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Jonathan Blake “Gone but Note Forgotten” Criss Cross cd An exciting session with both Chris Potter and Mark Turner   235×235 17.7 KB

Wow. I didn't know this, but why would anyone go out of their way to deliberately mess with CDs? I mean, my kids would just go the good ole' fashioned way and spill milk on my CDs and laugh, as I cried; but this thinking I don't get, like why this: "When he was small my kid was pretty good at finding the weak spots in things.  He showed me that it is easy to completely wreck a cd by not putting it far enough onto the spindle and then shoving the cd tray into a pc.  Another time he pulled a cd up off the spindle of a laptop when the cd tray/drawer was not all the way out - bent it seriously.  If I remember right it didn't snap but was totally unusable." Wha? That's like fucking around with my car, so it doesn't start. First things first, I'd say (just me), "Stop touching my shit!" Just saying.  Question further begs, why? How come? What enjoyment comes out of this? Fucking with the integrity of enjoying a CD eludes me. For example, if I (stupidly) left a CD nearby my daughters, I was playing roulette; anything near them (because they were sloppy) was at my own risk. Frankly, my kids were just slops, like, "sorry dad" as they spill milk on Dizzy's Blues In Trinity. Like, try cleaning up milk off a CD; just as wholesome as a good-ass,fun-ass, hoe-down, cleaning up broken eggs off the floor...sorry dad. That aside, like why mess with CDs otherwise? Oh yeah, keep them away from your kids. 

CDs are pretty robust, generally, but they have some vulnerabilities.  There is a directory area at the beginning of the data which if compromised with quite a small nick generally spells the end.  It's pretty easy to mess up a cd by putting scratches and holes through the label side and screwing up the reflective layer. Steve has documented nasty issues with glue-on labels, above.  When he was small my kid was pretty good at finding the weak spots in things.  He showed me that it is easy to completely wreck a cd by not putting it far enough onto the spindle and then shoving the cd tray into a pc.  Another time he pulled a cd up off the spindle of a laptop when the cd tray/drawer was not all the way out - bent it seriously.  If I remember right it didn't snap but was totally unusable. As to vinyl - I grew up with it and I admit it used to sound amazing through the tube push-pull mono amp my dad assembled and the big tuned speaker enclosure he built.  I particularly remember loving Jimmy Smith's The Cat on that rig.  But I also remember the heartbreak of skips and scratches...  

I highly recommend checking out the collection of Byrd's early work on New World. https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nyc-1960-1963

found this on the Lost Recordings website