THE VENTURES - Exodus

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[cjm52]

The group that changed so many young peoples lives.Every young budding guitar player in the 1960's tried to learn their masterpices like Walk don't run and perfidia - this is also an icon.

[bonzibaby8356]

Love! Love!! Always....

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Well, I already told you that I don't know what it means. My native language is not English, which I guess is very obvious.

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Bruce Springsteen once recorded an entire album with a cassette porta. A few decades ago I said to someone that I don't like cassettes, because of the poor sound. He said that if it's good enough for Bruce Springsteen, it's good enough for me. I disagreed; if it's good enough for Springsteen, it's his problem, not mine.

As I said, I am not really sure about what the word ”masterpiece” means, but if it means what is described here, it seems to be pretty meaningless.

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Here's, by the way, the first lines of the CD booklet of V-Gold I:

”We are very proud of these recordings – we wanted to return to our roots, and enhance these songs with today's technology. We think we have remained true to the original recordings, and we hope you will agree with us that the sound quality is excellent.” (I hope I didn't make any spelling errors, I quoted the best I can at that speed…). This was written in April 1999, by the way, according to the booklet.

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Well, I think it was Don who said in an interview when they released their ”Greatest Hits” album in 1980, which was 27 of their old hits re-recorded, most of them in 1979 and 1980, that the reason they made it (or maybe one of the reasons) was that they wanted the old hits to take advantage of the new technology that was developed during those 20 years.

They did the same thing around 2000 (V-Gold 1-4) and the reason seems to be the same this time according to the CD booklet.

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX You shouldn't draw conclusions about people you don't know. That might make you look somewhat stupid in other people's eyes, which on the other hand is your problem, not mine, so maybe I shouldn't care. I can tell you though, that some of your guesses were right and some of them were wrong. Just like rolling a dice after guessing ”higher than 3 or not”.

I was dropping it, but since someone actually wrote again (I almost didn't believe it first) I just had to drop in again, sorry.

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Well, English is not my native language. Isn't ”Masterpiece” like ”Mästerverk”? Well, I guess I have to look it up then…

Okay, looked it up. At least Google Translate translates it as ”Mästerverk” or ”Mästerstycke” (which is basically the same thing). But I guess I put more value to words than you English speaking guys do. For me Walk, Don't Run was not a masterpiece. A hit, yes, masterpiece, no. I could agree with that Johnny Smith's version was a masterpiece though.

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Yes, it was a hit, and many hits were from beginners, but if you really listen to it, you can also hear that they were beginners and the track is not perfect in any way at all. I would guess that if you asked the Ventures themselves if they thought that their original version of ”Walk, Don't Run” was a masterpiece, they would probably disagree. Why else would they re-record it so many times? I don't re-record anything that I'm happy with, who does?

[guraknugen]

@overbrookXXX Well, if you can't hear it, I guess there is nothing I can do about it. Not really my problem anyway…