Kevin Bresnahan

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dead at 78

ATR Magnetics has only been in business since 1996, so these are not vintage tapes. These are dupes of some kind. If they are dupes of master tapes, they'd have value to many collectors. As long as you kept the sale on the QT (the label can block the sale), you could probably get some good money for them. That said, you'd have to play these tapes to find out if they're duplicates of the session masters and not simply someone's dubs of an LP or CD release. I am not sure how much music can fit on each tape. There appear to be two reels for each title, so I'd imagine that there's more music than a simple LP dub, but again, I don't know this medium. The tapes themselves have no info on the provenance.

Are you talking ADT as in Artificial Double Track tapes? If that's what we're talking about, I would think that those are simply homemade dubs that add ambiance to the stereo signal. Is that how they used to make artificial stereo from mono tapes?

Paul (connoisseur series500) is still a member here but hasn't posted since 2018. He still posts on Facebook.

I think it's best if we drop the Blue Note bulletin board talk. Jim Alfredson has said that he doesn't want that discussion here. Let's stick to this board's beginnings without re-hashing old endings.

Hans - your account is unique. I don't know how it happened, but you joined on March 3, 2003 and you have somehow had your "member id" number changed to 10596, which would put your account creation at December 2007.

I asked Tom Evered several times to join up here but he wasn't interested. People may not remember, but he got a lot of grief during his time on the Blue Note board. Some of it was warranted, some was totally uncalled for. I didn't blame him for not joining up as it probably would have just stirred up some people. Tom passed away in August of 2024.

I am almost positive I read that Uli passed away on Facebook, but Facebook's search function sucks big time. It's a little fuzzy now, but I seem to remember that the Blue Note board members who joined the AAJ forum when it closed, weren't warmly received there. I think that may even be why this forum became the landing spot for most of those posters. I was a long time member of both the forums and remained a member of the Jazz Corner forum until it closed.

I think Bill Fenohr, who joined pretty early on and posted often until 2005, may have passed away in 2021. You're in at #164. BTW - the search was ordered by date of registration. FWIW, your "member id" is 3, but there is no #1. Weird. All I can figure is that if someone gets totally deleted, maybe the member id numbers didn't reset?

Use3D is in the database at #13.

Unless a member was deleted and is no longer listed, you are actually #2 after Jim Alfredson. First 10 users: Jim Alfredson JSngry Jim Dye Saint Vitus maren Peter Johnson catesta uli Chuck Nessa Philip I'm pretty sure that Jim Dye & uli are no longer with us. I'm #72.

544 users registered between the board's creation on March 6, 2003 & December 31, 2003. Looking at the list, I see quite a few names that still post here, a few that I know have stopped posting and a several that are no longer with us.

I think some of the perception of "hating" vinyl could stem from the fact that many of us, myself included, have built up an extensive collection of digital music and it makes these new reissues less important. I have shied away from Blue Note's LP reissue series because 1) I have ALL of the music already (usually with added material) & 2) I have experienced mastering issues on some of them that Blue Note refuses to fix. That is not me dissing vinyl at all. I'm dissing Blue Note. BTW - these are my reasons for not buying any more of certain titles, not all LP reissues. Heck, I recently bought Eric Alexander's latest release on vinyl, so I'm not opposed to it in general.

Great job with this Mike. If i had one recommendation, I would somehow make the album titles more prominent. Maybe put "Released as:" in front of it or make the title font bold? I'm surprised at how much of his output I have. I'm not a huge fan of organ trios without a horn, so I don't have a few of those but I have almost all of the others. My biggest hole is that Eric Kloss two-fer, "About Time".

I agree with many of your points but I still don't think that equates to dismissing vinyl buyers as Pim seems to be saying here. I often post in digital versus analog discussions and I will come across as pro-digital because, as an electrical engineer, I have studied the subject and firmly believe in the science. This stance is not to show any sort of hate towards vinyl. Pim - if anyone posts something that upsets you and you think is inappropriate or offensive, please report the post and the moderating team can look into it. Hopefully, we can help you with this, especially if it's simply a misunderstanding.