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April 28th, 2008, 05:00 PM
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Interesting Thoughts on Robert Johnson
Don't shoot the messenger! My Dad told me about this website just now.
http://touched.co.uk/press/rjnote.html It basically suggests that Robert Johnson's recordings are about 20% too fast... I'd be interested to know what you think! emjayjay |
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April 28th, 2008, 05:47 PM
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I´ve heard some of them slowed down. To my ears it works for some songs - but for other songs, just doesnt sound right.
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April 28th, 2008, 05:57 PM
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I´ve never heard if that recording machine Don Law was using was battery powered or plugged into the Hotel outlet? A portable recorder in 1937 must have weighed a ton and had auto batteries or something. Maybe easy for the voltage to fluctuate if that was the case?
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Good article... I think it is possible that his recordings were sped up here is a link to Come Into My Kitchen slowed down... The poster doesn't say what they slowed it down to but it is interesting... http://www.mediafire.com/?0wgedbtiyuh There is this this link of all of his recordings... http://www.morethings.com/mp3/robert_johnson/index.html |
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April 29th, 2008, 10:25 AM
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On a related note....
I actually stayed several nights at that hotel in San Antonio last year. It was very VERY cool to stand there at the door to that room....knowing that those recordings had taken place there. Last time I "tried" to play guitar in a hotel room (at my bachelor party), we were shut down by security. Of course, it was 3:00am. 
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April 29th, 2008, 05:45 PM
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The power coming out of a 1930's wall outlet pobably wasn't that constant, either
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April 29th, 2008, 08:58 PM
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not only power fluctuations, but the gear itself was probably not precisely up to spec ... in those days, "good enough" manufacturing was good enough.
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