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Ludwig Van - SYMPHONY 3 - DG, Karajan/BPO, stereo. Ludwig Van - SYMPHONY 6 - DG, Karajan/BPO, stereo.

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent)) hey, but you're not 30 yet - it's supposed to be the ideal books for people at the age of 30, because there's that passage where Ulrich asks himself how he had turned into the person he was... without remembering any decisive or important decisions he made... I'll have to read it next year, shall suit me perfectly well then Another reading for your 30's. Das dreißigste Jahr - Ingeborg Bachmann

my dad said reading this book made you an intellectual (he never read it, don't think he planned, too (although he no doubt was an intellectual)... i've been stuck somewhere around page 700 for several years now (but it's excellent)) Your dad were right...and wrong, one of 'my' book, like lot of great literature, (Conrad, Dostojevski, etc,) one probably would needs a life for studying stuff like Wittgentstein, Schoenberg, Freud and Einstein's theory to fully understand Musil, but it's an enjoyable reading anyway. About my readings, I started with Stevenson, Steinbeck, Salinger, plus Emilio Salgari (Did you english speaking guy hear of 'Sandokan'?). I had plenty of books in the house, so I just picked the ones I was interested since I was 10 y/o, basically 'adult' books.

Ludwig Van - SYMPHONY 7 - DG, Karajan/BPO, stereo.

Carmina Burana (original version) V. 1 - Harmonia Mundi

All reccommended, in my booklist.

Lalo Schifrin - BLACK WIDOW - CTI

Never had a separate combo transport/dac, but out there you can find single units that have separate digital inputs, actually most of the good players have it, so you can feed another digital source into cd players, though I never did it. BTW 3.5 years is a pretty short life for a cd player, not good IMO.

I am not talking about the sixties, I am talking about five years ago. I used to work just in front of a big music store and a very good new and used vinyl and cd shop runned by friend was five minuts walk from my home, so after 8, or more often 10 or 12, hours of hard working I used to relax buying fresh bread at grocery store and spending half an hour looking for records or cd. Much better then waiting for parcels from Amazon IMHO.

Me too, the double Impulse reissue (on cd) of the same material is interesting too.

We have some pros and some versus, though not the ones of the article's writer. I admit I got wonderful vinyls (mainly) from all over the world thanks to internet, stuff I had never encounter in my weekly hunting in italian shops. But I got lots of great suggestions too from knowledgable clerks, and walking in the neighbourhood, get a coffe with music obsessed people and digging into 0,99 bins for bizarre records or the weekly incoming of some big guns or cheap used cd of obscure labels was just a perfect day I am spending with me.

Gary Peacock - MUSIC FROM THE PAST-PARADIGM - ECM, with Stanko, Garbarek, DeJohnette.

Italian songwriters/folksingers... De Andrè, Guccini, Branduardi, De Gregori,etc... whatever, good music, some real poets among them.

Keith Jarrett - BELONGING - ECM

Ludwig Van - IX Symphony - DG, Karajan/BPO, stereo. There's nothing better then old Ludwig Van for starting the week end. :rsmile:

Miles Davis - BAGS GROOVE - Analogue reissue

W. A. Mozart - Symphony 41 - CBS, stereo, Walter/Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

What I said: orgiastic music!!! REPENT!! FAITHLESS MAN! Now spinnin' Joni Mitchell - HEJIRA - Asylum, german pressing.

Sanctified evening, MG? Earlier... Different stuff (on K7) now. MG http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...909&hl=sexy

Joni Mitchell - DON JUAN'S RECKLESS DAUGHTER - Asylum, italian pressing, with Jaco Pastorious, Wayne Shorter and Airto. Overall, my fave 'jazz' album of Mitchell, 'Mingus' sounds a bit too reverent, it lacks swing.

Joni Mitchell - COURT AND SPARK - Asylum, italian pressing.

Is that anything like a stereo "Katanga"? A part Curtis Amy's one?

Pentangle - CRUEL SISTER - Transatlantic, italian pressing, not their best, but... Pentangle, one of the great musical output of the 'sixties' (folk/rock/psych or wahtever you call all that paraphernalia,) IMHO.

Fairport Convention - JOHN BABBACOMBE LEE - Island, italian pressing.

Do you have the 3 CD edition ? I think it is the complete edition of the three concerts. Very interestig...(but the best versions of each song are on the original vinyl edition, IMO) I bought it, but I was so deeply used to my vinyl's version, (one of the first record I purchased in my life, with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here and The Dark Side Of The Moon) that I couldn't really listen to it so I traded it.