The IoF© mail room is oft-times flooded with damn fool requests from th' Four Or Five Guys© (no, Kreemé will not oil up for your "camera club"), but occasionally we get technical enquiries we're only too pleased to answer! Sparky Pencilhouse Jr., out of Greasefield, MI [below - Ed.] wants to know more about our world famous Bitrate Conversion Facility™ [above - Ed.]. Glad to help, Sparky! This state of the art facility is where bloated, unsustainable audio files are lovingly honed down to a slender, willowy @192 and given a coat of marine varnish before being featured in a feature. Why @192? Glad you asked, youngster! Mainly because @128 looks cheap. But also because major religious leaders throughout the ages have espoused this zesty and resilient bitrate, and if @192 was good enough for Christ Jesus, it's good enough for us, by crikey!
In rare hand-tinted daguerreotype reproduced above [above - Ed.], lab technician Professor U. U. Gefiltefish autoclaves priceless original mint vinyl copy of Kind Of Blue (mastered by Bernie Grundman) during conversion to precious digital data! The ever-inquisitive Sparky asks, "Is it necessary to destroy original in order to provide quality listening experience for bunch of kvetching yahoos, Professor?"
"Heck no," Gefiltefish chuckles, "but it sure is fun! Whoops! There she goes!"
Looking for a rare or collectable collectible, or perhaps that Hall n' Oates album some lap dancer boosted from your trailer home kegger? Make a request in the comments and we'll get back to you!
That's right, subscribers! Looking for a particular album? Maybe it's already on th' IoF©, or in Lee Sklar's beard, or maybe a 4/5 guy just happens to have it about his person! No, it's not likely, but what have you got to lose by asking? We're here to help! Actually, that's not true. We're here to get loaded, and have a good time!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to see if I can locate one of my old lists of things I was looking for at one time or another. I should be trimming the collection these days, not adding to it, but bytes are cheap, right?
DeleteSeems like back in the days of fine print IBM Selectric Auction Lists printed on cheap paper in the back of Obsessive-Oriented Music Publications, I saw reference to an unreleased fourth Wackers album, and maybe even a second Dudes album. That's all that comes to mind right now. To be honest, if either existed and had more than one and a half truly worthwhile tunes, I'd be astonished.
Further thoughts forthcoming, maybe. My boring tales of avoiding excitement (to hopefully earn a trading card) are even further in the realms of unlikelihood. I've still never been arrested! (Knock wood.) Not that that I'd ever do anything illegal hardly all the time.
Hazy, that Trading Card is yours for ten minutes' keyboard pecking! Think of the kudos you'll get from th' Treehouse Club when you show them your genuine IoF© Trading Card! Oh boy!
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DeleteA good buddy of mine is one hell of a trombone player, and has performed as a sideman on numerous albums, and also recorded several under his own name. One of them was recorded at another friend's studio, for which the performances were recorded live with one microphone into a Presto K8 lathe, cut directly to acetate discs at 78rpm, and edited only for volume. In other words, it was recorded to intentionally sound old. The music is unreal - but, its beguines and other carribbean influenced tunes. Ladies and Gents, oh, and 4 or 5 guys, I give you Charlie Halloran and Ce Beguine. https://www.mediafire.com/folder/kjd8z37ku7a2h/Halloran
ReplyDeletev cool, pmac--looking forward to listening.
DeleteAnd you might appreciate this: when the Stones opened their 1975 tour in BRLA (of all places) with two shows it was a few weeks after my birthday and my friends got me tickets for the first show and my girlfriend got us tickets for the second show and tbh the Assembly Center I am pretty sure was not sold out and while the Stones were too much fun, the Meter's, who opened both shows coming on-stage with cowbells doing "Pocky Way" kinda stole the show. As the goddess is my witness, nobody in BRLA seemed to think it was any big thing the Stones were opening a North American tour there...bugfuck crazy.
I was there! Bought tickets for the first show, went to the bathroom in between and hid in a stall for about an hour and then went back to the floor for the second. It wasn't an official "concert." It was a rehearsal - the official tour started two days later in San Antonio. We missed out on the giant inflatable dildo. But, given that Ossie Brown was the DA, might have been for the better.
DeleteS'true; love it--the shows were so much fun! And nary a cop in sight.
DeleteAnd when I got to UT I met folx who were at the SA show and all they could talk about was the giant white dildo, lol. Ossie was a bona fide jerk, but his predecessor Sargent (his actual first name) Pitcher was a genuine moron who had our home phone tapped...my parents would often greet him when they spoke on the phone with folks, always careful to refer to him as Private Pitcher. He hated them. Ossie was an effin' breath of fresh air for people like my folks, honestly.
Very cool, pmac. In FLAC TOO.
DeleteThanks!
Charlie has a bandcamp site, so if you're so inclined, buy one of his albums and help out a struggling musician. He has two other ones with a similar vibe, but recorded in a traditional manner (one is a Christmas album but the songs are not just for the holidays) and another album that is a trad jazz outing. He also plays in a band called Panorama Jazz Band (also on bandcamp) which is an amazing mix of balkan/jewish/Russian/caribbean and American jazz styles.
DeleteDamn, Eric. Had no idea re Pitcher. I recall Ossie trying like hell to prevent Life of Brian from being shown at any theatre in BR.
