[Cpt.Beaky]

Originally Posted by treserious

sadly, there is conflicting information as to the music lost in this fire.

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.co...music-history/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...y-minutes.html


the two lines that freak me out are:
"was only "more obscure artists from the '40s and the early '50s." "

"inside the video vault that was billowing thick black smoke were 1000's of original Decca, MCA, ABC recording masters from the last century including a wide range of music from Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters to Judy Garland and The Carpenters.'

but the information is conflicting, and its hard to tell if anything was lost, or if it was a huge chunk of music history that was lost.

http://laist.com/2008/06/02/music_masters_r.php

http://blogcritics.org/archives/2008/06/02/142255.php


I hope that all those masters were not destroyed.

Considering there are absolutely no sources, there is reason to doubt the report (everything leads back to Nikki Finke, who names no names). Given that Universal is probably insured out the ying-yang and wouldn't want to downplay the damage, there is more reason to doubt it (although there is a chance they wouldn't maintain insurance on their vaults). But, ultimately, because I don't want to get stressed out about it, I'm going to choose to doubt it.

Locked in a vault or burned in a fire is near enough to the same thing, anyway.