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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Animals - BBC Sessions 1963-1968 {Remastered & Complete} [A Prof Stoned Comp] (UPDATE: 25-03-2024)


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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109 comments:

  1. "buT It'S nOt A pResSEd SILver ceE-DEe!!!1!"

    Thanks for all the hard work prof!

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  2. Thank you profstoned. I enjoy your offerings and find them very educational and spot on as I am a musician who came of age in the 1960's and experienced that period first hand. appreciate your perseverance.

    dr blues

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  3. Can't wait to dive into this! I have some of these tracks as dodgy sounding mp3's so I am looking forward to hearing them done right. Thank you!

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  4. Thanks for this release. Clearly it is meant for real audiophiles who care about sound quality and not the schmucks on the Hoffman forum who are far more interested in bootlegs with audio sourced from youtube videos.

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  5. Speaking of which, my posting privileges have been put on hold by GORT JERRY because I did some subtle advertising for the blog (and without having donated to trust-fund millionaire STeVE). I refuse to kiss his ring, so probably no more poating from me there.

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    1. Sorry, just as well, then I suppose. It is a loss to the Forum.

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  6. Yeah, they are already complaining about the post above yours. The gorts allow aggressive non-audiophile contrarians to run rampant and unchecked - and then immediately ban any knowlegdeable expert or industry professional who "knows too much". And every artist has at least one obnoxious person spreading total misinformation under the guise of an "expert" (the Hendrix guy with the dog avatar, for example), which ultimately benefits nobody but the record label, and these people never disappear despite plenty of complaints. The "fill out your equipment profile" thing was also a clever weapon for blocking opposing opinions unnoticed. It's clearly a sock-puppet website for the music industry.

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  7. Somebody like Gordon's Johnson will always do whatever it takes to be in the good graces of the mods again, because he needs the platform badly to spew his delusional gibberish. Without it, he does not exist.

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  8. Unbelievably, there are fanzines and websites who regular publish Gordo's gibberish ramblings as exclusive articles, and it drives real Hendrix experts insane.

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  9. I enjoyed the comments above. The Anonymous comment cracked me up!

    Thanks Prof. for the share.

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  10. I enjoyed the comments above. The Anonymous comment cracked me up!

    Thanks Prof. for the share.

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  11. I enjoyed the comments above. The Anonymous comment cracked me up!

    Thanks Prof. for the share.

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  12. Thank you very much for your efforts to assemble all these performances and make an ULTIMATE collection!
    Hats off!

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  13. Love it! Many thanks for your dedication.

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  14. Where on earth do you get the time to bring us these Gems Prof ? Outstanding as always.

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  15. Thanks so much for all your work.

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  16. Hello Prof. Thank you for another top tier share here. Looks like a lot of extra tracks compared to the JWB comp. all with dope audio quality, excellent work.

    Another special thanks to Eugene, Colin H., Syd, Irwin-Caiger ESQ., John, Ben & Robert. THANK YOU TO ALL INVOLVED!!!

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    1. J's comp was all Pre-FM transcriptions, but it opened the door for this version which is the whole enchilada. I would imagine it took some time to gather everything.

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    2. Yep. Hallucalation did quite some field work

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    3. You guys rock! Keep up the good work :)

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    4. It would be nothing without my friends supplying great audio sources/unbooted recordings so kudos to A and A. You both know who you are.

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  17. Thanks to everyone who helped bring this music to light, and thanks to the Professor for putting it all together in best-ever sound!

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  18. Wow. I just renumbered the tracks for my own use so I could put them all in one folder and listen to it all chronologically if I choose -- it's 84 tracks of music and interviews, not counting the TV folder! Wow!

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  19. Take a bow Prof-your the best in the business.Beautiful sound.

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  20. Cannot wait to give these tracks a listen. Thanks for the amazing coordination by all parties involved. I always look forward to a new Prof post!

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  21. Fabulous, many thanks, Prof

    Dubley

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  22. Big fan of the Animals, thank you kindly. One question, who's playing the harmonica on 'Pretty Thing' Is it Alan Price? I'm thinking it's him because it sounds like he's mimicking an organ at times in the notes he's blowing. Heck, maybe it is an organ! Interesting playing nonetheless.

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  23. Sour grapes on the Hoofy forum. Hilarious. First they have no interest in free downloads. Now they are downloading it, listening and desperately trying to rip it apart. Can you say "agenda"?

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    1. Not sure what he is trying to point out. I think he's trying to say that the physical media contains stuff that the download doesn't and therefore CD beats download?

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    2. They don't care if this download contains completely new to circulation 1963 or 1964 stuff. They more care if shitty audio of unrelated NME gig wasn't included (which everyone who loves Animals had heard by now billions of times).

