Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Bloodlemons said:
AAnother hopefully forgivable thread hijack: I now own WD, AB and Europe '72. These are all great, but where do I go next to get the actual psychedelia? I am easily amused, so I want the most bombastic shit possible.
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Blues For Allah or Wake of The Flood would be my next favorite studio albums followed closely by Mars Hotel and Aoxomoxoa. Skull & Roses would be another live comp worth picking up as “Bertha” and “Wharf Rat” are all-time greats. Also, don’t sleep on their Solo albums; Garcia, Cat Under The Stars, Ace, and Rolling Thunder all are worth checking out.
 
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Bloodlemons said:
If a guy wanted only three albums (studio or live) from that era...?

EDIT: Let me narrow if down. What if I wanted only one live album from the psych era?
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I listen to Shrine Auditorium the most frequently. Plus it's only 3lps so you don't need to get up as much.

2/27/69 and 2/28/69 are part of the run of Fillmore shows that make up live/ dead so if you don't want a full 5lp set then go for Live/ Dead. Personally I'd go Shrine, 28/2/69 then 27/2/69 in that order. Others may not.

You could always have 2 live albums from 66 - 69
 
Mather said:
I mean with mine there are two things going on in terms of sound. There is straight up no fill on L/D, there are marks all over Reckoning 1 which causes pops and Wake is noisy. Full stop those issues are big. Then there's just the light clicks that I'm getting on another 4 discs. That I'm guessing partially comes down to my 2M Black. I mean those clicks aren't present on AP pressings, on the classics pressings, on MOST QRP pressings. But I'm picking them up on this set. I'm guessing that if you don't have a Shibata or another such very precise diamond tip then it's likely that these clicks wouldn't show up OR... if you have a generally more noisy setup then they might be the norm for what a listener would hear on their rig. For me, my rig is dead quiet and these things are very noticeable. Does it kill the enjoyment? No, they're light. Not loud snaps. Should they be there? No. So I asked for replacements because ESPECIALLY for the price these should be dead quiet. The replacements HAVE to fix the first three issues, they're big. However I fully expect the next batch of replacements to sound almost no different in terms of these light clicks on the remaining discs... But it's worth a shot.
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My wake of the flood is perfect. Sounds great too. Not a click to be heard. So that's live dead c/d, Europe 72 a/b and c and wake of the flood that are ok.

Weird that my WotF is good when that's the one that consistently seems to be causing other people issues. Well I suppose it keeps things exciting
 
Rowan said:
Dead box fans... This didn't sell last week so will probably go for £55. Which is frankly ridiculous

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day of the dead vinyl | eBay

day of the dead vinyl. Condition is "New". Dispatched with Royal Mail 1st Class.
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Going back to this again, I messaged the seller and they had one more set in stock! I paid £60 and am so glad I can finally own what looks like an incredible package with some of my favourite bands covering legendary music!
 
NewsFedora said:
Oh neat, this seems to have popped into my account sometime in the last few days:

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I'm sure it's still a good while before it actually ships, but I am starting to feel pretty stoked!
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This is exciting! Really cant wait for it to turn up so I can dig in. Im very familiar with Herbie's early work but its his later releases which most excite me. Really looking forward to it, I have purposely avoided streaming his albums lately and really looking forward to hearing 1+1 for the first time.
 
Selaws said:
This is exciting! Really cant wait for it to turn up so I can dig in. Im very familiar with Herbie's early work but its his later releases which most excite me. Really looking forward to it, I have purposely avoided streaming his albums lately and really looking forward to hearing 1+1 for the first time.
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Frankly, after the last few days I'm absolutely dreading it 😂
 
Rowan said:
Frankly, after the last few days I'm absolutely dreading it 😂
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Whats happened in the last few days? The 'Hawk Files' error? My view is that even if there was a printing error they will eventually rectify it. As long as I have a set of decent pressings, with correctly printed jackets by the end of it all I will be happy. Yeah, I would obviously prefer it to be top-notch as soon as it arrives but the one thing I would say about VMP is that they are good at fixing their quality control errors, much more than other companies I have dealt with in the past.
 
Selaws said:
Whats happened in the last few days? The 'Hawk Files' error? My view is that even if there was a printing error they will eventually rectify it. As long as I have a set of decent pressings, with correctly printed jackets by the end of it all I will be happy. Yeah, I would obviously prefer it to be top-notch as soon as it arrives but the one thing I would say about VMP is that they are good at fixing their quality control errors, much more than other companies I have dealt with in the past.
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I've loads of issues with my Dead Box. I think I'm going to draw a line under it in here as I don't really want other to see my experiences as a reflection of the wider distributed whole (and there are loads and loads of amazing reviews about of this box that I hope people go and check out too rather than my own one off on a single set). Not to mention I'm starting to bore myself, let alone other from the forum, but as it stands 6 of the 8 albums in the set have some form of issue. There is some stuff that was just down to carelessness (vinyl not fully in sleeves being one and labels that are so far off centre you get vertigo staring at them) but more worrying is the layer of noise over a couple, distortion on some tracks, huge non fill issues, off centre presses and the general clicks and pops that are across the rest. In total from a 14 LP set I've 6LPs that are without any noticeable flaw. And that's QRP doing the work. God only knows what will happen when GZ are in the game.

To be fair VMP seem to be standing up to be counted when others have contacted them about this. And in defense of the set. When it's good it is unbelievably good. Its also possibly the best looking package I own in my collection so if they can sort out fresh (and good) copies I'll be delighted that I took the plunge on it. But after this I'm not going to be able to cruise through the Herbie set. It'll have to be played pretty much straight off the bat and I'm going to have to sit there and make notes again. That's how fucked my Dead box was
 
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