Hot Tuna - Burgers - 180g LP

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Hot Tuna - Burgers - 180g LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Speakers Corner / Grunt  -  FTR-1004  - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl -  

AAA 100% Analogue  - Pressed at Pallas Germany

Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering - Limited Edition

 Speakers Corner 25 Years Pure Analogue  This LP is an Entirely Analogue Production

180 Gram Vinyl! Former Members of Jefferson Airplane!

Speakers Corner have done a excellent job of bringing out the tonal juiciness of the original - Sound 5/5 HIFI Choice 

The first Hot Tuna record was a live recording of a coffeehouse appearance by guitarist Jorma
Kaukonen, bassist Jack Cassidy, and harmonica man Will Scarlet, performing in a straight folk-blues style. It gave Kaukonen a chance to showcase his fingerpicking chops, and was actually an important introduction to this music for thousands of youngsters who were more interested in Jefferson Airplane than in Reverend Gary Davis. For the second record, also recorded live, the group added Papa John Creach on fiddle and Sammy Piazza on drums, and Jorma plugged in. With the release of the studio record, Burgers, in 1972, the writing was on the wall, and it wasn’t long before Kaukonen and Cassidy had left Jefferson Airplane. In truth Burgers has as much to do with the original Airplane sound as with the blues covers that Hot Tuna started with: “Sea Child” would have fit quite well on Surrealistic Pillow, and five of the nine tracks are Kaukonen originals of one sort or another. From this point on, Hot Tuna was a sort of a combination of folk-rock, folk-blues, and psychedelic jam band, but perhaps because of the gradual way it spun off from Airplane, Burgers hasn’t been recognized for the turning point it really was. Sound 4.5/5 The Absolute Sound

Features "Water Song", "Sea Child" & "True Religion"! The exploration of psychedelic depths did not appear to suffice for the founders of Jefferson Airplane - Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady - when searching for their musical salvation.

So why not amalgamate their hippy-like simple lifestyle and folksy music with the formation of a second band called Hot Tuna, emotional yet not so synthetically hotted-up? Even in the very first number, "True Religion", whose airy, bubbling folksy finger-picking soars up into powerful waves of rock, the message of this first studio album comes over loud and clear. Growling bass melodies and the representation of a life on the road ("Keep On Truckin'") conjure up a down-to-earth country feeling, with an off-key fiddle tune ("Let Us Get Together Right Down Here") accentuating the rough yet cordial get-together.

The purely instrumental "Water Song" is a stroke of genius - this humming, buzzing guitar mix - doesn't only demonstrate the players' instrumental dexterity but also their keen sense of melody and ear for sound coloring. No matter whether gruff Hillbilly, cool blues rocker, or square and nostalgic former hippy - they'll all love this album. Just think: for whom else does Hot Tuna still go on tour...?

Recording: 1972 by 'The Unknown Engineer' at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco Production: Fisohobay Production

Burgers, Hot Tuna's third album, marked a crucial transition for the group. Until now, Hot Tuna had been viewed as a busman's holiday for Jefferson Airplane lead guitarist Jorma Kaukonen and bassist Jack Casady. Their first album was an acoustic set of folk-blues standards recorded in a coffeehouse, their second an electric version of the same that added violinist Papa John Creach (who also joined the Airplane) and drummer Sammy Piazza. Then the Airplane launched Grunt, its own vanity label, which encouraged all bandmembers to increase their participation in side projects. Burgers, originally released as the fourth Grunt album, sounded more like a full-fledged work than a satellite effort. It was Hot Tuna's first studio album, and Kaukonen wrote the bulk of the material, not all of it in the folk-blues style that had been the group's métier. "Sea Child," for example, employed his familiar acid rock sound and would have fit seamlessly onto an Airplane album. And "Water Song," one of his most accomplished instrumentals, had a crystalline acoustic guitar part that really suggested the sound of rippling water. On the material that did recall the earlier albums, Hot Tuna split the difference between its acoustic and electric selves, sometimes, as on "True Religion," beginning in folky fingerpicking style only to add a rock band sound after the introduction. The result was more restrained than the second album, but not as free as the first, with the drums imposing steady rhythms that often kept Casady from soloing as much, though Creach's violin made for plenty of improvisation within the basic blues structures. All of which is to say that, not surprisingly, on its third album in as many years, Hot Tuna had evolved its own sound and music, and seemed less a diversion than its members' new top priority.

