Daniel Amos Message Board | Print: Horrendous Disc Re-release

Posted by audiori on 12-07-2006 at18:39:

Right, when I said next year for SA, I didn't necessarily mean first thing. We could probably do a few reissues in between now and then if all works as planned.

But there does need to be a better version out there... the M8'ed release needs to be "replaced" as much as possible.

Posted by Mountain Fan on 12-07-2006 at22:14:

Purists may not like M8, but I'm glad for the M8 versions of the stuff I have - because without the M8 versions I might not have them at all. Frown

Posted by audiori on 12-07-2006 at22:18:

There were a few good releases, but the only things they did well were put together by other people.... anytime they had too much control or freedom, it pretty much sucked.

Posted by Mountain Fan on 12-07-2006 at22:28:

a sucky version is better than no version. of course no version available may have resulted in more illegally copied versions. Frown

Posted by audiori on 12-07-2006 at23:45:

No doubt. But its still embarrassing.. you want to erase it from peoples memory as fast as possible with a really nicely done reissue.

Posted by Mountain Fan on 12-08-2006 at00:07:

and we all really do appreciate your efforts! Pleased

Posted by dennis on 12-08-2006 at07:27:

It would be cool to have the HD, Alarma and DG radio shows with the re-issues. That is one very cool thing about the M8's version of Shotgun Angel. But otherwise, yes, M8 pretty much sucks.

Posted by dennis on 12-08-2006 at07:30:

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Originally posted by Audiori J

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Originally posted by dennis
Is is just me or is there no bottom end on the CD version of HD?
Is seems the LP version has a ton more bottom end than the disc.
Any thoughts?

yes the version you have is a little high, the second one with the oval blurb was a little better, remastered. Hopefully if al goes as planned they will use the remastered version of the album in this one we are planning.

Another reason to be bummed about getting the "Phan" version! Crying

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As for Shotgun Angel, its easy to print because Terry & Maranatha! owns it. There are people that still are looking for it, and it will be the anniversary, and we actually had thought of a couple pretty cool ideas for it. Terry has somewhere a multitrack of the band performing it live with an orchestra, and we also had the idea of a surround sound mix.

I have read about that, very cool indeed! Pleased

Posted by jiminy on 12-08-2006 at13:17:

agree ~ a fully orchestrated Live thing would be very cool.

My SA CD is B4 the M8 version- my son picked it up in a bin ..
nothing extra on it- and the sound is good (perhaps a teensy bit flat??)
I beleive it says maranatha on it- but need to fine line it to see when and who.

I saw (at Cstone 05) a number of copies with Xeroxed covers...with even photocopied Terrys sig on it.....so perhaps a better version DOES need to get out there.
(and they wanted 25 bucks for these phoneys- !)

Posted by audiori on 12-08-2006 at14:42:

That *might* have been M8's CD of one of the radio shows. About the same time their SA 25th CD was released, they advertised a radio show CD that folks could also get from them that was "personally signed by Terry." We thought that was interesting since I think Terry was on the road at the time. We kind of wondered how they'd be getting them all signed.

When we got to Cstone that year, someone brought a stack of them by our table and, much to our horror, we discovered that what they had been selling as "personally signed by Terry Taylor" was actually a CDR with a photocopied Shogtun Angel cover... the signature was as phony as the rest of the cover! I don't remember what we did with them.. we may have given them away for free or something.

Posted by MarkyMark77 on 12-27-2006 at09:07:

So....
Imagine my surprise when I was leafing through some discs at my local Family Bookstore and found HD sealed. So, I purchased it. Some thoughts that have probably already been expressed several times:
1) The mastering is pretty good.
2) There's an awful lot of Larry on the booklet insert, and not a lot of DA.
3) No bonus tracks on a 2003 CD reissue?!?
4) Having not been really interested in early DA stuff until recently, I (and my wife) were surprised at how much we liked an early 80's album that we'd never heard before. Usually it's hard to get past the production for me, but she remarked that it reminded her of Talking Heads, which is a pretty big compliment coming from her. It's really pretty good stuff.

It made me make up my mind to buy other DA re-releases, too, which was something I was on the fence about.

Posted by MarkyMark77 on 12-27-2006 at09:11:

And why does this board replace I M A G I N E with E N V I S A G E???

Posted by servantsteve on 12-27-2006 at09:45:

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Originally posted by MarkyMark77
And why does this board replace I M A G I N E with E N V I S A G E???

because it's the right thing to do.

Posted by Audiori J on 12-27-2006 at10:54:

Yeah some of those older albums are classics. I never tire of them, because they still have that weird DA quirkiness and the great Lyrics and they are very strong musically. Alarma is really talking heads-ish.

Posted by Lur King on 12-27-2006 at11:28:

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Originally posted by MarkyMark77
And why does this board replace I M A G I N E with E N V I S A G E???

it makes you sound a lot smarterer . . .

Posted by MarkyMark77 on 12-27-2006 at14:31:

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it makes you sound a lot smarterer . . .

Me like smart.

I am so smart.
I am so smart
S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T.

Posted by servantsteve on 12-27-2006 at15:08:

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Originally posted by MarkyMark77

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it makes you sound a lot smarterer . . .

Me like smart.

I am so smart.
I am so smart
S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T.

Let the professionals provide the humor.