Chuck Nessa

G'bye Bear.

Chubby Jackson comes to mind.

I think he was referring to the loss of a plant about to be decommissioned.

Never heard it but the number of tunes suggest no one gets to stretch out.

How about a link so we don't have to search?

Wasn't there Greg. Just another comment on how nice the man was. Thanks Joe.

This is a music minus one date - band in NY, Anita in LA. Very fine record.

More than 50 years. That's why some folks complained their favorite 45s didn't sound right when transferred to lp or cd. Correct about the current complaint.

Never recorded in stereo AFAIK. Did Atlantic have 8 track recorders back then?

Simplest example - two track recording, the soloist wanders off mike. A take that might be otherwise discarded is saved by compressing the passage (with some gentle eq of the accompanying sounds) and the soloist seems to be in the proper perspective. It gets much more complicated with multi-tracks but drum kits can be rebalanced, etc. You can spend many hours doing this for the perfect master.

I actually do this stuff and you have now confused me about the subject. It is really simple - the compression of dynamics is a tool worth using sometimes and a tool worth ignoring other times. It is a tool. The use of the tool is what should be discussed. Simply branding something as "bad" or "good" is not helpful. We have this "blame game" stuff going on all the time and much of it is crap.

That would be a combined total.

Loudness and compression are two different things. Be careful about confusing the two. Early cds were mastered at moderate volume levels (in fear of digital distortion) and things have changed. Excessive compression has become a relatively recent habit but they are not the same.

Bought the original many years ago. Nice record.

The mono and stereo versions of 1568 are slightly different. My solution is copies of TOCJ-9064 (JRVG) and TOCJ-1568.

Had no idea it was gone. On the other hand, you had 14 years.......

Us too.

Great to see the recognition. Very fine band.

u so smart

There was some problem with the initial issue of the McRae Monk record. The lyrics were by an old friend in Chicago. A lawsuit was filed by someone claiming Ben Sidran was the only lyricist authorized by the Monk Estate. Don't know how the suit was resolved.

I loaded Chrome on one of my PCs and rarely used it as a browser. Recently the security suite on the PC repeatedly alerted me that Chrome was tracking my site visits though Chrome was not open. I quickly deleted it. Be careful.

I do want to say many local malls are full of humans, but vacant.

Great link Wheezie. I sent it to all my family.

Must have been good punch.