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Too Long For Radio. . . . (never make it)

#101
Michedelic said:
I don’t understand; if someone is inclined to want to hear it, it stands to reason they already own it, and can pop it on anytime. What radio(or whatever resembles it at this point)has had going for it is the element of surprise; you don’t know what’s coming next, or else, if scheduled ahead of time, it’s something you haven’t heard before...a new release, a different version, or a live performance that you haven’t had access to. I wouldn’t mind hearing, if it exists, a high quality recording of a complete concert from ‘75(or ‘77, when I saw them, they did all of Animals, an intermission, then all of WYWH in order, plus an encore of “Money”). That sort of thing was what was great about King Biscuit Flower Hour.
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I suppose you’re right in a way. But this is a show made 100% from vinyl records and hearing it played from vinyl is a treat especially considering it spans 2 sides. Y’all laugh but I spent a lot of time making the thing sound good for radio including a smooth transition from Part 5 to Part 6. Of course anyone could play a CD or stream it but what’s fun or unique about that.
And radio is very constricted in how much it can play by a single artist or from a single recorded work by DMCA and time constraints. Not to mention short listener attention spans.

*sigh*. Listen to it on your phone or pod thingy. All canned and sterilized free of vinyl imperfections.

If hearing it from vinyl were of no interest listeners, this show would not exist. In the pandemic era it takes 2 people roughly 10 hours to put together an airworthy two-hour weekly show from vinyl records at home and then with more final assembly by the studio.

Maybe this is closer to what you’d like. Scroll down for recent playlists.

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Shaggy Rolling Stone and Ted are your rotating hosts for two hours of previously unreleased recordings of live performances. You’ll hear music from any and all genres, spanning the decades, from the ‘60s to today.
 
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#102
Alkali Ike said:
I suppose you’re right in a way. But this is a show made 100% from vinyl records and hearing it played from vinyl is a treat especially considering it spans 2 sides. Y’all laugh but I spent a lot of time making the thing sound good for radio including a smooth transition from Part 5 to Part 6. Of course anyone could play a CD or stream it but what’s fun or unique about that.
And radio is very constricted in how much it can play by a single artist or from a single recorded work by DMCA and time constraints.

*sigh*. Listen to it on your phone or pod thingy. All canned and sterilized free of vinyl imperfections.

If hearing it from vinyl were of no interest listeners, this show would not exist. In the pandemic era it takes 2 people roughly 10 hours to put together an airworthy two-hour weekly show from vinyl records at home and then with more final assembly by the studio.
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Hearing something on vinyl means nothing to me. Even when it was the primary format(and little else), I found it a pain in the ass; 20 minutes a side, not that portable, skips, surface noise, pressing defects, warps, susceptible to vibrations...I have no romantic nostalgia for it. I’d throw albums on a high quality cassette, one on each side; yeah, not the greatest sound, but portable, and if I was on the go, I wasn’t exactly focusing attention on the listening experience.
I never drank the Koolaid on this vinyl revival thing, it seems so ‘Emperor Has No Clothes’ to me. If vinyl was so important, so cherished, why didn’t consumers revolt and demand that it be brought back in the early 90’s, especially when CD audio hadn’t reached its full potential? They were still using the LP masters, with all the limitations, rolled off frequencies, limited dynamics, etc, but of course wised up eventually and remastered everything to the fullest extent. I never bothered with an Ipod, I may listen to Pandora, Sirius, or other streaming stations on my phone, but once again I’m on the go, it’s just background noise, and it’s the modern day equivalent to a Walkman anyway, with all the lowered expectations.
I suppose if a younger person didn’t grow up with vinyl, there would be this exotic curiosity about it, like there are rabid collectors of 78’s. But it’s a kind of fetishism, as far as I’m concerned. As a kid, I was fascinated by silent movies, and talkies of the 30’s, but the novelty wore off eventually.
Vinyl was hyped up by the labels in the 2000’s when they finally realized that the pooch was screwed with downloads running rampant, and that kids felt entitled to free music. And that was about the point when music itself was devalued. I have walls of CD’s, play them on full blown systems, they sound as great as they always have, and I can still get plenty of new titles, still stuff available from Japan and Europe if I have to. By the time my players might break down, or there absolutely aren’t any more new releases, I’m guessing that I just won’t care at that point anyway.
 
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#103
Owning walls of CDs appeals as little to me as vinyl does to you. *shrug*. I get it though.

LPs surpassed CDs in sales for the first time in 2020. So there’s that.

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Getting back to the OP, SOYCD is way too long for radio but we’re doing it anyway (albeit with special permission).
 
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#106
Feral Feline said:
Well I for one do not have "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", not on any format, but I would enjoy listening to it in its entirety regardless of medium — and without any "YooToob" association.

I may be in the minority...

Go KRVM!
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It’ll be the 2016 vinyl remaster with Roger Waters’ bass mixed way up in front. :bassist:

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#109
Michedelic said:
Hearing something on vinyl means nothing to me. Even when it was the primary format(and little else), I found it a pain in the ass; 20 minutes a side, not that portable, skips, surface noise, pressing defects, warps, susceptible to vibrations...I have no romantic nostalgia for it. I’d throw albums on a high quality cassette, one on each side; yeah, not the greatest sound, but portable, and if I was on the go, I wasn’t exactly focusing attention on the listening experience.
I never drank the Koolaid on this vinyl revival thing, it seems so ‘Emperor Has No Clothes’ to me. If vinyl was so important, so cherished, why didn’t consumers revolt and demand that it be brought back in the early 90’s, especially when CD audio hadn’t reached its full potential? They were still using the LP masters, with all the limitations, rolled off frequencies, limited dynamics, etc, but of course wised up eventually and remastered everything to the fullest extent. I never bothered with an Ipod, I may listen to Pandora, Sirius, or other streaming stations on my phone, but once again I’m on the go, it’s just background noise, and it’s the modern day equivalent to a Walkman anyway, with all the lowered expectations.
I suppose if a younger person didn’t grow up with vinyl, there would be this exotic curiosity about it, like there are rabid collectors of 78’s. But it’s a kind of fetishism, as far as I’m concerned. As a kid, I was fascinated by silent movies, and talkies of the 30’s, but the novelty wore off eventually.
Vinyl was hyped up by the labels in the 2000’s when they finally realized that the pooch was screwed with downloads running rampant, and that kids felt entitled to free music. And that was about the point when music itself was devalued. I have walls of CD’s, play them on full blown systems, they sound as great as they always have, and I can still get plenty of new titles, still stuff available from Japan and Europe if I have to. By the time my players might break down, or there absolutely aren’t any more new releases, I’m guessing that I just won’t care at that point anyway.
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One of the things I dislike most about vinyl is the static. All of that dust build-up with the odd hair thrown in for good measure. Ugh. I enjoy the tactile aspect of vinyl when it comes to DJing but for any other application I much prefer CDs.
 

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