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Hi Alan, I'm not sure if you received my response to your record warping letter. I searched up 'vinyl record flattening service, uk' and came up with the following two companies. 'Vinylene.uk' and 'Analogue Seduction'. Cheers Kevin

Happy New Year Alan!! I hope it's a good one for you. Cheers Kevin

Some company sleeves were actually the plain white ones so be careful. The Stax singles I collected in the 1960's all came in n plain white sleeves. I have also noticed that DJ's tend to put their records in white or brown plain cardboard sleeves and write the name of the he song on it. Any comments on that?

Merry Christmas, Alan! Listening to a somewhat worn copy of this album as I type. About 1/2 through Benjamin Britten's side B. My brain couldn't take any more Mariah Carey or Kelly Clarkson this holiday season. Wishing you the very best.

Merry Christmas Alan! Hope all is well with you.

On my turntable tonight : The Hollies - ‘The Hit List’ Nils Lofgren and Grin (Embassy 31770) - (Very underrated European influenced musician) Black Nativity Original Cast Album (Philips PD-174) - absolute banger! Graham Parker - High Times - Cracking comp! Hi Alan, Merry Xmas and a happy, healthy and rekkid saturated 2025 to you! How are you going? It’s been a while hasn’t it! Lots happening at my end. Daughter graduated from high school. Wife and daughter had a ‘girls only’ holiday in Japan with their lifelong girl pals. Meanwhile, I discover that stripping metal-framed windows back to bare metal is hard work, “No Fun, my Babe, No Fun”,and painful on the wrists! Alan, I’ve come to a conclusion after listening to numerous prog records that I’ve found recently. Prog rock is just self-indulgent willie-whacking!!!! Prog albums I’ve picked up include Emerson Lake and Palmer (live triple album); Starcastle (first and second albums. Like YES but more melodic); Genesis (all the early albums up to ‘Lamb’); Focus (At the Rainbow Theatre); some awful Santana twaddle; and Black Widow (‘III’ album). Actually, I had to buy this lot from an elderly lady in order for her to offer to sell me her Japanese 1970’s CEC BD-2000 turntable she no longer used. She also sold me a couple of good albums, Black Sabbath’s first album (gatefold) on the Vertigo swirl (VO6 847 903 VTY); and Mandingo, ‘Primeval Rhythm of Life’(Studio 2 Quadraphonic Q4.Two.400). The later album is excellent! Enough about Prog rock. "Killer Hard Rock" eh? Since we last spoke I’ve had to re-assess my view of one particular hard rock musician I have avoided like the plague, namely Ted Nugent. He’s always come across to me as a politically extreme right wing, misogynist, loud mouth. At a church fete recently I found a near mint copy of his first, self- titled solo album (ELPS3756) and was blown away by it. It’s well produced rock and roll of a high caliber. The album builds slowly and then the first two tracks on side two absolutely ‘kick the dunny-door down!’ to use the Aussie vernacular. A second album I found at that fete was a factory sealed copy of ‘About Us’ by US band, Stories (KSBS2068), containing the radio hit, Brother Louie. I can't decide whether I should break the seal or not. Are sealed records more valuable. Other albums I’ve found recently include: Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones (UK first press) Blind Faith (German press) The Turtles present the Battle of the Bands (SAHA7779) (Australian first press) The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper (US first press) In A Gadda Da Vida - Iron Butterfly (Oz first press) Metamorphosis - Iron Butterfly (Oz first press) Bennelong Session (HRS 2077) - Christian k’ching k’ching 45s/EPs Depeche Mode 12inch Promo - Personal Jesus/Just Cant Get Enough (Timo Mass remix) People - ‘I Love You / Somebody Tell Me My Name’ (CP-1729) 1968 Psychedelic (you might like this one Alan) Deram Hits Volume 6 - Procol Harum/ The Move (DEA1002)1968 Freddy Hampton and Trik - ‘Hooch/Born Today’ (Gamba GA10) 1971 David Bowie - In Bertold Brecht’s BAAL EP- fold out picture sleeve (RCA Bow 11) 1982 The Exciters - Doo Wah Diddy Diddy/If Love Came Your Way (UP1041) CD Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra - ‘High Numbers’ CTCR14242 (Check this out Alan! Skip Tk 1 as its a bit naff) What I’ve had on high rotate since we last spoke are two Graham Parker comps, ‘High Times’ and ‘The best of’. Strangely there is very little overlap between these two comps which is great. Favourite tracks - ‘Hey Lord, Dont