Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Playing records can be fun, despite the inevitable surface noise...

Playlist
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2024
Parliament - Tear The Roof Off 1974-1980
Haydn - Haydn 2032, Vol. 09: L'Addio
Haydn - HAYDNDYAH (Merkur Trauer Palindrom)
Haydn - Haydn 2032, Vol. 01: La Passione
Haydn - Haydn 2032, Vol. 04: Il distratto
Haydn - Symphonies 1-20
Soft Machine - Volume One
Soft Machine - Volume Two
Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love
Brian Eno - RAMS OST
Isaac Hayes - Live at the Sahara Tahoe
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Fur Immer
Various Composers - Piano ArtIssimo
I Musici - Durante/Vivaldi/Manfredini
Musica Antqua Koln - Deutsche Kammermusik vor Bach
Jackie McLean - Jacknife
Snakes Don't Belong In Alaska - Dead Moon

Up just after six...




Reconnected the third speaker in the back room - it had become disconnected, both at the speaker and at the amp...


Further scenes from the back room...



Machines ready...


But, first...



Coffee...



Back upstairs...


...and writing three days of this, soundtracked by the Parliament Box Set I bought at Mod Lang in Ludlow back in 2018, as noted yesterday...


Finally managed to play a few Haydn symphonies from the queue...



Then, for the rest of the morning, had a wee rest and did nothing, except listen to the first two Soft Machine albums, while reading about them in a biography of Robert Wyatt...





Home-made soup and a "Dalgliesh" for lunch, before Anne headed for Pickleball..

Facebook reminded me it's ten years this week since this...


Fucksake - I've been doing these podcasts for 10 years and stills struggle to get 20 listeners a week...

Hell is other people...

Then, a brainwave - not about the podcasts - no...

I decided to set up the turntable in the back room...


...using the old mirror as a platform...


Nicely done...

Let the listening begin...

It must now be 51 years since I bought this...



Checked Anne's iPad re a detail I required...


Back to the listening...

A Xmas present from Anne four years ago...



...and then one from last Xmas, originally bought 20 December 1975 for £1.75, 2nd hand (£18.50 today)...


An all time fave live LP...




A Xmas present from Anne in 1982 - that LP long since replaced by this CD...





Some 20th Century piano music...



Had to turn off the Ives - unlistenable microtonal nonsense...



Someone on BlueSky doubted I had any Bay City Rollers...


A chippy tea was followed by a couple of the 4th season of "Bosch" - off to a good start...

Late on, more listening...



A "Now Playing" scenario created using an old stamp form Anne's erstwhile work...


Enjoyed the Pachelbell side from this box...

30 minutes on one side of an LP...


Pushing it..


Finally, two sessions from 1964/1965...





Hit the sack post Jackie, around midnight...

A good day of doing nothing...

Highlight of the Day : Playing records...

Today's New Music:-

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