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Interesting! I’d love to have access to these.
Best case for the EMPIRE tapes is a LEDO (leadered edited duplicate original) copy of the 2LP assembly. Incidentally, if the original JAWS LP album (which is the one John Neal engineered) is ever reissued on CD, a remix to put the percussion back in phase would certainly be in order.
Cheers
Chris
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None of these are master tapes. None. Not one. Does anyone actually read the listings before getting on their podiums? Seriously.
One is a QUAD master - who cares? Has nothing to do with the session masters.
One is a safety (Empire) NOT the originals - who cares?
And the other is four cues and I guarantee you a back-up of either the film mixes or the LP mix - again, who cares? None of these are worth squat to any label.
This! These are not the Master Tapes.
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Maybe these tapes are mislabeled and they're actually some holy grail that exists nowhere else!
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The STAR WARS multi is now sold. If it is indeed the edited 16-track original, let’s hope that its contents are available to the current rights owners for use should a new album ever eventuate.
Dan Melson is identified in the letter. I gather this is the same person mentioned here (despite the misidentification of STAR WARS as a 24-track recording):
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/star-wars-sequel-30th-anniversary
Chris
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I was at a Star Wars-related convention in L.A. maybe 6-8 years ago where Dan Melson had a booth trying to sell these tapes he got from the John Neal estate—he's been trying to unload them for years. He has every right to own and sell the master tapes, even though he does not own the intellectual property recorded ONTO the tapes. He always asked a fortune and, not surprisingly, people were not interested, seeing as how the tapes are worthless except for the "cool factor." He had a lot of rock stuff too. Of the film music, the tapes are basically dub-downs of little importance except for the Star Wars 2" 16-track masters which contain the edited "selects" Williams and Ken Wannberg chose—I remember when they did the Star Wars Special Edition CDs, they had the 16-track masters, but all of these master takes from the original album had been snipped out! So that's where they went, making those 16-tracks are highly important. Now, the good news: at that Star Wars con was Matthew Wood, a sound editor for Lucasfilm (voice of General Grievous, I think?) and he and I were like, WTF?! I am quite sure he subsequently coordinated to have the 16-tracks digitized at Lucasfilm (in exchange for a tour or something for Melson)...whatever. I think it's all OK, so people should RELAX.
Lukas
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