Hot Stamper Pressings of Prog Rock Albums Available Now
More Recordings Engineered by Brian Humphries
Brian Humphries engineered the album, and although you may not be familiar with that name, if you’re an audiophile you should get to know his work better, as this guy recorded some amazing sounding albums.
Take a gander at this group:
- Black Sabbath – Paranoid
- Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
- Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
- Traffic – The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys
Two are of course on our Top 100 Rock and Pop List, and all four — five if you count McDonald And Giles — qualify as State of the Art Rock Recordings from the era.
Demo Disc Quality Sound
If you’re looking to demonstrate just how good the best early Island Label recordings can sound, this killer copy should do the trick.
This UK pressing is super spacious, sweet and positively dripping with ambience. Talk about Tubey Magic, the liquidity of the sound here is positively uncanny. This is vintage analog at its best, so full-bodied and relaxed you’ll wonder how it ever came to be that anyone seriously contemplated trying to improve it.
This IS the sound of Tubey Magic. No recordings will ever be made like this again, and no CD will ever capture what is in the grooves of this record. There may well be a CD of this album, but those of us in possession of a working turntable and a good collection of vintage vinyl could care less.