What in the world is going on.....

I noted that with most of modern pressings there are lots of manufacturing defects that I had to deal with by sending copies back to receive replacement. I once had to send back whole batch of poorly mastered and sounding records where the bass diminished all other notes to almost inaudible. I guess certain current releases are better-of stickin' to MP3 or other similar cwap.

infection329 posts07-29-2016 8:13pmIt's Paul Simon, of course it's going to sound crap.

That's the best answer of discussion. Even if he's perfectly recorded and mastered, he would still sound crap.

YESS! To Beatles and of course certainly most certainly Dylan!

Not Miles Davis, He's a musician!

Whaaaaat?  If that true what’s up with all those Grammy nominations for album of the year?

What's Grammy?

Tonyk,
Sorry to see your post removed. Audiogon sometimes is not reasonable when it comes to 'cleaning'.

I know you didn't mean to be rude pal.

Older guitarists tend to develop wrist arthritis and won't able to keep up with complex compositions they used to play. Steve Howe in his early 70's started showing symptoms earlier before when he couldn't play single clean note while John McLaughlin is still lightning fast and very clean. Segovia at his late career was suffering from the way he establish to position the right hand perpendicular to strings very often over-stressing wrist-arm joint. Yea, he couldn't play single note clean as well.
Check out John McLaughlin later band 4th-dimension -- pure blast!

Wolf,
Different people have different aging.
My colleague is gigging musician in his 64 and his classical guitar skills are limited compared to decade ago. 
Steve Howe, all of a sudden, when he was 68 couldn't play a single note clean as he used to prior...

Inna,

In modern school of classical guitar the position of right wrist is free just like in jazz guitar. Check videos of Anna Vidovic or Emanuel Baruecco (who actually trained Anna). Also the clear genius of modern classical guitar is Rolan Dyens. He also keeps his right wrist free. Elevation of neck is to make right wrist perpendicular to the strings as one of the reasons.

Hey, anyways, thanks everyone for not comparing above mentioned musicians by wolf_ to Paul Simon after all.

Graceland is definitely boring to me.
Recorded well tho.

Going through Bill's early career in ECM there's no album that's not worth attention.
Going further collaborations with NYC underground artists is incredible with John Zorn, Fred Frith, David Torn
90's with Ginger Baker trio/Charlie Haden already should ring some bell indeed.
I also enjoy his master classes on sound setups -- he's a living legend of entire jazz history.
Identical guitarist is Eivind Aarset from Norway.

Inna there's no bad albums with Bill Frisell. He's a dream of every jazz musician to play with.

The best Ry Cooder's album is Paris Texas soundtrack.
Also recommend to check Buena Vista Social Club.

My favorite one is Parsley Sage Rosemary Thyme.