Val Valentin wrote:
I'm in total agreement that most of the Ryko releases sound like shit. But I'm not going to hold Frank responsible. I think everyone would agree that in hindsight we can easily look back and say, "What was he thinking?" But at that moment in time, it may have made sense and sounded "better" than before.
When I think of some music, or fashion movements of the past that I embraced and look back now...I can ask the same question. WTF?
I'll bet there's a few people on this board that have pictures of themselves with certain clothes on, or haircuts from the 70's or 80's that in hindsight are ridiculous. In the same way the musical choices of the past can be pretty stupid too. But at the time, it seemed the right thing to do. I can't hold Frank responsible for making adjustments he thought were right, and at the time made sense in context.
There are a lot of bands that put out "remastered" versions of their catalog initially on CD that are now going back and making adjustments to make them sound more like the warm analog we know and love. So Frank wasn't the only one who thought that the sound represented on the Ryko shit made sense.
On the one hand you don't want to hold Frank responsible, but on the other you thought that what he did made sense
Bottom line, in the context of the eighties all that 'modern' studio stuff was the new paradigm, and FZ was seduced by it. Now, we have a choice! Great!
I remember when the old Ryko stuff came out and G&S were doing a deal-about £700 for the entire catalogue. My thought at the time was "who the fuck can afford to drop that much money on 'remixes/remasters(whatever)'?
Now I'm of a generation that could, if I really wanted to.....
What happens in 4 years when the 50 year copyright expires, and anyone can repackage all this stuff again, for next to nothing?
Trust me, the ZFT have one eye on this phenomenon.
BTW I am busy hoovering up all the 50's/early 60's jazz stuff which gets released monthly, which takes advantage of this law.
(I don't need to be told that if I really wanted to I could probably hoover up all the Fz stuff I could handle for nothing from pirate bay or some such if I had no ethics at all)
Thoughts?
Since you ended your sentence about my statement with a question mark, I will try to explain. I don't hold Frank responsible for the CURRENT way the Ryko releases are being assessed. I hold him responsible for the way they sounded to him at the time, which I'm sure sounded great an made sense at THAT time.
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