HW: Reading 92 cd

[Edmund Clout]

This is pure speculation but:

 

Didn't relations with Voiceprint breakdown a bit after Magna videoing failure thingy and HW having to get own crew in?

 

In which case is it possible that permission had been given with intention of doing good releases from best tapes rematered or whatever while relations were good;

 

but after Voiceprint and HW fell out, Voiceprint have used permissions already granted to just bang out what is apparently a lesser bootleg-quality version with whatever they had to hand?

 

Mundo
 
> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 10:50:16 +0000
> From: jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK
> Subject: Re: HW: Reading 92 cd
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
> 
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 03:00:37AM -0500, Lost Johnny typed out:
> > In the USA in the recent days ,the horrible audience tapes sourced Reading
> > 92 and Minneapolis 89 cds from the Hawkwind Voiceprint direct on line page
> > are now showing up new online in stores like Tower ,cd universe , Amazon 
> > like $30 . I don't think too many people were ordering them from Hawkwind
> > Direct . I did and boy was I sorry when I got them . Why the band authorized
> > these for release I don't understand ,when Dave HAS to have a lot of
> > wonderful soundboards to choose from . Beware any fan who orders these and
> > listens to them will be upset with the sound quality . Especially any new
> > fans .
> 
> I don't want to get involved in the wider debate here, not least 
> because, you know, I have a fair bit of mail to catch up on here. But, I 
> did want to say, that Reading '92 boot that circulates, I've heard that 
> one and it's really good. Pity of pities if Dave managed to mess that 
> up. Do we have to blame Dave direct though? My suggestion would be that 
> Voiceprint got whatever tapes they could, mastered them and said to 
> Dave, "would you like some money for old rope?" and Dave was just too 
> ready to say 'yes'. Yours,
> Jon
> 
> ObCD: Fu Manchu - _King of the Road_
> -- 
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
> (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
> Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk

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