Liquid Tension Experiment

just got in mail yesterday and will probably play some tonight...
2 sun ra LP, the other side of the sun, strange celestial road.
2 faust LP
roscoe mitchell LP
medeski martin and wood LP.

The best on the album... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klGa_J36dm8

This is an excellent SACD. . . almost like an anti-anxiety pill

lot of oldies but goodies here.  i'm listening to a relatively new artist in Priscilla Ahn's "A Good Day".  nice inoffensive sound, in the veins of sarah mclachlin/norah jones.

Great fun

Cool. I tried, but she doesn't do that much for me.

My most recent favorite thing is a 50th anniversary Amercan Deluxe Stratocaster, special edition mahogany body.  Wow.

Hey Dennis, I'll try to post more often.

Lon,

Just listened to the Miles Davis album myself the other evening.  A great piece!

Last night was Santana's "Shaman", ELO's "Time", Dave Grusin's "Night-Lines", and Chic's "Risque".  Was a long session, but very good.

bill

I usually don't post on this forum because when I am listening to my system, I am doing it actively from my listening position and am away from the computer.  I posted a few days back because a member had was listening to the same album I had just listened to a few evenings before.  Last nights listening session caused me to make this post.  Last night I listened to Steely Dan's "Aja",  Al Hirt's "Horn A-Plenty" (both vinyl), Susan Tedeschi's "Back To The River", and Black Crowes's "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion" (both on CD).  It was because of Black Crowse that I am writing this.

I bought this CD in the late nineties.  At the time I was stationed aboard ship (retired Coast Guard), so I only had a small CD player and headphones.  I didn't like the CD that much.  I listened again a few years ago through my surround sound system, and again I didn't like the album that much.  In the years that I have had the CD, I probably only listened to it no more than a half dozen times.  I decided to dust it off last night and listen to it through the Torrii MKII and the HDTs.  WOW, what a difference a system can make.  I actually liked the album for the first time.  Sonically, it is a much better recording than I had remembered it.  It still isn't on top of my favorites list, but I won't be keeping it in the rack between listening sessions as long now.

On a side note, I just got the Susan Tedeschi CD the other day, and it is absolutely fantastic (if you like hard rockin blues).  First of her work that I have ever listened to.

bill

Laughing at you, Lon (not in a bad way and yes, I see the post is a couple of weeks old). You once made mention of how you did not care for my selection of Hampton Hawes' work.

I've been on a Hampton Hawes kick for about a week, now, as has my ten year old son ...

:D

Hey, thanks for the heads-up on that sale! Lots of great stuff available there.

With all the "hoopla"  surrounding the Beatles' Remasters, the BB store where I work has opened their merchandising suggestion box to all interested staff. For a while they have had some Martin Logan Electrostatic hybrid (they use woofers) speakers set up in the "high dollar area."  Not long ago I set up a turntable and Denon receiver - not too bad, really. (Basically, it is some of the "best" stuff you can buy at any BB store) It does a half decent job of showing off vinyl with some recordings and it is our way of capitalizing upon the recent resurgence of interest in vinyl.

Sunday, one of the youngsters brought in a "Sgt. Peppers"  album that he found in his dad's closet.

I immediately had a good look at it. I am not that much of an LP collector or anything, but I was around and sort of aware while these albums were being produced. I immediately recognized an early release! I also saw these albums re-released, re-pressed -  ad nauseum -  to keep up with the demand.
His dad's album, which this kid brought in and just left lying around, was a Black Rainbow Capitol, in excellent condition, from the third run, off the second master, as far as I can remember from my own research over at Hoffmann's site, trying to identify my own couple-of-dozen early "Pepper's"  treasures.

I told him not to leave it here at the store, unprotected. It was probably too valuable to play in this environment, anyway, I tried to warn him. Sure enough, today (the FOLLOWING DAY, FFS!!), someone stole it!
Some days, it is very difficult to not hate people!

Enough with the depressing asides, for now!  Back to "What's Spinning."


I have been enjoying a few vocal things, lately, as well. Not normally what I reach for, but with some influence from my wife and her taste (we're able to spend more time together, lately - this is good!), I have recently spun up some Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Eddie Arnold, C,S,N&Y, Mandisa, etc - that is to say, a widely mixed bag of vocal artists, well outside my normal range.

She does not get jazz and becomes quite stressed if I (or my son, for that matter) push too much on her, but I have managed to give her quite a bit of enjoyment from my simple system, by allowing her taste in music to prevail a bit. I have also developed a great deal more appreciation for the recordings that made these vocalists so popular.

I feel like that I should hide for going so long and just NOW discovering the value this type of expression for myself.

See a few familiar faces round these parts  :)

Wow!  19 Sade shows!  I'm envious.

Hi Rap!

Right now

Did you record all those shows. . .were they all Sade shows, those 19?  If so, I repeat "Wow."

I've been listening to piano giants. . . Duke, Monk, Bill Evans, and some interpretations of Ravel solo piano pieces today.

Dawg, was it Hampton Hawes or Oscar Peterson we were talking about in the past?  I remember waxing on about Oscar, that I wasn't that in to him.  Ironically, one day a few years ago he just clicked with me and I started collecting some of his trio and solo works of the fifties and sixties and seventies.  I still don't really get his stuff from the eighties and on up, but I may one of these days.

Dawg, you are my hero... can I be your friend? I can't even imagine having that sort of music library!  8-)

*just freaking hides!!!*  





I'm still doing electric guitar, for now.