Whats on your turntable tonight?

@spirit, I just cleaned up my Journey album, “Look Into the Future”, from 1976.  Haven’t listened to it in years — will play it again tonight or tomorrow.

I listened to my elder sister’s John Mayall, Eric Clapton and Blues Breakers, from 1966.  Monaural recording but sounds remarkably good!

I cleaned up a 60’s Grateful Dead album but can’t play it yet — noticed tiny drops of what looks like white paint on it.  Apparently someone painted the ceiling with a roller and forgot to put the record away.  I want to try vinegar to see if that might soften the paint — read on-line that vinegar won’t harm the vinyl — but I was out of vinegar and all of the big jugs of vinegar were sold out at the local Kroger.  ☹️ 

Journey 
Eponymous
1975 O/P

I just saw your question about my Kenwood TT.  It’s a KD-64f.  Linear-tracking.  After sitting unused for years, it wouldn’t work.  I watched a couple of YouTube videos and felt emboldened to open it up.  Along with the usual dust, there was corrosion on the bar that the tonearm assembly rides on, and debris on the cog that drives a pull string and mobilizes the tonearm.  I got the tonearm to move back and forth, but it still would not lower enough to contact the record.  I fiddled with it as much as I could but still wouldn’t work right.  One guy on Youtube thinks I should keep it, in hopes that I might get it working later.  He noted, “They don’t make them like that anymore.”

@bob540,   I think “Look into the future” is a great record, especially in context.  As someone else once wrote, those guys had “a long education” with Santana. I had loved the Schon/Rollie era of Santana and had so much admiration for Journey breaking out on their own and for their music which was bold and progressive and crunchy and pretty heavy.    
Sounds like you’re enjoying your new equipment.  Very cool.  
Bummer about that Dead record.  I don’t know how to get paint off of a record.  @slaw might have some wisdom for you.  Personally I would look on discogs for another copy if it’s a record that really means a lot to you.  

@bob540,  @tomic601  may know about linear tracking rigs and what to do.  Sounds like you new deck is fine though.