Holy hell that is sacrilege. They should have been sued for incompetent storage management.

tallchris wrote:Since the UMG catalog includes Interscope, does that mean all the Jehu & Rocket masters from that era are gone too?Who knows. I haven't seen a detailed inventory. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that list doesn't exist.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_U ... oup\_labelsAre the masters for Reign In Blood, It Takes A Nation of Millions..., or Pink Flag torched? I guess it's possible. I'm not claiming those records are as important to the collective human experience as Louis Armstrong Hot Five and Seven recordings, but still, what the fuck.Jesus, Tuff Gong? Good lord.

This is a feature in the NYT Magazine regarding maintenance of master recordings, with the UMG fire as a backdrop. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/maga ... dings.htmlThe UMG fire was far worse than I initially believed. I'm not sure that event was mentioned here at all?

@questlove 7h7 hours agoI been dying to find all the old reels and mix the 8 or 9 songs that never made DYWM. My plan for both DYWM & IH was to release all the songs and instrumental/acapella mixes on 45 ”-They sent someone to check out the vault log and

I just saw this and came here to post it. What a disaster.Chess, Impulse, Decca...

Why the fuck weren't these stored in a fire safe environment? I mean if you aren't a music fan but are just in it for the money, and you aren't even considering the artistic value, it's like they just set a pile of a billion dollars on fire. Yep, let the market decide that conglomeration is good for business.

Just finished that article, what a shit show.Since the UMG catalog includes Interscope, does that mean all the Jehu & Rocket masters from that era are gone too? I was wondering why we hadn't gotten a new version of Yank Crime around the time of the reunion tours...

dvockins wrote:https://www.nirvana.com/album/nevermind-4cd-super-deluxe/pulled a rabbit out of a hat back in 2011Hah! Though with a project of that scale it could have been remastered years before the actual release.

Not doubting Novoselic. Just that it's possible the anniversary reissue of one of the biggest albums ever could have been in the works prior to 2008 even.Wasn't there a huge Nirvana remaster campaign in the early/mid 2000s where they released the outtake "You Know You're Right" song. Perhaps they were using those remasters.Hey Tallchris can you tweet him again..

All possible, and yeah Novoselic might not even know for sure. That's not the worst part though. There are quality digital captures of those sessions (if you see those 'behind the mix with Butch Vig'-type YouTube videos, that's what he's using) that could theoretically be copied and preserved for as long as anyone is interested. There was obviously a ton of music in that warehouse where that wasn't the case.