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

Compared to what ...

Green on Red first ep in 1981

Bruce Springsteen > The River (24/44.1)

This is perfect late night listening. Abdullah Ibrahim, 'Water From An Ancient Well'.

JJ Cale  - The Very Best Of

1976 - Sounds better than the CD after all these years.

Tony2011 posted:

MDS posted:

Tony2011 posted:

 

Don't think I've seen that on cassette before, Tony 

Mike, Yes, I used to have most of their tapes but they went missing when I sold my old MGB years ago. I still have Presence somewhere in the house. This is what's left. 

 

Nice! What tapedeck do you have? I've still got my Sony TC-KA7ES. I was even able to score two sealed boxes full of TDK tapes a couple of years ago on a site who still sells blank tapes. Used them to make copies from my lp's.

Drikus posted:

Tony2011 posted:

MDS posted:

Tony2011 posted:

 

Don't think I've seen that on cassette before, Tony 

Mike, Yes, I used to have most of their tapes but they went missing when I sold my old MGB years ago. I still have Presence somewhere in the house. This is what's left. 

 

Nice! What tapedeck do you have? I've still got my Sony TC-KA7ES. I was even able to score two sealed boxes full of TDK tapes a couple of years ago on a site who still sells blank tapes. Used them to make copies from my lp's.

After my trials with a Naka 682ZX and a 1.5 I'm currently using a humble Naka deck 2 doing the duties. I used to record most of my music on SA-90 and MA-90 tapes. Those were the days. That Sony is a very nice 3 header deck!

Late Junction on R3. Very quietly. It's the end of the day.

 On recent vinyl - LP12 resurrected.

....and this on vinyl (blue!):

Last one of the evening Paul Simon  - Paul  Simon, excellent debut solo album that had to follow Bridge Over Troubled  Water. Goodnight

Alan

PJ Harvey & John Parish   A Woman A Man Walked By  LP

Now Playing.......

Jon Balke w/ Magnetic North Orchestra - Further

Jon Balke (piano, keyboards), Jens Petter Antonson (trumpet), Per Jørgensen (trumpet, vocals), Morten Halle (alto saxophone), Tore Brunborg (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone), Gertrud Økland (violin), Trond Villa (viola), Jonas Franke-Blom (cello), Anders Jormin (bass), Marilyn Mazur (percussion), and Audun Kleive (drums).

via CD Player.........  Nice to hear some more trumpet this Tuesday with piano, saxophones, string instruments, percussion & drums! I do love this album!

Now Playing.......

The Moody Blues - A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Via CD player........   Changing the mix, some Moody Blues from '92........  26 years just fly by........... They are sounding mighty fine!

This just arrived via the River from the UK:

Enjoying some more Martha....

On CD:-

The Pineapple Thief - Abducted at Birth

Jeff Anderson posted:

Lindsey Buckingham  -  "Under The Skin"  (2006)  just seemed like the right thing to do, today in particular.

Indeed. Seems Lindsey has been ousted from Fleetwood Mac. Replaced by Petty/Heartbreakers Mike Campbell for guitar and Neil Finn of Crowded House for vocals. Hey now, hey now.

A gentle start...

.sjb

ALANP posted:

Stevee_S posted:

(1991)

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble - The Sky Is Crying

This one is a fine collection of various studio numbers rescued from the  'cutting room floor' after his untimely death in a helicopter crash. Good stuff as ever from the man and his band. 

Love the version of " Little Wing" where you can hear the amps buzzing in the background

Alan

Hi Alan, yes it's a fantasic version of Little Wing, I had to give it a second play at the end of the album. You might find this of interest about the way he preferred his amplification?

Cheers. Steve 

...He favored clean amplifiers with high volume and contributed to the popularity of vintage musical equipment. He often combined several different amplifiers together and used minimal effects pedals. Chris Gill of Guitar Worldcommented: "Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitar tone was as dry as a San Antonio summer and as sparkling clean as a Dallas debutante, the product of the natural sound of amps with ample clean headroom. However, Vaughan occasionally used pedals to augment his sound, mainly to boost the signal, although he occasionally employed a rotating speaker cabinet and wah wah pedals for added textural flair." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Ray_Vaughan

Disc two of this great (and great value) 4-CD set. Two spiffing albums from 1960, Travelin' and That's My Story in magnificent SQ.