tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11967775783818036902024-03-12T20:43:07.720-07:00Paul Moss Grooves Music, Musicians & RecordsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-69786534961342436112017-02-08T01:59:00.000-08:002017-02-08T01:59:38.894-08:00Was 1967 the best year for pop music? January February Edition<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">As the 50<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> anniversary machine marches on, I’m
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>It seemed like a strange concept when I first heard the album, that of having the rest of the band pitch in with songwriting duties. This had more to do with a bizarre publishing deal that netted £200 for each member (which was a tidy sum in 66) than any creative dryness of the Townshend well. </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>Opener "Run Run Run" has later fade on this version (by nearly 10 seconds)</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>Entwistle's synonymous "Boris The Spider" double tracked vocal, sounds like he's in your living room - twice! </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>Moon's "I Need You" has a very different mix, particularly through the "can you move your car sir" part.</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>On "Whiskey Man" John can be clearly heard with his double tracked vocal pronouncing "frwend" and "flend" simultaneously in the hope of it sounding like "friend"</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>"Heatwave", "Cobwebs & Strange" & "Don't Look Away" sound better than I've heard them elsewhere. </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>"See My Way" was originally recorded at Pete's flat in Wardour St and finished at IBC London. To my knowledge it's never had a stereo release, although I do have artificial stereo versions on other albums. It still sounds best though on this pressing in glorious mono. </o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>"So Sad About Us" while there are stereo versions issued on CD, it sounds better on this pressing in mono.</o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><o:p>"A Quick One While He's Away" The Who's first real venture into rock opera after the failed "Quads" project that yielded "I'm A Boy", became a standard in the set for years. Here is has more clarity and power than the mono Reaction pressings. </o:p></span><br />
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For those who (understandably) don't have time for the 20 minute plus fest of nonsense, here are the main favourites from 2016<br />
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New Album - Good Times by The Monkees<br />
Re-issue - Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys (analogue productions pressing)<br />
Single - Got Up & Gone by Suzie Chunk<br />
Box Set - The Kinks Mono BoxsetUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-22374021990464757952016-12-12T11:51:00.000-08:002016-12-12T13:34:28.282-08:00Play Something Else For Christmas<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />For sure, we all love Slade & Fairy-tale Of New York, the thousands of White Christmas versions that are lurking behind every advent door (even the Stiff Little Fingers version, I know!) and all of the other members of club “Now that’s what I call a festering Christmas”, but do we have to commit to the constant repeat button?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">The 1976 follow up to “Renta Santa” was, like its novelty predecessor, cut from snippets of other hit songs. Thin Lizzy, Rod Stewart, Chuck Berry and many other artists have their finest moments butchered for cheap laughs. That’s the Christmas spirit I remember.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />This classic Goon song was originally sung during an episode to fill time during a musicians strike in 1956 and released shortly after on a ten inch 78. Here it’s on a reissue DECCA 45 single, a Christmas song that will baffle most who were born after 1985, with the exception of the mentally incompetent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Christmas From The Stars Flexi disc </span><span style="font-size: large;">(free with Smash Hits 1982)</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, nothing says peace and good will quite like Paul Weller trying to get chummy with Nick Heywood, Martin Fry and Simon Lebon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Whilst the content of this song may have put it on the rear branches of the celebratory tree in recent decades, knowing what we know now about 70’s children’s celebrities, it’s looking like solid advice. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally here are some other considerations from last year’s blog entry - <a href="http://paulmossbassblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/festive-alternatives.html" target="_blank">FESTIVE ALTERNATIVES</a><br /><br />And for those who are feeling decidedly uncomfortable, here is a picture of a Slade single to take you back to a happy place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas, hopefully Santa brings you all of the records you want and I’ll be back in January to review 2016. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-38592113232155092202016-11-21T12:15:00.001-08:002016-11-21T12:15:08.563-08:00The Kinks Are The Analogue Mono Preservation Society <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been two years since the Beatles Mono Boxset showed the value of going back to the original master tapes and just how superior the mono mixes of sixties pop were. However, as anyone who has listened to the UK Mono re-issue of the debut Jimi Hendrix lp "Are You Experienced", it does depend on what shape those old tapes are in. The tapes from this period are operating well beyond their expected lifespan of 20 to 30 years and bands such as The Doors, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin & Queen now have to rely on their high resolution digital masters for future releases. </h3>
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<i>All of the original albums in The Kinks in Mono vinyl LP box set were cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Mastering, supervised by Andrew Sandoval, direct from the original UK Pye NPL analog mono masters. Only analog EQ was used in the process. The 1970 compilation album, The Kinks (Black Album), was recompiled from flat digital transfers of original analog masters, and was cut to match the original LP. First UK Pye pressings of all of the albums were used in comparison to tapes to insure period accuracy with level, track spacing and artwork.<br />Andrew Sandoval (Box Set compiler)</i></h3>
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<i>The Mono Collection packages the first 8 albums in glorious mono, including ‘Live At Kelvin Hall’. The set also includes the bonus double LP compilation ‘The Kinks’ (aka ‘The Black Album’) PLUS a lavish hardcover 48-page book including never-before-seen photos and new interviews with Ray Davies, Dave Davies and Mick Avory.</i></h3>
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So before we put the box to the test, let's see what they are up against.</h3>
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Arthur - Stereo Reissue 2015 & Village Green Mono Reissue 2014</h3>
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Kink Kontroversy - Mono Reissue 1980</h3>
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The album sleeves are well printed, although they lack the aesthetics of the originals that were resplendent with flipbacks and lined inner sleeves, these new re-issues come with plain paper inners. The discs are of high quality with no warping or pressing issues and the labels correspond to the pink & blue Pye eras. </h3>
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Surly the toughest shootout is for Kinda Kinks, going up against a PYE original pressing, there is a reason why mint copies go for three figure sums. However after listening to the PYE and thinking how great it sounds, the reissue is like removing some gauze from your eyes. It's clarity and transparency more than makes up for a virtually imperceptible loss of warmth in the bottom end. The 1980 Kink Controversy fares worse against the re-issue as does the 2014 Re-issue of Village Green. For the most part the mono Arthur from this boxset out performs the 2015 stereo reissue with only "Shangri-La" sounding better in stereo. Live At Kelvin Hall has always sounded better in Mono; the stereo buries the vocal, and here it sounds far more listenable than I remember it being. The final album, a double "best of" that was originally released in 1970 was cut from digital masters, don't be put off though as this album also sounds great. </h3>
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Most importantly, the music. You are getting 8 albums and a double best of from one of the finest bands in pop history at their zenith. From the initial LP that borrowed from their former "Ravens" set of rock and roll, through pop vignette masterclasses on Face To Face and through to proto futuristic folk nostalgia from one of the four great pillars of sixties british pop. </h3>
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I can't recommend this enough, an essential purchase. </h3>
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<i>ALBUMS:-</i></h3>
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<i>· Kinks<br />· Kinda Kinks<br />· The Kink Kontroversy<br />· Face To Face<br />· Something Else By The Kinks<br />· Live at Kelvin Hall<br />· The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society<br />· Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire)<br />· Kinks (2 LP Black Album)</i></h3>
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<a href="http://paulmossbassblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-beatles-in-mono-part-1-mono-v-stereo.html" target="_blank">Newbies corner - Why Mono http://paulmossbassblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-beatles-in-mono-part-1-mono-v-stereo.html</a></h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">John carpenter, the legend, the live show, the records.<br /><br />It was in the murky days of the mid-eighties that I watched The Fog for the first time, a movie which still remains in my top 20 and my first encounter with what would become one of my favourite directors. A ghost story in a very raw sense, its spookiness is firmly instilled by the soundtrack created by John Carpenter. In late 87 I saw The Prince Of Darkness at the cinema; who again superbly augmented it with music along with frequent collaborator Alan Howarth, leaving my sleep pattern to be disturbed for several nights, something even the hurricane of that year failed to do. The following year saw John & Alan providing the sonic backdrop for “They Live”, somehow a commercial flop that has since gained a cult following, whatever that really means. It’s not so subtle sub-text on advertising and government control is brilliantly woven into a science fiction narrative with the best fight scene I’ve ever seen thrown in for good measure. Around this time I started tracking down John Carpenter’s earlier works at the Blockbuster video store (pause for a nostalgic moment), Halloween, The Thing, Christine, Escape From New York, Assault On Precinct 13, Dark Star and Big Trouble In Little China are all highly recommended movies, all of which feature soundtracks that are either all or in part John Carpenter works. <br />Rather foolishly, I didn’t buy the original soundtrack albums at the time, knowing what I know now I would have bought armfuls of the things. Even some of the recent re-issues have alarmingly shot up in price and collectors are keen to pay well for good clean copies. So check your attics, just make sure it's not on Halloween. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Dark Star – Extended Edition + Bonus Red Alien 7” – limited to 500 copies.<br />This 2001 spoof movie from 1974 didn’t have its soundtrack released until 1980; it featured music and dialogue from the film. This 2016 re-release comes with a red single with unreleased bonus material on the expertly named label - We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />The Fog – Limited double LP 1 - white and 1 – green<br />The Fog only had to wait four years for its release after the movie and it was a stereo remix of the multitrack. Several versions have been released since, most notably on the Death Waltz label in gold, white/green haze and splatter versions. This 2015 release from Silva Screen Music features material sourced from the original cinema release tapes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />Escape From New York – Expanded version double LP<br />Released this time along with the film in 1981, it too has seen a number of re-releases, with some funky coloured versions from Death Waltz. This Silva Screen version from 2016 has been recreated from the original analogue master tapes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />Prince Of Darkness – Pale Blue Vinyl<br />Originally released to coincide with the film, this has been reissued several times; this 2013 version is from Death Waltz.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />They Live – Clear Reissued. <br />“Put the glasses on! Put em on!” reads the cover spine of this 2014 reissue from Death Waltz. It contains an 8 page booklet featuring liner notes by Alan Howarth & Gary Pullin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Halloween II - Clear Reissue</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">My latest John Carpenter acquisition (signed copy of Lost Themes aside), another Death Waltz reissue this one from 2014.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br />So I find myself at the Dome in Brighton on a Thursday evening, waiting for John Carpenter, his son Cody and band to perform songs from the aforementioned movies, along with the two recent “Lost Themes” albums. The stage lights up, first blue then red and they take the stage to a huge cheer which becomes even louder as they kick off with the “Escape From New York” theme. It’s a thoroughly entertaining show that will make a perfect Halloween night for those of you who are lucky enough to see the London appearance at the end of the month. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />For tickets and shows, put on the dam glasses and head to <span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com/">www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com</a> </span></span><br />
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almost too sick to survive devotion to Venkman, Stanz, Spengler & Zeddemore
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most of the world, an eclectic mix of songs that all make an appearance at some
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Parker Jr. “Ghostbusters” –first head after the librarian gets scared in the
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Twins “In The Name Of Love” – heard on the radio while the Ghostbusters <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enjoy their final petty cash Chinese meal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Supply “I Can Wait Forever”<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>- heard on
a passing workman’s Sony Walkman headphones as the Ghostbusters get thrown off
campus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Branigan<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Hot Night” -played at
Louis Tully’s 4<sup>th</sup> anniversary of being an accountant party. Also The
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Bernstein<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> -</span>“Main Title Theme”
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re-mastered and released. Now for whatever reason, call it fate, call it luck, call it karma, some of the tracks (most
notably The Bus Boys song) sound like the original tape masters have been damaged, which is
apparent on all of these vinyl re-issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the soundtrack album. The title track “On Our Own” by Bobby Brown in 7 &
12” format, Run DMC’s take on the Ray Parker song (the single has a different
mix to the lp) and a 12” version of “Spirit” from Doug E. Fresh And The Get
Fresh Crew. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with the Run DMC version backing the original. A 12” marshmallow scented Puffy
gatefold jacket which simulates the feel and texture of a marshmallow along
with lenticular 3D prints<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">;</span> it’s the sort of record that just popped in there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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for the first movie. Limited to 3000 CD copies released by the Varèse Sarabande
CD Club, this sometimes pops up on eBay for the price of a third mortgage. You
can currently stream this on You Tube, but this really deserves to be given a
proper vinyl reissue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I heard about the new 2016 film <span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">i<span style="font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif";">n production</span></span> and being
called a re-boot, I was sceptical to say the least. I’m struggling to
think of
a previous re-make (call it what you will) that I’ve enjoyed, let alone
surpasses the original. Robocop, The Fog, The Omen, Godzilla, Total
Recall,
Arthur and of course the noxious, possibly hazardous waste chemical that
is The
Italian Job has taught me to not look directly at the latest Hollywood
trap.
