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LP Covers From Some Recent MEESTER MUSIC Podcasts

Alice Cooper - LOVE IT TO DEATH (1971)

This was Alice Cooper's breakthrough LP, featuring the hit "I'm Eighteen", which screamed up the charts, received all kinds of airplay, and signified the arrival of this band.

In the cover shoot, whether intentionally (probably) or not, Alice decided to stick his thumb through his pant zipper to make it look like something else. 

I guess the photographer was so engrossed in framing the shot, the lighting etc, that he did not notice Alice's *ahem* indiscretion.

I guess the LP cover designer ALSO  was engrossed in his task, because HE/SHE missed the indiscretion as well.

SOMEWHERE, someone finally notified Warner Bros. of the "offending" cover.  It was already on the stands! Heavens!  what do we do??

Here is the original LP cover below:

I can see the entire morality of teenagers go straight to the shit bucket after viewing this cover.

Well, Warner Bros. decided to pull the remaining copies off the shelves and reissue the LP.  To save money, they decided to airbrush out the offending digit.  But then they had a problem with the exposed portion of Alice's right arm.  OK.  No problem.  Let's airbrush THAT out too.  So below, is the CENSORED airbrushed version:

I mean, REALLY.... I'd be more worried about the band member in the back row, top left.  What the hell is he wearing??  Now THAT, I'd be concerned about........

MEESTER MUSIC HALLOWE'EN SPECIAL

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MEESTER MUSIC

LPs Played On Recent MEESTER MUSIC podcast

Cover shots from some of the LPs featured on the last MEESTER MUSIC Radio Show.




PROCOL HARUM - "Broken Barricades"

 
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A Hockey Fan's Lament

For all you hockey fans out there who are just as pissed as I am at the prospect of a lost season, check out this great video from a REALLY PISSED OFF fan.   Enjoy!  SEE VIDEO NOW

Meester Music podcast Oct 20, 2012

Inaugural Podcast

Meester Music has learned how to podcast!

With apologies to radio talent from the past, present and future, we present THE INAUGURAL BROADCAST by Meester Music.

Have the sedatives ready please....

Digitizing The "Analogacal"

The technological advances behind recording audio never ceases to amaze me.  Whether it was Edison and his wax cylinders, Berlinger with his original flat record concept, or even the digital era, just think how amazing it is to preserve moments in time forever, to be shared by generations.

I pretty much took all of it for granted.  However, recently I've re-disk-covered (sorry for the pun) my LP collection.  Still unbelievable that my 40+ year-old records still sound pretty good, despite some scratches and such along the way.

Then the CD era came in.  Wow, all that LP on one little disc that fit in your hand.  No needle ever touches this thing.....it will last forever.  how did they do it?  All this talk about pits and stuff, and how the laser could interpret those pits and determine the analog equivalent.  Huh? 

I'm not going to get into the math or physics in any great depth here.  If you're looking for that detail, I welcome you to google your ass off.  There is a TON of info out there.  You just have to go look for it.  It's there.  I'm going to talk in my own language and hope it makes sense.

SAMPLING RATE & BITRATE

The sampling rate and the bitrate are perhaps the two most important things to remember when discussing how an analog signal (or sine wave) gets converted to digital.

SAMPLING RATE is simply the number of times an analog signal is sampled in ONE SECOND.  For red book standard CDs, the talk is always 44,100 hZ.  That means that the analog piece is actually sampled 44,100 times PER SECOND!!

Why 44,100 hz?  Well, there is some extremely complicated math (Nystrom theorem?) that in a nutshell says that you must sample at twice the rate of the frequency you are trying to capture.  Remember that the red book standard says that only frequencies in the 20-20000hz range will be captured on a CD, so 2 x 20000hz = 40,000 hZ (so 44,100 hz sampling rate pretty much covers that.

