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In the award winning video Geoff Edgers produced for the Washington Post, a sequence has me listening to a copy of Quiet Kenny that I had never heard before. The record sounded decent enough, better than the ERC mono pressing we had played against it, and when told that it was an Analogue Productions release, I say something along the lines of “Then it’s the best record Chad ever made, because it’s not terrible.”
True, it wasn’t terrible, but I didn’t think it was very good either. It had the kind of sound Kevin Gray, the mastering engineer responsible for it, can be relied on to deliver. I didn’t know who cut it until after I’d looked it up, but knowing The Reliable KPG (his rapper name, mine is The Notorious TTP) was involved fit perfectly with my opinion of his work in general, which can be summed up in one word: workmanlike.
There’s nothing wrong with that, and Kevin is a nice guy. I’m sure he means well.
The off-the-cuff remark quoted above seems to be a sticking point with many of those who watched the video from the WAPO piece, as well as those who watched the interview.
With the above in mind, allow me to make a formal request of those commentators taking me to task for saying that Chad has never made a good record in his life.
Although I certainly cannot name one, apparently many of the commentators think they can.
Funny how not a single title has been offered. At least I have not seen one. I looked really hard too.