For instance, the disc, Live In Texas. The drums are basically burried in the mix to where you can barely hear them at times, as if it was a Barry Manilow concert or something. The mix of music is great, but the mixing of the baseline and drums is horrible.
Another example, the mix on Bridge Over Troubled Water. When Elvis originally recorded this in the studio he had the drums up front and the base mixed in with them. Listen to the fantastic studio version on the cd Hundred Year's From Now. Why can't they digitally remix the orginal version to sound like that and more lively? This is almost 2006, and they still put the soft easy listening version on RCA releases where the drums sound like they are in another studio down the road. I hate that. It takes away from the true power of the recording.
The best mix I have heard so far on any Elvis track is the Suspicious Minds remix on E-1. The drums and baseline are mixed together and are punchier and more up front in the recording and not hidden as on the original. That's how ALL the tracks should sound!! Especially the '69 Memphis tracks. Where's Ronnie Tutt's powerful drumming? Where's Burton's funkie guitar pickin. And where's the soulful voices of The Sweets? Always mixed low or out.
It's as if RCA is either sayin "Elvis wasn't Hard Rock enough and was only for soft easy listening" or that they are doin this as a joke to downplay his stage power as a true rocker. They need to quit mixing the concerts and studio tracks to sound "dated" and start giving them some much needed LIFE.
And I'm not the only one who has complained about this either. I know this subject has been brought up before, and I have heard the same complaints from non fans who say his music is "too soft". But that's due to RCA's doing, not Elvis.
