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Spud
That list, kindly and painstakingly posted by crholmstrom, is frightening.
I suspect that most of us will find at least half a dozen or so of our very favourite artists named on it.
Do the Stones take care of and have custody of their own masters ?
I have to confess that when I first read the NYT expose... and before seeing the lists of affected artists... I did wonder if this was the real reason for the 1971-2016 Vinyl re-masters being cut from "..a choice of flat digital transfers provided by universal" .
[ The cutting engineer had said that, for various technical reasons, he was happy with the digital sources for the project...
...but I still couldn't help getting a brief whiff of sewer dwelling rodent ]
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TornAndFried
... And the remainder, I'm glad their master tapes were burned to a crisp!
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LazarusSmith
But, in the final analysis, does it really matter? I'm not so sure ...
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LazarusSmith
But, in the final analysis, does it really matter? I'm not so sure ...
Consider it like this : we didn't own these tapes we were just keeping them safe so the future generations might enjoy/discover what' on them.
From that angle : WE FAILED! Badly. There's no other way to put : we failed big time. We betrayed the future generations.
And image that by 2050-2070 new technologies would enable people to greatly improve the sound quality of "semi-amateur" tapes. What are they gonna work from now that the tapes have turned to ashes?
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His Majesty
It wasn't just already released music.
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LazarusSmith
But, it's the "betrayed the future generations" angle that intrigues me: wherein does that betrayal lie, exactly?
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dcba
What we can enjoy in museums has been preserved and protected by those who came before us. Our duty is to protect what we inherited from our fathers/mothers and hand it unharmed to those who'll come after us. It's a tacit promise that's betrayed every time sth horrible happens (UMG fire. Notre Dame horrorshow).
Just my 2 cents of course...
PS : unlike what was posted in this thread I lament any tape destruction by any artist, even those I don't like. I never liked Nirvava (a lucky untalented bunch to me) but reading that their tape cache vanished doesn't please me at all.
PPS : the fact that UMG tried to downplay the extend of the destruction proves it's a major major catastrophe. I hope artists will sue them to death.
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Spud
The loss is obviously greater in some eyes than others ...I get that.
But some folks I think are missing the point...and not just wit regard to the unreleased stuff and that with historical interest.
I don't doubt that we have some wonderful Digital photos & prints of all the great paintings in the Louvre and the National Gallery ....
....But what if the originals were all lost because those galleries turned out to be unsuitable fire traps with no sprinkler systems ?
Would there be no real loss because we have photos ?