Ugo
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Posted: July 07 2012, 10:39 |
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Quote (Korgscrew @ July 07 2012, 00:43) | He'd only need a basic mono copy of those to act as a reminder of the tunes, though...and he does write things down. If they were tunes he particularly liked, he might even have just kept them in his head. |
Well, yes, of course he does write things down - the interior of the Amarok booklet is ample proof of that. But still I think that he'd need a tape support of some kind (yes, it may very well have been just a copy) to record a note-perfect version of a tune he did 22 years before. I don't think he could have just kept the tune in his head... to keep a tune you improvised in 1968 inside your head and then pull out a note-perfect rendition of it 22 years later, you either have to be an extremely good musician and composer [which Mike undoubtly is, but still...], or you have to be Pico of Mirandola. Amarok also includes some sections from Mike's TB demos, and of course he definitely still has those tapes. Anyway, I think that the whole thing of missing master tapes is only important as far as an artist really wants to remix the material, as opposed to just remaster it, because I think you can definitely pull very good material for remastering from a good CD release. [One guy, in a not-so-distant past, tried to remix a song from a CD version of it - he failed miserably. ]. I honestly don't think that any of the really devoted Mike Oldfield fans who write on this board would actually like him to remix anything from FMO onwards. [OK, there's still that huge question-mark of a 5.1 mix of Amarok, but that's another thing... ] I think we would all like cleaner, sharper, crisper versions of those 80s releases - maybe bringing them back to the warmth of their vinyl versions. [Yes, I know, with CDs this is nearly impossible, but still... ] But doing this only takes a good remaster, not a remix. So... do missing master tapes really matter? Yes? No? As someone said, only time will tell.
-------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian
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