Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Bad Company Available Now
UPDATE 2026
The bulk of this commentary was written in 2009 and then amended a number of time since.
In late 2009 we had just finished a shootout for this hard-rockin’ album, our first since January of ’08, and what we were hearing this time around BLEW OUR MINDS. This record got a whole lot better over the course of the last twenty months or so. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that the drum sound on this record is right up there with the most present, punchy and realistic I have ever heard on record.
I saw a friend’s band play recently in a small club and remember thinking how amazingly punchy the snare sounded (the sound coming from the live instrument itself and the club’s speakers) and this record has that kind of drum sound!
(Here are some other records that are good for testing the sound of the snare drum.)
There’s nothing like live music — everybody knows that — but good copies of this album get you a whole lot closer than I ever expected to get.