Dear All:
With Jon’s blessing, steelydave, sjcorne and I have started a petition on Change.org asking Universal to release any or all of the early Steely Dan albums (Can’t Buy a Thrill through Aja) in 5.1. We don’t want to be too mysterious about it—and out of respect for our sources, we’d rather not have a lot of public speculation about it here on the boards—but as we say in the petition: we’ve secured a legitimate pledge from an insider who can put the case forward at Universal for making this happen (i.e., this isn’t just a clutch of over-enthusiastic fans with a pipe-dream agenda), and we think an early show of support could help our contact make the case.
So if this is something you’d like to see happen, please add your signature! And if you’d like to add a comment, that’d be good, too—though we’d encourage you to keep it positive and supportive (i.e., this is probably not the place to dump on the majors or grouse about missed opportunities and might-have-beens, etc.). Better to say what an avid fan you are (of Steely Dan, Elliott Scheiner's mixes, surround in general, whatever), what these releases would mean to you, how you already spend a ton each year on physical media/digital downloads, what a nice way this would be to honor the memory of Walter Becker or mark the upcoming anniversary of Pretzel Logic…that kind of thing.
Also: these sorts of petitions are more effective when they’re spread by grass roots and word of mouth, so sharing the petition with another Dan-fan/surround fan is as important as signing it yourself.
Right. Let’s get the ball rolling. As Robert von Bahr of BIS Records says: “We won’t sit still! We will make it happen!”
Here's a direct link (just click that highlighted text). If anyone runs into technical problems, let me know; I think it may also be possible to embed the petition into this post if that's easier.
With Jon’s blessing, steelydave, sjcorne and I have started a petition on Change.org asking Universal to release any or all of the early Steely Dan albums (Can’t Buy a Thrill through Aja) in 5.1. We don’t want to be too mysterious about it—and out of respect for our sources, we’d rather not have a lot of public speculation about it here on the boards—but as we say in the petition: we’ve secured a legitimate pledge from an insider who can put the case forward at Universal for making this happen (i.e., this isn’t just a clutch of over-enthusiastic fans with a pipe-dream agenda), and we think an early show of support could help our contact make the case.
So if this is something you’d like to see happen, please add your signature! And if you’d like to add a comment, that’d be good, too—though we’d encourage you to keep it positive and supportive (i.e., this is probably not the place to dump on the majors or grouse about missed opportunities and might-have-beens, etc.). Better to say what an avid fan you are (of Steely Dan, Elliott Scheiner's mixes, surround in general, whatever), what these releases would mean to you, how you already spend a ton each year on physical media/digital downloads, what a nice way this would be to honor the memory of Walter Becker or mark the upcoming anniversary of Pretzel Logic…that kind of thing.
Also: these sorts of petitions are more effective when they’re spread by grass roots and word of mouth, so sharing the petition with another Dan-fan/surround fan is as important as signing it yourself.
Right. Let’s get the ball rolling. As Robert von Bahr of BIS Records says: “We won’t sit still! We will make it happen!”
Here's a direct link (just click that highlighted text). If anyone runs into technical problems, let me know; I think it may also be possible to embed the petition into this post if that's easier.
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