OFF: Re: Sympathy For The Devil (Motorhead new album taster)

[Carl Edlund Anderson]

;) Though I think, however we approach that, it’s a relatively _specialized_ audience who’s impressed by that sort of thing.

Wasn’t a lot of the impetus for _Cult Classic_ to generate versions of classic tracks over which the current band actually had control? Like for use in TV and stuff? (Isn’t that partially why the “karaoke” versions were included? I seem to recall some of those having been used for such purposes.)

I suspect a similar impulse was part of what drove Amorphis’s recent “Magic & Mayhem” collection of re-recorded tracks from their early albums (which I’ve heard that they basically have never got any income from), though that may have also been aimed at newer fans who were familiar with their output from the last 10 years or so, but not the early ‘90s stuff. (This was perhaps not the case with _Cult Classic_ — the good Dr. Jarrett’s situation possible excepted! :) )

Cheers,
Carl

On 11 Sep 2015, at 05:53 , Jonathan Jarrett <jjarrett at CORIOLIS.GREENEND.ORG.UK> wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
>> I mean, the Grateful Dead pretty much failed to come up much new material during the ‘80s (despite coughing up their only hit single late in the decade). There were about 3 records over the decade; they just toured and toured on the strength of the scene and their old material. Fair enough; probably it wouldn’t have helped their cause to re-record fan favorites from the ‘70s to pad out a few extra records in the ‘80s. Who would have been impressed by that, for all that the fans were digging hearing those same songs at gigs?
> 
> 	Whoever was impressed by Blue Öyster Cult's _Cult Classic_, I expect!

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