Looking For An Old LP, Don't Know The Name

[elcraigo]

synthesized --- then Joe Zawinul solo albums could come into the mix?
There are (164) mp3 snips of Zawinul tunes on amazon, maybe that could help.
not exactly what you described, but check out, Tower Of Silence, Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Synd, Vienna Nights, and then Y'elena.
Keep in mind, I don't think these snips start at 00:00:00:0000.
The vocals have heavy 'vocoder' on it if that helps job the memory.

Makes me want to fire up my oberheim 8 voice and see if I can create the sound.
Let's see, do I remember how to turn a billion knobs?
I wonder if there's an app for that ;-)

 

[jrebman]

Makes me want to fire up my oberheim 8 voice and see if I can create the sound.
Let's see, do I remember how to turn a billion knobs?

Fun stuff!  Sorry to see all those knobs go -- especially now since I can't deal with the blasted LCD displays and soft-touch keys.

-- Jim

 

[elcraigo]

I hear you brother. It's time to pull the old beast out -- now where did I put the Peterson strobe tuner?

 

[Grainger49]

What I haven't described well enough is that the first playing, the one that sounds like a train is played at 1/2 or 1/3 speed.  When it is sped up you see that it was the band.

Edit: Since I'm not a post whore, I edit when appropriate.  (you guys may disagree with the post whore thing)

I scrubbed the copy of Black Market yesterday afternoon like I have never scrubbed an album before.  I used VPI RCF on each side twice and a distilled water rinse.   Most but not all of the hand prints disappeared.  There are a lot of scuffs but nothing in the grooves that is affecting the sound.  I'm surprised it plays so well.  I'm smiling remembering the days when I managed a stereo shop out on Buford Highway in Doraville (Yes, a little country in the city).  Those were the heady days and dark days of the birth of "High End Audio."  Then there was that girl in the short skirts and great legs who visited the shop next door....  Too much!

The picture below shows the hand print to the left.  Since it was taken on my phone, and had to be resized, it isn't that good.

 

[bainjs]

Though it's nothing like weather report, another song that started out with a train is David Bowie's Station to Station.  As you can imagine, it's nothing like weather report, but it's one of my favorite LPs of that kind of music. 

By the way, I saw RichardmThompson the other week doing an all solo acoustic show.  Carlene and I were on the second row. It was great!  Thank you for re-introducing him to us.

 

[jrebman]

Joel,

Lucky you -- I'm a big Richard Thompson fan, and his acoustic shows are always incredible.  What a truly gifted guitarist he is.

Unfortunately, the last time I saw him in an acoustic show, the idiot sound engineer got it into his head that an acoustic show needed to be amplified to 120 dB!  I don't know the actual volume, but it was horribly loud and about as inappropriate on the amplification as one could possibly do.  And that is the best venue in town!

-- Jim

 

[bainjs]

It was at the Belcourt, an art deco era theater that's been completely refurbed. The sound was just right.

Tickets were only $30!

 

[Grainger49]

It was at the Belcourt, an art deco era theater that's been completely refurbed. The sound was just right.

Tickets were only $30!

That is the kind of thing I love about Knoxville.  Paula and I saw Jerry Douglas in a similar, less opulent, theater here for the same price.

I'm pretty sure the cut is not David Bowie. 

I listened all the way through Black Market this morning.  The first side has a ship with horn on it, the second a diesel locomotive and train.

 

[jrebman]

Joel,

Likewise, the theater here is an old, restored movie theater and is (or used to be) a great place to see a concert.  I think all the sound engineers around here must also be into DB Drag -- or deaf .

Did you ever get my PM?

-- Jim

 

[Yoder]

You folks were good at tracking down that album, now can you help me?

There was an LP from the 60's and all I can remember about it is that it had a lone picture of a huge hypodermic syringe and needle on the front cover. I think the background was white-black checkerboard. Any idea the name of the artist and title?