A glass disk 🥇💫🥇🔝🥇💫

 

A birthday gift 🎁

 

My pal Sly let me choosing among his impressive collection…

Here is the results of my browsing:

Thanks, Sly 🙏

Paolo Carù passed away 😢

 

This man was paramount in my musical life as I used to shop at his awesome shop for 40+ years in a pre-WEB era and I sparingly collaborated on his magazines “Il Mucchio Selcaggio” and “L’Ultimo Buscadero”.

Paolo Carù was 77 years old and was found lifeless in his home, where he had recently lived alone. Emergency vehicles also rushed to the scene but it immediately became clear that there was nothing more that could be done. Via Postporta was closed and the carabinieri also operated on site to carry out the necessary investigations.

His life has always been linked to the vinyl and book shop that he inherited from his father at the age of twenty, in 1967, so much so that the shop in Piazza Garibaldi became a point of reference for enthusiasts from all over Italy and of Europe. Next to him, managing the bookshop, is his wife Anna. The Guardian listed it among the most famous indie vinyl shops in the world.

I talked with him at the phone a couple of months ago… I’m very sad and I’ll dearly miss him.

RIP to his family and close friends.

M5

 

Yoko Ono visited Startrek’s Enterprise

 

😵‍💫

The Madcap (sure) Laughs 😏

 

Interesting auction taking place online.

Syd Barrett’s painted floor boards which appeared on his “The Madcap Laughs” album!

https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auction/lot/lot-293---pink-floydsyd-barrett-interest---the-original-painted-wooden-floorboards-from-madcap-laughs-album-cover/?lot=55480&so=4&st=pink+floyd&sto=0&au&ef&et&ic=False&sd=0&pp=48&pn=1&g=1&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2HYMUVjyziba-v70cc0srLuSDFFbpZEPWtmEw7hGA0SFjU2UEwBO56k5A_aem_AXWCjup09aBiRbEJTqUVZKh8rfwcnFWmmm3dRXCqjXfQf7LBj9ZeRldR6SkLmeywMksQHFygh1El1IARxNWwLYLA

His Bobness’ love 💫

 

“I think it's the land. The streams, the forests, the vast emptiness. The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots. 

But I have a love for humankind, a love of truth, and a love of justice. I think I have a dualistic nature. I'm more of an adventurous type than a relationship type.”

[Bob Dylan]

Avoiding average ✅

 

"Take care

to meet

who is not in the middle.

Seek extreme beings,

the deliriums, the enchantments..."

Franco Arminio

Made in Switzerland 🇨🇭 USA 🇺🇸 Japan 🇯🇵 and Great Britain 🇬🇧 …

 

Recorded in Switzerland in 1961… USA issued, but a Japanese production: amazing quality, from original master-tapes, originally issued by Decca in England  💎💫💎

Montreux 🇨🇭

 

The stage on-the-lake is under construction… the Montreux Jazz Festival 2024 will be held between July 5 and 20.

🥇🔝🥇

Liars 🤡

 

John Coltrane’s Selmer Mark VI

 

At Smithsonian’s 

💎

The Beatles keep on trucking 😏

 

Valuables 💎

 

This is the most valuable of duo Rostropivich-Britten LPs, auctioned at eBay in the last June 01, 2022 by £1695. A ultra rare and very collectible duo Rostropovich / Britten LP.  

Very first made in UK on Decca SXL 6426 WB ED3 Black & Silver ffss Original Stereo Label (third label no grooved, but first for this recording), Matrix ZAL 9193-3Y / 9194-5Y, recorded in 1969 by Kenneth Wilkinson at the Maltings and pressed by Decca in new Malden plant, Surrey, one of the last UK Decca valve labels. 

Program: Schubert-Sonata In A Minor For Arpeggione and Piano, D. 821, and Bridge Sonata For Cello And Piano.

It’s really nice learning our beloved, cherished discs value is skyrocketing 💫

Books and records, it’s the same…

 

These days, while hauling thousands vinyl records, I aptly appreciate the following:

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

"It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

"There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

"If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!

"Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."

Thanks, Professor Eco 🙏 I feel less foolish, now 😊

Blues’ hand

 

Anton Corbijn  Hand of John Lee Hooker, Los Angeles, 1994

Kiwis 🥝

 

Kiwi bird figurine made by master M. Perkhin from the firm K. Faberge, St. Petersburg, 1899-1903.

Legs and beak made of gold, body made of smoky agate, eyes - rubies.