Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of The Eagles Available Now
Most copies of The Long Run have a smeary, veiled, stuck-in-the-speaker quality that makes for some painful listening, especially on the tracks that are actually worth playing, which, depending on your taste and how much you like The Eagles, might work out to roughly half of them.
We think the first two tracks on either side are hard to fault. We should know; we’ve played them by the score. Some of their more notable faults in addition to those mentioned above:
- Cardboard drums.
- Non-existent ambience.
- No energy.
Unless you get one of the hard, edgy, thin ones. Hard to say which would be more unpleasant to play.
The best copies are a whole different story, with the kind of big, punchy, full-bodied sound one hears on good copies of Hotel California.
What’s Bill Szymczyk’s problem anyway, you might ask. Can’t the guy record an album any better than this after being in the studio for all these years?
Yes he can. Don’t make the mistake of judging The Long Run by the typical bad pressing of it, the kind that Elektra was churning out by the millions back in the day.
Believe me, the master tape must be awesome if the sound of some of the records we played is any indication (which of course it is).