The recording experience

or why humanity still has a chance.

While there is a resurgence in the trend of collecting vinyls recently, I have been collecting them for many years. Through the many places I have lived, from starting in Europe where I grew up, to the West Coast where I entered professional life, including the different U.S. tours I have played with bands, or more recently the East coast, but also random trips such as Israel, Czech Republic, and Holland, I have accumulated a collection which became sort of mementos of my travels. Each LP in my collection has a personal story.

But I don’t collect just any any kind LPs. It is impossible to collect everything. (Except if it is your trade, or if you have unlimited funds). My favorite are original 60’s rock albums (one of my first influences as a musician), but progressively grew into 70’s, 80’s acts and jazz.

Some people who gets into vinyls now, usually first goes to the brand new remastered editions that you can find in hipsters outlets like Urban Outfitters, and so for a pretty steep price. But there is so much more to the original pressing if you are a true music aficionado.

I personally dislike remasters. If you think of these artists, of the time they spent in the studio perfecting an album, experimenting with the mix, inventing things… the only way you can truly experience what it was to listen to the Beatles’s white album or Led Zep IV is to listen to the original (or first repress). Then you know you are listening to the record the way the artist wanted it to sound like, or at least how everyone listened to it when it was first released. It becomes a genuine experience of time travel. Remasters is like the perfectionist artist that cannot stop himself/herself from making changes: at some point you gotta let the art piece let be and let it live.

Related posts:

Weekly Report Format. “Bitcointalk Report Instructions” is published by TOP Network Official Account in TOP Network.

Many job seekers hate the detail oriented, technical task of creating a good resume. That is unfortunate, because the resume is usually the first impression that job seekers make. Furthermore, if…

Are words not much for those who might wonder as thoughts, they sprung asunder, little does anyone pay attention, to the feelings that are produced when words and thoughts mix — invoking a sensual…