Audio recordings: Scratch that | The Economist

Audio recordings

Scratch that

Dec 24th 2012, 14:54 by G.F. | SEATTLE

 Modern artists are taking their digital recordings and etching them to new LPs.

Vinyl has seen a resurgence over the past few years, and that trend has continued. Nielsen Soundscan, which uses retail data and excludes albums sold directly by bands, found that 2.8m and 3.9m were sold in America in 2010 and 2011, respectively. It expects sales to rise to 4.7m in 2012. This is a far cry from the 300m copies shifted a year in the 1970s in America alone, but a significant uptick from a mere few hundred thousands in the CD-mad mid-1990s.

Turntable sales, which declined slightly for the last decade, ticked up slightly in 2011 compared to 2010, to 54,000 units a year. More ancedotally, it is easy to find reports of record stores with new and used vinyl expanding stock and sales...

CDs, meanwhile, have plummeted from 600m sold in 2005 in America to well under 200m expected to be purchased in 2012. 

CDs still make up 61% of albums sold as of June 2012, with the rest coming mostly from digital downloads (which will total 125m for the whole of 2012).

This excludes individual digital tracks, which are on track to exceed 1.5 billion this year in America, up from 1.3 billion in 2011. The death of the album format also seemed premature, as the precipitous drop in album sales as buyers shifted to individual songs flattened over the last three years.

In November the Beatles' first 12 albums were released as stereo LPs from the same digital masters used to produce digital downloads (and the latest batch of CDs).
Next year, the LPs will be released again, this time in vibrant mono, something much awaited by audiophiles.



Despite a manufactured report in 2011 that labels would stop pressing CDs by the end of 2012 (thoroughly debunked by the industry, economics and reality), CDs continue to be churned out. But the format's decline is inevitable in favour of digital downloads. 

In less than a decade, vinyl might yet regain its status as the dominant physical format. 





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Audio recordings: Scratch that | The Economist

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All Stars Texas Blues - Take Me To The River - YouTube

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Austin Texas, 1990. *Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, WC Clark, Kim Wilson Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton,Will Sexton,Rusty Trapps. John Mills, George Winn, Barry Smith, Jon Blondell

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Lou Ann Barton and The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Rocket in My Pocket (Live on Texas Connection) - YouTube

Mungo Jerry - In the summertime - YouTube

Mungo Jerry - In the summertime - YouTube

Mungo Jerry I Love To Boogie - YouTube

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This is Ray Dorset / Mungo Jerry porforming I Love To Boogie a song written by the late great Marc Bolan / T.Rex

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Canned Heat - Going Up The Country [HQ MUSIC] - YouTube

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Leo Sayer - You make me feel like dancing (1976) - YouTube

Leo Sayer - You make me feel like dancing (1976) - YouTube

All About The Blues

   

Howlin' Wolf

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Charlietown Blues

All About The Blues

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Charlietown Bluesplays all the forms of blues. 

Their tagline is "All About The Blues". 

Hope you enjoy the blues here on Charlietown Blues:

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The Best Marijuana Documentary (Canadian) - YouTube

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The Best Marijuana Documentary (Canadian) - YouTube

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Miles Davis - Around The Midnight (1967) - YouTube

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Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz (Full Album) - YouTube

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Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz 1960

1. Come Rain or Come Shine - 3.19 (0:00)
2. Autumn Leaves - 5.23 (3:24)
3. Witchcraft - 4.30 (9:24)
4. When I Fall in Love - 4.52 (14:00)
5. Peri's Scope - 3.10 (18:54)
6. What Is This Thing Called Love? - 4.32 (22:09)
7. Spring is Here - 5.02 (26:46)
8. Someday My Prince Will Come - 4.50 (31:57)
9. Blue in Green - 5.20 (36:55)

Bill Evans - Piano
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The Black Keys - Magic Potion (Full Album) [HD] - YouTube

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3:01 Your Touch
5:45 You're The One
9:13 Just A Little Heat
12:56 Give Your Heart Away
16:23 Strange Desire
20:45 Modern Times
25:07 The Flame
29:44 Goodbye Babylon
35:40 Black Door
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Africa's Moonshine Epidemic - YouTube

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Ugandans are the hardest drinking Africans in the motherland, both in terms of per capita consumption and the hooch they choose to chug. Waregi, or "war gin," is what they call the local moonshine, and it makes the harshest Appalachian rotgut taste like freaking Bailey's.

