Wednesday 02 October 2024 12:29:15 PM CDT
Saturday 28 September 2024 19:13:42 AM CDT
There ya go. That's the first ten Alan Parsons Project albums. The only ones you need unless you want some live sets. Some of those are
quite good - more on that in a minute - but this is the essential stuff. Recorded from 1976 through 1987 - a couple more studio albums and some
solo work by Alan is available if you get real into it. You can google and find out the history, how Alan was engineer on Pink Floyd's Dark Side
of the Moon and a bunch more stuff before he became a recording artist. He and his collaborative partner Eric Woolfson wrote all the songs and
put together various musicians and singers to produce them, kinda like making movies I guess. He can sing pretty good and play guitar and keys
as well.
I got all the vinyl in pristine condition as I had a habit of only playing them a time or three and recording them onto cassettes that cost almost
as much as the record using seriously high-dollar equipment. Later I bought all the CDs. On those old records they sometimes lost a bit of quality
in going to digital - it's on the low and high end and on good equipment I can still play an old cassette and tell whether it was recorded from
vinyl or a CD.
There's at least one instrumental on each one, usually the first track is one. You hear them if you watch television, sometimes at sporting events
and such. They show up in bumper music on radio talk shows as well. During twenty-something years things naturally changed some but it was
gradual and if I listen to them in alphabetical order I can't generally remember the chronological order of the one playing at any time. It's a
good way to spend a day when I'm in the house most of the time.
There are only two or three high-quality live recordings and a dozen or so decent ones on Youtube. All are worth checking out.
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