BOC: revamped set

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

On tis 5 maj 1998 01.08 +0100 "Chris Warburton" <desdinova at EARTHLING.NET>
wrote:
>>     Hmmm.  I'm trying to think of some US heavy rock albums from that
>>era with a big fat sound .... er, anyone?
>>
> How about "Nantucket Sleighride" by Mountain or Maybe some of
Steppenwolf's
> stuff.
>
> Just mentally trawling through my catalogue, I think it was a general
> problem, certainly the stuff of that period from the Dead, the Airplane,
> Moby Grape & even Quicksilver MS have a pretty thin sound, though The
Doors
> and Steve Miller got some good weight to their sound.

     Well, the Airplane and the Doors weren't particularly heavy, and I
don't have anything here to compare, though I recall the Doors usually
seemed to have a fairly decent sound.  The Dead's mix varied a bit :) but
I've got _Live/Dead_ here with me and while not the Dead weren't a very
heavy band either the sound on this album is surprisingly decent.

     [I saw the Dead shortly before Jerry died and they were _crap_, which
is a shame since I saw them around 1990, one of the shows that went onto
_Without a Net_, and that was really good.  But that last time the PA was
_awesome_.  It was huge outdoor gig, but you could hear with fabulous
crystal clarity exactly how lame they were :) ]

     CCR had pretty decent sounding records, I seem to recall.

     Now, Mountain: there's a band I have to get some albums from ...

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
St. John's College, University of Cambridge
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