Vinyl Me Please Anthology

Enoch said:
So I am thinking about how to reword my question as I would like an answer about the design, maybe ask about it throughout the years including up to now
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"Don, you mentioned at length in the first podcast how you would travel all the way across town to just hold a Blue Note record, to stand in your record store just to read the sleeve notes. Does it bother you that a new generation of kids won't have that opportunity to read such amazing notes on the back of a CD or especially on streaming formats, or for that matter, even on the Dexter Gordon LP release in this boxset?"
 
Jackeen means a city person, usually a Dub. We used to call people from the big city, Belfast, Frankies. Ireland is full of smaller tribalism apart from the obvious religious/North-South/County based. There are little towns that are a stone’s throw from each other that hate each other’s guts because they reckon someone from that neighbouring town stole a donkey in 1815.
 
Enoch said:
while in general, I strive for constructive feedback I am pretty sure I crossed it a few times in my email, probably enough so that Paul sent it to Matt and hence the offered phone call
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So your phone call offer was after you sent a complaint email? Mine was basically unsolicited. Although, the FB message did come fairly soon after I replied to Cam's comment about asking Blue Note about sending them a digital file of the liner notes/back cover with the comment: "Serious question - How would this digital file be different than the one that VMP said above did not exist?" This was in the thread where VMP had finally responded to the situation saying that Blue Note had told them the digital files for the cover did not exist and they had resorted to trying scanning originals. I had prefaced it "serious question" because I didn't want to come across as being a dick, but genuinely wanted to know since it was very odd if Blue Note already told them something didn't exist, why would they ask them for it again? Especially after they had gone through all that trouble over it with buying original albums and scanning them and then having to figure out different art.
 
Mr Moore said:
"Don, you mentioned at length in the first podcast how you would travel all the way across town to just hold a Blue Note record, to stand in your record store just to read the sleeve notes. Does it bother you that a new generation of kids won't have that opportunity to read such amazing notes on the back of a CD or especially on streaming formats, or for that matter, even on the Dexter Gordon LP release in this boxset?"
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I'd say this is is pretty good, except lose all mention of CD and the Dexter Gordon LP in the box set. Just make it about how the streaming format loses that appreciation for the physical art object that Blue Note albums were and the history and information in the liner notes and how important he feels that is?
 
how's this

Blue Note had what is now very iconic label until the mid-sixties and then there were many changes over the years, is there any plans to have new releases to return to that iconic look, how are decisions made when reissuing older releases on what to keep and what to change in any regard, i.e. Grant Green's Solid was originally with the white or black B with the blue background label, but the reissue this year has the iconic labels
 
pijo said:
I enjoy it when you all reminisce about forum times past. Those forum archaeology moments were great I'm sorry we've lost access to that stuff.

But I will never forget Mein Kampf*
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I still laugh about that to this day. The perfect rebuttal. A simple screenshot of Barnes & Noble.com. Also if I'm correct that same person tried to get a staff member of staff fired for the Charles Manson record
 
Mr Moore said:
"Don, you mentioned at length in the first podcast how you would travel all the way across town to just hold a Blue Note record, to stand in your record store just to read the sleeve notes. Does it bother you that a new generation of kids won't have that opportunity to read such amazing notes on the back of a CD or especially on streaming formats, or for that matter, even on the Dexter Gordon LP release in this boxset?"
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I like this too minus the "or for..." as that would get rejected immediately
 
Enoch said:
how's this

Blue Note had what is now very iconic label until the mid-sixties and then there were many changes over the years, is there any plans to have new releases to return to that iconic look, how are decisions made when reissuing older releases on what to keep and what to change, i.e. Grant Green's Solid was originally with the white or black B with the blue background label, but the reissue this year has the iconic labels
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I think if you really want him to directly address how the deal with deciding on the look of new reissues, this is as close as you can get. I would change the example to explicitly mention MM, something like: i.e. when Music Matters reissued Grant Green's Solid with the original, iconic Blue Note labels instead of the blue background with white or black B, what was the process like on deciding that?
 
Enoch said:
I like this too minus the "or for..." as that would get rejected immediately
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Yeah, but I suppose it depends on the goal. I like this because it results in Don personally going on about how important those covers and liner notes are, but what you composed would get a response that more covers the process of deciding on changes to the look of reissues. To be honest, though, I think that would get more of a glossed over response, while I think he would wax poetic more about the importance of Blue Note LPs as art objects and liner notes as important material.
 
johnpisme said:
I think if you really want him to directly address how the deal with deciding on the look of new reissues, this is as close as you can get. I would change the example to explicitly mention MM, something like: i.e. when Music Matters reissued Grant Green's Solid with the original, iconic Blue Note labels instead of the blue background with white or black B, what was the process like on deciding that?
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so...

Blue Note had what is now very iconic label until the mid-sixties and then there were many changes over the years, is there any plans to have new releases to return to that iconic look, how are decisions made when reissuing older releases on what to keep and what to change, i.e. Grant Green's Solid was originally released with the white or black B with the blue background label, but the Music Matters reissue this year has the iconic labels
 
johnpisme said:
Yeah, but I suppose it depends on the goal. I like this because it results in Don personally going on about how important those covers and liner notes are, but what you composed would get a response that more covers the process of deciding on changes to the look of reissues. To be honest, though, I think that would get more of a glossed over response, while I think he would wax poetic more about the importance of Blue Note LPs as art objects and liner notes as important material.
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I was thinking about adding both, my question and then a friend who isn't on FB's question
 
MikeH said:
Despite having lived in Dublin for about 6 months, can confirm: have NO idea what a jackeen is.
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Its what people from beyond the pale call dubs based on their perceived historic allegiance to the Union Jack rather than the rest of the country. Similarly see "West Brit".
 
Murfocakes said:
Jackeen means a city person, usually a Dub. We used to call people from the big city, Belfast, Frankies. Ireland is full of smaller tribalism apart from the obvious religious/North-South/County based. There are little towns that are a stone’s throw from each other that hate each other’s guts because they reckon someone from that neighbouring town stole a donkey in 1815.
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Apart from those fuckers from Mayo, there is something wrong with them...

(for context the wall between my family's farm and the next door neighbour's farm is the Galway/Mayo border)
 
Has anyone had to go to CS for a replacement yet on these and is the turnaround time relatively quick? Spun my Horace album when I got home today and it sounds great except it has two tiny scratches on side 1 that cause crackles and ticks through almost the entirety of the third track.
 
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