by malcolmc7 » Fri Feb 24, 2012 1:34 pm
Hello Bill
Thanks for this. I appreciate the point you make about the advent of the digital age which has left the way open for even more intensive mindless vandalism of this kind. In this case though it really is hard to fathom how what has been done could ever have been regarded even by the most extreme eccentric as effecting any sort of improvement.
I'm not sure what you mean by other tracks. I've only listened once to the other singles on the set but they did strike me as a bit lacking in punch, certainly nothing special. It would be possible I dare say to track down where they have been lifted from but I can't see that it would be worth the bother.
If you mean other manipulations of the kind we have been discussing, this same 1967 French LP ( and the LP/CDs that followed on) also reprocessed F.B.I., The Frightened City and Kon-Tiki, with equally grim results. There are other, different alternative (in the sense of interfered with) versions scattered about in CDs from France from early on in the history of the medium.
Best wishes
Malcolm