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[Smokechaser]

Grand Funk Railroad.  Collectors Series

I'm Your Captain/Closer To Home

[Hank D Thoreau]

No Sgt. Pepper? I think the layers of music would really pop on vinyl. I am sure I have it, but I don't have access to my record collection since they are stashed away.

The Beatles were built for vinyl with their sophisticated production techniques.

The Beach Boys Pets Sounds would fall in the same category.

Certainly not the old scratchy blues recordings that I have, which is the stuff I play on guitar. I am working on a mashup of Pony Blues variants. You don't need vinyl for Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson.

[Bar-B-Lew]

as for blues i probably have 50+ on vinyl

Kingfish
Stevie Ray
Buddy Guy
BB King
John Lee Hooker
Howlin Wolf
Muddy Waters
Elmore James
Son House
Robert Johnson

to name a few plus a bunch of 2LP regional Essential compiliations

Chess
Chicago
Mississippi
Detroit
Texas
Etc

as for jazz I have a few by

Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Thelonious Monk

[Mikro]

You say you have a large collection of Blues? Any Wet Willie? The "Dripping Wet Live" album is really good.

Blues: Bugs Henderson, any of the Poor Davids pub collection is great. Not sure if they were ever put on Vinyl though?

Rock:
Traffic: Low Spark of High Heel Boys
Uriah Heep: Demons and Wizards
Mountain: The Best of Mountain
Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot
Golden Earring: Moontan
Johnny Winter: Live,  also Still Alive and Well
Joe Walsh: The smoker you get the player you drink
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Steppen Wolf: Steppen Wolf Live
FogHat: Rock and Roll Outlaws
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show: Dr. Hook

I know there are many more and many already covered by others above.
mk

[Hank D Thoreau]

It really depends on how and where you listen to music. I play music, but I don't really listen a lot to music; not as much as I did when I was younger. I pretty much peruse Youtube for music. I like watching the performance even if the sound quality is not so great. Vinyl is great for folks that have an entertainment room with the right kind of electronics, speakers and acoustics, and that like to sit and really listen. I don't think it is really essential for background music. I don't require constant music like many folks seem to. I like the ambient sound of nature. It amazes me when I am out hiking and pass folks playing music. They is so much to hear and enjoy in the outdoors.

[Bar-B-Lew]

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[Hank D Thoreau]

Bar-B-Lew

From Wikipedia,

"All marked the end of the Descendents' original run. Following two tours of the United States to promote the album, singer Milo Aukerman left the group to pursue a career in biochemistry. "

Maybe there is still hope for me in music. Also per Wikipedia, Milo left research in 2016 to return to music.

It is interesting how many folks with PhD's in scientific fields are also really good musicians. I knew quite a few. I don't qualify because I am just a really average amateur musician.

[Bar-B-Lew]

Yes, Milo used to work for Dupont and worked on genetically modified corn.  He was fed up with his life in science and was about to quit Dupont and fortunately was let go with a severance package within days of when he had intended to resign.

Here are some other big name punk rock vocalists with PHD's in Science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Holland

[CaptJerry]

You say you have a large collection of Blues? Any Wet Willie? The "Dripping Wet Live" album is really good.

Blues: Bugs Henderson, any of the Poor Davids pub collection is great. Not sure if they were ever put on Vinyl though?

Rock:
Traffic: Low Spark of High Heel Boys
Uriah Heep: Demons and Wizards
Mountain: The Best of Mountain
Captain Beefheart: Clear Spot
Golden Earring: Moontan
Johnny Winter: Live,  also Still Alive and Well
Joe Walsh: The smoker you get the player you drink
Black Sabbath: Paranoid
Steppen Wolf: Steppen Wolf Live
FogHat: Rock and Roll Outlaws
Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show: Dr. Hook

I know there are many more and many already covered by others above.
mk

WET WILLIE!!!!!!
They opened for Grand Funk at Chicago Stadium May of 74.
Never heard of them before that.
Grand Funk was such a disappointment after them.

[yorkdude]

Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Your collection. Still never would have thought of you as that. For whatever reason, I truly pictured a small venue, Smokey blues and libations and a cigar. I have to re-evaluate things.

[02ebz06]

I know that Vinyl is coming back, but not for me even though I have some, let me call it upper end rather than high end equipment.
Can't afford what I'd really like.

So no vinyl because vinyl records are like sunglasses for me.
No matter how hard I try to protect them they get scratched.
I buy CD's, copy them to my server, and then they go into the closet to collect dust.

CDs are mixed with too high of volumes and do not separate the soundstage anywhere near 180gm remastered vinyl on a good turntable with a good cartridge and a good pre-amp.  If you can't hear a difference, either your equipment is below mid level or your ears need to be cleaned 

Don't take that as a personal criticism.

I welcome you to come over to my house and listen to the same song on a good piece of vinyl versus a CD with whatever you want to bring over with you to listen to.  And, I don't  have super high end equipment.

And, I have several Synology servers that I have connected to a Bluesound Node 2i running thru my Onkyo amp.  Fortunately, the Node 2i calms down the brightness of the CDs thru its DAC. I have ripped my entire 3500+ CD collection to FLAC and the sound thru the DAC is way better than playing any CD on a CD player.

I'm sure Vinyl is great, I just can't keep from getting it scratched.

I do have fairly decent equipment (Not what I would really like though):
Marantz 7.1 Processor
Sunfire 200 WPC (7.1) Theater Grand Amp
Martin Logan ReQuest Electrostatic speakers.
Oppo 4k Blu-Ray Player
MIT Speaker cables.
Furman Power Conditioner

Primarily used for TV/Movie watching and background music (backyard, garage, in kitchen, etc.).
Had a nice media room in Texas (18 x 18) and had 7.1 set up.

Every now and then I like to just sit and listen to music, so that would be only time I would even be able to use vinyl.
Even then that would not suit me that well as not a fan of playing 10 songs from this artist, 11 from that artist, etc.
I prefer random or if I want particular type of music, I can go through my library and create a queue of various songs.
Can't do that with vinyl, unless you have an old jukebox with 45's. 
Not knocking vinyl, it is just not for me.

[Bentley]

Brian May, guitarist from Queen has a PhD in Astrophysics...Astrophysics I say! Come on Man, I could not handle algebra!

[Mikro]

You say you have a large collection of Blues? Any Wet Willie? The "Dripping Wet Live" album is really good.

>snip<
mk

WET WILLIE!!!!!!
They opened for Grand Funk at Chicago Stadium May of 74.
Never heard of them before that.
Grand Funk was such a disappointment after them.

Great Band, I saw them in Mobile Alabama in 72 It may have been 71 when they first started up? Long time ago.