Plug in and put on your headphones, click or tap “Playlist,” scroll down to The Guitar Ramblers and get started surfin’ and crusin’!
Even lossy compressed audio can’t obscure the seductive sound of Bob’s Sumiko Blue Point No. 2 phono cartridge. I’ll never get Jimi Hendrix’s knock against Surf music in “Third Stone From the Sun.”
Andrew at Parlogram Auctions delves into the Beatles’ forced return to Hamburg in late 1962. It had been almost exactly a year since Ringo sat in for Pete Best at the Cavern, making it inevitable that he would become a Beatle.*
I have both an American and a German copy of the LP. Andrew prefers the German pressing, and so do I, but it must be noted that both editions are in that most irritating of audio formats, “fake stereo” (with Haeco-CSG processing being a close second).
This mono copy sounds nice and solid. Saying something is “SUPER RARE” is funny, because that’s no longer true the moment it’s on YouTube.
*All These Years: Tune In, Extended Special Edition, by Mark Lewisohn, Vol. 2, pgs. 1044-1045
It was bad enough when the 1960’s was 50 years ago, but 60?? In June, 1962, unknown to me as a little boy in Wisconsin, Amazing Fantasy #15 was on newsstands, featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man.
Also that month, 60 years ago today, in fact, was B-Day. The Beatles had their first recording session with George Martin at EMI. John, Paul, and George, with Pete Best on drums.
https://www.beatlesbible.com/1962/06/06/the-beatles-first-abbey-road-recording-session/
https://www.curvebenderpublishing.com/
Blog Post Extra: Someone has pegged the distribution date of Amazing Fantasy #15 as June 5, 1962, 60 years ago yesterday. Also released that day was the debut of another Marvel Comics Group bug, in the person of Ant-Man.
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/05/60-years-of-ant-man-spider-man-thor-and-larry/
Ringo was in town today at the Berklee School of Music, receiving an honorary doctorate. Here’s his message to this year’s Berklee grads.
For various reasons, I haven’t done much concert-going in recent years, even before the pandemic. But I saw England’s Harry Christophers conducting the Handel & Haydn Society at Symphony Hall a couple of times.
Boston Calling was a BBC podcast produced, of course, in Boston.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y7fqz/episodes/downloads?page=1
Another mass shooting and there is nothing I can do about it, except to say I favor repealing the Second Amendment. That won’t happen in my lifetime, so I am putting on headphones and listening to music.
