Kevin Bresnahan

The thing that's weird is that the year he lost his card, 1967, was the last year you needed one. They abolished that system later that year. So if he had hung around NYC a little longer, he could have played in clubs again. But then again, he wouldn't have made all those great recordings with Harold Land so...

My music collection is no longer for sale (for now). As a result, I'm packing up way more than I wanted to. I really thought I'd get more people asking about buying my collection of CDs and LPs. I guess everyone is purging their hard copies and going digital? Now I have to figure out where to put all of this stuff in my new (little house). >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> original offer <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< After several years of looking, my wife and I finally found a place up near Long Sands Beach in York, ME. Unfortunately, it's quite a bit smaller than our current house in Southern NH, just over the border from Haverhill, MA. I've sold quite a few CDs over the past few months but I still have waaaaayyy too much stuff to move. If anyone is in the area and would like to talk about coming over and buying a large chunk of music, contact me and I will go over the specifics. I probably have ~700 straight-ahead Jazz LPs (not many originals though) and probably around 3,000 straight-ahead Jazz CDs. I would be willing to part with most of it and I would give a large discount to someone who buys "in bulk". If I can clear out a lot of it, I'll also have a large Can Am CD storage unit and an Ikea Expedit LP storage unit for sale. Jack, I know I could just haul them down to Cambridge but that's what I'm trying to avoid. Drop me a PM if you are interested. Kevin >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Yeah, that happens to me too. My Dad was a huge Boston Bruins fan and every time they are in the news, I wonder what he would think of it.

It was "Sweet Honey Bee" that has a master tape that's a needle drop, not "Wahoo".

What are you talking about? Isn't that Tommy James? Funny how James actually wrote "Tighter, Tighter" for Alive 'N Kickin' after he decided not to give them "Crystal Blue Persuasion" because he wanted to record that song himself.

I highly doubt that the guy fasstrack is talking about wants any of his father's compositions pulled from youtube. He wants to get paid when they're played is all. In fact, if he was getting paid when they're played, the last thing he'd want is to have them pulled,

Back in the days Jim is talking about, all of my music came from 56 HYN in Springfield, MA. They played the top 100 pretty religiously. No variation. You heard the same songs all the time... until they fell out of the top 100. I remember in the summer of 1970 when our family took our annual trip to Lincoln, ME, we must've heard Alive 'N Kickin's "Tighter, Tighter" about 30 times in 8 hours.

Thank you. As I said, even though it's been 10 years already, I still miss the guy. Even crazier, I still grab the telephone every now & then with the intention of calling him, I usually call Mom when that happens.

I got that too. I figured it was typo. This set can't be running low already, can it?

I vividly remember being in my parents' car on a hot summer night and hearing the AM radio pick some distant station out of Ohio or some such faraway place. AM radio could be dramatically affected by the atmosphere and the atmosphere on those hot & humid summer nights allowed for some very long distance transmissions. I actually won one of these from the Springfield Republican newspaper company. I was a paperboy and they had a contest to see who could sign up the most new customers. I won.

And now you get my Dad!! He was funny as hell. He had some "old indian tricks" on his computer too.

I was doing a search of forums for something about Bobby Hutcherson and this thread popped into the search results. Weird in that it doesn't mention Bobby but maybe it was a sign... Amazingly, it's already been 10 years since my father died. I still miss him like hell. I've been thinking about him recently too. As we prepare to move out of our NH house to head to the shores of Maine, I am finding things that I have to remove that my Dad helped my install. One was a clasp that he rigged up to hold my wire wine racks to the basement walls. As I said, Dad could fix anything. Often, he figured out ways to get things to work that most people would've just given up on. For many of his unique fixes, he used what he would call an "old indian trick" (Dad meant Native American Indian here). Here's one of his old indian tricks... You find a wood screw where the hole is stripped. Screw won't hold. Usually happens to door jambs and latches. The old indian trick? Get some wooden toothpicks and stuff them into the stripped hole. Snap them off so they're just below the surface. Drive wood screw back into hole. Fixed. Worst case, you may have to add some wood glue to the toothpick pieces before inserting them. If you're using this trick right now to fix that latch plate in the hallway closet door, you're welcome.

This one is tough as Bobby was a guy I tried to catch every time he came through Boston. His concerts were great. The duet concert with McCoy Tyner was incredible. Rest in peace Bobby.

