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I have listened again to this one, which is one of my favourite Albums. Actually the first time I had a taste of it was in the 70´s when there was a sampler on CBS "Miles Davis Greatest Hits" wich had two tunes from that Album: My Funny Valentine and the Ultra fast Version of "All Blues". 

And Right now while I read this I remember I actually saw all members of the second Miles Davis quintet live , each of them with their own later Groups: Miles anyway on several occasions, George Coleman , the short "replacement" Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter of Course, Herbie, Ron, Tony, and the unit as VSOP . 

 

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Well, I get it. . . magnetism. Made sense to have some metal moving for that purpose, and wire was a good way to do that. It was the next step to have metallic particles on tape. . . but I get that magnetism was the way into the process.

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Well, that's the way things develop. Wire was something known, something to work with. It sure sounded better than lacquer discs. And then a further development. .. magnetic tape. But they didn't get to the tape before using the wire and discovering its limitations.

Now there's. . . digital. . . a whole other ballgame.

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On 7/12/2019 at 3:30 PM, Ed Swinnich said:

Interesting video on wire recorders:

 

Retro Tech - Recording on Wire

I worked at a radio station in the early '60s that dumped old equipment in the basement.  Rummaging around one day I saw a wire recorder, and a metal cabinet dedicated to the complete Lang-Worth transcription library, each disc carefully put away, and likely played but once.  I should have stolen the whole damn thing...

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