Is VINYL better? Pros vs cons & record player ponderings via Elvis albums

0:00 - Intro, discussing pros vs cons of vinyl albums vs Compact Discs & mp3, growing up with vinyl & first time hearing vinyl since 2002, Elvis albums
9:25 - Pro: Vinyl covers vs modern thumbnails, cover art, connecting with album
16:01 - Pro: Liner notes is educational, learning about musicians
23:17 - Pro: Handling vinyl with care increases value of music
27:37 - Pro: Being a part of history with previous owners
29:40 - Pro: Autographs
30:38 - Pro: Group activity & sharing music in days of earbuds
32:32 - Pro: No CD rot, vinyl wearing out due to playing
36:56 - Con: Hard to travel with vinyl
38:47 - Con: Physical space considerations
39:55 - Con: Musicians have more freedom today to make more & longer songs (To note: after the show I found vinyl can hold 1-12 songs, whereas an 8GB device can hold upwards of 2000 songs)
44:10 - Con: Lifting needle every few minutes in a fast paced attention deficient culture, scrolling through playlists
45:38 - Con: Random playlist vs only listening to some songs, Side A/Side B good side/bad side thinking
47:44 - Con/Pro: Loss of song order in modern singles culture
49:26 - Con: Does vinyl sound better?
52:55 - Con: Quality of vinyl production in past can be questionable, album cutting, Article from a sound engineer on why vinyl does not sound better: https://www.oregonlive.com/music/2014/11/does_vinyl_really_sound_better.html
55:30 - Con: Albums were mastered for vinyl vs modern mastering for mp3
57:46 - Con/Pro: Vinyl has a warm mid-range sound vs extreme highs/lows
1:00:16 - Con: Speed of needle on album fluctuates & creates distortion
1:01:43 - Con/Pro: Vinyl gets worn, hiss & static, experiencing history (Referenced Count Basie album is "Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra" 1987)
1:06:43 - Con: Vinyl collecting is not cheap, music is not elitist
1:08:43 - Con: Headphones & speakers always sound better than earbuds, tube amps, sounding better vs different
1:12:53 - Con/Pro: Being inspired to listen to music, concluding thoughts, supporting the channel

Live 2/19/2024.

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Regular live show. I'm an upright bassist in Portland, Maine chatting about music with a focus on classic rock. 📻 Also here are interviews from my 2011-12 podcast "The Roman Midnight Music Podcast", as they are no longer available elsewhere. Channel duplicated on Rumble.

🎧 I played bass in metal trio Tired Wings, alt-country group Willy Martin & The Woods. I've studied slap bass with Slick Joe Fick & Adam Ben Ezra, jazz history with bassist Chuck Israels (Bill Evans Trio, Stan Getz), jazz theory with clarinetist Titus Abbott, world music with singer Margot Hanson. I play exclusively double bass with K&K & Shadow rockabilly pre-amp/pick-ups, Fender Rumble amps, Innovation Rockabilly Reds strings. 🎼

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