ask me Questions’ (fast live version) and ‘Protection’. As Ive mentioned to you before Im a big mid 20thC black gospel fan, and I found a absolute bell-ringer of an album called ‘Black Nativity Original Cast Album’ (Philips PD-174 mono Australian press ) Lots of ‘call and response’ singing. Such a fantastic album. Highly recommended, Alan. Another album I found recently I very nearly flicked past due to the cover being in French. On a second pass I realised it was in fact the official French soundtrack to Wim Wenders film ‘Wings of Desire’. I luckily spotted the names Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson and ‘Crime and the City Solution’ in the bottom corner, otherwise I’d have left it behind. Remember the Crime singer used to be my next door neighbour (Album details - ‘Les Ailes Du Desir’ - Milan A316, gatefold). As we are coming up to New Years Eve, I thought I’d end with a personal story. What sparked my interest in doing this was finding the album ‘No Exit’ by The Angels, a hard rocking Australian band (known as Angel City in the States and UK). Australia has a history of producing hard rocking pub bands, The Angels, AC/DC, Rose Tattoo, The Party Boys, Divinyls, Coloured Balls, Midnight Oil. Known as ‘Cock Rock’ over here. Anyway, to get on with the story, on New Years Eve, 1979 they held a free rock concert on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House to see the New Year in. The acts appearing were Australian bands The Angels, Stevie Wright (Easybeats singer), Dragon, Hush, Rolf Harris (WHY!!) and Jesus Christ Superstar singer/actor Jon English. The series of performances went throughout the afternoon and into the night. I had recently arrived from New Zealand to see the family and decided to go along. The estimate was that 100,000 people showed up to squeeze onto a piece of land the size of a postage stamp. It was as hot as hell and alcohol was allowed. A recipe for trouble, and boy did it happen. There were a lot of very drunk people and piles of vomit everywhere. Harris came on early with his wobble board and was booed relentlessly. Glass bottles and beer cans started to be hurled at him. He got the message and departed quickly. If that wasn’t bad enough they then brought on Jon English, a tough no-nonsense ex- rugby league playing Englishman who threatened to throttle some people in the audience if they threw bottles at him. He did a short gig as well. The crowd calmed down a bit when the main bands came on but still continued to drink like fish. By the time midnight came around and The Angels stepped on stage you just knew there was going to be trouble. By this time there were multiple fights in the audience, mostly ethnically based. The concert was being broadcast live to the world as it was part of the New Years Eve firework spectacular. I saw two aboriginal guys run onto the stage being chased by some southern European guys. They were absolutely pummelled with fists and boots and then carted off to hospital. It was very scary indeed. The Angels started to play which got the audience surging. I was at the front of the stage. The Angels guitar player was right in front of me. His normal stage ‘shtick’ is to stand perfectly still for the whole concert. He was a sitting duck. The singer, Doc Neeson, was very provocative and jumped around the stage provoking the audience to react. A bottle was hurled which hit him flush on the scone. He kept going. Next, the black leather clad guitarist standing perfectly still was felled by a bottle. I noticed some morons beside me had ripped a metal sign off a pole. One of them threw it like a sharp frisbee and it hit the singer flush on the head, cutting him open. He fell to the ground, somewhat theatrically like a wild west shootout, and that was the end of the concert. Then a riot started between the cops and some of the audience. I remember that I was so shocked by what I saw that I couldn’t stop shaking. Rock concerts on New Years Eve were unsurprisingly banned after that. Well that's it Alan! Another year nearly over. Its been a pleasure chatting with you and I hope we can continue in 2025. I hope 2025 brings you dozens of ultra rare barnyard finds that you can tell me all about. All the best to you and your family. The Angels - 'Dogs are Talking' ruclips.net/video/lSXYiZsajgI/видео.htmlfeature=shared The Angels - Take A Long Line ruclips.net/video/mkzNrIg7Vg0/видео.htmlfeature=shared The Angels - No Secrets ruclips.net/video/2AxRIa-KySc/видео.htmlfeature=shared best wishes Kevin