The next step is what do we do with each sample?  We have 44,100 of them now.  Each sample at that given point in time on the analog wave will be assigned a binary number.  Remember the binary number system?  You can never have a number bigger than 1.  So 0=0, 1=1, 2=10, 3=11 and so on.  This is also called the bit rate.  Now imagine that EACH SAMPLE is assigned a 16-bitrate (2 to the 16th power).  That means that each sample is capable of being assigned a number that looks like

                                     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  where the x could be either 1 or 0. 

That also means that EACH SAMPLE has a combination of 65,546 "levels" that can be assigned to it.  One sample might be 0110100110101101 and the next one might be 0011011010111000.  And this is done 44,100 times PER SECOND.

On top of that, the number of bits are doubled for a stereo recording.  So for the same of argument, your typical red book standard CD has a sampling rate of 44,100hZ and a 16-bitrate (sometimes expressed as 1411 kbps).

So yeah, that's a pretty good sampling rate and that's why CDs approximate an analog sample so well (except for that nasty HARMONICS problem, which I spoke of last time).

MP3 Conversion/Compression

I still think one great technological advance with huge impact was the development of the mp3 format to convert digital music.  Up until that time, digital audio files were in the 9MB range for a typical song.  With the old dial-up internet connections, it would take AGES to transfer one of these files.

Along comes a format whose files are 1/10th (on average) the size of an audio file.  A 9 MB file suddenly became a much smaller file and with advances in internet transfer, these songs could be moved in almost the blink of an eye.

Ahh, but how do preserve the digital signal when you have a file that is roughly a tenth of the size?  Well, you cheat a little.  Again, someone has decreed that since you don't hear much above 14000hz, then we can just LOP OFF the tops of those signals above 14,000hz and kind of approximate later, when we convert those mp3 files back to analog.

And hey...it works pretty good.  The standard bitrate for mp3 files appears to be 128 kbps (wow...did you just notice the difference between that and the CD bitrate, which was 1411 kbps??).  Now, if you're pumping that music through an ipod, through $14 ear buds, you ain't really gonna hear a huge difference.

But put that ipod on a nice Harman/Kardon dock on a nice amp and baby, you WILL hear the difference.

Of course, you could convert to mp3 of 196 kpbs (my personal favourite) or even 320 kpbs (best), but again, keep in mind that the bigger the bitrate, the bigger the file.

You might have to sacrifice some space on your iPod, but boy...your shit will sound great.


Anyway, that's my Sonic Physics lesson for today.

Here's MEESTER MUSIC's rules for digital audio file storage and playback:

I rip all my commercial (not downloaded) CDs to FLAC (free lossless audio codec).
big files (although not as big as wav files).  But no loss, no compression.  It copies EXACTLY what is coded onto the CD.

That becomes my storage "MASTER" if you will.  From there, I can convert those FLAC files to whatever I want:  back to wav to burn a disc, to mp3 (196 kbps) so I can play on my iPod.

That's it.  Enough of the techno stuff.  I start reviewing some of my latest acquisitions plus my favourite all-time LPs.

Ciao.

Bay Bloor Radio Turntable Day

A couple of weeks ago, I made a road trip down to Bay Bloor Radio in Toronto to check out a special Turntable Day they were having.  This is something that BBR does annually, but the first time I was interested in going,

A gentleman named Kurt from Essential Audio (a wholesale distributor primarly of Pro-Ject turntables and related equipment) was giving the presentation.  There was a small listening room set up with a beautiful Pro-Ject debut carbon turntable, an amplifier (NAD I think) as well as a CD player.

The first demonstration was to show the difference between an LP and a CD.  The choice was Steely Dan's LP "Gaucho", track "Hey, Nineteen".  The CD was a commercial (i.e. not ripped or downloaded but store-purchased) copy of same.  Kurt set up both in sync and we heard the LP first, followed by the CD.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!  Honestly, if Kurt had played the CD copy first, I would have been impressed by the sound, no noise, etc.  But when he compared to the LP, the difference was (ahem....excuse the pun)  AUDIBLE.  There was a dynamic range to the LP, it felt more ALIVE, more WARM.  It was unbelievable.

