tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776777782419637264.post1416443379968229693..comments2024-03-28T05:23:44.479-07:00Comments on Wilfully Obscure: The Dead Boys - Younger, Louder, and Snottier - The Rough Mixes (1997, Bomp)spavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00986537771229635843noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776777782419637264.post-82264490374289888362018-11-26T00:41:42.309-08:002018-11-26T00:41:42.309-08:00CORRECTION: It was a copy of Quadrophenia, not Tom...CORRECTION: It was a copy of Quadrophenia, not Tommy.<br /><br />(Hey, these details are important!)billybadbumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871468909647779986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776777782419637264.post-2563519975200942842018-11-19T20:48:21.833-08:002018-11-19T20:48:21.833-08:00Thanks for chiming in folks. Never saw the origin...Thanks for chiming in folks. Never saw the original liner notes, so I appreciate the history lesson. Glad Stiv held onto that tape!spavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00986537771229635843noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776777782419637264.post-65968206123621677142018-11-19T00:11:23.271-08:002018-11-19T00:11:23.271-08:00The story behind these rough mixes (cribbed from S...The story behind these rough mixes (cribbed from Stiv's liner notes to the original release) is that they were done for the band to take back to Cleveland with them to listen to before returning later to do the final mixes. Apparently resuscitated from Stiv's cassette copy (recorded over a retail cassette of the Who's "Tommy"!), the big selling point when they were first released in the mid-80's was that Genya Ravan had delegated these mixes to her studio assistant at the time, who had also played bass on the recordings as Jeff Magnum hadn't been able to make the trip to NYC. That assistant? A young fella named Bob Clearmountain, who'd made something of a reputation for himself in the ensuing years...billybadbumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03871468909647779986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6776777782419637264.post-40978906770228208442018-11-17T21:28:22.434-08:002018-11-17T21:28:22.434-08:00I was just thinking this week about the trend in t...I was just thinking this week about the trend in the 90s to remaster/remix classic 70s albums "the way we really meant it to sound," which just happened to be a lot closer to the neo-garage sound that had become hip. Raw Power, L.A.M.F., even Cheap Trick's In Color re-recorded with Steve Albini.Alec Semicognitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06507482266305964982noreply@blogger.com