Oh…and heres another tip, oh ye musical hipsters, rockers and Bro Country performers: Now that you have once again inflicted vinyl upon us… ---------------------------------------------------------- {{{OK…I need to step out of the batters box long enough to say Look…if you were really nostalgic for large, bulky, obsolete-yet-strangely-enjoyable items why did you not just buy 58 Edsels instead? It ISNT ANY BETTER! You can generate the SAME THERMIONIC DISTORTION DIGITALLY! Thats right…you enjoy lo-fi noise…the square-waved harmonics that make it warm. Guess what? That noise is ALREADY on the magnetic analogue tape the song was RECORDED ON! Due to over-saturating the analogue tape and the vacuum tube electronics that everything was generated from. I LIKE vinyl too! I once had 7500 volumes that took up more space than the VAB at Cape Canaveral. The only vinyl I now own are truly historic things…like my first Beatles record…the first Peter, Paul & Mary album, the first Bob Gibson and Camp live at the Gate of Horn, the rare She Loves You with the red lettering on a white label 45. I used to have a low 200,000s serial number White Album (only the first 2 million were numbered), a sealed first-state stereo Beatles Butcher cover, The Freewheelin Bob Dylan with Let Me Die in My Footsteps (only a few hundred were pressed that way) and a VERY early pressing of The Kingston Trio From the hungry i. Some albums I own ONY for the jacket art Herb Alpert Whipped Cream and Other Delights, Don Lonie Talks to Teenagers, etc…}}} ------------------------------------------------------- Alright…back in the batters box: Since you young turks have brought back vinyl…if you intend to record for vinyl: a) Have GREAT vocals. b) Have GREAT art-work on the cover and imaginative liner notes. c) Have GREAT B-sides. The Beatles had B-sides that were more amazing than many huge A-sides other folks have done. I love the fact that EMI was so shortsighted that for many years they left The Beatles multitrack masters stacked along the on the floor in the hallways. That means that any close friend of a less-than-scrupled Abbey Road staffer could walk in and slap those priceless reels of tape on a machine, pull the faders down and isolate any track they wanted. That also means that long before EMI released a true rarities/outtakes album we had long ago heard that stuff on bootlegs. Such is the case of this instructive piece…the isolated vocal track of This Boy…one of The Beatles first two 4-track recordings. NOTE: The video is synched but the vocal is from the actual released take of the song recorded in October 1963. Oh…and the take is a FULL pass with manual edit pieces and there is NO pitch correction. This is one of the rare times one could say Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! and not be ironic. If you are going to give me vinyl, kiddies…then top THIS!
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 08:57:22 +0000
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