And a significant portion of whatever backstory we were able to put together before the internet era came from all of the minutiea that accompanied physical media. Doesn’t the saga and setting of Deep Purple’s ‘Machine Head’ sessions inform the way the you perceive the record? Wouldn’t your listening experience differ significantly if you thought ‘Perfect Strangers’ was DP’s debut, and not a reunion album? The guitars sound different on ‘Come Taste the Band’… Is this Blackmore? If not, who is it? And where’s Ritchie? Music without a backstory is one-dimensional flat. A song, an album, or even an entire discography has always been but a part of a larger story.
If this blog is ‘about’ anything, it’s about backstory. But is sound quality the only thing we’ve lost with the advent of the mp3?īackstory. “To have it squashed down is not how it was intended to be.” He lamented the sad fact that all of the painstaking work he had recently done on the Zeppelin remasters would be ruined by todays technology tech that is geared toward today’s listening culture. He told Kerrang! Radio: “They (the Led Zeppelin albums) were mixed in stereo with a depth-of-field to them, with everything in focus,” he says.
Jimmy page recently complained about the sound quality of mp3s.
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