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.
>