oh yeah, I have that CD with the complete RCA recordings.
"Hey Pete let´s eat mo´meat" I already heard in my teens since there was a black cover RCA album "When Bebop met the Big Band" or so, but you know when you are a teenager you are so deadly serious, not much humour, so at first hearing I found it "silly", but I still listen to it 😄
Okay yeah, it´s possible that the early 50´s dates have better drum sound, but the late 40´s sessions have a terrible weak sound. The only one on which Shadow Wilson replaces Blakey, with Bags and even the great vocalist Kenny Hagood has such a weak and miserable sound that it´s barely enjoyable.
The other one with Roach on drums is a bit better and the Prestige sessions have better drum sound, you are right !
I've learned that living in the present immediately puts you in the past.
I'd love to think that at some point I'll have everything on a server, controllable by laptop (or phone!), and available anywhere in the house. It's doable now, but hell, I was a late-is adapted to CD and didn't totally abandon cassettes until the truck stops stopped carrying them, so that ain't happening here.
But if I was a young guy, hey... I'd be going all in on that and not looking back.
Because 30,000 is a butt load of anything except dollars. And the future ain't about buttlosdd of anything except dollars.
I concur!
Except for this vinyl foolishness, but that lesson will be learned sooner or later. Or else become the fetished collectable that it should already be.