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"This is the one jazz record owned by people who don't listen to jazz"
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SpeakerLabFan
Steve Miller Band - Children Of The Future
(1968, Capitol)
yup,I like the early SteveMillerBluesBand too ...their album "Sailor" is outstanding also....
and the story abt being mentored by Les Paul at an early age is well known.
so I'll be the first to admit that I dont know Miles Davis from Billy Davis, but I'd seen this iconic album (Kind of Blue) in so many catalogs, that picking up an original (even if only G cond) was a no-brainer....can never have too much Linda R..... (prolly my 3rd copy of this) ;)
OH yeah....I was reading of SLF's good finds at HPB and stopped in at a new store on my bike route called Dollar Books...they had abt 8 milk boxes of LP's ....found a double in super condition of a group that I'm not familiar with ...its called "LightHouse Live" , came home and read the reviews and it sounds like mebbe early Chicago, so will go back and grab it Monday.
after reading this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue . I'm looking forward to getting KoB cleaned and cued..
Though precise figures have been disputed, Kind of Blue has been cited by many music writers not only as Davis's best-selling album, but as the best-selling jazz record of all time. On October 7, 2008, it was certified quadruple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It has been regarded by many critics as the greatest jazz album of all time and Davis's masterpiece. The album's influence on music, including jazz, rock and classical music, has led music writers to acknowledge it as one of the most influential albums of all time. In 2002, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. In 2003, the album was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
More on Relativity from Not Albert (fat or otherwise): Paul's Spooky Bass
"I haven't heard that title, but I get what you're talking about. I experienced that a little bit with some of the selections on the Beatles CD remasters, Paul's bass on first listens, so pronounced, spooky."
This is what I liked about the Beatles remasters--At last I could hear the bass the way I always thought it was meant to be. I read somewhere that the original early albums were mastered using huge dual 15 monitors with bass aplenty. In the studio, the boys thought the recordings were bass heavy and cut back on it quite a bit. Soon enough, however, they were shocked to hear the sound that came out of what most folks actually listened to. On the other hand, those early mono releases sounded just fine on most big old-style juke boxes. I liked the ones with the bubbles.