It’s happened again.You may remember my recent post regarding playing A Kind of Blue by Miles Davis ALL THE WAY THROUGH at 45rpm and not noticing.
Well yesterday I played ALL FOUR sides of Reflections by Brian Eno at 33rpm, instead of the recommended 45rpm.
Reader -I enjoyed it -I can tell you.
Perhaps I should be Forcibly Flounced From this here Forum For the Future?
Peel periodically played platters paced perfidiously – perfectly proper practice!
78 rpm is the only speed for Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Preferably on one of those wind-up gramophones with a horn mounted to the tone arm.
No worries. Eno has got form on rpms. The reissue of No Pussyfooting includes the pieces backwards and half the speed.
Dunno about flounced from the forum, you should certainly be arraigned at the assizes for your asinine appropriation of alliteration.
I think I read in the ‘Uncut’ King Crimson special that John Peel played the whole of one side of a Fripp/Eno lp backwards on his show by mistake.
Point of order – to play a record backwards, you have to put the turntable in reverse and drop the tone arm in the run-out groove. Shirley not a mistake you can easily make?
Perhaps we could start a thread asking posters about their experiences of asking girls back to listen to their collection of satanic messages from records played in reverse
You first!
K.O.
It may have been on R2R tape? Pre-release?
It was.
Thank you, and Moose and H.P for helping me out. The ‘Uncut’ article – having now found it – was about (No Pussyfooting) and just says Peel ‘managed to play it backwards’.
Which was nice.
I have tried playing Trout Mask Replica at 33,45 and 78 Still not sure which is the correct speed
78 – extremely fast, unbelievably bulbous