GR recording

[Erik T. Burns]

yes, sorry, I mixed up Muller and Miller (and forgot Guidall!!).
but the "dehissed" one is what I am talking about.

here's an article about it: *http://tinyurl.com/nyzbru4
<http://tinyurl.com/nyzbru4>*

*more: *
http://webopac.klas.com/ok1aopac/title/summary.jsf;jsessionid=e4109e8a9fde3d3893d453beda6f?id=199703857.0232




On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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