Michael Murphey - Wildfire

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   From the even though it's easily available in it's 45 version department, the quality of my copy from AM Gold 

1975 has always 

seemed, to my ears, that's it's overly compressed. Not sure if it's from a high generation source or not. [Ron is 

the expert on that. :)

], but I recreated the 45 version from the album Blue Sky, Night Thunder and it seems much more pleasing to 

my ears.

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eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 90	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Michael Murphey - Wildfire Posted: 07 May 2015 at 10:36am
	From the even though it's easily available in it's 45 version department, the quality of my copy from AM Gold 1975 has always seemed, to my ears, that's it's overly compressed. Not sure if it's from a high generation source or not. [Ron is the expert on that. :) ], but I recreated the 45 version from the album Blue Sky, Night Thunder and it seems much more pleasing to my ears. Edited by eriejwg

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 93	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 May 2015 at 11:53am
	Interesting! What's the copyright/release date for your copy of Blue Sky Night Thunder? FYI, I dug out a post of mine from the Steve Hoffman board from 2010: The 45 version sounds great on Rhino's Have A Nice Day Vol. 14 (1990). The same analog transfer is used for: Razor & Tie's More Fabulous '70s (1991; differently EQ'd digital clone) Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 32 AM Pop Classics (1993) Time-Life's Sounds Of The Seventies Vol. 39 Pop Nuggets Late '70s (1995; differently EQ'd digital clone) Time-Life's AM Gold Vol. 22 1975 (1996; digitally exactly 0.8 dB quieter) The LP version runs 4:46 and sounds very nice on Columbia/Legacy's Rock Artifacts Vol. 2 (1991), with a digital clone on: Time-Life's 2-CD Body Talk Vol. 20 Heart And Soul (1998; digitally exactly 1 dB louder) The LP version also sounds pretty good on Time-Life's 2-CD Singers And Songwriters Vol. 3 1974-1975 (1999), which uses a different analog transfer. To get the 45 from the LP, lop off the first 43 seconds so it begins on a downbeat, and begin a fade at 3:44 in the album version (= 3:01 on 45).
	There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one Crap From The Past.

eriejwg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 10 June 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 90	Post Options Post Reply Quote eriejwg Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 May 2015 at 12:05pm
	I downloaded a copy online of Blue Sky, Night Thunder from Rhapsody, so it's not from CD. It was pleasant to find it wasn't brickwalled in the least.

crapfromthepast Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 14 September 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 93	Post Options Post Reply Quote crapfromthepast Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 May 2015 at 5:39pm
	Very encouraging to learn that someone's still releasing good-sounding tracks, even if they're just downloads.
	There's a lot of crap on the radio, but there's only one Crap From The Past.