A different sort of Now Playing photo. Sony Japan has been doing a vinyl reissue campaign of Jeff Beck’s Epic catalog, starting with Rough and Ready and just finishing with Jeff. Ten albums (including the live one with Jan Hammer), but for whatever reason not including Truth and Beck-ola unless they plan to do that last for whatever odd reason.
I’ve got them all and going through them now. So far, these Japanese pressings are really enjoyable, but I also love the liner notes... which are more like essays. The one below is for Jeff Beck Group which got a spin today.
When I started getting CDs from Japan way back, they often had great booklets, but unless you or a friend knew how to read Japanese (which wasn’t the case for me) you were out of luck.
Now, you can take photos and let AI work its magic. I upload them to Google Gemini and say “Translate to English.” I take the results and paste it in a text document to read later.
Every fan should be so lucky to get a vinyl re-issue campaign of a favorite artist where you get something like this.
I’ve got them all and going through them now. So far, these Japanese pressings are really enjoyable, but I also love the liner notes... which are more like essays. The one below is for Jeff Beck Group which got a spin today.
When I started getting CDs from Japan way back, they often had great booklets, but unless you or a friend knew how to read Japanese (which wasn’t the case for me) you were out of luck.
Now, you can take photos and let AI work its magic. I upload them to Google Gemini and say “Translate to English.” I take the results and paste it in a text document to read later.
Every fan should be so lucky to get a vinyl re-issue campaign of a favorite artist where you get something like this.
