This Movie May Bore You "Tho" If you Collect Reel to Reel Tapes, Prolly Not!
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- A few weeks ago I visited a woman in Portland, OR whose husband ran tape duplication services for GRT Records (GRT owned the Chess catalog in the early 70s and provided tape duplication services for many labels).
She's had a rough few years and needed help with this collection of 200+ 10" reels. I flew out to Portland to help her. Glad I did. This video is a reel by reel video catalog of the tapes and nothing more. You might find interesting some of what I found! Or you might be bored. You have been warned!
Also, I flew in and arrived late at night the evening before I started shooting this and it took me a few minutes to get up to speed as you'll see and hear.
I'll say this: she baked and played some of these tapes and they are wow!
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NOT boring. Right up my alley
The excitement never stops.
Michael your videos are never boring. When I get the notification for a new video, it pretty much makes my day. Keep it up!
Right? He could never bore me.
I love all these cool videos!
That's a gold mine surely? Would love to see that collection even if I couldn't play it but it'd be amazing to hear.
The "Cruisin'" series were originally released in mono back in 1971 to 1973.
Would love to see you cover 50s-70s RnB and soul. I'm addicted to that period. Stax, philly, Motown, northern soul, Etc. Great artists, writers and musicians.
Michael. Always dig the intros of your Mom ribbing you about buying records. Gotta expand on that some day. I’m sure there’s great stories there
OMG, Nazz Nazz? My favorite album of the time. I used it as a soundtrack to my camping trip movie. I betcha Rundgren will buy it. ......ICE.......
Mountain "Flowers of Evil" Quad, Wow.
You're NOT a puppet, Michael. And gosh darn it, people like you!
My brain fell out when you showed that one half of that first Fairport album, but it was rebounded back into my skull by your rude good health
Good health is always courteous
We need a follow up to this video
I am always blown away by the history...love this!!
...you truly are a gift to youtube.
Well since Chess is owned by Universal, and the Universal Studios tape archive burned in 2008, there just *might* be some titles of interest there.
Actually fewer tapes burned than the New York Times reported (like the Buddy Holly tapes and the Impulse tapes being used now both by Acoustic Sounds and Analogue Productions) but the Times refuses to issue a correction. Still, there are many missing tapes. I was hoping for more Chess material but there's some. And after the video was shot she found a really clean copy of "The Harder They Come" soundtrack.
The question everyone is asking.... WHEN IS THE AUCTION?
I just can´t get enough of your videos, Michael. Keep 'em coming.
This is so much fun to watch. Thanks for sharing!
pretty sure merle's parents were okies but i believe he was born in california and lived in bakersfield.
Great Ritchie Havens impersonation!
Great Melanie impression,
Never ever boring!
When you talk to Graham, please remind him he still owes me twenty bucks!
Stay safe
D
absolutely!
Wow! What a treasure! Bake em before you play em. Would love to have some of those tapes!
Brought to youby: BEN GAY for pain relief.
We most certainly need an all analogue release of the Monty Python soundtracks.
Never boring always fascinating!
A portable Revox A77 High-Speed + headphones will do the job for easy on-site auditioning.
Nah. A B77. LOL
@@stephencastro1437 Yes, a better machine, but harder to find and likely more expensive. I found a cache of 4-track jazz tapes that the local record dealer wouldn't let out of sight, so I brought my trusty A77 and sat for hours auditioning the tapes. Good thing I did, as many of the tapes had edge ripple that made them unplayable. I did manage to score "Kind of Blue," though, which made the ordeal worthwhile.
@@michaelkaplan22b i was just saying for selfish reasons. Lol. cause i have a B77 MkIi that i restored. Lol.
@@stephencastro1437 My university had two B77 units rack mounted. Since no one used them, they sold them off in a warehouse sale (that I did not know about).
Wow ! A keir Dullea tape!!!!!! That is just awesome
Wow. Ultrainteresting. Tapes are really cool!
I like your "new do" by the way mr. Michael! You make me laugh, you'd make an awsome comic!🤣
I used to be one!
@@AnalogPlanet fantastic!
you made my friday. watching now and already love it. #teammalachi
For those few wondering re Dr Zhivago - Omar Sharif and … Julie Christie!
We miss your videos, Michael. I hope you are ok! Hugs From Spain
Wow! Just, WOW!
You indicated you wanted to know what "tails out" meant? It is a way to store a reel of tape that is placed onto the RIGHT hub instead of the left.... which forced you to rewind -- "unpack" -- the reel before listening to it... then when you got to the end, it was ready for putting back in the box.
Which was done so the tape wasn’t tightly wound by a hi speed rewind. Less bleed through from long term storage.
Holy, the Cruisin' tape with Dick Biondi. I remember when he took over the big station here in Chicago in the early 80s. He lived in our neighborhood, then the 2 guys who took over his morning spot moved in our same neighborhood. Good ol' B96 back in the early 80s. Good stuff :D I still have cassettes that I recorded from way back then.
