Yeah, Jimmy was nodded off with a needle in his arm, so Jonesy managed to sneak Carouselambra in.

: heart:

Also, Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality & Volume 4, Aerosmith's Toys & Rocks, & the Stones' Beggars Banquet & Let It Bleed are all great back-to-back releases that are vinylific.

I loved vinyl but by the early 80's most of the pressings had gotten waferthin, shift on the couch and they'd skip. Of course, CDs sounded like crap in those days so there you go. Plus it got to be too much lifting when moving.

And I needed party money one day so off to the used store it all went. I have some regrets but wtf, I sure enjoyed them while I had them. As stated above, the best part about vinyl were the covers, liner notes, posters, stickers and such. I remember how disappointing it was to get a plain white sleeve.

As for GFR, they are the favorite band of Paul Leary, the guitarist of the Butthole Surfers. Over on their board he's posted some great stories about sneaking into their shows when he was 13 with a canteen full of booze, waaayyy back in the day.

He used a sample from a GFR live album for the BHS song Barking Dogs. "Brothers & sisters in the front row...if he hands you anything, don't take it!"

I had over 2000 albums at one point....I wish I had never sold them

Speaking of vinyl, great back to back albums, and the Butthole Surfers, I'd recommend picking up Locust Abortion Technician & Hairway To Steven.

I know what you mean. I have a Johnny River's greatest hits album and the thing is insanely thick and then I look at my 1984/Appetite for Destruction and they're very thin almost flimsy feeling.

I don't know if this is because of how many songs there are on each side but Appetite for Destruction sounds kinda distorted as you get to the last song on each side.

Not that I totally disagree, but not every vinyl is equal. There are still some specialty/indie labels produce thick (180g or more) records. They also use the 12 inch single format a lot which tends to be far superior in quality to other formats (such as the 12 inch LP or the 7 inch single).

Generally, I still have many records with superb sound quality. In fact, I'd argue that many of my records sound better than recent digital remasters of them. High-fidelity audio, apparently, does not matter much to most people anymore. People are content with low-quality MP3s and similar. Case in point: if you ask people about what they desire most in a mobile audio device, sound quality is *not* one of the top 5 answers!! Also, people buy stuff that has horrible dynamic range (see this article on wikipedia for a detailed discussion).

To me, the bottom line is that I sometimes get better audio quality by digitizing, say, a twenty year old record than by buying a horribly remastered version on iTunes/Amazon.com/etc. in which the dynamic range is compressed like **** to make the tune sound louder and punchier.

http://www.sakurasystems.com/products/koma.html

I saw Foghat live in the early 70s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Gmex_4hreQ

Here is a pic of my "rarities"

I'm working on getting myself a copy of UYI 1 and perhaps Live Era '87-93.

Since I spent about $50 getting UYI 2 and I'll probably spend near that to get the first one I'm starting to wonder if I should just frame them and put them on the wall so they do not get damaged. I wouldn't be able to listen to them but I sure could admire their beauty.

I think I found a hobby that will bankrupt me.

I may make a trip to the record store tomorrow and look for some 90's Alternative/Grunge.

I know music in this category for the most part is rare and expensive (Soundgarden/Stone Temple Pilots is a good example) due to the fact most of it is out of print and you just don't see it often.

I like the big bands of Grunge (Nirvana, SG, Pearl Jam, etc.) but I'd like to expand some. Any recommendations for stuff to look for? I don't like punk for the most part so if I can keep it in the grunge/alternative realm that'd be good.

Bump for the vinyls!

Vinyl sales highest for 15 years.

http://www.bpi.co.uk/media-centre/su...h-in-2013.aspx



BPI figures show that vinyl album sales for 2013 were the highest since 1997, with Arctic Monkeys' AM the bestselling vinyl.

Vinyl sales are at their highest level for 15 years, according to figures from the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and the Official Charts Company.
Just over 780,000 vinyl albums were sold in 2013 – the largest number since 817,000 were sold in 1997. The 2013 figure also constitutes a 101 per cent rise on 2012 sales.
British rock group Arctic Monkeys's AM was the biggest selling vinyl album of the year, ahead of Daft Punk's Random Access Memories and David Bowie's The Next Day.
The biggest-selling album across all formats in 2013 was Now That's What I Call Music 86, which sold 1.1m copies, while the biggest-selling album by an individual artist was One Direction's Midnight Memories, which sold 685,000 copies in the six weeks it was out at the end of the year.
One Direction follow Emeli Sandé (2012), Adele (2011) and Take That (2010) as another British act to have the year's bestselling non-compilation album.


The biggest-selling single of the year was Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams's controversial Blurred Lines, followed by Daft Punk's Get Lucky (also featuring Williams), and Avicii's Wake Me Up.
Digital album sales were also up, by 6.8 per cent, although the percentage of overall album sales that CDs accounted for fell from 76.8 per cent in 2012 to 64 per cent in 2013.
Subscriptions to digital streaming sites such as Spotify and Deezer rose above £100m for the first time, while overall revenues from music sales again topped £1 billion.
Mark Foster, MD of Deezer UK & Ireland, said:
"It’s been a monumental year for British music and for streaming services. We’ve witnessed a surge in demand in the UK as people have caught on to the fact that they can enjoy a huge catalogue of music, anywhere."

Wow... back from the dead!

I am listening right now... Ennio Morricone "Sicilian Clan" Soundtrack, from Italy.



I buy a lot of stuff from Europe.

My wife bought an Admiral console stereo in 1968 similar to this


It still works, but we doezzent hardly play no rekkerds no mo. Some time in the mid 80s I went to buy a replacement needle. Only one place nearby had any, and he only had two. He told me that I'd better buy them both because I wouldn't find any place that would carry them any more, since everything was going to be on tape from then on. He was right. The store that he was in is now a dry cleaner. Of course (almost) nobody had envisioned the internet back then.

That console still takes up space along the wall of the family room. It mainly serves as a platform for a lamp, cordless phone and as a sideboard for dishes and stuff when we eat down there.

I have Guns n' Roses, 'Live And Let Die' limited edition on orange vinyl.
Dunno how rare it is tho'.

I also have:
Frankie Goes To Hollywood, 12'' 'Relax' in original picture sleeve.
Eric Clapton, 12'' 'Edge Of Darkness' E.P.
Status Quo, 'Never Too Late' album
Laibach, 'Nova Akropola'
and a bunch of UB40 L.P's

hard to find the original textured cover of this release.

Looks like Jonny Depp in the Lone Ranger.. If he'd played the Lone Ranger.
I love Neil Young, and GnR were my staple diet as a clild.