Listening to the 'Harvest' Studio Master with Neil Young

[Warren]

I recall reading about 15 years ago just how passionate Neil Young was about recording quality.

Of course good music can be rerecorded again, a good performance may not have been captured at today's standards, but the good music still exists. (Interestingly I played Palladium Ensemble's An Excess of Pleasure LP last night and was gobsmacked how it sounded like a CD on a Karik.)


I wonder what the correct approach is? Show the industry execs your profits and/or margins from Linn Records and associate labels?

There clearly is a correct or workable approach. I worked for over a decade for a software company that made the OS for smart mobile phones that had cameras and accessed the internet. Our software is in over 250,000,000 mobiles. However, most people think the iPhone is the superior phone (me too, now I've got one), even though we were doing phones with that functionality half a decade before. What have Apple got right? In a word, communication, both the User Interaction of the device (to quote Apple UI designer who ended up working for the same company, "the user interface is the application") and also the Marketing to their target audience (the music execs in this case).

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." Albert Einstein

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." Anne Frank