I've been victim of purchasing a CD that was way worse than the vinyl recording, but I'm not convinced of going back to vinyl. To me, vinyl is like buying a ca: every time you play it you degrade it. All the "pops" & "crackles" &, worse yet, "skips", are frustrating to hear. Plus you have to get out of your chair in approximately 20 minutes to flip it over or take it off the turntable. I seldom, if ever, listen to music just for the sake of music. It's always there when I'm doing something else.
Don't get me wrong. I still have my turntable & lots of vinyl, but there's no way I'm going back.
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The packaging on the cd's are really nice, Live in NY and SLT both have outstanding Digi's, but to play them loud is hard on the ears, I prefer the LP's for their sound.
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Wasn't Sounds Like This recorded completely live in the studio? Its certainly my favorite Nektar album and my favorite 'live' one as well, specially because its a double and is all new songs, not just live versions of old ones.
SLT was live in the studio, a quick session to properly record some of the songs which we had played live but which did not fit into the "concept" or "epic" phase we had begun with JTtCotE and Tab... and RTF was already in its' instrumental jamming phase.
Good-day was the FIRST original song that Nektar played as a band late in 1969, along with some of the other tracks which Roye brought to the band when he joined. Many songs were re-arranged by the band and put on the Boston tapes in 1970, but never released... thus SLT was recorded to clear the Nektar canvas for RTF, right after Tab was mixed.
"Wings" was actually the newest piece, from 1972. 1-2-3-4 was a live favorite from 71 & 72 also.
Once SLT was recorded, the live shows changed to less dancing and more watching.... then dancing AND watching.
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Mick, will the Boston tapes ever get a proper release?
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Not as a single album, because in 2013 they "escaped" onto one of Cleopatra records re-re-releases of "Remember the Future" packages on the PURPLE PYRAMID label.
The 3 disc box set has a cool cover containing the original RTF on disc one, then Radio edits and all eight tracks from the Boston tapes on disc two. Disc three has six takes from Mos birthday jam (27th March 1974, 43 years ago yesterday... Happy Birthday Mo), which was at Chipping Norton Studio during the Down to Earth sessions. Three of those birthday tracks ended up as side two of the first German Bellaphon release of Sunday Night at the London Roundhouse, which is what this thread is all about.
Thanks Casey.
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