To further make his point, Kurt then played a 1973 reissue LP of Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits and it also sounded great.  Almost no surface noise.  Helps I guess when the LP is cleaned thoroughly then played on a good quality turntable using a felt mat to further reduce static pops and clicks.

So why such a dramatic difference?  Well, my friends, it all has to do with HARMONICS.  for instance, you strike a note on a guitar string and the string vibrates at 12000 hz.  Without delving into the physics, there will be a first (or fundamental) harmonic OVERTONE at 24000 hz, another one at 36000 hz and so on.  The VOLUME of the harmonics are very much less than the original tone. Suffice it to say that a 12000 hz tone does in fact have these harmonics associated with it.

So what?  Well.....back when Sony and Phillips were putting together the RED BOOK standard for Cds, they had many things to consider.  How big should the CD be?  How much information can we fit on there?  How long will a typical CD play?  etc.

They decided that since most folks cannot hear anything outside the 20 - 20000 hz range, we would ignore them and hence the problem.  You are preparing a CD and you've got a 12000 hz tone in there.  What happens to the first (and subsequent) harmonics?  yup...gone.  24000 hz first harmonic is essentially ignored, and guess what happens to that 12000 hz tone that DOES make it onto the CD?   It sounds a little dull, a little flat, a little "less warm".

And in a nutshell, that is why your LP will ALWAYS sound better than a CD.  Next time, I'll talk about how an analog wave gets digitized.  Quite frankly, the technology is amazing.  Don't get me wrong.  I love the portability and convenience of digital music.  But it's always nice to know what your options are, etc.

The Resurrection Of Vinyl

VINYL is back!!

I don't think it ever went away. It sort of got kicked under the carpet with the introduction of CD's back in the mid-80's.

But I've been noticing lately a resurgence of vinyl. Did you realize that almost every major release is both on CD, Vinyl or a combination of the two? I recently purchased the new SHEEPDOGS release. I was able to purchase the LP (on nice thick 180gm vinyl) and it included the cd as well. BONUS!!

What I hope to do here is relate my vinyl experiences, list some of the great stuff that's out there, maybe drop a few samples etc. I will NOT be sharing LPs anymore. Too much heat out there. Not worth the bother. Sorry, if you're looking for that kind of thing, well....good luck. Try the bit torrents (even though THEY have been shut down as well. Back shortly with my Bay Bloor Radio experience a few weeks back.

- Meester Music

Not Dead....

Wow. It's been over a year. Lots has happened, lots has changed. The blog community sort of went underground and it's very difficult to find sites that will share music. Even the bit torrent community "disappeared". If you didn't know the blog moderator on a first name basis, you were toast. (I guess I would classify as a "leech"). Not sure how to progess from this point on. guess we'll just take it one post at a time.

Still Alive

Still here. Still alive. Still buyin' great stuff.
Looking to change things up a bit here.
Stay tuned, if yer still out dere, dat is!!
-MEESTER MUSIC

Guess Who - Rockin' (1972) & Flavours (1975)

Welcome back! Yes, I've made a resolution to post some new music this year! Actually the move was precipitated by my whole family running their own laptops now and the "Old Man" has his computer back after 6 years or so!

Thought I'd keep it Canadian for the first post of the new decade. The Guess Who were certainly one of the first bands to "break out" of their Canadian shackles and make it big both in the US and internationally as well.

I've always found the Guess Who to be a tough band to categorize or pidgeon hole. They remind me a little bit of the Doors: lots of excellent top-40 hits, extremely catchy tunes, and interesting "weird" albums. Listen to the song "Friends Of Mine" from Wheatfield Soul and tell me that you're not thinking of Jim Morrison when Burt is screaming "And where WAS GOD???" Heady stuff. Other times, I'm not sure what the hell Burton was thinking. I remember at the time that I pretty much lost interest in Guess Who LP's after "Share The Land". Still, I liked the singles off the next group of LPs...

Rockin' (1972) was released after the band's live LP "Live At The Paramount" and featured guitarists Kurt Winter & Greg Leskiw, who were parachuted in after "American Woman" to replace Randy Bachman. The big hit off this LP was "Guns, Guns, Guns" which was kinda weird-yet-catchy, even for 1972. Can't remember the last time a top-40 hit implored, "...God Speed, Mother Nature..."

