Mason, Dave - Headkeeper - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)

Mason, Dave - Headkeeper - Super Hot Stamper (Quiet Vinyl)*NOTE: There is a stitch that plays 4 times very lightly at the start of track 1 on side 1, "To Be Free." Al Schmitt recorded and mixed this album and he sure knocked it out of the park. We know his work well; he happens to have engineered many albums with superb sound: Aja, Hatari, Breezin, Late for the Sky, Toto IV the guys won 13 Grammies, which ought to tell you something. Side one of the album is recorded in the studio, side two live from the

Until we hear something better we would have to say this is the Best Sounding Album of 1979

on the level of a Dark Side of the Moon or Tea for the Tillerman

We consider this album Janis's Masterpiece

Baa-room and Harp

and that all that was needed to get that vintage sound correctly on to disc was simply to thread up that tape on a reasonably good machine and hit play

Exhaustion

we offer here a short list of qualities that we've come to appreciate on the best of the Basie big band pressings

Begin Here

believe it or not

And the hall is huge -- so spacious and three-dimensional it’s almost shocking

or your money back

leaving sound that was nothing less than glorious