However, the incessant barrage of sexist and racist trolling from
certain quarters (some call them fans, I call them Wally Wicks) made me
put all of
my prejudices aside and view the film with an open mind. I’m glad I did,
it’s a
very funny and an excellent romp that I felt compelled to go back and
watch
again (in 3D the second time). I’d urge everyone to view it in the same
way,
just make sure you stay to the very end, past the ending credits. </span></div>
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with songs from the film and the other being the soundtrack score. The new
album is well packaged, just a shame the art department didn’t get together
with the disc cutting department as the final song on side one is shown on the
sleeve as the first song on side two, also the download code that should be printed
on the inner sleeve is missing. The songs feature some fairly good remakes of
Ray Parker’s original, along with tracks from Ellie King, 5 Seconds of Summer
and Mark Ronson, plus some DaBarge and the Ray Parker’s Ghostbusters that go to
make this an album that is worth burying the needle on. </span><br />
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whilst the score itself is way short of Bernstein’s original (as is the GBII
soundtrack, which is as yet unreleased) the beautiful slime vinyl and stylish packaging is
supreme. This limited package of 500 (you are looking at number 6) from Sony's “At The
Movies” series will serve all your supernatural needs. </span></div>
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very best, (bearing in mind the re-mastering issues I mentioned earlier) I’d
recommend this 1984 version from Japan which can really bust some heads, in a
spiritual sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last blog entry (possibly the nerdiest on yet) focussed on the tape loops and
sound manipulation of The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows. However the manipulation
of sound goes all the way back to the beginning of recorded music. Thomas Edison,
the inventor of the phonograph, wrote in 1878 that when his cylinders were
played backwards "the song is still melodious in many cases, and some of
the strains are sweet and novel, but altogether different from the song
reproduced in the right way". In the mid 1940’s Egyptian composer Halim
El-Dabh used a wire recorder, reverb chambers and voltage control to produce
his sound manipulated composition The Expression of Zaar. </span><br />
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the use of tape, French composer Pierre Schaeffer was able to take this process even
further and create an art form known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Musique
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would become a global phenomenon that is still going strong today. The theme
would be released as a mono single in Feb 1964 that failed to chart, however it is
the use of sound manipulation and tape editing to create a melodic song that puts
this single years ahead of its time. My version is a later one (1972), the original
being on an unboxed Decca label; <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">my later reissue</span> is still the original mono mix that was
submitted by Delia Derbyshire for the show. The version aired on the first
episode was a slightly changed version to fit in with the graphics.</span> </span><br />
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along with some extra sonic embellishments. A new version was made in 1980 with <span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif";">synthesizers</span> in real time, compared to the original 64 version it’s a vile
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">For my money I believe that the original theme has never been bettered. It's difficult to imagine just how strange the original theme must have sounded coming through the TV, the chart hits of November 1963 "You'll Never Walk Alone" by Gerry & The Pacemakers and "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes must have made it sound like something from a distant time. Given that real-time instruments that were capable of recreating this theme were over 20 years away made that a correct assumption. Add in the general feeling of public unease just a day after the assassination of President JF Kennedy and it's no wonder people wrote in to the BBC to complain that the theme scared their children. When it comes to feedback it doesn't get any better than that.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">For those of you scratching your heads about this strange
number or thinking this has become a science fiction robot blog, the next
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">XEX 606 -1 is the matrix number for the second side of
Revolver, a code used to identify the metal parts in the physical production that is stamped or inscribed on the lead out (also known as the dead wax) area of the record. All
companies used them with varying types of numbers, letters and shapes, some of
which are still in dispute today over what they meant. However, we do know a
lot about the EMI / Parlophone matrix numbers. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">XEX</b> indicates it’s a mono record (YEX is stereo). <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">606</b> is the individual number given to
this side of the record (side one is 605, Rubber Soul is 579 for side 1 &
580 for side 2). <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-1</b> means that it’s
the first lacquer cut from the master tapes. (However, that doesn’t mean it’s
necessarily the first used in production, the first mono Help album has -2 on
both sides, indicating there was a problem with the first lacquers). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">So halfway through making a new album, in a studio you
didn’t want to use because of its outdated technology and a stuffy antiquated
management system that was slow to react to change, with an expired record
contract and on the verge of ceasing all live work, it’s hard to imagine a band
delivering what many consider to be the greatest album of all time. Even on its
release, Paul McCartney was worried that it sounded out of tune. The initial
mono lp’s had the wrong mix on the final track of side 2, the official mono
mix, used on all subsequent mono pressings of Revolver is Mix 8 made from the 3<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">rd</span></sup>
Take; the initial mono pressings used Mix 11 from the same Take.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">The Beatles had been keen to improve the sound of their
songs, listening to Tamla Motown singles which had so much more bass on them,
they pushed for more bottom end on the Paperback Writer single. Having used
another speaker as a microphone to record the bass for both this and the B side
“Rain”, EMI Management baulked when the mix came up to be mastered and cut on
to lacquers. There were very strict EMI regulations when it came to how loud
and how much bass could be put onto a record, too much would make a stylus jump
and lead to product returns. Fortunately the ATOC machine had arrived at Abbey
Road in 1966; Automatic Transient Overload Control (Serial number TG1230) had been acquired
and adapted to the company’s unusual Impedance & Line levels of 200 ohms
and was being used for “Paperback Writer” & “Rain”. Used in conjunction
with an advance play head it could predict louder passages of music ahead and leave
large spaces between the grooves.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">The single would serve as a warning shot for the sonic
changes ahead, recorded with Geoff Emerick taking over as engineer, his
preference for the Fairchild 660 limiter on the drums and miking the snare drum
from underneath made a dramatic difference to Ringo’s drum sound. Geoff also
dampened the bass drum using a 4 headed sweater that was made for a publicity
shot to promote “Eight Arms To Hold You”; the original title of the film
“Help”. The use of Studio 3 at Abbey Road would also bring some changes of
sound, although whether the use of this this was due to scheduling conflicts or
a conscious decision to get new sounds is a matter of debate. The Beatles
wanted to record a new album in Memphis Tennessee, the original plan was to
record at the Stax Studio with in house producer Jim Stewart, however EMI, who
had studios over the world at this point, were in no mood to hand over their
cash to a rival studio. So in April 66, the Beatles headed back to Abbey Road,
and while the Paperback Writer / Rain single would be recorded in studio 3,
only 9 out of the albums 32 tracking days would be spent in the smaller studio,
the rest would be in the usual Studio 2. Both of these studios were equipped
with Studer J-37 four track tape recorders and REDD.51 recording consoles.
Another change for 1966 was the prevention of leakage (ahem, alright at the
back settle down) as Geoff Emerick used more screens around the guitar amps to
reduce the amount of sound escaping to other microphones. Also, something that
is taken for granted in studios now, was the use of headphones. Prior to this
monitoring was done by a speaker placed at 90 degrees to the microphone so that
the artist can hear the playback while doing overdubs but reducing the audio spill
onto the recording by placing it in the microphone’s “blind spot” (deaf spot
just doesn’t make sense as a general analogy, although in microphone terms
that’s what it is). Due to its colour and size the speaker cabinet used for
this in Abbey Road was lovingly referred to as the “White Elephant” and you can
hear its effects clearly on the track “Yesterday”. In 1965 Paul recorded the
first vocal on track 3 (along with acoustic guitar on track 2) on the 14<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup>
of June, on the 17<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> after the recording of the string quartet on
track 1, George Martin suggested that Paul could try another vocal take on the
empty track 4. After Paul gave it a go, Martin thought the original vocal take
was better with the exception of the section “something wrong, now I long for
yesterday” at about 52 seconds into the track. This part is from the second
take on track four which has the white elephant monitor vocal from track three
spilling over onto it creating a double track vocal effect. Double tracking
vocals was something The Beatles had done since the early days and it had
become a standard to re-record a second vocal, a process that irked John who
begged George Martin to find an easier way. Engineer Ken Townsend came up with
ADT (Artificial Double Tracking) using Abbey Road’s existing technology, splitting
the original vocal and sending one on a journey to another tape machine
slightly delaying the signal on the return, (for the technically interested it
was a BTR2 tape machine running at 30ips with the record & playback head
twice the distance apart of the J-37 heads) creating the audio illusion of two
vocal parts. The process was tested first during a Cilla Black session before
being unveiled to The Beatles, clearly they loved it and tried using it on
everything and ADT was quickly snapped up by every Abbey Road engineer shortly
after. You can easily hear an ADT second vocal on Beatles stereo recordings as
they are always panned hard to the left. You can hear it being switched off on
the stereo version of Eleanor Rigby, during the first verse, the first two
syllables of Eleanor have the ADT switched on, on the “nor” it disappears from
the left channel (Yet another shoddy stereo mix). A further innovation was “Varispeed”.
Since the first album the Beatles with George Martin had utilised running the
tapes at half speed for recording (the piano part on Misery), but now by using
a variable voltage oscillator to control the speed of the tape, smaller and
subtler changes were possible. “Rain” was recorded at normal speed (50 cycles
per second) and slowed down to record the vocals (42 cps) and mixed at 44 cps,
giving the backing track a rich timbre and shifting Lennon’s vocal up a
semitone. Several other tracks for Revolver were slowed down “I’m Only Sleeping “,”
For No One” and “She Said She Said”, however the majority of Varispeed adjusted
recordings would be speeded up on future Beatle recordings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">The story of XEX 606-1 begins before Paperback Writer &
Rain were recorded, on the 6<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> April 1966, The Beatles began their
first song since 1965’s “Girl”, it was a Lennon track with the working title of
“Mark 1” (John had also called the song “The Void”) which was influenced by
Timothy Leary’s book “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manuel based on the Tibetan
Book Of The Dead”. John’s original idea was to have thousands of monks chanting
the lyrics; while Paul brought in the more practical idea of creating tape
loops which were played simultaneously on other machines and mixed onto track 2
of Take 3 (Take 1 has been subsequently released on the second Anthology album).
