What is spinning?

[basite]

Massive Attack 'Mezzanine'
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& Portishead 'Portishead'
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I can't wait for the third Portishead album, which comes out late April

Great albums! I didn't know portishead is working on a new album, great news

mezzanine is a good way to test your system and your room for resonances btw

NP:

Paul Chambers - Bass on top
Duke Ellington - Piano in the foreground
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto, featuring Antonio Carlos Jobim
Grant Green - Sunday Morning


I heard lots of music today, my dealer is holding his 'Cost No object' show, where he sets up systems where (indeed) price is no object...

this show includes:
Verity Audio Lohengrin
Accuphase DP 800 + DC 801 CD/SACD
Accuphase C 2410
Accuphase A 45
MIT Oracle MA cabling
Vpi Aries 3 + SDS + Koetsu Urushi
Herron phono preamp.

I must say that this was the best sounding system I heard to date, bar none.

really, the designer at verity audio (who was also at the show) really knows what he's doing...

I brought some albums of my own, (grant green - green street, and Jose James - the dreamer), and both sounded magical...

If you get the chance of hearing the lohengrin's (or any other verity audio), definately do so...

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[audio amateur]

Great albums! I didn't know portishead is working on a new album, great news

Thanks! Yeah i'm pretty happy they are comming out with another one. I just got Portishead the other day. Dummy is excellent.

mezzanine is a good way to test your system and your room for resonances btw

Damn right! hehe

NP:

NP?

I heard lots of music today, my dealer is holding his 'Cost No object' show, where he sets up systems where (indeed) price is no object...

this show includes:
Verity Audio Lohengrin
Accuphase DP 800 + DC 801 CD/SACD
Accuphase C 2410
Accuphase A 45
MIT Oracle MA cabling
Vpi Aries 3 + SDS + Koetsu Urushi
Herron phono preamp.

There's reason to be jealous... I'm sure you enjoyed it
AA.

[basite]

NP?

Now Playing

I'm sure you enjoyed it
AA.

absolutely

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[jrhymeammo]

It jus doesnt feel like Sunday night unless I post at WS thread.

I got something interesting PN,

Sounding the Ritual Echo - Bill Nelson.

Sounds like yet another bad prediction of future from 1980s. I wouldnt say I'm disatisfed, but I feel vastly unfulfilled...

I think I'll play Broken Arrow by Neil Young

See you guys in a week.

JRA

[Spancticles]

Vampire Weekend
Hot Chip

[audio amateur]

is another I listen to quite a lot these days, performed by Peter Hurford.

It's mostly in these moments that I miss the couple bottom octaves.
I think everyone should hear Toccata and Fugue in D minor at least once in their life

[nobody]

Richard Hell: Destiny Street

The follow-up to the classic Blank Generation album is every bit as strong, even if it gets less press 'cause it came out several years later when it wasn't as revolutionary of a sound anymore. A trio of great covers, including a fantastic version of Dylan's Going Going Gone, spread in with originals that range from straight ahead rockers to more laid back tunes like Downtown at Dawn.

[musicman1999]

Van Morrison

His Band and the Street Choir

Not his best album but still better than most.

bill

[JohnMichael]

Rufus Does Judy At Carnegie Hall

Rufus Wainwright


If you have ever been a fan of Judy's this is a tribute and a fun album.

[Mr Peabody]

Sorry you found that insulting. It was just a joke about the name of your album.

[Mr Peabody]

Was at the turntable this afternoon.
Doobie Bros. - The Captain & Me
Gladys Night & the Pips
Bob James - Foxy
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
In that order. All of these ended up being good quality vinyl. The Gladys Night wasn't what I expected, a bit mellow and most of the songs had strings but she has a great voice and I filed the album in my collection. Foxy was an interesting album from James, one track took most of the side and he was using synth, going back and forth from a familiar Classical tune and a more modern thing. Rio Grand Mud, now that was fun. Where was the Grammys with ZZ Tops Traditional Blues award? This album sounds raw and no glitsy production here. As I was cutting my R&R teeth Fandango was my first ZZ Top album and from there it was the Greatest Hits and so on, it's been fun to pick up these older original albums for which the hits came. Well I don't know if hits is the right word. Definitely a band that goes deeper than the songs burned out on Classic Rock stations though.

