Whats on your turntable tonight?

Ry Cooder  'Bop Till You Drop'   This was one of the very first DAT (digital audio tape) recordings and made to a vinyl record.  You can tell.  But still, a good sounding record and very dynamic.

Stevie Wonder   'Talking Book'  I have had this since it was first released.  In perfect condition.  Sounds great!  Stevie is wonderful.

Thunderclap Newman  'Hollywood Dream'  You should know the song on this album 'Something In The Air' which is very melodic but actually is a very radical and instigating song.  I got my first copy when it released in 1970, I was a sophomore in high school.  Of course, it became partied-out.  I got my first real hi-fi in 1973 and bought a fresh copy, a reissue, and still on Track Records.  It's in perfect condition.  SQ is good, but not great.  The music is wonderful.  Great album!

@mammothguy: Bop Til You Drop was the first Pop album recorded digitally. Ry is a fanatic about his recorded sound, and was gung ho on trying the new recording medium. That enthusiasm was extinguished when he heard the recorded results: He hated it!

Ry's search for good recorded sound quality eventually led him to Water Lily Records, home of the recordings of master recording engineer Kavi Alexander. Kavi uses tube microphones and a recorder, all of which contain electronics custom made by tube genius Tim de Paravicini (designer and maker of the excellent EAR Yoshino line of electronics). When Ry heard his first Water Lily LP, he asked "Why don't my records sound this good?" Ry's Water Lily Meeting The River album won Kavi a Grammy for best recording of the year.

@tomic601: Ry Cooder's Jazz album (which Ry now disavows!) is available in a great pressing on Mobile Fidelity. I have an original on WB and the MoFi, which, if you like the album enough to warrant the cost, is quite a bit better. MoFi also offer Ry's Chicken Skin Music, Boomer's Story, and Paradise & Lunch albums, all of which are about to go out of print. Grab 'em while they're still $34.99!

Goat / Requiem 

Frank Zappa ‎– Joe's Garage Acts II & III (Zappa 1979)

Eric - I have the Chicken and Lunch MoFi discs..  I just dig the guys music - sorry that he disavowed Jazz. I love the lyrics to the songs on Bop and the cover art. Reminds me of mixing sound for bands w cheap, oddly colored Fenders.. ha
also in that time I had a home brew HQD system, BOP sounded wonderful on it in the midrange ( as it should - stacked Quads )