Screw Russ, Buy THESE Albums

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited February 2008
    The only thing you have to watch out for with a lot of Technics tables that you can find cheap (thrifts, yardies) is some of them had some weird-**** ground wires. I've had two of the exact same table, both flawless and operational and IN THE ORIGINAL BOXES. Neither one had the ground wire. They can be found but they ain't cheap, and I guess you could always fabricate something. I have a nice one right now that is missing the ground wire. Technics SL-DD22 or something like that. Ground wire has a mini-plug type end that slides over a center pin affair on the table, not unlike a AC adaptor/wall wart connector.

    For $3 a pop I'll make you cassette tapes of the Zappa, Zep, Floyd, Beatles, Sinatra, Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Chico Hamilton, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball, Rhasaan Roland Kirk, Gene Ammons, Oscar Petersen, Basie. etc. etc. vinyl. You gonna want Maxell, TDK, Fuji, Denon, or the creme de la creme, Memorex tape?
    Ella was freakin' deaf if she couldn't tell the difference.
  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited February 2008
    George, The funny thing is that my TT does not have a ground input and I have it hooked up with out one and it sounds fine. I have a Technics SL-5 ( a linear tracking job) that has that pin that you are talking about. It needs the ground hooked up.

    How about some Zappa on vinyl?
    I like speakers that are bigger than a small refrigerator but smaller than a big refrigerator:D
  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited February 2008
    I've had Technics tables that had the ground wire input and sounded fine without one. Go figure.

    You have any idea what Zappa vinyl sells for Scott? In the mid 80's when I started buying cd's, I started trading in the vinyl after I bought the cd. I did that with the first couple Zappa cd's I bought, but no others. The vinyl that I paid $2.79 - $4.99 for back in the 60's and 70's, and traded in, was now in the Princeton Record Exchange bin looking back at me with a $60-65 price tag. Valuable lesson learned that day. And that was 20 years ago. Frank be popular now that he's dead, and it would please him to see how much people are paying for his music.
  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited February 2008
    How's about some Dweezil or Moonunit?:rolleyes:
    I like speakers that are bigger than a small refrigerator but smaller than a big refrigerator:D
  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited February 2008
    The weirdest and maybe most collectible Zappa things I have are the original Warner Bros. "Zapped", which was a compilation/promo thing I must've bought in 1970. It was an offer made on the inside sleeve of one of the other Mother's albums. You had to cut it out and send it away with $1 or something like that.

    I also have what might be the first bootleg Zappa vinyl too. I've had it just as long as I've had the other thing. A recording of the original performance of "200 Motels" with The Mothers and Zubin Mehta & The LA Phil. It was at Pauley Pavilion At UCLA. It's the greatest. Zappa kicks off the whole thing by prompting Mehta with a "Hit it Zubin!" The vinyl is kind of torn up cause I got it used a million years ago, but I got it. It wasn't really The Original Mothers at that point, but more like Frank, Ian Underwood, and Aynsley Dunbar with an orchestra behind them.

    Oh, and at least one decent copy of "An Evening With Wild Man Fischer". I think I even have some "Beef" on vinyl.

    Young Dweezil is doing a credible job of furthering his father's music with an ****-kicking tour band the last few years. I haven't been to one of the concerts (massing of mere mortals annoys me) but the reviews have been great.
  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited February 2008
    Of all the things you have that I covet, the Zappa collection is at the top of my list!!!
  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited February 2008
    It's at the top of mine too. Frank was, The Man.