Friday night vinyl

[mushroom]

Mrs Mushroom and I have booked out our Friday evenings for a vinyl session in front of the fireplace while it’s winter here.

Tonight’s selection is….



In my mind, this is a really great record.

 

[chazmo]

Where are you located, mushroom? I'm lamenting a bit that I haven't use my fireplace at all the past few years. It sounds like you and Mrs. mushroom have the right idea!

 

[fronobulax]

Where are you located, mushroom? I'm lamenting a bit that I haven't use my fireplace at all the past few years. It sounds like you and Mrs. mushroom have the right idea!

I'm thinking Australia because of other comments made.

 

[mushroom]

I'm thinking Australia because of other comments made.

Yeah

Rural Tasmania.

 

[fronobulax]

Yeah

Rural Tasmania.

Apologies if not making the distinction is a problem. LTG can be US-centric and I try to welcome, or at least not bother too much, posters from other countries.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I got to find me a turn table and start getting in albums. Sounds like a good hobby for me as I age.

 

[mushroom]

I got to find me a turn table and start getting in albums. Sounds like a good hobby for me as I age.

You would be surprised at how different vinyl sounds to cd.

 

[mushroom]

1980’s Aus pub rock at its finest.

These guys were fantastic live.

 

[Opsimath]

Have you been able to stop at just one album per Friday night? I think I'd want to keep going!

 

[mushroom]

Have you been able to stop at just one album per Friday night? I think I'd want to keep going!

We keep going until the wine or beer runs out so it’s usually a couple.

 

[mushroom]

Love ‘em or hate but PiL are great.

“Album” is a fantastic slab of a record and this is the live concert of that offering.

 

[mushroom]

The first album by Interpol

Fantastic

New York cares.

 

[mushroom]

I pilfered this review of the band from the web to describe TOH

The too-cool-for-school metropolitan punk elite, who never felt any inclination to consult music press weathermen to tell them which way the wind blew, were left in a quandary when Adam Ant went pantopop. They needed a new champion. Diehard Ant loyalists transferred fealty to Bow Wow Wow, the sex gang Sioux went Bauhaus, but the alpha males – the psychobilly-literate, handy-fisted tattoo pioneers – embraced Theatre Of Hate.

 

[mushroom]

Devoto devotee

 

[Uke]

PIL -- David Byrne

 

[mushroom]

And tonight’s opening act is provided by Mr Murphy

 

[mushroom]

It’s cold and windy.
A perfect environment for The Cure.

 

[mushroom]

Too much whiskey always brings this out.

 

[tonepoet]

I got to find me a turn table and start getting in albums. Sounds like a good hobby for me as I age.

We are in a small apartment, for now, so my turntable, Bose speakers and 700+ vinyl album collection are all in storage waiting for a move to a bigger place. I miss having it out and available.

There were about 10 years when I didn't even have a TV. Guitar and my vinyl records were my main entertainment.

My Dad was an audiophile from the days of "Hi-Fi" (High Fidelity) and taught us kids the proper way to handle and care for records. So, I still have all mine from my teenage days through the mid 1980's when CDs started taking over.

 

[mushroom]

Mrs Mushroom grew up in Manchester UK in the 70’s and 80’s and saw some awesome bands when they were still in their “pub gig” phase. And subsequently has a lot of their early singles and albums.

All of this provides for some great pickings for me.

We’ve got a separate vinyl system (valve) to out cd system.