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Best LP records find?

:: Back in 2013 I visited a building site, downtown, where an architect asked me to meet him, but since he was late, I took a walk around the block and fond a garage sale store: among old sofas, paintings, tables and chairs there were 2 plastic boxes, with 40-60 Lps, as I started to dig it, I found close to 15-20 LPs from the beloved mid 80's era named 'Rock En Tu Idioma' as this was a 1987-1988 LPs series of bands from Argentina, Spain, Chile, Mexico, etc. all of them look as if they were taken care of with love...the owner, a nice elder man wanted 7-10 USD back then for each one...It took me 3 visits to pick the best of them. Many of those are for sale on eBay or Discogs close to 50-60 USD, and I did sell some of them to buy more stuff there... Every once in a while I visit the store, but luck has vanished and the owner no longer has LPs for sale: "maybe later, thanks for coming!" he says with a smile.

About Rush and Feedback Album

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Don't understand the 'Feedback' bash, since I got it, I did dig deeper into the Yardbirds catalogue and then I linked the era to the Spencer Davies G, Traffic, etc. 

Sound + Vision Box by David Bowie

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::: I held in my hands, back in the day, a new and sealed S+V Box...and as far as I recall, it was expensive as hell (an import CD box set in late 80s? in Mexico? figure yourself) but just like that, without being open it was a total beauty...!

U2 unreleased wants

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U2 - PoP   Box Set Check this amazing video uploaded by U2 Argentina: It proves that the album was evolving from basic rock tracks to a mixed monster of colorful samples and remixes...plenty of material could be reworked by Flood and Howie B or remixed either by Lillywhite, Eno, Lanois (á la 'Naked) ...those arrangements they did for the PopMart Tour could be added as studio versions, a handful of remixes only available on vinyl releases, a single box where we could find the Remixes versions of the singles they released that era, the collaborations with Sinéad O'Connor, Willie Nelson, a BD or DVD with the promo tour performances in K-Mart, MTv US and MTVEurope, interviews and footage made over the recording sessions, etc. U2 PoP 20th anniversary  was dissmised by the gargantuan 30 years of  Joshua Tree Tour

The Rolling Stones - Corazón de Piedra

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:::  Escuchando, con sorpresa, desde ya varios meses atrás, a los Rolling Stones, pero los que no tenían el logotipo de Andy Warhol... grandes canciones que siempre han estado ahí pero que, una vez, las dejé de lado. No volverá a pasar.

Scratch My BackUp

::: As an architect I tend to gather a bunch of electronic files for different blueprints for each client...since 2003 when I lost many info on a computer crash (including the only images files of my honeymoon), I do a monthly backup of files in DVD-R, even if they do not have any changes: also a One Drive backup is updated in 3 different accounts and a Google drive, iCloud plus a dropbox account to back up documents, images, besides the framed printed photographs and some pics albums,  and a very few paper-blueprints are stored, some ZIP cartridges, Floppy disks 3 1/2" are still there with info...and if client ask for previous works, I send the digital file, or if required, I burn a CD or DVD with the info; also I keep many hand-mad sketches if I like the preliminar work before draw it on CAD software... Regarding my music collection, close to 75% of my cd collection has been rip to mp3, but I've started again, making FLAC files, also need time to rip some LPs that I hav...

El Álbum de Rock Clásico

Colección de Canciones en un sólo disco que debe estar catalogado como éxito comercial y de la crítica musical.  Si bien existe en él un balance entre los “éxitos” y el resto de las canciones y cortes promocionales, todo el álbum mantiene un nivel de calidad bien definido por un concepto musical presente por canciones agrupadas en secuencia o como un conglomerado coherente de temas que son fuertes en un todo y por su cuenta sin seguir algún tema o línea de expresión, ya sea en letras o en música o en ambos. Sobre la base de esta premisa, puede ser desglosado un álbum clásico en los siguientes conceptos: ·      Canciones reconocibles al oído por un verso, coro, gancho musical, solo de algún instrumento, una voz que canta algo mas allá de lo común, por rango vocal o frase que se permea en la memoria. ·     Portada que es reconocida de inmediato y a su vez, hace reconocible al artista aún así, no esté el mismo en la imagen principal d...
'Take On Me' By a-ha La conocí en el comercial de pantimedias de alguna marca y lo recuerdo bien, pues el video tenia un fondo negro con la marca de las pantimedias en rosa a 1/3 parte de la pantalla y sobre el fondo negro caminaba una chava de buena pierna con paso al 'beat' de la intro de 'Take On Me' y solo unos segundos del teclado inmortal de Mags. Pegajoso a más no poder. Unos días más tarde, en el programa de videos llamado 'Video Rock' de Canal 5, ví el video por primera vez. Es imposible separar el video de la canción. El sencillo perfecto para radio. Y ahí me veo, con un cassette en limpio con las teclas de 'rec' y 'pause' en mi grabadora tipo 'boom-box' marca Lasonic -la cual merece una entrada independiente, muy merecida-, esperando la canción para grabarla: Las estaciones, las de siempre.