skeith

From the stuff you mentioned, I like Merle Haggard the best. One of the best voices in country music and a good songwriter. Before I took the plunge, I was familiar with "Okie From Muskogee" and "The Bottle Let Me Down" and probably "today I started Loving you again". I jumped in with the boxed set "Down Every Road" and then got the Capitol twofers of the first 8 or 10 releases - I'm partial to the earlier stuff.

Happy belated birthday 7/4

Brad, Not fixed yet... I have been too busy and it's been way too cold (I don't have a garage) Thanks Jim and Mjzee for your input.

Vajerzy - sorry I did not mean to write in your quote - I am still getting used to the new Board. But I still have this problem after Jim's posts.

Thanks guys!! If anyone else has any suggestions or experiences to relate, I would appreciate that too.

Ok the car is 17 years old, but lately some of the car speakers buzz (distort) on the heavy bass notes. I am wondering is the speakers are blown or if they are buzzing because the speaker covers (grills) are disintegrating and the speakers are now touching some surface and rattling where before they were not. How can I tell if I need to change the grill or the whole speaker. Is it easy to change the speakers yourself?

I liked one of his cds very much. This is sad.

Columbia/Legacy C2K 65900 Disc 1 has small scratch near outer edge which has no effect on sound or playability. Disc 2 and booklet are mint. $10 shipped to a US address.

I have read both the Ray Coleman and more recent Philip Norman biographies and liked both. Norman has the benefit of some more recent info., but Coleman's book is great too. THere are some different emphasis, Norman's book caused a lot of uproar about whether Lennon may have been interested in Paul in the biblical sense - but he doesn't spend much time on it.

thanks Brad. I am surprised that the song Let It be is a result of multiple takes - I didn't hear the splice. did you get your copy of Naked yet? Any opinions. The 45 rpm and 33 1/3 rpm of Let It Be have completely different guitar solos. I am aware of that Jetman - which is why it makes it even more puzzling that if the song Let It Be on the Naked cd is a mixture of takes - why did they use what most people, if not everyone, considers to be the lesser guitar solo.

thanks Brad. I am surprised that the song Let It be is a result of multiple takes - I didn't hear the splice. did you get your copy of Naked yet? Any opinions.

Isn't it better known as Akron?

To my ears Lon, yes Naked is better than the new remaster soundwise - but they are different takes.

To my ears Let It Be - Naked sounds awful, as if a lot (and I mean a lot) of noise reduction was applied. It sounds dead as a dodo. No idea, I sold my copy long ago. According to AMG it was mastered by Steve Rooke. The Let It Be - Naked was perhaps one of the most disappointing releases I ever bought. It. Sucked. And that after all the anticipation. Life could be so much easier ... THe thing about Let it be Naked that is not so obvious until you buy it - is that this is not just Let it Be stripped of the Spector added sounds - these are in fact different takes of the tunes in several cases - so it's not just naked - it's different and whether you prefer the Naked versions is up to you. I would have preferred that the Spectored versions would have been stripped - but that's not what happened. The sound, on the other hand, is so much better than any version of LIB out now.

I played this once and have taken care to keep it pristine. I am offering it at $205 delivered insured to a US address. If you are in the NYC metro area, I can hand it to you for $195.

thanks, KU

Have a great one!!!

Yeah...

Does anyone know if Lee Konitz's Motion is in or will be in the Originals series? I did not see it on this list. If not, did anyone get the LPR version that came out a few years back? How was the sound?

felser, I was in J&R in NYC today and they are selling the stereo cds for $10.99 each, except for the double cds. Not sure whether the deal is the same online. regards,

thanks guys

????? Unless they brought the vocals further back on the new stereo masters, it is exactly the opposite. That's how it sounds to me. Perhaps because the instruments seem to get their own channel and the sound in stereo is so much wider and more enveloping. Have you heard the stereo 2009 remasters - your post indicates you have not.

I think it was mentioned earlier but I believe Lennon said something to the effect that if you haven't heard Peppers in Mono you haven't heard Peppers. Harrison said he only heard the Stereo version on the 70's and didn't like what he heard. I've said it before but I never really liked Pepper as a whole album before I heard the Mono version on the new re-issue, I liked some of the songs but the whole thing just seems to flow better in Mono. And "She's Leaving Home" is like a different song in Mono. However, if you're on a budget I think you can avoid "Let It Be", it really is the worst of the lot, when you read a few of the books mentioned in this thread and find out the circumstances under which it was recorded, it's not hard to see why. Believe it or not, IMO Let It Be is better than Abbey Road, not that LIB doesn't have a clunker or two, but AR has more in my book and the great songs on LIB are better than the great songs on AR. My two cents.

so the bottom line is - you can't delete a topic that you start?