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Sheffield Lab

if anyone's seriously into vinyl and doesn't have a gaggle of Sheffield recordings (direct to disc) go and get some. They're startling! Anyone else value their old Sheffield LPs as I do?

Most amazing Sheffield buy- I was in an FYE store a few years ago that had a small used LP section. All LPs were either $1 or $2. I wound up buying a bunch of records- spent about$20, including LAB-5, Discovered Again by Dave Grusin- it was $2. Coincidentally, My first Sheffield LP, back in the day, was LAB-5. So now I have 2 copies?
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yogiboy
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Mofi, It's called "SOUR GRAPES".
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almarg
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I agree with Mofi, notwithstanding the caveat I stated earlier about the sonics of the Leinsdorf recordings (which despite that caveat are perhaps unequaled among classical recordings in several important positive respects, as I indicated).

It would certainly be reasonable to maintain that most or all of the Sheffields are not to one's taste, or that they are not among the best performances of the best music ever recorded. But to categorically reject all or most of them as musical dreck, that one (and apparently by implication others) should avoid listening to even if one were paid to do so, is simply ridiculous IMO.

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-- Al
dayglow
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Mofimadness-Thx for the reminder! I do need to add the Sheffield Tower of Power to my vinyl collection.
dougdeacon
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The CEO of a company where I spent 25 years was invited to give a kickoff speech for an internal training course on Process Improvement. He was brief.

"I'm sure you're all very good at what you do... or I wouldn't have hired you. [audience laughs] After you complete this course I expect you to be even better. I have just one request: before you spend 1,000 hours worth of our shareholder's money improving any process, please be very certain that it's a process we need to do at all."

Exit, stage right... invitation to a paradigm shift.
dopogue
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The Blazing Redheads were on Sheffield? Who knew?
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