You're doing extremely well getting through a tape a day. I had to listen to mine on trips to Santa Fe, or go hide in a back room and listen to them. But of course I was only getting the one a month.
I haven't had a subscription to Hanhurst now for about 8 years, and I only marginally miss it when I hear a good new piece some caller is doing. From time to time, I do go to www.dosado.com and link into Hanhurst and listen to the .mp3s they have available, or just go ahead and order one that a caller has recommended.
But yes, it's the time consideration and the fact that 80% of the VOCAL sides of the records were unlistenable that made me finally give up my annual subscription. Can you imagine dancing night after night to some of those off-key, off-tempo voices? Yikes.
Early on, that was my key source of Mainstream and Plus singing calls. There were some pretty good figures in there. But the pro callers, like on Royal, really only used a couple of figures that were done to death, like Heads promenade 1/2, square thru, swing thru, boys run, ferris wheel, square thru 3, swing and promeande. Over and over and over.
Fast forward helped a lot. :-)
Toward the end of my annual subscriptions, I usually only listened to the instrumental portion and ignored the vocal side altogether, unless it was a song I wasn't familiar with.
Now that Palamino owns Hanhurst (which once upon a time was it's own company before it was bought by Supreme Audio), I wonder if it's just going away period.
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Date: 2006-01-26 12:55 am (UTC)I haven't had a subscription to Hanhurst now for about 8 years, and I only marginally miss it when I hear a good new piece some caller is doing. From time to time, I do go to www.dosado.com and link into Hanhurst and listen to the .mp3s they have available, or just go ahead and order one that a caller has recommended.
But yes, it's the time consideration and the fact that 80% of the VOCAL sides of the records were unlistenable that made me finally give up my annual subscription. Can you imagine dancing night after night to some of those off-key, off-tempo voices? Yikes.
Early on, that was my key source of Mainstream and Plus singing calls. There were some pretty good figures in there. But the pro callers, like on Royal, really only used a couple of figures that were done to death, like Heads promenade 1/2, square thru, swing thru, boys run, ferris wheel, square thru 3, swing and promeande. Over and over and over.
Fast forward helped a lot. :-)
Toward the end of my annual subscriptions, I usually only listened to the instrumental portion and ignored the vocal side altogether, unless it was a song I wasn't familiar with.
Now that Palamino owns Hanhurst (which once upon a time was it's own company before it was bought by Supreme Audio), I wonder if it's just going away period.