I recently got a REGA P3 and a new Luxman integrated and getting back into Vinyl. Until Xmas, all I had to play were some old, 60s, albums I grabbed from my moms storage. Ventures, Lawrence Welk, Three Stooges, and Chet Atkins. Not all the best sounding due to wear and tear.
Grabbed a new Remastered 180gram of Bowie-Young Americans for my wife and this sounds like a CD.
I was given a Johnny Cash collection for my birthday also.
On my birthday, the 27th, I went to our somewhat local Record Store, Siren Records in Doylestown PA. I had never been there and had not album shopped since the mid 80s. Lots of well organized sections of both albums and CDs. I browsed my way thru almost everything wanting it all.
About those Gems, I still have half of 2 albums on cassette from my Jr High School days but the vinyl is long gone, again mid 80s when I went CD and gave away or sold all my albums. When I was in 8th Grade, this Philly Based Progressive Jazzy Rock band played our auditorium and they were fantastic. That band was called Forest Green. There are a few Youtube vids I will reference below. I was flipping thru all the named sections and just as I was thinking of asking the guy at the counter if he ever saw one, I decided to flip thru the General F folder. All the way at the back was the one I have been looking for for 35 years.
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Needless to say, I was stoked. So then I thought, maybe they have or have seen the other one I was looking for, another Jazz-Rock band called Spaces, from the Philly area. I knew the Sax player, he lived next door to my friend's brother, and we used to buy some killer weed from him
. I moved down the line to the General S bin and started flipping. Again, all the way towards the back I find not one, but 2 of the ones I wanted. I picked the better one, $4.99 instead of $3.99. I still can't believe I came home with both of these Gems from 8th Grade on my first visit to a Record shop. I wonder if any of them were mine.
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The rest of my score included
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
BTO - BTOII
Steve Miller - Circle of Love (for Macho City)
Horselips - The Man Who Built America
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
I can't believe how good some albums sound thru the Luxman since some Integrateds have real crappy phono stages.
This is the only track from Spaces I could find as someone uploaded it for some reason.
Grabbed a new Remastered 180gram of Bowie-Young Americans for my wife and this sounds like a CD.
I was given a Johnny Cash collection for my birthday also.
On my birthday, the 27th, I went to our somewhat local Record Store, Siren Records in Doylestown PA. I had never been there and had not album shopped since the mid 80s. Lots of well organized sections of both albums and CDs. I browsed my way thru almost everything wanting it all.
About those Gems, I still have half of 2 albums on cassette from my Jr High School days but the vinyl is long gone, again mid 80s when I went CD and gave away or sold all my albums. When I was in 8th Grade, this Philly Based Progressive Jazzy Rock band played our auditorium and they were fantastic. That band was called Forest Green. There are a few Youtube vids I will reference below. I was flipping thru all the named sections and just as I was thinking of asking the guy at the counter if he ever saw one, I decided to flip thru the General F folder. All the way at the back was the one I have been looking for for 35 years.
Needless to say, I was stoked. So then I thought, maybe they have or have seen the other one I was looking for, another Jazz-Rock band called Spaces, from the Philly area. I knew the Sax player, he lived next door to my friend's brother, and we used to buy some killer weed from him
. I moved down the line to the General S bin and started flipping. Again, all the way towards the back I find not one, but 2 of the ones I wanted. I picked the better one, $4.99 instead of $3.99. I still can't believe I came home with both of these Gems from 8th Grade on my first visit to a Record shop. I wonder if any of them were mine.
The rest of my score included
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
BTO - BTOII
Steve Miller - Circle of Love (for Macho City)
Horselips - The Man Who Built America
Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior
I can't believe how good some albums sound thru the Luxman since some Integrateds have real crappy phono stages.
This is the only track from Spaces I could find as someone uploaded it for some reason.