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OK, for you RRs,
I guess define RRs as those who played 'The Worst of the Jefferson Airplane' on vinyl (had to find some time reference) , and all others interested, of course.

What's cookin' on your music machine.

I'm starting with a 2 CD (no bolt of lightening yet) Dire Straits combo. Boy, did these guys get lost in the shuffle or what. Great guitar, lyrics and sound-mostly through Mark Knopfler (TALENT)

Next, the DVD of last Cream concert (Although, ahem, I attended the 1968 version at the Prince Albert Hall) and overall found the former much better-the tape of the first was not the greatest-neither was the sound. But the entire concert and CD are worth much more just to hear (see)Ginger Baker's drum solo in Toad.-Was he greatest RR drum virtuoso of all time? My vote!

Finally, just call it--it feels good today, The entire 3 CD set oooff...whew, made it-thought this was the BIG BOLT, The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival,-all acts, out-takes and backstage banter.

As you youngsters may or may not know the Pop Festival was seminal in many ways.
Most groups were from W. Coast, esp Frisco, except for some Blockbusters who were part of the show.

The festival was, for many their first intro. to US-World Music Scene. Hendrix, Momas and Papa's, Ten Years After (Wow, another great blues-man that was lost some way-Alvin Lee), Jefferson Airplane, Janice, Otis Redding, Canned Heat, Simon and Garfunkel Hugh Masakala, Any of those old brain cells yelling yea, yea, yet.
There were also a few groups, when we first viewed the their performances at concert (as a movie released shortly after concert), and wondered who the heck and what the heck was that!? they seemed like intruders in a musical Nirvala.
And, of course the truly transcendental Ravi Shankar, whose music affected all in a manner I have not seen since-a simultaneous roar, from the toes, throat, hair, heart and soul. Truly, for all, Is an absolute must-one of the great musical performances of all time.
One CD entire concert, one CD Hendrix performance, one for outtakes and backstage, and one for OTIS..OTIS, what more need be said.
OK, Time to FESS UP!!

Oh, Oh,
Should have ascertained how many, if any, remember 'records' other than those displayed as Gold or Platinum hanging on walls

Today it was Peter Green and Splinter Group's Time Traders (great blues) followed by Joe Bonamassa's Blues Deluxe and then Jimmy Vaughan's Do You Get The Blues. All great stuff if your a blues fan. A step back in time to when music was good, and yet created just recently. Definitely some stuff that you won't hear today.

If you haven't looked into Peter Green and Splinter Group or Joe Bonamassa, the time is now.

Vince

I've been listening to one of my favorite 'under the radar' bands -- the Subdudes with their new CD Street Symphony.  Also just picked up Jeff Daniels 'Grandfather's Hat'.  Its kind of a Michigan thing, but some really good fingerpickin' grinnin'  -- yep - that Jeff Daniels.

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Well, I have been playing with a gift I was given this weekend of a brand new DAB digital radio (or HD in the US?) for my workshop. WOOT!!

A great friend from Missouri recently gave me a few hundred LPs, with all sorts of folk, Bluegrass and Jazz music. Some of it long our of print and/or obscure. All in near mint condition, too1

been busy transferring them to my computer, as I spin them. I listen to a couple of the Lps each morning as i read e-mail, visit the forums, etc..., and transfer them as I listen. Today, I've gone through a couple of Mason Williams LP's(kind of a jazzy version of John Hartford <g>), and a Johnny Smith album from 1967.

Sweet!

Oh, also this morning, we watched the Remembrance Day festivities on Parliament Hill In Ottawa, then my wife called her Dad, a WWII(and D-Day) veteran. We also listened to a recording from a NC group called "The Storytellers". They travel around, and sit down and record stories of interest, and then make a accurate "play" of it. In this case, they sat around a table with Jen's Dad and his sister, who recounted their story, and read his letters home, as well as his own personal journal. The Storytellers then go on stage and play the parts, including a young fella reading the journal as it was written in a young man's voice, etc...
 The recording we have comes from when Jen's dad was invited to a reading of it, where at the end, they announced to the audience that the man from whom the stories came from was in fact present. He was then asked to stand, which he did to a rousing applause. All the stories are true, and accurate.

I thought it fitting to listen to it this morning....


If you have a chance today, go a little out of your way, and thank a Veteran, on this Veterans Day, or Remembrance Day if you're in Canada.

 And if we have any Veterans among us here, let me the first to thank you.

Crosby, Stills, & Nash.

And...

My Mom, who joined up in '41 and came to Texas to train. My Dad, who met my Mom in training camp. Both served for the duration, one in Europe, one in the Pacific, and married the week after they were released. What a love story! Thank all you vets, and thanks Mom and Dad.

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More Monterey Pop trivia:

Buffalo Springfield played, with David Crosby taking Neil Young's place.  Of course, an impossible task, and the performance would have been better off not occurring....  Stills and Crosby tried to hire Neil as a studio musician later.  Right!

Nice thread!

Records, records, RECORDS - did someone mention records!!!  I love em!

Here is Cream's Disraeli Gears on the table at Heshtone global headquarters.  This album is single handedly responsible for the beginning of my well know arrested development......  It is my favorite all time album.



Here we see some of the albums that I regularly play including a reissue of the complete Hendrix 45 speed box set.  Remember 45s?



And my vote for the greatest album of all time - Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.  Miles could play a single note three times with greater feeling than any one who ever lived.......  These are both on 180 gram  versions and the one on the right is a very rare "45" speed edition.  The idea is that at a higher speed more information passes under the needle in the same time period providing superior sound.



Mario thanks for sharing about your wife's Dad.  My dad may have served with him.

