Kevin Bresnahan

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.

Because of this thread, I am playing "Sweet Rain" again. Such a lovely record. Getz and Corea playing beautifully.

Why did Blakey sign twice? That's odd. I would have loved to have seen that band. I missed seeing Blakey by about 2 months. I had just started getting into Jazz when I noticed he had just played what turned out to be his last gig in Boston a few weeks earlier.

Teddy Edwards - Nothin' But The Truth (Prestige). I somehow managed to end up with an RVG mono pressing. I'm not one of those mono fetishists. I'd actually prefer the stereo in most cases. I wonder why these guys cut the session so short? It's only 33 minutes long. BTW - the back cover has the wrong tune length for the track "But Beautiful". The back cover says 5:03 but the label correctly says 6:59.

There was a change in the mastering team as the series went on. I wonder if you were hearing that?

If he had a contract with Blue Note, wouldn't that have prevented Fontana from releasing "Last Date" without saying "appears courtesy of Blue Note" or some such legal BS, at least on the US releases? You could always ask Michael Cuscuna. He is usually very open to answering questions like this.

$7.79 in 1969?? $1.79 maybe! I seem to remember rock LPs costing around $3.00 in the early 70's. I can't imagine a Miles reissue costing more than one of those those rock albums. Weren't many of these Prestige reissues budget releases?

I didn't think they made any 45 RPM LPs on SRX vinyl... I only know of 33 RPM records pressed with SRX vinyl. I didn't buy any of those SRX LPs. $80 each? And a few of the titles required you to buy the whole set to get them? No way. I'll "suffer" with my CDs at that price.

Cut by the same guy using the same tools. Pressed at the same plant. Covers designed/curated by the same team. These are basically "Music Matters by Blue Note".

Lee looks like someone who might've starred in The Addams Family. Agree that the old cover sucked but I don't think this one is that much better.

Ediie Higgins - Christmas Songs (Sunnyside). This is a Venus recording licensed to Sunnyside. Nice mellow Christmas piano. Interesting that the cover was done by his wife, singer Meredith d'Ambrosio, using eggshells. Looks like it would've taken forever to do this. One of these days I've got to pick up they follow on "Christmas Songs II".

The USPS still allows "COD" ("Collect on delivery" or "Cash on delivery") too. That brings back memories. I wonder if anyone still uses that?