I had a lot of these LPs back in the day and you reminded me of a lot of music I have totally forgotten about, thanks!,BTW I'm sure in the Todd Rundgren collecting community someone will be interested in those Nazz Nazz Reel to Reels
Man, I live in portland all my life and I never find stuff like this lol
I get the feeling I will be seeing Teddy present the Muddy Waters found here at some point.
I used half track for a long time and felt that 7.5ips was near perfection. There may have been some improvement with 15ips but I could never tell on my tascam32. I started worrying about head wear and tape consumption at 15ips. Once you've had half track, it's hard to go back to quarter track.
7.5 ips 2 track is awesome !!
Wonderful collection of 1/2" tapes
Well Micheal, if you remember, from past quick chats, the Vanguard's Newport Folk Festival series is so important that its frightening that a complete collection every recorded year isnt already readily available.... make it happen.
If I had come here for your review and analysis of the RtR tapes, I suppose I might be bored (but I doubt it). However, if I came here for your unassailable wit, prodigious insight and phenomenal knowledge base, I shall leave sated and humbled greatly. I prefer the latter and was not disappointed in any way. Thank you and please, please post a bit more frequently. I almost went through withdrawal. Fortunately, I do get the monthly dose of your written thoughts, but still want more "live" Michael Fremer.
Michael P Whalen was part of the New Christy Minstrels at one time. That gives us an idea of what it might sound like. His one solo album was originally released in 1968. He had a few singles on Reprise before that.
My God I love 70's music Simon and Garfunkel Nelson just wow. I love the sound of Real to Reel.
Haggard and Owens both created the Bakersfield Sound. They played in clubs out there.
Maybe I misheard... "baked them and then played them, and they sound wonderful" what does "baked them" mean?
Google "baking tapes" and read up.
Anything about hifi and music I'm interested in, I'd by tapes and a machine if I could afford it! But I'm happy with my records! This is fun to watch!
Michael could you explain the tape “baking” process. Is special equipment required? I have heard that the optimal temperature is around 120 degrees but most people don’t own an oven that goes that low. I own a number of Maxell UD-180 10 inch reels purchased in the 1970’s and would like to make some new recordings. Does this tape formulation require baking after erasure before it is reused to record new material? Keep up the good work Michael! Your videos are always incredibly informative and filled with your unique brand of quirky humor.
That's exciting, thanks for the video!
Library of Congress?
Oh...my...God... the new audiophile vinyl releases that could be made from some of those! Freakin' heavenly analogue find! Jeez Louise!!
I know, some may be needle drops. But still, some are obviously dubs off the masters.
If the dear ownership should become tooooo boring, I would buy a decent part of this wonderful collection...
Could I get the sticky fingers....
Wow ! I have 52 reel to reel machines so I bet I can play some of them.
Do you play them on a weekly schedule? :)
Burwen was one way noise reduction between the dub machines. No decoder needed.
Love it! It would be great if all of that was available in DSD or a fresh pressing in vinyl. Great video!
The late and great Roger Russell had a collection of New York's FM show "Hi Fi Workbench" - - those contain the "Who's Who" of the Golden Age of American Hi Fi. Hopefully they will go to someone who understands their value and will dub the reels to digital to be distributed to the public. The fidelity was "great".
Wow, just wow!
Quicksilver's Happy Trails is one of the best! Would love to roll THAT tape.
Agreed!
I would love to see a video about your most interesting, best sounding Sinatra records. Greetings from Germany.
Just think: he wrote 'tales' instead of 'tails' on all of those boxes. ;)
GRT used to make prerecorded cassettes and 8 tracks back in the 70s for major labels. If they were dubbing the tapes to 8 track or cassettes, there is no real reason for it to be 15 ips. 7.5 ips usually sounds fantastic and much better than 3.75 or 1 7/8 ips.
Hilarious Melanie and Ritchie Havens impression by the way. Oh that Kier Dullea album should be painful. I can only imagine what they had him sing.
I have a few of those Cruisin' LPs from back in the day. Iconic '50s songs with Iconic DJs. They also included a few radio advertisements from the time. They had great cover art that featured the same teeny bopper couple as they aged through the years doing whatever teeny boppers did at the time. I'd love to see a box set of the whole series, but I'm sure the licensing would be a nightmare.
There are about 400,000 Tapes that Burned up in L.A. (??) and many of the Chess and other major labels had their MASTERS there for safe keeping... GONE WITH THE FIRE.
Many tapes did burn but not as many as originally reported.
The Times said the Buddy Holly tapes burned but somehow years later Analogue Productions used two for their reissues and I saw the tapes…
@@AnalogPlanet That's Awesome!
I saw some Elvis Masters that came from the printing plant in the Northwest sold about $700 bucks. I was I think his 2nd or third album and also (maybe) his Church Album he did for his mom (i think).
$700 Goodwill about year ago it was amazing how cheap it went.... someone got a $100,000 Hersey bar with that one.
I'm pretty sure (as I recall) that some of the tracks were different than those on the Pressing at other plants east too.
o love going thorough old tapes, found some radio recording which although no true hi fi was interesting when I played them on my Akai Tape machine at 7 inches per second.
Hope it was 7 ½ ips!
