Frantic
G45 Legend
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Well it could be a triple lp with 5 songs per side. Just kidding. Sure I could ditch 6 songs pretty easy...
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axel
Tennalaga Class
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BFTG/Teenage Shutdown have excellent sound with 8 or 9 song on each side.
Frantic
G45 Legend
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I'm not that learned on vinyl mastering but MopTop or BossHoss can tell you why 5 or 6 songs are best per side.
Frantic
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Could put 8 or 9 a side but the less songs I use the wider the grooves and the better the sound. I think.
axel
Tennalaga Class
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The vinyl mastering has to be done decently. But that has to be the case anyway. Ikon Story sounds pretty good, btw.
Frantic
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Sure, he's my bud, I leased the Ikon Story to him for vinyl release. I sent him the Ikon cd masters, not sure if he tweaked them for vinyl or not. I think he only used 24 of the best tracks out of 60. That would be 6 songs per side.
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I sent a few hundred unheard sides to Professor Moptopmike for the TBM ratings project. He probably heard many of them before, but didn't have them on hand.
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That's only necessary if you are cutting ultra loud. Hardly any ultra-loud vinyl cuts are made these days (compared to the cuts made in the early/mid '60s). The vinyl used these days is generally better and sounds much quieter, reducing the need for ultra loud cuts. So you might as well put 6, 7 or 8 cuts per side, otherwise you're just wasting vinyl real estate.
If you could find a cutting service using a 400+ watt hand-wired class A tube cutting amp, and a mastering engineer willing and able to push the volume envelope, that would be different.
Outside_Lookin_in
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My favorite:
YES! I do have that one. I look forward to hearing it! I wouldn't have heard a quarter of my compilations. I have far too many, and not enough time. I may have others but I don't know as my LPs and CDs are sorting alphabetically by title (or band if not "various"). What are the other essential Frantic releases? Oops, just realised we're cluttering up this forum with irrelevancies.
Outside_Lookin_in
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Only the volume(s) which Mark mastered have excellent sound, or have they all been remastered now?
Frantic
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I thought Tim remastered them himself.
Frantic
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Already Out:
Ikon Records Story: Sold Out (2 cd 60 tracks Garage and Surf out of Sacramento, Ca.)
(Available from Crypt on 2 LP, best 24 of 60 tracks)
So Cold: Unearthed Sacramento mid 60s garage (30 tracks mid 60's garage)
Up From The Grave (30 tracks mid 60s garage from Yuba City, Marysville, Lincoln, Chico Ca.)
Public Nuisance: Gotta Survive (2 cds) Sold out (1st cd available on vinyl from Third Man Records)
New Breed: Wants You
Gunge: Feel It
Colours: Voluptuous Doom (2 cds)
Wildwood: Plastic People (2 cds)
Cds coming sooner than later:
Luv's So Free: (Sacramento area Psych) (24 tracks)
Capitols Gone Rockin': (Early Sacramento rockers 1958-1966) (36 tracks)
Cds coming a little bit later:
Central Valley Garage: Stockton, Modesto, Roseville Garage (1966-1968)
Erick Wangberg Story: Unreleased Lp from 1969
Nuclear Valdez: Stranded In A Teenage Wasteland (1976-1978 San Jose Punky Power Pop)
Frantic Records: late 50s Doo Wop & R&B (maybe 2 cds of unreleased tiny Frantic Records label out of Pacific Grove, Ca.)
Vinyl even a little later
Up From The Grave (2 lp gatefold vinyl)
So Cold (2 lp vinyl)
Various Ikon 45's
Irrelevent....Maybe
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I did volume 8 re-issue only, without knowing enough about the process to be quite honest. A couple of years later it would have been far better. Pity, but it's still decent.
Laurent Bigot
Ikon Class
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Don Julio “sounds from the mersey” 4
Stampy1 6
Stampy2 5
Stampy3 3
Stampy4 6
Stampy5 5
Stampy6 5
Outside “entry three” 5
Outside “entry four” 7 (I’ve heard that one before, it must be on a comp’)
Stampy1 6
Stampy2 5
Stampy3 3
Stampy4 6
Stampy5 5
Stampy6 5
Outside “entry three” 5
Outside “entry four” 7 (I’ve heard that one before, it must be on a comp’)
pfft
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Mr.Segment
Tennalaga Class
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Hah! Disagree big time. An intrusive horn section does not make it a blue eyed sound! That's just wrong. It's clearly a garage sound, just marred with "hot valve men" (a phrase I picked up from you back in the Kopper days, turned out to be very useful, thanks)
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Up From The Grave = Equal to, or greater than the Ikon Record Story, as thee best non-bootleg compilation of the past 10 years.That would one of them.
i still say the Gunge retrospective is a must have as well. Kick-ass MC-5 raw garage.
Frantic
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So are you saying that Up From The Grave and The Ikon Story are the 2 best non-bootleg comps of the last 10 years? If so, where do I send the check? ha! Thanks for the high praise buddy. And I sure wish others felt the way you do about Gunge, It sold like crap!
