I haven't yet dipped into the third Neil Young Archive set.

crumbsroom wrote:

 

A legend lost in in an era stacked with soul legends.



 

What the fuck is this "National Trick or Treat Day" bullshit?  That used to be called "Halloween".  And Halloween is conveniently on a Friday this year.  But whatever, instead they're making tonight, and soon to be every last Saturday in October, the official night for trick and treaters?  What lameness.  I think these parents just want to have their own parties, with the kids safely, and unsugarly, tucked in bed for the actual holiday.

Anyway, it's as good a time to drop this year's Halloween Solid Ghost Soul mixtape.  Again, the inspiration is from the old school phenomenon of realizing how great Michael Jackson's "Thriller" sounds when you slowed the 45 single down to 33 1/3.  There's lots of youtube clips of that.  Unfortunately, my supply of soul 45s with appropriately seasonal subject matter is getting a little low, so I've been trying to expand into different genres - soundtracks, classic rock, blues, metal, whathaveyou.  I'll also offer the '23 and '24 Halloween mixes again, which may or may not be better, I don't know.

☝️Cool.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY from the Brides of Jinnistein



























“She loves him, she loves him, she loves him, she loves him…"

Last edited by Rampop II (11/12/2025 6:12 am)

I did recently get the soundtrack to Bjork's new concert film, Cornucopia.

With the new Jimi Hendrix box set, a deluxe edition of Axis: Bold As Love, which has a newly remastered version of the album, in both stereo and mono, I dove straight for the two CDs of outtakes.  The set also includes a "live" disc, but with precious little new on it, with a concert from Stockholm which was released some 30 years ago as part of the Stages live set, but which is very rare and long out-of-print, and I'm sure the sound quality has been improved.  (Also, if I recall correctly, Alan Douglas had fucked up the track sequencing back then.)

Of the new studio outtakes, the only sorrow is no new takes of "If Six Was 9".  More promising are actual outtakes for "Burning of the Midnight Lamp".  Previously, there has been nothing from the "Lamp" sessions available, even on bootleg, excepting only a very brief rehearsal take from London.  But since the actual recording was made in a relatively small New York studio, Mayfair, and since at that time American recording studios, especially independent ones, were far less inclined to preserving their non-master archives, there has been long-standing concern among Hendrix fans that the raw session tapes may no longer exist.  Thankfully this isn't the case, but despite this, the new set declines the opportunity to revisit the multitracks for a brand new version of the notoriously muddy mix, and instead we get an instrumental version and the original mono single, along with the outtakes.

Another legend dispelled surrounds the demo version of "Little Miss Lover", also recorded in America during their summer '67 tour.  This demo appears here for the first time, while the bootlegged version which long-claimed to be the demo is shown to actually be a London outtake "alternate version".  It's also interesting to hear some songs, like "You Got Me Floating" which appear to have been captured on its first take, sans overdubs.  But some songs needed a bit more elbow grease...



 

Don't shrunk my things, no shrunking!