GR recording

[Monte Davis]

Erik, if we're talking about the same "samizdat" version (from various
torrent sites, files noted as "dehissed") it's the very good one George
Guidall (a well-known audiobook reader) recorded commercially in 1986. I
don't know why it went out of "print" -- or how somebody could take the
trouble to convert it to MP3 and then do so incompetently :-(

http://georgeguidall.com/

Note that (1) Guidall is credited in the new Amazon listing, (2) Frank
Miller is probably there because he did a cover for GR and that will be
incorporated; to the best of my knowledge he's a graphic and film artist,
not "voice talent"; (3) Frank MUller (not Miller) recorded Moby-Dick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Muller

(There's also an abridged M-D read by Burt Reynolds!)

I taped GR at Recording for the Blind (now part of Learning Ally) in the
mid-1970s; never had a tape of that myself and it's not listed there. For
now, I'm assuming the October release will be a reissue of Guidall's 1986
reading, sans samizdat flaws.


On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> That must be a reissue of the one that's floating round the interwebs. It
> was apparently first done for the blind and never published for a wider
> audience. I listened to the samizdat version and it is amazing. Miller is a
> great reader (his Moby Dick is also well worth it). The samizdat version
> had a lot of audio problems, dropouts and static and chop, which I actually
> thought fit the GR ambience well. It was listening to a pirate radio
> broadcasting from in the zone.
>
>
>
>   *From: *Elisabeth Romberg
> *Sent: *Wednesday, July 9, 2014 12:22
> *To: *James Robertson
> *Cc: *Keith Davis; Plist
> *Subject: *Re: GR recording
>
> It's pre order (October 16th) on Amazon? Read by Frank Miller (sin city)?
>
> Sendt fra min iPhone
>
> Den 8. juli 2014 kl. 07:35 skrev James Robertson <
> james at themutedposthorn.com>:
>
> There is an audiobook. It's pretty damn good.
>
> James Robertson
> <https://www.facebook.com/cataplexymovie>
> james at themutedposthorn.com
> @jamesjrobertson
>
>
> On 8 Jul 2014, at 16:18, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> There was some discussion here not long ago about a recording of GR. Is
> there any news about it, or any way to get a copy?
>
> On a completely different track, a friend turned me on to Beckett, namely
> "Molloy". Very good reading!
>
> --
> www.innergroovemusic.com
>
>
> - Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
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