DeleteAnd, in the world is weird department, the guy who recorded the album I posted had his recording studio destroyed by an ex. She went back home for a few weeks and left her dog for the guy to watch. While at a gig, the dog escaped and got hit by a car and died. She came back to his house after she discovered what had happened, and destroyed all of his antique recording gear. Yikes...
ReplyDeleteamazing....
DeleteKeep those requests comin', subscribers!
ReplyDeleteVery nice graphic, Farq.
ReplyDelete'Fully Finished Studio Outtakes" @320 was a pleasant surprise.
It was to me, too. To everyone. Judging from the reactions on the internet, it has to be a contender for archival release of the year. If I get something @320, that's how I'll upload it. If it comes from my crawlspace, it'll be @192.
DeleteWatch the sidebar - trading cards coming up later!
Sidebar looks swelligant, Sir Throckmorton! A veritabobble cavalcade of stars.
DeleteThere's a real nice late 60s psych Lp from Louisiana, only made 100 copies type of thing but I can't remember the exact name, it's "Gumba du ??, or Gambu da ??" the third word I think is Spanish and it may be that the gumba/gamba is the third word and I can't remember the first word. It has that Bob Smith-The Visit sincerity only different. I have it on some damn CDR that I was too lazy to mark what albums were on it and since I burned my CDR's of music by the hundred pack back in the day I have little chance of finding it except by chance. Anyone know which LP this is? I'd love an upload so I can actually store it by name on a hard drive and listen on a USB stick in my car.
ReplyDeleteSure it wasn't Gumbo? Coming from Louisiana?
DeleteYou are not referring to Dr. John's Gris Gris album are you? That definetly was a late 60s psychodelic album, but there were way more than 100 copies made and sold of it.
DeleteA long shot, but Pat Gremillion and them (Wayne Parent...maybe his brother?) who would later be in Bas Clas and some other bands had a band based out of Lafayette when they were at USL in the late 60s/early 70s, I think...Billy Babin (a friends big brother) had a band called The Rubber Memory that was heavy fuzztone & psych...Basement Wall were earlier I think (before my time, certainly) and Potliquor was fairly well known in the south and didn't have anything called "Gumbo" I know of...Last one: The Greek Fountains? Casey Kelly (Danny Goodrich) and Duke Bardwell (neighborhood boys who used to babysit us sometimes)...Casey wrote "Bayou Country," a really beautiful song about South Louisiana Gritz had a hit with...Duke went on to play bass for Elvis...Sorry, probably none of this helps.
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Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZWhvG356Uk
DeleteInteresting clean up on the side bar. Spring cleaning already, eh?
ReplyDeleteThat "Random Post" button is an eyesore, but I don't know how to change it.
DeleteCoincidentally, I liberated an "SA-CD" of Kind Of Blue from the local Goodwill a couple days ago, for just a dollar. Too bad I don't have any rotating disk equipment capable of liberating its secrets. Anyway, I'm hoping some weirdo "audiophile" on eBay will make my investment pay off.
ReplyDeleteI trimmed my KOB colection down to a rip of the original mono, and the 50th anniversary set. I love the album, but I get tired of seeing it top ten listed by Hip White Boys because it's the only jazz album they own.
DeleteWell, we had an anonymous request from a random guy who couldn't remember what the title or the artist was, which th' Four Or Five Guys© couldn't answer. Group hug, everyone!
ReplyDeletePretty sure its the Dr John Gris Gris album (full title - Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya). But, it was a legit major label release.
DeleteYou may be pretty sure, Pmac, but everyone else is giving you th' Bronx Cheer - turn up your hearing aid!
DeleteGet off my lawn, Throckmorton.
DeleteIts green, it grows, and its capable of being cut. Its a damn lawn.
DeleteAn' them Hostess Twinkie wrappers are flowers. Ri-ight ...
DeleteDr. John did have an LP called Gumbo, from 1972 (four years after Gris Gris).
ReplyDeleteAnd where's my trading card on your sidebar?
Yes, he did, but - and read my lips - IT'S NOT THE DAMN ALBUM ANONYMOUS IS LOOKING FOR.
DeleteAs to your card - got lost in the crawlspace - coming right up - and here's the piece that earned it:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2020/05/crack-wise-with-four-or-five-guys-dept.html
OK, I just looked closely at his request. His description doesn't ring a bell.
ReplyDeleteThanks for reinstating my carded status!
Check this out. Is this it? FEATHER DE GAMBA http://voidrecordshallucinationscds.com/product/feather-da-gamba-like-it-or-get-bent/
ReplyDeleteWE HAVE A WINNAH!
DeleteI'd never heard of it. I put on my deerstalker cap and ran a Google Search for "Louisiana psychedelic private pressing album gamba" I figured it couldn't be "gumbo." Plus, I love gambas al ajillo, so I went with gamba. Copies are up for sale on DISCOGS.
ReplyDelete"Google Search", huh? Is that like a computer thing?
DeleteTrust me, it's going to be big one day.
DeleteIt's up on YouTube with a bit of surface noise at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FUH16GolE4
ReplyDeleteAnd here at Ezhevika Fields ... https://ezhevika.blogspot.com/2009/07/feather-da-gamba-like-it-or-get-bent.html
DeleteMy attention wanders ... not quite as far as the musicians' ...
Hilarious!
ReplyDeleteI'm here 'til Thursday - try the chopped liver special!
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