{"id":1977,"date":"2012-10-23T07:26:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T22:35:11","slug":"1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=1977","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/randywells-p7751p2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/randywells-p7751p2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Copyright Randy Wells. No Rights Granted Without Authorization.\" width=\"337\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/randywells-p7751p2.jpg 337w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/randywells-p7751p2-300x283.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 337px) 85vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;M NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just back from Salina, Kansas where I photographed Blue Heaven Studios&#8217; 15th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads concerts. The live music was inspirational and aided by the superb acoustics in the converted church studio. It was a fun-filled weekend hanging out with Michael Fremer, Chad Kassem, Kevin Gray and many others. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of Michael and Chad at the QRP record pressing plant right across the street from Acoustic Sounds&#8217; record warehouse. Michael reports that, &#8220;The pressing plant will go from six presses\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfour SMTs and two hand-operated Fine Builts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto a total of ten presses operating, with the addition of two additional SMTs and two Swedish Alpha Toolexes similar to the ones PALLAS uses in Germany.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has heard a QRP pressing is sure to be thrilled by that news. Too bad they aren&#8217;t pressing The Beatles vinyl there from analog tape!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/store.acousticsounds.com\">acousticsounds.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;M NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE Just back from Salina, Kansas where I photographed Blue Heaven Studios&#8217; 15th Annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads concerts. The live music was inspirational and aided by the superb acoustics in the converted church studio. It was a fun-filled weekend hanging out with Michael Fremer, Chad Kassem, Kevin Gray and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=1977\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/3672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}