Teasing the Korean

Well, the record is still going at the same speed as you get toward the centre, but the circumference of the circle decreases as you go in; So, the two extremes of the pitch fluctuation will occur closer to each other timewise, but the pitches themselves would remain the same. Does that make sense?

Maybe because the pitch fluctuation occurs over an increasingly shorter loop as the tone arm moves in? That's all I can think of. For those of us with above-average pitch, this problem can be really annoying. There have been times when I've had two copies of an LP and unloaded the cleaner copy because it was off center. I'll take a few pops and clicks over fluctuating pitch any day.

Too bad more turntables don't have a removable spindle. You can center the records manually (not always easy but possible) and it's much cheaper.

The Zombies were a life changing band for me. I saw them live a few years ago (Colin and Rod, at least). Colin's voice has not aged one bit. He sounded gorgeous. As for the Yardbirds catalog, it's always been a mess. In the late 70s/early 80s, you had to have like 20 albums to get their 4 albums' worth of stuff. It was spread out over so many records, but there was always one weird budget album that had an oddball song/take/mix that was nowhere else to be found. What a nightmare. And they never sounded better than they did on the US Epic mono LPs. Where did these tapes go?

Definitely get "Roger the Engineer," (aka Over Under Sideways Down). This is essentially their only true studio album (they recorded fairly haphazardly like most second-tier Brit groups). Most reissues include "Happenings" and "Psycho Daisies" with Beck and Page. Be sure to get the edition with the mono and stereo albums. The mono album includes some important overdubs left off the stereo. And the single disc Rhino "Best of" will give you a good survey of the Giorgio Gomelsky period (early stuff through "Shapes of Things"). And the BBC album would make a good companion to those.

Some of those clips you mention feature Page playing on live versions of material originally recorded with Beck. Nothing against Jimmy Page, but the Yardbirds output with Page (on record) was less than stellar. "Happenings " and "Stroll On" (with Beck AND Page) are essential. Most of the Page-only material was on an album called "Little Games." This is/was on CD with bonus tracks from singles, b-sides, etc. The material from this era is all over the place, including pop material that would have come off much better with, say, Mickey Dolenz singing lead rather than Keith Relf. Still, there's some great psych and proto metal from this period, such as the b-side "Think About It" and the instrumental "Glimpses," which sounds like it's from an American International soundtrack. Agree about the BBC collection, which has good live stuff from both the Beck and Page era. No idea if the Live Yardbirds (Anderson Theatre) album has made it to CD. It has "Dazed and Confused" (as "I'm Confused") but much of the album is pretty weak. And the fact that the producers overdubbed clinking glasses and bullfight cheers over the (limited) crowd noise didn't help.

Cover #3 It was also released on the Everest label in the 1970s. I think it had the same track sequence but screwed up a few of the titles.

I think it's perfectly valid to expect a particular LP line-up to be reproduced on a CD, even if only for historical reasons. The producer can fill up the extra scace with whatever bonus tracks or alternate takes are appropriate. The way in which the music first hit the streets is every bit as important - arguably more so - than the exact order in which it was recorded.

Agreed. Worth it more for Bill Evans' playing. Tony does better elsewhere.

Sheba Baby - Monk Higgins

Don't like him at all. Generally agree with previous comments, though, regarding the Turnstiles album.

"So Danco Samba," mentioned earlier, is a real gem of mid-60s Brazilian jazz, and deserves to be reissued. Anyone who likes his woodwind arrangements on the Cal Tjader "Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil" may want to check out the Shearing bossa album on Capitol, circa 1963. Clare does similar woodwind arrangements on this album, which benefits from not focusing on the same 10 bossa songs which showed up on most similar sessions.

Does anyone have any information on how to clean acetates? I have a number of these, many of which have evolved a mysterious outer film.