Share Your Recent Vinyl Purchases With Us Vinylheads!!! (New & Used)

Well, I couldn’t do it. I could not stay away from the hunt for vinyl. It’s just too fun. That said, I found nothing the whole time until I hit the second to last table where I found a copy of an Alpha Band album. There were a limited number of pressings and you won’t find it sealed or reissued, only a small handful known to exist in the wild. I never thought I would see a copy of it and did not dare to think I could pick one up for less than $10 if I ever did find it. I got mine for $3 and it’s also the promo copy. What makes it special is that it’s early T-bone Burnett. This is his first band and his third album that he is on. His second was with a band called the B-52s and The Fabulous Skylarks. The Alpha band had three albums and the one I found is the first one dated 1977. T-bone was in Bob Dylan’s band during The Rolling Thunder Review days. He is also a master producer! He has produced albums for some big names and continues to do so: He has produced for Counting Crows, Los Lobos, Elvis Costello,Bruce Cockburn, Roy Orbison, John Mellencamp, Elton John and a few others. He also of course, produced his own albums and if you have ever heard them on vinyl you would know how great a producer he is.
Thinking I was coming home with only two albums (I had picked up a better copy of Jethro Tull – Heavy Horses and a copy of the BurstingOut album), I hit the last table. Everything was $2 and I hit a gold vein! I pulled a huge stack! The highlights which are: a 1968 Yardbirds LP, YES –Topographical Oceans (I did not know it was a double LP) and a 1969 YES LP I did not know existed! I thought their first was “The Yes Album”, but this one predates it. It doesn’t have a title.
I have decided that I am going to listen to vinyl my way, on the gear I have and everyone else can call it junk or crap or assume that I could not possibly be listening to good vinyl or whatever. You can even say that I am doing a dis-service to vinyl records and everything. I DON’T CARE!! They are just records and it’s about the music only! If I want to listen to records that sound like a bowl of rice crispies in everyone else’s assumption just because I don’t have a $4k RCM or something, then that’s my business. If I want to listen to records on gear everyone else considers to be junk, well that’s my business too. I’m not forcing anyone else to listen to it or do anything I do, what would be the point? Since nobody else has ever heard my systems or vinyl played on them, then how is it known that my records sound like crap or what have you? Certain things can be assumed in life, true, but this is not one of them. I decided all this while at the record show/huntyesterday. So to that end, I am going back to playing vinyl on my vintage rig as that is what it’s for. No preamps, high dollar carts, high dollar TTs, etc. required and not needed. Just “ plug N play.” As much as I felt liberated getting away from vinyl, it did not last long as I feel an equally strong draw to it as I did feeling liberated. With the exception of the TT in my vintage system, the rest of my vinyl gear is in the closet waiting for a decision whether or not to set it back up. (It’s probably going to be a good 9 to 10 months before I decide). I still prefer CD mostly, but I can’t resist putting on a vinyl record now and again. This was not an angry rant, it is a declaration.
 
I forgot to post the vinyl that I picked up in NYC during my trip. So here goes...

Ella & Louis (2-Record set) / Verve
Freddie Hubbard - The Hub of Hubbard / BASF
The Kenny Burrell Quartet with John Coltrane / Prestige
Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna / RCA Victor
 
I picked up over the weekend
Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young So Far
Steely Dan The Royal Scam
Nat King Cole Ramblin Rose I bought this one because my mother loved his music so I grew up listening to it good memories
Mumford and Son Sigh No More
 
gooch said:
I picked up over the weekend
Neil Young After the Gold Rush
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young So Far
Steely Dan The Royal Scam
Nat King Cole Ramblin Rose I bought this one because my mother loved his music so I grew up listening to it good memories
Mumford and Son Sigh No More
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That's some good stuff right there Dave. Nat King Cole? Very Nice!

As I grew up I listened to that same stuff from my parents. At the time I didn't really give it much thought and as I became interested in music I didn't want anything to do with it. Nat King Cole? Frank Sinatra? Tony Bennett? You're kidding me right?!!! Now I hear some of that stuff and think, "Wow those guys had some killer voices!"
 
I picked up a few today, both used and new.

Herbie Hancock - My Point of View
Count Basie - 88 Basie Street
Charlie Mingus - Tijuana Moods
Sonny Stitt - Smooth Sonny
Freddie Hubbard - The Best of...Live and in the Studio
 
Picked these up when Elusive Discs had the special offer that ended yesterday.

1. James Taylor - James Taylor Greatest Hits LP
2. Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (Blue Vinyl)
3. John Denver - Jihn Denver & The Muppets A Christmas Together (Green Vinyl)
4. Mannheim Steamroller - A Fresh Aire Christmas LP
5. Dire Straits - The Studio Albums 1978-1991 (8LP Box Set)

Guys, the Dire Straits is a limited release. Its now available. Grab it before its gone, IF you are a Dire Straits fan.

Cheers
 
dlb2 said:
I picked up a few today, both used and new.

Herbie Hancock - My Point of View
Count Basie - 88 Basie Street
Charlie Mingus - Tijuana Moods
Sonny Stitt - Smooth Sonny
Freddie Hubbard - The Best of...Live and in the Studio
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The 88 Basie Street is particularly good especially on the original Pablo pressing :audiophile:
 
A/V Solutions said:
The 88 Basie Street is particularly good especially on the original Pablo pressing :audiophile:
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Right on Jeff! Both the Basie and the Hubbard are Pablo pressings. They were a little dirty, but I cleaned them up and they play like new. I love the Pablo label. The recordings are sooooo good! Is there anyone around today that puts out quality recordings like Pablo did?
 
Just for the record me and count Basie are from the same town!!
Some useless info lol!!

I need some Pablo's huh?
 
dlb2 said:
LMAO!!! Did he baby sit you when your Mom went shopping?!!!

and yes, you need some Pablo's.
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I'm not that old!!! Lol!!! Actually he was born in red bank and old, famous and probably retired befor I moved there. There's a count Basie theatre there that is really great place to go and they have real good shows .
I'll look for some Pablo's when I go record shopping. :)
 
dlb2 said:
Right on Jeff! Both the Basie and the Hubbard are Pablo pressings. They were a little dirty, but I cleaned them up and they play like new. I love the Pablo label. The recordings are sooooo good! Is there anyone around today that puts out quality recordings like Pablo did?
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The original 88 on Pablo is getting tough to find.....

Here are a few labels to check out but as always not everything released was good......There are lot's more, myself I'm after first or second Jazz pressings 50/60's

Blue Notes
Decca's
Riverside
Pablo
Verve
Pacific Jazz
Savoy Records
Blind Pig Records
Mosaic records
Analog productions
UK Prestige
Odeon
Deutsche Grammaphone/Polydor
German Liberty Pressings
RCA
 
And don't forget Concord and CTI. I have probably two dozen or more of Norman Granz's Pablo originals and have three more on the way.

Milt Jackson- Aint But A Few Of Us Left
Oscar Peterson- Freedom Song
Oscar Peterson and Count Basie- Satch and Josh
 
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