Great News/Quad Re-Mixed!!! ?Re: Who CD News...

[klcheshire@linknet.net (Ken L. Cheshire)]

Brendon Wrote:

>It's not so much the fact that there won't be bonus
>tracks on the new Quad that I find annoying necessarily
>(of course it would  be nice--more music for your
>money is good).
>
>But why are only a handful of tracks being remixed?
>They just don't want to take the time (and money)
>to do it? Or are there perhaps other reasons?

You may have missed this post last night so here it is again:

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>Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:20:24 -0500
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>From: Luke Pacholski <LukPac@newrock.com>
>Subject: Great News/Quad Re-Mixed!!!
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>Great news! All of Quad to be remixed! From Ice Online:
>
>May 31
>
>Good day; it's Friday. Is it really possible that we're already approaching
>the halfway point for 1996?
>
>In the current issue of ICE (#111), we discuss the upcoming CD of The Who's
>Quadrophenia, the latest in the band's
>series of upgraded, overhauled catalog CDs (due in July). We state that
>four tracks have been remixed for the new CD: "The
>Rock," "Quadrophenia," "The Real Me" and "Dr. Jimmy," at Pete Townshend and
>Roger Daltrey's request.
>
>Both producer Jon Astley and remixing engineer Andy McPherson called us to
>clarify that point: actually, all of Quadrophenia
>was remixed for the new CD. The four songs singled out were remixed for a
>second time, after Townshend and Daltrey heard
>a tape of the first remix, for the reasons stated in the ICE article.
>
>We apologize for any confusion this caused. From my personal standpoint, if
>the remixed Quadrophenia sounds half as good
>as the remixed Tommy, we have a lot to look forward to!
>
>Pete Howard
>ICE Publisher
>
>Luke
>
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