"Heartbroken Bopper" should have also been a big hit, but just missed the top-30 here in Toronto. I remember CHUM-1050 not even charting this song, but rival CKFH-1430 putting it into their playlist. I always liked Kurt Winter's guitar-style, and thought he added a toughness to the songs he brought to the table. I forget which band Winter was playing with in Winnipeg, but Burton did well to pry him loose. They had been friends for a long time. Kurt died far too early......

However, I think the album sort of got stuck in this 50's time warp. "Your Nashville Sneakers" is a nice ditty, and "Herbert's A Loser" also sounds like something from the Sha-Na-Na days. I won't even mention the cover of "Running Bear" (Johnny Preston with the original, I believe?....hell, I didn't even like this song THEN...).

"Hi Rockers" is some sort of weird Zappa-ish interplay between "Berrrt" and some numbskull whose name I can't quite make out. That's what I mean about the Guess Who. If they'd just stick to making great tunes and cut out this vaudeville shit.

Flavours (1975) came a full 3 LPs later (following "#10", "Artificial Paradise" and "Road Food"). By this time, Winter, Leskiw & Kale had departed and Bill Wallace and legendary guitarist Domenic Troiano were brought in. The big hit on this LP was "Dancin' Fool". Troiano was about the closest thing Burton ever came to finding a similar replacement to Bachman.

I think a lot of people expected a lot more from the guitarist who featured so prominently in BUSH, MANDALA and even THE JAMES GANG. Oh, there are some standout tunes here, including "Diggin' Yourself", "Dirty" and "Long Gone".

At least on this LP, Burton kept the Zappa-isms to a bare minimum. The lesser tracks are at least pleasing to the ear.

These two LPs were difficult to find for awhile, but BMG started reissuing the old LPs and for whatever reason, they decided to pair these two up. While not exactly the greatest pair in the Guess Who canon, each LP has its moments. A fun trip as it were, since the Guess Who would release "Power In The Music" a year later and that would about wrap it up for Burton and the gang.


"Rockin'" (1972)

01 Heartbroker Bopper
02 Get Your Ribbons On
03 Smoke Big Factory
04 Arrividerci Girl
05 Guns, Guns, Guns
06 Running Bear
07 Back To The City
08 Your Nashville Sneaker
09 Herbert's A Loser
10 Hi Rockers - Sea Of Love/Heaven Only Moved Once Yesterday/Don't You Want Me

Line-Up:
Burton Cummings - Lead Vocals, Keyboards
Kurt Winter - Guitars
Garry Peterson - Drums
Greg Leskiw - Guitars
Jim Kale - Bass

"Flavours" (1975)

11 Dancin' Fool
12 Hoe Down Time
13 Nobody Knows His Name
14 Diggin' Yourself
15 Seems Like I Can't Live With You, But I Can't Live Without You
16 Dirty
17 Eye
18 Loves Me Like A Brother
19 Long Gone

Line-Up:
Burton Cummings - Lead Vocals/Keyboards
Garry Peterson - Percussion & Backing Vocals
Domenic Troiano - Guitars, Mandolin & Backing Vocals
Bill Wallace: Bass & Background Vocals

Guess Who - Rockin' Part One

Guess Who - Flavours Part Two

Dig!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

All the best to all of you in the New Year!

Take Care,

MEESTER MUSIC

Fine Canadian Blues - "Stink" (1969)

Meester Music is back....finally. I don't know what happened there, but it's great to be back!

Let's start off with one of my favourite Canadian bands, and maybe their greatest LP. I'm talking about the great McKenna-Mendolson Mainline and their LP, "Stink".

The album appeared on shelves during the second half of 1969. The band had been in London England, supposedly to hook up with bluesman John Lee Hooker. They never met up with him, but DID make a good enough impression in London that they ended up in a recording studio in June 1969 and knocked this LP off IN ONE DAY!!

