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Post by gillianren on Aug 12, 2008 17:35:50 GMT -4
I hate buying any of my records again. Ditto tapes. I have a lot of Joan Baez and Cat Stevens that I picked up at yard sales when I was in high school, and that's why I own a turntable.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 12, 2008 19:49:35 GMT -4
I hate buying any of my records again. Ditto tapes. I have a lot of Joan Baez and Cat Stevens that I picked up at yard sales when I was in high school, and that's why I own a turntable. Well, I had too many good ones - all of the Beatles, Bowie, Neil Young... Lots of Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Alex Harvey... Remember Gillianren, that I had been buying vinyl for twenty years before CD's came out, so I had a substantial collection - about 350 albums. I suspect you are younger than me - how many albums did you have when you bought your first CD player? When I first started buying CD's though, I bought material that I didn't have on vinyl. After all, at that point the two technologies were co-existing. After a few years, I started to replace some of my vinyl.
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Post by echnaton on Aug 12, 2008 20:49:15 GMT -4
I had ~400 LPs. I still have most of them in boxes, but one of the boxes disappeared somewhere. I used to take a $100 to the record store back when most single LPs were $5.00. I'd buy a few more expensive double albums and some on sale for less and come home with between 15 and 20 records. Later a friend went to work for the best record store in town and would pick a few at a time up with his employee discount. What a bargain.
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Post by gillianren on Aug 12, 2008 22:17:26 GMT -4
I have a couple dozen LPs. Most came from before I had a CD player--though I didn't have a CD player until about '95, so that's not saying much. But I kept buying even after.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 12, 2008 23:17:10 GMT -4
I didn't have a CD player until about '95, so that's not saying much. You paid less for it than I did then. I bought one in 1989 or 1990 I believe - $650. And two years earlier I paid $800 for a VCR!
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Post by gillianren on Aug 13, 2008 0:14:02 GMT -4
Well, yes and no--the first CD player in my mom's house was our first computer.
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Post by lenbrazil on Aug 17, 2008 15:27:16 GMT -4
Or should I say, that I forgot, or never heard in the first place. Lately I've been listening to music from the Sixties that I never heard much of when I was growing up. It's amazing how much 'unknown' (to me) music there is! Here's a sampling: The Pretty Things - no doubt you Brits will be more familiar with this band. I remember Bowie recording a couple of their songs on 'Pinups' - Rosalyn and Here Comes the Night. The latter was actually originally recorded by Lulu but was made famous by Them, Van Morrison’s 1st band who also recorded the original version of Gloria. It was written by Lulu and Them`s producer. Morrison did a great live version in the 70´s. Another great now obscure British band from the period were the Troggs who made Wild Thing famous. BertLs wrote: “Another band I like is Jefferson Airplane” Jefferson Airplane was good but hardly classify as forgotten. I prefer the Great Society Grace Slick’s 1st band with her (soon to be ex) husband and brother-in-law. The did earlier versions of Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. Other great obscure 60’s bands include The Seeds (Pushing too Hard) , ? And the Mysterians (96 Tears) - who have played occasional reunions 1985 - present and continue to great, the 13th Floor Elevators (You‘re Gonna Miss Me), the Monks - who were US GI’s in Germany, the Count Five and one of my all time favorites the Sonics (Psycho). Highly recommended for anyone interested in 60’s garage bands are the Nuggets, Pebbles and Back From the Grave compilation series. While hardly obscure Nancy Sinatra recorded a lot of great music in the 60’s beside “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’ ” most (like ‘Boots’) written and produced by Lee Hazelwood some of my favs are"Tony Rome", “Something Stupid” (duet with her dad), "Jackson" and "Some Velvet Morning" the latter 2 being duets with Hazelwood. She released a great album a few yearsa go with songs written for her by the likes of U2, Jon Spencer and Sonic Youth.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 17, 2008 20:47:20 GMT -4
Or should I say, that I forgot, or never heard in the first place. Lately I've been listening to music from the Sixties that I never heard much of when I was growing up. It's amazing how much 'unknown' (to me) music there is! Here's a sampling: The Pretty Things - no doubt you Brits will be more familiar with this band. I remember Bowie recording a couple of their songs on 'Pinups' - Rosalyn and Here Comes the Night. The latter was actually originally recorded by Lulu but was made famous by Them, Van Morrison’s 1st band who also recorded the original version of Gloria. It was written by Lulu and Them`s producer. Morrison did a great live version in the 70´s. Another great now obscure British band from the period were the Troggs who made Wild Thing famous. Correction noted. I'm getting lazy in my research!
