Lonelobo

I think I've finally analyzed my recent vinyl binge. It's a futile attempt to somehow accumulate half the variety of vinyl that PM obviously has in his house, warehouses, hangers, and barns. Today in Big D before and after shooting, I found: 1984 Texas Rose Music recording of "Listen Here, Roseanna Vitro" TRM1001 Limited Edition. NM, EX. Dave, according to the jacket notes, she is a Texarkana Jazz singin girl who grew up on the Arkansas side. Listed in all the Jazz collectable literature. Finally got a copy of "Switched-On Bach" aka Walter Carlos (Wendy). G to VG--I'll keep looking for a NM copy. Steve Martin, "Let's Get Small", VG VG+ Just couldn't help myself Still Sealed Deutsche Grammophon , "Berlioz-Tchaikovsky-Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet" San Francisco Symphony, Seiji Ozawa cond. cat.2530 308 Columbia, "Music of Jubilee, Bach Favorites for Organ and Orchestra" E. Power Biggs at the Coumbia Chamber Symphony. Cat.MS6615 VG VG+ Columbia, E. Power Biggs' Greatest Hits, Ex Ex, Cat Ms7269 1960 90th Floor Records, "Dick and Ziz Harp at the 90th Floor" Dallas husband and wife jazz/cabaret act that owned a club called the 90th Floor. Cover insists that this is where Tony Bennett, Stan Kenton, and Marlene Dietrich chilled out when in Dallas. Good, Good Cat. SLL901 90th Floor Records, "Again! Dick and Kiz Harp at the 90th Floor". Good, Good, Cat. SLL-902(S). Album jacket on this one tells the story that Kiz passed away later in 1960 of a cerebral hemmorage at the age of 29. The tracks on this album were recorded at the same session as the previous album. A Kiz Harp Musical Scholarship was set up at North Texas State College, ie. University of North Texas now--famous for the One O'clock Lab Band. I can't find any reference in my Jazz guides to Dick or Ziz Harp. According to the jacket lit, they were starting to get national air play when Kiz was called home. If anyone out there knows more, let me know. 1978 CBS, "An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea In Concert" NM Poor, Cat PC2 35663 Capitol, "Dancing Room Only, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians" Ex Ex, Cat ST1121 Columbia, "The All Time Great Polkas Frankie Yankovic Plays in Person", VG VG, Cat CL1358 Brave Combo would be proud. Recorded "on location" at WEWS-TV Cleveland. Columbia Masterworks Stereo Fidelity, "Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade" New York Philharmonic, Bernstein cond., Good, EX , Cat. MS 6069 RCA Red Seal, "Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade", Philadelphia Orchestra, Ormandy conducts. NM Ex, Cat ARL 1-0028 Should be interesting to compare these last 2. All were $1.50, almost 3 times my target price for LP's. I'm slipping...

Another advantage of picking up a good used DBX unit that Dave did not mention is that you occasionally may come across a real DBX encoded LP. Which reminds me that I haven't seen my DBX discs in a while. I didn't lend them to you, did I, Dave? .........Dave.....DAVE!!!!

Dave, I thought you would appreciate this. The gentleman I just spent time with working in Monterey, Mexico said Mata was a personal friend of his parents and would travel with a suitcase full of sheet music and sit beside their pool outside Mexico City for hours thumbing through it slowly. When, as a kid, he asked Mr. Mata what he was doing, the response was, "I'm listening to some new music".

That was my body double. The real lobo is MUCH better looking. Marquis Knox, 17 yr. old Bluesman blew me away. He played with Honeyboy (92 years young) and you could see him studying Honeyboy with amazement. Honeyboy confused him repeatedly by changing tempo, key, rhythm, and style seamlessly and with lightening precision. It was like listening to an audio chess match. I was close enough to see Marquis's eyes as they widened repeatedly in disbelief at where Honeyboy was going musically. Marquis has only been playing for 5 years but is obviously the chosen child to carry on many of the Delta's traditions. I couldn't help but think that I was listening to an on stage music lesson. Even through all the technical problems of the night...I won't even go into all of them, the music was so powerful it transcended the small theatre (at best around 400 people). All I can say is that it was incredible to see both the legend AND the future together on stage interacting so intimately. It was obvious that they are thoroughly connected by their love of the music and each other and at least for one night in an old movie theatre on the plains of North Texas, a small appreciable audience was reassured by one very old bluesman and one very young prodigy that the Blues cannot die in our lifetime. God bless them both.

