Tonto’s Expanding Head Band

 

Always loved this disc… I wasn’t alone, as a 21 years old Stevie Wonder hired this hi-tech duo for his seminal “Superstition” and other hits.

The best capo I ever owned/used

 

It doesn’t hurt tone and tuning up to 7th, even 9th fret!

 Awesome!

Young Karlheinz

 

… yes!

This handsome, undoubtedly German boy is Karlheinz Stockhausen 🥇

The Grand Wazoo is 51 years old today

 

The missing link - ReVox A-60

 

First and only images of the "legend" Revox A 60, the predecessor of the Revox A 77!!!

Never seen before and never been built like this. At the time, the development and production of the Studer A 62, Studer's first transisorized belt machine, was used. The developer is Paul Zwicky...

Telefunken advertising

 

How things were done…

A Telefunken T9 in foreground, in a separate room from mixing- desk.

🥇

The week as per Golden rule

 

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery’s master-tape

 

My luthier is different…

 

… as he (Roberto Lanaro) takes pictures of me when I bring him a guitar for minor-work/set-up - i.e. installing an amazing hand-made (by himself) transducer inside the Lowden O10-C

🎼🎼🎼

MCI JH110B/14 on a Sunday morning 🎼

 

Kraftwerk on cassettes

 

Basses

 

Anthony Braxton and Dave Holland playing the lowest end…

Happy Thanksgiving

 

“Shrink… I wanna…”

Peace on Earth 🍀

😉

Seriously: happy Thanksgiving to all American friends 🥂

Most ancient records-shop in the world

 

Spillers Records in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Founded in 1894 as a supplier of gramophones and wax cylinders, Spillers has been selling music for almost 120 years. 

It's the world's oldest record store, a feat of longevity listed in the Guinness Book of Records and celebrated by no small number of devoted customers who have come to browse the shelves here.

🎼🎼🎼

Columbia records iconic covers 🥇

 

Jazz (and classical) album cover arts by Japanese/American graphic designer Sadamitsu Neil Fujita. 

He was the head-designer for Columbia Records.

A truly gifted artist for those iconic albums 🥇

音樂是愛情

 

Wagner 🥇

 

 

Capitalism for dummies

 

Herr Studer’s business-card

 

The Squirrel 🐿️

 

I quite often suspect my DNA contains some squirrel genes.

… as a squirrel does with nuts and seeds stocked for wintertime, I buy incessantly discs, tapes, CDs and cassettes and I order them on shelves almost without listening to all the goodies.

I realized it yesterday afternoon when I handled an IKEA’s box full of mostly unplayed nice discs, the result of a few months of chasing around: classical, jazz, Krautrock, rock, folk…

Vinyl-discs…

… and masterdubs, also mostly unplayed 😏

I began browsing with a sense of surprise - i.e. - did I really bought all these? - or - I didn’t remember this one…

First record I played on Garrardzilla was P.J. Harvey’s and, also if I listened to her last one on Spotify, listening on Gotorama was a (positive) shock: how can I be so lazy to listen to this gorgeous music months after purchase?

… then, squirrel attitude (or should I say: syndrome?) took over and, well justified my Oblomovism: the cute rodent stocks his nuts not because it’s hungry, but because it knows it will become so during wintertime.

So am I: I buy nice music because I like doing so and I know I’ll immensely enjoy listening to new discs and tapes and CDs and cassettes I’ll find at my place like the best personal-shopper in the world invisibly brought to me.

What an ass-hole I am 😂😉😇😎😏

That’s how my flawed mind works…

Same as you leave a fine Amarone in the cellar for awhile, I enjoy my music so deeply and in spades when the right time comes.

So, after PJ I enjoyed Jimmy Giuffre and Jim Hall, Leos Janacek piano music, some harpsichord… and, like an omnivorous music-junkie, I ended a quite pleasant afternoon with… Lee Ritenour 🥇

… I’d never guess a 🐿️  would like Lee Ritenour 😉

… and the winter is sooo long and dark without nuts… aehm: music to heal the soul ✅