[B]THE JIM CARROLL BAND
Catholic Boy (1980 ATCO SD 38-132) & Dry Dreams(1982 ATCO SD 38-145)
Catholic Boy: Specialty Records 1C pressing both sides
Dry Dreams: EDP SM-1 WLP pressing[/B]
[I]Info...[/I]
Both records are OOP. This Wikipedia excerpt gives some info of the artist and albums.
James Dennis "Jim" Carroll (August 1, 1949 – September 11, 2009) was an author, poet, autobiographer, and punk musician. Carroll was best known for his 1978 autobiographical work The Basketball Diaries, which was made into the 1995 film of the same name, starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Carroll. In 1978, after he moved to California to get a fresh start since kicking his heroin addiction, Carroll formed The Jim Carroll Band, a New Wave/punk rock group, with encouragement from Patti Smith, with whom he once shared an apartment in New York City along with Robert Mapplethorpe. The band was formerly called Amsterdam, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The musicians were Steve Linsley (bass), Wayne Woods (drums), Brian Linsley and Terrell Winn (guitars). Catholic Boy (1980) spawned two FM hits, "It's Too Late" and "People Who Died" (about friends of the singer's who died before their time). The follow up Dry Dreams (1982) didn't fare as well commercially but continues in the raw, edgy vein of it's predecessor.
[I]Tracks...[/I]
01 - Wicked Gravity
02 - Three Sisters
03 - Day and Night
04 - Nothing is True
05 - People Who Died
06 - City Drops Into the Night
07 - Crow
08 - It's Too Late
09 - I Want the Angel
10 - Catholic Boy
11 - Work Not Play
12 - Dry Dreams
13 - Them
14 - Jealous Twin
15 - Lorraine
16 - Jody
17 - Barricades
18 - Evangeline
19 - Rooms
20 - Still Life
[I]Lineage...[/I]
Turntable - A vintage VIP Boyscout circa 1966 recently upgraded with a custom plinth hand made of Nubian Dragon wood illegally harvested from Djibouti at great personal risk but used for it's exceptionally nubian tonal response.
Tonearm - SMEK series 1984 modded with X-1R Crawler Track Lubricant from the Space Shuttle to give an out of this world character.
Cartridge - Koetsuzuki Ivory Platinum, a very limited production run of fifty three units, each one hand carved from a white key removed from the Blüthner Grand Piano that was used by The Beatles during the "Let it Be" sessions. The resulting musicality and magical aura is thought to be obvious to all.
Phono stage - Womanley Labs Marlin all tube stage with Russian Svetlanovski tubes that have had a few hundred months burn in time as used in the system of Sergei Rachmaninov as he listened to RCA Victor Program Transcription pressings of Beethoven symphonies for inspiration.
A/D converter - Apologee Schmenke 192 converter with firewire and vintage ESDI interfaces.
Cables - Galemark exclusively uses and endorses Lardas cables. They give him his signature fat sound. (Actually, Galemark would like you to know that he never uses any product as pedestrian as Lardas, but since they are paying him big bucks for the endorsement deal, that is what he is telling people.)
Software - Audacious for Vistakon OS with proprietary dither program written for me by Peter Gotcher because we're boys.
Cleaning - VIP Monsoon machine with a top secret fluid. This special enzymatic fluid is made with several proprietary agents, including pure bile removed from Steve Hoffman's gall bladder during his recent back surgery. The Hoffman magic shines through on every one of my drops.
Ugh...okay...I made all of that up...here is the actual "mid-fi" system that was used...
JVC QL-A7 direct drive turntable (with mods).
Audio-Technica AT440MLa Cartridge.
Marantz Model 2230 Receiver (Phono Pre).
Vinyl meticulously hand cleaned.
E-Mu 1212m soundcard capturing at 32 bit float, 192 khz.
Lightly polished with ClickRepair (unless completely manually declicked - see description)
Stray pops missed by CR manually removed with Audition single click tool (never batch processed).
Resampled and dithered with iZotope RX.
No other signal processing is used (unless noted in the description).
[B]Another quality GALEMARK needledrop
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[I]Always traded, never sold
Always trade lossless[/I]