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Post by My Avatar Is A Hot Babe on Oct 13, 2017 18:48:31 GMT
I remember it well. It was April of 1966 and my Dad just brought home my first fold-down stereo (Zenith). I was in Thrifty Drugs and in their record section they had a sealed "HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS" LP on Epic for like $1.98; overstock, I guess. Anyway, it had a lot of hits on side one so I bought it. Played it, thought there was something wrong with my system. It sucked. After that I knew what "Electronically Reprocessed For Stereo" meant and avoided it. Thought I was pretty smart until I bought my first MGM "Sounds Great In Stereo" Animals album. Urggh. With my own money? HELP! in mono. RUBBER SOUL in mono. HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS (was on sale for $1.50 at Thrifty Drug Store) and GLAD ALL OVER/DAVE CLARK FIVE (original cover, bought at Monty Ward for $2.49). My parents bought me all other records in that era, bless 'em.. April, 1966 is when my dad bought me a Zenith stereo. At Thrifty Drugs they had some rock albums for $2.49. That's how I got the first DAVE CLARK FIVE album and HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS, etc. in stereo, cheaper than the mono versions in the big stores. Come to think of it, might have been only Columbia/Epic titles that were so cheap. In other stores they were $3.99 in fake stereo.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Oct 13, 2017 19:16:39 GMT
I remember it well. It was April of 1966 and my Dad just brought home my first fold-down stereo (Zenith). I was in Thrifty Drugs and in their record section they had a sealed "HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS" LP on Epic for like $1.98; overstock, I guess. Anyway, it had a lot of hits on side one so I bought it. Played it, thought there was something wrong with my system. It sucked. After that I knew what "Electronically Reprocessed For Stereo" meant and avoided it. Thought I was pretty smart until I bought my first MGM "Sounds Great In Stereo" Animals album. Urggh. With my own money? HELP! in mono. RUBBER SOUL in mono. HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS (was on sale for $1.50 at Thrifty Drug Store) and GLAD ALL OVER/DAVE CLARK FIVE (original cover, bought at Monty Ward for $2.49). My parents bought me all other records in that era, bless 'em.. April, 1966 is when my dad bought me a Zenith stereo. At Thrifty Drugs they had some rock albums for $2.49. That's how I got the first DAVE CLARK FIVE album and HAVING A RAVE UP WITH THE YARDBIRDS, etc. in stereo, cheaper than the mono versions in the big stores. Come to think of it, might have been only Columbia/Epic titles that were so cheap. In other stores they were $3.99 in fake stereo. Maybe he is getting them mixed up with the Flamingos or another band with a reference to birds in the band name. Did The Flamingos do a blues based album with a similar title about going to a rave-up?. There has got to be an explanation.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 20, 2017 4:42:18 GMT
Let's set the scene: I just rediscovered this extra cool instro from Ritchie Valens after digging out my early '80s Rhino surf comp Bustin' Surfboards. Just a great track. Love the edginess in the guitar tone. From the YouTube comments: "People forget the great virtuosity Ritchie had on the guitar. Read the book by Ritchie's manager, BOB KEANE. It has a paragraph dedicated to how this recording was made ... KEANE says, the studio recording time was almost up--they had a few minutes left--so they ABSOLUTELY did this IN ONE TAKE..off the cuff..PURE IMPROVISATION. Ritchie's great guitar talent is preserved for all of us to enjoy." Cue STeVE's perfectly-recalled anecdote that gets him into the action too: I heard BOOGIE WITH STU first back then. One day I was at Tower Records, Sunset and they played STU then they played RITCHIE'S "Ooh, My Head." Us idiots in the store stopped in our tracks. Had to buy Ritchie Valens' Greatest Hits right then and there. Never looked at Led Zep the same way after that. Add in a little false self-depreciation for effect: Yeah, I heard all the Zep stuff first as well. I felt like an idiot many times upon hearing the originals and not having a clue. Hard cut to STeVE's actual reason for poating in the thread: Y'all have the Audio Fidelity RITCHIE VALENS SACD I did with the late Bob Keene? The best there is or will ever be on the guy.. Hope you got a copy. Right from the session tapes from Gold Star Studios and Bob's home tapes. The "y'all" really enhances the poat, IMO. Nothing says "man of the people" than channeling Jed Clampett.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 22, 2017 21:22:55 GMT
I have no memory of when we got an FM radio in the house or in the car for that matter. Must have been around 1969 or so, I guess. KLOS was still KABC-FM, that's for sure. WTF? STeVE cannot remember all the tiny details about an old piece of electronic equipment? That can't be right! Quick! Before my world completely crashes down around me! Gotta find one of STeVE's perfectly-recalled anecdotes about FM radio from the good old days... Phew!: When I was a kid my best friend's father had an FM radio in his big Magnavox console. Out of boredom one afternoon I turned on the FM. Dead silent, music sounding like real life. Never forgot that. Too bad they didn't have any pop or rock stuff on there (this was 1966). Beautiful sound. Crisis averted!
