My first rock album.........

[planet10]

Originally posted by dice45
you shouldn't have posted your Queen surplus. I am short of Queen, somehow nothing made its way into my collection.
We should dicker about that. Yanno, the Blaupunkt/Fostex parcel

Good thing i've been procrastinating on that package. Any i have 2 of you are welcome to for the cost of postage. Of course i'll keep the better one myself I probably have double the number in the picture ... have to go looking.

dave

[jh6you]

By the way, Hi Mr Speaker Cone... Are you there?
The fatigue cracked the cone down?

JH

[DrewP]

Dear Mr Planet 10. I've been seeking decent copies of Night at the Opera, Jazz, The Works, Sheer Heart Attack and to a lesser extent Innuendo, Miracle and Kind of Magic for a while now.
(of course postage to Australia is a paint in the butt) Are they up for offers?

On the original topic, my first purchases coincided with a student exchange to Germany in 88/89.

I came home with Floyd "The Wall", INXS "Kick", ACDC "Back in Black", Die Aerzte "Nach uns Das Sinnflut (live)", Toten Hosen "Bis Zum Bitteren Ende (live)" and Toten Hosen "Ein Keines Bischen Horrorshau". Thanks to Deiter (my exchange host) for my next birthday I had Zappa's "Joes Garage" on my wants list. (Even more amazingly my folks came through with the goods!)

It was alll downhill from there in more ways than one. While in Merry Deutschland I got dragged though a coup-e of hifi stores on a buying mission for Deiter's dad and at the time would have sworn that I couldn't pick the difference between totally different systems, let alone differing cables, catridges, turntables, amps etc. This hifi thingy is a learned skill you know. Of course from the first time you hear yourself talking about a recording you know well and say;
"Wow, I never heard THAT before." you're done for.

Of course the other downhill apsect came in two letters

CD

My vinyl sat unloved for all the 90's and it was only this year that I turned back to the dark (plastic) side.

"You can take my tunrtable when you prise it out of my cold dead hands!"

Drew

(All donations to a redeemed and repentant vinyl ignorer gratefully appreciated)

[Peter Daniel]

If anybody is interested in used vinyl, Partsconnxion went into record business recently:

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[Peter Daniel]

Originally posted by dice45


Dave and Peter,
Another matter, i have observed "A is better than B" statements without the obligatory IMO tag on it here, more than once. I am feeling tense about that.

Dice, we'll keep our eyes on not tolerant offenders.

[planet10]

Originally posted by DrewP
[B]Dear Mr Planet 10. I've been seeking decent copies of Night at the Opera, Jazz, The Works, Sheer Heart Attack and to a lesser extent Innuendo, Miracle and Kind of Magic for a while now.
(of course postage to Australia is a paint in the butt) Are they up for offers?

I'll give Dice 1st crack, but yes, the offer is open. I've been scooping up old boxes of records at 0-50 cents each in the hopes of skimming off the top 10%. If i can find a good home for the good dups i'm happy.

Zappa's "Joes Garage"

A beauty...

dave

[Nednai]

I bought The Clash's Live From Here to Eternity today due to your advice. Thanks for the tip!

[dice45]

Originally posted by Peter Daniel

Dave and Peter,
Another matter, i have observed "A is better than B" statements without the obligatory IMO tag on it here, more than once. I am feeling tense about that.

Dice, we'll keep our eyes on not tolerant offenders.

Dave and Peter,
I was quite serious about that point.
Could become rule#6:
Music board:
Comparative ranking with the IMO tag is ticklish and not recommended.
Comparative ranking without the IMO tag is considered to be equivalent to name calling.

I found back to a Beethoven board i once left. On of the members there, in fact the main deer, does comparative ranking all the time which is quite an embarrassment and a deterioation of the discussions IMO.

[bob4]

Hey guys,

what does IMO stand for? I still have some trouble with all those abbreviations

[chris ma]

Bob,

In my opinion IMO means in my opinion.
Chris