      And now all references to blog is deleted. Hail Jerry!

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  24. Love The Animals. Thank you, Professor.

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  25. v1.2: 05-12-2021 (session 21-12-1967 added, date session 20-12-1967 corrected)

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  26. Thank you Prof! Great to hear your magic as always! :)

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  27. Thank You very much!

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  28. Thanks for compiling and mastering this great collection!

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  29. Great work as always Prof! Thanks so much for putting this together and sharing it.

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  30. Outstanding work...big fan of the Amimals

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  31. Many thanks - will enjoy soon

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  32. Brilliant collection. Thank you

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  33. Thank you so much!

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  34. Thanks Prof! I'm a "New" convert to the greatness that was the Animals and am psyched to get to check this stuff out. Great work, as usual.

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  35. Thank you for the update. Much appreciated.
    dr blues

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  36. v1.3: 27-6-2023: (Session #12 Tr 05-08 newly mastered from upgraded source)
    v1.4: 28-6-2023: (Session #19 Tr 05 newly mastered from upgraded source)

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  37. Fabulous!! Thank you.

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  38. Thanks for the time and effort to bring these great recordings to us!

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  39. Thank you Professor! Your efforts are always greatly appreciated.

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  40. Thank you once more for this download which I am looking forward to hearing.

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  41. I've been a fan of The Animals since listening to my uncle's Best of The Animals when I was 8, it's great to hear further proof of what a great band they were. Hats off, Prof!

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  42. Thanks a lot for this one. very Nice.

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  43. Thanks for updates to this & Cream BBC

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  44. I got to know Hilton Valentine in the years before he passed away and he was a super nice guy. Thanks much for your efforts on these recordings.

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  45. Very anxious for this! Thanks for the work you do; it *is* appreciated.

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  46. Thank you for this. I do appreciate your work. I got into the Animals at ten years old when I heard "House Of The Rising Sun" on the radio. Burdon's voice just blew me away. Then when I saw how he looked with the sunglasses, well; he was just TOO cool!

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  47. We now have a 1964 BBC recording of their biggest hit!

    v1.5: 20-3-2024: (Sessions #3+17 added, thanks to Lord Reith for providing 'House of the Rising Sun', a major discovery indeed!)

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    1. Fantastic news! Thanks for the update. I am listening right now with a big smile :)

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    2. Good to hear that Lord Reith helped you out! He's really good on finding BBC material.

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  48. Nice one Prof! This is gold.

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  49. Thanks for the upgrade and for all that you do to provide terrific music!!

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  50. Thank you for amanzing work.

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  51. I greatly appreciate your outstanding work. Many thanks.

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  52. Thanks for the update, even two more songs makes a difference! And thanks to Lord Reith, if they're listening, was enjoying Zu Laut! The Hamburg Star-Club Tapes and the Stowe School Show recently, excellent work!

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  53. Great work as always, just to say that the 1967-12-21 session (20 I think) exists as a better recording here: https://archive.org/details/top-gear-nye-67

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    1. Holy moly, that is an amazing find! Thanks for reporting

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    2. Might be worth contacting the holder of the tape that he uploaded, to skip the mp3, I can PM you his twitter profile

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    3. Thanks, it is being 'worked' on.

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  54. Thank you for the latest upgrade Prof. Stoned!

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  55. Hi, Prof! For my own use, I put all the music tracks in one folder and renumbered them so there are 82 music tracks in chrono order. May I post a link for anyone here who'd like it? Strictly up to you, of course!

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  56. Fantastic post! Thank you.

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  57. Not sure if this will work: all 82 music tracks in one folder, in chrono order.
    https://www.filefactory.com/folder/c9538409715aeb73

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  58. Hi:
    I just discovered your site via a notice on the Zinhof Shoutbox. All I can say is WOW! Just grabbed the Traffic, Animals and Small Faces BBC comps. Have some of these tracks already, but not as complete as your comps. Looking forward to hearing these, browsing the rest of the site, and becoming a regular visitor. Thanks and Cheers to you, Prof!

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  59. Thank you, Professor. An awesome job, as always.

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  60. Hi Prof. Could you please clarify what has been added and upgraded?

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    1. See Prof. Stoned March 20, 2024 at 12:20 AM

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  61. Thank you Prof, you are a very generous person.

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  62. Yet another update, thanks Mover.

    v1.6: 25-3-2024: (Session #20 fully replaced with cleaner source)

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    1. Just remembered I have a poor quality TOTP performance of Help Me Girl that has a live vocal if you want it?

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    2. Sure, send it over.

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  63. thank you for this and everything you have done.

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  64. Thanks a lot!!!

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  65. I'm really digging the quality of these rips. Fantastic. Cheers!

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