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(Corrected) Beginning to Get Answers on Bert Jansch Vinyl Mystery (Apologies to Lurssen Mastering)
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 13, 2012  |  comments
My apologies to Gavin Lurrsen, who did respond immediately to my email via email. Unfortunately his email got trapped in the overaggressive corporate spam filter.
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Analog Gear News
+Audio Announces The + Record Player “Kickstarter Edition"
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 08, 2017  |  First Published: Sep 08, 2017  |  comments
+Audio introduced its +Record Player at High End Munich 2017. Now the company has initiated a Kickstarter project to self-fund the +Record Player "Kickstarter Edition.

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Album Reviews
10,000 Laughs? Don't Count on It!
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 01, 2008  |  comments

Listen: I did stand-up comedy in Boston before any comedian at any comedy club in Boston got his sorry ass on stage and opened with “Hey, how you guys doing?”

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AAA VinylDiscographiesFeaturesRecord Buying Tips
100 Recommended All-Analog LP Reissues Worth Owning
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 03, 2019  |  First Published: Apr 03, 2019  |  comments
Here's 100 recommended all-analog LP reissues worth owning. The video runs two hours so unless you are masochistic, you might want to watch in shorter segments but covering 100 LPs took time! Plus there are the usual fun stories interspersed throughout. Okay, I got wrong the The Who's "Tommy"'s original issue date (I said November '68, was May '69) otherwise all of the information should be correct. Yes, too many superlatives, but that’s video!

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RMAF 2013
10th Annual Rocky Mountain Audio Festival Awash in Vinyl!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 12, 2013  |  comments
The vinyl-centric Ayre Acoustics room was one of day one's analog highlights for this correspondent. The room was filled with inexpensive used vinyl from local vinyl vendor Absolute Vinyl and everyone was in a festive mood.

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Features
157 In-Print LPs You Should Own!
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 30, 2009  |  comments

By Armegeddon (however the Evangelical wet-dream is spelled) this article will be TOTALLY updated!


157 In-Print LPs You Should Own! Soon to be Updated.....Yea, sure. That's what you've been saying for more than a year....(sorry but soon, really!)


Okay, that's a ridiculous headline. It's the kind of cynical ploy you see on magazine covers to attract attention. These are really 157 LPs I do own, some of which you probably will enjoy and should own, and some of which you will probably hate. No doubt you already own some.

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Album Reviews
1969 Jerry Ragovoy Produced Butterfield Album Still Hasn't Cooled Off
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2007  |  comments

Originally issued by Elektra in 1969 as EKS-74053 in November, of 1969, this record shows Butterfield feeling the cultural and political heat of the times, beginning with Gene Dinwiddie's anti-war opener, "Love March."

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Album Reviews
1970 Sophomore Effort Reissued With Original Artwork
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 01, 2011  |  comments

The second Yes album begins with a strutting cover of Richie Havens' "No Opportunity Necessary, No Experience Needed."

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Interviews
1976 Radio Interview With MIchael Fremer Unearthed
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 31, 2005  |  comments

Back in the 1970's, your editor (me!) was doing stand-up comedy at colleges around the country. In the fall of 1976 I was invited to perform at Ithaca College. Since I was a Cornell alumnus (1969) I really looked forward to the visit. At the time I had a pet Coatimundi—a racoon like animal that ranges from Oklahoma, through Arizona, Mexico and points south. Look it up and you'll see a "stretch racoon" with a cartoon-like face. His name was Jeepy—named by a friend for Popeye's imaginary friend The Jeep, which he sort of resembled.

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Album Reviews
1979 Art/Punk Classic Reissued By 4 Men With Beards! (mastering info updated)
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 01, 2007  |  comments

The British minimalist art/punk band Wire’s first three spare, angular albums, originally issued in 1977, 8 and 9 weren’t big sellers then and unfortunately the chances are they won’t be this time either, though I sure hope they do well enough to encourage 4 Men With Beards and other labels to reissue adventurous and worthwhile, if not the most popular music.

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