Also, tho an orchestra conductor might have some cred in the matter, your audiophile friend likes Sting. Cred = eliminated, in my mind.
I FUCKING HATE SHUFFLE GODDAMNIT.
― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 18 August 2006 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link
Sting is very popular at those shows; I was almost seduced by something off Ten Summoner's Tales on a Kuzma Stogi, it sounded so bleedin' lovely.
Vinyl is a bit of treat, a more serious purchase (though I'm not one of those audiophiles who think the sound is inherently superior); CDs I tend to think - oh, I can always dump this on eBay somewhere down the line if it's disappointing. I haven't sold a vinyl record for 13 years, whereas we've slimmed our CD collection by 10-15% in the last year. If the vinyl doesn't fit, buy more storage; if the CDs don't fit, junk some CDs.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:10 (seventeen years ago) link
-- scott seward
I thought you already had a copy of that (amazing) Debris rec, Scott! I remember it showed up a couple of years ago on somebody-or-other's long list. No, NOT the NWW list - more like "What's the rarest album you own?" or some such.
If not yours, maybe it was Stormy's list I'm thinking of...
― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link
iTunes pretty much reproduces the exact same thing on your computer fwiw (enqueue? no, that song is switching RIGHT NOW!) and it would drive me INSANE if I had to use it.
I do like my iPod nano though... I'd like it more if it actually had BASS (fucking Apple) but it's functional enough for the price.
I only just started buying vinyl again heh. I covet vinyl collections too, if only because I feel people with them have more foresight & wisdom than I do. I have no problems with CD's though... I'm pretty (anally) careful with them though.
― rollin', rollin', rollin', keep them dogies rollin', rawhide! thread (fandango), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Fill in the 1,000 word article around those two points yourself, I have things to do...
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), August 17th, 2006.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
you couldn't have said it better.
― corey c (shock of daylight), Friday, 18 August 2006 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 18 August 2006 07:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― pisces (piscesx), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 18 August 2006 12:07 (seventeen years ago) link
I got thew Avengers record too and School's Out by Alice Cooper, those are good records too.
― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Friday, 18 August 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link
It would have been easy to see the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood performing that year, though I never did. Its lone record was a sunny mixture of straight-up jazz with a blues spine, a music that wants the latter-day word “fusion,” though that word does so little good. Above all, it was a reminder of the eclecticism of the time. Audiences that would soon diverge found themselves packed in a hall together all night long, like one October weekend at Fillmore West when the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood shared the bill with Van Morrison and Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band.
I heard “Martha’s Madman” in my head, and I did what I usually do. I went to the iTunes Music Store. Nothing. Same at Amazon. So I walked down to the barn, where all my old albums are stored, and dug out my vinyl copy of “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood,” which is now sitting on my desk. I no longer have the equipment to play it. Nearly every album in those boxes in the barn was converted to CD long ago — some of them several times over. But not “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood.”
We live, of course, in an age of accelerating digital replication. Before long, it seems, every recording of every kind in existence, along with all the outtakes, will have been turned into a CD or a DVD or a digital file for download over the Internet. But some things get left behind.
Digital conversion seems almost effortless, a virtual transcription of the world as we know it. But there is a financial friction to it nonetheless. These days it’s no longer necessary to produce an actual physical CD to sell in record stores. Downloadable files will do — no packaging required — but even making these has its costs.
What it takes to push a work from analog to digital is a marketing opportunity. The death, for instance, of Johnny Cash and a movie based on his life was a wonderful chance, as one industry spokesperson put it, to revisit his inventory, which, as it happens, is partly on Columbia, a company now owned by Sony BMG.
There will probably never be a movie based on the Jerry Hahn Brotherhood, no commercial incentive to remaster and rerelease this album. The story of the band is a good one but all too familiar — the inevitable clash between the artistic and business sides of the recording industry. The band fell apart disputing the honesty of its manager.
What’s left is an orphaned vinyl LP. The inner sleeve, a space for record company promotion, says, “If It’s in Recorded Form, You Know It’ll Be Available on Records.” Well, I wish it were available on CD.
I talked to Jerry Hahn the other day. He teaches jazz guitar in Wichita, his hometown. He’ll be 66 in September, with grandkids. He sounds good. “You should have heard us,” he said. He also said that the master tapes of “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood” are stored somewhere in New York State. The man who produced the record has retired to Hawaii, where he and his wife own several restaurants. I haven’t been able to track down the manager. I’d like to hear his side of the story.
