Just realized another Nonesuch Explorer Series record I picked up a day or two later is also a Ludwig! "In The Shadow of The Mountain" Bulgarian Folk Music http://www.folklorediscography.org/Nonesuch-H-72038.htm Only two tracks in - so far some brilliant sounding female a capella chanting and full band folk - great stuff. I hadn't come across the Nonesuch Explorer series records before but I'm going to keep my eyes peeled for more...
Hey, we've hit 1000 posts here Now would be a good time for someone (other than me ) to consolidate the list, so the updated list can be the first post of part 2 once a Gort closes this thread. If we could just have a volunteer from the audience, please
Thanks for that. I love this forum, exactly for things like this. I've traveled all through Tibet and didn't know that this LP existed. Just picked up a copy on eBay!
Add one: Rolling Stones: Start Me Up. The 33 1/3 12" single, with Start me up on both sides. Sounds amazing. Cut straight from the tape while the tape was hot. It's one of the very few where Bob Ludwig did NOT put his signature "RL" into the Deadwax.
I think I remember reading he cut some of the early 70s James Brown lps for Polydor and didn't have his signature but I believe they did have the Sterling stamp. I have a greatest hits comp from this time and it sounds woderful. Also, he didn't mark RL in the Rage Against the Machine S/T and that is certainly his mastering!
I'd like to know for sure too. I think it was interview somewhere. I saw it somewhere and trying to spread misinformation. Here's a cool excerpt from an interview on his favorite masterings that he has done: AUDIO: Which are the three best sounding records you’ve (re)mastered Ludwig: There are so many, but a few that I originally mastered come to mind are the Elvis Costello “All This Useless Beauty”, the original vinyl of Sly and the Family Stone “There’s A Riot Going On”, Rage Against the Machine’s first vinyl, Dire Straits, “Brothers in Arms”, Roxy Music “Avalon”, the SACD release of the Rolling Stones “Beggar’s Banquet”, the SACD of Sam Cooke and countless Nonesuch Records classical and world music.
So has anyone actually encountered a copy of Sly's Riot or Roxy Music's Avalon with an RL in the deadwax? This has been asked a couple of times in this thread but I don't think it's been answered definitively. If not, is it safe to assume that a yellow label Epic of Riot and a Masterdisk-stamped Avalon are RLs? Would love to get my grubby mitts on an LP of All This Useless Beauty.
I would say it is safe to assume that the Yellow Epic is an RL as long as it has the same original catalog #.
Firstly the sound, it is great. Then the STERLING stamp plus the time at which it was done - 1981. Then the fact that Bob Ludwig did Tattoo You at the same time. Circumstantial evidence. Then I asked someone in the industry, he confirmed it, Bob Ludwig did the 12" single. It was one he just never signed, for whatever reason. Mine is a promo.
There is some stuff Bob Ludwig worked on but was never pressed. Turns out he did some original mastering work on the Rolling Stones "Necrophilia", until the project got canned.
Wierd, I asked someone in the industry who also has a copy of this, he said Bob Ludwig definitely mastered that 12" single.
Found another world record mastered by RL today... Bengal Minstrel: Music of the Bauls - Purna Chandra Das Baul Nonesuch 1975
