Whats on your turntable tonight?

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.  

So far, so good.  There have only been a couple of old albums that didn’t sound good even after cleaning.

I knew Gregg Rolle was with Santana but wasn’t aware that Neil Schon was also.  I have a couple of old Santana albums — haven’t dug that far into the collection yet.  This staying-home period is the perfect time to be doing this.  

Wooden Wand / Death seat