I have some oddities in my RUclips playlist if you fancy flicking through. 😊

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Ahhhh - sounds terrible, what happened, was it sunshine? or some malfunctioning heater - Video withdrawn after one minute in ....

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I LOVE this album!!, I have a mint copy of the American stereo version from the 60s, and it sounds so good really loud, it Jams so hard ❤

I can't believe I haven't heard of this composer before as this is my favourite style of classical music. If you haven't already, you may wish to check out two unknown 20th century masterpieces......Rued Langgaard Symphony No1, and Stanley Bate Symphony No3. Neither available on record though, so it will have to be CD.

My favourite composer, with Mahler a close 2nd. In my opinion music from these two absolutely flattens anything from the classical era of Hayden, Mozart, Schubert etc.

Those two Beethoven 6s with Klemperer on Columbia.....does the blue label early pressing sound different to the later red label? Thanks.

I have a decent collection of around 450 records with around 50 of those mono recording, including several Toscanini. Instead of suffering the poor playback on my stereo turntable I picked up a 1984 Pioneer PL-400 from eBay for £120 and fitted a Grado mono cartridge also costing £120, so now I have two turntables, one for stereo records and one for mono. Much better!

Speak louder or buy yourself a microphone.

Time you did another video and this time come out the closet and admit your favourite record is Paper Wozez by Marie Osmond.

Over the last few years it's become a habit of mine to trawl the charity shops for records... now I've only ended up doing the pricing for one of them! Poacher turned gamekeeper 🙃

This has shown up in my feed again, and I'm very happy it has. Hahahahahaha

I do agree with you! And I agree. Pussy is just meh. Always nice to see you! 🎉😊

im a belly dancer who LOVES these old vinyl tracks (esp the live recording ones), where do i find these in the UK? i only seem to find them in America and have a small collection of my own

Hey I’ve got a question, my grand father Deszo Ernster (an opera singer with a long career) was very close friends with Otto Klemperer. Going through my father’s things I’ve found an enormous amount of correspondence/information/photos/memorabilia of Otto. What should I do with it? I’m just now going through the enormous LP collection he had, just randomly checked a Klemperer album, and came on here to search selling classical music. And your video started with Klemperer. Big brother is listening 🤦🏼‍♂️🤣🤣👍🏻

I know every song by the band and I have no idea what UHQR is supposed to mean and I would prefer to remain that way

My favourite way of listening to these dramatic, urgent, 'emotive'.....mid/early 20th century string quartet/quintet pieces is to experience them with silent movies. Keaton, Chaplin and co in often dire, absurd....situations. Often a perfect match-up.

I love this. Isn't it amazing that a short clip of seemingly frenetic playing grabs your attention and holds it? I'm still on a slow-moving journey through Shosta (I have the Barshai set on CD and the Kondrashin symphonies on vinyl) and am always inspired by his apparent desire to make an important statement in his music. Impossible to ignore, if one has a half-decent attention span.

Music to keep you on the edge of your seat...can imagine this being used as a soundtrack to a tense Hitchcock style thriller or horror.

whoever wrote the music for the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho must have heard this, the similarities are there! my favourite Shostakovich is symphony 7 with the invading siege army approaching.

Shosta is a master of capturing the ear and painting soundscapes and feelings, I just bought another of his last weekend.