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Post by echnaton on Aug 18, 2008 9:45:30 GMT -4
I prefer the Great Society Grace Slick’s 1st band with her (soon to be ex) husband and brother-in-law. The did earlier versions of Somebody to Love and White Rabbit. Other great obscure 60’s bands include
That Great Society is an excellent example of the classic sixties San Francisco sound. IIRC from a a radio story, Grace married Jerry Slick in the early sixties. He was an investment banker and she settled into a comfortable life. They subsequently moved to San Francisco for business purposes and started The Great Society as a hobby. Apparently Jerry did not want to leave his career to pursue music full time but Grace did, so they divorced. Jefferson Airplane new a good opportunity and took it when Signe Andersen left the band in which she didn't fit well anyway.
The rest of the story is a matter of record.
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Post by dwight on Aug 18, 2008 9:46:25 GMT -4
Well I have just got to chime in with my 2 cents:
The Beach Boys Smile album from 1966-67 (which finally saw the light of day in 2004 in a newly recorded Brian Wilson solo form) is my absolute favourite. The track Good Vibrations comes from this project and is one hell of a song if you ask me (as are the outtakes)
The Millennium: Begin is an outstanding album of late era psychedelia which was the second record ever to use 16 track recording.
Sagittarius: Present Tense is truly the long lost gem which even though sold a respectable 40-50,000 copies is darned hard to find as its owners just refuse to part with it.
J.K. and Co.: Suddenly One Summer is amazingly beautiful and recorded by a kid who was 14. Puts most of today's "talent" to shame.
VanDyke Parkes: Song Cycle doesn't sound like it is from 1968 at all.
The song Sky Pilot is also one that I listen to over and over again.
If you get a chance those are all worth a listen.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds is also a whopper.
Dwight
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Post by lenbrazil on Aug 19, 2008 18:05:37 GMT -4
The latter was actually originally recorded by Lulu but was made famous by Them, Van Morrison’s 1st band who also recorded the original version of Gloria. It was written by Lulu and Them`s producer. Morrison did a great live version in the 70´s. Another great now obscure British band from the period were the Troggs who made Wild Thing famous. Correction noted. I'm getting lazy in my research! I only knew that because I'm a big Them fan. A friend of mine had the Lulu version on a tape years ago.
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Post by Ginnie on Aug 19, 2008 21:07:12 GMT -4
Correction noted. I'm getting lazy in my research! I only knew that because I'm a big Them fan. A friend of mine had the Lulu version on a tape years ago. I remember seeing "To Sir With Love" in 1968 at the theatre. Loved looking at Lulu and Judy Geeson too. I often wondered what happened to the one guy in the movie - didn't remember ever seeing him again, and just found out that he is Michael DeBarres (?). I never recognized him in anything else. Which makes me want to start a new thread....
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Post by echnaton on Aug 20, 2008 9:30:12 GMT -4
I saw Lulu in the early 80s on stage in London. She was in a the Andrew Lloyd Webber show Song and Dance. The show was mostly forgettable, but I distinctly remember Lulu for her captivating voice and sparkling stage personality.
Another sixties act that is mostly forgotten is Sonny and Cher. What brought them to mind was hearing The Beat Goes On in a restaurant this morning. Proving of course that they are not truly forgotten. It's just that as the more talented performer of the two, Cher’s solo career ultimately eclipsed the duo’s work.
They had a Sunday night variety show on TV in the seventies, that I used to love. They were so traditional yet so hip.
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Post by lenbrazil on Aug 20, 2008 12:44:31 GMT -4
I only knew that because I'm a big Them fan. A friend of mine had the Lulu version on a tape years ago. I remember seeing "To Sir With Love" in 1968 at the theatre. Loved looking at Lulu and Judy Geeson too. I often wondered what happened to the one guy in the movie - didn't remember ever seeing him again, and just found out that he is Michael DeBarres (?). I never recognized him in anything else. Which makes me want to start a new thread.... His greatest claim to fame was his wife Pamela, who he married in the mid 70’s. Previous to that she had been one the most notorious “groupies” of the mid 60’s - mid 70’s having slept with members of the Beatles, Who and Led Zepplin etc etc etc etc etc. Her book I’m With The Band is worth a read if that sort of thing might interest you. Besides the sex it offers insight into the Rock culture of the period but like most autobios of the “almost famous” it should be taken with an unhealthily large dose of salt.
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Post by Count Zero on Aug 25, 2008 15:16:17 GMT -4
Seventies not Sixties, but Isaac Hayes just died. That Isaac Hayes was one bad mother. "Shut yo' mouff!" ;D
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