What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol.IX)

Posted by: Richard Dane on 01 January 2013

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by Haim Ronen

To warm up a chilly rainy afternoon.

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by apye!

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by Chords

There is a famous Pachelbel's Canon on it; the ordinary version as you know I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Af372EQLck

And the real Canon (Savall):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfvSReiPQtU

Be careful; not the same music.

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by GML

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by naim_nymph

Recorded in Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin on 20-23 March 2009

My copy a very recent purchase and fresh out the wrapper : )

Debs

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by joerand

Band on the Run. Paul McCartney and Wings. On vinyl from 1973. Lots of crackles on this one from lots and lots of use. Just adds to the warmth for me.

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by naim_nymph

Band on the Run

...from Wiki:

The cover photo was taken on 28 October 1973 by photographer Clive Arrowsmith against the gable end wall of the stable block in Gunnersbury Park. It depicts the now iconic view of Paul, Linda and Denny plus six other well-known people dressed as convicts caught in the spotlight of a prison searchlight. They are:

Michael Parkinson (chat-show host and journalist)
Kenny Lynch (actor, comedian and singer)
James Coburn (actor)
Clement Freud (columnist, gourmet, raconteur, Member of Parliament, Just a Minute panellist and grandson of Sigmund)
Christopher Lee (actor)
John Conteh (Liverpool boxer who later became World Light-Heavyweight champion)

References to the cover were to be made later by McCartney himself (in the video for "Spies Like Us", along with Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd) as well as others.

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by joerand

The 25th Anniversary edition box set (1999) is nicely presented. It includes the original Band on the Run album remastered on CD, a mini poster, a booklet, and a second CD with rehearsals, outtakes, and interviews with those on the cover.

Dustin Hoffman also has interesting comments regarding his role in challenging McCartney to put "Picasso's Last Words" to song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ9iNYzDIb0

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by naim_nymph

I used to have an early pressing copy of Band on the Run in my original LP collection. *

It was a good copy, no surface noise, excellent SQ, i really enjoyed it : )

* The the collection i regret selling 20 years ago...

Debs

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by ewemon

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by joerand

Debs,

Amazing how the vinyl and its cover/inner contents represents a real physical connection to the past.....a time, a place, an event, ....even smells. Would anyone regret "selling" a FLAC file? What provenance does that hold?

Posted on: 27 May 2013 by ewemon