1 The Best of Julie - Julie London
2 No One Cares - Frank Sinatra
3 Mary Poppins Soundtrack
4 Maihar - Padma Vibhusham Ali Akbar Khan (interesting note - this lp of ragas funded by Cardas Audio. Sounds great btw.)
5 The Jumping Jive - The Andrews Sisters
6 Levant plays Gershwin
7 Supremes sing Holland Dozier Holland
8 Ravi Shankar Improvisations & theme from Panther Panchali
9 The Royal Scam - Steely Dan

These are my pick ups over the past couple of weeks. I'll admit I paid top dollar, $3.99, for some of them, but hell, work's been good lately so I was willing to splurge. :thmbsp:

I grabbed the Mary Poppins for my four year old daughter, which she loves, but she really zeroed in on the Andrews Sisters, (. . . straighten up and fly right . . .) and has become their biggest fan.

The Levant record has to be fifty years old, sounds good and has a great cover. Julie London just kills me. And the two lps of Indian ragas send me to that Within You Without You sort of place that some of you may be old enough to remember.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm happy that I still get such a big kick out of records; the way they look, the way they sound. And I feel fortunate that I rediscoved my turntable a year ago after living without it for several years. We've had a lot of great music around the house since then. Aw hell, I guess I'm never really going to grow up and get serious about too much. Rock on.

Amen my brother! Picked up a fantastic Sonny Rollins record and "Mott" by Mott the Hoople last weekend. Having a blast for very little money.

Ed

I'll admit I paid top dollar, $3.99, for some of them...

Now, THAT's funny.

I love vinyl. Here in Tucson, we have a used music store called Judy's Music Stop (formerly PDQ). Hundreds of thousands of LPs, 45s, 78s. I love it. Prices from $4 on up. Lots of rare collector's stuff. They also expanded their turntable/cartridge line.

Since I've found this group, my interest in hi fi and music has been rekindled. My wife commented just this morning about how nice it is to have music playing all the time again. She has a nice vinyl collection herself. Some interesting, different stuff, like scottish bagpipes and opera (not at the same time).

stuff, like scottish bagpipes and opera (not at the same time).
Well damn, thats an idea, Scotish Opera with a Bagpipe tune. I'll get back to my musical buddies and see if they can learn to play a bagpipe. Thanks for the idea!

Now, THAT's funny.


To be perfectly honest I should probably add that I did also cough up for a new 180 gram copy of Allman Brothers live at Filmore East that probably cost more than the 9 I listed above put together. But I really love that record. And it does sound great.

Oh yeah, there was also the new copy of Let It Be, Naked. And Let It Be. Okay, so I'm reading the new Beatles biography and I had never owned that record and I wanted to get a sense again of how tense those sessions were. I must say that listening to the Long and Winding Road on the Naked album proves, IMHO, that Phil Spector "saved" that song. It's tough to take on Let It Be, but in its unproduced form on Naked its just bad. I have to believe that, had he been running those sessions, George Martin would have kicked it to the curb.

I spent $10.00 at the used record store Saturday, came home with:
Heart - Self titled
Humble Pie - Rockin' the Filmore
Kansas - two for the Show & Point of No Return
Honeymoon Suite
Head East - Get Yourself Up
Genesis - And then there were three
Sammy Hagar - VOA & Three Lock box

As you can tell, I was just in one section alphabetically, maybe next week, I'll start at Z and work back.

I must say that listening to the Long and Winding Road on the Naked album proves, IMHO, that Phil Spector "saved" that song. It's tough to take on Let It Be, but in its unproduced form on Naked its just bad. I have to believe that, had he been running those sessions, George Martin would have kicked it to the curb.

I agree. Its a lounge song at best. But then again, that style was all over the radio back then, what with Mancini and Bacherach...but still, not what you'd want on a rock album. But for the most part, I liked Naked. Its just like George Martin once said, "I produced Let It Be, and Phil Spector over-produced it". However, the best versions of both Don't Let Me Down and Across The Universe are on the Past Masters CD.

I do find irony in Sir Paul criticizing Spector's work on that album, when all Paul's work from the mid '70s on was over-produced as hell to hide his diminished writing skills.

The only problem w/buying used records are their condition, which quite often is poor. I was fortunate enough to start collecting music in the early 60s and even though I bought the albums new, many are in poor condition from using primitive record players and needles.

When I look at what people want on eBay for vinyl I faint.