Petition to UMG to release the early Steely Dans in 5.1

[MrSmithers]

Whoop whoop!

Are you reeling in the tears of joy Universal - when you see the sales figures upon release?!

 

[cornwall198]

Done! Here’s hopin’!

 

[Eclectic]

Signed and passed on to ~50K Twitter peeps. Wouldn't it be nice if 1% of them signed it too?

 

[leevitalone1]

with you-but the Aja masters were stolen. Don Fagen has a reward offered.

 

[humprof]

Signed and passed on to ~50K Twitter peeps. Wouldn't it be nice if 1% of them signed it too?

Thanks. Any exposure in the Twitterverse helps. (And it may have already given us a bump. Seven new sigs in the past hour!)

 

[humprof]

with you-but the Aja masters were stolen. Don Fagen has a reward offered.

Thanks. We'll take what we can get, I guess. We know (or think we know) that Pretzel Logic was completed. Anything else, including Aja with Penteo upmixes of "Black Cow" and "Aja," if that were okayed, would be gravy.

 

[Eggplant]

the Aja masters were stolen. Don Fagen has a reward offered.

Not true.
The multis for only two tracks are lost.
There's no evidence they were stolen.

At this point, they should just create a 5.1 remix using the remaining tracks and leave the other tracks stereo or in fake surround. This has been done before, as with The Band's "Big Pink". No point in holding up the project any longer. Otherwise we'll all be dead before the missing tapes surface.

 

[sjcorne]

At this point, they should just create a 5.1 remix using the remaining tracks and leave the other tracks stereo or in fake surround. This has been done before, as with The Band's "Big Pink". No point in holding up the project any longer. Otherwise we'll all be dead before the missing tapes surface.

Quite a few of the SW-mixed projects have gotten around the missing multis problem as well, most notably Gentle Giant's Three Piece Suite which combined available tracks from the first 3 albums.

I certainly wouldn't say no to a release presented in that style from Steely Dan (maybe the greatest hits?), but the full albums with upmixes would be preferable.

 

[humprof]

If you're reading this, then I'm probably already preaching to the choir. So if you've already signed our petition to UMG (see the top of this thread), then as Harry Shearer says at the end of every Le Show: Thank-you-very-much-uh-huh. But if you haven't--or if you know someone who should, but hasn't--then I hope you'll act soon. We're going to leave it up for at least a few more days, but we're at 465 (!) signatures right now, and we'd love to pass the 500 mark before we shut it down and give it to our emissary, who will bravely carry it to the heart of the beast.

Here's the link again: https://www.change.org/p/universal-...ease-release-steely-dan-s-early-albums-in-5-1

"We won't sit still. We will make it happen!" --Robert von Bahr

 

[key_wiz]

I think I am #497.

 

[humprof]

I think I am #497.

Brilliant! 3 more to .5k! Thanks, keywhiz.

 

[fredblue]

499 now... come on number 500..!!

 

[humprof]

499 now... come on number 500..!!

And...Adam's exhortation pushed us over the mark! (And I didn't even have to recruit any of my family.)

 

[MrSmithers]

Brilliant! Well done, that's really good to hit 500!

 

[ar surround]

Been a bit behind the eight ball due to a three week stint Down Under. Came home to find this absolutely GREAT petition which I have now signed.

 

[Ranasakawa]

Done

 

[leevitalone1]

Not true.
The multis for only two tracks are lost.
There's no evidence they were stolen.

At this point, they should just create a 5.1 remix using the remaining tracks and leave the other tracks stereo or in fake surround. This has been done before, as with The Band's "Big Pink". No point in holding up the project any longer. Otherwise we'll all be dead before the missing tapes surface.

Fagen does not care about high res anyway. He stated with the Sunken Condo album people liten on tiny speakers anyway so why bother, he gave up on it.

 

[humprof]

Fagen does not care about high res anyway. He stated with the Sunken Condo album people liten on tiny speakers anyway so why bother, he gave up on it.

I think he was just being his cynical self. He stated elsewhere--or maybe even in the same interview--that he'd love to do a surround mix of Sunken Condos, too, but didn't think it would ever happen in this day and age.

 

[4-earredwonder]

I think he was just being his cynical self. He stated elsewhere--or maybe even in the same interview--that he'd love to do a surround mix of Sunken Condos, too, but didn't think it would ever happen in this day and age.

I don't know why in this day and age he just didn't record it as a 5.1 mix and insist that his record company release it as a BD~A! The man certainly has enough clout. His previous three solo albums excel in 5.1........DUH!

 

[Eclectic]

When the Sunken Condos came out, I wrote to Scheiner's agent (Joe D'Ambrosio) asking if Scheiner was going to do a surround mix. To my surprise, I actually got a response. Sadly, it said that Fagen hadn't requested a surround mix