(TV) Collectors' Choice/Check out Keith's posted article/ Proposition for non-USA listers

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

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From: secretX@webtv.net 
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 6:30 PM
To: tv@obbard.com
Subject: (TV) Tom Verlaine

>but I see what you mean when you say it sounds like 
>the wrong mix. Wrong is Right. This mix redefines distortion. 
>He wants to hurt my ears until I scream for mercy. That is 
>pure Tom. He is the violent disobedient boy who crashes 
>his hands across the piano keys to shock and annoy. And they
>say he's not punk!  The flashing screeching aural lights painfully
>blind. 

>The Collector's Choice Tom Verlaine CD is fantastic but I still 
>prefer the Bob Clearmountain mix. If I'm in the mood for 
>rough ear-piercing high treble Verlaine, I will put on the 
>Collector's Choice version.

I've been wrong many a time before so------but I really think it's 
a lot more than just ear piercing treble or bad equalization.
*We will probably never know how much TV was responsible for 
(or how much input he had in) the selection of mixes, 
and even more importantly for giving 
instructions/guidance/suggestions/commands
to the engineer and 'masterer' of this cd 
[can anyone on list ask TV sometime when he's in a good mood?]. 

I think that a substantial part of the problem is that this cd 
was mixed/made to be too loud (i.e., "too compressed" ) and the 
result is a sound with a loss of dynamic range and distortion of 
some of the guitar (although strangely I don't hear the guitar 
distorted in the usual sense of the word 'distorted', albeit I 
haven't gotten a chance to listen with my new headphones yet).

Keith posted a great little article 10 days ago which I think sheds 
a great deal of light on probably what happened to the Collectors' 
Edition of the Tom Verlaine cd: http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/

I urge you to read it if you haven't already.

Having said all that, I still think this version is 
an interesting aural document **worth owning.**  So if anyone 
on MM list who **doesn't live in USA** and would like to avoid paying 
some exorbitant postage charged to you by Collectors Edition folks,
then send me an e-mail [OFF-LIST] and "we'll" see if we can work out an 
arrangement where I buy the cd for you, then I, BASED ON YOUR SPECIFIC 
geographical locale, find out from my post-office how much it would cost to 
mail it to you from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and if you agree this is 
'reasonable' I'll mail you a copy, and then you reimburse me afterwards.

Why you may ask am I doing this?  

1) I'm a nice guy;
2) I am really Tom Verlaine (there's no such person as Leo), and this way 
   I get a better share of profits from Collector's Edition;
3) I figure only a few MM listers will be interested in this proposition;
4) I love these songs.

	Leo 
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