So let me get this straight... $2,000 for a CD made of GLASS?!? As in, the stuff you drop on the floor and it smashes to bits? Yeah, that ain't gonna happen.

With this title, it should be a Grant Green movie.

Until we hear from Laurie, we can only speculate... so, I'll speculate. I have heard from several artists that they've made recordings for a few Japanese labels and never got paid. I'm talking $0. It would not take much legal legwork to get a ruling against a company that does something like this to get your rights back.

These are sold.

My wife and I are in the process of downsizing. We had an offer accepted so the clock is ticking. I am losing my dedicated listening room. Currently, I have two systems in the house, a surround sound/home theater system and a stereo-only tube set up in my dedicated listening room. After much deliberation, I am going to give up on the stereo-only system. This McIntosh MX-110/MC-240 tube system is one that I have been meaning to get for many, many years. I first heard a McIntosh MC-240 amp when I was teenager and I always said that I would get one some day. The McIntosh MX-110 was on my radar since the day I read a rave review on another music forum. I shopped around for the right units and have been enjoying this set-up for many years. I would like to sell both of these as a combo. My price for the pair is $3,500.00, plus actual UPS shipping in the US. I will also split them up. Separately, I am asking $1,000 plus actual shipping for the McIntosh MX-110 and $2,800 plus actual shipping for the McIntosh MC-240. International buyers will have to contact me to see if we can work something out. Doubtful given the weight, but I am willing to talk about it. PayPal is preferred but if you choose PayPal, we will have to split the fees as they are pretty steep on a purchase like this. A bank-issued money order is OK, but I will have to wait until it clears before shipping the units. Now the particulars... McIntosh MX-110 This is an M-series unit, which has its proponents due to its lack of a compactron tube in the signal path. It is also a bit rarer as they only made them for less than a year (in 1962). I bought this from someone who uses and maintains several tube systems. He kept it mostly original except for swapping out the Selenium rectifier and a couple of capacitors (I looked at his work and he did a great job - hard to tell which caps were swapped). I added a thermistor per the recommendation of McIntosh restoration guru Terry DeWick. I also swapped out the worn faceplate with an NOS faceplate that I bought from Audio Classics (at a cost of $200). I bought a number of RCA 6UA8 tubes as back-ups and I'll be including them in the sale. This unit comes with the original wooden slant-legged case - M-series are not Panlock. McIntosh MC-240 This is a mid-60's unit with the smaller holes in the metal tube cage. I bought this from Audio Classics. It was received their top A1 grade, although I think it should have been B1 due to some light wear on the lettering. Their lead McIntosh tech (who used to work there) went over it and certified it A1. It arrived with 6L6WGB output tubes that I swapped out for 6L6GC gray-plate GEs at a cost of almost $500. I will include the 6L6WGB tubes for the buyer. This is a beautiful sounding amp. I will be sad to see this go. I have shipping boxes for both but would prefer local pickup. I would be willing to drive a few hours to facilitate "local" pickup. The Audio Classics shipping box is very heavy duty and was designed for this amp so it should arrive in the same condition it leaves my house. Here is a link to my Google+ page where you can see plenty of pictures: https://plus.google.com/105967711995959913928 I took a video of the pair in action. It is also on my Google+ page. I was planning to list this on Audiogon but I've been reading some horror stories and I'd like to avoid dealing with strangers if I can find someone here who wants this. Thanks for looking and I hope I can get someone here their dream system.

West German pressings with this style of artwork are almost always first pressings. Note that I didn't say it is the best pressing, just the first pressing. Collectors want these first pressings no matter how they sound.

If the disc artwork looks like a target (see picture), you could sell them pretty easily over on the Hoffman forums.

What's the old saying... If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn't true.

I forgot about his thread... it started back when my mother-in-law died so I'm glad it was resurrected. It's good to hear that you go new speakers rather than continue to play speakers with a blown tweeter. I hope this fixes your problem. As I said earlier, if you have another problem, it's definitely time for a new amp though. Kevin

It's probably a lot better than what was used back when they were issued!

Depending on the assisted living facility she works at, she may work with my sister-in-law.

I can't help you here. I've never successfully flattened a warped record. I tried the panes of glass in the oven "trick" and it didn't work. It made it better, but the record certainly wasn't flat. If you do try it, you need to be careful that you don't apply too much heat. You want very low heat for several hours. I've heard people using the sun, but that can get as hot as an oven.