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This is interesting, Ivan.
I think that something you posted before, that Jim didn't like all the sound
effects and the fact that the '73 version doesn't have the sound effects may add
up to Jim's involvement in the release of the old recordings. But it's hard to
believe that he would want the old tracks released at all in '73. I mean the
instro surf sound was just so o-u-t out in '73. So I'm guessing that is as you
say, somene stumbling around in the vaults and pulling the wrong masters in
order to cash in on Messina's ealy '70's success.
-Marty
----- Original Message -----
From: ipongrac
To:
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 9:19 AM
Subject: [SurfGuitar101] Jim Messina and His Jesters: "Dragsters" - review,
and the mystery
...The original Jesters LP was released sometime in '64 and was credited
to "Jim Messina and his Jesters"...This album
was rereleased in '73, when NOBODY had any interest in surf music!
...Probably cause Messina was becoming a well-known name, and
somebody wanted to capitalize on it...the packaging looks
like it was from the sixties...the front cover is different than the original
one...these are DIFFERENT versions of the tracks!...I suspect that Messina
couldn't give a crap about surf music by '73, and anyway, the sound quality and
the recording is very
authentic: it SOUNDS like a cheap early- to mid-sixties recording,
for better or worse. I can't imagine they would have struggled to
get such an authentic sound in '73. They probably would have wanted
to "improve" it! So, I'm pretty much 100% sure that's not it.
My conclusion is that whoever rereleased the album got a hold of a
bunch of master tapes which were not marked very clearly....
(BTW, looking at the front cover of the album, where I could see
Messina's white Strat in a great deal of detail, you can see that
Messina left off the volume and tone knobs on his Strat - again, just
like DD!! Man, this kid had a BAD case of hero-worship! Good for
us, though, he created some awesome music as a result.)
Iven
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