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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:40 AM
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You're comparing apples and oranges. Hendrix used different amps (Fender Showmans and then Marshall stacks) than SRV (Fender Twin Reverbs and other small amps). Different distortion boxes as well (SRV used Tube Screamers and I forget what Jimi used). Jimi's guitar setup was way different than SRV's (pickups, strings, lefty vs righty). Are you sure you aren't confusing a difference in sound between the 2 artists? No I am not. I am talking about the recordings only. I use SRV because its a very close version. Nearly note for note. If you believe that some things can't be well recorded then your argument would have legs. I don't.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:44 AM
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I guess we are getting too used to perfection these days. Perfection is such a fickle ideal... Remove too much of the imperfection from a performance... and it sounds artificial. Too many imperfections... and a performance just sounds BAD. I think this brings us back to the song. A great song trumps everything. A great song combined with a great performance is a classic.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:46 AM
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Yup, been there, done that. I listen every time with a critical ear and can tell what saturated tape and clipping on analog gear sounds like. Done some time in a studio in the 70's in Philly on both sides of the glass. You want to know how critical an ear I have? I can hear the phase distortions on audio on broadcast concerts that just aren't there on the cd or dvd of that concert. I can tell when something is either an original or close copy. If this is true then you have to hear how bad they are. If you don't then you are lying.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:46 AM
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ORIGINAL: John You're comparing apples and oranges. Hendrix used different amps (Fender Showmans and then Marshall stacks) than SRV (Fender Twin Reverbs and other small amps). Different distortion boxes as well (SRV used Tube Screamers and I forget what Jimi used). Jimi's guitar setup was way different than SRV's (pickups, strings, lefty vs righty). Are you sure you aren't confusing a difference in sound between the 2 artists? No I am not. I am talking about the recordings only. I use SRV because its a very close version. Nearly note for note. If you believe that some things can't be well recorded then your argument would have legs. I don't. Didn't say that some things can't be well recorded. I'm just pointing out that you are comparing two very different styles. And until you can say you've actually listened to the master tapes, you're argument isn't really valid. There can well be differences between what is on a master tape and what is on a master disc, whether it's for vinyl or cd. If the person cutting the master disc doesn't pay attention to what they are doing, than the final product can not be what's on the master tape. Ditto for cd's, which is why the newest Metallica cd is trash - nobody knows for sure where it happened, but the levels that are on the cd are way too hot, while the mp3 digital downloads aren't.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:50 AM
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ORIGINAL: Jim Roseberry I guess we are getting too used to perfection these days. Perfection is such a fickle ideal... Remove too much of the imperfection from a performance... and it sounds artificial. Too many imperfections... and a performance just sounds BAD. I think this brings us back to the song. A great song trumps everything. A great song combined with a great performance is a classic. Amen, brother. Perfection can be really boring, lifeless and dull (unless you like techno).
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:54 AM
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Didn't say that some things can't be well recorded. I'm just pointing out that you are comparing two very different styles. And until you can say you've actually listened to the master tapes, you're argument isn't really valid. There can well be differences between what is on a master tape and what is on a master disc, whether it's for vinyl or cd. If the person cutting the master disc doesn't pay attention to what they are doing, than the final product can not be what's on the master tape. Ditto for cd's, which is why the newest Metallica cd is trash - nobody knows for sure where it happened, but the levels that are on the cd are way too hot, while the mp3 digital downloads aren't. What is the point? If its on the record and or the CDs its what I hear. If its on every version of the same take it tends to mean its on the master. Maybe you don't know what I am talking about. Or you can't get the concept. If you can show me a non distorted version then I will say its something else. Yes I do know the difference between recorded distortion and intentional distortion.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 10:58 AM
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Perfection can be really boring, lifeless and dull (unless you like techno). In recording its called High Fidelity. It has nothing to do with the performance. It has everything to do with taking the time to be sure that you are capturing it right.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 11:01 AM
