Conversations 4: Mile Davis "Relaxin" and Quality Vinyl
Do you have this? Curious.
R: Nope, but I just asked [my husband] a moment ago if you could come over tonight if you were free and he said yes! Want to come listen [to vinyl]?
J: Sure! I'm going to pick this up anyway for future events. ... I wonder if my dad has it...
R: If your dad has records, bring them with you. I have a few, but my parents still have all theirs in Detroit. Just realized, is that Miles Davis album a used original or a reprint?
J: Hard to say. It says '57 Classic, but that's it. Oh - reprint, but I don't think it's a remaster.
R: Does it have a number on it? There are a few sites (discogs.com, vinylsearch.com) that can tell you exactly what you're getting. Because honestly, my Kind of Blue CD is the same as my 2010 vinyl. Both are nice, but the vinyl is redundant.
J: Gotcha.
R: However, since an original vinyl is about $300 and my 2010 was a gift, I still listen to it. And I have an extra. Two gifts. Long story. So you get one!
Basically, take your chances on anything pressed 1985 or earlier, because digital didn't exist. but be careful of 2005 on, because those are really hit or miss. I have a 1982 Thelonious Monk-John Coltrane that I'll play next to Kind of Blue so you can hear the difference. It's like a painting versus a picture, or vice versa. Nothing wrong with any of them, but it's nice to get what you're expecting.
J: Good info. I notice that most digital remasters are from 2005... (the ones that I have)
R: That's when vinyl started getting trendy again, and at first no one noticed the difference because, like you, a lot of people buying them didn't have a strong vinyl background. You grew up on digital, they sounded like digital - no reason to hear anything else. And some people genuinely prefer that sound.
Bring [your remasters] tonight and we'll play them. Some of the reprints were well done, right from the start. You may have some you really like, or even prefer to an original recording.
J: If I can find them. I think I know where they are but I don't recall what was on them. I think we have a vinyl of Horton Hears a Who? Might be my childhood blending together.
(Later) J: I just remembered an album where they analyzed a tree's rings like a vinyl record then ported that data to MIDI and printed a vinyl off of it. I linked it here (also shows in the comments on the 10.28.17 blog post, "Original Vinyl").
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