Mike McKenna is the lead guitarist, a bit of a local legend around the Toronto area. He had been a member of Luke & The Apostles and also briefly with the legendary Ugly Ducklings. Even before that, he was a member of Whitey & The Roulettes, a precursor to the Mandala.

Joe Mendelson was a guitarist and singer who spotted an ad saying that Mike was looking to put together a blues band. They got together, hit it off, and started playing coffee houses in Yorkville. They attracted the attention of Denny Gerrard, great bass player with the Paupers who served session musician duties with fellow Pauper drummer Skip Prokop on "I Dig Rock 'N Roll Music" by Peter, Paul & Mary. (this is a killer cut...I HAD NO IDEA that a couple of groovy Canadians were playing on this record!!)

Gerrard would eventually be replaced by Mike Harrison (from Grant Smith & The Power), and drummer and North Bay, Ont native Tony Nolasco would join up.

If this LP doesn't get you tapping your toes, or flailing your fingers up and down your air guitar, then you are a dead man. Great blues guitar from Mike, especially on my fave cut, "She's Alright". The entire album is smokin', and you will be missing out on something special if you don't grab this one.

Mainline played many of the top venues around Toronto, and even got to be the very last ever band to perform at the legendary El Mocambo (didn't the Stones play there one night??). I will post that show a bit later.

For now, please enjoy some rocking Canadian blues. MAINLINE!!

McKenna-Mendelson Mainline - "Stink" (1969)
01 One Way Ticket
02 She's Alright
03 Beltmaker
04 Mainline
05 Think I'm Losing My Marbles
06 Drive You
07 T.B. Blues
08 Better Watch OUt
09 Bad Woman
10 Don't Give Me No Goose For Christmas, Grandma

Stink - part 1

Stink - part 2

ANDY KIM

Andy Kim was born in Montreal in 1952. He is of Lebanese descent (his real name is Andrew Youachim). He left for a singing/songwriting career in New York, but was soon back home. His big break came in 1968 with his hit song, "How'd We Ever Get This Way?" This would soon follow with a string of hits here in Canada. In the US market, he would bubble just under stardom until 1974, when "Rock Me Gently" went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Andy's greatest claim to fame was that he co-wrote the monster hit, "Sugar Sugar" by Don Kirshner's mythical group The Archies. Anybody old enough to remember the Summer of '69 will remember this song OWNED the radio waves, staying at #1 on the beloved CHUM Chart for upwards of 5 or 6 weeks. The common myth was that Andy also sang the lead vocals on this song, and I believed it for years. But in actuality, it was Ron Dante who sang lead. The same Ron Dante who did the lead vocals on "Tracy" by the Cuff Links (also in '69). I'm sure Andy and his writing partner Jeff Barry made enough moolah to retire successfully from that one hit.
This compliation was put together from all his singles, both as himself and also as "Baron Longfellow", a rather interesting stage name. I have an original copy of Andy's Greatest Hits on the DOT label, but there are only 11 songs on it and was released before "Rock Me Gently".
Andy Kim records are hard to find, trust me. Grab this great collection and remember what top 40 pop rock is supposed to sound like!

Andy Kim - Greatest Hits

01 I Hear You Say (I Love You Baby)
02 How'd We Ever Get This Way
03 Shoot 'Em Up Baby
04 Rainbow Ride
05 Tricia Tell Your Daddy
06 Baby, I Love You
07 So Good Together
08 A Friend In The City
09 It's Your Life
10 Be My Baby
11 I Wish I Were
12 I've Been Moved
13 Who Has The Answers?
14 Rock Me Gently
15 Fire, Baby I'm On Fire
16 The Essence Of Joan
17 Harlem

As "Baron Longfellow"
18 Go It Slow
19 Amour
20 Sugar Sugar
21 I'm Gonna Need A Miracle Tonight
22 Hold Me
23 In The Night Machine

