Actually the David Lindley lps are some of my latest bin finds..
El Rayo-X S/T" , "Win This Record!" & "Very Greasy"
El Rayo-X S/T" , "Win This Record!" & "Very Greasy"
Latest bin find.....Elton John
I found an unusually clean copy of EJ's second album, simply titled "Elton John"
This replaced my okay copy. Just when you've written off certain albums off as unobtanium(condition/cost) a minty copy awaits with persistence!
This Uni domestic press sounds fantastic. Perhaps it's just because it so clean/unmolested.
Ive never heard a Britsh press. Faves include "Take me to the Pilot" ""Sixty Years On" and "Border Song"
I lost interest after "Goodbye YBR" but always keep EJ as a "Hall of Fame" kinda performer.
This replaced my okay copy. Just when you've written off certain albums off as unobtanium(condition/cost) a minty copy awaits with persistence!
This Uni domestic press sounds fantastic. Perhaps it's just because it so clean/unmolested.
Ive never heard a Britsh press. Faves include "Take me to the Pilot" ""Sixty Years On" and "Border Song"
I lost interest after "Goodbye YBR" but always keep EJ as a "Hall of Fame" kinda performer.
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tablejockey---the Fender ’65 Deluxe Reverb, both original (I used to own one) and reissue, is a FANTASTIC sounding amp! Jonny Kaplan played a Gibson Les Paul Jr. through one when I gigged with him, and it was the best sounding guitar I’ve ever heard live. And I’ve heard Dave Edmunds playing his ’58 Gibson dot-neck 335! Dwight Twilley’s original guitarist, the late (heavy smoker, lung cancer got him) great Bill Pitcock IV, played his 335 through a pair of blackface Deluxe Reverbs with an MXR digital delay between the two, to create the slapback that was a big part of his style and sound. His playing on The Dwight Twilley Band’s first album, Sincerely, is just incredible. slaw, I love David Lindley, and have for years used his albums as demo material for speaker evaluations. He puts on a great live show too. |
David Lindley is, as a number of us here and elsewhere have acknowledged, an American treasure. He is great fun to hear live--we’ve usually caught him in small clubs where his tone and virtuosity just shine. I also love his sick sense of humor- it reminds me of an era in LA that is now pretty much gone. @tablejockey - I should update my system pics. Those are from the set up in NY. We have since moved to Austin, and the room is longer, the structure is made of old shiplap planks, and the system sounds better than ever. Sadly, we left the Buddha behind--it was far too delicate to move. I haven’t yet come up with a sculptural object for the front of the room, but I’ll know it when I see it. The Les Paul gets plugged into one of those Marshall re-boots that has point to point wiring. I use an Echoplex preamp emulator to jack the gain out of the pick-ups even more (the guitar came from the CV Workshop where it was modified to copy the old Peter Green guitar). That amp, with only 18 watts or so, is ear shatteringly loud in a residential environment. I’m not much of a guitar player, was a very good keyboard player a long time ago, but I like to noodle, and we’ve have some visitors over the years who can really play. That’s when it gets fun. Here’s a glimpse of what things look like in Texas now:[url]http://thevinylpress.com/gone-to-texas/[/url] regards, bill hart |
Bill, upon hearing of the flooding in Texas I immediately thought of you in your really cool old (but new to you) house in Austin (I had already seen the pics of it in your Blog postings I received via email). I was relieved when the storm took a turn and headed away from you, though not as relieved as were, no doubt, you! Congratulations on the house, and the good fortune from Mother Nature. I got use to earthquakes in L.A., but flooding is a whole 'nother matter! |
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