EMI UK have released the next Ten Years After remaster... Ten Years After - Undead - Stonedhenge Remastered by Pete Mew... plus bonus tracks
Claus: Thanks for the heads-up. Would like to hear your (and anyone else's) review (sound quality) if you get them. I have the Deram (Polygram) CD of Stonedhenge - actually not bad but room for improvement. Also have a German double lp "Hear Them Calling" on Nova containing some of the Undead tracks - better than the U.S. Undead vinyl, but still a somewhat thin, tinny sound. Richard
I think you can do a blind-buy! Pete Mew did an amazing remastering on Cricklewood Green. Better than the Mofi reissue... EMI also reissued Fairport Convention's masterpiece Liege And Life with 2 bonus tracks.
How does it sound or do you own it? What is the state of Fairport on CD in general? There's a double disc compilation that's supposed to be pretty good. Thanks.
Haven't heard FC yet, and I'm not a BIG fan from this british folk group... I'm happy with the 2 CD compilation.
Okay, so I ran out and bought Cricklewood Green on your say so. Thank you Claus, it does sound great.
I found a sealed CD copy of 'Cricklewood Green' a few months ago for $2.99! I started not to buy it because I figured it would sound crappy and it was a TYA recording I wasn't familiar with. Best $3 bucks I've spent in a while. Beautiful sound and some classic TYA recordings.
I'm surprised other forum members aren't more excited about the developments in this thread. I haven't heard the TYA remasters in question, but if the opinions of Claus and Mike are reliable, Peter Mew has done an outstanding job remastering these CDs. Since these are some of his most recent remasters, doesn't this bode well for the Beatles catalog he'll almost certainly be working on (since he's Abbey Road's chief engineer)? Isn't anyone else optimistic about this?
One does hope. But not too hard because it's too big of a let down if he returns to form and mewders them.