Forgot a couple, there's so much vinyl laying around it gets lost. Columbia 6 Eye Masterworks 1960, "Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5" The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy Cond. Cover good, but lp is absolutely MINT!!!!! This was the year of their 60th anniversary, yada yada Recorded at the Academy of Music. Commissioned by Columbia Records in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Led Zeppelin IV aka ZoSo, NM, Asylum, Linda Ronstadt "Don't Cry Now". SD 5064, I DON'T know why, I just was looking for some early "pre-broadway" Ronstadt and was in a feeding frenzy. And it was NM.

If I remember correctly, Kecia doesn't actually own her own turntable. You should start shopping for one immediately! I stopped at another Goodwill, this time in Dallas next to the UT Southwestern Medical complex and found some more black gold. $1-$2 per disc but then it's for a good cause and still dirt cheap. Here's the haul: Mint 1959 StereoVox "Rachmanivov Piano Concerto No.2/Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1, Felicja Blumental/Vienna State Opera Orchestra, dir. Michael Gielen ,STPL 511.500 (Jacket looks brand new, not even yellowed) Mint StereoVox (1958?) "Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring" Orchestra of the Southwest German Radio, Baden-Baden, Jascha Horenstein conducting.. Jacket and lp also mint. STPL 513.200 Mint 1959 StereoVox "Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5, Bamber Symphony Orchestra, Heinrich Hollreiser, Conducting, STPL 510.380 Near Mint 1958 StereoVox Mozart Piano Concerto #19 &20, Ingrid Haebler, piano, Vienna Symphony, STPL 511.010 Mint Deutsche Grammophon, "Bethoven Symphony No.6, Las Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Giulini, conducting, 2531 266 Very Good Seraphim "Birgit Nilsson & Hans Hotter/Wagner: Die Walkure-Final Scene & the Flying Dutchmman-Love Duet, Philharmonica Orchestra, Leopold Ludwid cond...missing Text leaflet, S-60167 Musical Heritage Society, "The Great Cantatas of Johann Sebastian BacH", Pforzheim Chamber Orchestra, Cover good, lp NM., MHS 516 Nonesuch "JS Bach:Musical Offering BWV 1039", Yorkshire Sinfonia, Manoug Parikian, dir., H-71384, excell Turnabout Vox 1967 "Aaron Copland, Billy the Kid, Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Donald Johanos, cond. TV 34169, VG Esparanza "The Honey Drippers, Part I", don't know about this one, but we'll see. 90220-1-b, VG J-Nor Recording Co. "Simply Grand, The Jack Normand Trio" No Catalog Number ,Good This is a local Dallas Trio from WAYYYYYY back. Philips recording of "The Swingle Singers Going Baroque" PHS 600-126 very good to excellent. I'm assuming this is like a vocal PDQ Bach takeoff on acid. ****Someone PLEASE STOP ME!!!!!! I'm drowning in new old vinyl. At this rate I'll never have time to listen to it all...life is indeed grand.... I'm going to the Blueshoe Project pre-Grammy party tonight at the old Palace Film Theatre in old downtown Grapevine, Tx to listen to 91 yr old Honeyboy Edwards sing the blues and tell stories. Tricked a girl into being my date and will be meeting up with other friends. Hope to meet the "other Ron" from this list as he's going to be there. All in all, it should be a good time for all.

Just found a Columbia Six Eye of the Harmonicats at a new Goodwill in Lewisville. Oldtimer, the used record store on the square in Denton is awesome for variety and volume. I have spent many hours in that place browsing both books AND vinyl. They just live in a market that will bear $15 vinyl. I used to work across the street from the College of Music at UNT. I don't know if they still have their listening labs furnished with turntables, but I can't imagine they don't. Stan Kenton, for one, donated his entire collection, including emphemera, compositions, arrangements, and who knows what else to the College before he passed away. Leon Breedon was a critic/historian at UNT for years but I believe he has passed as well. He was obsessed with his place in music history, so I'm sure there are great things hidden within that College. There are hidden places in Denton close to you where sweet vinyl can be found, but if I told you where...well, you know....IHTKY If I find vinyl at all in a thrift or a pawn shop or an estate sale or a garage sale or a church sale, I almost always find a gem. But my tastes are extremely varied. I find the hardest records to find in really good shape is the most common rock n roll. They were not treated with as much finesse as the older classical, jazz, and even blues. My own collection, all bought new, is a good example of this. After half a keg, lps get trashed. Lifting and dropping the needle over and over and over again trying to learn a riff doesn't do them any good either. We're going to have to get together sometime and go hunting in the mid-cities. Here's a hint...if you have a Garmin GPS, tell it to find any store with the word "THRIFT" in it and go crusin.......

