Re: Quick One Stereo vs. Mono Debate

>MOST of the stereo masters have been used on the GERMAN "A Quick One" (except
>for "So Sad About Us" and "See My Way") and believe me, they sound great.
>According to John Entwistle, those tapes are "copy tapes", but from my
>perspective, they sound better than anything else currently released and
>should be "tinkered" with to get the album right... Next to the German
>release of the album, the Japanese version has the most stereo tracks, but
>has "A Quick One While He's Away" in mono and the sound is not quite as good
>as the German copy. The USA Decca (and it's subsequent reissues) never really
>figured out what it was trying to do. Some tracks were in similated stereo,
>some mono, some true stereo. Overall, it sounded like <Picard>. Seek out a
>German vinyl copy and enjoy the album the way it should be listened to...

WF:

One of the great things about computer technology is that they could
separate everything (even from the mono Masters) and remix it in stereo. For
instance, they found some of Elvis Presley's Master tapes were flaking...so
they "repaired" the missing sections to perfection, using lesser copies of
the music.
I don't know how into this technology Astley & Co. are, and this may be part
of the problem...but even the MCA tapes of MY GENERATION could be remixed
into stereo if they really wanted to. So it goes back to the same old thing:
what is MCA willing to do (as in: spend) in order to do the catalog justice?
Copy tapes (in the case of AQO) could easily be upgraded.

>Lastly, there was talk of them doing the CD over again (properly), but I
>wouldn't hold my breath...

Given the attitude that's coming from MCA, I would say that holding your
breath would probably be a bad idea...



                   Cheers                   ML

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