Teasing the Korean

Hmmm. Bad business plan. 17 would be far too many. Greg Mo Greg, that's not what you used to tell me during those late nights in your basement...

Mundell Lowe - TV Action Jazz Vol. 2 - RCA Camden (stereo, blue and purple label). Planning on spinning a lot of crime jazz today.

There are also strobe turntable mats.

Right, but if you put a LP on, then how would you see the markings? With this turntable, even fairly small differences in LP thickness and weight means you need to adjust the speed. You put it on before you play the LP, or if you're bold, you place it on top of the LP. These are usually 7" in diameter or smaller.

They make/made strobe discs that you set on your turntable like a record. I have seen them made of both metal and cardboard. You just make sure you're looking at it in fairly bright artificial light. Here's a free one you can download and print: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/freestuff.htm

78s from the final decade of that medium - stuff recorded on tape and pressed on more durable vinyl - sound AMAZING when played with the right stylus. Of course, older 78 players with those 10 pound tone arms would destroy these records in a single spin. Here is what I've always found curious: Some of the BEST EVER 78 transfers I ever heard were done in the early days of LPs. Not sure why; maybe there were more mint condition 78s at that time, and they may have artificially colored them with tube equipment during the transfers, but in general, they sound better than what I've heard on CD. Anyone have any inside information on how they did those 1950s transfers and why the LPs sound so good?

It would be. It's sad that a bunch of squares have accidentally been given the final word on which "jazz" albums are worthy of being reissued. That is why I buy used vinyl. I don't want to buy into the narrow tastes of a bunch of overweight guys who live in their parents' basements.

For those about to rock: Be glad that some of us have checked out. YOU'LL HAVE LESS COMPETITION WHEN DIGGING THROUGH THE BINS!

I'm hurt that I didn't get an imaginary box set.

As a Latin jazz fanatic, I'd have to choose Chico O'Farrill's Afro Cuban Jazz Suite, followed by three tracks with Machito: No Noise, Okiedoke, and Mango Mangue.

There is some disagreement among sociologists as to whether people born between 62 and 64 are boomers or gen xers.

Senor Tito Rodriguez - Forum (mono) Tito Rodriguez - Latin Jewels - Tico (stereo)

In the late 1990s, I was working in an office. I was in my early 30s at the time. My boss was 20 years older than me, in his early 50s. One day he came back from lunch with a Tower Records bag. To make small talk, I asked him what he bought. His eyes lit up and he said "The new U2!" I remembered seeing U2 live in 1982 before they were anything, when you could walk right up to the ticket center with no line and buy U2 tickets. And here we were 15 or so years later, the guy in his 50s is buying U2, and I'm spending my lunch breaks digging through vinyl in thrift stores, hoping to find oddball easy listening albums on LP - records that were made for guys like my boss during that era. Funny how everything gets turned on its ass.

but PJ Proby ROCKS!

I prefer mono, especially with LPs. The idea of stereo being some sort of an "improvement" over mono is a myth.

What the hell is a CD? All of my posts are in the Vinyl forum. Also, the mono mix of AYBCS on Y&T BLOWS AWAY both the British mono and stereo mixes. I can't listen to either of the latter two, and I'm sure they sound especially dry and sterile on a CD, whatever that is.

Don Ralke - Bongo Madness - Crown (mono) One of 3 or 4 good albums on the Crown label. This one is a minimalist beatnik bongo/flute session.

I'm tired of guys with guitars singing to me.

You forgot the apostrophe in "rat's ass."

I hear you. I'm lucky in both regards!

Every once in while, I'm in a record store, and hear something good on the stereo. I will ask what it is, the emo kid behind the counter will tell me. Of course I've never heard of the band, and while I may like it, I'm not compelled to buy it either. The fact is that rock music doesn't speak to me anymore, not even the old stuff. I'm into too many other genres of music to care about rock. I've become the middle-aged guy who buys jazz albums on his lunch break!

I couldn't get through that whole dissertation, but all the stuff about Beatles' chord progressions - I, IV and V going to relative and parallel majors and minors - is hardly unique. These are some of the most basic tools of harmonic composition.

OG issue? Original on Tribe, green label. How does the reissue sound against the original?

Ray Barretto - The Other Road - Fania Doug Hammond/David Durrah - Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen - Tribe