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If I had a soundtrack to accompany my life, Jimmy's music would have been very prominently featured. A lot of wisdom mixed with humor and real world observation of the human condition (which is exactly NOT what my life looked like). This is a much bigger loss than I suspect most people realize - he influenced pop, rock, country and more. Even people who weren't fans knew at least a few of his songs.
 
YakkoWarner said:
If I had a soundtrack to accompany my life, Jimmy's music would have been very prominently featured. A lot of wisdom mixed with humor and real world observation of the human condition (which is exactly NOT what my life looked like). This is a much bigger loss than I suspect most people realize - he influenced pop, rock, country and more. Even people who weren't fans knew at least a few of his songs.
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agreed. even the media - not a typical musician's tribute on the editorial page

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Took a long ride today to get a car canopy to paint our Jeep under. Listened to Margaritaville radio all day. Stopped at ABC for tequila and triple sec. Now have White Sport Coat and Pink Crustacean on and frozen concoction in hand. He was not the best singer or guitar player but there is a hole in the universe. Going to pour another.
Bob
 
bobhustead said:
Took a long ride today to get a car canopy to paint our Jeep under. Listened to Margaritaville radio all day. Stopped at ABC for tequila and triple sec. Now have White Sport Coat and Pink Crustacean on and frozen concoction in hand. He was not the best singer or guitar player but there is a hole in the universe. Going to pour another.
Bob
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Found my turntable is not working a few days ago, realizing we don't have Pink Crustacean on CD. We've duplicated all his vinyl but that one, no idea why it was left out other than the turntable worked last time it was taken from the sleeve. That album was played so much since '74 it's surprising there are any tracks left on it. The turntable will be repaired and a CD is on its way. That hole in the universe will never be patched. Jimmy dreams.
 
Spoke too soon. Looks like I'll not be getting a CD of either of the first two albums any time soon. Suddenly they're $60~$80 apiece. I'll change the belts in the turntable instead!

Original pressings, still some of the wrapper on one!
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Like someone said about Buffett's funeral -
"He should be dressed in a white sport coat &-
a pink crustacean,with a pencil thin mustache".
 
Doc-
udiscovermusic.com claims to have them for 14.00, shipping Tue. I see what you mean about prices, though. Even on Mailboat Records, where they are not going to gouge, most of Jimmy's stuff is sold out.
Bob
 
GregW said:
Hey Doc, Do you have a good converter to digitize the album? Depending on the shape of the vinyl, you can get better quality than CD.
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Just as I've procrastinated on those two vinyl discs, I haven't made the purchase of a converter. Past due for that, apparently.

I'm th' guy who would jump on the latest, greatest, in years past. I stopped doing that a couple decades ago. I've two Sony BetaCams, more than a couple Beta decks, a couple VHS decks... drawers full of tape cassettes of both formats, Beta ones are mostly personal videos, the VHS are production movies.

"Made enough money to buy Miami, but I pi$$ed it away so fast..." :eek:
 
I could loan you mine. It is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. 24bit/192khz. I would run my record player into a receiver, tape out to the Focusrite. Then USB from that into a computer.
 
Doc, if you want to, you could send them my way and I could convert them, burn them to CD, and ship it all back to you.
 
Doc, you don't have to buy one. Audacity is an open source converter and it works great. Also has great features to clean up old records in the process.
 
GregW said:
And Audacity works on Linux. The hardware is what Doc is lacking.
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GregW said:
I could loan you mine. It is a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. 24bit/192khz. I would run my record player into a receiver, tape out to the Focusrite. Then USB from that into a computer.
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That method is what I would prefer to use, I'll find the hardware but appreciate the offer! First the turntable needs a CLA. Been a decade since I went thru it correctly. Sony linear tracking. Drive belts are still available and I ~think~ I have a spare set here somewhere, too. Those may be too old & deteriorated tho. And once I start a project like this, there are MANY vinyl albums here I'd want to resurrect to digital.
 
If you have a sound card in the computer, it probably has an audio in jack. Just use a stereo cable from the receiver to the computer. No need for anything else between. I have done several albums that way.
 
I do a lot of vinyl transcription - the audio in jack on most computers is painfully noisy. A good external interface like the above-mentioned Focusrite will make it much better. Also having a good quality and clean phono preamp is essential - one that matches the turntable cartridge and has the proper preemphesis equalization on it. Software is secondary to hardware in this application, anything that can take a 2 channel digital stream and write it to disc reliably will work, but getting the signal into the digital world is always the big (and usually more difficult) part.

Audacity is my best friend for cleaning up and splitting the digital track once I have it transcribed, but I have had Audacity drop bits of audio on a long vinyl side during the actual record process. The glitch was possibly caused by a slow disc write or a memory buffer overrun or something, I have experienced it more than once. Because of that I switched to using Reaper for the actual tracking, and then bring it into Audacity for post processing. The microsecond waveform repair tool in Audacity is perfect for removing clicks and pops, and it offers a wide assortment of EQ options. I've salvaged a lot of difficult-to-listen-to vinyl with those basic tools, and even had to play some really stupid tricks at time to get a virtually unplayable record transcribed (by playing it at a slower speed to keep the needle tracking in the groove and then digitally reprossessing the resultant waveform file to play back at the correct speed). Also have used 3 different copies of an album (each with unique problems) and cut and crossfaded a playable reproduction by using bits and pieces from all 3....thst was a special case of a friend who had several copies of an album a family member performed on...it was important to them to salvage it.
 
"I have had Audacity drop bits of audio on a long vinyl side during the actual record process"
Are you doing this on a windows computer? You can force windows to prioritize any program you want. Launch Audacity, launch Task Manager, right click on Audacity in the processes tab, left click "Go to details", right click Audacity there and left click "Set priority", lastly choose "high".
This keeps other programs from stealing processor time.
 
YakkoWarner said:
I do a lot of vinyl transcription - the audio in jack on most computers is painfully noisy.
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That's one of the reasons we've not been overly enthusiastic about transfers. Never got serious about it 'til now.
 
GregW said:
"I have had Audacity drop bits of audio on a long vinyl side during the actual record process"
Are you doing this on a windows computer? You can force windows to prioritize any program you want. Launch Audacity, launch Task Manager, right click on Audacity in the processes tab, left click "Go to details", right click Audacity there and left click "Set priority", lastly choose "high".
This keeps other programs from stealing processor time.
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It was on an Apple machine. I have since upgraded to an even beefier machine (one of the 2010-era Mac Pros with the dual quad Xeons and all SSDs), but since I bought the $60 personal license of Reaper I'm going to use it and get my $$$ worth from it. My expectation was that slow rotating drives were the fault, but I have something that worlks much faster now.
 
YakkoWarner said:
If I had a soundtrack to accompany my life, Jimmy's music would have been very prominently featured. A lot of wisdom mixed with humor and real world observation of the human condition (which is exactly NOT what my life looked like). This is a much bigger loss than I suspect most people realize - he influenced pop, rock, country and more. Even people who weren't fans knew at least a few of his songs.
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At least he missed the midnight train to the 27 Club.
 
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