeaaudio.com/legacy-page/ which has been restarted recently. His first board was used at Criteria Studios for Clapton's Derek & the Dominos Layla sessions and it took off from there..Fleetwood Mac Rumours etc..
He also happens to hold a patent for certifying the security of websites.

So anyway, his son makes the minute or so walk to the black gates to let my car in. Once parked I am invited inside and we make our way back past ornate furnishings, sculptures and statues to the "stereo room/pool table room/electronics projects room".

Next to a picture of Mr. Leonard adjusting a mixing desk (as Eric Clapton and member of the Allman Brothers look on) are the speakers. Currently the pool table is covered and full of electronics projects in progress, namely the refurbing of classic tube receivers and integrated amps which he and his father do for fun.
The speakers were demoed with a 7 watt Heathkit amp. They sounded good low, they sounded good cranked. sold.

The house..

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