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AAA Marino Mastered Hendrix
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010  |  0 comments

If you were around when the second Jimi Hendrix album was released you probably got ripped off. After Reprise’s success with Are You Experienced?Capitol dusted off a Curtis Knight and the Squires album that Hendrix had played on as a sideman before forming The Jimi Hendrix Experience and using a recent photo, issued it as Get That FeelingJimi Hendrix Plays and Curtis Knight Sings.

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Hard Work and Constant Touring Pay Off For Journeyman Band
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2010  |  0 comments

This hard /progrock trio never got the media hype and they are rarely mentioned outside their own musical world, but Muse has made it big. How? The old fashioned way: hard work in the studio and constant touring. They have an intensely loyal fan base. Their worldwide touring grosses are impressive and they chart  well around the world

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Discographies
Round and Round: The Sound of The Rolling Stones Part 1
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  2 comments

This Rolling Stones discography written for issue 4 of The Tracking Angle, may have gathered some moss, but it still has some valuable information for Stones LP collectors
(Photo shows American distributed UK pressed FFRR edition of Out of Our Heads)

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Discographies
Round and Round: The Sound of The Rolling Stones Part 2
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments

This Rolling Stones discography written for issue 4 of The Tracking Angle, may have gathered some moss, but it still has some valuable information for Stones LP collectors (Photo shows Decca UK FFSS Their Satanic Majesties Request

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Discographies
Round and Round: The Sound of The Rolling Stones Part 3
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  1 comments

The third and final part of The Rolling Stones discography

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Tonearm Reviews
HiFiction Thales AV tonearm
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2010  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  0 comments
Ideally, LPs should be played with the pickup stylus remaining tangential (ie, at a 90° angle) to the groove—just as the lacquer from which the LP was ultimately stamped was cut in the first place. Over the years, many attempts have been made to accomplish this. Back in 1877, Thomas A. Edison's original machines tangentially tracked his cylinders, but Emil Berliner's invention of the flat disc put an end to cylinders altogether. In the 1950s, a number of companies marketed so-called "tangential" trackers that used dual arms, based on conventional pivoting arrangements, to change the angle at which the headshell was mounted as it moved across the LP side. In 1963, Marantz introduced the SLT-12, which used a plastic pantograph to move the stylus across the record surface. Garrard's Zero 100 pivoting arm controlled its independently pivoting headshell with a bar that extended from the main bearing of the tonearm.
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Album Reviews
Anglophile/Folk-Rocking West Coast Band's Legendary Debut
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 01, 2010  |  1 comments

Well this is embarrassing: I've played often and enjoyed this excellent sounding reissue featuring L.A. based anglophile singer/songwriter Emitt Rhodes in preparation for this write-up but the record has gotten lost here somewhere.

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Nat In His Classic Setting With Guests
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 01, 2010  |  0 comments

Recorded in glorious mono in 1956 and issued first in 1957, this set of small combo standards with Cole both singing and playing the piano remains as fresh and vital as it did when originally released. 

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Album Reviews
Ray Knows What He Wants
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 01, 2010  |  0 comments

In an indie-rock era saturated with smirky, slacker irony, the roots-rocker Ray La Montagne comes across as downright solemn. He and his group execute cleanly and almost reverentially, funk, blues, jazz and country, which La Montagne sings in a honey coated gruff voice that veers between Joe Cocker and Tim Hardin. The man is sincere and like Tim Hardin, he knows how to move three chord rounds. 

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Joe Henderson Sophmore Effect Backed By Dorham/Hill
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 01, 2010  |  0 comments

Trumpeter Kenny Dorham brought Joe Henderson to Blue Note and on the late tenor saxophonist's second lead album gives him strong support as the two chase each other through some zig-zag bop thickets. "Teeter Totter," the fast-paced Henderson-penned opener alone is worth the price of admission but the other tracks simmer with equal intensity.

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