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« on: September 27, 2007, 11:38:17 AM »
So we had a great listening on Saturday. Thanks to all who showed up. Very nice wine Chuck. Thanks.
I just wanted to relate an experience from that afternoon that reminded me why we are doing this. When choosing titles we have an executive meeting and throw out everything we can think of that we'd like to do as well as look at the suggestions posted on this forum. After that we get copies of the music to each other so everyone can hear what we are considering. When the Robert Cray title came up and we listened, liked it and could get the rights. So it got added to the first years catalogue. Cool. Now comes Saturday's listening. At this point I had only heard the CD. Paul cued up the recently acquired master for us to hear, Chuck poured us a glass a wine... Press play... whoa...I got all shivery. Not because the AC was on, not because the music was great (which it was), not the wine (hadn't even sipped yet), but because my sense of smell took me back to college. I was immediately transported back to college, back to the club I was in where I first heard Robert Cray. I could smell the bar. You know, that stale beer smell on the floor, the amps and the instruments, the musicians and crowd. I was doing live sound in this club in Bowling Green Kentucky and the console area was perched up a bit in this cold concrete semi-underground building. Even the carpeting and the console in the booth had a smell. I shivered because of the fondness I could feel from the memory of that place. The time it took me to. WOW. There was a realness about that tape playing back that I never ever got from playing the cd. The memory flood. The transportation. The experience. That's why we do this.