[bomp] Re: Nankering with Hassinger

[Rob Branigin <euphorik6@xxxxxxxxx>]

nankerphlg wrote:

<<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.>>

yeah, i remember when that god-awful albert goldman "lives of john lennon" book
came out years ago, and...this guy had this psychotic compulsion to KNOCK
everything beatle-wise, whether or not the facts supported him...but i remember
this especially ridiculous comment he made. he was dissing on the abbey road
facilities (he was that desperate to debunk the lennon myth), and he was
talking about how SHITTY all of the records that came out of abbey road sounded
- especially, and i am paraphrasing goldman here, when compared to the
state-of-the-art sound the stones were getting on there 65-66 recordings. i
just started fucking laughing when i read that, and was like "jesus, man...have
even fucking LISTENED to the record you're talking about?" i mean, those stones
records from 65-66 just don't sound that well recorded to me. i am totally with
you on "12 x 5," too..."confessin the blues" is the absolutel distillation of
the early stones sound for, really well-recorded...wailin harp, keef's choppy
guitar...sounds really good...the stones really didn't begin to get a heavy low
end back (after '64 or so) until "majesties." i'm not trying to contradict
anybody or anything...i am just saying that, to my ear, the stones records of
65-66 don't sound as good as some of their records recorded in england (or, as
you pointed out, at chess).

speakin of the early stones - i just scored phelge's "nankering with the
rolling stones" today - can't wai to get started on that, looks great. i opened
the book at random, and the first word i saw was "gob." looks promising, looks promising....

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rob

"...it is often a mark of talent to be useless."
- allan pinkerton, 1878.

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