Hot Stamper Pressings of the Music of Stephen Stills Available Now
One of our good customers had this to say about Hot Stampers he purchased recently:
Hi Tom,
I need to write you about the Stephen Stills LP I just listened to. I picked up a copy one day long ago in the past, and it never wowed me.
So later, following the crowd, I purchased the Classic. I remember cranking Black Queen. It sounded audiophile-ish. But I was not taken aback by the sound, filed it, and then virtually never listened to it.
Down deep I knew that it was no good, but I figured it was the music, not so much the pressing.
Now for BR. So once again my mind is totally blown with no wiggle room.
For me this album is really about the last 3 songs on both sides. I have never heard this music how it was intended to sound, ever!
But now I have.
Church was better than phenomenal. Old Times Good Times — the organ on this one is through the roof good and Go Back Home — the guitars and the vocal had such beautiful tones… simply amazing.
Black Queen — Holy Cow… I am just speechless… the guitar tones, the grit in it along with the grit in the vocal… so raw and powerful I found myself making faces… I was truly beside myself. I felt like I was in the studio. Truly an amazing experience for me as I have loved this song for a very long time but never liked how it sounded on my LPs.
But wait there’s more.
Cherokee… Massive instant major warm bass filled the air and the room expanded from the super boomy tubey horns etc… I was screaming (yelping) with joy! What an unbelievable experience for me…. truly amazing. Words just don’t do the experience justice.
You can take that Classic Records copy and chuck it! Some ‘audiophile’ dude will be very happy to buy it when I start selling LPs again which I need to do since they are piling up.
Once again…. so many thanks to all at BR as these sounds are some of best joys in my life.