Post #437428 by OnyaBirri on Mon, Mar 2, 2009 6:21 PM

Jeff, the aural evidence speaks for itself. I'm sure MD couldn't remember forty years later if two or three tunes on the stereo album are from the original session.

This fact does not conflict with MD's account; it simply goes to a deeper level of detail. The stereo image on the three tracks I described would fit most definitions of "two-track monaural," in that two of the instruments are on one track and three are on the other, easily collapsing to mono.

As stated previously, both "Waipo" and "Ah Me Furi" synch up exactly when the mono is panned left and the combined stereo is panned right - they produce an identical mono center image.

I will be happy to e-mail you mp-3 files demonstrating this.

As stated, becuase "Return to Paradise" has production similarities to the aforementioned tunes, I suspect it is from the same session.

However, "Waipo" and "Ah Me Furi" clearly are the same recording on both the mono and stereo album.

[ Edited by: OnyaBirri 2009-03-05 18:03 ]