There are 5 distinct loops, 1 a laughing male voice speeded up (seagull sound),
2 a B flat minor chord played by an orchestra, 3 a sitar phrase reversed and
played at double speed, 4 a phrase played either on a mandolin or acoustic
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monks idea to wanting himself to sound like the Dali Lama, somehow this
technically transformed itself into breaking into either a Lesley speaker
cabinet or the internal “Lesley” type rotating speaker on a Lowery Heritage
DSO-1 organ that had already been used for guitar on Take 1 of Tomorrow Never
Knows (Mark 1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Work continued on the
track on 22<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">nd</span></sup> of April in Studio 2 with a new second vocal,
tambourine, organ, piano and guitar solo crammed onto track 3. Track 1 had
drums & bass, while track 4 had new lead vocal and a tamboura (It’s correct
name is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tanpura</i> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and is the first instrument you hear on
Tomorrow Never Knows, it looks like a fretless sitar.)</span></span><br />
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now called “Tomorrow Never Knows” were made in Studio 3 by George Martin &
Geoff Emerick, numbered 10 and 11. Number 11 was considered the best mix and
was to be used for the mono album. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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began, George Martin telephoned engineer Geoff Emerick to have Tomorrow Never Knows Mix eleven replaced with
mix eight from 27 April. Despite this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">some</i>
copies of the alternative mix leaked out. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">Now if this was true, all initial UK copies of Revolver
would have the XEX 606-2 matrix on side 2, or the XEX 606-1 copies would have
Mix 8 on them. Neither of these is true.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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copies of the wrong mix get out if they hadn’t been manufactured yet?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">The cutting process starts with creating a lacquer, made
from playing the master tapes into the cutting lathe that creates the disc that
would have been sent to the EMI Hayes factory for production. To get from this
stage to the stamper which is used to press the records is at the very least
half a day’s work, the existence of 606-1 with Mix 11 means that the lacquer
would have either been already created or that the date of the call is wrong. From
the additional deadwax information on my copy of Revolver I can see that this
was created from the 4<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">th</span></sup> Mother (these are used to create the
stampers – for a more in depth look at this process please avert your eyes to </span><a href="http://www.adam-ant.net/vinyl.html"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">http://www.adam-ant.net/vinyl.html</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">
) this would suggest that it would have taken even longer to get the factory
tooled up to start pressing. The plating process takes around 45 minutes and
the quality control for each stage can take an hour of groove inspection under
the microscope. There are suggestions from some sources that when George Martin
made the call the presses where immediately stopped. Due to the fact the George
was no longer head of A&R and working freelance, it’s unlikely was in a
position to make that call that could have cost thousands (in 1966) of pounds
in loss of waste materials and time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">The most likely explanation is that while George Martin and
Geoff Emerick may have preferred mix 11 at the time it was created, subsequently some or all
of The Beatles with George Martin may have preferred mix 8. The Mix Eleven version which they would have heard on the
initial pressings that came from the factory was brought to the attention of Martin (some say it was John that let him know). It was then a new lacquer was cut
(606-2) that contained Mix 8, which was used for all subsequent pressings (including the Mono 2014 reissue) but instantly
creating another Beatles rarity (606-1). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">So exactly how rare is 606-1. It does depend on how many
were made, sadly I don’t have access to EMI archives, although hopefully when
Mark Lewisohn (who may have access) finishes his mammoth Beatles Project (The
Beatles: All These Years </span><a href="http://www.marklewisohn.net/"><u><span style="color: blue; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">http://www.marklewisohn.net/</span></u></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">
) this might get cleared up. Until then, let’s try to do some maths. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">The EMI Hayes factory in the sixties had approximately 120
presses, giving it the ability to press a massive 120,000 records per day. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">Estimates vary on how many records each stamper would make,
for EMI they seem to range between 1000 & 5000 per stamper. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">The mono to stereo ratio pressed also seems hard to pin down;
estimates again go from 90%/10% (mono/stereo) to 80%/20% for this time period.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">From the dead wax of my copy I can see that this is from the
41<sup><span style="font-size: xx-small;">st</span></sup> stamper created. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: large;">Using the most conservative figures, this means that if my
copy was one of the last pressed there would have been 41,000 copies produced;
to fulfil the advanced mono orders (90%) would have required 270,000, meaning
at the absolute least 606-1 makes up over 15% of all advanced copies produced. No
one has worked harder that Bruce Spizer on researching Beatles record
production at Hayes, his sources which are from people who worked at the
factory at the time, suggest as many as 5000 records were produced from a
stamper unless they broke down. Using my smallest estimate, it’s inconceivable
that EMI would simply trash 41,000 copies because someone signed off the wrong
mix of a track. If Bruce’s numbers are more accurate, the word rare will take
on its eBay meaning. It may be there are a lot more copies out there than
anyone realises, so I’d be wary of parting with large sums for it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">While a very good copy of the revised Revolver (606-2) will
set you back around £30, a similarly graded version of 606-1 could set you back
£150. Is it worth it? Well there are some who prefer this mix, although I would
disagree, but don’t take my word for it, here it is for free on You Tube.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: large;">For an album that was recorded 50 years ago, it sounds like
it could have been recorded in early 2016. If you don't have a vinyl copy my advice is to buy the mono re-issue (2014) for maximum quality at a sensible price. Revolver set new standards for production
which last to today and make it the Beatles album that is least likely to age. The
Beatles would conclude their live era at Candlestick Park later in the month
and sign a new EMI contract in early 67, even after some reassurance about the tuning,
Paul summed it up “I think it'll be our best album yet. They'll never be able
to copy this!”<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Beatles For Sale On Parlophone Records - Bruce Spizer &
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Recording The Beatles - Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of the
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Squeeze’s 4<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> and arguably their finest album was
released just over 35 (count em) years ago, at the time peaking at a disappointing
19 in the albums charts, despite critical acclaim and subsequent re-evaluation
it’s strangely noticeable by its absence in record racks that are brimming with
re-issues of lesser mortals. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Originally conceived as a double album with a different
producer for each side, names such as Dave Edmunds & Paul McCartney being bounded
about, along with Nick Lowe (who produced the first track on the album) and Elvis
Costello, who produced the rest of the album with Roger Bechirian, eventually ended up as a
single disc. But what a disc it is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Side A: kicks off with "In Quintessence" , a song
that quickly marks that this is a new Squeeze that has completed it’s severing
of New Wave links that started on the previous “Argybargy” LP. "Someone
Else's Heart" with Chris Difford’s vulnerable vocal a million miles away
from the cheeky cockney “Cool For Cats” invokes the same Motown soul take that
Elvis used on his 1979 LP “Get Happy”, with some added disco moves on John Bentley’s
bass and a hard “Revolver” style backing vocal from Glenn Tilbrook that evoke a
bleak outlook on relationships. Jools Holland’s replacement Paul Carrack, the
man with the golden voice, leads vocal duties on "Tempted" with the
added “Four Tops” vocals from Glenn, Chris and Costello. "Piccadilly"
with its clever chord changes is more of Glenn at his song writing best, while “There's
No Tomorrow" with its 66 psychedelic vibe leaves you in no doubt that the
punk days are over. "Heaven" returns Chris’ vocal to his usual range
with its striking out of tune chorus that adds to the whole unsettling feel of
this song. The first side closes with the bitter sweet “Woman's World",
another masterclass of chords and melody, beautifully complementing Difford’s
wry lyrics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Side 2 wastes no time with the urgent "Is That Love",
Beatley without over-fabing the flaming pie. "F-Hole" is East Side
Story’s “Tomorrow Never Knows”, pretty much as far from “Up The Junction” as
Squeeze had got to this point, which beautifully segues into “Labelled With
Love" . County & Weston was a dirty phrase back in 1981 for pop music,
however Squeeze and Costello (who would start to record his own country album “Almost
Blue” at the time of this album’s release) would confront this prejudice with
mild success. Eventually released as a single, it’s fine lyric and melody got
it to number 4 in the UK charts. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Difford
& Tilbrook were sometimes referred to as the Lennon & McCartney on the
late 70’s & 80’s and songs like the Lennonesque “Someone Else's Bell"
certainly did nothing to change that idea. Clever chord changes and melodic
limbo aplenty on the marvellous “Mumbo Jumbo" certainly highlight again one of the
finest song writing teams of this era. As if that wasn’t enough, the stunning
orchestral "Vanity Fair" is beyond words, if you haven’t heard it
take a listen here, and bring your tissues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The album closes with "Messed Around", a shot over
the bows to the departed Jools Holland. Glenn Tillbrook admitted <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"There was definitely a feeling of 'See
what you're missing out on Jools. Look at all the fun you could be having.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">So having built up what I will admit is one of my favourite
albums, don’t go rushing out just yet. Since the initial release it 1981, it
has not had a vinyl re-issue, with the exemption of a US 1988 repress. Good copies
of the ordinal UK A&M pressing can be picked up for reasonable (£5 - £10)
on Discogs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">When an album is a good as this, it deserves to be on the
shelves and elbowing re-issues of the Human League and ABC out of the way.</span><br />
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The Who Polydor Singles Box Set<br />
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After being put back several times, the concluding singles box set has finally arrived. It's a surprise on a few levels, the first being it's the largest tome of the four singles boxes, weighing in at 15 singles. The second being the time span, 1975 to 2015, that's 40 years! Although strictly speaking only 12 of those were Poydor years, and even one of the singles in that time period is a MCA release. The first three sets have made it into the essential purchase category, but surely this collection where A and B sides were culled from the last 5 studio and several live LP's render this set a vanity piece?<br />
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1 - See Me, Feel Me - Listening To You / Overture<br />
In true shambolic Who style, this box set kicks off with a single that wasn't even a Who release. Credited to Roger Daltrey & Chorus, the Tommy finale always sounded slightly abandoned in single form on my original (pictured left), and despite the abandonment of a picture sleeve with this disc, the better sounding Abbey Road Half Mastered re-issue here still sounds like a weird choice of single from the Tommy movie soundtrack. The B side however more than makes up for it, credited to Pete Townshend, this alternative Overture has an energy and zeal that is often missing from the soundtrack. This version later appeared on the CD re-issue of Ken Russell's colouful re-imagined Tommy, but here it sounds better than ever.</div>
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2 - Squeeze Box / Success Story<br />
Like the latter track singles from the last box set, the original plastic injection labels of the 70's and 80's (foreground above) are no longer feasible along with the teeth that surround the label, these enabled the stacking on automatic turntables to stop the singles slipping on top of one another (playlist - old school). However, like the preceding singles sets, these are Half Speed Mastered at Abbey Road and in all but one case sound superior to the originals. Both of these songs were taken from the Who By Numbers LP and Squeeze Box is a song worn thin by compilations albums, live versions and varying degrees of shoddy covers at your local jam night. So I'm surprised just how fresh it sounds in single form here, with Roger's vocals in particular sounding like he's singing in my lounge.</div>
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4 - Long Live Rock / I'm The Face - My Wife (live)<br />
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Tied in to the movies The Kids Are Alright & Quadrophenia, these singles from their respective films fill some well deserved gaps. Long Live Rock, originally from the "Odds & Sods" compilation which is absent from the re-issue program, sounds better than I've heard it elsewhere. Whilst the B side I'm The Face isn't quite up to the reissue of the Fontana version (from the Brunswick Box), possible due to vying for vinyl space with a live version of "My Wife". As with any single or EP, to get a more tracks or time on it you have to reduce the volume as you are cutting the grooves closer together. The live version of My Wife that follows it was recorded at the highly regarded 77 Kilburn Show. <br />
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6 - You Better You Bet / The Quiet One<br />
Again the single mix on the A side, although both the single & album versions were available on the original releases, I know because I have both. The disc pictured top right is the original single mix version, to the left is the rear cover of an album version, both were pressed in England. While below is the cover for the vastly superior sounding Poydor Box Set single. </div>
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7 - Don't Let Go The Coat / You<br />
Many an evening in the eighties we would argue that this was the worst Who single ever. It isn't as we shall see shortly, however it's certainly worth moving swiftly onto the B side to listen too one of John's best recorded bass sounds on record.<br />
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8 - Athena / A Man Is A Man<br />
One of the most underrated Who singles in my opinion, I always thought it came alive in single format and it doesn't disappoint here. Pictured here with the original above and the rather elegant but noisy picture disc beside it.</div>
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9 - Eminence Front / It's Your Turn<br />
Whilst this release never got off the cutting lathe, one of the finest moments of It's Hard continues to make appearances on TV shows and in sports arenas to this day. Yet again John's bass sounds HUGE and as with all these singles, the drums sound and feel like drums. Issued in this box set for the first time with the original planned artwork.</div>
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10 - Twist & Shout / I Can't Explain<br />
You know that worst single discussion I mentioned earlier, well this is where the arguing stopped. This is the sort of thing that artists do to fulfil their contracts. Not a Polydor release, here are both versions on the MCA label, with the spanking new and better sounding disc below. </div>
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11 - Won't Get Fooled Again / Bony Moronie<br />
The single edit version that was re-released in 1988 to go with yet another compilation (Who's Better, Who's Best). Like the version on the Track box set I prefer the original single release, it just seems to have more presence and dynamics. The B side Bony Moronie was at the time a glimpse into the archives, recorded at one of the Young Vic Lifehouse shows which has been subsequently released on CD. Whilst it's a rough & tumble version, it's never sounded so good as it does here. My neighbours think the Who have moved in. </div>
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12 - Join Together (live) / I Can See For Miles (live) - Behind Blue Eyes (live)<br />
Surprisingly better than you thought, yes the 25th Anniversary tour was a kind of Vegas cast of thousands approach, but the extra dynamics here that are missing from the thin CD album, along with the first two songs being an unusual inclusion into your usual bog standard OO set, that leaves a pleasant taste on the ear palate. <br />
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What is clear at this point if you've been following Matt Kent's rather fine liner notes in the booklet that accompanies this set, is that along with the 7" releases, there were some 12" versions that had some sexier track options than some of the offerings here. Rather than another single edit of Won't Get Fooled Again that was re-released in the Track box, maybe the live version of Dancing In The Street; recorded Dec 79 and taken from the same single 12", would have been a preferable substitute? Like previous sets, authenticity has generally ruled over diversity, you could make good arguments for either but I'll let the former have it's day here.</div>
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13 - Real Good Looking Boy / Old Red Wine<br />
14 - Wire & Glass EP, Six Songs From A Mini-Opera / Mirror Door <br />
Real Good Looking Boy in it's edited form sounded so good on the Who Hits 50 Lp that I was really looking forward to this single with the full version, it didn't disappoint. Both this and the flip have so much more dynamics than the digital release versions, that really hit you where it feels good. Anyone who thought the Who's recording career was over were kicked in the gooleys by the Wire & Glass EP. The single edit of the Six Songs from a Mini-Opera and the original, albeit substandard mix (compared to the album version) of Mirror Door are all present here in glorious analogue, and sound better for it too.</div>
