Right, I guess that's what I'm saying. Depending on who the audience for that statement is, and the context in which it's stated the "(within reason)" at the end of Fiedler's thought is plausibly implied. It's only when it gets lifted from its original context and repeated in new ones that what was perhaps understood by the initial audience can no longer be read in by future ones.
Maybe that's more benefit of the doubt than he deserves, I don't know.
I would say this might be the strongest three month run they've ever had. Hard to argue that all three are true "essentials."
I reserve the right to get irrationally angry about other shitty statements out of context without any cognitive dissonance whatsoever“what would you do with more time”
Of course they do the only Aretha album I have an original Mono of! Might be hard to resist since it will likely be quieter though.
It does suck because there is already a great version of this put out by Rhino.
The more time question was directed at @gouis who had said something about giving us more time between announcing and forum shutdown. The more time thing was not a well-thought out question but I don’t think he referred to money at all. And it’s weird that it’s morphed to that.Right, I guess that's what I'm saying. Depending on who the audience for that statement is, and the context in which it's stated the "(within reason)" at the end of Fiedler's thought is plausibly implied. It's only when it gets lifted from its original context and repeated in new ones that what was perhaps understood by the initial audience can no longer be read in by future ones.
Maybe that's more benefit of the doubt than he deserves, I don't know.
Are those two statements directly connected? I knew the origin of the 'more time' comment; I just always assumed the other thing was a separate quote that I had missed from an interview or something.The more time question was directed at @gouis who had said something about giving us more time between announcing and forum shutdown. The more time thing was not a well-thought out question but I don’t think he referred to money at all. And it’s weird that it’s morphed to that.
No clue. I don’t actually recall the money thing but who knows. I don’t read all those interview articles.Are those two statements directly connected? I knew the origin of the 'more time' comment; I just always assumed the other thing was a separate quote that I had missed from an interview or something.
The more time and the money comment were not connected. At all.Are those two statements directly connected? I knew the origin of the 'more time' comment; I just always assumed the other thing was a separate quote that I had missed from an interview or something.
The more time and the money comment were not connected. At all.
@Joe Mac wasn't the money comment in an article about Matt and their VC injection?
That’s a good question. It’s one of those things that I read and can’t remember where I read it, it’s been that long ago...
I’ll try and find where that came from!
Within reason. What it fails to realise, and what has cause a lot of all of our problems with VMP, is that there can be parts of your business that make you no direct money and may even lose you money but their overall contribution to the wider company makes that worthwhile.
You can resent them and still resub. I am about to do it. Give it time, they will/attempt to fuck ya over at some point. I don’t even mind them all that much now that I understand what they are as a business. It was disappointing at first (because of how they started off) but I don’t expect much now and understand I will sometimes have to give them hell to get to provide the services I am paying for.I'm glad I hadn't been a member long enough to have had any problems or anger when the forum shut down, because I just resubbed with no regrets.
Yeah exactly. The vinyl copy I have is DMM cut at Masterdisk by Don Grossinger, and pressed at Pallas. Looks like the DAT files used to cut the lacquer from were remastered for vinyl by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. So who knows what digital files were provided for this release but it seems likely that they would just use this mastering and have Ryan Smith at Sterling cut a new lacquer from those files. Should sound great regardless.I would guess he didn't cut the laquer then unless the Discogs credits are wrong, it looks like Masterdisk cut the lacquer. That's the problem with these wooly terms for mastering. To give a proper picture there are really three descriptors that are used interchangeably by many:
1: "Mastering for vinyl" which is the work of preparing the record from the source to the target format, in this case ripping and EQing the DAT.
2: cutting an actual lacquer or direct-metal-mastering a disc
3: Signal path ie from a digital file, direct from tape etc.
For all we know this VMP pressing could be cut by RKS from files prepared by Bellman. Who know though, as VMP seems to not get the difference between 1-3.
He actually reached out to me in a DM and apologized afterward. He literally didn't understand why we would need more time before the forum was shut down.The more time question was directed at @gouis who had said something about giving us more time between announcing and forum shutdown. The more time thing was not a well-thought out question but I don’t think he referred to money at all. And it’s weird that it’s morphed to that.