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But when we realized how much it would cost us, the idea endedīut not quite. Therefore don’t have access to them, Sony offered to send them out to have this Since we don’t technically own the master tapes (Sony does), and Of the control room environment before the music could be transferred toĭigital. Quality of the recordings, the tapes would have to be ‘baked,’-literally baked inĪ convection oven at 150 degrees for three to eight hours-then cooled to the temperature Recordings, and the tapes were old and fragile. So many years had passed since we’d made these But when we tried to get the original two-inch tapes-yes, we were still using magnetic tape then-from Sony, we realized that the process we would have to go through to do that would be way too daunting to take on.įor those of you who don’t know, two-inch tape breaksĭown (degrades) over time. So we decided to find the master recordings of the three songs, transfer them to digital, and start working on them again. Of that group of songs, three stuck out to us as being the best of the lot. Not long ago, as I was looking through old emails with the intention of deleting many of them, I came across something from Pat Mastelotto with the title, “Lost Songs.” As I remember, we had considered resurrecting some of the discarded songs from the album PULL with the intention of either adding them to the album before its much overdue release, or releasing them as a new EP on its own, knowing that our most loyal fans would love it.Īs it turned out, there were quite a few “Lost Songs.” Some of them were structurally developed to a point others were just bad still others were pretty good but missing something: a lyric that needed reworking or re-imagining completely, a melody that didn’t deliver, or other issues that made us abandon them back in 1989 when we were choosing which songs would appear on PULL. But today is a new day and lo and behold, I have Haven’t found the inspiration to share much of my life across the cyber

Mister and my solo career for not being more of a social media guy.

My apologies to all who are interested in both Mr. Seems like another lifetime now, but for those of you who have remained fans of our music, we thought this would be a good time to let you know about something we’ve been working on. Thirty-five years ago, around this time, Broken Wings was #1on Billboard’s Hot 100.

Mr mister welcome to the real world rarest