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RE: Easter re-tracking privileges
- To: "Anthony J. Rzepela" <spamtony>, <babel-list>
- Subject: RE: Easter re-tracking privileges
- From: "Gart, Mitchell" <MGart>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 15:51:19 -0500
- Sender: owner-babel-list
- Thread-index: AcYzOmk8H+BkY/eOTs2BYwj+DLL5hgAADe/g
- Thread-topic: Easter re-tracking privileges
The copy I got, well down in the weed patch, does have Privilege
on disc 1. Thanks for making this available,
- Mitch
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-babel-list
> [mailto:owner-babel-list] On Behalf Of weapons
> of mass destruction-related program activities
> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:47 PM
> To: babel-list
> Subject: Easter re-tracking privileges
>
> In the hopes of clearing up just one bit of confusion -- the
> disc set I weeded of the audience recording of the 12/30/05
> show (I believe the first to be offered on babel-list) _did_
> have Patti's post-"Godspeed" chatter included on disc 1
> rather than disc 2 -- on purpose.
>
> I personally made that editorial decision and take the heat
> for the heartache it may have caused.
>
> I realize that this flies counter to the original torrent's
> organization, and the liners later offered on that same
> torrent, but the original separation was just
> (IMHO) a bad decision.
>
> The original separation seemed to be driven by nothing more
> than an impulse to follow the "purity" of the Easter setlist,
> and that was outweighed by how the playback suffered as a
> result (IMHO). I know it's just some two-minute chatter, but
> the placement made a big difference.
>
> No one ever wrote me to say "Yo! Where's Privilege?!", or to
> complain about 2-second gaps, so I assume that every copy I
> sent out was right with God as far as those two issues are concerned.