Saturday, December 17, 2022

Tom Waits’ Bone Machine on cassette…

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  … sounds so righteous and unpolished to reach me so strongly and sincerely, almost painfully! Thanks to my pal Arnaldo for the gift: you m...

Steve Eliovson, guitar-player 🌸

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  Steve Eliovson’s Dawn Dance (without forgetting beloved, late Collin Walcott greatly shining on the disc) still gets quite a bit of commen...

Remembering Don van Vliet aka Capt. Beefheart

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  Today it’s twelfth anniversary of his passing 💔 "I think that everyone’s perfect when they’re a baby and I just never grew up. I’m n...
Wednesday, December 14, 2022

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Sir Paul McCartney on-duty, 53 years ago

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  Sir Paul McCartney and STUDER J37 on December 1969, recording his first solo album 🍏 Location: Home studio, Cavendish Avenue, St.John...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Largest Garrard 301’s plinth ever?

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  Notice Shindo RF-773 13” arm and SPU A cartridge 🔝

Stalin hated jazz 😏

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  As per (beloved) Tom Waits’ words 🥇
Monday, December 12, 2022

Superstition

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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Telefunken AC-701

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  As found  in  Telefunken ELA M 250 / 251,    Neumann KM54, Schoeps M221b  and more microphones.  🥇

Dark Side of the Moon’s mastertape

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  Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon EMI Tape Box Folio – Side Two is a limited edition of 250 replica prints revealing the rarely seen EM...
Friday, December 9, 2022

Monomia 🎶

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  My pal Gab is so fond and… obsessed about old, classy cinema speakers and amps from obscure Italian brands (Cinemeccanica’s the most famou...
Thursday, December 8, 2022

Happy 73rd birthday to Tom Waits 🥂

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Back to the roots - Hiraga Class A 20W is back 🥇

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  Fond aural memories 😏 which I re-discovered, again, after five years since I sold my Hiragas’ Le Classè A 30W amps: the 20W is a beauty ...

A weathered jazz festival poster

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Steffen Junghans-Basho passed away 💔

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  Sad news… Steffen passed away and my heart is bleeding… he has been a good friend and a mentor, an artist and a lighthouse. Robbie Basho’s...
Sunday, December 4, 2022

More baroom

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