Taken by itself, the fraudulent document case was much ado about nothing. Considered in context, however, it’s the same as Trump’s “perfect phone calls,” where he pressured Zelensky to fabricate a story about Biden, and then asked Raffensberger to “find” votes that didn’t exist. It’s how he operates, and it’s good to see the Roy Cohn playbook of “deny and attack” is no longer working for Trump, at least not in court.
Considered in another context, Trump is a legitimate businessman who only tests the edges of legality. The context of the Ponzi Scheme.
Towards the end of Tom Hanks’s “Here Comes Summer” show on Boss Radio 66, he played “Time Won’t Let Me” by the Outsiders, a #5 hit from 1966. The record sounded so different from my memory of it, I wondered if it had been remixed.
So let’s compare a mono reissue 45 of the single from the early 80’s, with the mono recording Tom played. See what you have time to do when you’re retired and recuperating from surgery?
Is this the third different, vintage turntable of mine, in regular use, that I’ve featured here in two days? Yes, it is.
This is my single.
This is what Tom Hanks played.
The mixes are very similar, and yet they sound very different. Although Tom apparently played a mono copy of the single, there’s no way a modern remix would be done in mono. At first I thought the effect must have been the result of a clean remastering, but then I remembered something and discounted that idea.
Some of the records heard on “Songs From the Back of the Station Wagon” are in stereo, but played in mono. All of them were given the mono treatment for Tom’s “AM Gold” show a month ago. Here is a Facebook exchange I had with Boss Radio 66’s Debbie Daughtry.
So the most likely explanation is, the two recordings of “Time Won’t Let Me” are indeed different mixes. My copy is an original mono mix, and Tom played the stereo mix of the song in mono.
I’ve posted this video before, but I’ll do it again as a follow-up to today’s post about Ortofon. Audio-Technica doesn’t publish the tracking specs for its cartridges, but a $39 model, the AT85EP, tracks at the rated performance of the Ortofon 2M Blue at $189. In fact, it does it at a lower tracking force. If you listen with headphones, you can hear slight buzzing from the discontinued Shure M92E, indicating mis-tracking.
The last time I ordered a Now Sounds CD as an Amazon import, it didn’t arrive on the release date. I waited, then received a message from Amazon saying there was a delay. Then I waited some more, until eventually it arrived.
This time around, rather than saving the cost of shipping, and risking another delay, I ordered the set directly from Cherry Red Records in the UK.
… and, lo and behold, the set arrived today, three days before its scheduled release date.
But wait, what’s this? Royal Mail is being sold to a Czech billionaire? As with all such coincidences, it must be my fault. It comes from having an inherently guilty conscience.