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Nov 23, 2017 0:14:24 GMT
More crystal-clear reminiscing from 50 years ago... SHite "varispeed" tries to outdo STeVE on the details, but you'll soon see he's no match for Daddy. I'm not the one who said it, but I too had fm radio on every day beginning in July 1967, about a month after Monterey/Sgt Pepper had settled down. A local, big-deal dj and his wife bought a religious fm station and turned it into a wonderful pop station. Very visionary guy who came into high prominence in 1961 as a successful program director. He'd base station playlists on a 4-point system; 1st being jukebox plays tied into a three-state area (I still dunno how he did this decades before the computer/information age), 2nd based on requests (which could be very manipulated), and third on national charts. His 4th area was gut feel. The open playlists were so refreshing to me. With the market penetration of Fm radios being what it was in the summer of love, keeping the station going was difficult. ........but yeah... had to go inside the house to listen to it on the fm radio/turntable system..... which was in another room from the almighty 1958 Zenith Sf177r stereo system (am radio only on that behemoth ..."I'm the cobra, feed me a 45rpm record and I'll blast out windows 2 houses away). So Steve, you were at the ice rink that day for the Teenset shoot? I am SO jealous. They all went up into the local mountains for the next shoot when there was snow. The snow pics are some of the best of the band imo. The last photo set around town was done a few months later in one of the local parks where Judy and Janey had the idea for the band (and Lee Michaels and a few others) to build kites and try to fly them for the cameras. For that shoot, the band was wearing the identical clothing from the photo shoots for the LTA cover...before the pic of Neil was spliced in just after he agreed to do the final southern tour during which mlk was killed. Which has always made me feel the park event and cover photo shoot were the same week or day. I'm more a gusher over the band than you are Steve, but just think.... every single person you probably saw walk into that rink that day with your own eyes were not only there because of Judy (ie working for her or her friends) but were there because....BECAUSE..... the band was supposed to be..........destined to be............. had to be........ in only a few more minutes would be realized by the universe ...to be ....... IT. To go down in history only in breaths that would include Beatles, Stones, Springfield. Anyone in that rink that day would've been there under that operating mode. imo anyway. Years later, when Judy was a reporter for Rolling Stone in her next life, she told me that there was a great deal of sadness in being a writer and having no way to convey the BS experience to those who didn't live it. She told me it would always be a small condolence, but to just hang on to the mementos and memories and realize that life sometimes just works out in ways you can't explain to anyone else. Man..... you were there that day? Geez!Usually, STeVE just peppers his anecdotes with tiny details (kind of like varispeed's tome above), but here he ups the ante by putting his skills of perfect recall on display in just about every sentence. (The "neat" at the end also serves to burnish this poat to its high sheen level.) Yeah, I was there with my mom. It was not a crowded day at Topanga Plaza. I can remember eating my hamburger trying to figure out who was who on the ice. I had NO idea what these guys looked like, I didn't get "AGAIN" until 1969, after I had LAST TIME AROUND. I remember my mom remarking on their outfits and how over the top they looked compared to the people in the mall. Like I said, all future rock royalty on the ice that day! Do you know the exact date of the ICE shoot? Sad the day they removed the ice rink. Was really neat. STeVE is always at the Zeitgeist of history, pop culture, and what have you. If the theory that time is made up of currents and eddies is true, then I'm surprised Kirk and Spock didn't end up in STeVE's bedroom when they went looking for McCoy.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Nov 30, 2017 6:24:35 GMT
I'd like to know who the hell Steve thinks he is impressing with that bullshit- he has to know that very few of the SHiTES still drink his koolaid anymore...he only has a few hardcore sycophants left (Claus, etc). Most everybody else there sees a Hoffman poat, rolls their eyes and says "Whatever, Steve..."
