Black Friday Record Store Day November 24, 2017 *

No, I respectfully disagree. A classic Xmas song.

 

Do you know if Scotti’s had the Rush Closer To The Heart 7”? Vintage Vinyl only had 2 left when I got in this morning and sold out. My buddy was looking for one.

 

A High-Quality Content haul.

 

Try calling Kiss the Sky in Batavia. When I left there this morning, they still had the Sun Ran and a few Sundazed titles left.

 

The sonics are so good from the Wes Montgomery you can hear and feel the crunch of the tubes in his amp when he digs in. And I forgot that Johnny griffin played for a few tunes on this gig! Awesome stuff.

 

I have read some comments regarding RSD going downhill, not sure what they are talking about because regardless of how "good" the list was this year every store I went to all said they are nearly wiped out. This is not going anywhere.

Can someone tell me how much they paid for the greg lake, couldn't find it and ebay is ridiculous for one Christmas song.

 

Listening now...really jazzy and groovy all instrumental release. It's basically 4 long tracks, one per side. Great loungy/ jammy feel. Kind of hard to describe but I'm digging it.

 

I have not heard it, but it is cut by Bernie Grundman, which is a very good sign. It's stereo.

If the best sound is what you're after, you should also consider the double 45RPM released by Analogue Productions (cut by Gray/Hoffman), still in print and easy to find.

 

I picked up the Albert Ayler/ Don Cherry record. I was not familiar with the recording. The mastering and overall sound is excellent. There were some odd clicks here and there in the pressing, nothing too bothersome.

 

I ended up with

The Baroques-The Baroques
Willie Nelson-Yesterdays Wine....I did not see Spirit.
Tangerine Dream-Electronic Meditation
The United States of America-The United States of America
The Doors-Absolutely Live-Blue vinyl
The Grateful Dead-5lp box, the store only got 2.
Christmas On Death Row-Christmas On Death Row (wife told me to get some Christmas Music)

Store had everything, save maybe 3 or 4 titles that were supposed to be in that day. I have played the Yesterdays Wine, it's very nice, listing to The Baroques now. Most of the stuff is colored vinyl.

Decent turn out...some stuff was more picked over than others...

 

I got a message from Bull Moose stating that The Free Design arrived late today so I went back and snagged that plus The United States of America. Now I have my eyes on The Baroques but need to hear more before I swing for it. They seem at face value to be up my alley.

 

Glad to hear the sound is good. I bought the 3xLP set "In The Beginning" on Resonance Records a couple of RSD's ago, sound was generally lo-fi, to be expected given the source material.

 

I grabbed Harvest Moon & The Sundays' "Static and Silence" from Beat Street in Vancouver right as they opened (lots of Neil Young HM, only the one Sundays LP, as far as I could see.) Paid $37 CAD for the Sundays... and see someone on Discogs is now asking $190 CAD for it (!)

 

I had two things on my RSD list. I refused to put much effort into finding them. I walked into Music Millenium and was greeted with them both, Blank Generation 40th anniversary and Iggy Pop's New Values. They had 2 copies left of both. I also scored the pin and poster that go along with Voidoid's record. Very happy.

 

Picked up Neil Young - Harvest Moon and The Doors - Absolute Live. The Doors appears to be same mastering as 2010 reissue. Mastered at TML and this is pressed at RTI. Not sure if 2010 was an RTI press or not.

 

I showed up at Waterloo Records (Austin) about 5 minutes before opening and there was a line around the building. I was probably #80 in line and was able to get the only record I wanted (The Sundays), but also picked up the Sonny Rollins On Impulse. I would have picked up 5-7 other titles had I not blown thru my vinyl budget earlier in the month.

 

I am not a vinyl person, but went to the Chandler Zia with my friend this morning. His goal was to find "In their own words, live from the bottom line" with Lou Reed and Kris Kristofferson. We found out the release was postponed, presumably till April. Nary a mention of this release on this thread?

 

Excellent. That was my "blind" choice because it looks interesting and what the heck. Will listen to tonight!

 

I stopped by Repo Wednesday night and they had all the releases out but, you couldn't buy them. Nice place.

 

I did not see that one either and it was on my list...

 

I passed on New Values, there were several copies, might visit tomorrow....

 

Get it. It's good.

 

Listening to it right now via YouTube. Yep. Its an essential.

 

also fetch Tangerine Dream...