Michael if you could possibly get a photograph of the original owner's listening room from back in the day that would be interesting to post up,, I'd love to see it..
Great stuff, Michael, but what’s with the new coif?
CovidCoiff
Oh man - when you said "GRT" I let out an expletive.
One of the most lamented losses of the infamous "Universal fire" was meant to be the Chess catalogue.
This is big news!
Wow this is an amazing collection.
Look forward to the AAA Monty Python @ 45rpm.
"Man, you've never heard the fish slapping dance like this.
When Cleese pulls out the big trout, it's like he's in the room."
:P
So the big question. Do you prefer reel to reel tape or vinyl when it’s done right
Reel to Reel
Oh to get my hands on those tapes. ‘Lucky”. Glad to see you cut your hair.
Do you think that making a high quality digital copy would be acceptable Michael ?
Otherwise how would they be rereleased ?
Thanks for your video they are always informative and is been a long time since we have seen you.
What a find!!
OMG. I would kill my Mother for some of those tapes. Seriously, I would. She's been dragging me down for years and is an Albatross around my neck. Just push her down the stairs for a few tapes! Make me an offer? I've got 6 R2R's. Feed me! LOL
I’m sure you won’t be needing that Simon & G-funk, so I’ll send my address. Yes and thank you!! (Seriously, great video!)
Mountain Quad Mix = Quad encoded SQ format from CBS. All released versions of this album so far have been encoded. Same with Santana - Lotus, which was encoded SQ on all issues (up to recently).
Julie Christie LOL
It’s great that these still exist, they may be the best tape sources out there for some classic recordings! My question is, what happens to these now? Will these be going up for sale or auction anywhere? Wouldn’t mind being put in touch with any of the appropriate parties…
Wow! Holy amazing tapes, Batman! That Hollies tape belongs with Graham Nash. So many historic titles. Very exciting stuff! Thanks so much, Michael. (You’re a deaf old man with a crappy room though...🤣) JK! ✌️🎶🌝🔊
He's only on the greatest hits LP, but did co-write the first song on Confessions.
@@Seej1982 Hey there, CJ. Michael now knows that the tape exists. Michael knows Graham. I’d rather see it with someone who played with the band in any capacity if possible. That’s all I was saying. Have a good rest of your weekend, CJ! 👍🎶🙂
WOW!!!!!
I'm sure the bidding would go nuts on that Wings set. Half track right from the master tapes, wow. That man has that huge collection but no Revox or other decks?
The U.K. ‘white’ Angel series from the 60’s and early 70’s sound fantastic not to be confused with the US Angel Label which sucks.
7.5 IPS covers frequencies from 20 Hz up to 20 kHz, which is the hearing spectrum of a human !!! sure 7.5 ips sounds fantastic !
Bravo Maestro!
A repository of musical nirvana.
hi some times they use 1/2 inch tape stereo there is a 1 inch stereo
why do people run down 7 1/2 it can be as good if the eq right
"THE master" or __A__ master??? It's hard to tell how good or authentic any of those tapes are unless/until: they are properly baked and played back on decent gear AND compared/contrasted by a PANEL of experienced audiophiles familiar with those recordings.
We have baked and played a few and they are outstanding (so far).
My tascam 32 is waiting with bated breath please send I'll write you a check thanks!
Imaging all those tapes back on new LP;s
imagine those well mastered in 24 bit 96 kHz; would sound even better than on vinyl !
May be most of the digital remastsers of original analogue tapes are given poor sound reviews by the people that have both high end digital analogue playback equipment
@@lucalone
@@pauldavies6037 like I said: well mastered. if you brickwall the dynamics and overuse those no-noise filters, then surely it will sound like crap. but if you flat transfer those tapes in hi res it will sound as good as the tapes. and by the way: stop the LOUDNESS WAR !
@@lucalone Lets hope and watch the reviews
Michael, have you compared the RTI 45rpm test pressing of Stairway to heaven to the Newer Clarity Vinyl copy ?
Cruising Series’s is on a commercial release 7” Reel to Reel I’ve seen them on eBay don’t know how they sound though
NICE!
Great video Interesting Very Interesting!!! What are they plaining to do with them!!
I only bought two GRT open reel tapes...the first and the last. Quality was horrible. Unfortunately, it was "James Gang Rides Again"...what a shame to put a great album on crappy tape.
Some of those boxes look like they’re for 1/2” tape, are these all 1/4” tapes? Yeah, full two track @7 1/2 can sound fantastic, doesn’t need to be at 15 to sound awesome. Those are some incredible tapes, I’d love to hear every single one! Still have my GRT 7” 1/4 track tape of Smith’s first album (with Baby It’s You). GRT put out some of the more interesting open reel offerings BITD.
Micheal, I would also like a kid in a candy store. Would sound great on my Studer A810
Do a show on reel to reel machines contrast and compare
Great work.
Michael content on a Friday
Hello.........Chad? Have I got a score for you. Are you ready for this??????
Looks like you have hit the jackpot 🎰 congratulations 🎉 you will get to grow old gracefully 🧐😇🤣🙏🍻🕉