I’m enjoying same music I was enjoying 55 years ago, and I feel so shamelessly comfortable…
Today I found three gems and couldn’t resist also if only a sought after NM copy on RCA of Steeleye Span’s “Hark! the Village Waits” wasn’t already in my collection.
Only had this amazing album on a Mooncrest reissue: this is a masterpiece and sounds like a super-disk!
Amazing appreciating the unbelievable earlier, faster and more straightforward version of “The Blacksmith” on “Hark!…” and the slower, epically majestic, richer rendition on “Please to see the King”.
These records - also if half a century old - sound so different than the nowadays more commonly found reissues: the sparingly heard clicks and pops aren’t annoying but like little wrinkles on your loved one face… you loved her most of your life so you also love the time passing signs.
These discs and music are heirloom and DNA to me.
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A fine trio of records to choose. In addition to those you mention, other LPs that I find are 'heirloom and DNA' as you put it are:
ReplyDelete• Bert & John: Bert Jansch and John Renbourn (which you covered elsewhere)
• The John Renbourn Sampler (despite the fact that everything -- or almost everything -- on it is available elsewhere it's still one of those 'time capsule' records)
• Sir John Alot...: John Renbourn
• Elements: Third Ear Band
• Alchemy: Third Ear Band
• Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac (the 'dustbin and dog' LP -- sadly, I have never found an original in anything like the kind of condition I would want -- and it's a record that typically spent a lot of time at parties, I think)
Anyway, any and all of these are like time-travel...
Alun: the John Renbourn’s samplers are also very special to me, for the music, of course, and for the covers… # 1 shows the Scarth guitar so well, # 2 again the Scarth’s in John’s hands, in the mud and logs field… I still remember handing Pentangle’s “Reflections” and - literally - studying and scanning all the superb pictures collage… a small world for a younger me. Talking about DNA’s records, do you remember an old blog entry of mine about some music not to be forgotten? It was 2020…
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ReplyDelete^^^ The 'music not to be forgotten' post 2020: I had forgotten that! Such a lot of memories -- and a lot of unknowns too -- in that array of covers.
ReplyDeleteI'm just comparing a Canadian six-eye Gil/Miles Porgy & Bess to a CBS UK press from about 62-65. A friend recently gave me the latter having found it for £1.50 in a charity shop. He doesn't play vinyl and so bought it for me. Sadly, I think there is little comparison when set against the Canadian...