Someone on some board had posted about our Promises release a couple of weeks ago. He invited comments. One comment was from Jroug, who called himself the "architect" of all the Ryko releases, and said that my saying they'd remixed their version of the album an outlandish accusation, and that their CD was from the two-track album masters. I responded this evening - I explained that as the "architect" of the Ryko releases he should have known that a simple listening of the Ryko (and in turn Varese) release would tell you it was not the original album mix. But, more importantly, I informed this guy that when I opened the first of the many boxes of Promises tapes that were sitting in my living room, the first ones I found were a forty-eight track digital Mitsubishi tape - Ryko had transferred to that digital tape the eight track edited session masters, and on two separate tracks, a cassette of the OCR to use as a guide. Then, on two other tracks was the bounce-over of their new mix. That new mix was then transferred to another Mitsubishi digital tape and that is what their CD was made from. Tapes don't lie, I'm afraid. I gave this guy the name of the person in charge of the remix, Ryko and MGM's Bradley Flanagan - clearly written on the track sheets. Oops.
