Her sales were in steep decline anyway. Not classic stuff really.And there is this, as if proof was needed!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48745638
(I’m kidding)
Her sales were in steep decline anyway. Not classic stuff really.And there is this, as if proof was needed!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48745638
Karma? [emoji2369]And there is this, as if proof was needed!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-48745638
Townshend is on record stating that the original mono master of the My Generation album was burned up in that fire, but that a 24/96kHz copy was made.The Who are on that list. I hope the "Who's Next" multitrack tapes were not among the bunt tapes. I'm still craving that album in 5.1 surround!
I never looked at it that way!
What is your opinion on the matter. Do you have any insight as to what is left or lost?
Townshend is on record stating that the original mono master of the My Generation album was burned up in that fire, but that a 24/96kHz copy was made.
Then after that fire remixes have come out on Tommy and Quadrophenia, plus remastered stereo. So either many Who tapes survived and were in the UK, or some very high quality digital backups were made of nearly everything including multitracks. I think so far as Who tapes are concerned, Townshend and Co knew and saw the writing on the wall, and made backups of everything they possibly could. Some but not all analog tapes are gone, but most everything "Who" is safe.
well at least Shel Talmy remixed the My generation lp into true stereo before the fire. and made it available as a cd and lp in true stereo.
isn't the SACD mono?SACD, too!
isn't the SACD mono?
This article makes me even more sick...
"The list of destroyed single and album masters takes in titles by dozens of legendary artists, a genre-spanning who’s who of 20th- and 21st-century popular music. It includes recordings by Benny Goodman, Cab Calloway, the Andrews Sisters, the Ink Spots, the Mills Brothers, Lionel Hampton, Ray Charles, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Clara Ward, Sammy Davis Jr., Les Paul, Fats Domino, Big Mama Thornton, Burl Ives, the Weavers, Kitty Wells, Ernest Tubb, Lefty Frizzell, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Bobby (Blue) Bland, B.B. King, Ike Turner, the Four Tops, Quincy Jones, Burt Bacharach, Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Sonny and Cher, the Mamas and the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Captain Beefheart, Cat Stevens, the Carpenters, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Al Green, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Elton John, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Buffett, the Eagles, Don Henley, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, Iggy Pop, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Barry White, Patti LaBelle, Yoko Ono, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Police, Sting, George Strait, Steve Earle, R.E.M., Janet Jackson, Eric B. and Rakim, New Edition, Bobby Brown, Guns N’ Roses, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Sonic Youth, No Doubt, Nine Inch Nails, Snoop Dogg, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Hole, Beck, Sheryl Crow, Tupac Shakur, Eminem, 50 Cent and the Roots."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html
This reminds me of film vault fires like the Fox fire in 1937 destroying most of their silent films. And of course the 1965 MGM vault fire.
Except those fires resulted in the complete loss of many films. This fire, as tragic as it is, still leaves us with thousands and millions of copies of CDs and LPs of the finished product and, in most cases, the two-track masters which resided elsewhere.
It’s not like the world will never be able to hear “My Generation” again.
Enter your email address to join: