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Member	Item		Review/Comment
DexterMiller 21st Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Bread - The Best Of Bread [quadraphonic]	WHY ARE THE PICTURES OF A CD BOOTLEG?
DexterMiller 21st Jun 2020		TV Green Acres (1965 - 1971)	Review Probably the most genuinely funny surreal show of the late-'60s. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 21st Jun 2020		TV Hawaii Five-O (1968 - 1980)	James "Danno" MacArthur left after the '78-'79 season. His character nickname was an "in-joke" nod to (then) long-time CBS West Coast programming executive Mike Dann.
DexterMiller 20th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album The Beatles - Abbey Road	A sleeve combining the elongated front photo showing the street drain WITH "Her Majesty" included on the back, is the rare American second pressing (from approx. November 1969 - January 1970).
DexterMiller 20th Jun 2020		TV Diff'rent Strokes (1978 - 1986)	The series ran on NBC from 1978-1985; with the final season being on ABC. Also, the role of "Maggie" was taken over from Dixie Carter by Mary Ann Mobley when the series changed networks (as Carter had been cast in the equally successful "Designing Women" sitcom at that point).
DexterMiller 20th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees	Most of the tracks compiled on this album are not real stereo, but: are reprocessed from mono with EQ differential and added reverb.
DexterMiller 20th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album Paul Mauriat And His Orchestra - Blooming Hits	This album came out in March of 1968.
DexterMiller 20th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Beatles VI	Review Single-reel reissue of the earlier Capitol "two-fer" budget copy; dubbed with much better sound quality this time (at 7 1/2IPS as well as on longer lasting polyester-base tape) and commercially available during 1970-1971. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 18th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Connie Francis And Hank Williams, Jr. - Sing Great Country Favorites	Purple label reel was the first issue (1963?); black label, 1965 reissue; white label with "abstract" lion, 1967/'68 reissue. "C" suffix was an Ampex pricing code for a first-run catalog title tape retailing for $7.95 (there were other codes as well; each for: various prices of reels costing between $5.95 -for budget, 3 3/4IPS "Popular"- to...three-reel complete operas costing $21.95, during the '60s).
DexterMiller 17th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Revolver	The ONLY 7 1/2IPS REEL-RELEASE IN THE WORLD CONTAINING THE U.K. TRACKLISTING IN STEREO. AMAZING!
DexterMiller 16th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - The Beatles Second Album	Review Arguably(?), even by underground b.l. consensus, THE BEST commercially-released sound quality of this infamously bad recording ever available...even better than the 2004 remaster in the Capitol Albums cd rainbow box (because: the source tape when the reel was duplicated would've been 35 years NEWER). The bass was not filtered out on the tape like it had to be for vinyl copies. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 16th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Cream - Best Of Cream	The stereo single version of WHITE ROOM is used on this compilation.
DexterMiller 16th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Roland Shaw Orchestra - More Themes From The James Bond Thrillers	Review I've never heard "Vol. 1" of this, but: the interpretations here are not awful, nor lounge kitsch at all. They're faithful-enough to the source material so much...they're pleasant in their own right for their unabashed grandiosity. As close to being another London "Phase 4" album of the period as one could get (most of the technical credits are probably the same). 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 15th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Traffic - Traffic	A tape duplicator such as MAGTEC (formerly: "Greentree/Bell & Howell" and, later "Stereotape") would just invert the playing sides if one was longer than the other(!). So, here: the album counterpart's "side 2" plays as "side 1".
DexterMiller 15th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Animals - Animalization	There's nearly a three-minute blank space at the beginning of side 1 due to side 2 having a longer running time. Auto-reverse decks still were not widely common yet in the mid-'60s; so, this was before tape duplicators would (later) start repositioning tracks as-to try to achieve parity between the lengths of each side.
DexterMiller 15th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy And The Poor Boys	Review Not bad for a 3 3/4-speed reel at all! The tape communicates the narrowly-mixed, "Rockabilly"/bar-band-sound with so much more naturalness and "clean" distortion than the vinyl counterpart. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 14th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album The Cyrkle - The Minx	More pert to the movie than the soundtrack: the actor whom plays "Henry", Robert Rodan, got his big break on the U.S. cult tv show DARK SHADOWS right before this was made. He played the Frankenstein-like character "Adam"; between May and November 1968 in that series.
DexterMiller 13th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Three Dog Night - Around The World With Three Dog Night	Review GRT, like Columbia House, were usually budget tape manufacturers with poor audio quality product...BUT: GRT REALLY WENT ALL-OUT WITH AMAZING SONICS ON THIS ONE! I'm guessing(?), maybe(?): they'd outsourced reel to reel duplication to MAGTEC at this time (the dark grey oxide Scotch 203 is the same stock as the MAGTEC-duped reels of this late era of the format). There's no way GRT ever made anything on their own this good! I am a tremendous fan of Three Dog Night and think THEY SHOULD be in the R'nR HOF! Again, if people ever heard these performances on this format: it would totally blow-away the 8-track cartridges and crummy Dunhill vinyl they were probably introduced to this recording with. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Three Dog Night - Harmony	This is a reissue from '72 or '73. The initial reel release was a 7 1/2ips copy made by Ampex.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Vinyl Album Baja Marimba Band - Heads Up!	The last album resident mandolin player of The Wrecking Crew and "unofficial co-founder of the BMB" Ervan "Bud" Coleman (1921-1967) is featured on.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - The Brass Are Comin'	This dubbing is true stereo and not processed with the fishbowl-sounding, mono-compatible "HAECO-CSG" affect the vinyl counterpart is.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - Christmas Album	THIS is truly a RARELY SEEN tape. I've only seen copies on Canadian Ebay when I was trying to find it on reel to complete my TJB collection; but shipping was ridiculous on-top of the $47 price tag.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - S.R.O.	The non-Ampex A&M back catalog are reissues dating from late-1968 thru 1972. They are distinguished by the border across the top of their cover art denoting tape speed and i.d. number. All of them were "remastered" at 7 1/2ips (no 3 3/4 copies like Ampex wavered on; depending on sales popularity), by first Magtec duplication (black reels) and later by Soundcraft (grey reels), and are some of the BEST SOUNDING pre-recorded tapes ever made.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Beatles '65 / The Early Beatles	It's infamous as the most blatant example of Capitol's fake stereo...but, boy: SHE'S A WOMAN makes this album worth the price of admission for a trip back in time! https://vimeo.com/338334672
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		TV Scooby Doo Where Are You! (1969 - 1978)	The music during the second season (with the Bubblegum-sounding chase scenes) is the coolest out of the entire show's history. However, the band are different than the one which backed Marks in 1969. The session players in 1970 were: George "Austin Roberts" Robertson (vocals); Danny Janssen (writer/acoustic guitar/synthesizer); Bobby Hart (keyboards/backing vocals); Jerry Scheff (bass); Bob Crowder (drums...whom, also appeared in the animated Hardy Boys as the first television Black cartoon character; in the then-concurrent series Scooby Doo wound up winning the ratings war against!); and Sue Steward (writer/backing vocals). A LOT of the same personnel worked on Hanna-Barbera's "JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS" series, too, and assembled a novelty album for Capitol Records in 1970.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		TV Dark Shadows (1966 - 1971)	The first 294 episodes are black and white.
DexterMiller 11th Jun 2020		CD Album The Beatles - Yesterday And Today	The MONO mix of I'M ONLY SLEEPING as well as STEREO mixes of: DAY TRIPPER and WE CAN WORK IT OUT are correctly reissued as the Capitol versions here. However, the mono mix of DR. ROBERT and ALL OTHER STEREO MIXES are the 2009 remasters with a slight EQ change.
DexterMiller 10th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Yesterday And Today	Review This 5" reel of the Capitol Y&T album came out in September, 1966 and: WAS THE FIRST REPRESENTATION OF IT -IN ANY FORMAT- ISSUED IN TRUE STEREO WITH NO DUOPHONIC TRACKS. The stereo mixes of the songs: "I'm Only Sleeping"; "And Your Bird Can Sing"; and "Dr. Robert" are all unique earlier mixes NOT ON THE BRITISH STEREO REVOLVER. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 10th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Rubber Soul / The Beatles' Second Album	Review The SIBILANCE on this, 3 3/4ips dubbing of Rubber Soul is unbearable to listen to in places. Also: the cost-cutting acetate-base tape stock used for these "brown box" Capitol reels IS REALLY FRAGILE by this point and, not worth the investment risk. Instead: go for the 7 1/2ips Ampex Rubber Soul on a single reel from 1970. It'll cost a little more (as people know what it IS), but it will be the best "audiophile" example of the Capitol version better than the one in the 2006 cd longbox remaster. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
DexterMiller 10th Jun 2020		Reel-to-Reel The Beatles - Beatles VI	This was the only reel to reel issue of the SOMETHING NEW Capitol album (it was never included among Ampex's 1969-1971 rereleases).

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