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A quick update with pics...

It’s a custom layout request 😎

Mmm... blended heels and single cuts. Sexy... 🤤🤤🤤

Because of the other thread—-Big Star #1 Record has been spinning non-stop this week.

Yesterday on Facebook somebody posted a link to a video about drummer Steve Gadd and how his chops and creativity influenced certain aspects of pop music. I started thinking about some jazz albums I had that included Steve Gadd before Steeley Dan pressed him into service for '"Aja." There he was on the mid-'70s George Benson CTI album, "Bad Benson" The opening cut of Paul Desmond's "Take Five" was a good showcase for both Benson and Gadd, so here it is: Benson was playing a Guild Starfire semihollow thinline for this. It was before his Ibanez days. After that I got a hankerin' for Mark Knopfler, so here's the cut that turned my head and grabbed my attention in 1978, "Sultans of Swing," ...followed by "Money for Nothing" from their eponymous album, "Brothers in Arms," which I listened to the whole way through.

I’ve not noticed that on the back of a DC before either... and I’m holding one right now...

Great fun when doing serious hi fi rig listening

Yes, the acoustics sometimes sound almost electric, but not like Keith Richards 60s acoustics. You are correct.. the compressionand eq remind me of some of Jeff Lynne’s power pop acoustic productions...such as some of the guitars on TP’s Full Moon Fever. I am mesmerized by the electrics though. Jangly, crunchy and articulate at the same time. Good production on those guitars.

I love the way the acoustics are recorded on the Big Star records. It's not a very organic sound, but the heavy compression/EQ gives those tracks, "sparkle", for lack of a better term. I've been searching the web for Jim Dickinson/John Fry articles on this subject to no avail, mostly. There was some talk about how the new (then...) Dolby process was a key to getting the guitars to step up a bit.

Definitely NOT my mainstream listen, but this is what made me accept gravel as a legitimate style.

Dig the hippie on vocals.

Great tone...