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15 - Be Lucky / I Can't Explain<br />
Originally released as a one sided 7" single (top right) and then as a blue vinyl record store day version (top left) backed with I Can't Explain, the new Abbey Road Half Speed Mastered single in this Poydor Boxset sounds better than it's 2 fore-bearers, the guitar in particular cuts through the house like a axe windmilling madman.<br />
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Before it hit the mat, I was pretty sure this set was not going to make the essential purchase standard of the first three. I was wrong, and this package, like the others, continues to show the real validity and power of the single. The Who's 7 inch body of work is just as every bit essential as their album output, if you don't have these sets then you are missing out on the quality & fidelity of The Who, warts an all.<br />
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Often heard argument 1 - The Who are an album band.<br />
Answer - Wrong, go to the beginning and start again. (<a href="http://paulmossbassblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/look-who-arrived-too-who-hits-50.html" target="_blank">Brunswick</a>, <a href="http://paulmossbassblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/08/the-who-reaction-singles-box-set.html" target="_blank">Reaction</a>, <a href="http://paulmossbassblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-who-track-record-box-set.html" target="_blank">Track</a> review)<br />
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Answer - With a couple of exceptions, these sound vastly superior to the original pressings.<br />
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margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It may not have escaped your attention that some of the releases I’ve rece</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ntly championed </span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">(The</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Zombies </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Od</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> & Oracle & </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Who’</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s Brunswick Box Set being two</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">) have been half speed</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> mastered at Abbey Road. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Six new releases have just been </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">released</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and for reasons that will shortly be clear, The Police’s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> 1981 LP</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ghost </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In The </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Machine</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">has joined two other copies in my collection.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Like many other topics I pick up on, Half Speed Mastering is nothing new, even before Mobile Fidelity made it their standard practice in </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">1977,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> DECCA records had already been using the process for some of its classical output for nearly twenty years. As the name describes, you run</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the master tape at half speed, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">if it runs at 30</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> inches per second </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">(</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ips</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">)</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> you play it back at 15ips while the cutting lathe runs at 16 2/3 rpm</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. 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Low end roll off means losing some bass at the deeper end of the sound spectrum and de-</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">essing</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> being a way of correcting the distortion on vocal sounds using “S” and “T”. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2DEMORYUlaM/Vz3eDq0u3nI/AAAAAAAACCo/uV_nJKnfrRE/s640/blogger-image-768382483.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2DEMORYUlaM/Vz3eDq0u3nI/AAAAAAAACCo/uV_nJKnfrRE/s640/blogger-image-768382483.jpg"></a></div>A&M Pressing<div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Trying to improve on Ghost In The Machine is certainly a tall order, the original album (released on A&M) sounds terrific and I remember listening to it on my friends Dads posh </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hifi</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">back in the early eighties, being mesmerised that recorded music could sound so good. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OZvYS3aQT9I/Vz3eE7ggUgI/AAAAAAAACCs/zq9ZUKLJgeE/s640/blogger-image--408224875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OZvYS3aQT9I/Vz3eE7ggUgI/AAAAAAAACCs/zq9ZUKLJgeE/s640/blogger-image--408224875.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Four or five years ago, I picked up a second hand copy that was released on the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Nautilus Recordings</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> label</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, released the same year as the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">original</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> it was half speed mastered and marketed as a “Super Discs – Listen To The Difference”. Having read lots of conflicting opinions on the benefits of half speed mastering I thought it would be interesting to hear it for myself.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Supposedly, by running the lathe slower it has more time to accurately cut the groove, whilst this sounds like it should make sense </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it could also be audio snake oil.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Now this version certainly sounded better, I thought the bass had more clarity and the treble seemed crisper. Whether this was down to being mastered at half speed or just being mastered with more care and superior equipment, there is no clear evidence to say, but I’m happy to reap the benefits either way. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CEuKvrkE8wc/Vz3eCqnQnEI/AAAAAAAACCk/_cZWMzNhAIA/s640/blogger-image-2013887382.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CEuKvrkE8wc/Vz3eCqnQnEI/AAAAAAAACCk/_cZWMzNhAIA/s640/blogger-image-2013887382.jpg"></a></div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></p><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The new Abbey Road half speed masters have somewhat controversially been using hi-res digital masters to cut the new re-issues.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Mike </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Showell</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> who oversees the half speed masters has spoken about why he feels that using new hi-res digital copies </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of the original master tapes to make these records is superior to cutting directly from tape-</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">“</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">The greatest variable in all of this is the replay of the master on the tape machine. Just about all of the limitations of analogue cutting from tape are made twice as bad at half-speed. For this reason I firmly believe careful and sympathetic high-resolution digital capture from a well-cared for and customised (i.e. improved) American tape machine will ultimately yield better sounding records which is the sole reason for this series of releases. There is no perfect solution, but I feel by some distance this is the best way to proceed.</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">”</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Mike </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Showell</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> talking with Michael </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Fremer</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For full interview visit </span><a href="http://www.analogplanet.com/content/ume-abbey-road-12-speed-mastered-series-update-we-ask-tough-questions#Hj2hydyik4hexebC.97"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">http://www.analogplanet.com/content/ume-abbey-road-12-speed-mastered-series-update-we-ask-tough-questions#Hj2hydyik4hexebC.97</span></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6xvcvlMdbf8/Vz3eAMaqotI/AAAAAAAACCc/Ju_oQwb5-0Q/s640/blogger-image--501980606.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6xvcvlMdbf8/Vz3eAMaqotI/AAAAAAAACCc/Ju_oQwb5-0Q/s640/blogger-image--501980606.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Well the proof of the audio is in the listening, so after listening to the Nautilus version I pop the new Abbey Road version on the turn table. It’s a revelation. Virtually all the bass sounds deeper and clearer, everything sounds more defined and it still retains a real “depth” of sound over the rather flat sounding CD version. Whilst the improvements to the treble are quite subtle, they become more obvious on the soundscape intro to “Secret Journey”.</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> The dynamics seem improved too, the explosive start of the chorus of “Invisible Sun” sounds bigger than ever. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">From what I’ve heard so far from the Abbey Road Mastering Team I’m mightily impressed and thoroughly recommend these re-issues.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vu-rKUH5rrk/Vz3eBBQXIII/AAAAAAAACCg/sZ6z_XljJyA/s640/blogger-image-1189278670.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vu-rKUH5rrk/Vz3eBBQXIII/AAAAAAAACCg/sZ6z_XljJyA/s640/blogger-image-1189278670.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-67744862243826189312016-05-04T01:03:00.001-07:002016-05-04T01:54:48.300-07:00Concentric Grooves<div class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">The Concentric groove, sometimes called a double or parallel groove is simply more than one groove that is cut into the disc (think of </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">the difference between a single carriageway road and the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">lanes on the M25, maybe it would be a more interesting </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">motorway</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> if it just spiralled in on Central London) </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">and depending </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">on where the needle lands </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">in the leadoff area y</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">ou will hear one of whatever that groove contains. Whilst on this Python offering this was kept quiet, probably for the self-amusement </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">of the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> team, concentric grooves were often marketed as a selling point. The earliest example is a 1901 78rpm on the Victor label, demonstrated on this You Tube video.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">The first vinyl release I can find is a 7” 45rpm on the RCA Victor label by “The </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Fontane</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> Sisters” called “Fortune Teller Song”. Released in 1951, on what became known</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> at the time as</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> magic records, this contains four different endings depending</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> on which of the four grooves your stylus fell into. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">The earliest stereo records were also produced using concentric grooves and a special double </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">stylus;</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> one groove had the right channel and the rest you can work out for yourself. These were little more than test pressings that were quickly superseded by the single stereo groove in 1957. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">The first concentric groove record I bought was on a 12” 45rpm</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> “Pop Music” by “M” was released in 1979, side 1 contained the A side “Pop Music” and the B side “M Factor” on the coin flip concentric groove which must have driven DJ’s mad. Side two had a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">single groove with a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">disco mix </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">of </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">“Pop Music” (bravo chaps).</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Throughout the eighties various </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">7, 10 and 12 inch records </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">were</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> released with various combinations of concentric groove. The prize for the most however goes to the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">octo</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">-groove flexi disc issued with Mad Magazine in 1980. It’s not Lennon & McCartney standard song writing, but hats off for getting 8</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> grooves on a flexi disc. </span></span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">All analogue (often referred to as a triple </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">A</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">release) is the holy grail of mo</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">st vinyl record enthusiasts, recorded on multi-track tape, mastered on tape and directly cut to the la</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">c</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">quer that is used to make a record. During the seventies some </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">records were</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> cut directly onto the la</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">cquer, called </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">“</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">direct to disc recording</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">”, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">bypass</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">ing</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> the tape hiss accumulated on the multi-track & and master tape stages. Cutting direct to disc was nothing new, it was used prior to the early fifties before the invention of tape to make </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">78 shellac records</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">, however this time it was a very niche market featuring mainly jazz & classical titles and pretty much died a death by the eighties, despite the odd resurrection here & there since. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">By the late seventies, digital recording was seen as the future and a more useable alternative to direct to disc in terms of eradicating tape hiss. The first major record to be recorded this way was </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Ry </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Cooder's</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">“</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Bop </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">‘Til</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> You Drop</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">”, on a 32 track digital tape machine built by 3M. Today most new releases are recorded digitally and some like David Crosby’s last solo album “</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Croz</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">” sound amazing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">In 1983</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Joe Jackson was lamenting </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">the sound of modern albums, often recorded in isolation (one instrument at a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">time) </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">in a heavily dampened </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">room</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">;</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">they</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> lacked the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> acoustic </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">ambience of the great studios such as 30</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 8.39px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> Street Columbia </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Studio in </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">NYC & Abbey Road in London. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Joe searched high and low over New York trying to find an appropriate sonic haven, eventually settling on an old Masonic Lodge that was used by Vanguard Studios for classical recordings. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">After a painstaking 3 days of rejecting various digital recording equipment, Joe settled on a 3m 4 track machine to record most of the instrumentation live over a 3 week period, the vocals then being recorded at Atlantic’s Studio B on 60</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 8.39px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> Street</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">. Whilst this digital process delivered one of the bette</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">r sounding early Compact Discs, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">due to it not requiring </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">to go </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">through the thin and crispy sounding Analogue to Digital converters that </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">plagued</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> early cd releases, it is on record that this album is highly prized b</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">y</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> audiophiles and music lovers. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">On songs </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">“The Verdict” & “Be My Number Two”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">they </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">show off the magnificent sound of the room, the latter as it moves from quiet piano and voice to a full on band in less than moments revolution of the turntable will certainly test your audio equipment to its limit. The scraper intro on “Cha </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Cha </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Loco” is reminiscent of test records such as “Persuasive Perfusion”, the wonderful dynamics of “</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Loisaida</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> and “Heart </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">Of</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> Ice” are all brutally squashed & compressed on the remastered 1997 CD</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">. It is</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> on record they </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;">breathe</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.6px;"> like music should. </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a></span></div>