Stopped at a Thrift in Arlington, Tx today after work and scored some vinyl. Spent about a half hour rummaging a bin with no prices. This is usually either really good or really bad. Got to the counter, put the pile on the counter and held my breath as the clerk examined the first album. She turned it over and over looking for a price and then reached for the register. What would it be? How outrageous was she going to price them? I used my "special" powers to control her mind AND......................................................................................................................................................................$.55, that's right, 55 centavos, 55 pennies from heaven, 5 more than 4 bits.....except the box set.....it was 99cents.. The worst are in VG to Excellent, Many are Mint or Near Mint. Wahhhahaahahahhahhahahaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Vinyl RULES!!!!!!! Life is GOOD! Best of the lot was Columbia 6 eye of JJ Johnson and Kai Winding "Trombone for Two" in Excellent condition. So here's the complete list: "The flute at the Courts of Frederich the Great & Louis XV", Everest 3180 German pressing of "Cantata da Camera" , Rene Jacobs/Gustav Leonhardt, ABC Classics AB-67020/ Promotional Copy of "Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra" with Braille Title on Cover. Actual Braille on the Jacket GRD-9550 45rpm Angel Sonic Series of "Gershwin:Rhapsody in Blue, Ravel:La Valse" London Symphony, SS-45012 Nonesuch label, "Piano Rags by Scott Joplin", Joshus Rifkin, Piano, H-71248 4 Manhatten Transfer lps, not a huge fan, but these were mint British Philips pressing of "Suppe Famous Overtures" Neville Marriner, 9500 399 RCA Living Stereo, "Malaguena" / Carlos Montoya, LPM/LSP-2380 CBS Masterworks, "Dvorak/Salvonic Dances/ Cleveland Orchestra Capital Full Dimensional Stereo, "Artistry in Voices and Brass" Stan Kenton, ST 2132 A weird one too good to pass up, "Bluegrass Banjo, Music Minus One Banjo", Peter Wernick, Banjo. According to the notes, one channel is banjo only so you can listen to the other channel(the rest of the Bluegrass Band) and play the banjo parts yourself. Gotta love vinyl! MMO 180 Deutsche Grammophon Box set, Metropolitan Opera production of "Carmen w Geoges Bizet/Marily Horne/James McCracken, Leonard Bernstein conducting". 3lp set, 2709 043 "The Amazing Rhythm Aces" 9022-1123 Support your local Thrift Store and they will support you...

If I'm not mistaken, this is a disassembled time machine. Did you get a weird instruction manual that seems to make no sense?

http://dallas.craigslist.org/ele/563231678.html Good luck!!!!!

After years in storage I'm ready to get this beast back in working condition. I bought this 2330B at a garage sale for $60 if I remember correctly. It actually wasn't in the sale, but was sitting in a corner under some lingerie. I didn't ask questions about the lingerie, but a younger guy was running the sale and said it wasn't for sale as he was going to get it fixed someday. I don't exactly remember how I did it, but I talked him into selling it. It powers on but then immediately shuts down. Who is the best Marantz guy to have look at this monster...it must weigh 65lbs... I need someone to a)fix the original problems and b)replace lamps and such while it's open? Also, does anyone know someplace in the DFW metroplex that does custom foam for shipping...the stuff that gets injected into a bag that encases your product, ie. injection foam molding? If there's a very good technician in Dallas or Fort Worth that would be great but I'm not counting on it.

I would start by contacting Craig at NOSValves.com He has a long relationship with the Klipsch forums and a great reputation for quality work.

Welcome aboard Todd! I was surprised and delighted to see you found all of us here. We thought we were pretty well hidden. For those who don't know Todd, he has been the "missing link" we Frazierheads have turned to for the last few years when needing advice, specs, info and encouragement. Todd got in touch with me when I started bidding on my Model Elevens. He has been generous to a fault when assaulted with all my pesky questions. Todd, you will find several Frazier fanatics here, including myself/Dave Mallette/ PM /and newbie Kai. They all know about you and I believe you have exchanged emails with all of them at some point in the past except Dave, who is the worst of the lot I'm afraid. He's been kickin and screamin about Fraziers ever since I've known him and that's a long long long time. In some way, I feel like we have some momentum going here. PM, you still interested in trying to create a web presence for Frazier. You did, after all, beat me out of all that Frazier literature! Where do we start? Who do we know with a free or ultra cheap hosting option? I will volunteer to do some design or maintenance work or research.

Welcome aboard Kai!! You made the right decision and are now among the chosen few.... We are Frazierheads;} We are destined to wander in the audiophile desert in search of truth, justice, and an honest set of specs. Since there is no land of milk and honey yet for us, we must huddle here with our hornhead breathren, waiting for our time to come when we can say.....I told you so!! I'm really glad you pulled these. The ignorant masses aren't ready to pay what they are worth. Until somebody "important" hears them somewhere and writes them up where the general "my cable is bigger than your cable" public can take notice they will be a nicely guarded secret. I still can't believe what you paid for your eleven's. Proof enough that God meant for YOU to have them! Listen with JOY!

