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Let's talk 'em up here enough to drive up a speculative frenzy for them on eBay, then drop our product, pocket the bucks, and then walk away. That's how it works, right?

I've kept my non-generic long boxes on the theory that if a video game is worth more with the original packing, then a CD might. Probably getting it all wrong, especially these days. But I do have plenty of OG SNES games with boxes and instructions, so...I'm rich, right?

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Did that first CD come in a long box? Does an OG long box add value, ever?

I definitely know "Unjust Malaise". Not for the faint of heart or easily bored! Which is just to say, a very specific music delivered with bottomless focus and intensity.

Interesting...I've not heard it as "pecking" as much as letting every note have it's own full life without bleeding into another one, at fast tempos and slow alike. I'm liking that very much right now, but I do hear the difference, and I'm beginning to see why Gould generated such "controversy". Still...I like it, I like the almost "avant-garde" feel of it. today I was listening to one thing and thinking how it was reminding me of Cage almost, the almost obsessive...specificity. To that end, and referring back to Gould and his relationship to teh studio, does anybody know how he worked with his engineers on his miking? Some of what I hear is not just the performer, it's the sound of the piano as recorded vs how it was being played, if that makes any sense.

I've often wondered how much of the "sternness" is from the translation. I mean, I read Evolution & Essence pretty early on and found it joylessly accurate, which is one of those things that kind of leaves you feeling warned about going back there again. I've kept it, and my cheap paperback has fallen apart, but not from use, jsut from it being a cheap paperback in general. But does he read like that in French? And has anybody ever hear him just conversing? If he was just a jovial, bubbly kind of effervescent kind of dude, then that's a whole other ballgame. But was he? I mean, I can see that going either way. And who, by god, were his translates for his English releases?

Perhaps I'll hear it more with more exposure, but I really don't hear Gould emphasizing the entrances of lines over anything else. I hear what I think Alexander is saying, that the lines coexist simultaneously, and it's a real trip for me to all of a sudden hear this "split brain" thing happening just out of nowhere, it's almost hallucinogenic Miraculous, if you like), like WHOA, how did that happen? Maybe that's just the bedazzlement of a still-newbie-ish listener. I'd also be loathe to compare interpretations of a pianist to that of a harpsichordist...seems like taht gets you through the door but not into the room, if that makes any sense. As far as the recording thing goes, is what TTK is asking about legit? I know enough to know that Gould was playing games in the studio (or, if you like, exploring his options). I also seem to recall somebody saying somewhere, with an assumed chuckle, something like "Bach didn't write ALL those notes, you know", so was Gould not above doing a little Gould-ishness not just on tempos and articulations, but also actual notes? Anyway, Bach I've always "known about", my god, how do you not, but this is the first time I've really focused in on him for about...40+ years. A lot has changed in how I hear things now. Gould is somebody I've known about far more than actually listened to, and that has been my loss. Put both things together, hearing Gould play Bach and really, hopefully, hearing it and not just listening to it is both exhilarating and humbling. Further comments/observations certainly welcomed!

Ok, old news/past history/etc here, and nobody's fault but my own for being so far behind this particular curve, but I'm just now getting into Glenn Gould playing the Well-Tempered Clavier, and I find it a totally unique experience. It seems like he separates his hands/lines in a way I've never heard done before, almost as if it's two pianos, not two hands. And his time...sometimes it seems leviational or out-of-body. Perhaps time and increased familiarity will lessen the impact of these impressions, but I'd be very much interested in hearing what people with a much more informed familiarity with these performances have to say about them, pro or con. Thanks for sharing!

Hey, here's another one that's so "70s" that Shirley Scott's not even playing organ! Not just faith, but the expectation that no, you're not going to like everything you take a chance on. And yeah, faith that there was a lot good music that you'd not yet heard, or really know too much about other than either it looked interesting, or you had read about something like it somewhere or heard somebody talk about something like it, and never mind the Nonesuch Explorer series, which was pretty much predicated on the premise that you'd actually WANT to hear things you knew nothing about. But that was the 20th Century, that was innate curiosity, and that was faith. Fuck all that, what foolishness we now know it all was. Now we know it's all about binary choices, because it's a binary reality.

If they play it before you buy it, that makes it even more used. You should ask them to knock it down to $3.50, especially if it's one of those places that turns the treble down so you don't hear the scratches and pops.

I can relate to looking it up on YouTube, but only sometimes, and even then...that's 21st century behavior and I was born in 1955, started buying jazz in 1970, so....do the math. Then again, for me it was a hunger, a craving, actually, not a hobby. Nothing wrong with hobbyists, but it's definitely a different mindset.

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I can’t relate to not buying something because I’ve not heard it. But that’s just me.

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uh...that's the record that "summertime" is from? At least in my collection it is?

I was thinking Belford Hendricks for "Gee Baby...." Not as a guess, just as a "sounds kinda like", those shrillish unison strings when they happen. Not that he's the only guy to use that device, far from it. Just that he's always who comes to mind when I hear it.

yeah, I'll take it all.

All well, good, and historical, but... http://bosphoruscymbals.com/ If you're looking for a certain "thing" that new Zidjians haven't had for a while now, this is where that sound now lives.