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REM - OUT OF TIME - WB

Tim Buckley - DREAM LETTER LIVE IN LONDON 1968 - Get Back, reissue. edit: WOW! He's da man!

Gil Mellè - PATTERNS IN JAZZ - Music Matters reissue.

You were lucky ! We have black ice, snow remnants and sub-zero temperatures. Nice blue skies though ! (the blizzard will apparently be back on Monday). Blue Notes and Mosaics for me too this afternoon. Actually nobody here in Rome remember an awful season like this one, we are getting like Brits, always complaining about bad weather and lacking of sun. Sonny Clarke - COOL STRUTTIN' - Music Matters reissue.

Bad weather: rain, clouds, cold. It will be a long afternoon full of good records, after my weekly visit to grocery's market. Start with: Aretha Franklin - SOUL '69 - 4 Men with Beards reissue.

Have the common soundcard both an USB and a FireWire sockets to connect to the computer, and do they need any external power supply?

Thanks!

Thanks Claude! I mentioned XLR because I have both outs (Balanced XLR and unbalance pin jack) on my preamp. Would an external sound card do the job? I presume sound cards come with their own software, am I right? About the budget, very low budget.

I have a fairly collection of LPs, I would like to tranfer some of them on CD, don't really need some expensive stuff, neither I need a hi-rez or huge quality. I need the CDs for my car stereo and to burn some CD for a friend who plays trumpet. I guess I need a stand alone A/D converter with pin-jack or XLR imputs, from my preamp, and an USB output (to my Apple laptop), and a free software to record on hard disk. Any suggestions?

Hey, what's the matter? I don't even buy a record if the composer is still alive. Otherwise I should trash all my Mahler, Bach, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Pink Floyd...

Van Morrison - ASTRAL WEEK - WB, german pressing. Since our first encounter, 30 years ago, still one of my best-beloved records.

Free - TONS OF SOBS - Island. Van Morrison - MOONDANCE - WB, original UK first pressing.

Ike Quebec - HEAVY SOUL - BN NY mono.

Good reminder - I really must dig that one out again. Yeah, I've got some Mosaic stuff I bought only because they were Mosaic AND vinyl, I wasn't enthusiast that much about Teddy Wilson or Amos Milburn so they usually sleep in the shelves until I am ready to fight with them.

John Coltrane - JOHN COLTRANE QUARTET PLAYS - Impulse! mono. Teddy Wilson's Trio Verve Recordings, Mosaic

Breakfast? I am deep into afternoon, with a melancholic mood, so Bob Dylan - INFIDELS - Columbia.

Saturday's exercise? Now spinning: John Martyn - BLESS THE WHEATER - Island, original UK first pressing.

Sad, sad and sad. Few time ago Davy Graham and now John Martyn.

When Barack Obama moved into the White House on January 20th, he gained access to five chefs, a private bowling alley — and a killer collection of classic LPs. Stored in the basement of the executive mansion is the official White House Record Library: several hundred LPs that include landmark albums in rock (Led Zeppelin IV, the Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed), punk (the Ramones' Rocket to Russia, the Sex Pistols' Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols), cult classics (Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica, the Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin) and disco. Not to mention records by Santana, Neil Young, Talking Heads, Isaac Hayes, Elton John, the Cars and Barry Manilow. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/255...cord_collection

Yep, one glass, side one, another glass, side two, my vinyl's diet.

Becks. edit: Becks' edit: Beck's, some of them.

Some Lou Reed in the afternoon: Coney Island Baby Rock'n Roll Animal (my fave version of coffee break: one LP, one coffee and a couple of fags, it helps to concentrate on work) Now heading for a beer to the irish pub at the corner. Cheers.

The fashion is definitely changed, the skirts are much shorter, not such a bad thing IMHO, the Cinquecento and Mini are still there, but they looks pretty differents. Anyway I can offer you a sumptuous dinner at my place and a feast of mono listening. And lots of interesting exhibitions and musical events, for such things Roma is much better now then in the early 70s. And the Colosseo and all those old stones are still at their place.

Ah! Nice one. Morricone wrote lots of film scores, people are used to consider his works after Leone's westerns, but lesser known and lesser successfull movies have great music too, often better then the movies itself. now spinning: VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO, Verve, original stereo.

No, you will not. This is an offer you can't refuse. http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch8uCOPbH7I&...feature=related