Listening now to this stereo/mono CD.

[J. PUPSTER]

This one slipped by me somehow...
with Al - Lyle - Don - Billy & others

 

[J. PUPSTER]

HUNCLE FUNKY
Crawford / Dupree / Purdie / Carter / Tee
Sebesky / Van Gelder / Taylor

 

[J. PUPSTER]

The One and Only BB King
Live in Japan
https://www.discogs.com/BB-King-Live-In-Japan/release/7764324
And there is a Quad LP
https://www.discogs.com/BB-King-Live-In-Japan/release/8729321
I bet this sounds great in Quad

Mike, not sure how that QUAD Live BB sounds; but @steelydave was a discogs contributor on that one and probably could tell us

 

[steelydave]

Mike, not sure how that QUAD Live BB sounds; but @steelydave was a discogs contributor on that one and probably could tell us

It's a fantastic performance, B.B. at the top of his game in front of a typically subdued-but-appreciative Japanese audience. The quad mix is definitely discrete, but not overly complex - B.B., his guitar, bass guitar, and horns in the front, with the keyboards in one rear speaker, the drums in the other rear speaker, and I think the crowd noise is just four-channel mono. I know it was a QS release, but the mixing style makes me wonder if it was done with SQ in mind.

I think the most serendipitous part of these "blues in a big venue" live albums of this era is that because they didn't have the big fancy PA systems or on-stage monitoring, the musicians had to use big amps and turn them up really loud in order to hear themselves. While this was done for a very practical reason, the beneficial side effect is that, especially in the case of guitar, you get a much bigger, more overdriven sound with lots of sustain from pushing a tube amp to its limits, and B.B.'s tone on this album totally benefits from this. I've often found that the lead guitar tone on studio blues albums of this era to be kind of thin and reedy or overly percussive, but on this Live in Japan album King's tone (at times) is aggressive enough that it wouldn't be out of place on a rock and roll record. I always thought that Albert King's sound at the Wattstax festival in 1973 benefitted from the same thing - he's got that kind of huge sound that Stevie Ray Vaughan made popular 10 or 15 years later.

The only minor drawback of this album is that the quad version is a single-disc "highlights" affair whereas the stereo version is a double-LP that presumably contains the whole concert. This album was also one of the fabled King Records Japan quad reel releases as well - I did a thread on that series which you can check out here.

 

[Audiowannabee]

Spinning Rush Different Stages Live

 

[Audiowannabee]

N continuing in stereo

Well after couple hours of Rush onto something a lil mellower...so up next Cat Stevens greatest hits
Cindi Lauper she's so unusual
Bob Welch french kiss

 

[Audiowannabee]

Enya a day without rain

 

[Philip Spinner]

Enya a day without rain

Have you heard The Memories of Trees. One of my favorites.

 

[Audiowannabee]

Have you heard The Memories of Trees. One of my favorites.

Nope never heard that one...have 3 enya cds
Other two amarantine
Other s/t

 

[JanBakker]

 

[JanBakker]

For all the drummers among us... please listen

 

[JanBakker]

 

[JanBakker]

Catalogue in surround and send me to a desert island with food, happy days

 

[JanBakker]

@marpow , I'm pretty convinced you'll love this band, please try to listen and sue me if you don't

 

[Beefalo]

 

[Beefalo]

West German Target CD.

 

[marpow]

View attachment 45473

Catalogue in surround and send me to a desert island with food, happy days

Oh yeah, this is good, listening via my Tidal account.

 

[Beefalo]

 

[Philip Spinner]

View attachment 45507West German Target CD.

I have that one. I remember it sounding very good.

 

[Beefalo]