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Gene Clark Album That Wasn't, Finally Is

Michael Fremer | Jun 11, 2012 | comments

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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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."

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Gentle Giant Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Feb 28, 2011 | comments

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George Harrison Sixteen LP Box Set Readied by UMe and Harrison Estate Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jan 24, 2017 | First Published: Jan 24, 2017 | comments

The upcoming (available February, 24th 2017) George Harrison sixteen 180 LP box set includes every solo release by "the quiet Beatle" from 1968 to 2002.

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George Harrison's All Things Must Pass Gets the 50th Anniversary Reissue Treatment August 6th Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jun 10, 2021 | First Published: Jun 10, 2021 | comments

How would you like your All Things Must Pass?. Of course there's the original 3 LP set produced by George Harrison (who died in 2001 at age 58) and Phil Spector, which if you have on an original British Apple pressing sounds very good. The American pressing? Meh.

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Gerhard Blum's "Making Vinyl" Keynote Address Is A "Must See" For Every Vinyl Lover Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> May 05, 2019 | First Published: May 05, 2019 | comments

You do not want to miss the entertaining, informative and important "Making Vinyl" day two keynote address with visuals by Sony Music Entertainment International Services Co-Managing Director Gerhard Blum.

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Gerry Rafferty Passes Away at 63 Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jan 03, 2011 | comments Reading >

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Get to Know "The Unknowable" (Now With Audio Track) Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Aug 13, 2018 | comments

The first unknowable is the correct speed at which to play this oddly accessible 100% improvised double LP set of 13 spontaneous collaborations between saxophonist Dave Liebman and a pair of eclectic percussionists, Adam Rudolph and Tatsuya Nakatani. There's nothing written on the gatefold jacket or labels indicating speed, but I'm pretty sure its 45rpm!

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Getting the Lowdown on Blue Note's Vinyl Reissue Series Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Mar 11, 2014 | comments

Upon landing at LAX I got in the rental car and drove directly to Capitol Records where I met up with the great Al Schmitt. Al took a short time away from a mixing session to give me a tour of famed Studios A and B where Frank, Nat, Judy, Dean and so many others recorded some of the greatest records ever.

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Getz Live Session From 1981 on Double 45rpm Vinyl Michael Fremer | views-field-created"> Jun 01, 2005 | comments

Recorded in May, 1981 but not issued until Getz's passing a decade later in 1991, this live recording at San Francisco's Keystone Korner is a “volume 2” to the previously issued The Dolphin (Concord CCD 4158).

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Gil Evans's "Out of the Cool" Into the Crapper?

Michael Fremer | Jun 30, 2013 | comments

Last winter an old audio biz friend of mine visited bearing a gift: a new Italian 45rpm pressing of Gil Evans' dark, brooding and oh so slinky 1960 recording of Out of the Cool originally issued in 1961 by the then new Impulse! label created by producer Creed Taylor for parent company ABC-Paramount. The album was Impulse! A-4, the label's fourth release.

This reissue on the DOXY label puts the entire album on a single 45rpm record. Given that side one runs almost 21 minutes, I was surprised they squeezed it onto a single side. Sides two's approximately 16 minutes is slightly more manageable with "slightly" the operative word.

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