A GREAT!! album from the past

1969 | J. Tull

[djf]

  I just got my digital copy today and must have listened to it four times all the way through already. I probably haven't heard it all the way through in 25 years!!
I HATE todays music! But no harm, my dad hated this record with a passion. I just figured posting this will stir memories for us geezer FReepers and help younger ones realize part of the history of the times. But most of all THE MUSIC!!!
Tull was genius. And every bit on par with Zep and Floyd and any of the best bands of their time.
Enjoy!!!




With You There to Help Me
Nothing to Say
Alive and Well and Living in
Son
For Michael Collins, Jeffrey and Me
To Cry You a Song
A Time for Everything
Teacher
Play in Time
Sossity, You're a Woman

Your kids will hate it.
Your parents will luv! it!

No matter what, the LOUDER THE BETTER!!

Enjoy!

One more thing, many records/albums from that time brag that they are "digitally remastered", and it sounds to me like there is little difference from the original. I suspect Ian Anderson got involved during the remastering of this one, because it it truly SPECTACULAR! If you enjoy Tull, the most recent version of the CD is the best, with four bonus tracks not on the original vinyl.

[Bed_Zeppelin]

Love this album. Thanks for posting this and the links to the songs. Saw Tull around 69 or 70 at the Santa Clara Fairgrounds, CA. The opening band was Clouds. The place was only half full so I was right up in front. What struck me about Tull was how precise and well rehearsed they were compared to American bands.

[Graneros]

If they “remaster” a tape after it was mixed down what good is that? That’s like turning your vinyl albums or cassette tapes into a WAV file. Makes it convenient to put it into different digital formats but won’t do anything good for the overall sound as anything like compression, reverb, delay, etc will be added to the whole. You’re correct if they if they were to remaster the individual tracks before mixdown then they could come up with something good out of that.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt

[TalBlack]

“If they “remaster” a tape after it was mixed down what good is that?”

They ONLY master (or re master) a stereo track. Mastering is the art of taking stereo tracks that will appear TOGETHER in an album and tweaking them so that they are more or less uniform across all of the tracks. Otherwise there would be jarring or technically compromising jumps in volume and or Eq from song to song. Also, Mastering for cassette, reel to reel, vinyl or CD would result in separate copies for each medium. While it is much much better to remix the original multi track sources, a good mastering engineer can work absolute voodoo with a compromised, badly mixed or old stereo mixdown.

[Graneros]

You obviously know more about this than I. I’m just using my gut instincts on what is “logical” to me. But because my knowledge on audio engineering is minimal at best and probably laughable to one in the know it’s all I can can use. It just didn’t make sense to me how one could take a mixdown and tweak it. I of course forgot about separate stereo tracks. But now that I put more thought into it I can see you are right that a good sound engineer with modern electronics could work “voodoo” on mixed down stereo tracks.