(TV) Adventure reissue comments

[Maurice Rickard <maurice@mac.com>]

Tom's voice seems more present on "Glory," which is nice.  But that 
may again be the result of these headphones having a weird curve 
rather than any actual quality of the remastering.  Hey, wait, 
where's the crackle at the fade?   On "Days," unfortunately, Fred's 
bass isn't quite as prominent as on the _MM_ tracks; this may have 
been the mix. Weird comb-filtering on Tom's double-tracked voice, 
probably the result of recording him through the same mic each time, 
and I just never listened closely enough to notice.  (Also my vinyl 
copy was used; see 
http://www.obbard.com/tvlist-archive/0102/msg00372.html)  The rest of 
the tracks find me wavering back and forth on whether this or that is 
as present as I remember on the vinyl, and I'd probably drive us all 
nuts with the details.  It's really damn close, though.  (I'm going 
back and forth on whether this is fine, or if I'd like more high end, 
although the high end on "Ain't That Nothin'" is pretty strong.)

I should also say that I'm completely knocked out by "The Fire" all 
over again, and "The Dream's Dream" is *definitely* the song that put 
the deepest hook in me when I first heard this album.  (But toward 
the climax, there's a cymbal pan that sounds like a tape dropout to 
me.)   Still, it's time _Adventure_ got the respect it deserves.

Extras!

Adventure: Turns out that this one *is* the one on the leaked 
Adventure outtakes, but the sound on the reissue is so much better 
that I've had to open both files and A/B them to convince myself.  I 
think the boot may be a touch slower, as the sync drifts pretty 
quickly when I play them simultaneously.  It's really much better 
than I remember, actually.

Ain't That Nothin' (single): The liner notes quote Tom recalling the 
differences between this and the LP version, and it seems about 
right.  I remember the vinyl 7" being hotter (thanks, Leo!)

Glory (early version): This is the well-known porno version from the 
leaked Adventure outtakes.  But again, the sound is a couple orders 
of magnitude better here.  Richard's backing vocal sounds waaaay 
rough here.

Ain't That Nothin' (run-through): Similar to the instrumental ones on 
the leaked boot, but a lot longer--9:47.  As with the boot 
instrumentals, it's slower than the final...but whoa, the bridge is 
very different, with choppy fuzzed chords!  Interesting!  The chiming 
guitar break is a bit different, and the chordal playing after it is 
different from the final (but similar to the run-throughs on the 
boot).  The rhythm playing catches fire around five or so minutes in, 
the choppy chordal playing returns...and then we get some sparser 
playing around with the groove.  It's great to be able to hear this. 
Billy starts opening up the groove, and...an abrupt stop.  Sounds 
like the tape ran out.

Annoying fanboy complaint: If the instrumental version of "O Mi 
Amore" can be released on the MM reissue, why can't the astonishingly 
poppy "Up All Night" instrumental be included here?  And did it ever 
have lyrics?  In a more deserving world, it could have been a hit, I 
tell you.
--
Maurice Rickard
http://mauricerickard.com/
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