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ASAP - American Society for Action on Pain

"Skip Baker demonstrates the amount of weight he lost because of severe, untreated chronic pain. He went without eating for 14 months, while the State of Virginia was deciding if he would be an "authorized pain patient," and get an increase in his pain medication. He averaged a one inch loss around the middle per month, for a total of 14 inches for the 14 months! This is like torture for a State to do this to a Pain Patient, who they knew all along, has Ankylosing Spondylitis," a VERY painful spinal disease."The decision to make him an 'authorized' pain patient could have been made in one hour by a good pain specialist, if this system wasn't in place in Virginia.

Skip Baker is President of ASAP and he would like you to join him in the campaign for sensible pain treatment. You can contact him at: skipb@widomaker.com or see our President's Page.




ASAP
American Society for Action on Pain


ASAP Home Page

Documents and Resources

Who We Are - And how you can help

The Panic Button -- Do you need immediate help with treatment for chronic pain? See this link.

To Get Help for Pain go to:

Doctors with Compassion

What Patients Can Do To Help Themselves

Pain Placement Reps

Proper Dosing of Pain Medications

To subscribe to the Action-on-pain list send a blank email to: mailto:Actiononpain-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Actiononpain/

To unsubscribe, just send a blank email to: Actiononpain-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Doonesbury on Pain Treatment -- The Doonesbury comic strip from Sunday, July 26, 1998



Understanding The Issues

In order to understand how we got to the present problems with pain management in the US, it is necessary to understand basic facts about heroin, the opiates, and the history of our laws and policies regarding these drugs. The best overall view of this issue, in our opinion, comes from the first section of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.

We recommend the following chapters as basic to the understanding of how we got to the current problems with pain patients.


Chapter 1 - Nineteenth Century America - "a dope fiends paradise"
Chapter 2 - Opiates for pain relief, for tranquilization, and for pleasure
Chapter 3 - What kinds of people used opiates?
Chapter 4 - Effects of opium, morphine and heroin on addicts
Chapter 5 - Some eminent narcotics addicts
Chapter 6 - Opium smoking is outlawed
Chapter 7 - The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906
Chapter 8 - The Harrison Narcotic Act (1914)
Chapter 9 - Tightening up the Harrison Act
Chapter 10 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 1) Heroin is an addicting drug
Chapter 11 - Why our narcotics laws have failed: 2) The economics of the black market
Chapter 12 - The heroin "overdose" mystery and other occupational hazards of heroin addiction


Deadly Morals, By Katherine Eban Finkelstein - The DEA is busting doctors for prescribing drugs and patients are dying in pain.


The Police State of Medicine by Dr. William Hurwitz -- Dr. Hurwitz is the doctor who was featured on 60 Minutes because he was persecuted for treating patients with severe chronic pain. He is one of the heroes of our time.


Caught in Pain's Vicious Cycle, an interview with Dr. William Hurwitz


Medical Society of Virginia's Guidelines for the Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain.

Senate Bill 402 - California, 1997 - Pain Patient's Bill of Rights


Summary:  Existing law, the Intractable Pain Treatment Act, authorizes a physician and surgeon to prescribe or administer controlled substances to a person in the course of treating that person for a diagnosed condition called intractable pain, and prohibits the Medical Board of California from disciplining a physician and surgeon for this action. This bill would establish the Pain Patient's Bill of Rights and would state legislative findings and declarations regarding the value of opiate drugs to persons suffering from severe chronic intractable pain. It would, among other things, authorize a physician to refuse to prescribe opiate medication for a patient who requests the treatment for severe chronic intractable pain, require the physician to inform the patient that there are physicians who specialize in the treatment of severe chronic intractable pain with methods that include the use of opiates, and authorize a physician who prescribes opiates to prescribe a dosage deemed medically necessary.

Frequently Asked Questions About the Opioids - by Mike Hamilton

Fact Sheet on Chronic Non-Malignant Pain by Marcia E. Bedard, Ph.D.

