Pat Travers - Radio Active
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Artist: Pat TraversEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Music Label: LEMON RECORDS
Soundtracks:
- New Age Music
- My Life Is on the Line (I Just Wanna Live It That Way)
- (I Just Wanna) Live It My Way
- I Don't Wanna Be Awak
- I Can Love You
- Feelin' in Love
- Play It Like You See It
- Electric Detective
Music reviews of Radio Active
Music Review: Vinyl transfers in 2008
Rating: 1 Stars
First the good:
-Awesome album by Pat Travers (5 stars)
-Incredible packaging on this first ever available on CD (8 page booklet with nice period piece interviews, photos, and new commentary from David Ling -albeit with a few glaring typos) -4 stars
Now the bad:
-these are obviously vinyl transfers (source being taken from an actual record album instead of the original master tapes), although the best vinyl transfers I've heard yet. You will not hear any scratches, pops, or clicks. But there are some sonic shortcomings that are inherent in vinyl that is still present. Low frequency rumble for one (at the beginning and during some quiet passages, you can actually hear the needle riding the record groove) and the ever increasing distortion that record albums have as the needle progresses towards the end of each side (there was a reason that they didn't cut the record groove any farther towards the center than they did). Each revolution that the record makes keeps getting shorter and shorter in length, but the speed of 33 1/3 rpm remains a constant. So with each revolution of the record, the same amount of time & music (approx 7 seconds) is given less and less space or distance. Thereby reducing sound quality gradually with each turn of the record. Think of it in the tape world where slower speeds mean less sound & picture quality (VHS in the SLP or EP mode anyone).
One would think that vinyl transfers to digital CDs to not even remotely be a legitimate source (as far a legal licensing from the original record label -in this case it is now Universal). It's something that the high class bootleggers have been doing and now it's gone legitimate mainstream. The linear notes of this CD clearly have all their legal bases covered, with full licensing approval from Universal.
In closing, I will say this:
-in light of anything better (real digital transfers from the original master tapes), I am happy to see these available. Pat Travers is a true legend and deserves to have his entire catalog available. I understand that it was too expensive for Lemon/Cherry Records to go the better route. So for that I say thank you for releasing them.
On an ironic note: the CDs themselves are adorned to look like a record album, which may be more telling then my review above...
Description of Radio Active
2008 release, the first time on CD for this album from the Canadian Rock/Blues guitarist, originally released in 1981. Moving to the UK in the early '70s, Travers made a name for himself as a top notch guitarist who blended Hard Rock and Blues into a musical stew. Concentrating on the U.S. market in the late '70s, Travers reached his commercial peak with a slew of great albums including Radio Active. 10 tracks. Lemon Records.Pop CDs
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