Andy Kim Greatest Hits Part 1, Part 2

CROWBAR - THE BEST OF

Just about every Canuck worth his or her pound of salt knows Crowbar's singular huge hit, "Oh, What A Feeling" maybe, just maybe, one of THE greatest all-time hits to come out of Canada. A timeless classic, a goodfeel tune from a goodtime boogie band that had fun playing their music and you can HEAR it between the grooves.
Originating out of Hamilton, the band was led by Kelly Jay, a veritable mountain of a man with his huge mop of hair and (later) bushy beard. He could pound ONE MEAN boogie-woogie piano and had a great growl of a voice to go with it.
Let me tell you that in 1970-73 or so, CROWBAR was HUGE in Southern Ontario, playing everywhere it seemed...packing Ontario Place one night, Massey Hall the next.
Check out the flipside of the "Oh, What A Feeling" 45, "Murder In The First Degree". Better piano playing you won't hear. Or how about "In The Dancing Hold", with that opening from SOME classical piece (I don't know which one, maybe you will....) then right into the groove.
Classic slice of Canadian Rock. These guys were AWESOME.
(trivia: Josef Chirowski (piano/organ/vocal) appeared on Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" which Alice recorded in Toronto. My late buddy played on the sessions but didn't get his name on the LP cuz he wasn't yet a member of the Musician's Union (he was only 16!!!). Also, Kelly Jay used to be a DJ on CHUM-FM. Wild show!!!!)

CROWBAR - THE BEST OF

1. The Frenchman's Cherokee Boogie Incident
2. Let The Four Winds Blow
3. Cane On The Brazos
4. In The Dancing Hold
5. Where Are You?
6. Lay One Down
7. Oh Never Be A Dodo
8. Murder In The First Degree
9. Trilby
10. Dead Head Out Of St. John's
11. Tits Up On The Pavement
12. Oh What A Feeling

Grab it HERE

and HERE too!

"He's DEAD, Jim....no wait!....he's just singin'"

I'm straying a bit here, but this is ONE HILARIOUS CD, put together by your friends at the Space Station. Technically speaking, William Shatner is Canadian, so I guess I'm still sticking to the format!


The CD takes some of the greatest hits (?) from Leonard Nimoy's & Capt. Kirk's LPs. BOTH should have just stuck to acting, but at least Shatner does his bits with his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. Bill doesn't exactly SING his parts as much as recite the spoken word. Bill no doubt had a lot of fun doing his gigs and you can hear it in his voice. Spock, on the other hand, firmly believes that he is the next great chanteuse of his era, and that Frank & Dino and the rest had better watch out!!.


The CD opens with the great Shatner reading of "King Henry The Fifth". Listening to it, I couldn't help but think of Rocket Robin Hood battling the evil Sheriff John.....and where the hell is Friar Tuck to come help? (that last part is strictly a bit of Canadiana, "Rocket Robin Hood" being one of the greatest cartoons of my childhood-adolescence.....right up there with "Spiderman" and "The World Of Oz"). Shatner stirs the troops up for battle, and you just got to love the trumpets blaring. Shades of Monty Python & The Holy Grail.


Wait till you hear "Mr. Tambourine Man". The Dylan classic is apparently a song about a drug dealer, and Bill sings the song with the angst of a druggie desparately looking for his next fix. CAN YOU NAME ME ANY OTHER ARTIST WHO INTERPRETED THIS SONG CORRECTLY? NO!!!! Bill is a goddamned genius!!!


Move on to "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Here, Bill obviously found his Tambourine Man, got his fix, and is tripping higher.......higher.....HIGHER. Listen to how he belts the end of the refrain ".....and SHE'S GONE-GONE-GONE-GONE" The echo!!! The angst!!! (what? MORE angst?). Unbelievable. I cannot believe John Lennon (who penned this great song) misinterpreted his own composition......again, we bow to the genius of Bill.


Lastly, take in Bill's version of "It Was A Very Good Year". Notice how the first part is when he's about 17 or so and sings like the young, inexperienced wide-eyed man that any 17 year-old would be. THEN.....he's 21 now. Older, experienced, a "man of the world". YOU CAN HEAR IT IN HIS VOICE!!! The angst...the...what? With the angst again? Oh Bill, you kidder you!!!!