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How very sad.... I haven't read the details yet, but I hope it was peaceful... The man was not only a great musician and inspiration to so many people the world over, but he had a wonderful attitude towards people as well as music... I know that I will miss him more than I can say... I've been a devotee since the first recordings I heard back in the 60's... and I've seen him perform a number of times.... Some of the greatest concert thrills of my life.... A Very Sad Day Indeed! Keni
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 11:05 AM
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ORIGINAL: Jim Roseberry Perfection is such a fickle ideal... Remove too much of the imperfection from a performance... and it sounds artificial. Too many imperfections... and a performance just sounds BAD. I think this brings us back to the song. A great song trumps everything. A great song combined with a great performance is a classic. Roger that Mr Roseberry.......... Regards Garry Kiosk
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 11:20 AM
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Bad Ass drummer. Sad thing! :-(
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 12:33 AM
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They can't be fixed or modified because its on the master tapes. BTW many Motown classic recordings suffer from the same problem. I understand... You can hear distorted vocals all over Motown hits. You can hear distortion in lots of modern records too (Jagged Little Pill, Vapor Trails, etc). Don't like it... but it's there. Hi-Fi back in the late 60s is not exactly what many would call Hi-Fi by today's standards. And yes... it's ironic that with today's potential fidelity being greater than ever... we're compressing/limiting the snot out of records and distributing via MP3 (lossy compressed). I don't know if I'd go so far as to say Eddie Cramer was a bad engineer.  I'd like to have half of his experiences/success. LOL Back to Mitch Mitchell: My favorite performance is his is on the tune Fire. Tons of energy and syncopation...
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 12:42 AM
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Back to Mitch Mitchell: My favorite performance is his is on the tune Fire. Tons of energy and syncopation... A truly great drummer. Hi-Fi back in the late 60s is not exactly what many would call Hi-Fi by today's standards. And yes... it's ironic that with today's potential fidelity being greater than ever... we're compressing/limiting the snot out of records and distributing via MP3 (lossy compressed). I am not impressed by a name I am impressed by good work. He dropped the ball here. HI FI was big at that time. Many great recordings were done that can stand up today. The noise was/is a problem but beyond that many records were simply great in the care taken in their recording. I understand... You can hear distorted vocals all over Motown hits. You can hear distortion in lots of modern records too (Jagged Little Pill, Vapor Trails, etc). Don't like it... but it's there. Somehow I knew you would!  Listen to the symbols on any of those recordings. You hit it right.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 1:11 PM
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Wow... what can I stay. There were so many things that were just not OK for drummers to do till Mitch just "did it anyway". He was the only drummer that could really blend with the style Jimi was doing at the time. No offense to Buddy Miles he was great in his own way and played with all kinds of big names including Band of Gypsys with Jimi Hendrix. But Mitch... he was the one that just clicked with Jimi and made the sound of the Experiance. He will be missed.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 4:07 PM
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What a shame. Mitch Mitchell gone. what a shame. that this thread has deteriorated from paying respect to a legendary musician to some dumbass drivel about recording levels
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 4:16 PM
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that this thread has deteriorated from paying respect to a legendary musician to some dumbass drivel about recording levels What a shame you don't understand what was being said.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 5:03 PM
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ORIGINAL: John Perfection can be really boring, lifeless and dull (unless you like techno). In recording its called High Fidelity. It has nothing to do with the performance. It has everything to do with taking the time to be sure that you are capturing it right. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the sound you are complaining about is the sound Kramer was going for? Not everybody likes a clean pristine sound.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 5:10 PM
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Let's all agree that John is RIGHT, (even if he's not), or we'll never get back to what this thread should be about, the honoring of a great drummer that has just passed away.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 5:17 PM
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ORIGINAL: Oaf_Topik Let's all agree that John is RIGHT, (even if he's not), or we'll never get back to what this thread should be about, the honoring of a great drummer that has just passed away. Okay. Weird thing was I was watching a thing on TV with The Who and they were talking about Keith Moon when my wife called over from her computer where she was surfing and mentioned about Mitchell's passing. Must admit, they've got a heck of a rhythm section going on up there!
