What is spinning?

[poppachubby]

If you guys want a GREAT rock album, try this out. Fantastic, and Canadian I might add.

[poppachubby]

[frenchmon]

Do you own any Mose Allison albums PoppaC? IF not you should. The guy has his own style and a very distinctive but great singing voice....oh and other popular musicians regularly use his songs.

[poppachubby]

No but he's on a few VA LP's of mine.

[Auricauricle]

Rubicon (1975) came on the heels of Tangerine Dream's breakthrough success, Phaedra, which reached #15 on the UK charts in 1974 and followed Atem, which in 1973 was declared by John Peel album of the year. Phaedra was a big hit for Virgin Records as well and helped (along with MIke Oldfield's Tubular Bells ) catapult Richard Branson's fledgling company to a wide range of listeners who were on the prowl for something different. Like its predecessor, Rubicon is a continuous piece, composed of two parts a little more than 17.5 minutes apiece. The mood is atmospheric and industrial, with interludes of mystery and psychedelic intrigue. Interspersed through the piece is Richard Bauman's flute, which hovers through the Moogs and mellotrons. This is another one of those albums that are best listened to when the lights are low, or on rainy days when the mood is right. True, it is a trippy listen, but for lovers of electronic music and those looking for something off the main line, Rubicon is a wonderful segue to Imagination's Threshold.

[Rae]

~Rae

[poppachubby]

[frenchmon]

Look very good Chubbs. With me, looks mean a lot and you sorta got that classy look going on with that pic. The spindle is kinda short tho. You have got to get a clamp or weight. So ima sure you going to change it out some time down the road? Your new arm is really going to set it off. Once again man...congrats....you put alot off your hard earned into your gear man...thats what it takes.

[frenchmon]

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[poppachubby]

Look very good Chubbs. With me, looks mean a lot and you sorta got that classy look going on with that pic. The spindle is kinda short tho. You have got to get a clamp or weight. So ima sure you going to change it out some time down the road? Your new arm is really going to set it off. Once again man...congrats....you put alot off your hard earned into your gear man...thats what it takes.

Thanks alot frenchie. Means alot coming from you. You've been instrumental with your encouragment, but more importantly with your guidance through the jungle we call Jazz.

As for the spindle, it's short because the mat is ultra thick. Frankly, I like it. It helps to dampen the already heavy platter. Keep in mind the platter and arm board are suspended. Also, Linn are dead against weights or clamps, which is the camp my table falls under. I have yet to level the platter, and I'm not sure if I will set it with a weight or not.

More worrisome than the spindle is the rest for the tonearm. I had to raise the VTA and the rest is much too short. As a result the arm slopes down almost to the point of the stylus touching the table!! Replacement is the first thing I must do.

As for modding, I must first get everything 100% with the existing pieces. Then I still have research to do, and hopefully some auditioning of arms I've yet to hear. I'm not in a huge rush, this thing sounds killer as is. BTW, the cart is an Audio Technica VM8-HII with a shibata stylus. It's technically vintage but with the stylus upgrade it sounds heavenly.

PM sent.

[frenchmon]

Never gets the attention his father got but still has a loyal following from those who loved his dad John Coltrane. In my opinion, Ravi, just like many Jazz artist of this generation, play more post bop than straight ahead, hard bop. I guess it sells more, I dont know.. I guess its just the continuing unfolding and evolving of the American music art form.

But in my opinion there is nothing like the American music that began in the American melting pot of American slavery which started as acoustic or folk spirituals with songs and instruments from west Africa and which evolved into minstrels or slave songs evolving into acoustic blues, acoustic jazz with all its parts then into rhythm and blues and rock and roll and all the way up until what we have into todays music. American Country folk music even had a branch on the tree deriving from Africa and Europe.



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[frenchmon]

...well you should.



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[bobsticks]

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Lol, whattup Frenchie?

I have that same McCoy Tyner Sacd...it never fails that I forget how low the recording level is on it,crank it up to a decent volume, and when forgetting to readjust, subsequently blast the holy beejeebus outta myself when playing the next disc.

[Slosh]

Some Red Red Meat now. Califone next.

[Davey]

Some Red Red Meat now. Califone next.

There ya go, starting to get interesting around here...

My playlist today is dragging around some old favorites from a dusted off new-old comp called Smoke from a Lithium Dream, in honor of one of the best songs of the 00's, a colossal closer from one of the best albums of the last few years in Animal Years, from one of the best artists of the last decade, Josh Ritter.

Friday off after a long week, the smell of Sierra Nevada hops now in the air, and some good music in the air too...

Smoke from a Lithium Dream
Circulatory System - Tiny Concerts
Augie March - Maroondah Reservoir
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trouble In Mind
Woven Hand - Aeolian harp (Under the world)
Woven Hand - Truth
Richard Buckner - Figure
Sun Kil Moon - Tonight the Sky
Richmond Fontaine - Two Alone
Richard Buckner - Mrs. Merritt
Richard Buckner - Emily Sparks
Court & Spark - In A Sugarpine Bed
Red Red Meat - Gauze
Califone - Evidence
Three Mile Pilot - Midgaard Serpent
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Nina Nastasia - Oblivion
Radar Bros. - Pomona
Magnolia Electric Co. - A Little At A Time
Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame
Cardinal - Silver Machines

[frenchmon]

Lol, whattup Frenchie?

