Re: (TV) Got my review copies from Rhino

["Philip P. Obbard" <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Hi Ty,

This made my night!! Thanks! Of course, I have LOTS of comments but I'll save
them for Tuesday... :^) (It helps that I'm going away tomorrow and returning
Monday, in that sense).

4 days!

--Philip

--- Ty Burr <tyburr@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I've been planning to write up the re-issues for the Boston Globe, 
> where I work, and after quite a bit of noodging the Rhino press folks 
> finally sent me advance copies of MM, Adventure, and the Waldorf CD. 
> Not the finished packages: bare bones CDs with xeroxed liner notes by 
> Alan Licht.
> 
> I'll leave the detailed dissections to Philip, Maurice, Leo and the 
> other non-lurkers, who know this stuff better than me and have 
> presumably discussed many of the additional cuts at length over the 
> years. But... some prelim notes after skipping around through the 3 
> discs prior to giving them each a solid listen:
> 
> Marquee Moon: Sound quality appears to be absolutely identical, to 
> these ears, to the original release. To the bonus cuts, then -- LJJ is 
> indeed 40 seconds longer than the Ork 12" but they start and end in 
> roughly the same place and I'm not yet sure where the extra meat comes 
> in. Sound is much fuller. No immediate comment on the alternate 
> versions of See No Evil, Friction, and MM, other than that they are of 
> a piece with the album versions. See No Evil has what sounds like 
> Richard playing lead lines throughout the whole song then coming in 
> with the solo we all know and love (or a damn close facsimile). 
> "Untitled Instrumental" is O Mi Amore, from the "Adventure" sessions, 
> which is odd since the liner notes (reasonably detailed overall, with 
> input from Tom and Richard) mention that the song was attempted at both 
> sessions.  Sounds like a surf instrumental here.
> 
> Adventure: If you ask me, the sound is richer on the earlier CD and 
> vinyl. For instance, the guitar chimes on the opening of Days don't 
> seem to have the same punch on the Rhino. Your mileage will probably 
> vary. Adventure (the song) I'd not heard before, other than the NY 
> Stories live version, and it's quite remarkable, almost pop. Weird 
> fade-out and fade back in toward the end. The single version of Ain't 
> That Nothin is a known quantity but the "early version" of Glory was 
> new to me and I wish the liner notes had provided some -- any -- 
> information. Leo, I'm sure you know the details. Bonus hidden track is 
> the 9:47 instrumental "run-through" of Ain't That Nothin, with a nice 
> block-chord rave-up toward the end that unfortunately cuts off without 
> warning, as if they'd run out of tape.
> 
> Live at the Waldorf: As expected, the official release of the 78 San 
> Francisco radio broadcast, with announcer break-ins etc. Sound quality 
> is much superior to the boots, there's no gap in Marquee Moon (which 
> now clocks in at 15:45) and it's *slower* -- at least much less sped up 
> than my version of "Live in San Francisco". The xeroxed liner notes 
> that came with are unsigned and provide more rock-crit descriptions of 
> the performance than historical detail.
> 
> Hope you don't mind me jumping the gun. Philip, if you can't wait the 
> four days, call me and I'll play them for you over the phone :)


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