[bomp] Eight Miles Hassinger

[NankerPhlg@xxxxxxx]

<<< i've heard a lot of other people (including crosby and mcguinn) refer to 
the original 12/65 version of "eight miles high" as the superior version. am i 
theonly person who thinks the single version blows it out of the water? >>>

No you're not...I prefer the common version as well. I like the earlier take 
but more as a curiosity.

<<< the sound on the 12/65 is way too thin for my tastes...it has the same 
sort no-low-end tin-canniness of a lot of stones records from the same period...>
>>

Yeah, the pre-Aftermath Stones RCA stuff is badly recorded. Too "damp." (And 
I love reverb...Hell, today I took my Fender Deluxe 90 to the shop because the 
reverb function is kaput) The latest batch of CDs cleans the sound up as best 
as was possible, but it's still pretty cruddy. "Aftermath" is a little 
better...Hassinger by that time I guess had gotten the hang of it. But nothing the 
Stones did at RCA ever sounded as good as the sound they got at Chess during 
those June 1964 sessions, engineered by Ron Malo. Now THAT'S warmth for ya. 
That's why '12 X 5' is perhaps the best-sounding of their early LPs.

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