I once bought a batch of 78s and in it was an album that had “Uncle Otto’s Records” written on it. Inside were birdsong recordings of canaries, whistling records, accordion oom-pah-pah polkas and lugubrious sad […]

I’ve never worked a job I didn’t love. I’ve surrounded myself with books, movies, art and music. And I’ve been friends with amazing people. I don’t have a bucket list any more because I checked it all off. My […]

If the disks were things like the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society albums, that price would be good. I can see storing fancy sets in a case like that.

I’ve sacrificed my normal life to live a fantasy life! Most people do it the other way around.

Sound quality of recordings can’t be reduced down to a number. Mixing and mastering is a matter of balance, and that exists in the middle, not the extremes. I ignore those dynamic range numbers. Sometimes music […]

I worked on an animated TV show that used stock music from stock libraries and when the studio shut down, I snagged the CDs out of the trash! We actually have a lot of those library records here in Los Angeles, […]

There’s YouTube videos showing up from the tour now. A nice highlight of the show is when Wakeman has a synth duel with his son on Starship Trooper.

Further noggin melting… The narrator of the song is Bobby Pickett doing a Boris Karloff impression. But here’s Boris Karloff doing an impression of Bobby Pickett doing and impression of him!

They released Gaucho and Everything Must Go remixed in multichannel, and Fagen’s The Nightfly is available in 5.1 too. Supposedly there are other albums mixed and ready to go, but they are just sitting on […]

I’m a huge fan of Cornell Woolrich. He had a way of telling a story that was uniquely his own. I have all of the Black Mask collections. Great stuff! We Yanks like the hard boiled stuff, not the polite parlor […]

That’s a decent price for the CD actually. It was only in print a very short time. Wakeman released a box set of his albums, but omitted this one. It’s a shame, because I really like the song with Bill Oddie and […]

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I saw an interview with him where he talked about the Myths And Legends On Ice show. That is one of the funniest stories I’ve ever heard. He really knows how to roll with the punches and turn lemons into […]

Lysistrata and The Frogs seem to be holding up well.

When I was in high school, there was a guy here in Los Angeles who bootlegged countless concerts in fantastic quality. He had a really well thought out scam. He notified the venue that he was handicapped and would […]

Radio broadcasts usually don’t sound as bad as a cassette recorder in the bleachers. There are a bunch of European radio air check CD collections that sound good. Too bad this one sucks.

“Mom’s Apple Pie”. Not going to explain why, but the album cover was pulled from stores and banned. I used to have a copy of the original version of the cover.

I think almost all people are fiercely loyal to their own point of view. I’ve noticed that most sentences typed upon the internet have the pronoun “I” beginning them.

Content is king.

Here in Los Angeles, record swap meets are full of incredible “easy listening” records from the 50s and early 60s. Easy isn’t a good word, because a lot of it is uptempo. It encompasses several genres… […]