Music means everything to me

 

Studer C37 early headblock cover

 

Rare as an hen’s teeth… after 5 years search, I found it 🍀

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Art is art is art… Don Van Vliet’s

 

Don Van Vliet's art on the original back cover of 'Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)', the 1978 studio album by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.

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Easter’s facts

 

The music of Erich Zann

 

An Howard Philip Lovercraft’s story which always captured my attention 💎 and the above drawing amazingly captures the feeling, as well.

As crow flies…

 

Beethoven 3D Symphony

 

Marlene Dumas

 

Exhibiting in Venice at Palazzo Grassi until January 8th, 2023… don’t to be missed 🥇

Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell on cassette 😏

 

A one of a kind cassette, indeed… sounds awesome 🥇

… and a cool addition to my (small) FZ’s cassettes collection: Hot Rats, 200 Motels, WakaJawaka, The Grand Wazoo, You are what you is… 

Lo-fi? Naaaah!

The Peak 13” (detail)

 

Telefunken (and Valvo) 6080 forever!

 

Literally: I got two batches of premium, NOS, genuine, made in Germany 6080 double-triodes which will outlast yours truly… a life-long supply of one of the very best tubes ever made… all in the name of music 🎶🥇🎶

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‘59 “Keith Burst” - a Les Paul’s Les Paul 🥇

 

Keith Richards pictured with a ‘59 Les Paul that he sold to Mick Taylor when Taylor was playing with John Mayall. The guitar rejoined the Stones with Taylor in 1969.

According to information provided by high-end guitar brokerage Richard Henry, the “Keith Burst” is a ’59 Les Paul that first arrived at Farmers Music Store in Luton, England, in ’61, and was played for a time by John Bowen of Mike Dean & The Kingsmen. Bowen had a Bigsby added to the guitar at Selmer’s Music in London, before trading it in there in late ’62. A young Keith Richards, who purchased the Les Paul with Bigsby, occasionally visited a regular haunt of musicians on the booming London scene of the day, Selmer’s. (It’s worth noting that both Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac and Jeff Beck of The Yardbirds also acquired used ’59 Les Pauls at Selmer’s, and several other acquisitions logged in the history of rock also took place in this popular west-end shop.)

Throughout the early days of the Stones, the Les Paul was one of Richards’s most prominent guitars. The Best-known photos of the era show him playing it on a Ready Steady Go! TV-show performance in Britain in ’64, and he also played it on a tour of the US that same year, when it popped up during the Stones’s performance on The Ed Sullivan Show.

Early Rolling Stones hits purportedly recorded with the Les Paul include “Satisfaction,” “Get Off My Cloud,” “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” and “Little Red Rooster.” As seen in color photos from the time, just five years after it left the factory it was already faded to a deep amber burst with a little iced-tea shading around the body edges. While still in Richards’s possession, the Bigsby ’Burst was also purportedly loaned to Jimmy Page for some studio sessions, and was then loaned to Eric Clapton for use with Cream at the ’66 Windsor Jazz & Blues Festival. - Gibson

Telefunken tubes for Studer C37

 

When only the VERY best does 🥇

Beat Beat Beat on Triston Tapes

 

A limited edition to 50 copies of this elusive music from 1965, thanking the impeccable taste of Herr Jürg Schopper and his Triston (tapes specialized) label 🥇

Something old and new, at same time: this heavy times needs some joys 🎶💎🎶🥇🥂🙏

The Stick Men live in Nagoya - a double reel-tape by Ritmo e Blu 🥇

 

This double-reels box-sets is a fantastic piece of music in a awesome quality package, a labor of love by Stefano Castagna’s record label.

The prog-supergroup made of Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto of King Crimson fame and Markus Reuter, recorded the music while stuck in Japan at the very beginning of pandemic-era, in 2020.

The digital, hi-rez files were processed at Ritmo e Blu studio in an analog chain (mixer, outboards) and the tapes are the result.

Everything is straightforward in liner notes and the luxury package includes musicians signed “cards”… 

…but: what about “sound”?

Well, sound is extremely dynamic and smoothly authoritative also on most thunderous passages.

The tape sound is not (quite) “limited” like on a typical CD, nor someway sweetened like on RIAA-eq’ed vinyl discs… that’s amazing that such an “antique” media (magnetic tape) is intrinsically more faithful to original music, more respectful of dynamics: sound is sooo natural and untamed!

The double-box package isn’t a merely commercial one-shot operation, but a truly promising project - I.e. delivering new music to audio community in one of sexier (sexiest?) formats, ever.

Our Ferraris’ (open reel machines) can be fed with new, premium gasoline, now.

P.S. - prices of the above beautiful 2xTapes box-sets is aligned to international standard, yet, let me underline one more time, the classy, luxurious presentation and materials makes Stick Men tapes a towering reality on the market.

A bravo and sincere kudos to Stefano Castagna and his Ritmo e Blu studio and record label.

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Thanking Saulo Zucchello:

The most expensive and highly collectible as individual LP of the planet. 

Leonid Kogan plays the Beethoven violin concerto op.61, accompanied by the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra under Constantin Silvestri. 

First made in UK on Columbia SAX 2386 B&S ES1 original stereo label, matrix YLX 1052 / 1053, issued in original flip back cover.

Listen to it directly from the original LP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVZtApcWetw

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Eckmiller W85

 

… from a bygone era. 

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I sure do need this 😏 !

 

2,2 W/pc 😊

Who does need this 😱?

 

1.500 W/pc 😱

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