What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. XIV)
Posted by: Richard Dane on 31 December 2017
On the eve of a new year, it's time for a new thread.
Last year's thread can be found here:
Vinyl released 2018 - just arrived and getting the first play excellent album so far. ????
Played some of this last night - relaxing !
Playing on Compact Disc - Great Steve Miller from 1982
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Kiki Dee - Loving and Free, a lovely album from '73 when Elton John took her under his wing.Featuring some well chosen covers ,a couple of John/Taupin compositions and self penned tunes.Fantastic voice that deserves more than just "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" as a footnote.
Led Zeppelin - The Last Show - Berlin 07.07.80.
I'd somehow never got round to ripping most of the the Zep bootlegs in my collection, but have bitten the bullet this morning, and so
far, it's going quite well, with only a couple of albums requiring me to edit the metadata.
Sound quality is obviously not always the best, but ho hum, it's part of musical history ............. rock on!
dave marshall posted:
Led Zeppelin - The Last Show - Berlin 07.07.80.
I'd somehow never got round to ripping most of the the Zep bootlegs in my collection, but have bitten the bullet this morning, and so
far, it's going quite well, with only a couple of albums requiring me to edit the metadata.
Sound quality is obviously not always the best, but ho hum, it's part of musical history ............. rock on!
I had a huge amount of boots, some I lost through HDD crashes and I also deleted a lot because I couldn't listen to some of the bad quailty recordings. Mind you I still have a reasonable number left in my collection.
Playing on Compact Disc - Still sounds magic all these years since
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Booker T Jones - Potato Hole, the Hammond maestro rocks out on this raw sounding instrumental album.Backed by Drive By Truckers and Neil Young.
Playing on Cassette on TDK AR C60 - 2nd album by Texan Psych legends The Thirteenth Floor Elevators from 1967
Herbie Hancock / Roy Hargrove / Michael Brecker - Directions in music
- Bass – John Patitucci
- Drums – Brian Blade
- Flugelhorn – Roy Hargrove (tracks: 2, 7)
- Piano, Executive Producer – Herbie Hancock
- Tenor Saxophone, Producer – Michael Brecker
- Trumpet – Roy Hargrove
Now playing.........
Sean Rowe - The Salesman and the Shark
Streaming on NAS............ Starting off this Friday morning with the wonderful baritone voice of Sean with this 2012 release. Fantastic songwriter, love his lyrics and his music and he is sounding mighty sweet this morning!
SHM-CD
December 2009
Mojo & Trojan Present Reggae Nuggets.
Finally completed the ripping of all my Led Zep bootlegs, phew.
Must be feeling particularly masochistic today, as I'm now working through all those Mojo monthly CD's which just seem to end up
in a box for another day.
Some rare gems on this one.
Now playing.........
Lizz Wright - Salt
Streaming on NAS........... moving to this 2003 release from Lizz, my oh my what a beautiful voice she pulls you right into the music, really worth a listen, you won't be disappointed!
Playing on Compact Disc - Lovely debut from The Fleetfoxes from 2008
From the 8-CD Problem Child live set, disc seven (Hell Ain't a Bad Place), which was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on 2nd November 1979. I was there! And I touched Angus' satchel! Yay!
one of the CDs that arrived today...
enjoy/ken
Fourplay - Esprit de four
- Bass, Vocals – Nathan East
- Drums, Percussion, Vibraphone, Synthesizer – Harvey Mason
- Guitar, Synthesizer – Chuck Loeb
- Keyboards – Bob James
Playing on Compact Disc - Some live Eric from 1979 to get the last couple of hours work done too 
1975 - US double vinyl reissue of the exceedingly good 1958 album. The Tape Project was selling R2Rs mastered copies of the original for $450.00 a pop. I wonder what the original sounds like. 
Jeroen20 posted:Fourplay - Esprit de four
I have all the Fourplay albums; best/favourite for me is their debut album 'Fourplay' released in 1991 with Bob James on keyboards, Lee Ritenour guitar, Nathan East bass & Harvey Mason on drums.
2nd my list is 'Elixir' release in 1995, same line up but with guest vocals from Phil Collins, Patti Austin & Peabo Bryson.
Bottom line is they are all good & some interesting differences as different band members changed
John Coltrane - Coltrane's Sound
First play for me of this which I purchased used, have ripped to the NS01 and played once. I was surprised that the piano was slightly distorted, which has caused me to check Plays The Blues, which was recorded at the same sessions. Interestingly that has the same issue which I'd not noticed before - must be down to the more revealing nature of the ND555.
