Mason, Dave - Headkeeper - Hot Stamper

Mason, Dave - Headkeeper - Hot StamperAl Schmitt recorded and mixed this album and he sure knocked it out of the park. We know his work well; he happens to have engineered many albums with superb sound: Aja, Hatari, Breezin, Late for the Sky, Toto IV the guys won 13 Grammies, which ought to tell you something. Side one of the album is recorded in the studio, side two live from the Troubador. Many of the songs on side one would be recorded again by Mason, and not as well in most cases.

full-bodied bass to the fat

The brass is textured with just the right amount of bite (but not to the point of sounding gritty)

by having some originals and some of the “wrong” reissues in our shootout

This is what we sometimes refer to as 'Blockbuster Sound

Our man Jack here is the only guy that seems to know how to master this record in America

right into an ongoing orgy of wild percussion

"Sweet Home Chicago

widest and deepest -- sounding records we have ever heard

John Punter's engineering is superb in all respects -- virtually faultless

all good songs and no bad ones

This explains why you find so few recordings from the era on our site

The Right Sound For Midnight Love