Great Tasting Vinyl

[Rajiv]

Any ideas on where one can buy a nice comfy sofa? Preferably a compact single seater?

Hi,

Check Ekornes out. They have a dealer in Bangalore,not sure about Delhi.

Stressless recliners ::Ekornes

(a nice white wine is chillin in the freezer, waiting for me to get back home!)

Sipping a Laphroaig 10 yr old and listening to John Fogerty's "Blue Moon Rangers Ride Again".

Regards
Rajiv

 

[ajay124]

Sipping a Laphroaig 10 yr old and listening to John Fogerty's "Blue Moon Rangers Ride Again".

Sipping Glen Drummond, probably the only single malt manufactured in Scotland, which is being bottled in India. Price 'blue' 970. 8 years old 1400. Excellent value for money! Listening to a 27 song playlist fashioned from Farewells And Fantasies. Phil Ochs.

 

[grubyhalo]

Pardon the OT, but here's an Indian gem that I was recently introduced to:

:: Amrut Distillery - Cask Strength Whisky

Even their cheapest stuff beats a lot of big name blended scotch in my opinion:

:: Amrut Distillery - Cask Strength Whisky

 

[malvai]

what a wonderful evening it was yesterday. a chilled french wine (white), a pile of LPs - Jim Croce, Stanley Clarke, Fleetwood Mac, and Joan Baez....

Can't wait for the day to get done!

I will pull out some of my jazz Lp's from the 60 & 70's on the impulse label. I find that almost all of the impulse recordings were flawlessly recorded!

 

[Finyl Vinyl]

Don't know if this are rare ? but comments/info on following titles will be very much appreciated.
- Frank Sinatra sings Cole porter
- Beatles -- Rubber Soul
- Kraftwerk -- Trans Europe Express
- Be yourself Tonight -- Eurythmics
- Grace Jones -- Isand Life
- Transvision Vamp -- Pop Art
- David Cassidy -- The Higher they climb
- Elgar pomp & circumstances -- Sir Arthur Bliss (London Philharmonic Orchestra)
- Rimsky korsakov-Scheherazade -- Zubin Mehta (Los Angles Philharmonic Orchestra)
Thanks

Sinatra: Get these. Songs For Swinging Lovers, In The Wee Small Hours, Sinatra At The Sands (with Count Basie, orchestra led by Quincy Joens, I think)

Beatles aren't rare. One you could get is their "Live At The Hollywood Bowl". Not too many people know about that one and it is a production disaster

 

[denom]

Sipping Glen Drummond, probably the only single malt manufactured in Scotland, which is being bottled in India. Price 'blue' 970. 8 years old 1400. Excellent value for money!

Have tried both of these about 5 yrs back on an impulse buy/turned out good buys. Still quite underground & unknown in India, is it still available????

 

[denom]

Hi,

Check Ekornes out. They have a dealer in Bangalore,not sure about Delhi.

Stressless recliners ::Ekornes

Rajiv

Looking good Rajiv, thanks for the link, unfortunately they only have a set-up in Bangalore. BTW, any idea on the pricing???

 

[denom]

Pardon the OT, but here's an Indian gem that I was recently introduced to:

:: Amrut Distillery - Cask Strength Whisky

Even their cheapest stuff beats a lot of big name blended scotch in my opinion:

:: Amrut Distillery - Cask Strength Whisky

Hi Grubyhalo,

These are next on the 'hit list' Heard nice things of their product - hoping they are really Amrut in every sensehyeah::lol:

 

[malvai]

Beatles aren't rare. One you could get is their "Live At The Hollywood Bowl". Not too many people know about that one and it is a production disaster

Have it! Found a copy in good ole chor bazaar in mint condition! and yep its a production disaster. but a collectors delight!

I am lookinf for a good copy of the said Sinatra....

 

[grubyhalo]

Looking good Rajiv, thanks for the link, unfortunately they only have a set-up in Bangalore. BTW, any idea on the pricing???

Last time I checked, they quoted a number that would buy a small car. Not sure if the pricing would have changed. I think it's worth the US pricing but not the insane Indian pricing...

 

[denom]

The design reminds me a lot of the original german one :licklipsforget the name) those have now become art studies & collectors items...

