I do like your posted work but (I guess there is always a ’but’) I totally and completely see and listen to as an album artist.
Your “Find A Door” album is one of the most amazing albums I’ve had the pleasure to own. My library has cumulatively been in excess of 4k albums, tapes, and CDs ranging from ABBA to Zappa and literally everything in between. This is one of the best produced releases I own and I have all of The Pink Floyd, The Band, David Bowie (up to the Berlin created albums), and Delerium Records. The mixing couldn’t be any better but what hooks me every time is the mastering of Stephen Marcussen. He took your excellent performance and sequenced it perfectly within the album and the relationship of the previous song and the following song.
It is still in my rotation, your sound has been prevalent since its release. It still bugs, puzzles and confounds me that this isn’t talked about by the critics. If re-released today it would fly and sustain altitude.
I know I sound a tad exaggerated but I’m not. I know what is good and what is not. You captured a feel as if it came out of Memphis like a Stax or Ardent recording. The sound was tight without a stiffness yet it flowed with purposeful movement.
Wow! Thanks for the wonderful note. I too, am a fan of Marcussen's mastering on that record. He dialed in a nice amount of level while maintaining dynamics. Much of the credit goes to Russ Fowler (engineer) and Brendan O'Brien (producer). Gotta give props to the Sinners too... Dave Hull (bass), Peter Stroud (guitars), Elaine Summers (bgvs, guitars and percussion) and Dan McCarroll (drums.) We toured our butts off before cutting that record so we had road tested some of the songs before entering the studio.
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I do like your posted work but (I guess there is always a ’but’) I totally and completely see and listen to as an album artist.
Your “Find A Door” album is one of the most amazing albums I’ve had the pleasure to own. My library has cumulatively been in excess of 4k albums, tapes, and CDs ranging from ABBA to Zappa and literally everything in between. This is one of the best produced releases I own and I have all of The Pink Floyd, The Band, David Bowie (up to the Berlin created albums), and Delerium Records. The mixing couldn’t be any better but what hooks me every time is the mastering of Stephen Marcussen. He took your excellent performance and sequenced it perfectly within the album and the relationship of the previous song and the following song.
It is still in my rotation, your sound has been prevalent since its release. It still bugs, puzzles and confounds me that this isn’t talked about by the critics. If re-released today it would fly and sustain altitude.
I know I sound a tad exaggerated but I’m not. I know what is good and what is not. You captured a feel as if it came out of Memphis like a Stax or Ardent recording. The sound was tight without a stiffness yet it flowed with purposeful movement.
Thank you for creating this album.
Wow! Thanks for the wonderful note. I too, am a fan of Marcussen's mastering on that record. He dialed in a nice amount of level while maintaining dynamics. Much of the credit goes to Russ Fowler (engineer) and Brendan O'Brien (producer). Gotta give props to the Sinners too... Dave Hull (bass), Peter Stroud (guitars), Elaine Summers (bgvs, guitars and percussion) and Dan McCarroll (drums.) We toured our butts off before cutting that record so we had road tested some of the songs before entering the studio.
Thanks again for the kind words.
Pete
I love this version! Thanks for sharing it.
Glad you dig it. It's fun for me to share this stuff. Thanks for being here.