They’re front and center where any recording engineer worth his salt would put them. The vocals aren’t “back there” somewhere, lost in the mix.
What could be more important than the life of the music? Playing the record is the only way to hear all of the qualities we discuss above, and playing the best pressings against a pile of other copies under rigorously controlled conditions is the only way to find a pressing that sounds as good as this one does. No doubt there’s more but we hope that should do for now. Transparency and resolution, critical to hearing into the three-dimensional studio space.Natural tonality in the midrange - with all the instruments having the correct timbre.Tight, note-like, rich, full-bodied bass, with the correct amount of weight down low.Only the best vintage vinyl pressings offer the kind of Tubey Magic that was on the tapes in 1970 The most Tubey Magic, without which you have almost nothing.The biggest, most immediate staging in the largest acoustic space.What the best sides of James Band Rides Again have to offer is not hard to hear:
Old records have it - not often, and certainly not always - but maybe one out of a hundred new records do, and those are some pretty long odds. If you exclusively play modern repressings of vintage recordings, I can say without fear of contradiction that you have never heard this kind of sound on vinyl. It’s what vintage all analog recordings are known for - this sound. If you love hearing INTO a recording, actually being able to “see” the performers, and feeling as if you are sitting in the studio with the band, this is the record for you. Folks, that sound is gone and it sure isn’t showing signs of coming back. This vintage ABC pressing has the kind of Tubey Magical Midrange that modern records can barely BEGIN to reproduce. You can be sure that it doesn’t sound that way unless you have one of these very special pressings, the kind with real richness and weight to the sound (depending on the grades of course not every copy we sell does everything we want it to).īy the way, if you hear some Poco influence pop up of the album, note that Rusty Young guests on Pedal Steel. The powerfully energetic chorus on Funk #49, the first track on the album and longtime Classic Rock Radio staple, really gets big and loud on this copy. It will be the best sound you have ever heard for the band’s second album, we guarantee it. We had a devil of a time finding copies that played as quiet as the grades you see here. Most of what we played was just too noisy to sell.
This shootout produced little in the way of audiophile quality pressings. Under the direction of guitarist Joe Walsh, the group - now featuring bassist Dale Peters - began incorporating keyboards into their hard rock, which helped open up their musical horizons.”
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