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31/03 - CAEN at Portobello Club<br> 01/04 - ALBI at Jour de Fête<br> 02/04 - PERPIGNAN at Vinochoppe<br> 03/04 - TOULOUSE at La Dernière Chance<br> 04/04 - ST ETIENNE at Thunderbird Lounge<br> 05/04 - GRENOBLE at Maily's Club<br> 06/04 - TOURS at Bar A Mine<br> 07/04 - CLERMONT - FERRAND at Bombshell Club<br> 08/04 - BOURGES at Murrayfield Pub<br> 09/04 - LILLE at L'Imposture Bar</div><div><br></div><div>Also on the 30th March, will be a Galileo 7 radio take over on RCV FM, hosted by Eon Ballinger. </div><div><span class="text_exposed_show"><br></span></div><div><span class="text_exposed_show"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ku-77XxIQt8/VvhzzeUu32I/AAAAAAAACAY/cVuHtCxXp9Y/s640/blogger-image-1917623922.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ku-77XxIQt8/VvhzzeUu32I/AAAAAAAACAY/cVuHtCxXp9Y/s640/blogger-image-1917623922.jpg"></a></div><br></span><br>
<span class="text_exposed_show">Followed by a "homecoming" date at The Moth Club in London on April 16th with The Masonics & Mindreaders. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">You would like to think that if in the second half of the
sixties, your band got a support slot with Jimi Hendrix, a regular spot at the
Marquee Club in Wardour Street, a Billboard Magazine review that screams “This
band will be a giant”, cited as a big influence by Rick Wakeman & Keith
Emerson, name checked by David Bowie & Pete Townsend, oh, and signed by
Brian Epstein, that your place would be reserved in the Rock & Roll hall of
fame. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Scotland 1964 - The Premiers were a soul band that included
Ian Ellis (vocals) and Harry Hughes (drums) that were well known on the
circuit. In an effort to boost their success they added Billy Ritchie on organ,
who’s busy and flamboyant musicianship quickly rubbed the other musicians up
the wrong way causing their departure, thus leaving just Ian, Harry, Billy and
a rather large dilemma. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">London 1966 – Ian Ellis had moved to bass, the trio had
moved to London and renamed themselves 1-2-3. While their new line-up and style
had not worked on the Scottish Club circuit, they were quickly absorbed into
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">London 1967 – Following the death of Brian Epstein, Robert
Stigwood takes control of NEMS and decides to send 1-2-3 on a cabaret tour of
North England, fitting in around comedians, ventriloquists & jugglers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So on returning to London and seeing The Nice steal their thunder
must have been almost as depressing as sharing a dingy Sheffield club dressing
room with a comedy balloonist. Their fortune seemed on the upturn after being
signed by future Chrysalis Label partner Terry Ellis who changed their name to
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Their first single, released on Island in 1969 is the very
hard to come by “Make No Bones About It”, a superb pop song backed by the
proto-prog “Heritage”. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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by 1971 Chrysalis were putting all their effort into Jethro Tull and the Clouds
parted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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given a re-appraisal by Music magazines (for whatever that’s worth) for their precursory
influence on progressive rock. The only official release is on “Up Above our
Heads - Clouds 1966-71 2CD anthology” as a bonus track. Recorded live at The
Marquee, 1-2-3’s version of Paul Simon’s “America” was recorded a year before
it was released on Simon & Garfunkel’s “Bookends”. Paul had originally recorded
a demo in London which passed to 1-2-3 by studio engineer Stu Francis, along
with “Sound Of Silence” they performed this at the Marquee Club in April 1967.
In the audience was Yes vocalist Jon Anderson, who would use this arrangement
on their own version several years later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s a shame Clouds do not have the same rock mag pass, the 2 CD anthology shows them to have a superb collection of songs, smartly
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more information on Clouds visit <a href="http://www.cloudsmusic.com/" target="_blank">www.cloudsmusic.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">After years of telling people I won't plug into sound limiters, welcome to the McGregor £15 100 watt amp. It sounds like a bag of farts but if you don't care about my equipment, I don't care about what you have to listen to. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">I have no problem playing quietly, in fact I'm happier performing at lower volume. I've even had shows where I can't hear what I'm playing over people talking, but if I get paid I'm fine with it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">What I object to is the arbitrary cutting of power to my equipment which in the past has damaged it and left me a huge bill to cover. The last time this happened was about ten years ago, not because I was playing at any sort of volume (this was the aforementioned can't hear myself over the talking scenario) but every time someone shouted or laughed the power cut off. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">So please, keep the sound / noise indicators, ask the band to keep below it or even better give them a contract that means they won't get paid if thier music exceeds the levels, rather than destroying thier equipment. </span></div>
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To me, using</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> whips and</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> daggers to play a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Hammond</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> organ was far more punk than nearly swearing on </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">TV.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Yet again it’s time to bid bon voyage to another musical </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">great; </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Keith Emerson was a rare musician whose ability was only bested by his </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">high octane </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">performance. His assault on his Hammond and the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">playing</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">spinning piano to huge stadium audiences can be found on You Tube, however it’s time to close our eyes and listen to my favourite Keith Emerson album. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b-QpsTqRx3Q/VumMK0YrLKI/AAAAAAAAB_M/iXU3FWjFW9s/s640/blogger-image--1232191807.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-b-QpsTqRx3Q/VumMK0YrLKI/AAAAAAAAB_M/iXU3FWjFW9s/s640/blogger-image--1232191807.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Before EL</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">P had even thought of its</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> first </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Opus, Keith found fame with The Nice, formed out of PP Arnold’s backing band. Their debut “The Thoughts </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Of</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Emerlist</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Davjack</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” was released in the heady year of 1967, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the LP is </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">often </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mentioned in</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> passing as the first proto-</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">prog</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> record</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, it is in my view one of the finest psychedelic albums of all time. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Like many of its contemporary releases, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Emerlist</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Davjack</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">swerves</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> from </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the lighter pop of the title track to the heavy rock of “Bonnie K” with alarming</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> ease. Whilst</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the psychedelic box is ticked on tracks “Dawn” & “Flower King Of Flies”, while “War & Peace” is a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">full on </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rock jazz </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">freakout</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> with classical undertones, overtones and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">wombling</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> free tones. Side 1 concludes with a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Hammond offensive</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> on Dave Brubeck’s “</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Blue Rondo à la Turk</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”, side 2 concludes </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">proceedings</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> with the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Floyd meets Pretty Things epic “The Cry Of Eugene” </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">which </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cuts out at around four and a half minutes, almost just before it reaches what you think will be the ultimate crescendo finish. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This is more than just a historical </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">curiosity;</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> it’s a truly great under the radar album. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HU87MatKg4U/VumMJGKrP2I/AAAAAAAAB_E/uyYY4ucXXtc/s640/blogger-image-813620156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HU87MatKg4U/VumMJGKrP2I/AAAAAAAAB_E/uyYY4ucXXtc/s640/blogger-image-813620156.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My copy is a mono version which I believe is a dedicated mix rather than a fold down, having just listened to a stereo version</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> for the first time</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. It has the splendid pink label which puts to rest a sometimes quoted “pub fact” that the Immediate grey labels were mono & the pink were stereo. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Keith would move on to grander musical ventures in 1970 with ELP who were at the shaper end of </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">progressive-rock throughout</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the upcoming decades, giving performances that made other </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Prog</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">bands of the era look like a bunch of woodwork teachers playing to a pub filled with real ale enthusiast</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s. The a</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lbums “Pictures </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">At An</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Exhibition” & “Brain Salad Surgery” will always have a soft spot in my record collection but</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> my heart will always </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">be with </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Emerlist </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Davjack</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, a</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> genuine black</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> eye</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">kaleidoscope </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in all its raw punk beauty. </span><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Keith Emerson & </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Nice are neatly summed up on an Immediate sampler of the album by the great late John Peel thusly:-</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“</span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-style: italic;">1967 was a strange year for pop music with groups experimenting with new sounds and bouncing on and off bandwagons with dizzying speed and agility. They were calling themselves ridiculous names and regretting it shortly. The Nice came together in a void and will be here when the others are in pantomime in Wolverhampton.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Or making butter commercials…</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MQA0HqNlcko/VumMINlJijI/AAAAAAAAB_A/1rqUz9d0Qs8/s640/blogger-image--480973923.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MQA0HqNlcko/VumMINlJijI/AAAAAAAAB_A/1rqUz9d0Qs8/s640/blogger-image--480973923.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-85138578083245305702016-03-09T11:28:00.005-08:002016-03-09T11:30:29.231-08:00Sir George Martin - All Quiet On The Mersey Front<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Of all the well known producers that have graced recording studios over the last 100 years, none can compare to the exhaustive résumé of Sir George Martin, who sadly passed away yesterday aged 90.<br />
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George will always be synonymous with The Fab Four, but even before George Harrison insulted his tie, Martin had successfully turned round the fortunes of the Parlophone arm of EMI. Taking over as A&R Manager of what was regarded as a label for EMI's insignificant acts in 1955, Martin had released a discography of hugely successful comedy acts from Peter Sellers, The Goons to the groundbreaking satirical "That Was The Week That Was". It was this pedigree of comedy and tape effects that would cement his relationship with The Beatles, who were themselves huge Goons fans.<br />
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The Rubber Soul to White album "golden years" contains many of the tape effects that many believe where at the vanguard of a new sound. In fact, Les Paul had used different recording speeds back in the 1950 on his album "The New Sound". The first Beatles track to use a tape different speed was also the first Beatle song that George Martin performed on.<br />
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Misery was recorded on the infamous day long session of February the 11th, on which the bulk of their debut album was recorded. On February 20th, with the Beatles out touring with Helen Shapiro, George Martin added some piano embellishment first heard after the line "I Remember all the little things we done..." The standard speed for the twin track EMI BTR tape machines was 15 ips (inches per second). To facilitate playing the tricky piano run, the track was bounced onto another machine that ran at 30 ips, the overdub was then performed an octave lower at half the speed (15 ips), which when played back at the original speed gives the piano sound a unique timbre. Martin would again use this approach for the baroque piano solo in Rubber Soul's "In My Life".<br />
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His creative input into The Beatles is immeasurable, it was his idea for the crashing chord at the start of "A Hard Day's Night" which he also played piano on and starting "Can't Buy Me Love" with the chorus.<br />
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Together with a long and winding list of artists and industry awards that would need eight arms to hold them, George's work as an arranger and composer, leaves behind a staggering legacy of achievement.<br />
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2016 kicked off with the beautifully packaged Blackstar from David Bowie, followed almost immediately by his untimely passing. It's impossible not to listen to this album without one ear in the grave and if any musician was going to make his own mortality an artistic statement it would be Bowie. I can't think of another performer with the breadth and commitment to his work than David, on his final album with the black on black printed font, a stunning book and the record itself neatly but securely behind a cut out star, this is a fitting farewell to us all, albeit with the suitable humour somewhere between Spinal Tap and Disaster Area. <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hqXP6VDzV1E/Vs4Mn-nD_cI/AAAAAAAAB-E/8UicdzYA1jk/s640/blogger-image--1607941266.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hqXP6VDzV1E/Vs4Mn-nD_cI/AAAAAAAAB-E/8UicdzYA1jk/s640/blogger-image--1607941266.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>The music is stark and moving without any overt sentimentality, this is by far my favourite Bowie album since nineteen eighty something.</div><div><br>
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It's been over twenty years since Britpop and twenty since Kula Shaker joined it's ranks. After the first two albums; both of which I still love very much, like many other sailors of the good ship Dadrock, Kula Shaker went down by the end of the decade, their buoyancy not aided by front man Crispian Mills making some foolish and ill thought out comments regarding Hitler. Having resurfaced in the mid 2000's and released several new albums, I made a pretty easy prediction about the new release K 2.0 - It'll have some sitar on it. Getting it on the turntable my guess was instantly confirmed, however the Deep Purple vibe has been replaced with a Ronnie Lane / Dylan one, which in itself is no bad thing. So while it's missing the great organ playing of Jay Darlington and in my view isn't as strong as thier first two albums, this is still a fine and worthy record to add to the collection.<br>
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The sight of another new live Who release in the record rack brings about mixed feelings. Does a record of Pete & Rodger's appearance in Hyde Park last year really add anything new to the Who cannon? Apart from those who were there who would want it, who is buying this stuff? Clearly people like me!
