Tablejockey, man, they want $500 for the copy of Layla you provided a link to at Better Records. I do all right financially, but not to that degree. The Japanese SHM SACD that arrived yesterday will have to do. "Little Wing" is really good as you say, having listened to it twice yesterday. The more sparsely arranged final cut on the album "Thorn Tree in the Garden" sounded especially well recorded on the SACD, compared to the rest of the album anyway. And you're fortunate to have the copies of Pretzel Logic and Let It Bleed you do.
Glupson, since you mention it, I’ll have to go through all my old Stones records, bought on vinyl years ago, to see if any of them are as poorly recorded as Let It Bleed, and might need to be upgraded. I’ve all of their albums from years back, plus a few earlier oddball items like the Bill Wyman solo outing, the Chicago Blues session bootleg and Jammin’ with Edward. I always loved the Stones. I’ve all the Procul Harum albums too I think, on the original vinyl USA pressings and will similarly need to review those copies. "Shine on Brightly" was a great tune.
I’ll try out Springsteen’s Nebraska that you suggest, even though I’ve only ever had one of his recordings. I always felt his music was a bit florid and overblown, kind of the same way U2 strikes me. Still enjoyable though. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, his Asbury Park contemporaries were a little more to my liking, being less grandiose. I do like all the others you mentioned too, and have most of all their recordings on the original vinyl too, needing to be re-listened to. None of the later Dylan material though. Thanks for all the links. I’ll try and get to them all today.
Geoffkait, will the DSD versions not play on a CD/SACD player like my Marantz Ruby? The Layla SACD I got yesterday might have been taken from a 2013 DSD remaster, maybe not. There are so many variations of that recording available it’s hard to remember which was which and how they were re-done.
Mike
Glupson, since you mention it, I’ll have to go through all my old Stones records, bought on vinyl years ago, to see if any of them are as poorly recorded as Let It Bleed, and might need to be upgraded. I’ve all of their albums from years back, plus a few earlier oddball items like the Bill Wyman solo outing, the Chicago Blues session bootleg and Jammin’ with Edward. I always loved the Stones. I’ve all the Procul Harum albums too I think, on the original vinyl USA pressings and will similarly need to review those copies. "Shine on Brightly" was a great tune.
I’ll try out Springsteen’s Nebraska that you suggest, even though I’ve only ever had one of his recordings. I always felt his music was a bit florid and overblown, kind of the same way U2 strikes me. Still enjoyable though. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, his Asbury Park contemporaries were a little more to my liking, being less grandiose. I do like all the others you mentioned too, and have most of all their recordings on the original vinyl too, needing to be re-listened to. None of the later Dylan material though. Thanks for all the links. I’ll try and get to them all today.
Geoffkait, will the DSD versions not play on a CD/SACD player like my Marantz Ruby? The Layla SACD I got yesterday might have been taken from a 2013 DSD remaster, maybe not. There are so many variations of that recording available it’s hard to remember which was which and how they were re-done.
Mike