Blue and PRS Visit
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jazzy_daveGolly gosh coming42has voted "Blue" as one of his favourite albums - well i too bought "Blue" by Joni Mitchell back in the seventies ,and whilst i have that one on CD i also have "Ladies of The Canyon" in beautifiul gatefold vinyl, purchased in Seaford from a charity shop over two years ago for about £4 - and it is in pristine condition.
It is true our tastes our very different (generally) and whilst his taste in music is very mainstream, i suppose you could say, overall, mine's more experimentalist and avant-garde. Sometimes crossing over towards mainstream and beyond. I wouldn't have considered Led Zeppelin as being mainstream (Zep 4 is a corker of an album anyway) but latter day Pink Floyd after "Meddle" as being more mainstream. The Tracy Thorn album is lovely short and sweet (and i am not talking her recent release either). The new Nick Cave venture Grinderman clocks in at 40 minutes and Ben Frost's "Theory of Machines" at just over 38 minutes for a CD - but all three are at just the right length and none overstay their welcome.
Interestingly both the Grinderman and Ben Frost CD's are not in standard CD jewel case format and both look closer to the look, feel,and artwork found on vinyl. Infact neither is in a digipak format,and the Ben Frost one is a tryptych which folds outwards with CD in the right pouch and the booklet in the left pouch.
But when it comes to artwork vinyl still holds up against all competitors. At least with some companies producing CD's there is a modicum of thought gone into the packaging. Some examples which come to mind would be the Albert Ayler box set on Revenant or any Revenant CD for that matter,those Finnish underground music CD's on the Fonal label,and any well annotated compilation such as those Old Hat recordings.
Anyway lsst night i took a train over to Hastings for a PRS live vist to "Venue M" - it was a local big band jazz group playing music in the mainstream of jazz and some bebop tunes such as "Tanga" by Dizzie Gillespie, and a real thumping groovy version of "Theme From Sesame Strreet" (which the Free Design covered). It was quite a good evening and i arrived home about 12.30.
coming42has voted "Blue" as one of his favourite albums - well i too bought "Blue" by Joni Mitchell back in the seventies ,and whilst i have that one on CD i also have "Ladies of The Canyon" in beautifiul gatefold vinyl, purchased in Seaford from a charity shop over two years ago for about £4 - and it is in pristine condition.It is true our tastes our very different (generally) and whilst his taste in music is very mainstream, i suppose you could say, overall, mine's more experimentalist and avant-garde. Sometimes crossing over towards mainstream and beyond. I wouldn't have considered Led Zeppelin as being mainstream (Zep 4 is a corker of an album anyway) but latter day Pink Floyd after "Meddle" as being more mainstream. The Tracy Thorn album is lovely short and sweet (and i am not talking her recent release either). The new Nick Cave venture Grinderman clocks in at 40 minutes and Ben Frost's "Theory of Machines" at just over 38 minutes for a CD - but all three are at just the right length and none overstay their welcome.
Interestingly both the Grinderman and Ben Frost CD's are not in standard CD jewel case format and both look closer to the look, feel,and artwork found on vinyl. Infact neither is in a digipak format,and the Ben Frost one is a tryptych which folds outwards with CD in the right pouch and the booklet in the left pouch.
But when it comes to artwork vinyl still holds up against all competitors. At least with some companies producing CD's there is a modicum of thought gone into the packaging. Some examples which come to mind would be the Albert Ayler box set on Revenant or any Revenant CD for that matter,those Finnish underground music CD's on the Fonal label,and any well annotated compilation such as those Old Hat recordings.
Anyway lsst night i took a train over to Hastings for a PRS live vist to "Venue M" - it was a local big band jazz group playing music in the mainstream of jazz and some bebop tunes such as "Tanga" by Dizzie Gillespie, and a real thumping groovy version of "Theme From Sesame Strreet" (which the Free Design covered). It was quite a good evening and i arrived home about 12.30.
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