Atlantic Records Chairman and CEO Craig Kallman In Conversation with Michael Fremer
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- Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
- Atlantic Records Chairman and CEO Craig Kallman and Tracking Angle editor Michael Fremer discuss Atlantic Records' 75th anniversary celebration, the storied label's history, the vinyl records resurgence, Kallman's rise to become Chairman and more in this exclusive half-hour interview conducted in Kallman's Manhattan listening room November 17th, 2023.
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Fremer found someone to talk records with him…made me smile to see Fremer’s smile!
Fremer, the last several episodes that I’ve watched have been the most engaging shows on UA-cam!
I would love to see an additional interview with Craig Kallman discussing his collecting methodology.
What a great interview! I worked for Warner Communications and worked briefly for Doug Morris and Reen Nally. Atlantic was exciting then and it's sure exciting now! Rock ON!
Thanks for getting Craig in front of us and starting to open up his history, direction and future of Atlantic music. We know he's a vinyl guy and has our best interests. Naturally everyone waited for the Elephant in the room? Doing an in house and audiophile 75th series shows they have the consumer first and foremost, not just crappy digital vinyl records for the dollar! The Atlantic HBO special was outstanding just the quality of those early 70's bands couldn't be matched. Thank you Michael for another outstanding interview of information.
Great interview Micheal. Thanks for introducing us to Craig Kallman.
Please re-release “Snakes and Arrows” “Counterparts” “Test for Echo” Atlantic has always been top notch, so please do it!!!!😊
Thanks for the interview. I’ve been an Atlantic fan all my life. They are known for being a legendary RnB label, but there seems to be a lot of artists that are missing from the anniversary. Ruth Brown, Solomon Burke and Chuck Willis to name a few.
My favorite Label of all time. Awesome Label!!!
This is a great interview, beautiful job Mr Fremer!😊
Thank you Michael for another great video. Atlantic has always been my favorite label, and since the 50s when I started collecting 45s, they have led the way. The Drifters, Aretha, CSN, Led Zepp, and all the rest. As far as vinyl "disappearing" in the 90s, I never noticed that. I never stopped spinning and buying LPs and singles. In the 90s, I bought up collections and went to swap meets. And then it 'comes back'. For me, it never left. And I already have it all. And none of the music is compressed, louded, or clipped. Even my early CDs are fine. No "remasters", no clipped crap. Again, thanks Michael.
Awesome! learnt much thnx
Michael - thanks so much for this interview with the extensive history of Atlantic and the WEA brands which made such an impact on music over the decades!!! Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours....
Nice one Mr Fremmer! Watch the series “Vinyl” to see what this industry is all about!
Excellent interview. Great to see Mr. Kallman being a true music lover and not an overtly slick bean counter. A documentary on the late and great Tom Dowd has some great interviews with Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun about Dowd's incredible work during the 60's, early 70's heyday at Atlantic Records.
Don’t envy A&R scouts these days virtually everything has been done,and now it’s really just reimagining and the rewards are few and far between.
So glad he mentioned INXS too Michael Hutchins was so great reminded me of Jim Morrissey 🤔
Is there a video about that interesting looking room and the system ?
I hoped to hear a question asking why no Zeppelin for Chad’s 45 rpm pressings.
Need to convince Jimmy Page, not Atlantic.
There’s no answer at this point
Anyone remember 'Hommage a Nesuhi'? What a great Atlantic compilation that was...
Nice equipment in the background. I see Lamm, both pre and amps, SRA, and Transparent Cables.
Also Meridian CD player and Wilson Speakers with Transparent Cables.
Excellent conversation. Of course, we'd all love to hear responses to the off-screen questions, but there's nothing to complain about!! Thank you, Michael.
UA-cam would ban it😆
Great interview Michael. Hopefully you can let us know what the outcome was of some of those concerns you wanted to discuss with Craig off camera. I have heard AP's Selling England, PHil Collins Face Value and Mingus Blues & Roots. They are all the new reference versions on vinyl in my opinion. I have an original German pressing of Selling England (the one with the gatefold cover) and compered it to the AP UHQR45. There was some comparable aspects but the AP sounds unreal. Atlantic should release Les McCann and Bill Harris's Swiss Movement LP. This is one that comes to mind that needs to be released on the UHQR45 format. It sounds great to begin with. Another one I would like to see released on UHQR or premium release on 33RPM, is Jean Luc Ponty's Cosmic Messenger.
Unreal as in bad low fidelity? Or as in better significantly better,Selling England By The Pound is a fantastic album and sounds good on most versions I’ve heard and wondering if I should buy another?
Excellent to listen to .
i want to hear about the off camera stuff
Please make some Retro 8 track tapes. Im a big collector.
Thnks for this Michael. There's something in here perhaps hinted at but not explored... Craig's passion for vinyl is often alluded to here and elsewhere but, aside from Chad's series, the titles Atlantic are putting out themselves on vinyl for their anniversary are digitally-sourced aren't they? An approach that stands in contrast to Rhino for example who at least have put out reasonably priced 33rpm analogue-sourced reissues of acts like Van Halen, Talking Heads, and Aerosmith for example. Excepting the newer records, is it not fair to ask why he would not make the effort to go analogue for the in-house series for such a marquee anniversary?
