Talk:Persuasive Percussion

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This was a highly influential album, as was all of the Command releases.

It would be easy to attempt to reduce the impact of this series of releases. That would be a mistake. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Aragonzo (talk • contribs) 08:42, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

I, for one, am unfamiliar with the importance or the lasting influence of this album. It would be helpful if you could provide this information yourself, and perhaps cite some sources. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 17:33, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Your concern is understandable. And I am remiss in not providing factual documentation. Although difficult, I will attempt this soon.

The key idea is that prior of the existence of offshoot labels like 'Command', most major record labels were trying to address the growing 'audiophile' audience. RCA, Columbia and London all had specific responses to this - with varied success. Most of this concern centered on the classical catalogs of these labels, as the 'at that time' quite large classical music audience were significant purchasers of LPs.

Command was attempting to attract the 'pop' market by distributing LPs with over-emphasized separation of stereo channel output, and a fair amount of exotics. This was enormously successful. The label went so far as to 'create' rock-like bands (a la the Monkeys) and record them in super-separated high fidelity sound. Some of the recordings were actually not that bad (the 'Cirkle' .. i think .. for example).

The key idea here is that, like pushing auto performance to the max, as formula one and NASCAR does, Command set a high-water mark.

Soon after, several labels came to market distributing 'direct-to-disk' and various other exotic format LPs.

Aragonzo 17:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)Rich