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[IslandPink]

A gem from Leo Kottke that I hadn't heard - 'Easter' from 5:50 min :

[Ray P]

Hotel California with a twist

[jack]

Really like that. Rather left rice paddy sort of vibe...

[andrew Ivimey]

Shoddy! Like wow!

[Toppsy]

Tina Turner 'Simply the Best' on vinyl.
Saddened by the loss of such a great singer.
This album sounds really good on my new speakers

[jack]

Saw her live many many years ago (around January 1980) in the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. Just a few 100 people there. Was amazing. She was in a bit of limbo at that time - recently divorced from Ike and before she released her big hits later in the 80s, hence the low numbers - basically folk in the hotel and local area.

I was doing a job for Selection Trust (mining) which had just become part of BP Canada. They put me up (almost straight out of university) for weeks in this extremely smart hotel and I got to listen to Tina Turner for free. At that time she was essentially very upmarket bar entertainment.

Good times!

(*) I had been living and working on the eastern seaboard of Canada for a while at that point (St John's, Newfoundland), was single again, so Toronto wasn't a big shift.

[The Stratmangler]

Frank Zappa and The Mothers Of Invention - Over-nite Sensation (1973)

This album was recorded in Ike and Tina Turner's recording studio complex, and Tina and The Ikettes were hired to perform backing vocals https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/tina- ... -apple-tv/

[The Stratmangler]

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') (1974)

[The Stratmangler]

Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstasy (1973) Bernie Grundman transfer and remaster
Qobuz 24/192 FLAC streaming

[Mike H]

Seal – Best 1991 – 2004

Got it on CD some years ago, but won't import or play on anything except bog-standard CD player due to copyright protection – but it was another one of those where I would cherry pick tracks off that I'd heard on radio or somewhere and liked, and thence added to one of my early music compilations...

This came up again 'cause I heard a track from it in the Malcolm Arms yesterday, not heard for yonks, so checked it out again...

Today purchased the set again as mp3 download off Amazon, comes with a few extra tracks...

Have never ever played the whole lot before (cherry picking, remember) but I have now, and cripes it's brilliant – all of it ...
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[jack]

[shane]

In 1970 the idea was to look and sing like Paul Rogers, and play guitar like Tony McFee.

Never got a guitar and I can’t sing for nuts but I sort of managed the look for a year or two. Fortunately no photos survive.

[Cressy Snr]

Just annoying the missus with this Leo P performance from the Proms 2017. She hates "squeaky jazz."
I'm sleeping on the sofa tonight

[Dave the bass]

You know those gigs where your throat is sore for 2 days afterwards?

This was one, he was superb, hit after hit after hit after hit.

So much 'plaid'!

[Ray P]