Post by CountryCrock on Dec 12, 2023 21:22:10 GMT
358MB
mega.nz/file/0LchmBxB#lf8eawXJroTbqxy_OesOXUvOju-LDD-IEsFT7nAZHLs
Obviously, the duplication master source in 1970 was brand new; vs. whatever Bob Irwin, Vic Anesini, or Doug Sax had to work from 20/30/40 years'-later.
No reverb.
No sibilance.
No question (back then, of course) of: any dodgy lineage from an archive which, may have contained a vinyl-eq'd subtape thought to be "the best" surviving master remaining by the 2000s.
The humming, the picker-weaving between Simon and Fred Carter, Jr., and Paul's and Art's voices all have "space" around them --- as no other format over 50 years can reproduce this album as good, authentically, in its vintage state.
3 3/4IPS-and-all, much like the Led Zep II reel is as well, it is one of those which sounds far better than anything that could thought to be expected from the slower tape speed. However, in Japan, CBS/SONY continued releasing Columbia tapes at 7 1/2IPS (past the approx. August 1969 date Columbia stopped releasing "Popular" title reels in America dubbed at 7 1/2...though, "Classical" as well as "Original Cast" recordings continued to be released at what was the then-consumer audiophile tape speed until the end of 1971) aaannddd: I'd venture there must be a 7 1/2 CBS/SONY Japan reel of BOTW because, there *are* 7 1/2 Japan counterparts of: Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew", Santana's "Abraxas", and Chicago's first album "C.T.A.". Considering the worldwide acclaim of S&G by the end of the Sixties: there's no reason to believe such a very rare commercial tape wouldn't exist(?).
As much as Simon's foibles in the public eye have long-since been documented: I've always felt that Paul Simon is a far-more intellectually honest and sincere artist than Bob Dylan ever was. In a "weird" way, Simon is like a ten-times better version of the troubadour Lou Reed never had the voice (nor mental stability) to be. Two guys you *really* know lived and breathed New York; to the point, where, each line of (either) of their songs can be a movie scene unto itself. Dylan, oppositely, has always been an imitator (to me, at least)...living vicariously through the Woody Guthrie schtick, yet too vain *not* to have been seduced by the worship Albert Goldman made possible for him to experience...much like the same pretentiousness Bruce Springsteen tends-to exude I think.
Simon and Garfunkel would be second in my book, right below the Beatles, for quality-per-album content by a '60s-Decade artist.
i.postimg.cc/tT4GgTm4/Polish-20230129-005424532.jpg
i.postimg.cc/kM8PXkT8/Polish-20230129-010208127.jpg
i.postimg.cc/5yJ7tktq/Polish-20230129-005350692.jpg
i.postimg.cc/6Qsdw4qC/Polish-20231210-165037134.jpg
mega.nz/file/0LchmBxB#lf8eawXJroTbqxy_OesOXUvOju-LDD-IEsFT7nAZHLs
Obviously, the duplication master source in 1970 was brand new; vs. whatever Bob Irwin, Vic Anesini, or Doug Sax had to work from 20/30/40 years'-later.
No reverb.
No sibilance.
No question (back then, of course) of: any dodgy lineage from an archive which, may have contained a vinyl-eq'd subtape thought to be "the best" surviving master remaining by the 2000s.
The humming, the picker-weaving between Simon and Fred Carter, Jr., and Paul's and Art's voices all have "space" around them --- as no other format over 50 years can reproduce this album as good, authentically, in its vintage state.
3 3/4IPS-and-all, much like the Led Zep II reel is as well, it is one of those which sounds far better than anything that could thought to be expected from the slower tape speed. However, in Japan, CBS/SONY continued releasing Columbia tapes at 7 1/2IPS (past the approx. August 1969 date Columbia stopped releasing "Popular" title reels in America dubbed at 7 1/2...though, "Classical" as well as "Original Cast" recordings continued to be released at what was the then-consumer audiophile tape speed until the end of 1971) aaannddd: I'd venture there must be a 7 1/2 CBS/SONY Japan reel of BOTW because, there *are* 7 1/2 Japan counterparts of: Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew", Santana's "Abraxas", and Chicago's first album "C.T.A.". Considering the worldwide acclaim of S&G by the end of the Sixties: there's no reason to believe such a very rare commercial tape wouldn't exist(?).
As much as Simon's foibles in the public eye have long-since been documented: I've always felt that Paul Simon is a far-more intellectually honest and sincere artist than Bob Dylan ever was. In a "weird" way, Simon is like a ten-times better version of the troubadour Lou Reed never had the voice (nor mental stability) to be. Two guys you *really* know lived and breathed New York; to the point, where, each line of (either) of their songs can be a movie scene unto itself. Dylan, oppositely, has always been an imitator (to me, at least)...living vicariously through the Woody Guthrie schtick, yet too vain *not* to have been seduced by the worship Albert Goldman made possible for him to experience...much like the same pretentiousness Bruce Springsteen tends-to exude I think.
Simon and Garfunkel would be second in my book, right below the Beatles, for quality-per-album content by a '60s-Decade artist.
i.postimg.cc/tT4GgTm4/Polish-20230129-005424532.jpg
i.postimg.cc/kM8PXkT8/Polish-20230129-010208127.jpg
i.postimg.cc/5yJ7tktq/Polish-20230129-005350692.jpg
i.postimg.cc/6Qsdw4qC/Polish-20231210-165037134.jpg