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| From | bob_hutton@standardlife.com |
| Subject | Raspberries Video (+ "Greatest" - Remastered or not?) |
| Date | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:17:26 +0000 |
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Hey Gary, that seems a bit tight of Ken Sharp and the Eric Carmen website
guy to order you to take the link down - it's hardly like having a video
clip will dissuade someone from buying a book (what book was it
incidentally?). I would have thought the opposite would be the case. So
Yah! Sucks! Boo! to them.
Talking Rasps, I recently picked up the new compilation ("Greatest").
Cover art is awful, liner notes are scant, quotes are a re-hash of those on
the Power-Pop Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 CDs which came out on Reprise about 9 years
ago. But the main reason I bought it was because it was supposedly "24-bit
remastered". Having listened to it, the sound quality is not noticeably
improved compared to previous Raspberries compilations.
I read the liner notes again, and this time noticed the absence of the
phrase " ... from the original master tapes ... " after the word
"remastered". Does this imply they didn't go back to the original master
tapes to remaster? I know that when the Beach Boys reissued the 2-fer-1 CD
of "Today/Summer Days" around 2000, the improvement in audio quality over
the earlier version of the same CD (issued circa 1991) was like night and
day.
Bob
PS We best not mention to anyone the thread a few months back about
Raspberries DVDs
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