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Post by Boozin' Susan on Jan 28, 2022 12:15:42 GMT
Gotcha, thanks. Meanwhile, I'll just share the link to the regular web version of this 1990 Los Angeles Times article: www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-07-17-fi-298-story.htmlAnyone know how this lawsuit panned out? Per the article, DCC sued Curb Records for seemingly using Hoffman's DCC remix of a Sammy Davis Jr. track on one of their compilations. Just seems weird in general. The best part of that article: ”someone named Steve Hoffman” Yeah, some schlub named Steve Hoffman…! Some unknown goombah named Steve Hoffman..!
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Post by essayceedee on Jan 28, 2022 15:51:05 GMT
My favorite part: "But it’s tough to make a profit on the relatively small numbers of discs DCC sells: The company lost $151,609 on sales of $2.02 million in 1989."
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Post by Sounds.. ago on Jan 28, 2022 15:58:47 GMT
Excessive overhead ate into DCC's profits. Blue T-shirts and mullet cuts aren't cheap, pal.
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Post by Los Narcosatanicos on Jan 29, 2022 1:27:50 GMT
From the December 28, 1995 edition of Kevin Hunt’s “On Track” column in the Hartford Courant (emphasis mine): This is the earliest article I can find that mentions Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray together, with Gray listed as "second engineer." Is there any indication when Gray started ghostmastering for Steve?
Meanwhile, from Robert Epstein in the March 16, 1991 edition of the Los Angeles Times (again, emphasis mine): Hopefully someone can refresh my memory on the specifics, but didn't a bunch of people on the original version of SC make a pretty convincing case that Hoffman has most likely never cut vinyl himself whatsoever? And thus he probably wouldn't have the knowledge necessary to do what's described here?
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Post by Sanjay Gupton on Jan 29, 2022 2:48:31 GMT
I call bullshit on anyone being able to tell which cutting head shape cut a record by looking at the record.
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Post by Los Narcosatanicos on Jan 29, 2022 2:56:55 GMT
I call bullshit on anyone being able to tell which cutting head shape cut a record by looking at the record. Well yeah, but even if we go with the conceit that it's possible, he has to be the least likely suspect among those theoretically credited as mastering engineers, right?
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Post by Los Narcosatanicos on Feb 12, 2022 1:55:34 GMT
Time to dig into the microfilm scan collection on Archive.org. First, from the April 1998 issue of Audio, we have an interview with Steve about the Elvis compilation he did for DCC: imgur.com/a/tLvpNQIMostly pretty generic, but we've got a choice quote about putting together the Buddy Holly masters compilation for MCA: "You have to sit there and listen to every single version in order to find the actual master, because none of the tapes were marked." Hmm. Feels like someone with low morals could take advantage of that... Oh, and the article opens with this hero shot of Our Host:
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Post by Brick Wall on Feb 12, 2022 2:20:11 GMT
I call bullshit on anyone being able to tell which cutting head shape cut a record by looking at the record. I'll take that bet, pal. STEVE can even tell you how the dynamics are on vinyls just by looking at it. That's right. Looking at the rekkid. Suck on that, bucko.
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Post by Sanjay Gupton on Feb 12, 2022 17:06:55 GMT
I call bullshit on anyone being able to tell which cutting head shape cut a record by looking at the record. I'll take that bet, pal. STEVE can even tell you how the dynamics are on vinyls just by looking at it. That's right. Looking at the rekkid. Suck on that, bucko. What a dick.
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Post by essayceedee on Feb 12, 2022 17:26:56 GMT
You misspelled "dicc".
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Feb 12, 2022 18:00:24 GMT
You misspelled "cunt".
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Post by Boozin' Susan on Feb 12, 2022 20:37:28 GMT
Gee, I wonder why no one writes articles about STeVE anymore? We do.
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Post by Chungus on Feb 13, 2022 5:32:09 GMT
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Post by graucho on Feb 14, 2022 20:27:20 GMT
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Feb 14, 2022 20:55:03 GMT
Kwadguy’s gonna find himself banned for ‘rules violation’ soon.
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