Steve and the early Beach Boys tapes
Mar 2, 2018 20:32:45 GMT
Post by audiopro on Mar 2, 2018 20:32:45 GMT
I found this thread by accident, when looking up a Bobby Darin album which was produced by Nik Venet.
Before being signed to Capitol, The Beach Boys paid for studio time which resulted in the Candix release of "Surfin'" and a few other titles. This material appeared on a range of K-Tel-type releases dubbed from terrible condition 45s until Steve mastered the DCC "Lost and Found" collection in the early 1990s. That short disc was a wet dream for anybody who gave a shit about this material (frankly, I'm surprised anybody did by 1963, let alone now. It's not exactly inspiring stuff.)
There was due to be an expanded edition in 2000, mastered by Steve (who claims he was never paid.) This project fell apart, and the tapes have been considered toxic ever since due to the sheer amount of legal red tape involved.
Fast-forward to 2015, and some keen individual decides that the previously unreleased titles can be released under the UK's Public Domain laws. That led to the following thread, which was started because Hoffman had expunged the thread running at SH.tv. Iain Lee gets involved at one stage, saying he'd declined to release the tapes because of the legalities.
While most of the board's ire is directed at somebody called Brad Elliott (who apparently profited from the 2000 non-release), I can't help but wonder how these Hoffman-mastered titles got out. If he wasn't one of the unnamed middlemen directly trying to cash in from this release, did he sell the discs in one of his frequent "fundraising" auctions of times past?
As a postscript, I understand this stuff has since been released, because I downloaded a torrent of it a year or two ago. Take 48 of "Luau" is no better than take 1.
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Before being signed to Capitol, The Beach Boys paid for studio time which resulted in the Candix release of "Surfin'" and a few other titles. This material appeared on a range of K-Tel-type releases dubbed from terrible condition 45s until Steve mastered the DCC "Lost and Found" collection in the early 1990s. That short disc was a wet dream for anybody who gave a shit about this material (frankly, I'm surprised anybody did by 1963, let alone now. It's not exactly inspiring stuff.)
There was due to be an expanded edition in 2000, mastered by Steve (who claims he was never paid.) This project fell apart, and the tapes have been considered toxic ever since due to the sheer amount of legal red tape involved.
Fast-forward to 2015, and some keen individual decides that the previously unreleased titles can be released under the UK's Public Domain laws. That led to the following thread, which was started because Hoffman had expunged the thread running at SH.tv. Iain Lee gets involved at one stage, saying he'd declined to release the tapes because of the legalities.
While most of the board's ire is directed at somebody called Brad Elliott (who apparently profited from the 2000 non-release), I can't help but wonder how these Hoffman-mastered titles got out. If he wasn't one of the unnamed middlemen directly trying to cash in from this release, did he sell the discs in one of his frequent "fundraising" auctions of times past?
As a postscript, I understand this stuff has since been released, because I downloaded a torrent of it a year or two ago. Take 48 of "Luau" is no better than take 1.
smileysmile.net/board/index.php/topic,21369.0.html