From: Monsanto@aol.com
Date: Mon Sep 22, 2003 3:31:33 AM US/Eastern
To: tyburr@mindspring.com
Subject: Television reissues
Ty,
I'm one of the producers who assembled the two Television reissues and
the
Live At The Old Waldorf album on behalf of Rhino. I saw your remarks
to the
Marquee Moon list on Thursday and thought I'd try to get in touch and
clarify an
important point about the sound quality.
The advance CD's that Rhino sent out were put together _before_ we had
actually gone into the studio to remaster the albums. Your
observation that what
you received sounds identical to the previous Elektra CD's is
absolutely
correct--because those versions were the only ones available at the
time the advance
CD-R's were assembled. The remastered versions that hit stores on
Tuesday
represent a fairly drastic sonic upgrade (in my opinion, anyway).
[Also: the version of Little Johnny Jewel on your CD-R was dubbed from
vinyl. The version on the new Marquee Moon CD was taken from an
original tape and
presents the song complete--without that annoying fade-out in the
middle].