[Heeplist] Remasters - The Official Anthology
Bob Winward
uriahheep at comcast.net
Thu Nov 14 07:51:23 EST 2013
You are right, there was some live stuff on there as well. The whole point
is, it is a compilation of redone heep songs, not of one particular disk
that was already in existence. This was a new disk of old material.
On 11/14/13 7:42 AM, "Pete Wharton" <heeplistpete at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> If memory serves me correct, Bob, these weren't actually completely new
studio
> recordings. I thought they had taken a lot of the live stuff from
acoustically
> driven/magician's birthday and just added the odd little extra
bits on in the
> studio. That's why they were panned I think, nothing to do
with the lineup of
> the time redoing the classics. On Celebration they
rerecorded them completely
> in the studio.
I could be wrong though, memory isn't what it used to be
> :-)
Cheers,
Pete
-----Original Message-----
From: Heeplist
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Bob Winward
Sent:
> 14 November 2013 12:25
To: Igor Shveitser; Heepsters Mailing List (Travellers
> in Time)
Subject: Re: [Heeplist] Remasters - The Official Anthology
I agree
> with Igor that most remastered disks are just milking the past with
bonus
> tracks added. However, the recording in question here is not a
remastered
> original disk, it is a new recording of the Shaw Lanzon era Heep
in which
> they recorded classic Heep tracks, with Phil and Bernie and Trevor,
rather
> than David, Ken and Gary. So I fyou want to hear Bernie singing
Sunrise, then
> this is a disk for you. If you believe it is balsphemy, then
don't get it. I
> just wanted to point out, it is not a remastered disk, it
is a new recording
> in 2001 of old material, not just typically remastered in
studio.
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