Michael Fremer

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Album Reviews
Spoon Ladles Out an Attractive Placeholder
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 01, 2007  |  comments

Spoon’s been at it for more than a decade (their first major label CD, the outstanding A Series of Sneaks) was issued by Elektra in 1998, after which the label promptly dropped them), yet after all of this time, when they played New York’s Roseland recently, front man Britt Daniel announced that this relatively small former dance hall, with a capacity of around 3500 (standing room only) was the largest headlining concert the band had played.

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Album Reviews
Springsteen's Seeger Tribute Achieves Purity of Purpose and Sound
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2006  |  comments

These songs will be familiar to you if you attended a “socialist” summer camp during the 1950’s and/or 1960’s. I did. What’s a “socialist” summer camp? It’s roughly defined as one that had an on staff guitar and banjo-playing Pete Seeger following pre-Hippie collegiate or “long hair.”

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Set-Up Tips
SRA Clarification From Peter Ledermann
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 23, 2012  |  comments
I just spoke with Soundsmith's Peter Ledermann. He confirmed that the contact patch is as seen in the above photo. But note that this is with VTF of zero. He made a few observations about this discussion we're having here on Analogplanet.com.

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Letters to the Editor
SRA Thanks
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 24, 2012  |  comments
Thank you for helping me get my TT set up properly. Didn't think it could sound so good!
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Album Reviews
Stars Line Up For Preservation Hall Benefit Album
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 01, 2010  |  comments

Stars from across the musical universe donated their time and considerable talents to perform with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on this thoroughly entertaining and superbly recorded double LP set celebrating the Hall’s 50th anniversary.

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News
Start the New Year With the "RL" Version of "Whole Lotta Love"
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 01, 2016  |  First Published: Jan 01, 2016  |  comments
Here's a transcription of "Whole Lotta Love" from an "RL" original pressing mastered by Bob Ludwig. We'll see how long it lives on You Tube.

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News
Start the Presses! Pheenix Alpha Rises From Toolex Alpha's Ashes!
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 27, 2016  |  First Published: Oct 27, 2016  |  comments
The famous high-tech Swedish Toolex Alpha record presses are again being manufactured as Pheenix Alpha in a Stockholm suburb by former employees of the original company using the original blueprints. This according to a recent article in a Swedish newspaper.

According to the story, the last Toolex Alpha left the factory in 1990 bound for Melodiya in the then Soviet Union, though it was believed to have been manufactured a few years earlier.

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Ask Mikey
Static Cling!
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 01, 2012  |  comments
Love the website. I can't stay off of it! I have an "Ask Mikey' question:

"What do you use to control static pops and clicks on your records?"

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News
STAX Celebrates 60 Years With Limited Edition 7" Singles Box Set
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 15, 2017  |  First Published: Sep 15, 2017  |  comments
Craft Recordings (a Concord Records imprint), which recently issued the 3 LP Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings just announced the Stax 7 Box Set, the first release in a year long celebration of the storied label's 60th anniversary.

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AAA VinylAlbum Reviews
Stealers Wheel's Eponymous Debut Still Provides Dark Pleasures
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 03, 2015  |  comments
Gerry Rafferty has long been under-appreciated. Oh, sure, "Stuck in the Middle" was an unlikely hit when first released by A&M in 1972 and later found its way into Quentin Tarrantino's "Reservoir Dogs" where the bouncy, anthemic, Dylanesque record company exec knock reached a new audience.

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