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Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna - RCA, US pressing, a great sounding record and great music FWIW

Yeah, I'd only call Hendrix a music genius. American popular music tastes are so low that the "genius" label is tossed about casually. Agree, the Doors as a whole were great and Janis was a great singer, but geniuses...

Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, Tower of Power, Ten Wheel Drive, etc. Yeah, even in U.K. I am listening to Traffic, full of fu***** heavy guitars, no horns... Anyway I agree with Ted, the 60s were the starting point of the decline of the music...and the american empire. The right move was Elvis' one: go to the president Nixon and accusing those bastards coming from Liverpool for spreading the drug's culture among the innocent young americans...innocent WHITE americans.

From what I read, mr. Nugent didn't followed the wise behavior of Keith Richards. http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/1157207

Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk - BN Brother Jack McDuff - Down Home Style - BN Ken McIntyre - Looking Ahead - NJ

There's nothing worst then a penitent in case like these. Just take former smokers, the most annoying people on the earth's face.

Sorry to hear this, I wish you all the best, and, as Conrad said,: Don't panic! I subscribe Eric's couseil too. A good one. Happy hunting, sometimes from bad things come better ones.

Interesting thread, until Chewy will shut it down.

Actually, two third of the crews in America's Cup, and Louis Vuitton Cup, were from New Zealand, and the trimmer of Alinghi is italian. Great competition anyway, the best I remember.

In the records I have it's more a tape noise then a vinyl noise. A proof that they don't cut any frequencies in order to lower the tape hiss.

'Nuff said. If their vinyl is as good as their cars (which I swear by) then I'm there ! Their Blue Notes can be very good too - based on the German Liberty pressings I have from the late 1960s. In general german pressings, even later reissues, are my fave when I can't find original first pressing of rock records at decent price, and often they sounds even better then originals. And, a part any personal opinions about the "sound", ECM pressings are usually stunning in term of vinyl quality.

Really? I've got my eye on a couple of them so will pick them up based on your discriminating comment. Definitely, quiter vinyl and great quality control. They are germans, arent they? And they sound good too! Probably the best sounding reissues out there. A pity that they can't have access to the BN masters.

Far better then Classic reissues. Reccomended.

Those kinds of institutional collections in the US tend to stay boxed up for decades, and no one benefits. Same here, at least since they discover that rats, parasites and humidity damaged forever the books/records. Obviously this doesn't apply to very rare and precious books, of wich italian historical libraries are full. Actually archivals are a serious issue over here, so are art museums. The point is that we have too much masterpieces and not enough public money for conserving and exposing. They should start a policy of fiscal advantage for private foundations.

It appears that most of us are firstborn. That's made Organissimo the smartest jazz forum on the web...or at least we could have been high rank officials in Norvegian Army.

OOOOH, will there be any Umiliani or Piccioni in that haul? I presume so, I had only once a quick check of the things, a part the "usual" nice stuff, original Prestige, BN, ecc, basically almost every italian jazz records pressed after the WWII. Sometimes I think it should go in a serious public library, if only we would have such things for records. The problem that times is that they moved the collection from its original place so it hadn't any order anymore. Difficult to find in it a particular record.

I knew him, creative and funny stuff.

You may try to increase the reading weight of your cartdride to the maximum reccomended, but if it's a pressing's defect, as it appears, I am clueless. On the Steve Hoffman Forum some vinyl nuts use a very thin and affilate blade with a strong light and a hand lens to do the job, the click remains but the skip is gone. Personally I wouldn't try it on my records.

About non dummies, now it's three years since I am trying to buy a huge collection (more then 15,000) of records from the heirs of the collector, an italian jazz crictic. I have a couple of partners in this business and we are ready to put a fair amount of $$$$$ on the table. No way, until now. More a sentimental issue of the sons then money, in this case.

Davis Columbia 1962 1964 Mosaic

Just checked, my copy is fine, # 0427. Did you clean it? Silly question i presume you're already done it. BTW The booklet reports that Mort Fega's indroduction is unissued, but I am sure I already knew it, maybe on the double Digitally Remastered Columbia cd. Am I wrong? Any other Fega's introduction of Miles?

Consider the posts of Chuck and JSngry, put them in the correct order with the thread's title and drawn your own conclusion.

Just for the record: it's a research based on IQ tests of norvegian army between 1967 and 1976. Not a worlwide sample I dare to say. My empirical experience among friends with two or more children is that, a part the language, (the second born usually starts speaking a little later), the second born is smarter and more precocious. At least in early ages. BTW I am a firstborn and I am a living proof of my thesis, in fact my sister has something smarter and better to do then loosing time in a forum like this.

I am not referring to the cost, but to the quality, that usually has a cost, though since big corporations acquired the famous brands, like Harmann Kardon with Mark Levinson, the quality falls down. The point with cd players and, more with TT, is that they have more then PCB inside them. The most usurable parts are the moving ones. Like cd mechanics. Some serious brands improve existing mechanics in order to achieve better sound and durability. Other simply buy insertions in High End magazines. It's been my experience that while the quality of sound that a CD player produces may be proportional to its cost, the same cannot be said for its ability to read some (damaged?) discs, particularly when it comes to CDRs. I think some of the "high end" things they do to the more audiophile players - I dunno, more focused lasers or something - often come at the expense of tracking ability. My default player to check otherwise unplayable discs on is a cheap CD boombox - it plays what others can't. You may be right, though the only unreadable disc for my Linn cd player was a copy protected disc that didn't fullfilled Red Book's software specifications. BTW My latest, and only, boombox played cassettes, cd didn't exist at those times. Actually, today's cd/dvd computer players usually can even read pizzas, as RDK said, but I found some problems with some very lenght cds, 70 minutes or so.

"Quoziente di Intelligenza" in the language of Dante Alighieri, a pretty clever guy.