Finally got round to getting:

Motorpsycho? - Yay! (Transparent Turquoise)

Rory Gallagher All Around Man live 1990. His last tour I think. Need to give it a proper listen. Something not seen a lot, latter day Gallagher live.

Yes - Live at Knoxville Civic Auditorium, Knoxville, Tennessee, November 15, 1972 (RSD 2023)

Brian May and Friends - Starfleet Project

The Flower Kings - By Royal Decree    triple vinyl/2CD

Bill Evans - Waltz for Denny, the latest pressing on OJC. Stunning quality.
John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy - evenings at the Village Gate. One of those latter day discoveries, unearthed tapes. This one has a great story:
The Gate had a state-of-the-art sound system, installed by an ambitious young engineer named Richard Alderson. One night during Coltrane's run, Alderson decided to test the system by capturing the band, using a single RCA ribbon microphone suspended above the stage, with a line running to a reel-to-reel tape recorder. The tapes were never intended for public consumption, and unauthorized in any case, so Alderson set them aside. They found their way to a collection at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, where they were recently rediscovered by a Bob Dylan archivist

Love this type of thing.

Ring van Moebius - Commissioned Stories Volume II: Six Drops of Poison

Black Country, New Road - Live at Bush hall

Transatlantic - The Final Flight: Live At L'Olympia

Renaissance - A Song for All Seasons

Haken - Vector   orange vinyl

Finally a repress of Slayer Decade of Agression live...so I had to buy it. One of the few live albums (in modern times) that is 100% live, no overdubs.
Metal Church's The Dark (filling collection holes)
Cactus - S/T
And then more jazz..Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey, Eric Dolphy, that kind of stuff. There's this store in my birthtown (Delft) that I visit a couple of times a year. The owner is well over 70 and is a vinyl nut. He sells a lot of jazz, uesed & new, but also all other sorts of music. He used to import from the US himself giving him a notch over all the others for having exclusive LPs. And he loves mono recordings. He HAD to play me Mingus (x5) in mono he just found. Waits until his (large!) store is empty, because it needs to be played loud :-) Lovely man, I always leave with more than I intended... today it was the Wayne Shorter Tone Poet 'The all seeing eye', John Coltrane's ...More Lasting than Bronze (a 2LP with Trane's debut "Coltrane" and "Lush Life") and an Eric Dolphy, one of the live in Europe ones.
All in all a nice catch.

Earlier this week I received a pre-order: Donald Byrd's Electric Byrd, re-issue on Third Man (Jack White's label) in cooperation with Blue Note. Fantastic stuff.

Purchased a used (old!) Pioneer amp (SA500 a) with some KEF speakers (Calinda SP 1053) from the '70s to match a record player I had lying around. Why? Because I felt the need to play mono records properly, so purchased a mono cartridge 
And yes, that IS a big difference to playing those mono LPs on a stereo cartridge and stereo amp.

So I now have a dedicated mono setup.. Took some work to get it going properly though, but of cleaning and swearing was involved.  One of those 2 things I don't mind.
Anyway, now on the hunt for nice copies of mono music I want to hear.
I have some of course, mostly jazz, but would like a decent Sgt. Peppers in mono. Although I need to sell a kidney for a NM copy it seems. Can't figure out for the life of it why they don't keep these things in print. There is a huge demand...only the vultures profit this way, not even the artist. (same for Stones, Floyd etc.). Weird.
Anyway, first order of business: source a decent copy of Peggy Lee's Black Coffee.

Quote from: Thenop on August 11, 2023, 06:27:30 PMPurchased a used (old!) Pioneer amp (SA500 a) with some KEF speakers (Calinda SP 1053) from the '70s to match a record player I had lying around. Why? Because I felt the need to play mono records properly, so purchased a mono cartridge 
And yes, that IS a big difference to playing those mono LPs on a stereo cartridge and stereo amp.

So I now have a dedicated mono setup.. Took some work to get it going properly though, but of cleaning and swearing was involved.  One of those 2 things I don't mind.
Anyway, now on the hunt for nice copies of mono music I want to hear.
I have some of course, mostly jazz, but would like a decent Sgt. Peppers in mono. Although I need to sell a kidney for a NM copy it seems. Can't figure out for the life of it why they don't keep these things in print. There is a huge demand...only the vultures profit this way, not even the artist. (same for Stones, Floyd etc.). Weird.
Anyway, first order of business: source a decent copy of Peggy Lee's Black Coffee.

I bought the Beatles in mono vinyl box for £249.00 in 2016.  They go for ridiculous amounts now - a very very high quality set..

Yeah wish I had had that foresight. But why they don't keep the individual LPs not in print is beyond me.