Musicians:
Jack Casady, bass, vocals
Jorma Kaukonen, guitar, vocals
Papa John Creach, violin, vocals
Sammy Piazza, drums, percussion, timpani, vocals
Nick Buck, keyboards, organ, piano, synthesizer
Richard Talbott, guitar, slide guitar, vocals
David Crosby, vocals

Selections:

Side 1:

1. True Religion

2. Highway Song

3. 99 Year Blues

4. Sea Child

Side 2:

1. Keep On Truckin'

2. Water Song

3. Ode For Billy Dean

4. Let Us Get Together Right Down Here

5. Sunny Day Strut

Hot Tuna - Burgers - 180g LP

20 Years pure Analogue
This Speakers Corner LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the master tapes through to the cutting head
 
Are your records completely analogue?
Yes! This we guarantee!
As a matter of principle, only analogue masters are used, and the necessary cutting delay is also analogue. All our cutting engineers use only Neumann cutting consoles, and these too are analogue. The only exception is where a recording has been made – either partly or entirely – using digital technology, but we do not have such items in our catalogue at the present time
 
Are your records cut from the original masters?
In our re-releases it is our aim to faithfully reproduce the original intentions of the musicians and recording engineers which, however, could not be realised at the time due to technical limitations. Faithfulness to the original is our top priority, not the interpretation of the original: there is no such thing as a “Speakers Corner Sound”. Naturally, the best results are obtained when the original master is used. Therefore we always try to locate these and use them for cutting. Should this not be possible, – because the original tape is defective or has disappeared, for example – we do accept a first-generation copy. But this remains an absolute exception for us.
 
Who cuts the records?
In order to obtain the most faithful reproduction of the original, we have the lacquers cut on the spot, by engineers who, on the whole, have been dealing with such tapes for many years. Some are even cut by the very same engineer who cut the original lacquers of the first release. Over the years the following engineers have been and still are working for us: Tony Hawkins, Willem Makkee, Kevin Gray, Maarten de Boer, Scott Hull, and Ray Staff, to name but a few.
At the beginning of the ‘90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the reissue policy was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC Compact Classics, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and others, including of course Speakers Corner, all maintained a mutual, unwritten code of ethics: we would manufacture records sourced only from analogue tapes. 
 
Vinyl’s newfound popularity has led many other companies to jump on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source from which to master: CDs, LPs, digital files and even MP3s. 
 
Even some who do use an analogue tape source employ a digital delay line, a misguided ’80s and ‘90s digital technology that replaces the analogue preview head originally used to “tell” the cutter head in advance what was about to happen musically, so it could adjust the groove “pitch” (the distance between the grooves) to make room for wide dynamic swings and large low frequency excursions. Over time analogue preview heads became more rare and thus expensive. 
 
So while the low bit rate (less resolution than a 16 bit CD) digital delay line is less expensive and easier to use than an analogue “preview head”, its use, ironically, results in lacquers cut from the low bit rate digital signal instead of from the analogue source! 
 
Speakers Corner wishes to make clear that it produces lacquers using only original master tapes and an entirely analogue cutting system. New metal stampers used to press records are produced from that lacquer. The only exceptions are when existing metal parts are superior to new ones that might be cut, which includes our release of “Elvis is Back”, which was cut by Stan Ricker or several titles from our Philips Classics series, where were cut in the 1990s using original master tapes by Willem Makkee at the Emil Berliner Studios. In those cases we used only the original “mother” to produce new stampers. 
 
In addition, we admit to having one digital recording in our catalogue: Alan Parsons’ “Eye in the Sky”, which was recorded digitally but mixed to analogue tape that we used to cut lacquers. 
 
In closing, we want to insure our loyal customers that, with but a few exceptions as noted, our releases are “AAA”— analogue tape, an all analogue cutting system, and newly cut lacquers.
 
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