How often do you STRIKE OUT? (RR)
ariel_calmer
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How often do you make a bet on whether a record will be decent, seen but not heard, and are wrong? It has the right cover, right players, right era, but when you drop the needle it's...I'm thinking I'm batting .750....
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Then I bought a portable, developed good taste.
A portable is the condom of crate diggin'
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Genius!!! Half the fun is waiting to get home and give it a listen.....beats the hell out of playing the horses.....and I can usually get an idea what something might sound like by looking closely at the vinyl.
So true. I haven't strucken out in a while but it happened to me the other day. Took a chance on this blues cat -- it looked like a come up. Was on Chess, recorded in '66 and had some nice players on it -- most notably for me, Bunky Green... And man, that shit was pretty bad. The guy's voice more than anything though. Think opera/blues fusion.
One that immediately springs to my mind because I just heard it recently (fortunately didn't buy it) is The family Dog LP.
1) Year 1969 = tick
2) Session players = several Led Zepplin members and the cream of UK studio/library players ie Alan Hawkshaw, etc. Can't remember exactly, just top notch players = tick
3) Picture cover decent enough = tick and the result....
...oh dear, easy listening which makes the Gunter Kallman Choir sound funky!
Horrible and well avoided.
It's got Bunky Green on it! BUNKY GREEN!
Later for the sidemen, WHO THE HELL IS IT BY?
You shave?
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i think lance was supposed to be more of a jazz singer than blues, which probably explains why he was so operatic? ive seen that around...the most notable thing about that album is the cover, where lance is stepping off a train, holding a suitcase WITH THE CHESS LOGO ON IT...nice touch!
Yeah, exactly! I saw it at this spot where I tend to get freebies thrown my way so I went for it... I guess I can't complain too much in that case.
But word, the cover and other specs indicated it would be a winner. Had I heard Herb Lance previously, I would've just passed. Oh well. You win and lose, that's the balance.
Good point. Btw, Gr*g -- I got that record at the spot Om*r and I took you to where you came up on that Funkadelic record.
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True. And you wouldn't want to get burnt by a whole bunch of STDs, would you? (straight terd discs)
yup.
i've been wrong often when i first started buying records. Since then, my ratio of good to bad records has gotten better, but then again I've passed on records like Chapter 8-s/t and The Rationals- s/t.
I think this is actually those records that you discover/find somethine new to appreciation during those initial repeated listens.
If a record doesn't have me by the balls on the 3rd, let alone 4th chance - it's out the do'.
True enough, but so many times I've listened the first few times and been kind of , mainly because I think I was expecting something different, and thought " this sucks, im dumping it." I dont know, maybe what youre talking about is closer to what I was trying to say. However, it is nice to file something for six months or a year, and without you knowing it, you're ear has changed and then you listen to it and find that you cant live without this record now.
My point basically, I dont trust my initial sensory reactions, instead I try to listen to my insticts. A girl with great tits and a fat ass is what youre jonhson goes for.
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