Vinyl Me Please Anthology

So were all of the early Dead albums. They explicitly say these are all new lacquers cut for the Dead Anthology and I don't doubt them.
I'm not convinced they have a new American Beauty or WMD. Anything that would detract from the 50th surely isn't going to happen. Honestly think they'll have the 2011 Rhino's in there. In fact at this point I think they might have only recut Reckoning, without a net and live/ dead (despite the 03 Rhino being great).

I keep looking at this box! Just can't seem to fully shut it down but in the media I've seen it just says Laquers cut by Chris Bellman. It doesn't actually say when he cut them. So 3 could have been the frankly brilliant jobs he did in 2011. I may have missed something though.
 
I'm not convinced they have a new American Beauty or WMD. Anything that would detract from the 50th surely isn't going to happen. Honestly think they'll have the 2011 Rhino's in there. In fact at this point I think they might have only recut Reckoning, without a net and live/ dead (despite the 03 Rhino being great).

I keep looking at this box! Just can't seem to fully shut it down but in the media I've seen it just says Laquers cut by Chris Bellman. It doesn't actually say when he cut them. So 3 could have been the frankly brilliant jobs he did in 2011. I may have missed something though.


"We then sent the tapes to Bernie Grundman mastering, where Chris Bellman cut new lacquers for this project"
 

"We then sent the tapes to Bernie Grundman mastering, where Chris Bellman cut new lacquers for this project"
In that case its madness. He cut them in 2011 from the original tapes. Some one on the Steve Hoffman WMD thread said CB is in the Deadwax on the 2020 (from the tapes with a plangent step) and now this. So he's cut 2 of them 3 times in nine years including (if the Hoffman poster is right) twice in 2020. That's crazy! I'm almost tempted to buy the thing just to see what's going on.
 
In that case its madness. He cut them in 2011 from the original tapes. Some one on the Steve Hoffman WMD thread said CB is in the Deadwax on the 2020 (from the tapes with a plangent step) and now this. So he's cut 2 of them 3 times in nine years including (if the Hoffman poster is right) twice in 2020. That's crazy! I'm almost tempted to buy the thing just to see what's going on.

To be fair that was 9 years ago already. I don't know if they are reusing any of the lacquers for the Herbie Anthology, but if not that would mean that Kevin Gray has cut Maiden Voyage twice this year plus once for the MMJ in 2015, and another time for Analogue Productions in 2010. Pretty crazy.

He definitely cut a lot of those BN80s too for 2019-20 that were previously cut by him in ~2015 for MMJ as well.

So it's not that bizarre in the world of vinyl reissues.
 
To be fair that was 9 years ago already. I don't know if they are reusing any of the lacquers for the Herbie Anthology, but if not that would mean that Kevin Gray has cut Maiden Voyage twice this year plus once for the MMJ in 2015, and another time for Analogue Productions in 2010. Pretty crazy.

He definitely cut a lot of those BN80s too for 2019-20 that were previously cut by him in ~2015 for MMJ as well.

So it's not that bizarre in the world of vinyl reissues.
 
Hmmmmmm. But what on earth? He should know what the originals for E72, AB and Workingmans Dead sound like! He cut the things in 2011! Reads like no Plangent step.

I'm intrigued
 
Plangent was only used for the newest Rhino reissues I believe, not for the VMP Anthology. I'm no engineer, I assume he just listens to the originals right before mastering them to get a fresh audio image in his mind of how it should sound.
 
Plangent was only used for the newest Rhino reissues I believe, not for the VMP Anthology. I'm no engineer, I assume he just listens to the originals right before mastering them to get a fresh audio image in his mind of how it should sound.
Yeah. The 2020s. The article I posted reads like no Plangent but it'll take some going to beat the 2011 AB. I've not heard the WMD. Wake of the Flood from the 2017 RSD box is awesome though and think that was Glasser and Grundman did the lacquers so it's not like it was knocked together by a bloke in a shed with a pair of meat scissors.

The problem I have with this... Is that it could be pretty amazing. But that price!
 
On one hand... If I buy it I'll stop talking about thinking of buying it. On the other... I'll have paid $450 for something that I already own half the contents of.

Ah fuck it. I'm in!
I mean I should have it in my hands by mid next week if you want to wait. But it seems pretty clear from the various articles that these are all new cuts.
 
OBVIOUSLY
MAYBE they produced more than they should of.. i have a hunch this boxset is the whole reason for the price hike fiasco

they expected it to sell out.. it didn't sell out... now they have a ton of paperweights


also why does it include a nuggs subscription... i dont think the people who would buy this boxset care about MQA lossless (that phrasing already will begin a debate) live concerts
 
MAYBE they produced more than they should of.. i have a hunch this boxset is the whole reason for the price hike fiasco

they expected it to sell out.. it didn't sell out... now they have a ton of paperweights


also why does it include a nuggs subscription... i dont think the people who would buy this boxset care about MQA lossless (that phrasing already will begin a debate) live concerts
Dukey do you know about tape trading culture?
 
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