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Do you still have a house? Lucky you, I keep my records in a cardboard box under a bridge. BTW I have the Analogue reissue of Colossus

Absolutely right. I usually replace the plastic inner sleeves with MFSL or similar sleeves, or rice paper sleeves or paper sleeves. Everything is better then plastic.

is that your favorite mahler 3. i have never found a recording to match a cleveland donanyi live i heard about 12 years I am not a huge Mahler fan, nor an expert about classical music, but I tend to think that if you listen to a big symphony in a good concert hall you feel that 'this' is the performance. I owned several performance of Beethoven's 9 symphony, but I never found again the thrill I had when I heard it live at Royal Albert Hall with London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tennstedt, let's say 15 years ago. Damn! I am ageing.

Not a 50th NY label? I am very disppointed in you

I subscribe that, if only would exist such record, a part Genny G...

I think it depends how the records were stored, temperature and humidity variations probably affected the plastic, we are talking of 30 years of storage, I doubt people keep records in a controlled enviromental, nor do I, but a MFSL, normal paper or rice paper inner sleeves preserve them during a normal usage and storage. I noted this problem expecially with less used records. Decca's rock records are less affected by this. I presume the previous owners listen to them often and didn't leave them in shelves for long time.

Beethoven, piano sonatas Kempff, DG

A part to get back the costs of cleaning fluids and of my time, I would like to put him in a huge plastic inner sleeve full of simil sponge for at least twenty years I don't think Chris had some spare time to invent such thing, he was too busy to write about political issues...

Lately I bought a lot of classical vinyls, Decca, DG, etc. All in perfect condition and at cheap price, they wouldn't need any cleaning. But all them have the original plastic inner sleeves. They delivered thousands of sticky invisible clicks on records, and a huge amount of static charge, a real pain in the ass to remove. So if you know the name of the guy who invented it, and the address, please PM it to me. P.S. and if you know the name of the other guy who had the great idea to add a simil sponge in box sets, a selfdestroying object that contaminate the records like a virus, please add his name to the PM.

We don't have SA or garage sales here.

I would't try it by myself on expensive loudspeakers.

Beethoven 9th Symphony, Solti, DECCA (one of the countless performance I tresure of this masterpiece) I know there are some late Ludwig Van's works more considered than that, musically speaking', quartets and piano sonanta's, but this work seems to me absolutely perfect, one of the few thing that make me pride to be a human being, like Homer's Odissey, Dostoijevskij's novel, Michelangelo's paintings, Anghor and Tikal temples, ...and KOB. We are capable of extraordinary and awful things.

What are "fold-downs"? MG Back in the old days, they use to made two different mixing, monos and stereos, from the original master tapes. A "fold-downs" is a monophonic mixing made from two channel stereo mix, not a real monophonic mixing indeed.

A f***ing water pipe broke this afternoon, my parquet flooring is damaged (no kidding) ...and I was walking on water. Now tell me: am I Jesus?

Go for it, you'll never regret. Bollani it's a huge talented and eclectic pianist, his solo concerts go from Monk to popular and folk italian tunes, from Cecil Taylor to Piazzolla. He's even a funny and comic guy on stage, very communicative with the public. Just the opposite of Keith Jarrett

Digitally speakin' I agree.

JOHN MARTYN SOLID AIR Island

Jackie McLean NEW SOIL, 47th west, mono. " 'BOUT SOUL, Liberty stereo

'Give me an F' 'Give me an U' ecc.. Country Joe MacDonald 'Woodstock' soundtrack

In my Liberty pressing I hear clearly 'I fillet Paul'

John Martyn LIVE AT LEEDS Island Far better then most Pat Metheny's records.

Absolutely! Don't forget THE ORGANISSIMO HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE JAZZ GALAXY and a towel

Personally I don't have to confess anything. From an academic point of view there are some big holes in pre bop era, vocal music and in the free jazz avantgarde of late sixties/early seventies. Years ago I decided I had to explore the land outside my preferred music, so I bought some of the 'essential' set like RCA Ellington, Hot Sive and Seven, Mosaic like Django and Bix, ecc. I don't listen to them very often, nor I acquired a better view of History of Jazz. I would say that the only set I regularly listen to is Billie Holyday. Anyway I like a lot of music after the 60's: Jarrett, Zorn, the electric Miles, ecc. It's the same for classical music, I can't dig most of pre Mozart music, and of Mozart I prefer his late works. Mahler and Bruckner are the other time border, after that I appreciate few things. I don't like Opera, a part Rossini and Mozart. I don't feel guilty about it. I am a music lover, not a teacher, producer, musician, critic, ecc.. You can put it in this way: An alcohlic is different from sommelier. BTW I have some Organissimo records.

What about THE CLASH? One of my favourite band.