[78-L] How well did they do it

[joe@salerno.com]

Music doesn't affect every one alike. The recording may affect your ear, 
but the music affects your heart.

And yes, I also agree, the music that excited one initially, probably an 
early childhood experience, remembered or not, certainly had a lasting 
effect.

joe salerno

Doug Pomeroy wrote:
> Just my 2¢, see below:
> 
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:07:17 -0500
>> From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung at ix.netcom.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] How well did they do it.
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>> A question I have pondered for awhile is, "Why don't I have an  
>> 'ear' for
>> many 78s recorded before 19XX?"  I love my postwar 78s and many  
>> "modern"
>> sounding prewar 78s but oftentimes when my fellow 78Lers are  
>> debating the
>> relative glories of Vaughn de Leath or What is Sweet I am lost  
>> because the
>> music being debated doesn't excite me and I haven't explored it.
>>
>> This is in no way a value judgement or a question of what is "good" or
>> "valuable".   I'm not really asking about genres.  I'm asking about  
>> sound.
>> And the components of one's personal "ear".
> 
> I'd say sound quality is extremely important.  And, I believe there are
> absolute values which can be invoked in any discussion of recording  
> quality,
> based on the laws of physics, among other things.
> 
> An example would be remarkable dynamic "capture" of the electrically
> recorded 78s (cut into warm wax with Western Electric equipment), which
> all the later, slower cutting speeds could (can) never equal.
>> Is it pre-electric guitar versus post-electric guitar?  Is it sweet  
>> band
>> versus swing versus bebop?   Again, not genres but sound.
>>
>> Is it what one heard growing up?  Is it the music a person first  
>> claimed as
>> one's own?  Is it historical as in the knowledge that one's  
>> favorite band
>> leader was once a sideman in an earlier band or that someone was a  
>> mentor
>> or influence?  Is it because you are a musician?
> 
> Certainly, the music which first "turned one on" remains,  
> understandably,
> of  special importance for the rest of one's life.
>> I love Emmitt Miller and Annie Ross, Gid Tanner and Merle Travis,  
>> early
>> Louis and late Louis. Harlem Hamfats and the Treniers.  Blind Blake  
>> and
>> Mickey Baker. Some Ethel Waters and most Muddy Waters.
> 
> Me too.
>> But there is a huge range of music that just hasn't touched me  
>> yet.  I can
>> approach it academically but not emotionally.  My "ear" just doesn't
>> respond.
> 
> Maybe it's not your fault.  There is a difference between good and  
> bad music,
> as Ellington and others have observed.
>> Has the march of time changed what you like or what excites you  
>> musically?
>> Is there a time or a sound that just doesn't work for you?  How  
>> many eras
>> are there in 78s history and which ones have you embraced?
> 
> Personally, I have a problem with all acoustic recordings, even tho I  
> can
> appreciate Oliver's Snake Rag on a purely musical level.
>> I'll hang up and listen.
>>
> 
> Likewise.
> 
> Doug Pomeroy
>>>> <SNIP>
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