Did you buy any Vinyl today?

[newdreams]

Off ebay - first time buying vinyl at a distance
The Insect Trust: Insect Trust 180gm vinyl (rare 1970 era NY psychedelia)

McCoy Tyner: Expansions Blue Note reissue LP
Lou Donaldson: Blues Walk Blue Note reissue LP
Now I have to wait...

[bauzace50]

Won the bid in eBay: Beethoven 9th symphony, including Side 4 with snippets of rehearsals of all movements by conductor Pierre Monteux. Quite interesting rehearsal morsels, including powerful unintended, unfiltered occasional bass-drum taps (the player was tapping to his own clock, not the conductor's). But the bass drum in the actual musical production seems to be filtered, with hardly any impact at all.
Listening to the rehearsal snippets brings back my choral memories of participation in similar productions...valuable for the nostalgia.
The musical production itself is very good. Mr. Monteux knew his stuff as conductor. The recording by Westminster is very good (age unspecified, around 1960?).
Instrumental locations are somewhat unorthodox, but instrumental timbres are very faithfully captured...good microphones! Breadth is favored over depth, and the chorus is somewhat dimly captured. Ah, and the clarinets...wonderful throughout...what lovely sounds from this instrument (esp. on third movement)!
For once it's thrilling to hear a world-class tenor (Jon Vickers) singing his part in strongly effective fashion! Idem on the bass-baritone part.
The overall interpretation gives a thrilling 9th, somewhat similar to the modern Solti/Chicago reissue, but with somewhat less impact than good ole Solti (the Screaming Skull?) could whip up! Orchestral finesse is, also, not up to the excruciating discipline of Berlin/Karajan, but it's very good nonetheless.
An endearing production of London Symphony Orchestra, on the World Record Club label, recorded by Westminster. Examples crop up occasionally in eBay.
bauzace50
P.S.- The LPs came in good condition. The 2-LP cover smells awful...it is now quarantined inside a box with several mothballs, to camouflage its odor. The LPs are freshly washed, with new sleeves, and kept in safe storage until the cover smells better.

[Blue Angel]

Thanks Carlos

A valuable and knowledgable insight. Mine does'nt smell at least but you may have a better copy. Monteux was a great conductor, very charismatic and capable of great vigor (when he felt like it!).

I have a picture of him somewhere where the proud dad towers over his kneeling (flautist?) son after some performance.

blue

[sparrow]

david Bowie - Low.

PIL - First Edition & Live in Tokyo.

Peter Gabriel - 4 & So.

Steve Hillage - And not Or.

Genesis - Trespass.

Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls.

Fripp & Eno - Evening Star.

All for 27 pounds which is good as I only had 30 to spend on strict instruction from my other half.

[JollyJeweller]

David Bowie - The man who sold the world. released 1970 . Cost...99 pence, brilliant LP!!
Rolling Stones - Some Girls, paid £1.99, OK needs some attention from the disc washer.
Sparrow, some good stuff there, esp. Trespass, PG 4 & So, and Ferry, B&G's was a very under rated LP.

[Mark E Smith's Dentist]

Got 40 albums the other day for a pound each.

Highlights include 8 by Tom Waits, the Gang of Four debut, two by Foetus, four by the Cure, a Nico live album, one by Josef K, one by My Bloody Valentine, one by Nick Drake, a Misty in Roots and an EP by A Witness on Ron Johnson records.
The guy also sold me a nice Rega Planar 2/RB250/Super Bias for £50!

JT

[newdreams]

Joe Morello - "It's About Time" RCA Living Stereo, 1961, near mint. Manufactured by Teldec (Telefunken/Decca) Germany. Phil Woods on alto sax, and a very young Gary Burton on vibes. Found at The Turntable in Victoria BC, Canada

[dcg69]

- The Smiths , " Strangeway here we comes "
- Egberto Gismonti, "Danca das cabecas "
- Blonde Redhead , " La mia vita violenta "

Cheers,
Carmelo

[RED_One]

Ordered 11 albums which just arrived & I'm not even halfway through playing them but so far incredibly well pleased
Postage was a bit more to ship from USA but they arrived much quicker than I thought about 1 week. (Still reasonable though)

So I thought I'd give the lady a plug seeing as how I got the link from here in the first place

Highly recommended

http://www.stephsrecordsale.com

[JollyJeweller]

Have just negotiated the purchase of:

King Crimson : Starless and Bible Black
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack & Night at the Opera
Jeff Wayne: War of the Worlds
Captain Beefheart : Trout mask replica
Can: Tago mago
Hoslips : The Tain
Mott the Hoople

Should be with me early next week....

[sparrow]

Have just negotiated the purchase of:

King Crimson : Starless and Bible Black
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack & Night at the Opera
Jeff Wayne: War of the Worlds
Captain Beefheart : Trout mask replica
Can: Tago mago
Hoslips : The Tain
Mott the Hoople

Should be with me early next week....

Some great albums there Jollyjewler.. The Horslips is a classic. their Celtic Symphony album is fantastic.. Tago Mago by Can is probably their best but does take a few listens to get into.




Led Zeppelin II 200g. Arrived this morning looking forward to thumping it out later.

[idiotec]

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Jonny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways

[davidsss]

Bought Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow new the other day but it's slightly warped - it does play but I think I'll have to take it back and see if they have a flat copy.

Recently bought:
Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones
Jumping Jive by Joe Jackson
Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto
With or Without You 12" single by U2

And, a pile of classical at $2 and $1 each at a charity shop.

DS

[JollyJeweller]

Hey Sparrow...yup, I'm currently trying to source a decent copy of The Book of Invasions: A Celtic Symphony.
A mate of mine at school in the 70's had Tain & Invasions but i never got around to taping them...cassettes eh !
I've got The man who built America, but there were chasing the yankee dollar by then and had gone a bit poppy.

Todays eBay buys:
John Mayall : The Turning Point ( a recommendation from this forum)
Creedence Clearwater: Willy and The Poor Boys.
Mahavishnu : Inner Mounting Flame, recommended by you chaps and Mojo.