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Dec 1, 2017 0:00:28 GMT
No.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 11, 2018 2:42:46 GMT
I remember when the boss and I first started working with Ray Charles. Ray thought we were trying to pull a fast one (just a misunderstanding, soon corrected) and he called us down to his studio so he could yell at us in person. So, like dorks, we went. There was Ray Charles giving us a tongue lashing and there we were, taking it. Soon Ray got a bit disoriented and was yelling at the wall while we were to his left. Marshall and I looked at each other, shrugged, and then moved over to be right in front of him again. Both of us were thinking "wow, we are being yelled at by RAY CHARLES!" Funny but true. But no one wants to come here to be yelled at about their work. We ain't Ray Charles. STeVE, you regularly DID pull fast ones. That's why you're now an under-employed, child-whoring, laughingstock. And now, wow, you are being mocked and ridiculed by AN ENTIRE ONLINE COMMUNITY! (This Hoofy likely-fake "anecdote" is one of his most reprehensible. The bit about how he and Marsha looked at each other and then got back in front of RC is a new low, even for him. It's this kind of shit that makes me happy Stereo Central exists, as I'd explode if I couldn't vent about STeVE's loathsomeness somewhere.)
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Post by Wanklein on Feb 11, 2018 8:23:27 GMT
He really is a vile, despicable bastard.
I would love Louis Theroux to do a documentary on Hoffman and expose all his lies, bullshit and phoney lifestyle.
STeVe would be stupid enough to let him do it as well.
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Post by Ago on Feb 11, 2018 14:25:34 GMT
He really is a vile, despicable bastard. I would love Louis Theroux to do a documentary on Hoffman and expose all his lies, bullshit and phoney lifestyle. STeVe would be stupid enough to let him do it as well. "I tied up John Oteri and Claus, and left them in the fookin' boiler room..."
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Post by Flat Transfer on Feb 11, 2018 19:43:56 GMT
I remember when the boss and I first started working with Ray Charles. Ray thought we were trying to pull a fast one (just a misunderstanding, soon corrected) and he called us down to his studio so he could yell at us in person. So, like dorks, we went. There was Ray Charles giving us a tongue lashing and there we were, taking it. Soon Ray got a bit disoriented and was yelling at the wall while we were to his left. Marshall and I looked at each other, shrugged, and then moved over to be right in front of him again. Both of us were thinking "wow, we are being yelled at by RAY CHARLES!" Funny but true. But no one wants to come here to be yelled at about their work. We ain't Ray Charles. I spoke with Terry Howard, Ray Charles' Engineer of 20+years (Ray used to laugh that he "stole Terry from Barbra Streisand"), and about two weeks before Mr. Howard was arrested (after winning several Grammys for "Genius Loves Company" and BTW, got ripped off for what should have been his Producer credits on a song or two)-Terry told me that after DCC released several Ray projects, one of the versions of "Georgia On My Mind" ended up missing, either the album version or the single version (can't recall) was not locatable, and as Terry said: "Ray was just sick about it". As far as that news story from the BBC above, chalk it up to jealousy in the office. Terry was acquitted. The only people who had access to those "Georgia On My Mind" tapes at the time were: Terry Howard, Steve Hoffman and Ray himself. Later, though, Steve did manage to locate a version of a Brother Ray tune with no reverb on it from a record company friend in Germany, and sent it to Terry. Hoffman's guilty conscience? viewtopic.php?p=13311So, essentially, Hoffy DID pull a fast one and managed to place the blame on someone else's shoulder. Be proud of your fearless leader, SHites, be proud.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2018 20:50:23 GMT
So:
1) The Huff was a "dork" for going to a meeting a client requested. Sounds about right for him. 2) Effectively laughed at / made fun of Ray being blind 3) The Huff was wrong in that it was NOT funny
I believe that Ray yelled at him though - guess the midrange wasn't buttery enough for Ray
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 11, 2018 23:20:48 GMT
Flat Transfer, thank you for the detective work. I knew there had been some reports about STeVE actually cutting songs out of Ray Charles' master tapes, but not the actual details. Kudos for putting it up here,
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Post by Flat Transfer on Feb 12, 2018 0:03:31 GMT
It surprises me that Hoffy feels inclined to talk freely about this. I guess, in his mind, he made amends by sending that copy tape back to RC.
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 14, 2018 23:11:07 GMT
You gotta read between the lines a bit, but it's all there! I'm sure they are the 1962 mono remixes. Bell Sound pulled that stunt several times with the ABC-Paramount Ray Charles stuff. Not only the Greatest Hits, but the first album "Genius Hits The Road" is a Bell Sound remix (original mixes destroyed) and so is "Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul" (original mixes not destroyed and used by DCC Compact Classics for the first time. Superior mixes, saved by a fluke from the razor blade.) Lesser Ray albums were also pointlessly remixed by Bell Sound when the original mixes were fine and wonderful ("Have A Smile With Me" "Together Again", etc.) Note, some Bell Sound mixes were wonderful but usually recorded AT Bell Sound. Over and out!
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