Steve Cropper is gone, but his fellow Stax Records bandmate Booker T. Jones is out and about performing. I will be seeing him tonight.
Category: Music
Imitation Cops
My memories of Eighties music are all mashed together, associated with listening to the radios in rental cars from airports on my many, many business trips. A prime example is this 1986 hit, ‘Your Love’ by The Police. No, wait. My mistake. It’s by The Outfield.
1986 was forty years ago?? That’s more depressing than college being fifty years ago!
Beatles Rotator
I recently played my big sister’s original American copy of the 1966 Beatles album Revolver.* It’s in mono, and I was surprised by how good it sounds, considering the damage it endured. Here’s ‘Good Day Sunshine’.
Monitoring the playback with Audacity, I was impressed with how dynamic the sound is. There’s no compression going on here.
For comparison, here is the official online copy of the song.
Looking at the peaks, some loudness compression was apparently added to the recording. The 2009 mono Beatles set reportedly was transferred from the master tapes with dynamic range left intact, so perhaps this is a YouTube effect.
Okay, so let’s find out. What about ‘Good Day Sunshine’ when played from the Beatles 2009 CD mono box set? No loudness compression is confirmed.
* A 60-year-old record on a 50-year-old turntable, with a 30-year-old cartridge and a relatively new stylus.
Magneto and …
… TITANIUM MAN!
Where Were You in ’16?
Let’s wash out the bad taste of failed L.A. mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt with the ‘Happy Days’ theme song, performed by Truett Pratt and Jerry McClain.
The success of American Graffiti — “Where were you in ’62?” — motivated ABC-TV to pick up Happy Days as a series. ‘Graffiti’ celebrates a bygone era that was only ten years gone by. In between, the Sixties changed everything.
Ten years ago, Donald Trump was running for president. Today is Donald’s 80th birthday, and we’re stuck in the Trump doom loop.
Kristel Makes it Clear
Well, that’s it. After a very successful series of reunion shows, Kristel Verbeke, now 50 years old, has made it official. Kristel has announced that, with Karen and Kathleen, the original line-up of the Europop trio K3 have performed together for the final time.