Editoras tentam remediar as asneiras do passado

Eis um artigo em PDF bastante interessante acerca das asneiras que algumas grandes editoras (RCA, Columbia, Decca, Sony, MCA, etc) cometeram , ao descurar e por vezes destruir ou simplesmente jogar no lixo o acervo dos seus cofres editoriais, fitas masters, laquers e stampers, perdendo-se para sempre algumas e outras acabando nas mãos de bootleggers.
Mas muitas foram salvas , ou por desrespeito das ordens recebidas ou por simplesmente terem ido parar a mãos conscienciosas.

http://www.billholland.net/words/Labels%20Strive%20to%20Rectify%20Past%20Archival%20Problems.pdf

"I was in the studio supervisor's office--this was 1980-- and there were a pile of tapes, so I started looking through them. They all had a big S on them, including boxes clearly labeled 'Louis Armstrong--Unreleased Concert.' I said, 'What is this?' The guy said, 'All that's old stuff getting thrown out to make room in the vault.' The S was for Scrap."

Lost catalogue recording materials in the pre-tape era include metal record manufacturing parts, disc acetates, test pressings and disc copies, said the sources. In the tape era, the losses include both monaural and stereo tape masters of singles and albums, safety copies, alternate takes and multi-track session tapes.

"In the '70s, there was an order at MCA to the upstate New York vault to destroy all the metal parts of the classic pre-1950 Decca, Vocalian and Brunswick sides," said a source. "But the order was quietly ignored by people at the vault who knew better, who later explained that there was plenty of space and no reason to do a systematic meltdown."

"CBS used to employ one infamous person who had bizarre reasons for scrapping things," recalled reissue producer Brooks. "For example, she was shelving historic 16" test pressings. But she was also heaving all of the smaller 11" pressings into the trash. I asked her why. "I don't keep little records," she told me.


etc,etc,etc.........

António José da Silva escreveu:

E com razão....

One of the most devastating vault losses in modern industry history occurred in February, 1978 in a fire in a non-air-conditioned Atlantic Records storage facility in Long Branch, N.J.
The warehouse fire destroyed virtually all of Atlantic's unreleased masters, alternate takes and sessions tapes by artists who had recorded for the label and its offshoots throughout its classic 1948-1969 first golden era.

"In the '70s, they just threw out some Elvis material." said a source. "A storage issue, apparently. They were multitrack session reels from his '60s movies. Those ended up on a (counterfeit) bootleg."

"I walked in the back door of the studio one day," Howe recalled. "It was in 1960. The dumpster was filled with tapes."

Pilferage of the vaults prior to the updated vault programs, has also been a problem at all labels over the years.
While there are isolated cases of ripped-off recordings going directly to bootleggers, much of the pilferage has come from passionate music fans who felt (in some cases, with good reason) that unless they "liberated" material they'd be thrown out, destroyed or left to gather dust.

Eu fico maldisposto quando leio coisas destas... Nem quero pensar nas coisas que se perderam porque um palerma qualquer achou que saia mais barato deitar coisas fora do que comprar mais prateleiras.

Ricardo

Eu continuo à espera que «remedeiem» o pior dos erros, que é a continuação das gravações serem feitas em digital.

Stereo escreveu:

Eu continuo à espera que «remedeiem» o pior dos erros, que é a continuação das gravações serem feitas em digital.

Stereo escreveu:

Eu continuo à espera que «remedeiem» o pior dos erros, que é a continuação das gravações serem feitas em digital.

Podes esperar sentado, porque acho que já não se fazem fitas para multipistas, e as tecnicas de gravação digital estão num estado de maturação tal que , para além das facilidades que oferecem, chegaram ao ponto do não retorno, e estão muito além do "digital" que nós, meros utilizadores, conhecemos.
Haverá sempre nichos, e alguns que ainda vão resistindo e fazendo umas grações puramente analogicas, mas são poucos.
E serão tambem poucos os clientes(artistas) que se podem dar a esse luxo.

Boas a todos. Pelo menos a Pyral/NRGI ainda tem fitas até 2", segundo o site da Pyral. Os pdf dos produtos ainda se mantém, esperemos que por muitos anos e com muita evolução se possível!

Inté

Felizmente, ainda há algumas boas exceções e de grande qualidade.