I came home on wednesday to find all our vinyl records dragged back inside and all over the dining room floor...around a 1,000 of the things. The lounge was rearranged and a turntable hooked up to the home theatre,then we sorted out the LP's into some sort of order. At 11.00pm I played my first LP in many years - The Honeydrippers. There was a complaint from one of our daughters,maybe both - when they were young our house was full of music. We had no TV and certainly no computers...music was played all day and night,we had a piano,a keyboard,the guitar stand was full and the overflow on lounge chairs,clarinets and saxophones on stands and any may be played at anytime. There was a wide range of music played,from rock,'50's and '60's music,jazz,blues,country and classical...so the girls got a wide range of input,and it shows today. They think their young brothers are lacking in musical input. Looks like there are moves afoot to change that. The Honeydrippers? Just an EP and only a name on a black cover with a sax,and songs listed on the back...nothing else. Bit of a jazz/blues/big band mix. On vocals Robert Plant,guitars Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck.
On vocals Robert Plant,guitars Jimmy Page ( as much as I like Led Zeppelin) Robert Plant and Jimmy Page looted the Blues and gave no credit to anyone. Check this out..Its long but they did steal a lot...... Poor old blues guys didn't know about Intellectual Property Rights.
But they had to be broken-arsed and poor to sing the blues anyway. Robert and Jimmy were doing them a favour
The Rolling Stones were just as bad, as was Stevie Winwood, John Mayall, Fleetwood Mac's original lineup and a lot of other UK artists at the time. It was hero worship more than it was nasty plagiarism. The borrowing of the blues made some of the US blues guys huge in the UK and in some cases saving them from starving on the streets. The same thing happened later with reggae and that helped open the door for Marley and other Jamacian acts. If you really want to point the finger- point it at Clapton who borrowed from everyone.
There is a difference between using styles and doing cover versions to taking the song and the lyrics and putting Page and Plant on the credits. It would be like if Cream had done Crossroads and put Clapton/Bruce as the writers.... Then there are the fake live albums... off to Mt Welly to wring FXR's neck....
I went through a spell of not playing any vinyl too. It lasted for about 10 years, but I play it quite regularly these days. Motu...........I see that you appreciate Jazz/Blues and clarinet/sax. I have a large selection of Pete Fountain's music on vinyl and CD. I still perfer the sound on well recorded vinyl, but many albums still haven't made it onto CD format. My one exception to this rule is a copy of "Dark side of the moon" recorded on Hybrid SACD in the Sterio and 5.1 formats. I heard the 5.1 version on a mates home theatre system 2 weeks back and was blown away at the ambience and sound quality. Some re-mixes of high quality masters do bring out the best in sound quality.............but the masters really need to be exellent to begin with.
my turntable has stopped working....been meaning to get it going again so i can listen to my vinyl collection
I'm impressed with the sound out of the home theatre - we used to play this stuff through amps with enough grunt,but then just through a couple of large speakers. But now with multiple various small speakers and a bass amp there is a hell of a lot there I didn't hear before...even with my hearing loss. I thought I had a Pete Fountain LP ,but can't find it...maybe it's under something other than P or F. And that's one of the reasons to get the stuff out again,to sort through what we want and don't want. One thing I like about the vinyl is the format - to look at the cover (some great art) and to read who played on what,who wrote what,produced etc...a great resource for music history. Kind of like knowing who had a hand in designing what motorcycle...and who was called in to fix it.
remember hangin out at the 2nd hand record store on bealey ave carlton corner shops in chch many moons ago goin through the bins huntin out a bargain..........new LPs were $5.75.... quite a princely sum back then.............most of it was tax from memory....40% i believe so it was worth the trek from opawa to there on our old strops to save a few $ on sounds...........sadly fuck all left standing there nowdays.........played my vinyl on an old La Gloria radiogram...............sorta looked like a drinks cabinet with a lift up lid and cloth front with a couple of 12 inch speakers behind............record player one side.......radio dial and controls the other side with a slot in the middle to store ya collection............i wired up some xtra speakers to place round the room for that stereo effect man............mike oldfields tubular bells was a favourite back then........stereo or not...........enjoyed goin to sleep to it
I used to go to one down St Kevins Arcade and under Whitcouls in Queen street.....got gems like Wheels of Fire and Ogdens Nut Gone Flake ( round cover)...this was in the late 70's and 60's stuff was really hard to get. I got my Mum to buy me Who albums when she went to the States and also got me a pic disc of Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road....( unplayed to this day).
Hey Bikemad, we've got a La Gloria radiogram in the lounge. If you ever get an overwhelming dose of nostalgia, you''re welcome to swing by and give it a pat . . . .
cheers Max...............was a hand me down from my brother.....check for teeth marks on the front edge under the lid on the turntable side.......used to stand on tiptoes and hook my teeth on there and watch the records go round n round when i was a little fella................
Found Pete Fountain...amongst the classical stuff. Fifty Guitars Goes South of the Border was in there too. I have just walked away from the computer to flip over Pete Fountain's Music from Dixie - isn't that great,you have a job to do playing vinyl.
I often play vinyl while working on the puter.................My favourite Fountain LP is a first presssing of "Presenting Pete Fountain and Al Hirt - Bourbon Street" ithat's still in really good nick. I'ts an american pressing on the Coral Label. I don't waist it on background playing though, it's strickly for use in the "Medicinal Chamber".
