On March 4, 2017 at 15:41, Ernie Gilman said...
What kills me about demos of such stuff is that they won't put on something that everyone is familiar with, so we can compare with our memories of the thing and notice how GREAT it now sounds. They put on some sheepherder under a full moon, singing while sliding down a glacier, accompanied by Tibetan Monk speed metal. Yeah, sure, that sounds better than it used to.
In about 1980, Mannheim Steamroller was a huge hit at CES, so the owner of the store bought one of their records> I wrote 'records' because it took a while before anyone (me) read the liner notes and since it was 12" diameter, we just played it at the usual 33-1/3 RPM, which produced amazing bass response from smaller speakers The larger ones often sounded a bit better, but the response was already in their range. It was supposed to be played at 45 RPM.
I liked the music more at the slower speed- sounded a bit like Twin Peaks.
The owner also beat the crap out of Feels So Good and we were sooooooo tired of it that we (being a record store, too) would put his album in the return bin. One of the guys passed hte demo cassette tape through the bulk eraser about 30 times, just to get rid of it. Bossola would just open another copy and waltz into the demo room as if nothing had happened.
We eventually out-grew that store and built a larger one at the other end of the mall. The night we moved, we tipped the front counter over to see if anything good was underneath- found about 156 copies of Feels So Good.
