I have a copy of, ATMP which I have had for at least ten years and have yet to open.
The older I get, the better I was.
1968, but you win anyways
This is the copy I have (it's probably a european pressing)
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Jesu...elease/1735073
click under the sleeve picture for all the details.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
^^ "Freak Out!" came out in '66.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Donovan was lucky to get it released in the UK at all. Due to legal issues with his previous UK label, most of his psychedelic-era albums were not released there.
FWIW, rock 'n' roll singer Jimmy Clanton released a double album Jimmy's Happy/Jimmy's Blue in 1960. As with the Donovan, it was available both as a double set and as two individual LPs.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
The most detailled booklett (20 pages ) comes from my KC 2LP compilation A Young Persons Guide To KC , typical Fripp chronological KC history with nice pics.
I found an early 80's mint record by David Matthews. It's always kind of thrilling to unwrap a 40 year old mint record. I got it mainly because it was very cheap and it looked from the names like early 80s Soft Jazz with names like Earl Klugh and Grover Washington on the cover. I learned that Matthews is/ was extremy popular in Japan with his Manhattan Jazz Orchestra. He was also for some time house arranger for CTI records. Anyway , 'Grand Connection' by the David Matthews Orchestra recorded in 1982 sounds like mid 70s Soft Jazz Fusion and is actually a good listen mainly due to the absence of cheesy synths that nearly everybody used in the early 80s, to the great instrumantalists , good arrangements by Matthews and a very good recording. Very spacious sound with lots of deatails, the brass sound especially good.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Of similar vintage is The Beatles Vs. the Four Seasons, which was Vee Jay's repackaging of the one Beatles album they owned together with a Four Seasons album; the back cover was a scorecard where you were supposed to pit each song against the corresponding song by the other artist. Another one that doesn't really count.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
I read recently a couple of articles about the lifespan of vinyl records and only two things everybody seems to agree 1. The vinyl records have a limited lifespan (opinions going from 20 years to near eternity) and 2. the softener used in the record production will eventually vanish and make the records more fragile. The bigger part of my collection was pressed between 70 and 80 and so far I haven't discovered a record that has become unplayable.
BTW I listened yesterday evening to Klaus Schulze's Timewind and I always wondered how he managed to get nearly 30 minutes on one side without loss of quality
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
Well, if that's the range, then everything on earth has a limited lifespan! Of course, whoever said 20 years was an ignoramus; I have records I bought 50 years ago that still sound great. Just last week I gave my copy of The Hurdy Gurdy Man (purchased in 1969) a spin for a review video I was making. Not deteriorated at all. Still has a beautiful, present sound with crisp highs and punchy transients.
It helps that the music doesn't have much dynamic range to begin with. Was it the UK Virgin release? They were doing some excellent, high-quality pressings in those days.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Yeah, I don't know who makes up these urban myths, but it's best not to believe everything. The used vinyl market is doing rather well, and a lot of those records are 40, 50+ years old. I've never heard of a vinyl softener.
I was in a Half Price Books over Easter and a guy probably around in his late twenties I'd guess, handed me a handful of records, and said, "I was gonna buy these, but decided against it. You can buy them if you like some of them."
I looked thru them, but didn't see anything I wanted, plus they were in trash shape anyway. I had one or two of them already, and we talked for a bit. I told him these records are trash, I wouldn't buy them in this shape, which is generally why when I buy used I'll buy a CD. They had some CDs there that were $2. a piece. He said, yeah, but they have a limited lifespan. I've read that after a while the labels will curl up and become unplayable. I said, where did you hear that? I've had CDs since they first came out around the mid 80s and that's not been a problem at all. People are strange.
Vinyl formulas do contain plasticizers which make the product more flexible and durable. There is a popular belief that alcohol should not be used in cleaning records because it will extract plasticizers from the vinyl--I heard that back in the '70s. This is widely regarded as a myth nowadays.
He probably heard that about the paper stick-on labels that you can print out and apply to homemade CD-Rs, and mistakenly thought it referred to all CDs.He said, yeah, but they have a limited lifespan. I've read that after a while the labels will curl up and become unplayable. I said, where did you hear that? I've had CDs since they first came out around the mid 80s and that's not been a problem at all. People are strange.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
French Virgin pressing , can't compare to the UK one, but it sounds great. As I said most of my records have now between 40 and 50 years and so far most in good to perfect shape. But this story about the vinyl softener still intrigues me. Not easy to find serious studies...
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
I have 100-year-old discs in my Victrola that have held up just fine. Sure, they're not modern vinyl, but I've never heard of vinyl deteriorating, except from misuse or mishandling (those nasty oils from fingerprints).
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
Went to one of my favourite record shops in Cologne Germany : Parallel Schallplatten, not far from the center and a really big shop, you can go through the racks without bumping into others and they have a big choice of mostly used records. They have their entire catalogue on their website and as the bigger part of the records are stired in the basement I look up the catalogue and note the records I want to have a look at in the shop.
I found a great near mint copy of the first Roches record, German 1997 limited edition pressing, issued in a series of WB vinyl revival. I dont't even remember that there were vinyl racks in the major outlets back then.
The first Aviator , German Harvest pressing , nice record still quite cheap to find.
Zappa : Studio Tan German Discreet Pressing, VG+
Leo Kottke : The Best 2LP French Capitol Pressing records near mint cover had two ripped of price tags.
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
I picked up 26 pieces of vinyl last week at the Goodwill around me. I think someone died and they were just dropped off. Mostly jazz from Windham Hill with some Eric Gale, Ron Carter, Jack DeJonette, Dave Brubeck. I even grabbed three I wouldn't have if they weren't mint, Tony Bennett, Tom Jones, and best of Peter Paul and Mary. Since everything is priced by the pound the records and a few other things were a little less than nine dollars.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
Dieter Moebius : "Art people like things they don’t understand!"
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