 

[grubyhalo]

You're not referring to the Eames lounge chair, are you?

 

[denom]

Yes the Eames Lounge Chair - :licklips:

Thanks Grubyhalo for reminding me the name & for providing the link.

 

[grubyhalo]

You're most welcome...

 

[malvai]

started the evening with 'Fleetwood Mac' live. An album that has live cuts of the band prior to 1980. Not very great I'm terms of masteringm in fact very very average... But the music is something else! This double disc shall have to be played again. Tomorrow morn at louder volume levels!

Next up is John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman on the Impulse label.this collaborative effort goes all the way back to 1963. Almost all the songs were recorded in a single take! Imagine that!! Each track here is a masterpiece in its own right. If you see this LP anywhere -- GRAB IT. Glorious tunes and a mastering so great that it has the potential to make even some of the modern audiophile labels blush!

More tomorrow morning!

 

[malvai]

Today is doobie time! Starting with their awesome debut album, then minute by minute and finally rounding off with their awesome fatrewell live album..

 

[malvai]

Crankin these up on this lovely morning:
Judas Priest - Stained Glass
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Soundgarden - Telephantasm

 

[malvai]

Last evening was Bliss!

I put on my NM condition, 1st cut copy of The Beach Boys - Good Vinrations... and good vibrations it was!

Great music! and great sonics! As i have mentined earlier, some of the stuff mastered in the 60s and 70s is really super!

I followed this up with a Lp from a very little known series issued in France in the 60s called Jazz Odyessey... it features John Lee Hooker, Rosetta Tharpe and a lots of other brilliant Jazz and Blues musicians... the music - spellbinding! The mastering - AWE-FREAKING-SOME!

I found this particular copy in Mumbai, at Chor Bazaar and after doing a search on the net, could not find any other LP's from the catalogue... seems any LP from this catalogue is RARE. Man, I am somehow gonna get the entire catalogue!

To the many people who ask me why LP? I have this to say:

LP's do have superior sonics when compared to CD. Every listening session prove this to me...

Apart from that, the fun is in discovering old gems, long forgotten. Finding music that has not been released on cd and probably never will be either...

Then there is the fantastic ritual of cleaning the LP's. A ritual that is tiresome to many... but once you get into the LP sound, even this ritual can be quite fantastic... for me, it involves me into the process of listening long before the listening session begins! Imagine, choosing the music for the next day, an evening before the listening event... I choose what I will listen in the morning and in the evening the next day. The slide out the LP's and if i feel they need deep cleansing (some of them usually do), I start wet cleaning them and leave them to dry. The listening session begins the next day!
This entire process, make one think of what one wants to hear, then the cleaning process itself connects me to the music physically!

It also makes one appreciate what one has a LOT more! unlike CD's that can be bought again or copied from friends or downloaded, Vinyl's are precious - they either cost more (new), or require great amounts of patience to find in the used market... in many cases (like the Jazz Odyessey LP mentioned above) they are even irreplaceable!

so guys, do keep writing and share the great stuff that you have and why listening to vinyl is precious to you!

 

[Hiten]

Why I love vinyls...

Browsing vinyl was fun, is fun....

Big album covers are good to look at and appreciate creativity ...

Is great way to get introduced to great music...

Just got New Manik Verma Classical. love her voice

 

[malvai]

nicely said hiten!

Yesterday I got my copies of the recently (re)released audiophile grade vinyls of:

1. Fleetwood Mac -Rumors (45 RPM)
2. Eric Clapton - Unplugged (33.3 RPM)


Apart from these I had also ordered for:
1. ALBERT COLLINS, ROBERT CRAY, JOHNNY COPELAND - SHOWDOWN
2. WRETCHES & JABBERERS SOUNDTRACK 180g 2LP (& BONUS CD)

Tonight's gonna be a good, good night!

here's a track from the wretches & jabberers soundtrack! (on playing just one track of this soundtrack last night, I was blown by the sonics! the music is GREAT too).

YouTube - ‪J. RALPH "THE REASONS WHY" ORIGINAL SONG FROM WRETCHES & JABBERERS SNDTRK‬‏