Spock? "Highly Illogical" poses questions that will leave you bewildered for days on end. What did Leonard MEAN by that? Wow, man. Or "Spock's Thoughts", where Leonard advises to even "listen to the dull and ignorant for they too, have their story." Such enlightenment! And sung with the type of fervor that only Nimoy could conjure up.


You can't afford to not have this classic in your collection. It's deliciously awe-inspiring. I'm SURE that the William Hungs of the world based their life teachings on these works of art! Grab it now!!!


What? You are AREN'T going to grab this? HIGHLY ILLOGICAL!!!



"Spaced Out" - Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner

01 King Henry The Fifth - William Shatner

02 Elegy For The Brave - William Shatner

03 Highly Illogical - Leonard Nimoy

04 If I Had A Hammer - Leonard Nimoy

05 Mr. Tambourine Man - William Shatner

06 Where Is Love - Leonard Nimoy

97 Music To Watch Space Girls By - Leonard Nimoy

08 It Was A Very Good Year - William Shatner

09 Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town - Leonard Nimoy

10 Hamlet - William Shatner

11 A Visit To A Sad Planet - Leonard Nimoy

12 Abraham, Martin & John - Leonard Nimoy

13 Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - William Shatner

14 If I Was A Carpenter - Leonard Nimoy

15 How Insensitive - William Shatner

16 I'd Love Making Love To You - Leonard Nimoy

17 Put A Little Love In Your Heart - Leonard Nimoy

18 Sunny - Leonard Nimoy

19 Gentle On My Mind - Leonard Nimoy

20 I Walk The Line - Leonard Nimoy

21 Ballad Of Bilbo Baggins - Leonard Nimoy

22 Everybody's Talkin' - Leonard Nimoy

23 Both Sides Now - Leonard Nimoy

24 Spock Thoughts - Leonard Nimoy

Spaced Out part 1

Spaced Out part 2

Two to beam up!!!

- MEESTER MUSIC

OTTAWA ROCKS: THE SIR JOHN A. YEARS

A rare slice of Canadiana here. The Sir John A. Records label was formed in November 1966 by local DJ John Pozer. Up to this point, PAUL ANKA was Ottawa's famous son, hitting the big-time with his hit "Diana". This CD is testament to the fact that Ottawa had some GREAT rock 'n roll bands. I wouldn't exactly classify this as Garage Rock (the production is too good) but the mentality is certainly there. Lots of Brit influence, yet on the cut "All Of My Life" by Don Norman & The Other 4, you can hear Bob Dylan's influence in the vocals.

Dig it!

Various Artists - "Ottawa Rocks: The Sir John A. Years"

01 Low Man - Don Norman & The Other 4
02 The Bounce - Don Norman & The Other 4
03 All Of My Life - Don Norman & The Other 4
04 Good Time Music - Five D
05 You Gotta Try - Thee Deuces
06 Time To Be Going - Eyes Of Dawn
07 Tell Me Why - Those Naughty Boys
08 Baby Boy - Five D
09 Hung Up On You - Thee Deuces
10 Your Place In My Heart - Don Norman & The Other 4
11 Fever - Don Norman & The Other 4
12 Running 'Round In Circles - Five D
13 When You Ask About Love - Eastern Passage
14 Treat Me Bad - Heart
15 Ignorance And Hardship - Eyes Of Dawn
16 Get Out Of My Life Woman - Five D
17 Somebody Told My Girl - Those Naughty Boys
18 Love Is Gone - Eastern Passage
19 My Mind's Eye - Paper Dream
20 Nothing To Do, No Place To Go - Don Norman & The Other 4
21 Help Me Down - Heart
22 I Could Make You Fall In Love
23 Things Go Better With Coke - Five D
24 Dimentia - Five D
25 She's No Good - Paper Dream
26 I'm So Glad - Eastern Passage

Ottawa Rocks Part 1

Ottawa Rocks Part 2

Artwork & Booklet info included .