JSngry

I am not to have the flu, but I do to have a nasty ass cold that I could feel building up for 2.5 days and it finally came down on Tuesday night and I have missed two days and will miss one more of the work becuase it has knocked me on my ass but thankfully got the flu it is not.

Ya' know, we like to talk about "the way it was MEANT to sound"...well...let's just say that up until 1967 or so, AM radios - car (only one speaker, remember, in the dashboard), portable, or home - WERE how it was "meant" to sound far more often than not. Talk about "punchy", try remembering "I Feel Fine" in a car with the windows rolled down and the volume turned up and the static crackling just a little bit...WHOO BOY!!!! Now, if I could get this Mono box in a format that played them through a transistor radio, that two-fitty would have done BEEN spent!

So did I - and I didn't hear nary a punch-in or nary splice!

Are you old enough to remember these? iPod that shit bay-bee!

I was listening to either Revolver or Rubber Soul in mono this afternoon and I thought the vocal on a verse suddenly sounded different. First thing I thought was it must have been a punch in. The earlier albums are the "worse"...you routinely hear vocal and instrumental splices/punch-ins etc. quite clearly... I mean, it's ok, that's how those records were made, and lord knows you never heard all that on a portable AM radio or a Sears home "record player" with a 100 gram tracking force tone arm, which is how I got "imprinted" on this stuff...I'm just saying...don't know it there's sufficient technology available to smooth all that stuff out now, but if not, there needs to be... Or is that what MP3s are for?

I've spent 2-3X that more than once...and been amply rewarded...but I'd not been hearing that stuff for 45 years already when I did... :g

Jeez...that's a lot of money...I mean, I obsessed over this stuff as a kid, studied it as an adolescent, evaluated it as an adult...I mean, I saw the first Sullivan show in '64 and can unambiguously say that it changed my life forever...just don't really know if I need to pay almost $250 just to reach the same conclusions through a different way...but I sure would like to hear Please...and With... as kickass mono Power Pop albums, just becuase I think it would be really big fun. One thing that bugged me about the old CDs was that all the edits and punch-ins were really, really obvious (if you know what/how to listen for in that regard...), kind of distracting really. That's true for a lot of pop from that era too...digital proved to be a little too "realistic" and "faithful"...

Since the photo is captioned ""Tavern on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois", I have to wonder if "Cafe Society" is not a broadly descriptive term used as a caption by the poster of the image instead of the naming of an actual venue.

How much is that Mono box again?

$13.14 preorder price 2 CDU through the O-Board link: http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7995837 Carpe diem.

A little late, eh?

I've long felt as if I was inhabiting more than one world simultaneously. That Minute Maid ad tells me that even if that proves to be true, there are still worlds of whose existence I have neither an inkling nor even a faint comprehension.

Tatum = Peterson = Just my opinion, etc, & not the real purpsoe of this thread, etc, so let's move on, etc., etc.

Probably the closest thing to a successful number from the Hard Driving Jazz recording session, Mel Tormé’s “Christmas Song”— “For the Noël market,” Cecil said—was left out of the album.

Short Fat Fannie Fannie Mae Freddie Mac

"Karel" is a dude's name.

There's gaps in Oscar Peterson records?

I'd probably put it in a slightly more refined phraseology than that, but... http://books.google.com/books?id=fjhJVS-73...;q=&f=false

HENRY BUTLER – FIVIN’ AROUND MCA impulse! MCA – 5707 (1986) Henry Butler-Piano, Vocals Freddie Hubbard-Trumpet Azar Lawrence-Sax (Tenor) Charlie Haden-Bass Billy Higgins-Drums With: Steve Kujala-Flute Jeff Clayton-Oboe Richard Greene-Violin Margaret Wooten-Violin Roxanna Jacobson-Viola Gloria Strassner-Cello A1 Fivin' Around (5:06) A2 L.A. Samba (7:17) A3 The Eastern Connection (1:05) A4 Improvisation On An Afghanistan (4:55) A5 Giant Steps (4:15) B1 Swing It! (3:42) B2 My Coloring Book (6:03) B3 The Butler's Blues (4:47) B4 Old Folks (5:33) B5 I Want Jesus To Walk With Me (4:56)

You know, Roy, Trane ain't waiting for you to catch up with him...

Well...weren't just about all big hits this length during this period? Yeah, 3:00 appears to have been the unspoken "limit". Spector's "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" broke that barrier, but not withiout some contrversy, as I understand it. Context is everything...As little as 10 seconds or so can be the difference between a pop record of the time sounding nice and tight or just a little flabby.