Country Joe And The Fish Electric Music For The Mind And Body Download
Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music For The Mind And Body
Original 1967 White Label Promotional LP
Vanguard VRS-9244 ~ MONO MIX
~ThePoodleBites Rip in 96kHz / 24bit FLAC + full high-res scans~
This Berkeley, California-based group'southward legendary debut has been considered past some to be the well-nigh psychedelic record by anyone ever; whether or non y'all agree with that assessment, it probably does not enlarge the album's importance to the genre. Electrical Music For The Mind And Body appeared at a time when psychedelic music was even so in its infancy, and indeed many themes present hither would find their way onto other late-'60s records, e.g.Ultimate Spinach. Unfortunately the album has been quite misrepresented in the digital era by a plethora of bad CD reissues, leaving near fans to plough to scratchy original records on aging equipment to hear the music at to the lowest degree somewhat properly.
I'1000 and then excited to finally present this rip on my web log in stellar sound quality. I've been wanting to do this scarcer monaural version of this album for years, but establish only a handful of noisy mono copies earlier this pristine white-characterization promo surprisingly dropped into my easily. This superior mono mix has only been issued twice, once upon original result in 1967 and again upon release of a dreadful revisionist CD reissue from 2013 (meet my write-upward below for details). The transfer & restoration presented here gives to my estimation the closest possible representation of the mono master tapes available to engagement. I think this volition stand as the definitive version of this classic psychedelic LP.
I originally ripped the stereo mix of this anthology some years earlier this web log existed, and was and so surprised to find that the original stereo LP was superior to both the later CD and LP reissues by quite some margin. My restoration skills have evolved quite a fleck since that original transfer, so I'chiliad quite delighted to finally amend upon those existing shares at present posted here. While non an altogether terrible mix, the stereo version of this album fell victim to bad mix-downwardly choices which were common in the day (e.k. drums all in the right channel, poor balance upon fold-down, ...) which renders this tasty mono version sounding comparatively better today. Most volition likely hold that the band's debut is all-time heard in the mono version presented here, and this WLP was pressed from the the very first original unworn stampers, a somewhat difficult affair to find these days with popular major-characterization releases.
The mono mix was first reissued on CD in 2013 by Vanguard/Ace, compiled with a commencement-always reissue of the original stereo mix (heavily dissonance reduced vinyl transfer, avoid at all costs!). The mono mix appeared to exist from master tapes, only with a few big bug. Firstly, the mastering was done way too loud -- every track is limiting, and the dynamics of the recordings are totally lost due to overuse of compressors. Secondly, the equalization was totally cranked for a "more modern" audio, again destroying the natural sound of the recording. Thirdly the CD speed is slightly as well fast, every bit is easily determined by comparison to original LPs on various equipment or by noting the recording's hum is slightly to a higher place its nominal value. Finally (and maybe nearly frustratingly), it appears that either the stereo mix or multi-track masters were used for some occasional splicing, heard most obviously at the end of "Bass Strings." On the original mono mix, Joe McDonald'due south vocalisation is drenched in reverb and his whispering of "L.Due south.D." for the second time is completely inaudible in the song'south fade out; on the CD remaster/remix, the reverb is covered upwards with Joe's voice being much louder, and the second "L.S.D." is loud and clear. Information technology's despicable that, over 50 years later initial release, a rip is necessary due to professional engineers tampering with this record's history!
Given the rarity of pristine mono copies these days and my appreciation of this album's longstanding history, I've taken a very "hands off" arroyo to mastering this detail. My intention has been to preserve every bit best every bit possible the mastering of the original release and the sound of the master tapes. That means that 60Hz hum and its diverse overtones, present from the mixing console and also heard on the CD remaster in the parts not blanketed with noise reduction, are nowadays here, although it would have been trivial for me to accept this out without whatsoever noticeable damage to the music. It too means that the non-vinyl distortions/clicks heard primarily in "Martha Lorraine" but as well in other tracks such as "Super Bird" and "Grace" (which you may or may not even hear) have been left intact. All these noises are part of the celebrated sound of this recording and improve off left alone. I was extremely careful about which clicks I removed versus left in, having compared 1:1 with the CD reissue to ensure I didn't harm parts of the original recording. I've downloaded files from other rippers who have said things along the lines of "all that noise is on the record!" only to find a master tape CD myself and realize the ripper either 1) couldn't hear the dissonance that I could, or two) was otherwise totally lying; followers of my blog here will know that I am picky almost audio quality and that I tin guarantee my results.
So, with all those details out of the fashion and at present that you're salivating to really hear this thing, I present to yous: theLand Joe & The Fishdebut anthology in gloriously unhindered mono beauty . . .
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| Full-page concert advertisement in Los Angeles Free Press, 7 July 1967 |
Line-Up:
Country Joe McDonald - vocals, guitar, bells, tambourine
Barry "The Fish" Melton - vocals, guitar
David Bennett Cohen - guitar, organ
Bruce Barthol - bass, harmonica
Chicken Hirsch - drums
Track Listing:
one) "Flying High" – 2:51
2) "Non So Sweet Martha Lorraine" – 4:33
iii) "Expiry Audio" – 4:28
4) "Porpoise Oral fissure" – two:53
5) "Section 43" – 7:23
6) "Super Bird" – 2:09
seven) "Sad and Lonely Times" – two:28
viii) "Dear" – 2:27
nine) "Bass Strings" – 5:11
10) "The Masked Marauder" – 3:thirteen
eleven) "Grace" – 7:09
Vinyl Condition: M-
Dynamic Range: DR 13
Equipment Lineage:
– Audio-Technica AT150MLx Dual Moving-Magnet Cartridge
– Audio-Technica AT-LP1240-USB Direct Drive Professional person Turntable (internal stock preamp/ADC removed)
– TCC TC-754 RIAA Phono Preamp (new regulated power supply, added LM7812 regulator)
– Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 MkII (96kHz / 24bit)
– Adobe Audition CC 2019 (recording)
– iZotope RX seven Audio Editor (manual declicking, mono fold, EQ subtraction, additional adjustments)
– Audacity 2.iii.3 (fades between tracks, split tracks)
– Foobar2000 v1.5.ane (tagging, dynamic range analysis)
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| Full-folio ad for the album release in Los Angeles Gratis Press, 19 May 1967 (art past Tom Weller) |
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