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In the award winning video Geoff Edgers produced for the Washington Post (linked at the end of this 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 just heard.
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.