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'Twas a hot night, the window unit was on all night. I got six hours in and now the unit is off and I’m going to listen for a while since it’s cool for a spell. Starting off with another disc from the “Enjoying the Ride” sixtieth anniversary Grateful Dead box set, thie earliest one I’ve played yet, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY (3/16/73), disc 1   140×105 3.9 KB    

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😁 Certainly a nice compilation and a nice try to (re)create a period-looking cover, but with this subtitle Bear Family shot themselves right in the foot.   (Sez me, the collector not only of music but also of collectible cars, as well as  linguist ). Some English native speakers will probably have wondered about what the "tuned cars" may be doing there in the title. To explain: In German, the (Anglicism) term of "Tuning" refers to hotting up an engine or car, whereas - as you in the US will certainly agree - in its original english core meaning, "tuning" just refers to setting up ("tuning up") an engine (or suspension, for that matter) properly so it works perfectly as it should. Bear Family rather ought to have written "Hopped-Up Cars" (to use a period term) here.  Oh well ...  True, unfortunately, but CDs need not even be located right by the window to see the booklets inside the jewel cases fade over time. My music rooom that holds most of my collection has a fairly large window (and yes, "My Window Faces The South" ). But my CDs are a good 4 meters (more than 13 ft.) away from the window at the back wall of the room (and part of the CDs are on a rack at right angles to the window), and yet certain colors (red, in particular, as you say) of the spines did fade. I've noticed this particularly on the Chronological Classics CDs.  BTW, I've also noticed this on certain orange or similarly-colored LP spines. Although, as in the case of certain book dust jackets or paperback covers, I tend to put this down more to printing ink quality. Because some suffer, and some don't. 

Wisconsin haul. Milwaukee was kinda' sweet having a kick-ass record store next to Half Price: Volte Records: Trane. Blue Trane, but the mono version, BN Japan ($4 okay) Vince Guaraldi. Latin Side of Vince Guaraldi. Fantasy OJC (grew up listening to this stuff!, absolutely love it) Kenny Dorham. Jazz Contemporary. Sealed, Time Japan Eric Dolphy. Conversations. Sealed, FS/Douglass. Fills out Iron Man in the same issue series I only had half of. Half Price next door: Horace Silver.  To frame the sleeve on the wall. BN Japan reprint (not a tone poem, but selling at $20). Looks slick, no wring ware, record is so-so, but still!