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Gentle Giant, Three Friends, 1972, Vertigo D, 6360 070
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This is the original german pressing. The US cover art is the same as from the first European "Gentle Giant" LP cover. The vertigo swirl is very sougth after in Europe. It's a cult object. This one is the first concept album by GG.
Album concept: Three school friends grew up to become a road digger (track A3 " Working all day"), an artist (track B1 "Peel the paint"), and a white collar worker (track B2 "Mister class and quality"). They can't understand each other's lifestyles no longer. The music is astounding, ranging from raucous rock to exquisite choral work. It ends with the stunningly beautiful title song.
This german pressing has to be heard loud to develop optimal dynamics. Those original pressings used to be mastered in low intensity. How does it work with your US pressing concerning the dynamics?
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Beatles, Rubber Soul, 1965, Parlophone UK, PCS 3075,
My birth was too late for the original pressing. I didn't have the money to get one in the 70ties. I didn't want to buy one in the 80ies. Today I won't pay hundreds of SFr. for an acceptable 60ies version. This is not my piece of cake. I bought this 1987 UK pressing in the 90ies. Wonderfully direct metal remastered from a digitally remastered original tape. Matrix inscriptions: YEX 178 8-1-1 and
YEX 179 7-1-1-. Superb dynamics. Ringo holds his head while seeing the price i've payed then. Listen to the ingenious swinging bass playing in track A4 " Nowhere man" and to the masterf ul precise guitar fills and solos by George Harrison in track B1 "What goes on". And after listening to the guitar solo on track B7 "Run for your life": turn the LP and listen the whole album once again while paying attention to all the bass playing. After that, once again, you have to listen to the drumming and percussion effects. It's fun. Thank you George Martin. Stunning!!!
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Chico Hamilton, That's Jazz, 1976, WB D, WB 56 239
Not original. Warner Reissue of 3 tracks from 1959 LP "Three faces of Chico" with Eric Dolphy on alto sax. 5 tracks are from 1963 LP "A different journey" with Charles Lloyd on sax. Guitarist Gabor Szabo contributes high-speed bop solos and rhythm work influenced by his native Hungary's folk music (Cit.:AllMusic). Good german "That's Jazz" special pressing. Printing error: length of track B3 "One Sheridan Square" is not only 3:10, but in fact 13:10.
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Eric Gale, Part Of You, 1979, CBS NE, 83464
Jazzy Stuff. Listen to track A3 "Trio" with Idris Muhammed drums and a beautiful hammond by Charles Earland.
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Chris Farlowe And The Thunderbirds, Out Of The Blue, 1985, Line Date D, 825 543
Big voice. Newly formed Thunderbirds. Mo Witham guitars with additional help from Albert Lee. Produced by Mike Vernon. Listen to the beautiful female voice contributing the backing vocals: Carol Forbes. Good german pressing. Non plus ultra for a sunday evening. The thrill is gone away......
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Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson, The Two Of Us, 1984, CBS GB, 25976
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Concerning track A2 "Nancy with the laughing face": Fritz the Cat with the sad face while listening to this LP. What is this music made for? One acceptable track B5 "Song without words" Ramsey Lewis solo on Steinway Concert Grand. Without Nancy, sadly. The rest is musak to my ears.
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Miles Davis & Marcus Miller, Siesta, 1987, WB D, 925 655-1
Soundtrack. Dedicated to Gil Evans, The Master. John Scofield acoustic guitar on title track. Earl Klugh classical guitar on track B3 "Claire". Tranquilizing or a little bit boring? Because of the synthies?
What do you think about this one?