[bomp] Sonic Stones

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Rob B.
<<< i remember when that god-awful albert goldman "lives of john lennon" book
came out years ago, and...he was dissing on the abbey road facilities (he was 
that desperate to debunk the lennon myth) >>>

Haven't read it since 1988 (didn't buy it, but took it from the 
library)...Doesn't he make some ridiculous claim that even by 1967 it would take the studio 
half an hour to rewire for a playback?

<<< 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. >>
>

They're not well-recorded at all. Hassinger must have had serious wax in his 
ears at the time. Worst of the lot, I'd say, are the August 1965 RCA sessions, 
from which "Get Off Of My Cloud," "The Singer Not The Song," and a few other 
'December's Children' tracks came from.

<<< 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). >>>

And unfortunately, their subsequent sessions at Chess never sounded as good 
as that first one.

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