Re: (TV) Richard-his letter and the hoboken arts and music festival today

[Keith Allison <keith@marquee.demon.co.uk>]

In message <c73.12d03ad9.336f2803@aol.com>, Blumetakt@aol.com writes
> I never bought the Field of Fire re-issue. When I head about the 
> re-issue the vinyl came out but I felt it sounded dated. Is it worth 
> the dough to pick it up?

Yes, it's two discs - one the original remastered for CD and the second 
an alternate/re-visited version. As Richard says:

"Why have I revisited this record and re-recorded vocals and 
arrangements and remixed it? These are legitimate questions and deserve 
an answer. For one thing, Stephen was doing a lot of mixing in those 
days, a sort of Euro disco rock. As a result, the mixes of Field of Fire 
have a certain "80s" sound quality - gated reverbs on the drums, super 
loud artificial snare smacks; poky and clicky bass drums, and choruses 
and reverbs behind some of the guitars. There might not be anything 
wrong with that. but I wanted to regain some of the naked skin of the 
original recordings. Anytime I watch a commercial for a hair product, I 
usually prefer the before pictures than the superfine fake after 
pictures. I like some nitty in my gritty Then there was the issue of the 
vocals, which were purposely "pushed," sometimes shouted. Since I got 
the rights to the recordings back, it seemed like a good time to smooth 
out the vocal performances as well as add background vocals. So that's 
what I did, and as I opened each new song for review, I look for ways to 
make it more interesting either as an alternative version, or as an 
improvement, or just for my own artistic license."

http://www.richardlloyd.com/fofdelux.htm
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