Whilst there is nothing new or even vaguely outside of the park, the inclusion of "Pictures Of Lily" & "I Can See For Miles" make the set list partially enticing (just). </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pOLXtBdc0QM/Vs4Mk4Pp8FI/AAAAAAAAB94/aIecNk0y4Ug/s640/blogger-image-1486490179.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pOLXtBdc0QM/Vs4Mk4Pp8FI/AAAAAAAAB94/aIecNk0y4Ug/s640/blogger-image-1486490179.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>What is clear from the outset is that both Pete & Rodger were on form that day and the sound is fairly accurate, lovingly reproduced on yet another Abbey Road Half Speed Mastered release, although live sound of bands today is another moan for another day. The only clunker is Pino's buried in the mix bass solo on My Generation. It's not an essential Who purchase, but with the inclusion of a DVD this is a fairly good value triple LP version of The Who's last gasps.<br>
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Spring is on it's way and with it two red hot releases are available for pre-order from State Records.
The first being Thee Jezebels follow up to last years fine single and it's a 4 track EP.
The second is The Galileo 7 Cruel Bird, available on purple vinyl.
Get your orders in now at
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<br></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-39348590684621483092016-02-08T05:09:00.001-08:002016-02-08T05:09:58.149-08:00Pet Sounds as Brian Intended<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Analogue Productions Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">As </span><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Brian Intended</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tl-8UsNWbiI/VriToHKIk8I/AAAAAAAAB9g/4fukWOOzbEQ/s640/blogger-image-1128284156.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tl-8UsNWbiI/VriToHKIk8I/AAAAAAAAB9g/4fukWOOzbEQ/s640/blogger-image-1128284156.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">While I’ve recently lamented over some huge holes in mono re-issues, The Beach Boys “Pet Sounds” has one of the most thorough re-issue program of any album ever. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So why are Beach Boys fans slavering at the thought of another batch from Analogue Productions?</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Released back in the spring of 1966, Brian Wilson cites The Beatles “Rubber Soul” </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as an inspiration and a call to arms to write what he described as “</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sophisticated </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">feeling music”. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">With The Beach Boys band on the road, Brian Wilson worked with lyricist Tony Asher to create songs that sent a seismic shock across the world of pop. At the epicentre, the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> rest of the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">band upon returning from tour were worried that such a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">departure would be too radical, despite these reservations </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">they threw themselves into the project</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and worked hard embellishing & augmenting the songs</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The album’s backing tracks were recorded on a 4 track recorder, which was then “bounced down</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” to</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> one track on an 8 track recorder, from which other tracks were recorded & bounced down. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Due to Brian being deaf in one ear, He only produced a mono mix of the alb</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">um with which Capitol also created an electronically reproduced stereo version for the much larger American stereo market. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In 1997 Mark Linett </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">would create the first genuine stereo version from the various tapes that were at his disposal, however due to technical reasons there were some variations over the original mix. Linett’s remix is highly regarded and is certainly worth having, but I feel there is a certain “photo-shopping the Sistine Chapel” feel to it. Mixing is as much a valid part of the artistic process as any other so I’m happy to stick with Wilson’s vision rather than what is admittedly a very good approximation of it. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YKhpRpDnooo/VriTfi7cYcI/AAAAAAAAB9M/HqBuL1Fba2w/s640/blogger-image--1186571204.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-YKhpRpDnooo/VriTfi7cYcI/AAAAAAAAB9M/HqBuL1Fba2w/s640/blogger-image--1186571204.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My original </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">copy</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from 19</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">66 on the Capitol label that was pressed at EMI’s Hayes factory. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I always thought that the lack of clarity & bass of Wilson’s multi-layered masterpiece was due to poor masters supplied from US </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Capitol;</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> however I’m assured by several people that the US version sounds pretty much the same, along with the 2008 vinyl re-issue. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aPRN9jC3sdg/VriTmB07PoI/AAAAAAAAB9c/BgqfvrV1X_8/s640/blogger-image-221285608.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-aPRN9jC3sdg/VriTmB07PoI/AAAAAAAAB9c/BgqfvrV1X_8/s640/blogger-image-221285608.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">About 4 years ago someone put me on to the infamous “two-</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">fer</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” version. Released as a bonus LP with “Carl & The Passions”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> 72 Album</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> “So Tough”, it has long been regarded by Beach Boys aficionados as the finest sounding version. I picked up a clean copy soon after and they were right on the money.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HWLFk6LDY50/VriTkvr6V3I/AAAAAAAAB9Y/J1pYtbE-bc8/s640/blogger-image-640794991.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HWLFk6LDY50/VriTkvr6V3I/AAAAAAAAB9Y/J1pYtbE-bc8/s640/blogger-image-640794991.jpg"></a></div> <p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">So when I read the news that Analogue Productions were going to re-release limited editions of the Beach Boys catalogue, my ears certainly pricked up and now Pet Sounds has arrived it’s time to see if it was worth </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the wait. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hI9Jg5PjMII/VriTa3GrDgI/AAAAAAAAB9E/5FYTyZ6uhKU/s640/blogger-image-983426283.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hI9Jg5PjMII/VriTa3GrDgI/AAAAAAAAB9E/5FYTyZ6uhKU/s640/blogger-image-983426283.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The high quality record sleeve comes in the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Stoughton tip-on jackets</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> & is to American Records what </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Garrod</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> & </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lofthouse</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">are to British ones, the inner sleeve is a high quality “rice paper” style and the record is a quality pressed 200 gram beauty. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Nv3eGuHkopQ/VriThsklvoI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/2sqeKAeBJLU/s640/blogger-image--1386556672.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Nv3eGuHkopQ/VriThsklvoI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/2sqeKAeBJLU/s640/blogger-image--1386556672.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Getting the record on the turntable I’m stunned by how much detail you can hear and the clarity of Wilson’s lavish mix, along with bass that I never though</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was there. At many points throughout the album I’m convinced that I’m listening to a stereo mix, the gold standard of great separation and recording </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">expertise</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">T</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he first song recorded for the album </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Sloop John B</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was the only </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">one</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> that initially was put down on three </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">track</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and subsequently treated to more bounce down</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">than most </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of the others</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Like every track on this re-issue, it </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sounds better than ever. An often repeated myth about </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“Sloop”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> is that Capitol forced Wilson to include this song on Pet Sounds. Beach Boys historian </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Brad Elliott </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">points to the fact that Wilson had this song included from the outset and it being on the LP was completely his choice.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Analogue Productions Pet Sounds is s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ourced from the original master tapes and produced with the attention to detail throughout the whole record</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> manufacturing</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> process that simply wasn’t a commercial option 50 years ago</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. This is such a great improvement on the original release, I’m</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> forced to use the word “lush” in describing the sonic package. More importantly the emotions that Brian wanted to load this music with</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> gushes forth even more than I did in th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ose</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> previous sentence</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Being able to connect with music takes many elements, dynamics is certainly one of t</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hem and itself a big looser to current</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> “</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">brick-walled</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">limiting. When the timpani bursts in on “I’m Waiting </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For The</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Day” you should feel it’s entry dynamically, rather than it being another sound. Trust Me</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, on this re-issue you feel it. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“God Only Knows” </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">is moving in</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> any format</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> but</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I’m moved literally to tears hearing it on this album, Brian’s aim of making a “feelings” album has been achieved in this household. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Amen</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nulI_-7wjuM/VriTdiBC72I/AAAAAAAAB9I/_YmuHeLO97c/s640/blogger-image--1898448624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nulI_-7wjuM/VriTdiBC72I/AAAAAAAAB9I/_YmuHeLO97c/s640/blogger-image--1898448624.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Full marks to Analogue Productions on this package, I will certainly be upgrading other Beach Boys albums this year.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-el1CMC7W2oI/VriTi3YllwI/AAAAAAAAB9U/jWjj1Po9SDg/s640/blogger-image-1854920496.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-el1CMC7W2oI/VriTi3YllwI/AAAAAAAAB9U/jWjj1Po9SDg/s640/blogger-image-1854920496.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Notes</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">- </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Due to the limited run of this version, it’s not available at your usual run of the mill outlets, for example Amazon are still selling the 2008 </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Capitol </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">version. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">2016 Analogue Productions version a</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">vailable From: Acoustic Sounds - </span><a href="http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/95587/The_Beach_Boys-Pet_Sounds-200_Gram_Vinyl_Record"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/95587/The_Beach_Boys-Pet_Sounds-200_Gram_Vinyl_Record</span></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For a more detailed read about the making of this album, Brad Elliott’s liner notes for the 1999 Mono/stereo CD re-release are here: </span><a href="http://www.bradelliott.com/writings/ps.html"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">http://www.bradelliott.com/writings/ps.html</span></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This 1999 CD release is a very good version of the Mono/Stereo mixes which can be picked up for sub £5, there is a more recent Mono version on gold HD CD from Audio Fidelity (2009) that is supposed to be superior, but be prepared to dig a lot deeper - £30 and upwards.