Kevin Bresnahan Posted January 21, 2019 Report Posted January 21, 2019 7 hours ago, sidewinder said: The laminated sleeve is in pretty good condition for its age. Sonics remain excellent, apart from side 2 track 1 ‘Brazil’ staying stuck in groove unfortunately. Other than that - amazingly good considering that the vinyl looks as if it had a past life as a frisbee. I once took an LP with a skip into work where I looked at it under a microscope and performed a bit of surgery with an Exacto knife. It now plays with a decent pop, but at least it no longer skips. Another record I had used to pop and/or skip. I figured if it worked once, maybe it would again. It turned that this record had a chunk of vinyl in the groove. I popped it out and you can barely hear any pop there now. Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 Max Roach - Chattahoochee Red (Columbia) Steve Lacy - Flakes (RCA Vista Italy) Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 Don Patterson - Patterson's People (Presting mono). Another from my real estate agent friend - probably the last I'll play before I get the rest cleaned. Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 Wardell Gray - Way Out Wardell (Crown) Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 4 hours ago, jeffcrom said: Wardell Gray - Way Out Wardell (Crown) How's the pressing of this one? Quote
porcy62 Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 A Ryko reissue, coloured vinyl, some bonus tracks, going on sale, I keep my old pressing. I admit Bowie, like Genesis, wasn't my cup of tea then, nor he's now. Quote
HutchFan Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 The Chico Hamilton Special (Columbia) Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 22, 2019 Report Posted January 22, 2019 (edited) 11 hours ago, Big Beat Steve said: How's the pressing of this one? Not bad. About what you would expect from a Crown. Edited January 22, 2019 by jeffcrom Quote
HutchFan Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 Coleman Hawkins and Pee Wee Russell - Jam Session in Swingville (Prestige, 2 LPs) Now playing: Record 1 - with Hawk, Joe Newman, Vic Dickenson, Jimmy Hamilton, et al Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 Circle - Gathering (CBS/Sony Japan) Quote
paul secor Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 39 minutes ago, HutchFan said: Coleman Hawkins and Pee Wee Russell - Jam Session in Swingville (Prestige, 2 LPs) Now playing: Record 1 - with Hawk, Joe Newman, Vic Dickenson, Jimmy Hamilton, et al Have it on CD - nice one. Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 Chu Berry - The Calloway Years: 1937-1941 (Merritt). Side three of this double LP, with a complete 1938 broadcast by the Calloway band recorded by Jerry Newman. Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man (Atco) Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 (edited) The Beatles - Yesterday and Today (Capitol mono). In the canon, this is an odd US collection of singles and tracks left off the American versions of several British albums. But if there were someone who only had one Beatles album (like me), this is just about perfect - prime 1965-66 Beatles in glorious mono. Edited January 23, 2019 by jeffcrom Quote
soulpope Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 6 hours ago, HutchFan said: 👍👍!! Quote
Big Beat Steve Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 12 hours ago, jeffcrom said: Not bad. About what you would expect from a Crown. This can be a WIDE field. The reason I was asking: I recently bought two (cheaply priced) period copies (one for a collector friend) of Crown CST 332 released in c.1963 (Whitey Pullen, here doing mostly country songs, but a "cult" figure among rockabilly collectors) from the special offer Country bin in a local secondhand record store. Both vinyls look fairly shiny and OK and do not show much visual signs of wear and use, yet the sound - of which we did not expect any miracles - - is rather muffled and low, maybe even more than what I'd expect from a Crown. Figuring this may also have been a case of dirt I cleaned them with alcohol and test-played them at once. Surprisingly the sound of BOTH brightened up distinctly while the surface was still wet but got dull and muffled again when the alcohol had flashed off. As a long-time collector, have you ever noticed anything like this on a Crown? I have come to expect all sorts of things from Crown vinyls such as bubbling spots in the surface and inclusions of foreign matter but have not experienced such a difference of wet/dry fidelity before. Quote
jeffcrom Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 I've never experienced anything like that. My copy of Way Out Wardell has the usual hiss all my handful of Crowns have, but doesn't have the muffled sound you describe. Quote
paul secor Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 57 minutes ago, porcy62 said: Original Mono. Have one of those too. Quote
mjazzg Posted January 23, 2019 Report Posted January 23, 2019 12 hours ago, jeffcrom said: Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man (Atco) I haven't listened to that or any other Hathaway in far too long. Tremendous album. Thanks for the reminder Quote
soulpope Posted January 24, 2019 Report Posted January 24, 2019 On 23.1.2019 at 4:28 AM, jeffcrom said: Donny Hathaway - Extension of a Man (Atco) Classic .... Quote
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