Bob’s a nice guy but heaven help us LOLI was wondering if the review got it wrong or if Tony took the day off and Bob filled in.
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Bob’s a nice guy but heaven help us LOLI was wondering if the review got it wrong or if Tony took the day off and Bob filled in.
RIP Paul C. Cook (May 15, 1937- August 3, 2014):
"By age 27, Paul attained the rank of Fire Captain. Later in his career, he worked as a training officer, fire science instructor and as an arson investigator. One of his most memorable (and highly publicized) experiences was being the first unit on scene in response to the 911 call for the singer Karen Carpenter. "
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Paul C. Cook
Review of Richard and Karen's concert in Rexburg, Idaho, October 1973:
"In a deposition given in a negligence suit brought by UMG against NBCUniversal, its landlord at the backlot vault, a former executive for the record company testified that Carpenter’s persistence and “concern” about his masters in the aftermath of the fire had been a subject of consternation among UMG officials."
Is it known what specific masters recorded by the duo were lost in this fire?
I remember hearing, but can't remember where, that Richard stores all the masters in/under Iron Mountain where many historic/important archives are stored and where even a nuclear bomb can not get to them; however, when he had the masters sent from Iron Mountain to Universal to work on a project, Universal never sent them back to Iron Mountain; thus, they were subject to the fire and lost forever. Can't remember where I heard this, though, so take it as a grain of salt.
I did an extended radio interview with Richard in 2014 where we talked at length about this. The reporter from the Times called me a couple of weeks before this was published to fact check, as he’d heard the interview and wanted to include excerpts in the story.
Universal had been slowly sending stuff back but obviously not nearly in time to avoid this tragedy unfortunately.
Most everything was transferred over. And again, not *everything* sat in a vault at Universal so it wasn't their entire catalog. But yes to answer your question, all the first gen stuff that was sitting in there had already been digitally backed up.
And of course there is clear evidence of this with the Royal Philharmonic project. Many of those tracks originated on multis that burned in the fire, so they mixed from the digital.
I remember a while back it was mentioned that the tapes had been sent to Universal from Iron Mountain when Richard was remixing the songs that were included on the SACD disc in 2003/04 and then were still sitting there 4 years later.Is there actually a list available anywhere of which Carpenters masters went up in the fire?
Yet another pop star biopic...this time it's Elvis. They're narrowing down the candidates to play him;
Harry Styles, Ansel Elgort, Miles Teller in the Running to Play Elvis in Baz Luhrmann's Biopic