I’d like to see some King Curtis albums reissued. Also on ATCO, how bout a nice analog release of Johnny Jenkins Ton Ton Macoute? 😊
Great interview…I recently bought the Atlantic 75 Phil Collins face value and overall from the packaging to the quality of the pressing its outstanding…I’m looking forward to receiving genesis selling England by the pound next…long may it continue
Would be nice if they could find and remaster Zambian Rock and other African music, it seems to go under the radar all the stuff out there and is not particularly engineered that great
I think they should bring out a collection of Zambian Rock and African beats from the 60s to the present day
now-again has done a lot of that stuff, sourced from needledrops because the tapes perished long ago. it's the best that's available.
Well it can be re-recorded and the voice can be analysed these days and reproduce with AI if it's not possible to get it off the album and remastered @@malachilui6146
4:49. Dylan nailed it. Fremer, what’s your take on Led Zep? I think they are very skilled (great technique as Ginger Baker says) but rock music doesn’t swing (doesn’t groove).
The label talking about “it’s nice for the label to have the synergies of involvement in merch and touring works out well”. Synergies is such a sleezy word
11:19. Fremer, with the headphones on, that’s some grunts by you
Funny because reading your comment I could hear you farting.
@@trackingangle929 you still got it
Most Of Atlantic Records Reissued Albums and CD Are On Rhino Records in Santa Monica California When Capitol Records West Coast Plant Shut Down Most Of The Capitol Records Metrix Department Bounced Over To Rhino Records .....Rhino Records Has Some of The Top Technicians From Capitol Records ....This Was a Long Time Ago Some of These Cats Have Got To Be in Their Late 70s or Dead Yet Rhino Records Puts Out Some of The Best Quality in Vinyl and CDs Due in Part To Capitol Records
The Aussies think that the Bee Gees is an Australian group but the top bod of Atlantic gets it spot on as far as I am concerned, but then I'm a pom living in Brisbane.
Led Zeppelin Re-issues...???
Interesting as ever, MF, thanks. I sent mail to old mail address from AP years - are you still there?
No. I left there more than a year ago. I'm at TrackingAngle.com
Ah yes, have followed your journey. It's an email address from that period but not linked to AP. In any case, I used the contact form on TA, thanks. @@trackingangle929
Perhaps the most poignant statement you made that really resonated with me, from a previous episode, the LP is the only medium that has been illustrated to last over Time. Yet I won't be buying new albums, if they are mastered from digital sources. I stopped buying records in '82. Spent a decade+ in the NAV, flying for a living, and just didn't have the Time to listen or even play my guitar. When I separated, analog as a recording medium was very rare. I liked the tape saturation distortion, via analog.
There are more records cut from tape today than you can probably afford.
@@trackingangle929 Good to know that analog is available. I do admit to being cheap, that's one of the reasons I build my own hardware. Besides the implementation of sound Electrical Engineering, Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Psychoacoustics, and curiosity from my coursework in 4 undergrads vs the silly amounts and mysticism the manufacturers impart to snow the uneducated, lay People. But its not about what I can afford, which is always something you interject, but what I am willing to part with. You'd be surprised at what some multinational pharmaceuticals will pay for programmers who can write in CSMP III.
@@trackingangle929no no all records since 1982 have been made from digital
Ho humm...Blah blah blah.....Chad...who???
Chad Kassem Acousticsounds.com releasing 75 titles AAA cut from tape. You’ll have to go elsewhere for hysterical clickbait. We do not indulge.
Why are the channels reversed? Out of phase?
I could have easily reversed the channels but does it really matter for this? My answer was no.
@@trackingangle929 It is really annoying and unprofessional.
@@casperdowlen625I’ll do better next time
Kids today will never (as a whole) begin to buy Vinyl, Amps, Pre-Amps, TT's, Interconnects, Speaker Wire & Speakers over their cheap ear pods playing FREE Music.
What you write is simply not true.
What will change that is exposure to high fidelity. Some of us were fortunate to have that exposure early in life.
you'd be surprised how many questions i get from peers asking for advice about buying a turntable.
I am still a vinyl fan but I stopped buying them because of their bad pressing and mastering quality, especially the so called audiophile pressings, even from this man who became untouchable in the us vinyl industry, . Unfortunately I know a lot of sellers who told me that I am not the only one. They told me that there are more and more people who are even selling their turntables because of this. The reason why I am saying this is because I would like to save vinyl for the future. So please be careful and think proactive. Thank you
I have no idea what you are talking about. "this man who became untouchable in the us vinyl industry"? What does that mean? What is "this"? Audiophile pressing quality has never been higher. There are many bad vinyl issues coming out, yes and we talk about those.
I casually buy Records regularly. Have done so for fifty years. Never have I consistently had such a run of excellent quality records. I buy a range of styles from popular to 'wierd'. Some Audiophile but mostly not.
Are you, by chance, the president of the United Streamers of America?
@@williamtaylor5193No I'm English.
I believe you. I also believe your stylus is crooked
Boy was that boring can I have my time back
No. When you grow up the value will become apparent. For now watch a cage fight or find some screaming click bait to entertain you.
@@trackingangle929 Exactly.