I got that on vinyl within a month or so after it came out. Amazing that people are still finding it.
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I bought most of them on vinyl back in the 70s as a music crazed teen. Picked up the above linked eleven disc set a couple of years ago.
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I don’t know why, but when I listen to ELO, I seem to drift back to Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, usually just in the pre-Mahavishnu orchestra days.
Haven’t listened to this in a bit, but I’m pretty sure that now it’s in my head it will be music I listen to THIS week or NEXT week.
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Had not experienced that artist before. Spinning some now. Some nice music.
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I am a big Bee Gees fan.
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Rocking to this song now. Going to give loads of his stuff a listen today. Thanks.
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When someone mentions John McLaughlin I always think of the live album Friday Night in San Francisco with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucia and the dueling solos on Mediterranean Sundance. At the about the 8 minute mark the intensity is ferocious.
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Anytime, Peter.
I love this performance of “Lenny”
The passionate intensity of his playing is mystifying. Truly one of the greats.
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One of my all time favorite albums! Thanks for reminding me to listen to this again 
I can only imagine how awesome this was to experience live.
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This week has been predominantly been a progression through Mike Oldfield’s stuff. And I’m currently back to:
Quite spectacular via RME ADI-2 DAC fs (4493) -> Phonitor X -> ZMF Aeolus (Blackwood) … particularly the depth, layering and the bite of the string sections …
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Big Thief – The ‘Capacity’ album has a super chiming and gentle tone. Guitars, voice, and background. Sample song:
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Man, I’m really digging this album!
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That’s an awesome album!
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Right?!
I’ve had it in my library for a while, but just recently listened to it. Good stuff.
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I keep going back to Miya Folick… her voice in this song is intoxicating:
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Still their best album…
Gwyneth Paltrow is a Succubus.
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Do you have a preferred version or recording? Tubular Bells was about the only thing I really enjoyed when I had the LCD-2 closed to evaluate, and I noted that ROON shows several versions on TIDAL. I’m away from my ROON core at the moment, but I think I went for a remaster.
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The original V2001 (Vinyl, 1973) and CDV2001 (CD, 1983) release are my preferred versions.
I’ve got several others, including the multi-channel down-mix, the 2009 re-issue, a 5.1 version, an SACD issue, at least one in a boxed set and so on.
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So, I was going through some of the record albums that I’d liberated from my parents’ basement. These are real albums, a set of 78 RPM Columbia recordings, Cugat’s Favorite Rhumbas, 1941, when Cugat was the resident artist at the Waldorf Astoria.
I started looking into what I would need to do in order to play these. Well I could go up to my attic and use the working Edisonola, it’s got a stylus head for RCA recordings in addition to the Columbia Diamond Disk ones. And I have about 20 or so unused steel styli. But I’d never been super happy with the authentic mechanical reproduction - especially when you spin later shellac from the electronic era.
I’d need to find a turntable that can do 78 RPM, preferably with speed adjustment. And get at least one 78 rpm cart/stylus. Plus a new phono preamp that has pre-RIAA equalization, preferably a choice of several. Considering that I’ve got less than 50 78s it seems like a lot of work.
So I looked around on TIDAL and elsewhere. There is a smattering of re-recordings. One of the better ones seems to be a 50s cover but a 2019 album. I think the woman on the cover is Abbe Lane, Cougat’s wife (one of 4 before Charo). Nice compilation of original mixes.
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