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-31351552952004122952016-01-25T06:39:00.001-08:002016-01-25T06:41:29.960-08:002015 - I salute you.<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Happy New Year Record Lovers.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jPzp86aQOkg/VqYzqKWJsrI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/tZXeoZsPdyQ/s640/blogger-image-328383272.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jPzp86aQOkg/VqYzqKWJsrI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/tZXeoZsPdyQ/s640/blogger-image-328383272.jpg"></a></div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I spent Christmas & New Year in New York, since getting back its been a roller coaster of shows & rehearsals. We're slowly gathering some new songs for the return of Billy Wears Dresses, it could be a while though. On a far more productive band, The Gallileo 7 have just recorded two new songs for a new single along with some other tracks for a live release. There are lots of upcoming shows for the UK & Europe this year so I'm looking forward to seeing you there. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">I've also been busy on a completely unrelated to music project too, which is why I've taken so long to write another blog update. More about that another time.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">2015 was a phenomenal year for turntable sales, with HMV reporting the sale of a record player every minute in the week up to Christmas. It was </span><span class="s2">also a terrific year for new music & re-issues </span><span class="s2">with record sales continuing to soar.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">As always I shy away from proclamations of the </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;">BEST of 2015</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span class="s2">with all the fanfare of arrogance </span><span class="s2">that </span><span class="s2">that entails but </span><span class="s2">I’m happy to shine the light on my favourites of the year.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New Albums </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Noel Gallagher, The Libertines, </span><span class="s2">Gaz</span><span class="s2"> Coombes, Weller & </span><span class="s2">The </span><span class="s2">Family Silver all released superb slices of wax, there are though two albums I keep coming back to.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Squeeze’s “From </span><span class="s2">The Cradle To The</span><span class="s2"> Grave”</span><span class="s2"> is the long awaited follow up to 1998’s patchy Domino and is a real return to form LP, with the added bonus of exclusive to vinyl songs on side four – Nice touch lads.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Joe Jackson’s “Fast Forward” is also a welcome return to pop after a long period of jazz, classical </span><span class="s2">& film music, producing a haunting and alluring album that isn’t a million miles away from later XTC albums.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9mB6jY9I4fU/VqYzozgIMDI/AAAAAAAAB8I/y1Bj0Xg4Dds/s640/blogger-image-2122843244.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-9mB6jY9I4fU/VqYzozgIMDI/AAAAAAAAB8I/y1Bj0Xg4Dds/s640/blogger-image-2122843244.jpg"></a></div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"> </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">New Singles</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">With so many other polls raving about The Optic Nerve’s “Penelope Tuesday”, plus it being label mates (State Records) I feel it could be seen as bunking</span><span class="s2"> on</span><span class="s2"> the bandwagon to pile yet more praise on this 45, but it fully deserves it so I will. </span><span class="s2">Make sure you order it </span><span class="s2">asap</span><span class="s2"> as stocks are running dangerously low. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Just making it in time (it literally arrived on Christmas Eve) was Phoenix “</span><span class="s2">Alone </span><span class="s2">On</span><span class="s2"> Christmas</span><span class="s2"> Day</span><span class="s2">” a great version of Beach Boys Mike Love’s unreleased song. </span><span class="s2">Plus the added “Bill Murray” factor (who appears on backing vocals) makes this a strong contender for 2016’s alternative festive records.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q2cvdLFUp5g/VqYzt_D6R0I/AAAAAAAAB8w/iI1Vg7JI0EQ/s640/blogger-image-2124714944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q2cvdLFUp5g/VqYzt_D6R0I/AAAAAAAAB8w/iI1Vg7JI0EQ/s640/blogger-image-2124714944.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">Re-Issues</span> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">On the album front The Zombies “</span><span class="s2">Odessey</span><span class="s2"> and Oracle</span><span class="s2">” is head, shoulders and ankles above </span><span class="s2">everyone </span><span class="s2">on the long player front, </span><span class="s2">lovingly </span><span class="s2">half speed mastered in mono at Abbey Road it’s another triumph & wake up call to all the other mono albums in waiting. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BcdUUuL1DKw/VqYzrBGbPuI/AAAAAAAAB8Y/Md9yvMkRpNU/s640/blogger-image-2053162755.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BcdUUuL1DKw/VqYzrBGbPuI/AAAAAAAAB8Y/Md9yvMkRpNU/s640/blogger-image-2053162755.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Of the 7 inch-</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ers</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">, The Who singles box sets have come close to being what the Beatles mono set was last year, certainly the Brunswick Box is sonic perfection and an absolute must for any </span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Who</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> fan, ev</span><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">en if you do own the originals these sound so much better.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p2slO2VmjGA/VqYzsNo5wDI/AAAAAAAAB8g/BSnXNQSuAJA/s640/blogger-image--762465969.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p2slO2VmjGA/VqYzsNo5wDI/AAAAAAAAB8g/BSnXNQSuAJA/s640/blogger-image--762465969.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Christmas Eve saw the debut of The Beatles on streaming services, </span><span class="s2">Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal, Amazon Prime, Slack</span><span class="s2">er, Groove, Rhapsody and </span><span class="s2">Deezer</span><span class="s2"> all currently have the Fab Four on their roster. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Quite a number of people thought I’d be angry about this! Let me say this again</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">: - I’m not anti-digital</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">!</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">I download music, I have about 6 iPods and I stream films & programs. </span><span class="s2">I think it</span><span class="s2"> i</span><span class="s2">s </span><span class="s2">good news</span><span class="s2"> that subscribers to these services have access to great music; it’s just a shame that they are </span><span class="s2">using the</span><span class="s2"> stereo versions. Streaming is a great way to discover new music, however just like Prince did last year; all of a sudden you</span><span class="s2"> can</span><span class="s2"> find your favourite albums have been pulled from the service. Streaming also seems to be driving the upturn in record sales, in some part due to the reasons I just mentioned. </span><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ry4u7ADqRbw/VqYztAWY6II/AAAAAAAAB8o/YcM_TfiD0u0/s640/blogger-image--221749827.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ry4u7ADqRbw/VqYztAWY6II/AAAAAAAAB8o/YcM_TfiD0u0/s640/blogger-image--221749827.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">2016 has begun with the sad news of the passing of the great David Bowie, my Dad is a huge fan and our house regularly rang with the sounds of these great albums in the seventies</span><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">. The world has lost one of its greatest artists and will be sadly missed but gladly remembered.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s5" style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-85326585686107487062015-12-21T01:58:00.001-08:002015-12-21T01:58:56.390-08:00Festive alternatives<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Festive Alternatives</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bVOFuG6-t-s/VnfNWhD_6iI/AAAAAAAAB7s/hurZ8ofxQC8/s640/blogger-image-1550588887.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bVOFuG6-t-s/VnfNWhD_6iI/AAAAAAAAB7s/hurZ8ofxQC8/s640/blogger-image-1550588887.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Christmas comes but once a year, but like a junkie relative who turns up to sleep on the couch, each visit seems to be a longer and more unpleasant intrusion. Having to endure Macca’s “Wonderful Christmas Time” & Mariah Carey’s “All I want For Christmas is for you to shut the f*** up” since October, </span><span class="s2">it </span><span class="s2">certainly puts the Christ back in Christmas every time I walk into a shop. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Fear not vinyl lovers, for here is a feast of alternatives with not a hint of Slade or </span><span class="s2">Wizard to sour the cranberry sauce.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NhYq1rscGpw/VnfNUPk4SUI/AAAAAAAAB7Q/6U5NKDOXENw/s640/blogger-image-1602423797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NhYq1rscGpw/VnfNUPk4SUI/AAAAAAAAB7Q/6U5NKDOXENw/s640/blogger-image-1602423797.jpg"></a></div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Christmas Carols </span><span class="s2">From</span><span class="s2"> St Paul’s Cathedral – The Choir Of St Pauls Cathedral Conducted By Dr J Dykes Bower</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Whilst I’m not what you would describe as a religious person, the sound of</span><span class="s2"> a</span><span class="s2"> Choir recorded in St Paul’s Cathedral in 1967 is so beautiful as to be a spiritual experience in itself, </span><span class="s2">the music </span><span class="s2">masterfully invokes the festi</span><span class="s2">ve season without the need for </span><span class="s2">descending major scale</span><span class="s2">s</span><span class="s2"> or the jingling of bells. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--LV-4iQYfCY/VnfNVxt5FBI/AAAAAAAAB7g/XE-uBUlZtjc/s640/blogger-image--1507701014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--LV-4iQYfCY/VnfNVxt5FBI/AAAAAAAAB7g/XE-uBUlZtjc/s640/blogger-image--1507701014.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Scrooge & Scrooged – Original Soundtrack Recordings</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Two completely different takes on one of my favourite Charles Dickins stories.</span><span class="s2"> The Wonderful Albert Finney musical version is a film I watch every year and is a </span><span class="s2">genuinely</span><span class="s2"> moving and fun adaptation of the book. It features a rare moment of Alec </span><span class="s2">Guinness</span><span class="s2">’ vocal ability, not too dissimilar from Oliver Reed’s musical delights from Tommy. It’s not been re-issued since its release in 1970 due to contractual issues but it’s still available on the second hand market for around £5. The Bill Murray Scrooged album </span><span class="s2">features some fairly good covers, the highlight being Miles Davis, Larry Carlton, David Sanborn & Paul Shaffer performing “We Three Kings </span><span class="s2">Of</span><span class="s2"> Orient Are”.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ElzFXHlDokY/VnfNXqRG0mI/AAAAAAAAB70/5oIRLXnOZEo/s640/blogger-image--327249742.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ElzFXHlDokY/VnfNXqRG0mI/AAAAAAAAB70/5oIRLXnOZEo/s640/blogger-image--327249742.jpg"></a></div><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Beatles Christmas Album</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Members of the Beatles fan club would get a flexi disc around Christmas time with various well wishes, songs and skits from the fab four. The 7 discs from 1963 to 1969 were put on a compilation in 1970 for fan club members, my version is an unofficial 2010 pressing on green vinyl. If you want an original 1970 pressing, be prepared to dig deep and watch out for counterfeits. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j2G2XdYEwa4/VnfNTR0ztEI/AAAAAAAAB7I/1fvLHftzKG8/s640/blogger-image-2064676233.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-j2G2XdYEwa4/VnfNTR0ztEI/AAAAAAAAB7I/1fvLHftzKG8/s640/blogger-image-2064676233.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Squeeze – Christmas Day</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Whilst not Squeeze’s finest moment by any stretch of the imagination, for anyone who enjoyed Christmas in the seventies this will bring some memories back and a welcome diversion from </span><span class="s2">Mum playing </span><span class="s2">Wham’s</span><span class="s2"> ”</span><span class="s2"> Last Christmas</span><span class="s2">” again.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-59QcA5ZiGy0/VnfNSEYzKdI/AAAAAAAAB7E/0PH_1EdFW3E/s640/blogger-image-481392873.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-59QcA5ZiGy0/VnfNSEYzKdI/AAAAAAAAB7E/0PH_1EdFW3E/s640/blogger-image-481392873.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A Charlie Brown Christmas – Vince Guarldi Trio </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">For me this is the ultimate Christmas album</span><span class="s2">, festive but without</span><span class="s2"> cho</span><span class="s2">king on the tinsel. </span><span class="s2">Released 50</span><span class="s2"> years ago</span><span class="s2"> in December 1965</span><span class="s2">, this album </span><span class="s2">on the San Francisco based </span><span class="s2">Fantasy </span><span class="s2">label</span><span class="s2"> still sounds amazing</span><span class="s2"> on this </span><span class="s2">green vinyl </span><span class="s2">re-issue</span><span class="s2">. </span><span class="s2">Give the “Now </span><span class="s2">That’s</span><span class="s2"> What I Call A Repetitive Christmas” CD a short vacation and enjoy this wonderful album. