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Lukas Kendall, June 2 2008: I am doing my own investigating and unfortunately I hear that UMG's press release is b.s. to save face and the stock price -- they lost a lot of priceless masters. We may never know.
Lukas had the truth of this incident nailed the following day. Good work, Lukas!
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Jun 11, 2019 - 3:23 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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Very depressing. I weep for our cultural loss. Fire, water, and human neglect--the most destructive forces on earth. How many films and books have suffered a similar fate, with not even any copies, let alone the masters, extant?
Never underestimate the willingness of corporate executives to lie and to coerce their employees to lie, and to keep their lies a secret. But eventually the truth always comes out, although it may take someone's firing, retirement, or deathbed confession to do it. Still, the article cites numerous corporate types who still won't comment on the fire. I guess they remain afraid of financial repercussions.
This story was mentioned in a radio news broadcast today, which I'm sure was the first time that 99.99% of the listeners had heard about this disaster.
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HBO mini series to follow?
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It' hard to wrap your head around the loss of masters for an estimated 500,000 tracks. I just find myself thinking of examples I care about. Regarding the Decca catalog, I wonder if the elusive master tapes from Silent Running were in that vault. And as a Universal property, I wonder if we lost The Six Million Dollar Man episode scores.
I would guess yes to both questions. The article's failure to even mention film music is unfortunate, but about what you'd expect.
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Mike M said only 2 track LP masters were lost.
So tv episode scores SHOULD be ok.
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Jun 16, 2019 - 11:07 AM
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eriknelson
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Very depressing. I weep for our cultural loss. Fire, water, and human neglect--the most destructive forces on earth. How many films and books have suffered a similar fate, with not even any copies, let alone the masters, extant?
Never underestimate the willingness of corporate executives to lie and to coerce their employees to lie, and to keep their lies a secret. But eventually the truth always comes out, although it may take someone's firing, retirement, or deathbed confession to do it. Still, the article cites numerous corporate types who still won't comment on the fire. I guess they remain afraid of financial repercussions.
This story was mentioned in a radio news broadcast today, which I'm sure was the first time that 99.99% of the listeners had heard about this disaster.
This reminds me of tragic destruction of the MGM music library. Makes me so angry.
https://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=132171&forumID=1&archive=0&pageID=1&r=856#bottom
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