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If the speakers can handle all that intentionally distorted guitars well, they are a hell of speakers.

Agree, Neil's records aren't such bad. For instance my copy of 'Tonight's The Night' is excellent and 'Zuma' has a rough fascinating sound that I like. Overall I could name hundreds of worst recordings and pressings of the seventies.

Really? My Jethro Tull's are fine. Well we're also talking about 1980's era thin crappy vinyl. Of course, sad memories, though some of the new wave/post punk stuff wasn't such bad.

I'm a sucker for that eastern-tinged psych-jazz. All of Gabor's Impulse and Skye albums are worth picking up. Also, Chico Hamilton's 60s Impulse albums with Gabor on Guitar. Agree, I bought all Gabor's records after listening to "Jazz Raga".

Really? My Jethro Tull's are fine.

Got this, nice one!

Dunno, as diehard motorbiker I usually despise car babe, I should see her drive one of this:

sounds like you you should be able to fix that by experimenting with your ignore list

Recording level was often a bit low though, relative to noise. Just playing one of those Argos and although the sound was exquisite, it could have done with being boosted up a bit. A '60s thing, I guess. Yep, sixties' pressings have a bit noisy vinyl, in the seventies' the vinyl compound was better, though I still think they did a great job from recording to pressing. Classical Decca recordings always struck me positively. As the rock/pop stuff.

Yeah, the green light turned red in the highest peaks of the track. Now spinning: Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You - Decca original UK stereo pressing. Man, those guys at the Decca knew how to do a record! Never found a true bad sounding Decca: from John Mayall to Solti's Mahler.

I haven't got any list of Rainbow, though I own several of them, but this thread reminds me that I'd have like some of this stuff reissued in the recent 45 rpm series, instead of the most common big stuff, easier to find in one of the several reissues.

Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove - WB UK pressing, double LP with the title track in a 45 rpm format on the last side. Ages before SH. The dynamic is impressive, it even overload my Linn phono preamp!

No, but it was fun as well. http://www.chickenalaska.com/chicken/index.html

Have a Good one!

I've been in Chicken, Alaska, USA. It was quite an experience.

Not in my view, just to stay in the above bunch let's take the Carla Bley's output, great music, IMHO.

Actually I think that those are old pressings still in the cave. Agree about Terje Rypdal. Fortunately ECM aren't such demanding priced like other labels, I can find used ECM in the less-then-10-euros bin.

No

Gerry Mulligan's Mosaic.

I already have those I like. Maybe someone could be interesed. Some are nice ones. http://www.ecmrecords.com/News/Special_Off...ainrubchooser=2

Ludwig Van Beethoven - Diabelli variations - G. Anda, DG.

I scored 44% (Yankee). Barely into the Yankee category. Funny.

Butler, Missouri? http://www.max71.com/

I hope not, those stuff were really low efficient, back then I consumed at least three sandwiches per afternoon with chopper.

Not according to the news reports I've seen. SUVs and trucks are tougher to move off the lot, and more of them are showing up for trade toward smaller, more efficient vehicles. Correct, but it will need energy aka oil in order to produce smaller, more efficient vehicles. I agree with Guy on this, oil will reach a stabilization, probably around 180/200 $.