Upon opening the cardboard case we found out that, yes, there was about an inch of magnetic recording tape inside the booklet.
Wait--don't bands often fight protracted legal battles to recover their precious, hallowed "master tapes" from greedy record companies and managers? Aren't these precious objects what you need to remix and remaster later versions of the album every time a new audio format replaces the previous one?
We were confused, and thus we did lady gaga alexandro songs what Justin Bieber Songs we always do when we're confused:
We called Dave Grohl.
LA WEEKLY: Hey, what's up Dave.
DAVE GROHL: Hi--we're here rehearsing for SNL [that was last Thursday]
LA WEEKLY: So, am I holding a piece of Justin Bieber Songs the ACTUAL the master tape forWasting Light?
DAVE GROHL: Yeah, basically we recorded the record in my garage to analog tape, and probably wound up with 20-30 reels of tapes, masters reels with all the takes on them, reels with alternate takes. At the end of the session I thought it would be an extraordinary move to Justin Bieber Songs destroy all the masters and give the pieces of the tapes to the fans.
Everyone was saying, "Can you do that? Is that linkin park albums gonna work?" People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
I think it's much easier than using a computer- you just plug in the machine, and you put your microphone in input and get your levels and hit the red button and that's IT. You don't have to scroll through, don't have to install anything; it's really, really simple. Been about 15 years since anyone had recorded an album to analog tape.
First song we recorded was called "Miss the Misery." We finished it in three takes, it sounded really great; Butch went down to edit the drums with a razorblade, and Eddie was editing. He rewound the tape, and the tape started shredding. And the tape was falling apart. And he came upstairs and said, "You know what, I don't know if this is gonna work. The tape is shredding. I think we should back up everything digitally right after we record it." And I said, "NO, Butch, I don't want any computer in this house at all.Maybe it's a bad reel."
Wait--don't bands often fight protracted legal battles to recover their precious, hallowed "master tapes" from greedy record companies and managers? Aren't these precious objects what you need to remix and remaster later versions of the album every time a new audio format replaces the previous one?
We were confused, and thus we did lady gaga alexandro songs what Justin Bieber Songs we always do when we're confused:
We called Dave Grohl.
LA WEEKLY: Hey, what's up Dave.
DAVE GROHL: Hi--we're here rehearsing for SNL [that was last Thursday]
LA WEEKLY: So, am I holding a piece of Justin Bieber Songs the ACTUAL the master tape forWasting Light?
DAVE GROHL: Yeah, basically we recorded the record in my garage to analog tape, and probably wound up with 20-30 reels of tapes, masters reels with all the takes on them, reels with alternate takes. At the end of the session I thought it would be an extraordinary move to Justin Bieber Songs destroy all the masters and give the pieces of the tapes to the fans.
Everyone was saying, "Can you do that? Is that linkin park albums gonna work?" People are so into digital recording now they forgot how easy analog recording can be.
I think it's much easier than using a computer- you just plug in the machine, and you put your microphone in input and get your levels and hit the red button and that's IT. You don't have to scroll through, don't have to install anything; it's really, really simple. Been about 15 years since anyone had recorded an album to analog tape.
First song we recorded was called "Miss the Misery." We finished it in three takes, it sounded really great; Butch went down to edit the drums with a razorblade, and Eddie was editing. He rewound the tape, and the tape started shredding. And the tape was falling apart. And he came upstairs and said, "You know what, I don't know if this is gonna work. The tape is shredding. I think we should back up everything digitally right after we record it." And I said, "NO, Butch, I don't want any computer in this house at all.Maybe it's a bad reel."