And as for hearing “The Jerry Hahn Brotherhood,” one fan has posted the whole album in MP3 form — ripped from the vinyl — on the Web. I downloaded it the other day. It’s a digitally compressed version of an analog recording that was, according to Hahn, too compressed to begin with.
Even through the mist you can still hear the brightness of the music. But someone needs to find those master tapes, breathe some air into them, and do this minor masterpiece (and all the outtakes) justice at last. I’d buy a copy, especially if I thought that some of the purchase price might make its way to the artists.
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Sang Freud (jeff_s), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 19 August 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link
Have you replaced the white earbuds with something else? Makes a GALAXY of difference.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link
But it's not quite as bad as the sound I get out of iTunes, which only bears some resemblance to music to my frustrated ears. I don't have any explanation why this is the case.
― bad hair day house (fandango), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― bad hair day house (fandango), Saturday, 19 August 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
And as for all of those weird complaints about mp3 and sound quality, er -- FUCK A DUCK! Haven't these people ever heard of lossless compression?
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Monday, 21 August 2006 08:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link
poseur. vinyl's nice, i just never play it. i get freaked out by the fucking expertise needed to get the arm/weight thing right.
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bashment Jakes (Enrique), Monday, 21 August 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Monday, 21 August 2006 10:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 21 August 2006 11:42 (seventeen years ago) link
this doesn't even make sense.
also, why is that dude who wrote that article storing his records in a BARN? either sell 'em or keep them safe to sell them later, don't put them in a fucking barn.
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 21 August 2006 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
At first I had the gear in the family room (connected to the kitchen/eating space)... competing with the noise of the dishwasher, the kitchen sink, and 'life' in general. I kept eyeing a large den (a favorite room of my wife) where we had a desk and piano. One afternoon when my wife was gone, I moved all my gear into the den. All of a sudden, I had a dedicated room... which was to be my audio home for the next nine years. I got lucky with the den; it had a very high ceiling (almost 11 feet), a bay window and floor to ceiling bookshelves on the rear wall. Soon the desk and piano were evicted and I settled into audio bliss in MY room.
i bet his wife feels really "lucky" too
yournullfame's girlfiend sounds rad
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 23 August 2006 23:05 (seventeen years ago) link
... isn't it?
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link
I've lived with one person who had this setup -- very handy -- while the good Mr. Donut has similar at his place.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Andrew (enneff), Thursday, 24 August 2006 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Veteran singer Bob Dylan has called the quality of modern music recordings "atrocious" and "worth nothing".
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the 65-year-old said: "There's no definition of nothing, no nothing, just like... static".
Dylan, who is to release his first studio album in five years, added that his music sounded better in the studio.
He also failed to denounce illegal music downloads, saying: "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."
'No stature'
"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he said.
"I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really.
"CDs are small, there's no stature to it," added Dylan, who has released eight studio albums in the past 20 years and 44 official albums during the course of his career.
His new release, Modern Times, features 10 original tracks recorded by the musician and his touring band last winter.
Dylan plays keyboard, guitar and harmonica as well as singing on the record.
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Thursday, 24 August 2006 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link
So you're saying that you don't do cocaine all night?
― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― trees (treesessplode), Thursday, 24 August 2006 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link
Thank you NYT for the cheesy vinyl's back article.Thank you 200X 90's indie rock nostalgia culture bullshit.Thank you pre-holiday season bullshit.
I was able to sell off most of my vinyl last night for the price of a decent used car.
That is all.
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.appalachiananimalhospital.net/baby%20owls.jpg
― Mackro Mackro, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 15:41 (fifteen years ago) link
That Resident Advisor article is dismal.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
It's also not wrong.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I hope you bought those owls with your profits, Mackro.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Never going out of style.
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/7218/imageuploadimageun8.jpg
― I have never used a humorous display name because I think they're for (libcrypt), Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Just out of professional curiosity, about how many pieces was the collection?
― ian, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
and how many miles was on the car?
― Local Garda, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:42 (fifteen years ago) link
You are going to miss those records 10 years from now, trust me.
― Display Name, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
i think more ppl should sell their old records so i can buy them
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Mackro can speak for himself but I'm plenty positive he won't.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, September 24, 2008 12:54 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark
OTM
― Display Name, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
I was just thinking of selling off most of my own vinyl last night, in fact. I've got about a couple boxes of it that I just never touch. I'm curious as to how Mackro chose to sell his stuff?
― Bimble, Wednesday, 24 September 2008 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link