Atomic Rooster- Death Walks Behind You Two pressings: US and UK An interesting heavy rock record by an oft-overlooked band, this album—which was probably their best and most commercially successful– has gotten some play here lately. I decided to buy both early US and UK pressings—the price difference can be considerable for those of […]
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Road Trip: Brooklyn Record Shopping
Road Trip: Brooklyn Record Shopping With the dog days of summer now behind us in New York, it was time for another road trip. This time, we decided to trek to Brooklyn to visit a few record shops (and enjoy some good food along the way). We lived in Brooklyn back when it wasn’t […]
Jethro Tull-Aqualung- Vinyl Shoot-Out
In my lead-up to this piece, I mentioned that I often accumulate more vinyl pressings of problematic recordings in search of a good sounding copy; Jethro Tull’s Aqualung is a good example. Some of the quirks in this recording were deliberate, e.g. the “Tannoy” effect (a/k/a the “telephone burble”) on the vocal parts of title […]
The True Adventures of Stanley Booth: Dancing with the Devil
Rock music has always been dangerous; its precursors, from secular black music and the blues in the decades before WWII, to rockabilly and rock and roll of the 1950’s- music that spoke to the travails of the world, of carnality, crime and pain, and all those indecent thoughts and pleasures of life- posed an obvious […]