https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytime ... s.amp.html
NYT articles tend to go behind paywall, but it appears public ATM. Long, interesting and horrifying article for me, discuss.
TLDR: a whole building full of multitrack and master recordings burnt up in 2008, and it was covered up.
The day the music burned
-
Drouinjgabriel Drouinjgabriel https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=443158
- KVRer
- 6 posts since 21 Jun, 2019
What a big lost for the music history
-
- KVRAF
- 40265 posts since 11 Aug, 2008 from clown world
Shortly after the fire broke out, a 50-year-old man named Randy Arson was awakened by a ringing phone at his home in Canyon Country, Calif., about 30 miles north of Universal City,
Seems a bit suspicious
Seems a bit suspicious
Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
-
- KVRAF
- 15274 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
https://www.google.nl/url?sa=t&source=w ... xA&cf=1
the company has issued a statement disputing the characterization of the damage it caused to the company’s archives, saying the article contains “numerous inaccuracies, misleading statements, contradictions and fundamental misunderstandings of the scope of the incident and affected assets.”
Last edited by BertKoor on Fri Jun 21, 2019 9:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
We are the KVR collective. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated. 
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
My MusicCalc is served over https!!
-
- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 992 posts since 27 Apr, 2005
They had and continue to have (digital) copies of mono or stereo mastered recordings that were released commercially. The big loss is in the multitrack tapes, which contain the unmixed original recordings, and session tapes, which have unreleased material.
The statement released by UMG is accurate, but was stated as such in the original article anyway,
The statement released by UMG is accurate, but was stated as such in the original article anyway,
