WOTEOT master tapes (was Re: Jamun & Spacerocktrading intro)

[mike coleman]

and taking THAT ball and running, THAT could explain why my USA
test-pressing is on PRESSWELL records, and sounds SUPERIOR and
different than the Atco pressings.
Maybe I've GOT the master?? (but I wonder why Motorhead was done by a
diff company?)
hehehe
Never compared to the Griffin CD.
I can also speculate aloud why the Canadian LP press, in particular,
alos sounds (to me) unique, with a noiticeable flatish drum-sound. I
suppose that is due to the copy process Lucidsound pointed out.
It figures (to me), that right after Lucidsound posted, that entire
thread "vanished" off my computer, this driving me insane and even a
little nervous.
hmmm
Anyway, thanks for info guys

On 3/9/11, Steve Youles <youless at cox.net> wrote:
> This doesn't definitely answer Lucidsound's questions, but what Rob Griffin
> (owner of Griffin Records) had to say about it is on this page:
>
> http://www.starfarer.net/griffin1.html
>
> It's located about a third of the way down the page.
>
> BTW I can't prove this, but I'm sure I saw somewhere some information
> concerning ATCO's release of WOTEOT which would explain why that album
> has never been part of the EMI reissues of 70's Hawkwind albums.  What I
> think I read is that Hawkwind's original UA contract was for 5 albums, and
> it
> thus expired with the release of Hall Of The Mountain Grill.  However,
> Hawkwind were separately contracted to ATCO in the USA, and that contract
> was still running when they came to do WOTEOT - and in fact was the only
> record contract that Hawkwind had at the time.  So, the album was actually
> recorded for ATCO, and presumably this means the master tapes were ATCO's
> property - so they may not be a "copy" at all.  And then, once the album was
> recorded, ATCO licenced it back to EMI for UK (maybe European) release on a
> short-term licencing deal.  Which has long since expired, and hence EMI has
> never had the rights to reissue the album.
>
> Good theory, yeah, but I have no evidence to back it up, unfortunately.
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
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> On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 17:20:25 -0000, lucidsound <lucidsound at IC24.NET>
> wrote:
>
>>The Griffin release is quite likely to be sourced from the ATCO master
>>tapes...however that is not all clear cut.  For example, the ATCO tapes are
>>not THE Warrior master tapes, they are a copy.  A copy of what?  The
>>equalised tape used to master the vinyl? The original stereo master? A
>> third
>>generation copy?
>>Secondly, it could be that the ATCO tape was digitised using a standard
>>issue DAT, as was quite common for the time and which would impart a
>>not-inconsiderable reduction in quality. And was the release properly
>>mastered or just copied straight to CD? All of these factors could have a
>>bearing on why the Griffin release does not have the transparency of sound
>>that might be expected.
>