Golden Earring wrote: > The album did hit #1 on both sides of the Atlantic Of course it hit #1 because of the reputation of its personnel, not because of its content. I recall being totally underwhelmed by it, despite having enjoyed a lot of Cream's output. Blind Faith was a classic example of a manufactured supergroup that failed to deliver.
Golden Earring wrote: > so some efforts may have been made to preserve the master tapes: > nevertheless, they would have been >30 years old by 2001 & 45 years old > by 2014, which is a considerable age for an inherently unstable medium. I doubt it. Record companies have a history of treating their inventory with utter disregard. Amazing when you think that the master tapes are their core assests. It wouldn't surprise me if most early generation copy masters of historic recordings that come to light are in the hands of individuals who were not employees of the record company itself but around the recording sessions and "liberated" a personal copy. A 45 year old early generation copy tape that's been hidden away by someone close to the artist is going to yield a better source than a later generation copy tape that's been slung in the record company's storage facility, even if the latter is 15 years younger. Or of course it could simply be that the 2001 release was prepared less competently than the 2014 release, as you hypothesise :) Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
