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I set the WOPL Time Machine to 1967/1968 and pulled these gems out of the collection. I need to listen to JA more often. I forgot how incredible Grace Slick is, and I have always been a big fan of Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen. I think I have every JA album, and I know I have all of Hot Tuna’s releases. Great listening. Paul Kantner has always been the rock of the group into the Starship era. The WOPL Time Machine took me back a few decades today, I bought both of these albums new in 1967 and 1968. I bought Jefferson Airplane Takes Off in 1966 and like many of my early albums, it is the MONO version. I paid for my early vinyl addiction with money from my paper route. The MONO versions were usually $1.00 cheaper than the STEREO versions, so MONO it was for many of them. It was like $1.98 (mono) vs $2.98 (stereo). Great memories!
.................. "Remember What The Dormouse Said ".................

Jefferson Airplane
Crown of Creation
RCA LSP-4058
Stereo - 1968
Hollywood Pressing

Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
RCA LSP-3766
Stereo - February 1967
Indianapolis Pressing

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Vintage 700b said:
I set the WOPL Time Machine to 1967/1968 and pulled these gems out of the collection. I need to listen to JA more often. I forgot how incredible Grace Slick is, and I have always been a big fan of Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen. I think I have every JA album, and I know I have all of Hot Tuna’s releases. Great listening. Paul Kantner has always been the rock of the group into the Starship era. The WOPL Time Machine took me back a few decades today, I bought both of these albums new in 1967 and 1968. I bought Jefferson Airplane Takes Off in 1966 and like many of my early albums, it is the MONO version. I paid for my early vinyl addiction with money from my paper route. The MONO versions were usually $1.00 cheaper than the STEREO versions, so MONO it was for many of them. It was like $1.98 (mono) vs $2.98 (stereo). Great memories!
.................. "Remember What The Dormouse Said ".................

Jefferson Airplane
Crown of Creation
RCA LSP-4058
Stereo - 1968
Hollywood Pressing

Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
RCA LSP-3766
Stereo - February 1967
Indianapolis Pressing

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nice!!!
 
Vintage 700b said:
I set the WOPL Time Machine to 1967/1968 and pulled these gems out of the collection. I need to listen to JA more often. I forgot how incredible Grace Slick is, and I have always been a big fan of Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen. I think I have every JA album, and I know I have all of Hot Tuna’s releases. Great listening. Paul Kantner has always been the rock of the group into the Starship era. The WOPL Time Machine took me back a few decades today, I bought both of these albums new in 1967 and 1968. I bought Jefferson Airplane Takes Off in 1966 and like many of my early albums, it is the MONO version. I paid for my early vinyl addiction with money from my paper route. The MONO versions were usually $1.00 cheaper than the STEREO versions, so MONO it was for many of them. It was like $1.98 (mono) vs $2.98 (stereo). Great memories!
.................. "Remember What The Dormouse Said ".................

Jefferson Airplane
Crown of Creation
RCA LSP-4058
Stereo - 1968
Hollywood Pressing

Jefferson Airplane
Surrealistic Pillow
RCA LSP-3766
Stereo - February 1967
Indianapolis Pressing

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Do you have Quah? That's one of Kaukonen's great acoustic LPs. Don't know that Tom Hobson added a damn thing to it, though.
 
Lara & Reyes - Two Guitars One Passion

Some great flamenco style guitarists and good for system testing as well.
 
Ok, yestersday i shook the whole rack down with Infected Mushroom, Crystal Method, Shpongle, Moby, and Tool.. To me it sounds like the "One" responds faster to a transient. The collection of music seems new again, picking things out of the backgroud that we haven't heard before or was to muddled to care. A track on " I Am The Supervisor" has some light bells in the background, this time I heard not just the bells ringing but there was a "trill" to them. Totally unexpected, but pretty damn cool. So yesterday was the fast attack stuff. Tonight is the worst examples of sibilance I can stand and see what happens.... First Off:

Younger Brother------ " Last Days of Gravity"
 
Track 6 of Vaccine--- "Upon This Machine"---- there is some hand claps at a pretty good volume....no wincing tonight when that hit... distinct handclaps, not indistinguishable mush....

These albums always had the potential to be very engaging as anything Simon Posford has his hand in, but it was hard to get past the cringe.... not so tonight...Im going places.....
 
Younger Brother------- " A Flock of Bleeps" --- Younger Brothers first album, released in 2003, a collaboration between Simon Posford ( Shpongle) and Benji Vaughan (Prometheus).

This album has a female vocalist that can drive you from the room, especially on horns....can't say that's happening here anymore...DAMN....
 
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Running through this one again after cleaning it with my Orbitrac. The clarity really jumps now, especially that Vibraphone and all the percussion instruments.
I'm really loving this album. A really good cross-section of cultural genres...
 
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