what are you listening to?

[JustMike]

Thanks for that Ron.

R.I.P. Greg

 

[orange]

Before the Monkees??

AFTER the Monkees. That RCA logo didn't exist before 1968, when Radio Corporation of America (RCA) became RCA Corporation, or around the time of the second Jefferson Airplane release. Nipper disappeared for a while and the Orange RCA label came about, the symphonic and other special stuff still came out on the Red Seal label. Eventually the regular label went back to black with the new logo and Nipper. When the RCA Records Label was sold to BMG and later Sony bought BMG the old round RCA logo with the lightning tails on the letters came back.

The Monkees were on Colgems, an imprint label of Columbia-Screen Gems (the TV series producer) and that went to Arista later, the successor run by a former Columbia Records (Not Pictures) executive.

Arista became part of pre-BMG RCA, which made it part of Sony eventually and Arista artists ended up on the RCA Records Label or another Sony label.

So it all ended up in the same place, more or less. SONY.

 

[speakerlabfan]

John Lennon - Sings The Great Rock & Roll Hits
(1975, ADAM VIII)

 

[speakerlabfan]

It's A Beautiful Day - self titled
(1969, Columbia) 1985 issue on the San Francisco Sound label

gatefold cover. great sound quality. Hot Summer Day is a good song for this time of year!

 

[speakerlabfan]

Various Artists - Sometimes A Great Notion original soundtrack
(1971, Decca)

No novel may have a more interesting opening passage than "Sometimes a Great Notion," which begins as Kesey tracks the birth of a river:


"Along the western slopes of the Oregon Coastal Range ... come look: the hysterical crashing of tributaries as they merge into the Wakonda Auga River. ... The first little washes flashing like thick rushing winds through sheep sorrel and clover, ghost fern and nettle, sheering, cutting ... forming branches. Then, through bearberry and salmonberry, blueberry and blackberry, the branches crashing into creek, into streams. Finally, in the foothills, through tamarack and sugar pine, sh+ttim bark and silver spruce -- and the green and blue mosaic of Douglas fir -- the actual river falls 500 feet ... and look: opens out upon the fields."

 

[stuwee]

Well, I'm not playing it, in fact, I'm not going to even open it until Lee and Jani get here. It's a classic remastered on 180grm, we can do what we did in the old daze, party like when the parents went out of town , slap that puppy on the Thorens, look at the artwork and liner notes...

 

[speakerlabfan]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - American Stars 'n Bars
(1977, Reprise)

+ The Bullets: Linda Ronstadt, Nicolette Larson & Emmylou Harris

 

[Fishoz]

Uriah Heep

Live
January 1973

 

[speakerlabfan]

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
(1969, Island Records) UK pressing

RIP Greg Lake

 

[Fishoz]

Tomita

Kosmos

 

[62vauxhall]

Uriah Heep

Live
January 1973

Choice! You got the photo booklet / "additional albums by" insert?

They played here just around the time that album came out. Loud....and what a performance - it was stunning! Bought that album as soon as I saw it and I'm not big on live recordings.

 

[Fishoz]

Choice! You got the photo booklet / "additional albums by" insert?

Alas...long gone.....

 

[speakerlabfan]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
(1971, Cotillion) Monarch symbol, AT/GP in the deadwax, mastered by George Piros

RIP Keith Emerson, Greg Lake. My favorite ELP title. Crushing sound quality on this pressing.

 

[speakerlabfan]

The Seeds - A Web Of Sound
(1966, Crescendo) MONO

 

[speakerlabfan]

Henry Cow - s/t
(1973, Virgin) Monarch symbol in the deadwax

 

[speakerlabfan]

Norman Blake - Fields Of November
(1974, Flying Fish) MASTERFONICS in the deadwax

fiddle, mandolin, dobro, some tasty picking here on Blake's 2nd album.

 

[Lazarus Short]

I don't often post on this thread, but I recently went back to the phono cartridge which came with the Sony linear-tracker, a Shure M110HE with a JICO stylus. Vinyl now sounds like it should. Last night, I came across the four big AQ sorbothane pucks/biscuits, and slipped them under the feet of the Sony. Listening this morning, it didn't sound right, so I slipped them back off, letting the TT back onto the MDF/plexiglass stack. The solid weight did better, and vinyl sounded better.

Anyway, I listened to Joni Mitchell's Hejira, a promo copy I bought from Love Records (a local, and legendary, LP shop) back in 1977. At least "Love Records" and the date are stamped inside the jacket. My careful buying practices paid off here, as the fidelity and sound are quite nice, and groove condition is near noise-free. I rarely listen to this LP except on snowy winter evenings...

 

[laatsch55]

Nice Laz....

 

[Nick Danger]

Joe Henderson~ Mode For Joe(Blue Note, 1966/2009).

 

[Nick Danger]

Joe Henderson~ Inner Urge(Blue Note, 1965/2009).