I have that same McCoy Tyner Sacd...it never fails that I forget how low the recording level is on it,crank it up to a decent volume, and when forgetting to readjust, subsequently blast the holy beejeebus outta myself when playing the next disc.

Oh yeah Sticks! Whattup!.... Thats Chesky for ya with that one mike thing they got going ons. But McCoy and especially Joe Henderson got some good vibes and they be throwin down some hard licks.

[frenchmon]

There ya go, starting to get interesting around here...

Hey Davey... dont let my love for the pioneers in Jazz keep you from posting what you're spinning. Shoot! You might even post something that I might be interested in.

My playlist today is dragging around some old favorites from a dusted off new-old comp called Smoke from a Lithium Dream, in honor of one of the best songs of the 00's, a colossal closer from one of the best albums of the last few years in Animal Years, from one of the best artists of the last decade, Josh Ritter.

Friday off after a long week, the smell of Sierra Nevada hops now in the air, and some good music in the air too...

Smoke from a Lithium Dream
Circulatory System - Tiny Concerts
Augie March - Maroondah Reservoir
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trouble In Mind
Woven Hand - Aeolian harp (Under the world)
Woven Hand - Truth
Richard Buckner - Figure
Sun Kil Moon - Tonight the Sky
Richmond Fontaine - Two Alone
Richard Buckner - Mrs. Merritt
Richard Buckner - Emily Sparks
Court & Spark - In A Sugarpine Bed
Red Red Meat - Gauze
Califone - Evidence
Three Mile Pilot - Midgaard Serpent
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Nina Nastasia - Oblivion
Radar Bros. - Pomona
Magnolia Electric Co. - A Little At A Time
Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame
Cardinal - Silver Machines

[bobsticks]

Smoke from a Lithium Dream
Circulatory System - Tiny Concerts
Augie March - Maroondah Reservoir
Magnolia Electric Co. - Trouble In Mind
Woven Hand - Aeolian harp (Under the world)
Woven Hand - Truth
Richard Buckner - Figure
Sun Kil Moon - Tonight the Sky
Richmond Fontaine - Two Alone
Richard Buckner - Mrs. Merritt
Richard Buckner - Emily Sparks
Court & Spark - In A Sugarpine Bed
Red Red Meat - Gauze
Califone - Evidence
Three Mile Pilot - Midgaard Serpent
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Nina Nastasia - Oblivion
Radar Bros. - Pomona
Magnolia Electric Co. - A Little At A Time
Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame
Cardinal - Silver Machines

That might be the playlist of the year...btw, I threww on some Red Red Meat and Roomsound from Califone as a rfesult of your post....nice rec, made the afternoon go smooooothly....

[Davey]

Hey Davey... dont let my love for the pioneers in Jazz keep you from posting what you're spinning.

Most of us American old timers had our erector sets tuned to good ol' jazz and rock and country blues growing up, hard to keep it all separate. But biggest payoff for me nowadays is the Americana stuff, dusty Nashville studios haunted with ghosts from other times. Check out that cover of "Trouble In Mind", man that one has been around for about forever ...but always sounds new to me.

Trouble in mind
I’m blue
But I won't be blue always
Ya know the sun is gonna shine in my backdoor someday

[frenchmon]

Most of us American old timers had our erector sets tuned to good ol' jazz and rock and country blues growing up, hard to keep it all separate. But biggest payoff for me nowadays is the Americana stuff, dusty Nashville studios haunted with ghosts from other times. Check out that cover of "Trouble In Mind", man that one has been around for about forever ...but always sounds new to me.

Trouble in mind
I’m blue
But I won't be blue always
Ya know the sun is gonna shine in my backdoor someday

You got that right....its been around forever...I still love the old version by Janis Joplin, and Nina Samone...Johny Cash also have a version I loved.

[frenchmon]

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[dean_martin]

Last night turned into a Memphis tribute while mourning the loss of a great bottle of bourbon - Four Roses Single Barrel:

Cat Power Dark End of the Street ep
Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Sings Soul
From Elvis in Memphis
The Million Dollar Session - E, Luther Perkins, JL Lewis
JL Lewis Live at the Starclub

That's all I can remember.

[frenchmon]

Last night turned into a Memphis tribute while mourning the loss of a great bottle of bourbon - Four Roses Single Barrel:

Cat Power Dark End of the Street ep
Otis Redding - Otis Blue/Otis Sings Soul
From Elvis in Memphis
The Million Dollar Session - E, Luther Perkins, JL Lewis
JL Lewis Live at the Starclub

That's all I can remember.

Sounds like one fun night.