[78-L] Worst reprocessed reissue

[david.diehl at hensteeth.com]

Reissues you love to hate? I'd go with the mid-1960's Tiara label. Big "Sir Echo". The Artie Pshaw is my favorite; some horribly messed up Jerry Gray ET tracks are included which exhibit some bizarre phasing effects from the tape transfers. Lesson learned at age 17: don't buy records off a rack in a drug store!
 DJD
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 11:32 PM
To: '78L'
Subject: [78-L] Worst reprocessed reissue

I think I've found a candidate for "worst reprocessing of vintage material on LP". Not one that's going to be in everyone's attic, I'm sure, but I picked it up today in a thrift store..REQUEST SRLP 8112, "Songs of Old Russia" by Peter Leschenko (or Lestchenko, as spelt here). "Recorded in Russia". "Collectors Item" it also says on it. Also "Riaa playback equalization should be used for this record in order that the ultimate performance capabilities may be realized."And what do we get?Fake stereo, time delay you can actually count, TONS of echo, and surface noise..the surface noise (swish) is also in fake stereo and time delayed and with echo.Nichevo.dl_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l