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 5:33 PM
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Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the sound you are complaining about is the sound Kramer was going for? Not everybody likes a clean pristine sound. If that were true it is very odd. I am not talking about what some like in analog its pure and simple distortion due to incompetence. If it was intended then he is a fool. Jimi didn't need him to put his mark on it. Further I bought the album and paid good money for it. I wanted to hear the musicians not the recordists. It should not be recorded in such a way that it obscures the music. That is just plain wrong. BTW what we are discussing is every bit as on topic as any thing else on this thread.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 6:19 PM
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ORIGINAL: John BTW what we are discussing is every bit as on topic as any thing else on this thread. Maybe in another thread John. Someone just died remember.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 8:12 PM
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ORIGINAL: jackn2mpu ORIGINAL: John Perfection can be really boring, lifeless and dull (unless you like techno). In recording its called High Fidelity. It has nothing to do with the performance. It has everything to do with taking the time to be sure that you are capturing it right. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the sound you are complaining about is the sound Kramer was going for? Not everybody likes a clean pristine sound. Rest in peace Mitch Mitchell Personally, Im glad that it sounds the way it does. Thats the way I way I remember it sounding, different. John could be right though, maybe he did miss the boat on that recording, but all in all, I would'nt have it any other way. I Think it fits that time slot in history.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 8:20 PM
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Leave it to good old John to get into a fight in a thread about the death of a great rock musician.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 13, 08 9:23 PM
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Leave it to good old John to get into a fight in a thread about the death of a great rock musician. and it IS freakin Jimi Hendrix's band and that was a great rock musician
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 14, 08 8:03 AM
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ORIGINAL: Jim Roseberry Louie Louie (muddy mix - can't understand the vox) That's why the FBI investigated it (they might have been calling for insurrection +1 on sadness for mitch's passing
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 14, 08 11:52 AM
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I had a friend at my day-gig that went to the Hendrix retrospective concert here in Portland over the weekend. Mitch was billed to appear but he said there were two drum kits on stage and another drummer played the bulk of the concert. There was no lighting on the second kit, but he said that during one song he saw a figure seated at the drums and begin to play. The lights came up a bit on the second kit, and you could tell it was Mitch. He played for a part of one song and the lights went back down and he left the show. I'm guessing he was in poor health (for whatever reason). As for recording technology. Not all projects were high budget, or could afford to spend 6 months in the studio. Not all great live players flourised in the studio either. Louie Louie was a Portland product (in all it's radiant glory). I'm not sure which studio did Louie Louie, but I suspect it may have been Northwest. (I did a few sessions there in the old days.) I used to jam with Jack Ely in my brother's basement (the song was recorded when the band was known as Jack Ely and the Courtmen). The band name changed to the Kingsmen sometime later. Norm Sundholm (Sunn amps),Lynn Easton, and Don Gallucci (Don and the Goodtimes) were members in that era. Jack refused to sing Louie Louie at most of the jams until he had consumed about two quart bottles of beer (pretty much everyone had by that time, as well). Good times on Corbet Street in the 60s. Recording tech has come a long way since then, but it didn't seem to stop people from making very good, and pretty bad recordings back then. I had a friend who swore that the Paul Revere (another Portland act) version of Louie Louie that was allegedly done live, was actually done at Northwest, as well. The crowd noises were recorded later at a Portland Beavers AAA game. He claimed you can push the volume during the fade-out on that track and hear the crack of the bat just before the crowd cheers. Ahh, for the old days of ghetto recording.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 14, 08 9:31 PM
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God Bless You Mitch, Buddy,Noel and Jimi...yeah man! THE EXPERIENCE....and John those records are just that..they are what they are....and still sound incredible.......
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 14, 08 10:00 PM
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I must agree with John that the Hendrix recordings are not so great. It is hard to crank the volume, even on a connesseur stereo/monitor system, and approach the type of dynamics and power that the Experience emanated live. It is pretty flat. Compare them with Led Zeppelin's first from the same era. Than being said, I would not trade any of the multiple copies I have of any Hendrix album for albums of any other artist. On a somber note, I am booked into the Benson Hotel in Portland Monday night and it will be hard to think of anything but Mitch while staying there. He could really keep up with Jimi and often save him when Jimi ventured too far from Jupiter's sulphur mines on the outskirts of his arrhythmic meditations.
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RE: OT- RIP Mitch Mitchell
November 14, 08 10:46 PM
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 Big Mitch fan here. He was and is an influence on my playing. He will be missed. Mike
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