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| From | Steven Alter <shteevea@yahoo.com> |
| Subject | Re: Dire Straits Alchemy [Was: Pretenders Reissues] |
| Date | Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:32:17 -0800 (PST) |
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Not a swell recording, true, but two words make this album classic for me: TERRY WILLIAMS. His drumming drives Knopfler and Co.right off a cliff and keeps 'em flying.
Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@gmail.com> wrote:
Speaking of live material that didn't impress, I re-listened to
‘Alchemy’ the double live CD by Dire Straits, and while the playing blew
me away (Mel Collins >genuflect<), the recording quality was extremely
disappointing. To my ear it isn't that it's particularly over-ambient as
in the case of some live recordings... rather it seems to suffer from
either an extreme lack of low frequencies or an extreme prevalence of
high frequencies.
I wonder if there's a plan in the works to try to improve the quality
and re-release it. Or perhaps this has already been done. Or perhaps the
LPs sound better than the CDs. Anybody know?
-Farrar Hudkins
Lee Elliott wrote:
> Someone asked about these awhile ago. I picked them up and they are
> really nice, except for being an odd size to put them in the rack.
> Little gatefold albums with 2 cds - the demos and live stuff didn't
> blow me away, but they were fun to hear once or twice.
>
> Another weird thing about purchasing patterns, often when I hear an
> album and really like it I'll immediately start working on the artists
> catalog. But there's two albums that have been huge favorites since I
> was a kid, The Pretenders debut and Tom Petty's Torpedos - and I've
> just heard the albums that came after those two for the first time
> this week. If that ain't useless information I don't know what is.
>
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