Nik Q&A

[Jon Jarrett]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, ANDREW GARIBALDI wrote:

> I spoke with Chris at Ozit following the Greasy Truckers event at whihc,
> following an audience figure of around 800-900 quoted to me it seemed that
> the whole camp was quite upbeat about it. 'What next' I enquired. 'Oh, I
> think we'll get out the replacement version of the '2001' CD', he replied.
> 'Far be it form me to try and influence you in any way', I said,'but if you
> think you are a couple of steps ahead of the game right now, then issuin g
> this would take you ten steps backwards. In all honesty, you have to
> remember that most of the people and retailers who bought the CD did it
> without knowing the quality of the sound contained therein, which is why so
> many sold, but if yuo repeat the process, I will certainly be advising
> people simply not to buy it, and I imagine your sales will be a tenth of
> what they were first time around, if that'. It was then suggested that the
> decision was not Ozit's but Nik's so I said that, knowing they had decent
> quality recordings of the Blackpool and Crewe gigs, the best thing they
> could do is release a single CD of the best of those gigs and that it would
> be the best backwards step known to man, to try and relaunch the '2001' CD,
> so it will be extremely interesting seeing what happens next and whether the
> Turner camp chooses ritual hari-kari over common sense.

        That would be a sensible option I think. Collector of sorts I may
be but I haven't splashed out on _2001_ yet and I'm not very likely
to. You know, there's all those LLG albums to get first, before I get as
far as that. But the single CD `listenable' version would interest me much
more.

        Does anyone know if they're doing anything with the (16-track
analogue--quality!) reciording of Hawkestra II? Yours,
                                                       Jon

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"I recognise that I have transgressed many of the precepts of the divine
law, and that I am subjected by various vices and iniquities, disobedient
to the words of the divine mystery brought unto me and a worshipper of the
delights of this military age." Marquis Borrell of Barcelona, 955 A.D.

             (Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College London)