Nice Joe to read about the joys of Thorens turntables.
Amazing what they are still worth these days!
Cheers,
Robert Kok
The Netherlands (owner of a TD160 MK II with SME 3009 IIIS) 
--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, J&J Giddings <jandjgiddings@m...> 
wrote:
> Subject: Re: Scott Miller / Current Obsession / Any Trouble
> 
>   My turntable is in a repair as well.Someone is working on it.It's 
a 
> Thorens ,so it's worth keeping.Soon I'll be spinning my Game Theory 
albums.
> 
> Ahhh, I recently discovered the Joys of Vinyl Obscurity...once more.
> I just got a brand new Thorens TD-170 from my wife.
> Budget audioplile...who knew... Outstanding quality.
> Just picked these up used:
> Frankie Miller - "Double Trouble"- Chrysalis 1978 -Great blues riff-
rock. Great rockin' voice
> akin to Sammy Hagar but leaning towards Bon Scot meets Rod Stewart? 
B
> 
> Ian Matthews - "If You Saw Through My Eyes" -Vertigo-1971  
> Never heard enough Fairport Convention
> to make a judgment on em, but I can't believe how great this mans 
voice is.
> How this isn't up there with "Tea For the Tillerman" and "Sweet 
Baby James", is a mystery.
> Yeah, he can play, too.  Sounds Kickass on Vinyl. A
> 
> Ian Matthews - "A Spot of Interference" -Polygram-1980
> You would think hearing these two Lp's pretty much back to back 
would have given most folks audio whiplash,
> but somehow he makes it work. It's his voice. It didn't really 
change.  He lays back more unless he's yellin'
> like on "I Survived The Seventies", but then on comes a familiar 
melody...
> "She May Call You Up Tonight", by Left Banke comes out and kills 
me.  Sure the production is a bit dated, but the songs are there.
> Good stuff. B+
> 
> Matthews Southern Comfort - Later That Same Year-Pickwick-1971
> I was very afraid...the only thing I remembered about Pickwick 
records is that 
> they put out the lowest quality Lp's that I can remember from my 
youth..."The Now Singers
> singing your Favorite Hits", or something suitably rediculous.
> The musicianship, though a little loose gives each of the songs 
it's own
> voice.  Like hearing new again.  Not epiphanyanic - just very 
pleased considering how I went into it.  It's alot of covers:
> Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", Goffin/King's "To Love", Neil 
Young's "Tell Me Why"...etc.
> His voice still sounds great.  I'm gonna have to do more digging 
into this artists back catalogue.
> Can't wait.  B-
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> later, joe
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