wetcamelfood
04-14-2003, 07:54 PM
Well, unfortunately, it’s not much, but FINALLY David McLees got back to me and here’s my notes of our call:
He said 6/24 was the planned release date for the first batch of reissues (FM (1975), “Rumours” & “Tusk).
He couldn’t/wouldn’t say what would be the extra tracks but he said they would NOT be “straight reissues” (with no bonus tracks) but they are yet to be agreed upon.
He said that FM agreed to let these reissues happen at this time as they felt as though it would not clash with the new album (how I don’t know, as this is what me and ChiliD had originally had suggested to him/them to do in the first place, I guess “they want the credit” for the idea of the reissues HELPING the SYW marketing etc. but whatever).
No dates have been set for further FM reissues but he said they were definitely going to do all of the WB/Reprise Mac albums, starting with the BN ones (so I guess we can assume “Mirage”, “Tango...” etc. will be after these three but he didn’t say that and/or when they would be).
When asked about the words “expanded reissues” in those ads that were seen about these reissues, he said “Tusk” would be 2 CD’s and the full “Sara” would be reinstated.
He said the “band members still need to agree” on “what they will allow” as the bonus tracks (but that to me, sounds reminiscent of The Knight saying the tracklisting for the limited edition of SYW “hasn’t been agreed upon yet” and we’ll have the SYW limited edition, complete with the as yet not agreed upon tracklisting, in our hands tomorrow morning so whatever).
He wants it to be known that he doesn’t work for Rhino (even though that was the letter head paper he used when he wrote to me) but for Warner Strategic Marketing.
So there, I’ve passed on everything I know and that was said about it all in the phone call. I had asked him to send me a follow up e mail/letter confirming everything that was said and he said he would. I realize that there is not much information here, I am disappointed too, but in case anyone doesn’t believe I ever spoke to him and/or am “holding out on you” in regards to further info on this, I will be glad to share a scan of the follow up e
mail/letter I get from him if you wish. I also have the e mail from him saying HE WOULD LET ME KNOW when things develop on the reissues (which he never did), it was dated February 25, 2002 which I can scan as well.
Sorry to come off as defensive (again) but I just feel embarrassed that I thought (obviously wrongly) that he would do what he said he wold do which was let me know closer the time based on what he said and he didn’t and has decided to not be forthcoming with info on this so I feel like I’ve been leading you
guys down the wrong path when that was not my intention, I had no control over how he was going to handle this (or not handle it as the case may be). Anyways, I hope any scrap of this will be of some use to someone here and if anyone has any ideas on anything that can be done further on this then do say so here, because I’m out of ideas on this. As per my usual ramblings though, I feel OK walking away from this knowing I tried everything I could think of to try and get them to listen in so far as getting the best FM reissues with extra stuff out there but have apparently been shut out, so fair enough, I won’t have to
think “What if I had tried (this)” because I must have tried it by now as I can’t think of anything else to try. If any of you do know of anything though, I’m open to ideas and sorry for the “lack of news” on this topic at the end of the day. :)
John
He said 6/24 was the planned release date for the first batch of reissues (FM (1975), “Rumours” & “Tusk).
He couldn’t/wouldn’t say what would be the extra tracks but he said they would NOT be “straight reissues” (with no bonus tracks) but they are yet to be agreed upon.
He said that FM agreed to let these reissues happen at this time as they felt as though it would not clash with the new album (how I don’t know, as this is what me and ChiliD had originally had suggested to him/them to do in the first place, I guess “they want the credit” for the idea of the reissues HELPING the SYW marketing etc. but whatever).
No dates have been set for further FM reissues but he said they were definitely going to do all of the WB/Reprise Mac albums, starting with the BN ones (so I guess we can assume “Mirage”, “Tango...” etc. will be after these three but he didn’t say that and/or when they would be).
When asked about the words “expanded reissues” in those ads that were seen about these reissues, he said “Tusk” would be 2 CD’s and the full “Sara” would be reinstated.
He said the “band members still need to agree” on “what they will allow” as the bonus tracks (but that to me, sounds reminiscent of The Knight saying the tracklisting for the limited edition of SYW “hasn’t been agreed upon yet” and we’ll have the SYW limited edition, complete with the as yet not agreed upon tracklisting, in our hands tomorrow morning so whatever).
He wants it to be known that he doesn’t work for Rhino (even though that was the letter head paper he used when he wrote to me) but for Warner Strategic Marketing.
So there, I’ve passed on everything I know and that was said about it all in the phone call. I had asked him to send me a follow up e mail/letter confirming everything that was said and he said he would. I realize that there is not much information here, I am disappointed too, but in case anyone doesn’t believe I ever spoke to him and/or am “holding out on you” in regards to further info on this, I will be glad to share a scan of the follow up e
mail/letter I get from him if you wish. I also have the e mail from him saying HE WOULD LET ME KNOW when things develop on the reissues (which he never did), it was dated February 25, 2002 which I can scan as well.
Sorry to come off as defensive (again) but I just feel embarrassed that I thought (obviously wrongly) that he would do what he said he wold do which was let me know closer the time based on what he said and he didn’t and has decided to not be forthcoming with info on this so I feel like I’ve been leading you
guys down the wrong path when that was not my intention, I had no control over how he was going to handle this (or not handle it as the case may be). Anyways, I hope any scrap of this will be of some use to someone here and if anyone has any ideas on anything that can be done further on this then do say so here, because I’m out of ideas on this. As per my usual ramblings though, I feel OK walking away from this knowing I tried everything I could think of to try and get them to listen in so far as getting the best FM reissues with extra stuff out there but have apparently been shut out, so fair enough, I won’t have to
think “What if I had tried (this)” because I must have tried it by now as I can’t think of anything else to try. If any of you do know of anything though, I’m open to ideas and sorry for the “lack of news” on this topic at the end of the day. :)
John