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FZfz4lfubOc/VnfNU0G0tAI/AAAAAAAAB7Y/oIB9SdKT6Iw/s640/blogger-image-228918975.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FZfz4lfubOc/VnfNU0G0tAI/AAAAAAAAB7Y/oIB9SdKT6Iw/s640/blogger-image-228918975.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Which just leaves me to wish you all a Merry Christmas, I’ll be returning in the New Year so until then, thank you for reading. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paul</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-19594828195242016922015-12-16T11:04:00.001-08:002015-12-16T15:57:31.847-08:00Groundbreaking Singles - The Boiler ~ Rhoda with the Special AKA<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Groundbreaking</span><span class="s2"> Singles – The Boiler ~ Rhoda with the Special AKA</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3khG8QFLYv8/VnG119tdeCI/AAAAAAAAB6w/U0AVDX7Ldxk/s640/blogger-image-2029708063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3khG8QFLYv8/VnG119tdeCI/AAAAAAAAB6w/U0AVDX7Ldxk/s640/blogger-image-2029708063.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">The Specials</span><span class="s2"> in their classic</span><span class="s2"> recording form</span><span class="s2"> lasted a brief but bright </span><span class="s2">two years from 79 to 81, releasing some of the finest British pop to ever land on the turntable. Along with bands like The Clash and The Jam, The Specials were not afraid to confront and challenge their audience </span><span class="s2">and released songs that tackled many issues including</span><span class="s2"> racism, birth control, social deprivation and drunk driving. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Following the exit of Terry Hall, </span><span class="s2">Neville Staple & </span><span class="s2">Lynval </span><span class="s2">Golding who went on to form the Fun Boy Three, Jerry </span><span class="s2">Dammers</span><span class="s2"> con</span><span class="s2">tinued with the renamed Special</span><span class="s2"> AKA </span><span class="s2">in 1982 </span><span class="s2">with a more fluid </span><span class="s2">lineup</span><span class="s2"> similar to Paul Weller and Mick </span><span class="s2">Talbot’s </span><span class="s2"></span><span class="s2">Style</span><span class="s2"> Council. Rhoda </span><span class="s2">Daker</span><span class="s2"> who</span><span class="s2"> had previously been in the Two Tone signed band The </span><span class="s2">Bodysnatchers</span><span class="s2"> and had sung on “I Can’t Stand It” from the More Specials LP,</span><span class="s2"> joined on a more permanent role. The first song the </span><span class="s2">Bodysnatchers</span><span class="s2"> had written together was the song “The Boiler” which they and </span><span class="s2">Dammers</span><span class="s2"> wanted</span><span class="s2"> to record as their first single. Label owners Chrysalis baulked at the lyri</span><span class="s2">cal content of the song and </span><span class="s2">forced </span><span class="s2"></span><span class="s2">them</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">to record the more poppy “Let’s Do Rocksteady”. </span><span class="s2">The Special AKA issued The Boiler on the 23</span><span class="s3" style="vertical-align: super;">rd</span><span class="s2"> of January 1982 </span><span class="s2">after protracted recording sessions</span><span class="s2"> and despite the A side getting no airplay it reached number 35, the instrumental version on the B side was the version that was used on radio. The Special AKA would continue to issue </span><span class="s2">subversive</span><span class="s2"> singles such as “War Crimes”, “Racist Friend” and “Free Nelson Mandela” until </span><span class="s2">Dammers</span><span class="s2"> dissolved the band in 1985. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Uumly_iZ9E/VnG11BMU8dI/AAAAAAAAB6o/mdz_VBcOX6k/s640/blogger-image--1588263032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3Uumly_iZ9E/VnG11BMU8dI/AAAAAAAAB6o/mdz_VBcOX6k/s640/blogger-image--1588263032.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">In the early nineties I was thumbing through a friend’s record collection and came across a Specials compilation that had “The Boiler” on it, I’ve never heard it before and I asked him what it was like. “I can’t listen to it” he said “It’s </span><span class="s2">horrible;</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">it’s </span><span class="s2"></span><span class="s2">brilliant but just makes me feel sick”. He refused any more information than that and naturally my interest was piqued. </span><span class="s2">Shortly after this I picked up this copy of the single, listened to it and understood exactly why he had made these extraordinary remarks about a pop song. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">The BBC argue that they have never offic</span><span class="s2">ially banned any songs, but clearly directives like this </span><span class="s2">one </span><span class="s2">issued in 1942 show that they had a clear policy over what was acceptable to broadcast over the airwaves</span><span class="s2"> during World War 2</span><span class="s2">.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"We have recently adopted a policy of excluding sickly sentimentality which, particularly when sung by certain vocalists, can become nauseating and not at all in keeping with what we feel to be the need of the public in this country in the fourth year of war."</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic;">Sourced by </span><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic;">Stanley, Bob (6 August 2008). "The music the BBC banned". </span><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic;">The Times (London).</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4" style="font-style: italic;"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a name="_GoBack"></a></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">So various songs over the years, whilst not banned have been outside acceptable policy and either not played or put on the restricted list which meant it could not be played on general entertainment programs. Barry Maguire’s Eve Of Destruction (too political), The Who’s My Generation (offensive to stutterers), The Beatles’ Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (drugs), </span><span class="s2">Split </span><span class="s2">Enz’s</span><span class="s2"> Six Months In A Leaky Boat (Falkland’s War) The Sex Pistols’ God Save The Queen (it might cause offence</span><span class="s2">) &</span><span class="s2"> Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s Relax (overtly obscene) are just a small number of censorship casualties of the</span><span class="s2">ir</span><span class="s2"> time</span><span class="s2">s</span><span class="s2">. 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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">The loss of “What Goes On” isn’t a deal breaker, however without “Drive My Car”, “If I Needed Someone”</span><span class="s2"> and “Nowhere Man” this album stops sounding like one of the greatest albums of all time and might even be considered a stop gap. Whilst the US version does tick all the boxes of “folk rock” and I’m sure it’</span><span class="s2">s a great </span><span class="s2">stoners</span><span class="s2"> album, </span><span class="s2">without those three key tracks it begins to sound bland.</span><span class="s2"> That’s not to say it still contains some of the finest Beatles songs ever written, but the strength and legacy of the </span><span class="s2">Fabs</span><span class="s2"> albums was always their diversity and contrast. </span><span class="s2">Whilst </span><span class="s2">it’s</span><span class="s2"> fun and often educational to hear tracks out of sequence, part of the genius of these albums is the way tracks set up the next one. </span><span class="s2">I would argue “I’ve just seen a face” undermines “Norwegian Wood” rather than setting it up. </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1196777578381803690.post-74371560328875344022015-11-30T07:56:00.001-08:002015-11-30T07:56:43.065-08:00Five Albums That Cry Out For A Vinyl Reissue<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Five Albums That Cry Out For </span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">A</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;"> Vinyl Reissue</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Following on from my last</span><span class="s2"> blog entry</span><span class="s2">, it’s clear that there are many other albums along with Pink Floyd’s Piper that would be a more than welcome addition to the turntable.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here are just five:-</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5 – The Pretty Things – S.F. Sorrow (Mono)</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">A concept album recorded at Abbey Road before anyone knew what a concept album was, those including the band members who are lucky enough to have heard both mixes prefer the mono version. </span><span class="s2">The original Columbia pressing will set you back a cosy </span><span class="s2">£400 plus, in 2000 Snapper Music pressed 5000 copies which occasionally trickle onto the market in the £30-£50 range. </span><span class="s2"></span><span class="s2">While I would never sell my soul for anything, the thought of getting a pressing of this up to the standard of the recent “</span><span class="s2">Odessey</span><span class="s2"> & Oracle” would tempt me to rent it out at weekends. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5HCG6CNO1hw/Vlxxrl6oheI/AAAAAAAAB5M/99uQTQzsiRE/s640/blogger-image-212252032.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5HCG6CNO1hw/Vlxxrl6oheI/AAAAAAAAB5M/99uQTQzsiRE/s640/blogger-image-212252032.jpg"></a></div>SF Sorrow & Parachute - in all there stereo glory<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">4 - </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">Graham </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">Gouldman</span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"> – The Graham </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">Gouldman</span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"> Thing (Mono)</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Graham </span><span class="s2">Gouldman’s</span><span class="s2"> under the radar album, a fine gem of sixties pop from the writer of so</span><span class="s2">me of the greatest songs of the </span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s2">period. Originally released in the US on RCA, the stereo album has been re-issued on CD & Download, along with repro vinyl pressing that sounds like it is sourced from a digital master. Mono was very much over in the USA by 1968, so the mono version</span><span class="s2"> (LPM-3945)</span><span class="s2"> </span><span class="s2">is </span><span class="s2">a genuine rarity </span><span class="s2">that very occasionally turns up on eBay (one was sold earlier this year for $60). </span><span class="s2">Let us pray to the re-issue gods for </span><span class="s2">a</span><span class="s2"> AAA mono release.</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G073TlGPUWk/VlxxsRJnJSI/AAAAAAAAB5U/9GG_ikjTx3s/s640/blogger-image-22074190.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-G073TlGPUWk/VlxxsRJnJSI/AAAAAAAAB5U/9GG_ikjTx3s/s640/blogger-image-22074190.jpg"></a></div>Pressed on a pig farm in Spain, sold at market for a handful of beans. <br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">3 </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">–</span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">Madness</span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"> – The Liberty Of Norton </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">Folgate</span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2">Madness’ magnum opus did get a limited vinyl release in 2009, </span><span class="s2">albeit with the track listing being shuffled around, presumably to fit the songs onto a single album. While I’m usually the first to moan about modern albums being on two slabs, this is one that should definitely be over two </span><span class="s2">lp’s</span><span class="s2">. </span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"><br></span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s2"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_QJoTQWtWw4/VlxxuaHx5pI/AAAAAAAAB5k/gwv1a0QEmwo/s640/blogger-image-1545112537.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_QJoTQWtWw4/VlxxuaHx5pI/AAAAAAAAB5k/gwv1a0QEmwo/s640/blogger-image-1545112537.jpg"></a></div>Two great albums, one naff format.<p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">2 – Kate Bush </span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;">–</span><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline;"> Aerial</span></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An album that did get a limited double album release back in 2005 but was snapped up very quickly, possibly by some very savvy sellers who can shift this album for anywhere around £150 a time. A high price indeed, especially if you end up with some of the distorted copies that are out there. This stunning album is just too good to be left on CD. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1 – The Beatles – Abbey Road</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Oh yes my pretties, if you think that the 2012 re-mastered vinyl is a worthy replacement for early pressings of this album then please find somewhere else to go, we don’t want your sort around here. This year’s AAA version of the Blue album gives you an idea just how good these tracks could sound if this album was given the same treatment as the 2014 mono box set. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DAsA3-J5O7Q/Vlxxtca-B4I/AAAAAAAAB5c/xNWMg5Hy3dY/s640/blogger-image-258233647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DAsA3-J5O7Q/Vlxxtca-B4I/AAAAAAAAB5c/xNWMg5Hy3dY/s640/blogger-image-258233647.jpg"></a></div>Abbey Road 2012 vinyl remaster - utter toilet.<br><p></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are many more albums that deserve a vinyl re-release, some that are rare and expensive, some that never had a vinyl release or that were pressed badly to start with. </span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please feel free to add your suggestions in the comments below.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0