Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Rod Stewart Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about some Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hey Tom,
My testimonial on this one is simple: Holy f@#%!
Kenney Jones’ drums are absolutely ripping my listening room apart! They’re so three-dimensional it’s almost scary. That extended riff, with just the tambourine accompanying him, is just extraordinary. It gets going like a railroad train and just keeps building in power … Jeez. Really?
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Bill P.
Bill,
Thanks for your letter. I couldn’t agree more. I said as much many, many years ago.
I Know I’m Losing You rocks as hard as any song from the period, with DEMO DISC SOUND. If you have BIG DYNAMIC SPEAKERS and the power to drive them to serious listening levels, you will be blown away by the power of this recording.
You know what this album is? It’s the Nirvana Nevermind of the early ’70s. It has that kind of power in the bass and drums.
But it also has beautifully realized acoustic guitars and mandolins, something that virtually no recording for the last twenty years can claim. In that sense it towers over Nevermind, an album I hold in very high esteem.
If you’re a fan of BIG DRUMS, with jump-out-of-the-speakers direct-to-disc sound quality, this is the album for you. The opening track on side one has drums that put to shame 99% of the rock drums ever recorded. The same is true of I Know I’m Losing You on side two. It just doesn’t get any better for rock drumming, musically or sonically.
Some of the best rock bass ever recorded can be found here too — punchy, note-like and solid as a rock. Got big dynamic speakers? A concrete foundation under your listening room?
You are going to have a great time playing this one for your audiophile friends who have screens or little box speakers. Once they hear how big well-recorded drums sound on speakers designed to move air, they may want to rethink their choices.
Very few audiophile systems I’ve run across can begin to play this song at the levels it demands, not without making a mess of it anyway. Don’t have big speakers and lots of juice? A top quality table and arm? Then don’t waste your money on our Hottest Stampers. Spend that cash getting your system going.
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