Opioid Pain Killers Available in the US

CHRONIC USE OF OPIOIDS AND ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS: SIDE EFFECTS, EFFECTS ON ENDOGENOUS OPIOIDS, AND TOXICITY - Annals New York Academy of Sciences pp151-172

METHADONE AND OPIATE DRUGS: PSYCHOTROPIC EFFECT AND SELF-MEDICATION - Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 1982. V.398 pp 44-53

Pain Management Resources
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19

Pain Management Policy - California Board of Registered Nurses

Prescribing Controlled Substances for Pain - A Statement by the Medical Board of California

Summit on Effective Pain Management: Removing Impediments to Appropriate Prescribing - Summit Report - State of California - 1994

The Tragedy of Needless Pain by Ronald Melzack -- Scientific American February 1990 Volume 262 Number 2 -- Contrary to popular belief, the author says, morphine taken solely to control pain is not addictive. Yet patients worldwide continue to be undertreated and to suffer unnecessary agony

The Painful Dilemma -- The Use of Narcotics for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, A report prepared by the Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society ad hoc committee on the treatment of pain, 1990

Anatomy of a pain summit from November, 1994 - Sacramento, Medicine By Harvey L. Rose, MD

State of Florida Medical Guidelines on Pain Management Using Dangerous Drugs and Controlled Substances, 1996

Medical References on Pain and Pain Medication - Part 1

Medical References on Pain and Pain Medication - Part 2

Links to Other Pain Related Sites








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Jack Kerouac's List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life

“No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language and knowledge.”



 Jack Kerouac — cultural icon, symbolism sage, exquisite idealist — with his list...



Belief and Technique for Modern Prose:



Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

Submissive to everything, open, listening

Try never get drunk outside yr own house

Be in love with yr life

Something that you feel will find its own form

Be crazy dumb saint of the mind

Blow as deep as you want to blow

Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind

The unspeakable visions of the individual

No time for poetry but exactly what is

Visionary tics shivering in the chest

In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition

Like Proust be an old teahead of time

Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog

The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea

Accept loss forever

Believe in the holy contour of life

Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind

Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better

Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning

No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it

Book movie is the movie in words, the visual American form

In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness

Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better

You’re a Genius all the time



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The list was allegedly tacked on the wall of Allen Ginsberg’s hotel room in North Beach a year before his iconic poem “Howl” was written — which is of little surprise, given Ginsberg readily admitted Kerouac’s influence and even noted in the dedication of Howl and Other Poems that he took the title from Kerouac.



As Charles Eames might say, “to be realistic one must always admit the influence of those who have gone before.”








With items like “No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge” and “Accept loss forever,” the list is as much a blueprint for writing as it is a meditation on life.
 

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Jack Kerouac's List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Prose and Life | Brain Pickings

Margaret Atwood's 10 Rules of Writing

“­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.”

In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian asked some of today’s most celebrated authors to each produce a list of personal writing commandments.

 Margaret Atwood gives us her denary decree:

1. Take a pencil to write with on aeroplanes. Pens leak. But if the pencil breaks, you can’t sharpen it on the plane, because you can’t take knives with you. Therefore: take two pencils.
2. If both pencils break, you can do a rough sharpening job with a nail file of the metal or glass type.
3. Take something to write on. Paper is good. In a pinch, pieces of wood or your arm will do.
4. If you’re using a computer, always safeguard new text with a ­memory stick.
5. Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
6. Hold the reader’s attention. (This is likely to work better if you can hold your own.) But you don’t know who the reader is, so it’s like shooting fish with a slingshot in the dark. What ­fascinates A will bore the pants off B.
7. You most likely need a thesaurus, a rudimentary grammar book, and a grip on reality. This latter means: there’s no free lunch. Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.
8. You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote the thing. You’ve been backstage. You’ve seen how the rabbits were smuggled into the hat. Therefore ask a reading friend or two to look at it before you give it to anyone in the publishing business. This friend should not be someone with whom you have a ­romantic relationship, unless you want to break up.
9. Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page. 
10. Prayer might work. Or reading ­something else. Or a constant visual­ization of the holy grail that is the finished, published version of your resplendent book.

Atwood’s latest nonfiction, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (public library) .

 

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