The sound of silence: What did we lose in the Universal Music fire?

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When a fire blazed through part of the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood a little more than 11 years ago, it took with it the music equivalent of a presidential library.

When"Sgt. Pepper" was first issued in 1967,"mono was still the state of the art," Seligman said."The Beatles and George Martin spent a lot of time deciding how to set it up — the levels, the tapes. They spent all their time on the mono, and they did a really quick mix on the stereo."for the rushed stereo mix. So for a half-century, after mono recordings went out of fashion, virtually everybody who had been listening to"Sgt.

And master recordings"very often have songs that weren't released, because if you were smart as an artist or producer, they would record far more than they needed," Seligman said."The ones they didn't choose might today be of extraordinary interest."Rogers, Prince's former sound engineer, draws a parallel to literature and the art world.

 

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I can PROMISE you that certain people will be a treasure in 1 billion years from now..and they’ll STILL be trying to figure it out. Personally, I think it was God

I can’t believe we are just hearing bout this . I understand that all of Soundgardens’ masters were in there too Such a shame that these precious archives were not better taken care of .

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? Digital copies in the cloud ?

I love how this is news 11 years later. Cover-up?

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