I find it fascinating how a fire that happened 11 years ago, and that most - here and in the music-business related internet communities - heard about at the time (correct me if I'm wrong) can suddenly get so much press and attention just out of a NYT article. International press is paraphrasing that article in every language (it's the n'1 clicked article on french newspaper Liberation just now, for example, but I'm reading rehashing of that old story everywhere, like people just discovered grated cheese), people are facebooking about this and getting all self righteous about finding responsibilities, "oh my oh my, everyone knows you have to backup 6 times on 7 different continents, what a bunch of cunts, major labels blah blah blah".Just because someone at the NYT needed to hand a 1000 character story before monday and was looking for a good and clickable story.

It was worth it so tallchris could become twitter famous

yea the Nick Drake phenomenon is a perfect example. how many other nick drakes burned up in that fire? its incomprehensible to even start thinking about it.

154 wrote: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....or it could have burned up like the bass player mentioned above.

154 wrote: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.It's possible. It's also possible that it ain't what they said it was. Not that Novoselic would have any idea, or maybe anyone that worked on it.

https://www.nirvana.com/album/nevermind ... er-deluxe/pulled a rabbit out of a hat back in 2011

jeff\_fox wrote:How/why the fuck did they never make duplicates of these? Is it because all music industry people are stupid assholes?I think they did, at least for the big records, but not for the sake of preservation. When a record was released in other countries, they would duplicate the master and send it to that country to get the vinyl cut there. So on paper a lot of those records have duplicates of the masters. The problem is that you lose a generation with each copy, and also that the master is the purest form of that particular recording and it's such a shame that these artifacts are gone.What really bothers me is the music we never got to hear. Not necessarily Nirvana, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, etc. outtakes, but the amazing records that just didn't sell very well and are pretty much lost forever.

How/why the fuck did they never make duplicates of these? Is it because all music industry people are stupid assholes?

Boombats wrote:It was worth it so tallchris could become twitter famous If we re looking on the bright side, there were some Eagles and Steely Dan masters that got destroyed.

This is a Great Library of Alexandria fire level of destruction. jesus.