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 Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:37 pm
Something I was thinking about when I read through an interview earlier is, why do most artists desperately hold onto mastertapes? Paraphrasing from Trent; once an album is finished and being sold in stores, nobody has any use for mastertapes unless they want to make some 5.1 surround sound mix or let another artist do some remixes.
Why should mastertapes be limited to just a group of "professional" artists? If that Lustmord f*****t can make some wretched 20 minute remix of Schism, surely fans should be allowed to have a go. There's no loss other than a song being mashed up with Britney Spears, but people can do that regardless. Personally, I would LOVE to get the multi-track files for Parabol/Parabola to make a nice remix, because the PROFESSIONAL artist's results ******** sucked. I would ******** pay $15 for a remastered Aenima, but the odds that the band will do that seem slim to none, so why not pass out the multi-track files and let fans make their own remastered mixes? There are some extremely talented people out there who happen to be fans of these bands and are more than capable of creating professional quality products.
Should mastertapes be made available to fans?
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Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 6:45 pm
Also, saying it would spike piracy isn't a valid excuse. It would be stupid if someone downloaded over a GB of data to ultimately get a 100 MB folder of songs. If fans are going to steal an album, they'll do it the regular way instead of rendering multi-tracks. That's just unnecessary extra work for them.
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Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:00 am
The only reason I can gather is the same reason Led Zeppelin's master recordings have yet to be sold, money. Robert Plant and Jimmy Page split down the middle all of the master tracks rights, Jimmy Page recently tried selling some of the tracks to harmonix and red octane the companies in charge of the hit games ROCKBAND and GUITAR HERO unfortunately both companies would only accept the originals if Robert Plant gave his up as fans would most likely not settle for just several of led zeppelin's songs but rather all of them.
Robert Plant knew this and has deliberately been holding on to them until someone makes the highest bid, considering he has almost all of their greatest songs, I know he will not give in until his demands are met.
So to paraphrase the longer a big artist hangs on to master recordings the more valuable it becomes, sort of like how ANTICS ROAD SHOW works.
3nodding 3nodding 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 3:25 am
So greed, basically. That's too bad :/
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