Here Comes Uncle Bob:Thanks to Paul Cantin for this: Uncle Bob is Cranky today:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan says the quality of modern recordings is "atrocious," and even the songs on his new album sounded much better in the studio than on disc.
"I don't know anybody who's made a record that sounds decent in the past 20 years, really," the 65-year-old rocker said in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
Dylan, who released eight studio albums in the past two decades, returns with his first recording in five years, "Modern Times," next Tuesday.
Noting the music industry's complaints that illegal downloading means people are getting their music for free, he said, "Well, why not? It ain't worth nothing anyway."
"You listen to these modern records, they're atrocious, they have sound all over them," he added. "There's no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like ... static."
Dylan said he does his best to fight technology, but it's a losing battle.
"Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded 'em. CDs are small. There's no stature to it."
Recording: Speaking of recordings, I will be heading to Toronto to mix my most recent batch of 15 "atrocious sounding" songs that we recorded over the last 9 months whilst I was home. I will possibly stream the lot of it later in the year.
Ok, gotta run, enjoy your August,
jim,
This Will Be Short:Home now after the last 5 days in Edmonton making use of this great August summer weather to be on the balcony thanks to the god of wireless. 20 days ago or something like that I posted the last message/blog/post here in the .org universe.
Spent the weekend playing the bass and singing with Lynn Miles at the Edmonton Folk Festival with PVA and Fred Guinon. It was such a wonderful time and we discovered how the clear $3 ponchos' last longer than the yellow ones. You see the yellows one rip and the clear ones are thicker, so go for the clear. It rained like crazy and it hailed like crazy and then just like that, the sun shone for the rest of the weekend and everyone forgot that just hours earlier they were all hiding from the elements.
Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder were mind boggling. A long while ago in my life I decided that I wanted to play banjo and I really did give it a shot, but my Silly Puddy hands eliminated bluegrass from being something that I could call my mine.
This week I will do a little more recording and then head off to Colorado for the weekend and that about does it. I am mixing in two weeks with Darryl Neudorf norht of Toronto town and then I will go to Montreal to see my friend Ryan and do the mastering of these songs that I have been living with in various degrees.
See now, I said this would be short and I will keep it short. Lisa goes away tomorrow early AM to Toronto and I head out over and out over there to where I just said I would be going.
And just like that I am going to bed,
jim,
