DMM or Lacquer? Which is Better?

Dear Mikey: "I was wondering what your opinion of DMM is, I search the analogplanet archives and couldn't see anything one way or another.

Talk Talk's 1991 Sonic Spectacular Gets First American Vinyl Issue

Talk Talk's Mark Hollis may have long ago retired from the music business, but his musical legacy prospers and grows. A near cult-like devotion hovers around the group's records as succeeding generations discover his dense, probing, faith-based cogitations. The intensity and strength of his spiritual commitment was matched only by the forcefulness of his later "spirited" rejection of same.

On this, the final Talk Talk album, his abstract lyrics indicate on one hand a grand spiritual ambivalence and on the other a deep concern about the consequences of losing faith.

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Artist: 
Talk Talk
Album: 
Laughing Stock
Cred Label: 
Ba Da Bing Bing 074 120g LP
Cred Prod: 
Tim Friese-Greene
Cred Eng: 
Phil Brown
Cred Mix: 
Phil Brown
Cred Mast: 
N/A
Talk Talk's Mark Hollis may have long ago retired from the music business, but his musical legacy prospers and grows. A near cult-like devotion hovers around the group's records as succeeding generations discover his dense, probing, faith-based cogitations. The intensity and strength of his spiritual commitment was matched only by the forcefulness of his later "spirited" rejection.

"Ask Mikey" Fires Up With Questions About USB Microscopes, the Quality of Ron McMaster's Lacquer Cutting, Etc.

What is the name of the USB microscope you use? Brand and resolution?

Finally, "Music From Big Pink" on AAA Vinyl With BASS

Who begins a debut album with a dirge-like, mournful song taken at a heartbreakingly slow pace like Richard Manuel's "Tears of Rage?" The Band did on their debut album that didn't exactly hit the pop charts running.

Imagine the Capitol execs confronted by these opening lyrics:

We carried you in our arms on Independence Day
But now you'd throw us all aside and put us all away
What dear daughter 'neath the sun could love a father so
To wait upon him hand and foot and always tell him no?

Tears of rage, tears of grief
Why must I always be the thief?

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Artist: 
The Band
Album: 
Music From Big Pink
Cred Label: 
Capitol/Mobile Fidelity MFSL 1-346 180g LP
Cred Prod: 
John Simon
Cred Eng: 
N/A
Cred Mix: 
N/A
Cred Mast: 
Krieg Wunderlich on the Gain 2 Ultra Analog System™
Who begins a debut album with a dirge-like, mournful song taken at a heartbreakingly slow pace like Richard Manuel's "Tears of Rage?" The Band did on their debut album that didn't exactly hit the pop charts running.

Mikey Does Video Podcast With Home Theater's Scott Wilkinson

Mikey cuts loose on the superiority of vinyl on this new video podcast using his unbelievably unflattering MacBook Pro camera. The chatroom digiphiles went crazy!

ORG Reinvents Heavy Weather

Jazz Fusion may have turned out to be a dead end genre exiled to The Weather Channel's 24 hour forecast, but at its inception arguably with the group Weather Report, the sun shone brightly on its possibilities. How ironic that the jazz offshoot took off with Weather Report and dead-ended on TWC!

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Artist: 
Weather Report
Album: 
Heavy Weather
Cred Label: 
Columbia/ORG 113 2 180g 45rpm LPs
Cred Prod: 
Joe Zawinul
Cred Eng: 
Ron Malo
Cred Mix: 
Ron Malo
Cred Mast: 
Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Jazz Fusion may have turned out to be a dead end genre exiled to The Weather Channel's 24 hour forecast, but at its inception arguably with the group Weather Report, the sun shone brightly on its possibilities. How ironic that the jazz offshoot took off with Weather Report and dead-ended on TWC!

Acoustic Dead Album Puts You Right On Stage

Who knew vinyl lovers were such Deadheads? The labels doing the reissuing hope you are. There are recent studio reissues from Warner Brothers/Rhino and Analogue Productions and live recordings from Mobile Fidelity and Analogue Productions including this one from AP.

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Artist: 
The Grateful Dead
Album: 
Reckoning
Cred Label: 
Rhino/Analogue Productions APP8604 2 200g LPs
Cred Prod: 
Dan Healy, Betty Cantor-Jackson and Jerry Garcia
Cred Eng: 
Don Pearson, John Cutler and Dennis Leonard
Cred Mix: 
N/A at Club Front, San Rafael
Cred Mast: 
Kevin Gray
Who knew vinyl lovers were such Deadheads? The labels doing the reissuing hope you are. There are recent studio reissues from Warner Brothers/Rhino and Analogue Productions and live recordings from Mobile Fidelity and Analogue Productions including this one from AP.

Gene Clark Album That Wasn't, Finally Is

Gene Clark owed A&M an album in 1972 and so to fulfill his contract he did what most artists do in such circumstances: he decided to make one for himself.

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Artist: 
Gene Clark
Album: 
Roadmaster
Cred Label: 
A&M/Sundazed LP 5346
Cred Prod: 
Jim Dickenson and Chris Hinshaw
Cred Eng: 
N/A
Cred Mix: 
N/A
Cred Mast: 
Bob Irwin (lacquer cut by A. Nonymous)
Gene Clark owed A&M an album in 1972 and so to fulfill his contract he did what most artists do in such circumstances: he decided to make one for himself.

Graham Parker kissed off his label with an album called Mercury Poisoning. Van Morrison owed one to Bert Berns' Bang label. Berns had died but Van, who had had a volatile relationship with Bert and was anxious to go to Warner Brothers and record Astral Weeks, handed his grieving widow Eileen an unreleasable album containing the ten songs and the publishing rights thereto. The songs—actually a series of short ridiculous and nonsensical jams— had titles like "Blow In Your Nose," "Nose in Your Blow," and "Ringworm."

Alcohol and Vinyl: A Deadly Mix!

An Australian record store owner recently had an idea: why not mix vinyl and alcohol? Thanks to changes in the liquor laws in Sydney, MOJO Music's Neville Sergent opened MOJO Record Bar. (Photo by Peter Rae)

Small Club Miles Davis Engagement Makes For Engaging Vinyl Reissue

Friday and Saturday Nights in Person at The Blackhawk, San Francisco,everyone's second favorite small club live engagement (the first being Bill Evans at The Village Vanguard) finally gets the AAA 180g vinyl treatment with this double LP set from IMPEX. I wonder why it took so long for a reissue label to do this one?

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Artist: 
Miles Davis
Album: 
Friday and Saturday Nights In Person at The Blackhawk, San Francisco
Cred Label: 
Columbia/IMPEX IMP 6009 2 180g LPs
Cred Prod: 
Irving Townsend
Cred Eng: 
Harold Chapman
Cred Mix: 
Harold Chapman
Cred Mast: 
"Mr. Record and Dr. Groove" (Robert Pincus and Kevin Gray)
Friday and Saturday Nights in Person at The Blackhawk, San Francisco,everyone's second favorite small club live engagement (the first being Bill Evans at The Village Vanguard) finally gets the AAA 180g vinyl treatment with this double LP set from IMPEX. I wonder why it took so long for a reissue label to do this one?

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