What's Spinning Tonight?

What is it that you are spinning tonight?

 

When helping at a used record store, cherry pick those great copies that come thru the door Beautiful mono copy

 

Public Enemy - He Got Game

 

Kanye West – Donda. album of the week, album of the month and for me, album of 2022. Can't believe 4LP's - 8 sides go so quick.
the recording and pressing is very good, but the bass on this album is almost subterranean but it's so clean and controlled in my system - the bass on Jesus Lord and Jesus Lord Pt2 is reference.

 

The Best of Sade

 

How about some more Sade?

 

Ram - Mono

 

Back in the day… this one (among some others) was gifted to me from one of my vinyl buds… what a nice guy.

 

John Foxx And The Maths – Interplay -

 

 

Mono

 

Freak Power - Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out

 

B-15 Project - Girls Like Us

 

I saw them a few times back in the day, the most memorable show was in August '74 at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ. It was the night that Nixon resigned his Presidency, Nash came out on the stage during intermission to announce it , crowd went crazy and when they came back out they appropriately started out by playing Ohio.

 

Blancmange - God's Kitchen / I've Seen The Word

 

 

 

This album had great audiophile education relevance for me. I was in college and worked part time at Paul Heath audio in Rochester NY. Instead of salary, I was paid in gear, at employee accommodation pricing! I bought Tympani I-U's, ARC SP3 and D76 amps. One night, I was at an audiophile buddy's house, who had Marantz 7 and 9 gear, and he just bought Tympani I-U's as well. He then showed me something amazing, which was that the best sound from those speaker came from listening to them on the back side, not the front! He turned the speakers around so his listening room faced the rear of the speakers. He played this album and I was stunned- he was right! The reason was obvious. The magnets of the 1U''s were only on the front side. No magnets on the rear of the panels allowed more transparent sound if you listened to their backside!. Uglier indeed, but it was quite a revelation. Later Maggies (1C and 1D) used magnets on both sides, but I was impressed that a Magneplanar owner used his ears and his brain and figured this out by himself (it was truth Magenpan always denied)! Those early audiophile years were the good old days in many ways. As the Nobel laureate Albert Szent Gorgyi said "discovery is seeing what everybody else sees, and thinking what nobody else thinks".

 

I first saw Leslie West when he played with The Vagrants , they occasionally played at Friday night dances held at Power Memorial High School ( of Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abul Jabbar basketball fame) on the west side of Manhattan. Caught Mountain at the Filmore East. Sorry, I'm on a nostalgia trip today lol

 

Mono