Not sure if anyone here has been following this story about the 2008 Universal Fire, in which thousands and thousands of master recordings were lost in a fire.
Here's the link for anyone that wants to read up on it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/us/master-recordings-universal-fire.htmlIt's sad shit. While we're lucky to have a lot of this material out there for consumption, and mastering technology has improved greatly in the last decade for remastering old releases, there is plenty of stuff that is now gone forever and will never see the light of day, let alone classics getting remastered from the original tapes.
To bring it to common ground here - imagine there were some amazing unreleased gems by our boys in STP and that stuff is lost forever. It's possible that despite losing master recordings, some of that stuff is/was backed up but it's also possible (and very probable) that a lot of those recordings were not.
Makes me sad thinking about it.
