Kevin Bresnahan

I spun that yesterday. Great record.

Me too. But I still haven't gotten that Shorter tribute yet... I'll have to rectify that one of these days.

Check the shipping on bandcamp. I went to buy these Fielder CDs from bandcamp during one of these Artist Friday sales and the shipping was $10/CD. I've heard that they might have fixed that now. I just checked... bandcamp is still charging $9.99 to ship a Dale Fielder $9.99 CD to somewhere in the US via Media Mail. That is just crazy.

I've seen older LPs with repairs that seem to use that bookbinder material and most of them looked yellowed to me. I used to be a library hound and I've seen a lot of older books with yellowed tape around the binding. I wonder if the stuff they sell in Germany is different? I always use Scotch Magic tape. Although it isn't completely transparent and it adds a haze, it never yellows.

Aren't most of them on Amazon? That's where I bought several recently. I see the prices are a little steep but not outrageous (yet). https://www.amazon.com/s?k=dale+fielder FWIW, Fielder has most of his catalog available as downloads on bandcamp.com and today is "Artist Friday", where 100% of the profit goes to the artist.

I was able to find the Timmons LP but not the Patterson one. I see it's been reissued but I'd rather get an original LP or a CD. I don't see any benefit to buying an LP cut with digital files. Just give me the the CD instead in that case.

Now that I hear it, I can see why he was so upset. They didn't even use his recording. And this version... ugh.

I haven't played this in many years,,, time to pull that off the shelf again.

I strongly recommend Ford's Song For My Mother a very intense record.

I once bought a mint LP I wanted that had no cover - just the record in a plain white sleeve. I will admit, I then went out and bought a scratched-up LP of the same title because I decided I really did want a cover.

As I read this, I wondered if a similar story could have been written by one of the Regattabar's servers and where I would have fit into it. "The guy who always ordered one beer and one San Pellegrino but always asked us to get a big bottle from the other bar".

Jimmy Smith - Christmas 64 (Verve). I have the stereo reissue. Not my favorite Christmas LP nor favorite Jimmy Smith date by any means. I'm glad I found this inexpensive LP because I wouldn't buy this on CD. Van Gelder's "large group reverb" pretty much ruins the sound on this. I have the sticker on mine too: Hey - I even have the same punch hole in the same spot!

I once found an original mono of Johnny Coles' "Little Johnny C" with 3 inch wide gray duct tape around the entire outside of the cover. Top, bottom & spine. It looked terrible. I bought it anyway because the record was in great shape and the price was right. When the Music Matters 33 RPM LP came out, I gave it away. I couldn't bring myself to sell that monstrosity.

The opposite. She always leaves her door open so she can say hi to anyone that walks past. I think it's her favorite pastime. If she didn't have that door open and get a wave in every now & then, it'd just be her and the 4 walls. They shut down all activities as well as the cafeteria almost 2 weeks ago. I feel terrible and want to bring her here but I have to work and I don't have any way to take care of her medical needs.

Just finished - Tangerine Dream "Force Majeure", an LP I bought mainly because the title made me think of Eddie Izzard. It's typical TD music. Aural wallpaper. Now playing... don't know what me pull it out... Neko Case "Middle Cyclone" on clear vinyl. Mastered loud as hell. Why do they do this on vinyl is beyond me.

At my mother's retirement place, there are currently 4 residents and 1 staff member testing positive. They already had a run in with C-19 back in April so this is round 2. The last time, they had quite a few deaths. I keep calling my mom to see if she's still safe. So far, so good. But I can't seem to get her to remember that mask when she's out in the halls though. She's 83 and forgets.

You could probably offer to trade straight-up for their 33 RPM counterpart for many of the harder-to-find titles and find some takers on the Hoffman forums. And if you do decide to sell, go to the Hoffman forums' WTB area. I was just there the other day and someone was offering $150 for a couple 45 RPM Music matters Blue Notes. If you do swap for the 33 RPM version, see if there is an SRX version and ask for that.

Well there you go #bertrand, he wasn't ever signed to Blue Note.

I think part of the reason he's less visible is that he moved to Paris where he is doing well from what I understand but it's not New York.

I buy records to play them. The people that buy & sell sealed records always crack me up. They have no idea what they're buying but even better, they never even find out... they just re-sell to someone else to find out. I've been buying records a long time and you never know what's inside that record sleeve until to open it. Underfill, center hole offset, the wrong record, warps, pressing defects, etc. All just waiting for that buyer to find. Ha ha ha. There was that one time I bought a sealed Prestige LP and when I opened it, I found an LP with bits of ground up label embedded in the playing area. Yeah, they were audible. And I have to amend what I just said to make it clear that I am NOT talking about you here Dmitry! I understand where you're coming from. I'm talking about the people who buy sealed records as an investment.

That's how I normally like to ship LPs. I usually ask the buyer if they are OK with this. It prevents seam splits in transit. But why don't you just tape the seam split? Seems easier and takes less space on your shelf. Truth be told, I've visited several used record shops where they tape seam splits themselves. It makes sense as a retailer that you don't want a customer picking up a record and have it slide onto the floor.

I do keep a stack of sleeves in case I do sell a record and have to ship it but in general, I've moved away from them. I do tend to keep rarities in a sleeve just because I seems like the right thing to do. But I'm still running out of space and I really don't want to buy another storage rack so I may pull those off too... or stop buying LPs. Maybe I should have started a thread "Do You Put Your Records In Sleeves Or Not"?

I've actually moved away from poly sleeves. I used to sleeve every record but I've since discovered that I can fit a whole lot more LPs into the shelf if I drop the sleeves. I mean a LOT more. It amazed how many more LPs I could fit onto that shelf. And again, if this causes some ring wear on the covers, oh well, my wife will have to explain that to whoever she finds to buy them all. She ain't keeping them, I'll tell you that!

They also dropped SH from the deadwax about halfway through the 45 RPM series, which is what I meant. Others have noted a shift as well, so you are not alone. Myself, I refused to buy any 45 RPM LPs. 10 minutes a side for minimal (if any) sound improvement? Nope. Give me 33 RPM or I'll stick with CDs.

When I went to pull the LP out of my old Prestige issue of Teddy Edwards' "Nothin' But The Truth", I noticed a rather large seam split along the bottom. The LP nearly fell out of the bottom of the sleeve. As I was taping this up, I wondered if I'm in the minority... do others tape seam splits or do they leave them alone to maintain the original state of the sleeve? For myself, I will admit that I really don't care a whole lot about the future value on the secondary market since I will likely be dead when that happens, so maybe that puts me in the minority.