Interesting article about the UMG music archive fire

[shoreline99]

This popped up in my feed today. Worth a read, if only to see how all of these old masters are stored and archived...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/the-day-the-music-burned/ar-AACIbo2?ocid=spartanntp

[Caravan2001]

I read the NYT article.  What a disaster.  So sad.  Pretty much every Chess master  :|

[tet]

so sad - hopefully some of it was digitized properly but history is history...

[shoreline99]

I read the NYT article.  What a disaster.  So sad.  Pretty much every Chess master  :|

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

Here's the original NYT article.

[rowjimmy]

Fucking tragedy.

[shoreline99]

Follow up...

Sounds like several of the artists missing masters found out about it when the public did...

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/universal-music-fire/?fbclid=IwAR1vYypgc52lO_ryGY2_aEZNnWAEwxzpTFofvf0aF9wZD_at3dli2OIafWc

Steely Dan and Nirvana joined other artists are reacting to the news that their master recordings were among more than 100,000 destroyed in a 2008 fire.
Following yesterday's The New York Times report on the massive quantities of tapes lost in the Universal Studio blaze, Universal Music Group issued a statement disputing the severity of the incident, although it didn't directly address the matter of what material was lost.
Meanwhile, artists who may have been affected said that they were hoping to be given more details. Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic said he believed his band's tapes were "gone forever."