So the bootlegger did NOT have 4 years to get the tapes to sound that way.
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A crew of engineers at London’s Abbey Road Studios have spent four years working on the remasters using new technology and vintage equipment, the press release says, in an effort to preserve “the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings” and ensure “the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.”
It says something about CDs when it takes 4 years of work to get them to sound like the records did.
Oh goodie. Something else I won’t buy which then will save me money. Waste of good coin, this.
So the bootlegger did NOT have 4 years to get the tapes to sound that way.
Oh yeah, they’ll sell it it to ya again and again.
What I want to see are remastered first three Stones albums, as released in the UK, as well their BBC Sessions and demos. ABKlein owns all those masters, unfortunately.
Seriously, how many times can the Beatles issue a “remastered” copy. More than anyone else the Beatles have milked every last ounce of commercial exploitation out of each album.
Sheesh.
"Hey, let's milk this musical cow some more, whaddya say?"
Those Parlophone (and Stones’ Decca) UK albums were originally pressed on heavy vinyl, which beat the quality of the later thin releases by a nautical mile.
I’m a huge fan but every year they try to squeeze a little more out of it.
I think I’ll pass on one after 9/09.
Great marketing potential... “#9, #9, #9” ... LOL...
i will stick with dr. ebbetts’ releases. besides, i’ve probably got at least five versions/copies of each album they put out. plus at least 250 discs worth of boots. and they’re not even my favorite.
TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?
JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.
Good news IF quality re-mastering was done and noise reduction was NOT used - always a killer of the sonic quality. Eager to see the names involved in re-mastering - the ‘87 re-masters are horrible. Can’t wait to compare to my CDR’s burned direct from the master tapes...
All that song and dance about being “revolutionaries” and “power to the people” and “the evils of wealth.” The Beatles’ estates are worth approximately $ 1.5B each. So, of course, they must re-issue their moldy old songs to make even more money. Disgusting hypocrites.
I suppose this will make a lot of people happy.
Choice of the date—”One After 909” or...
“number nine...number nine...” Hmm.
Doesn't he own the Lennon-McCartney catalog?
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What boring news. Never liked them and even if I did how many times can one buy the same tune and how many times has one heard it? I always liked the Stones but I’ve heard their stuff too many times by now. So I wouldn’t buy a super duper digital boxed set from them either