Early on before D-Day the Canadians and Americans agreed to form what was to become the first ever special forces brigade for either country.  The Canadians were totally on board with the idea and already had "commandos" trained and ready to go.  The Americans were less than thrilled with the idea and had no commandos.  So..... the Americans decided to send prisoners who could volunteer and be let out of prisons and brigs in exchange for what were described as near suicide missions.  My father was in a brig in the southern US for a joke that he played on a commanding officer.  While being in charge of cleaning the heads he smeared a melted Hersey bar all around a toilet that he has scrubbed and roped off so it could not be used.

Upon inspection with an officer all looked well until they got the last toilet where my father was standing at attention.  The captain said to my father's sergeant "what the hell is that" seeing the melted, brown Hersey bar.  In turn the sergeant said to my father "private what is that?"

My father proceed to take two fingers, scoop some up, eat it, and replied "it tastes like sh*t" sir...." 

He was thrown in the brig for this.......  And you guys think that I go to far sometimes.......

True story.

Well he volunteered for the joint Canadian/American group which was called the First Special Service Forces or The Devil's Brigade.  This brigade sustained well over 100% percent causalities which is possible with constant reinforcement.  They were very famous, decorated, and they made a movie about them called the Devil's Brigade with William Holden.

After the war the unit was disbanded and the American half went on to become the Green Beret.

Many thanks to all who served and served with great honor.  I am VERY proud of my father who is still alive although we have not spoken in years.  I also love him dearly.

Most recent vinyl I played was an old Freddie King album (Sen-Sa-Shun, San-Ho-Say, etc) and the Jimmy Reed album "Live at Carnegie Hall" where you can occassionally hear his wife whispering lyrics in his ear.
As for the Airplane, I took some lessons from Jorma LONG before the Airplane took off. Like when I was in high school, he in college, in the San Jose area. Early 1960's...lots of miles ago!

And God Bless all the veterans who secured for us all the priveleges and freedoms we enjoy.
Had the "other guys won" I doubt any of us would be enjoying this Sunday afternoon!

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What a nostalgia coincidence. This weekend the house rumbled with (and wife and kids begged relief from) Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East 1971. Yaaahhhhh!!!!

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[QUOTE=bob J] Oh, Oh,
Should have ascertained how many, if any, remember 'records' other than those displayed as Gold or Platinum hanging on walls [/QUOTE]

I still have about 800 of them. Actually, my turntable works better than my CD player these days. (CD player is 22 years old).

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I'm reading Skydog The Duane Allman Story. I revisited the well worn albums. What a band!

A short story from the book: After Duane died, they went out as a five piece.  The first night the band just played rhythm during Duane's solos and the whole audience sang Duane parts. That must have been something hard to feel.

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Hesh you do realise that if you haven't got the 1997 Columbia re-issue of Kind of Blue then you have never heard it as Miles and the others played it. All previous issues, including the original were recorded at the wrong speed and are therefore slightly sharp. Ever tried playing along to the earlier recordings? Earlier digital masterings were very tinny sounding (as is most digital stuff!). The 1997 remastering was done on an original tube three-track Presto, and for the first time it has the rich, big true tone and is right on key.

It's the only version I now play. Plus you get both recorded takes of Flamenco sessions.

Colin

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Let us not forget the LED ZEP lads. Sound stage did 3 hr. trib to the lads. When I listened and watched-I realized how easily forgotten such a great group can be.
Hendrix was great because he was Hendrix-virtuosity plus experiment.
Clapton- perhaps the 'cleanest player' ever. He played blues but he never made me weep.
Robert Plant, not the cleanest, but, in my opinion, by far the most innovative player who cajoled, chased ,seemed to magically changed keys and rhythms, sat-upon notes and sounds, squeezed the song and made it cry, wail and pierce my soul.
Kinda like Stevie could play the hell out of th blues, but he did not connect 'his' the blues to my soul.
SOO, RRs, be ready for Sunday and let's hear the wailing emanating from our homes.-ESP Ukrs. You lucky dogs-almost all the greats eminated from there. Perhaps, one reason was the recognized played, and improvized with our greatet music, Blues and RR.

Robert Plant's voice perhaps sometimes sounds like a wailing guitar, but the guitarist in Led Zeppelin was Jimmy Page.

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Ashley Simpson, Hannah Montana, Britney..oh wait, wrong forum!

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Bob J, you were at Cream, Prince Albert, '68? Man! I just saw that one on public TV out in Minneapolis...I'd have given my left arm to have been there, but I'd have been 5 years old and a worse guitarist than I am now what with no left hand and all...what a trio though, and EC's still world-class!

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SORRY, SORRY, Jimmy Page

My wife just bought the new Robert Plant/Allison Krauss CD. Robert doesn't have near the range now, but I have to admit he and Ally blend together quite nicely. Kind of a different sound for both of them. I like it.

Course, when it comes to R & R, Allman Bros. Fillmore really gets me going...Duane we miss you.

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[QUOTE=Hesh]  I am VERY proud of my father who is still alive although we have not spoken in years.  I also love him dearly.
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Hesh, Call your Dad. Life is too short.

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Well this morning I was listening to a little Humble Pie on the way to work. Last night while in the shop, after Hesh's post on the new top braces where he showed what was on his iPod, I put on Live at the Filmore east and got mellow for a couple hours. I picked up Yusef last night so this evening I will be listening to it

I only have one piece of vinyl

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Hesh my friend,
I'm afraid the worst day of your life may be the one he he is no longer here and you did not have the 'talk' thatneeded to happen. Nothing is so bad it can't be talked about. Whether the result is good or bad you will have no regrets for the talk. The courage is in dialing.
Bob
I had same experience with my 'colder-than- ice, nothing good to say about me, no hugs/kisses and I still regret not attempting to talk before his demise.
Shalom