That sounds good, Mr. oldbuckster Sir. I'll have one just like yours, but no more. We will need our wits and strength to pry that fifth out of Dave's hands. He's scrawny buy plenty mean when you try to take away his bottle. And believe me, we will definately want to get that away from him about the time it becomes a tenth.

Life is good! My bait is still working after all these years. I celebrate the dance of the Yellow Snow in accordance with the good book that says, "Dear Friends....." Belly up to the bar, my inebriated adolescent fiends. This one's on me....

A Woody ya say.....hmmm Haven't heard that since Pep Pill High....

They are easily twice the size of my Cornwalls. You may compromise, ie. WAF, or be right when it comes to speakers. In regards to compromise in design, I shall quote the master evermore.....BULLSHIT!

Just a note that there are a pair of Frazier Model 11's on that place. These are living up in the Detroit area. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220194970182&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=012 107db makes them more efficient than K-Horns I believe. I think it's appropriate to post this here as Jack and Paul were friends and respected each other's work. If only the Frazier company valued it's heritage line and fanatics like Klipsch does.... These are #5&6, made just after mine. Hope somebody good gives them a good home. I'm trying to track down all 50 pair of these, so if you know where some are, please put me in touch with them.

So, I count a minimum of 3 Bozos on this bus. Any more lurking out there? YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! You can not hide it from your children anymore. Repent...a very wise choice, but first a little chi-chi! Confess before side two or it will be too late.

Ok, I can'ts stand it no more. Dave is generally the most surly, burly, and unruly person I've been in the presence of...ever, save for Rich. Just because he cleans it up for the forum is no reason to come to his defense. I have Dave mostly to thank for my thick skin. That and a closet full of fr*#&in tube amps, turntables, lps, speakers, audio processing boxes, headphones, CD's, Timex computers, and so much other cr*p that I couldn't post it all in one forum...and one very nice God son. He has generally encouraged every expensive habit I ever acquired. In fact, if it weren't for Dave, I might very well be rich and married to a Playmate instead of living in a station wagon down by the river. Just when this thread was starting to get entertaining and beginning to resemble a Nick Danger episode, somebody has to calm the storm and completely ruin my fun! Herr Mallette...your papers please?!!! Vie have vays of making you talk, you know.....

Yes, I have listened to it and although the music shines for the most part (they aren't legends without a reason), the recording is mostly close mic'd in the tradition that I'm coming to like less and less. The recording is "nice" and "clean" in the standard "nice" and "clean" way. I'm just getting a little more critical in terms of live recordings. Plus, the old Pioneer SS amp that I was listening to it on has got some nasty intermittent right channel problem that is distracting, to say the least. So I'm not willing to write a serious review having listened on a pretty poor 3rd tier system. How I can have so much great gear with nothing working at 100% is indeed ironic and sad. But then that is another story....

Just thought I'd post this link for the list's North Texas commandos. In 2004, the Blue Shoe Project brought 4 Mississippi Delta Blues legends together in Dallas, Texas for a concert at the Majestic Theatre. This year, they started selling CD's of that concert performance and were nominated for a Grammy. On Feb. 8th, David Honeyboy Edwards and some unannounced Blues performers will be having a Grammy party and giving a performance in Grapevine, Texas. Check it out: http://www.blueshoeproject.org/blueshoeweb/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 I'll be there, so I'd love to know if anyone else from the forum will be in attendance. You can also order the CD of the Grammy nominated performance from the website. I bought a copy a couple of weeks ago.

Mike, Dave Mallette of the above post is in Seabrook, that's close to NASA in Houston. As you can see from his recent postings, he's considering whining about not having a Hornhead group in Houston.

I'd like to point out that I have only been sleeving (inside and out)the vinyl that I CAN find. I just received over $130 worth of sleeves and I'm almost out of internals. Last count was around 300 so that's not too bad...is it? Dave, you're really not qualified to answer that considering your "problem". I just bought a very nice Dual 1214 TT and a Garrard Type A TT at an estate sale yesterday for a total of $20. I'll probably sell the Dual and build a plinth for the Garrard just for fun. I just got the AR XA that I won on Ebay...actually, "won" is not accurate as I had to pay for it. It looks promising, however, when I touch the drive wheel when the TT is turned off, I feel motor vibration like it's trying to start or something. Don't know if the switch is flakey or the caps are somehow interacting and causing the motor to pull power...from...space... or somewhere? Weird.