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Beatles
"Please Please Me" Still Jolts Almost Fifty Years Later!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 19, 2012  |  5 comments
Recorded live at Abbey Road in fewer than ten hours in February of 1963 at a cost of around £400 and issued on March 22 (my Beatles birthday present), Please Please Me captured all of the raw energy of The Beatles playing live at The Cavern Club, though on stage they didn't put the vocals in one P.A. speaker and the instruments in the other!
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News
This Is How It's Done: Analogue Productions Readies the Stevie Ray Vaughan Catalog Cut Using Master Tapes
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 19, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  32 comments
With all of the reissues coming from questionable sources or proudly proclaiming their "digital-ness" ala The Beatles Box, we're fortunate to have labels like Analogue Productions, Mobile Fidelity, ORG, IMPEX, Rhino and the others cutting lacquers from analog tapes.
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Beatles
"Yellow Submarine": Does It Matter?
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 18, 2012  |  7 comments
With but four new tunes, this is arguably the least important Beatles album but it's part of the box so here we go.
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News
Rhino Reissues Love's Classic "Forever Changes" Album From Analog Tape! (Corrected)
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 17, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  19 comments
Rhino recently reissued Love's essential Forever Changes album in conjunction with last November 23rd's "Record Store Day." The album was cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering and pressed at RTI.
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Beatles
"A Hard Day's Night" Plating Mystery Solved!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 11, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  39 comments
I just got off the phone with Record Technology Incorporated's owner Don MacInnis regarding the stamped lacquer used to press A Hard Day's Night and only that album.
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News
Don't Worry, I'm Keeping My Day Job!
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 09, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  16 comments
I was invited to speak at last week's Los Angeles and Orange County Audiophile Society Annual Awards Banquet. I spoke there two years ago and did some audio stand up comedy so this time i figured I'd do something else: sing.
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Beatles
"A Hard Day's Night" Among the Best of the Box, But Why?
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 07, 2012  |  22 comments
It's June of 1964. Beatlemania is sweeping America. You've just graduated high school and are getting ready for college. You're trying to grow up, you're listening to jazz, but you've been pulled into this teen craze by the music. Not since Elvis, the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison has your world been so rocked.
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Sweepstakes
Marantz TT-15 Turntable with Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood MM Cartridge plus MoFi Accessories from Music Direct Sweepstakes
Jon Iverson  |  Dec 07, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  603 comments
Register to win a Marantz TT-15 Turntable with the amazing Clearaudio Virtuoso Wood moving magnet cartridge from Music Direct (MSRP $2020.00) we are giving away.

This turntable package will also come with a handful of new Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab LPs, a Mobile Fidelity Record Brush and Mobile Fidelity Record Care Fluids. Music Direct will even throw in a custom made dustcover. This special package has an estimated value of over $2,000. Howís that for a holiday give-away?

[This sweepstakes is now closed.]

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Can I Have My Money Back?
Are These Your "101 Essential Rock Records"?
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 06, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  11 comments
Noted record and memorabilia collector Jeff Gold's sumptuously produced new coffee table book "101 Essential Rock Records: The Golden Age of Vinyl From The Beatles to The Sex Pistols" hits all of the genre's correct notes. It is impressively produced eye candy that first can be consumed visually and later enjoyed for it multi-layered content.
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News
Reader Takes Record Cleaning to the Extremes In YouTube Video
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 01, 2012  |  First Published: Dec 31, 1969  |  20 comments
Reader Tony Crocker emailed me with the URL for his YouTube record cleaning video. Crocker bases it in part on the one written for The Tracking Angle by Michael Wayne some years ago that you can access on this site.
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