From mbeleza@bragatel.pt Wed Apr 20 13:08:12 2005
Subject:Re: My "SOUNDS OF HAMMOND" CD Is Defective

Mine has the same defect!

Manuel
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>
> Why not just request another one.
>
> --- In CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com, ahorne345@a... wrote:
> > I believe I'll quote the brilliantly-named Jimmy Smith recording
> of recent
> > years... DAMN!! And, I got it after clicking something like "Free
> Stuff" at
> > the Hammond 'site... so, no recourse here. And this really s-
> cks, 'cause the
> > tracks are GOOD, a lot of them... I love the first one (which I
> can still
> > listen to, 'cause the defect comes on around the halfway point of
> the thing), an
> > obvious Smith homage and a fine one. I think I can listen as far
> as the XK-3
> > tracks, but afterwards, it does that damn CD defect thing of
> skipping ad
> > nauseum; this continues throughout the disc, and obliterates all
> tracks that
> > follow. Sh'hight (the Etruscan word for this less than polite
> expletive)! You
> > can see what looks like a drop of water on the playing side of the
> disc. And I
> > ripped the disc (almost literally) into the computer. Twice... I
> thought
> > MAYBE the drive was just getting ornery for a second, but nope.
> Actually I'm
> > glad it was the CD and not my drive! Anyway the thing WAS free,
> and I DO get
> > about 4 or 5 tracks out of it.
> >
> > And don't be discouraged, anybody, from ordering it! Norm, I
> repeat - I
> > believe mine took a solid month, plus, to arrive; if yours hasn't
> showed up
> > since you posted re this the other day, I bet it will. And
> yours'll probably be
> > OK.
> >
> > Best - Ad