Continuing with the Joplin\/Airplane tape, and specifically the recording of “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!” I re-recorded it. If I tinker and fuss, I can get the sound quality to marginally acceptable. But why should I, when I can buy a copy on Amazon for seven bucks? My time’s worth more than that.<\/p>\n
Don’t know why the quality is so very poor.<\/p>\n
As for the stuff after that on Side 1, it’s a chunk of the first, self-titled album by Big Brother & the Holding Company, the Columbia re-issue with two added tracks — it’s nowhere near complete, only about four tracks, but one of them wasn’t on the original Mainstream pressing.<\/p>\n
That’s another seven bucks on Amazon.<\/p>\n
As for side 2, that’s the Airplane, specifically “After Bathing At Baxter’s,” “Crown of Creation,” “Bless Its Pointed Little Head,” and a few songs from “Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.” I have all that stuff on CD, so that’s another tape done. Four down, forty-eight to go.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I’ve been replacing the glitched CD transfers. No problems worth mentioning repairing\/replacing “Get Born,” by Jet; “Hello,” by Poe; “Supernature,” by Goldfrapp; “Especially for You,” by the Smithereens; or “Sirius,” by Clannad.<\/p>\n
According to the notes I wrote for myself the last two, by Janet Jackson and Robert Palmer, only have one or two bad tracks apiece, so this should be easy.<\/p>\n
And then there are the four VHS tapes that turned up, a year after I thought I was done with VHS. Two have been copied to DVD, edited, and finalized, though I still need to make a cover page for the Oct. 1992 episode of Fast Forward<\/a>. A third turns out to be a copy of the first one — an hour and five minutes of the two hours and twenty minutes of home movies — so I don’t need to do anything with that.<\/p>\n The last one is my sister Jody’s memorial service, which runs an hour and forty minutes. I’ll tackle that eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Continuing with the Joplin\/Airplane tape, and specifically the recording of “I Got Dem Ol’ Kozmic Blues Again Mama!” I re-recorded it. If I tinker and fuss, I can get the sound quality to marginally acceptable. But why should I, when I can buy a copy on Amazon for seven bucks? My time’s worth more than… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities-rants","category-strange-days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}