My First Listen Through: The Cure Live 1979-2022

The Top is amathing.

I would recommend buying a direct drive turntable. The big rubber band on the TT pictured above is likely to stretch/perish. (Buying a spare few now might be useful, but they could also perish before you use them).

The patent on the Technics direct drive tech expired some time ago so there is a good deal of choice (and economy) available today.



Direct Drive tech means you are assured of the correct speed when playing your records. Worth it.

It's a nice looking deck.

I wish mine was in an attractive colour. Though it lives under a silk flag to keep it dust free.

Ordered a vacuum tube preamp for my turntable, got two speakers from a thrift store. The setup is coming together, I may make a video showing off my picture disc of The Top.

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Proceeding through the dregs of my 2019 live tour re-listen, a mammoth show from Malahide Castle. A perfect way to do some housework for the weekend:

Trying to remember the name of the next concert I've got on, and failing. I am rebuilding the bathroom sink drain and replacing the corroded toilet floater assembly, all so I can listen to my new turntable. I'll explain:

I now have a stack of thrift store vinyl LPs, fairly scratch-free. The problem is that they are very dirty and need soap and water cleaning in the sink. I've already worked out the soft sponge and microfiber cleaners I'm going to use, as well as a system for taping Mason jar lids to the labels so they don't get overly wet.

There is a separate problem that a stack of vinyls from one store to high heaven from the ex-smoker who died and their collection was taken to the thrift store after cigarettes sent them to an early demise. One person had luck with "soaking" the cardboard sleeves in baking soda, should absorb some of the odor. That and a 20-pack of Walmart protective record sleeves should take care of the worst examples of vinyl neglect.

I have my two speakers with the exposed copper wires hanging out from their cords. The old stereos simply had a clip where you'd clip the bare copper wire to the back of the receiver. I ordered some RCA screw-type adapters where you insert the copper wire and screw the tiny screw down on it. I have a soldering kit and can actually solder these connections, but we'll just do it the lazy way and see how it sounds.

Still have not received my vacuum tube pre-amp for turntables. All of this just to play my picture disc of "The Top", which is the cleanest record in my collection! Makes me birdmad:

Setlists are pretty much the same ???!!!
I attended these two shows, couldn't expect more different setlist !!!

www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2022-11-13.php
www.cure-concerts.de/concerts/2022-11-14.php

So it turns out the first vinyl LP I played on my new turntable was not The Cure. Iron Maiden just dropped a remaster of their 1986 album "Somewhere in Time", which included a 3D poster: