"The legendary Get Back radio broadcast. WBCN FM Boston, September 22, 1969. What's noticeable here, is that this is far and away the best sounding tape of this material you're ever likely to hear. WBCN obtained a reel-to reel tape of the actual reference acetates. Their broadcast was preserved on another high-quality reel, and a digital copy of that tape was used to master this LP. The Best Part of this album is the producers decided to leave in most of the actual commercials and announcements from the WBCN DJ. This provides a charming framework , and sadly reminds us of how much radio has changed."
Blow it out yer ass, jcc. No amount of period charm is going to polish this turd into a Hummel figurine fit to grace my escritoire. But I know a couple of th' Four Or Five Guys© dig these capering comedy lightweights, so Happy Yule to them!
Christmas time is here again
ReplyDeleteChristmas time is here again
Ain't been round since you know when
Christmas time is here again
O-U-T spells out!
To qualify for this dubious honor, simply answer the following question:
ReplyDeleteWhich Byrds album is better than The White Album?
I'll ask that again, when you've got your hearing aid screwed in ... okay?
Which Byrds album is better than The White Album?
Roger the Engineer?
DeleteNo thanks, but you go ahead.
DeleteYounger Than Yesterday
ReplyDelete... is the correct answer! (Byrdmaniax would have worked, too)
DeleteFlotsam or jetsam?
Beautiful Artwork/OBI...
ReplyDeleteMaybe it is worthy!
Was there a Byrds album called 'McGuinn'?
Jetsam, Definitely Jetsam
ReplyDelete"Sweetheart of the Rodeo" imo. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Notorious Byrd Brothers (1968), 1997 CD reissue with added tracks?
ReplyDelete"McGuinn & McGuire jes' a keep a gettin' hired . . ."
ReplyDeleteMondegreen, you say?
No, wait, I hear tell musicians are having a hard time of it about now.
Hope none of you 4-or-5 are out in THAT leaky) boat, and/or of giggage.
Word is that the party on FMF Isle is going strong. Maybe they need some entertainers there.
If any/all of that need not apply, how about some klandestine Kovid kampfire singalongs in the form of some Essential street corner busking?
No?
Tell that sheriff who's about to cite you for not Staying At Home that you are contributing to the sanity of the community, and as such, are deemed a mental health volunteer, and thereby qualify as an "essential worker."
Ah, yes, pruuff reeding............
DeleteHope none of you 4-or-5 are out in THAT (leaky) boat, and/or out of giggage.
"Working" musicians here?
Sign below. Your Relief Czech's in the mail.
Yawning Angel sez...
ReplyDeleteI haven't been out in THAT (leaky) boat for 40 years and even then had some sort of day gig to sustain my sorry ass in a minimal fashion. Now, I just play with myself :p
It's true that not everybody needs to know everything, but I still
Deletewish I had enough talent to be an unemployed working musician. Then again, the grass is always greener on the other side of the bandanna!
I've always said that the only musikill instrument I play is the rekkid player...
ReplyDelete(Ba da bing)
In th' interests of transparency - any Byrds album is better than The White Album.
ReplyDeleteThat was my initial thought, but thought to myself: "Dis guy knows The Boids"
DeleteLike it was said, any Byrds album is better than The White Album
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to note that the long-established perceived wisdom surrounding the White Album - that it was assembled mostly separately, during a period when the guys weren't getting on too well with each other - was walked back for the 50th anniversary edition(s). Now we know the lads were just having a ball together in the studio all the time! Haw! Wotta buncha saps we was!
DeleteThis was a deliberate and clever marketing strategy, making the fans feel good and vindicated in their love for the band and anything they recorded, and an air-brushing we'll see more of with the 50th Let It Back edition(s), where we'll learn that these shitty, horrible sessions were in fact a hootenanny hoedown of happiness!
But we shouldn't give a flying fuck for the back story of any album - what matters is in the groove, and the continuing adulation for everything post-Pepper isn't based on that at all.
The Beetles were the first post-modernist pop group - after Pepper they were all about *being the Beetles*, and not about the music. Paul responded to the (muted) criticism of the White Album by saying something along the lines of "come on! It's THE BEATLES!" - as if that was enough. As it was, and continues to be, for millions of moptop lovers.
And they're rewriting history again with the Peter Jackson version of "Let It Be" coming in the fall.
ReplyDeleteWith Paul as Frodo, John & George as Merry and Pippin, Ringo as Sam Gamgee, and Yoko Ono as Sauron.
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ReplyDeleteFound the link then, did you Silvio?
DeleteIsn't "Maxwell's Silvio Hammer" supposed to be included in the "outtakes" Easter Egg portion of the South American region issue of the upcoming Let it Beatle bomb?
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