[musicman1999]

The Captain and Me, have not played that in a long time. Time to dig that out.


bill

[bobsticks]

Did the jingle-jangley thang most of the day and have moved into sorta a slow dub mode, best embodied by the spacial beats of The Rootsman's 52 Days To Timbuktu



Kind of a different format, the disc includes the original song immediately followed by it's dub counterpart. Funky in that San Fransico chill meets Nigerian plains bit, and the antithesis of in-ya-face P-Funk.

I'd been planning on some Dizzy, notably "Afro", next but it appears that the neighbors are away so it may be time to get the sub cranking.

[jrhymeammo]

..and listen to the noise.



Nothing special.Just right.

JRA

[nobody]

That's about the only thing from the Miles Davis fusion period I enjoy, but I do really like that one.

[basite]

again, np:

Duke Ellington - Piano in the foreground, I've come to love this album...
Myriam Alter - Where is there (she's belgian, exellent recording, exellent music...)
and a best of album from Bill Withers...

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[jrhymeammo]

You think you know but you really dont..




JRA

[bobsticks]

A lil' Cinci progressive hip-hop slamming coolm beats into the early evening...

[blackraven]

Johnny Adams, Sam McClain, Bettye Lavette and The Drive By Truckers, Shelby Lynn's new cover album which is an excellent album with great sonics


Long Live The Blue's!

[nobody]

A lil' Cinci progressive hip-hop slamming coolm beats into the early evening...

This one's got my interest....anything you could compare it to?

[bobsticks]

This one's got my interest....anything you could compare it to?

Yeah, "Uncle Tony's Coloring Book"...hehehe

...but don't worry, I'm confident you'll be able to make your own determination within a few days.

[bobsticks]

A little Sally Ellyson seemed like the thing to do today...sincere and evocative.

[jrhymeammo]

Martin & Medeski - MAGO.

Nice little MMW sound without da Dub U, but dont expect anything more than what you would expect.

Got a bunch or disks in 3 different formats, but nothing to wrie home about. Think I'm gonna need to take a different direction in musical genre. Any suggestions?

NP: The Prof in....CONVEXED.
One of the best manufactured HipHop comps I've heard in a while. I do reach out for it quite often.


Hey nobody, I grabbed that new Badu. Good thing I got it on vinyl, if I had it on CD, I would just play that last track, and be done with the album.

Here is a little list I started working on. Any must haves?

GENRE		ARTIST		ALBUM
INDIE FOLK ROCK		Pete Krebs		Bittersweet Valentine
INDIE FOLK ROCK		Rogue Wave		Out of the Shadow
INDIE FOLK ROCK		Reeve Oliver		Reeve Oliver
INDIE FOLK ROCK		Alexis Harte		Sun Loping

JRA

[Mr Peabody]

I listened to my Sieges Even, Paramount. My 9 year old daughter really likes the Beach Boys amongst other things. I bought one of their comps. I dubbed her a copy because the discs receive some rough treatment and planned just to put the disc in my collection in case I needed to burn another. While I had my tubes warm I dropped the BB's in to see how they sound. Many of their big hits were in mono but still the quality wasn't bad for disc. A couple I thought might be good like Barbara Ann and Coco Mo were alright but nothing special. However, Little Deuce Coupe and In My Room will stick in my mind as a reference, they both had an incredible vocal presentation. It's like on the left and right the boys were doing a great harmony and it was more like they were facing each other and not so much forward, the sound on the sides seem to extend into the room. It was cool. I wanted somebody else to hear it, I brought my wife and older daughter down and made them listen but they really failed to see, or in this case hear, what I got excited about. I know a few of the guys around here have wives who enjoy the hobby with them, they're lucky. The entire listen was fun because I had never listened to any Beach Boys on a good system before, always heard them on the radio. For a Best Of thing like this I'm sure it depends on what masters they could get a hold of but I thought more of their songs would be like the latter two.

[Luvin Da Blues]

Hey Mr.P, Gotta agree on the Beach Boys. Not that I'm a big BB fan but my Telarc setup LP, among some classical standards, has "Good Vibrations" on it and I have to say the overall SQ, presence and imaging is nothing short of amazing.

LDB