LP to CD - Analogue to Dig It All

OK, I’ve now got the LP to CD kit and I’m all set to convert those LPs that I don’t already have duplicated on CD. Which, according to my database, as we computer whizz-kids say, is about 505 albums give or take the odd dozen or so that are in forgotten nooks and crannies.

I had a go just a few minutes ago. I chose at random the 1968 album -

The Incredible String Band - The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter

I haven’t listened to this record for probably 20 years, simply because I didn’t have it on CD.

Well, I do now, and it is utterly fantastic - I’m listening to it as I type - oh, oh, oh - it’s all flooding back to me - walls of sitars and acoustic guitars and bouzoukis (?) and whistles and bells and mad hippies, and running water, and insane lyrics - it’s so exciting - and the Very Cellular Song is a masterpiece, and this has already almost paid me back the investment - I can’t wait to resurrect many other old faves that for one reason or another I don’t have on CD -

150 or so reggae albums, Chess doubles of everyone from Muddy to Wolf and Little Walter and Bo, doo-wop and rock’n'roll compilations galore, Poco, Crazy Horse, Pere Ubu, Loudon Wainwright, punk and jazz, african, Happy Trails, Greetings From LA, Gospel, dozens of Fall records, 300 singles, Dylan boots, the Gilded Palace of Sin, Goats Head Soup, Heart Attack and Vine, the History of Rock volumes 1-40, Hawks and Doves, John Lee Hooker, Lenny Bruce, Swell Maps, the Last Poets, John Fahey, McVouty, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Nuggets vols 1-6, Dory Previn, Fela Kuti, John Cale, various volumes of Prince Buster’s record shack etc etc etc

Isn’t it all so exciting?