AllenLowe

"Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"

"Berlin"

"Charleston..."

"Augusta, Columbus..."

he does have a blog - Stomp Off -

"Sacramento, Albany, Hartford......"

"You say that like Perkins was somehow unique in this" 1) where did I say that? 2) my point was only that this was not a new song when Perkins did it and, as I said, he got it from Blind Lemon. 3) and I repeat, where did I say "Perkins was somehow unique in this" ? Please be a little more careful -

glad to hear it, I really am.

actually, if you listen to the guitar solo on Taxman (especially nice with the new mastering) I think you can hear that it's being played by someone with a somewhat faltering technique - which makes sense, as Paul did not play a lot of guitar. Still, it's a brilliantly constructed solo. and once again, I'm willing to bet that Paul, dead as he was, played a LOT of the solos we credit to George. In those days McCartney had a sharp lyrical edge to him. George, to quote National Lampoon, was too busy stealing material from the world -

bear in mind that, if we believe Emerick, Paul played most of the memorable gutar solos. I actually believe this, as I've always found George to be the definition of mediocre -

actually, I think Ferrante and Teicher were the most popular amongst the droolers -

paps - I've always felt that a viable business would be an on-line store for old, "obscure" roots music on CD, early jazz, ragtime, blues, hillbilly, et al - a store that had a limited inventory, but an inventory that could be trusted as having good sound and/or production values, and for holdings that were historically important. However - things have changed, and I don't know, in the world of downloads, whether there is an audience of buyers anymore - love the donut idea, too - not sure, however, that I'd want all those cops around -

I actually have Jolson and Bing doing a duet of My Blue Heaven, which will be in my blues set -

was fighting the urge, but I just pre-ordered.

just a point of information - Perkins lifted Matchbox from Blind Lemon Jefferson -

"allen takes a little getting used to. he has his good points though. " oh yeah? Name three.

well, at least someone thinks like me (I think...) - even if it takes, er, ummm, medication to induce agreement - not to mention that 9 out of 10 lobotomy patients do not like John Lewis (based on a quick survey at the home) -

I'm with Chuck on the equalizer question - for my non-prime system I use an old 12 bander that does wonders to adjust the sound - which is variable not just by recording but by the room in which you're listening to the recording -

I agree, and I don't think that Clarke could ever have sublimated his style to fit in like Connie Kay fit in -

well, Perkins was the king of honky tonk rockabillies - amazing singer and player.

yeah, I liked the book, but it was a little discouraging when he challenged basically none of this other guy's (who was an EMI engineer) claims. I don't have the citation anymore, but it might still be around the internet.

thank god it wasn't a spinet -

Harold - here's my earlier comments: "I'm wary of Emerick's book (though I read it) because after it came out, another engineer who was at a lot of the same sessions wrote a very detailed attack on the book and challenged many of Emerick's recollections - and in Emerick's response, he denied NONE of the corrections that were made, only very lamely said something like, "oh well, sometimes my memory is off." Not a good thing, Also, for all his remarks about sound, he himself destroyed a lot of the anthology with terrible digital de-noising (I think he used No Noise). He also, I think, tries in the book to take too much credit away from George Martin. The most useful thing he offers is the observation that so many of the nice guitar parts we hear were done not by George but by Paul, which does not surprise me."

Harold - interesting book, but I was troubled by some good criticisms of it and some other things - if you can find my earlier post - more later if I can dig it out - "Woman" - apparently written under a pseudonym. Not fair.