Master Reels

[nicksphan]

I was going to put this in the Demo/Live Performance thread, but figured Master Reels could take on a life of their own. These have been around for a few years now so I am guessing most folks around here already have many of these and are familiar with how they came to be circulated. Since I'm just about ready to call it a night, I'm not going to go into the whole story right now (plus I'm sure Mike B. can do a much better job providing the details on the story behind the reels.)

In any event, I bought just about all of the available reels...well, not the actual reels, but CD's...from the individual(s) who purchased them and went through the costly and time consuming process of having them professionally transferred.

A few years ago, I made two compilations CD's of 25 or so of my favorite Master Reel tracks (the ones I recently posted in the Demos thread) and all of the Reel CD's went into storage. From what I understand though, the data stored on CDR's does not last forever and begins to deteriorate after only a few years. This happened to just about all of the Maureen Loftus CD's I bought and I decided it's time I uploaded all of the Master Reels to ensure I don't lose them as well. (Thanks again Dark Angel for sharing all of Maureen's CD's with us!)

So, as I upload the Masters to my Mac, I thought it was a good time to share them here. The great surprise for me has been discovering some great tracks that I never really noticed when I originally bought them. I got them at such a fast clip that I was too inundated to spend the time to really listen to them all and many of them I just scanned (especially the ones that were not tracked.)

Some of the reels are filled with gems while others have just snippets and false starts along with studio chatter that some people will love and others will find difficult to wade through. I will try to give some info to help you decide if it is worth your time to download each reel. I will try to post them in numerical order as best I can, but since I don't have all of them out of storage yet, there will be gaps in the sequencing (and I will try to post one reel a day.)

Hopefully there are some newer fans who will be hearing these for the first time or long time fans who don't have them in pristine quality (by the way, these files have never been compressed to MP3's and I am keeping them as wav files.)

Although I will be posting reels in their entirety, for this introduction post, I thought I would post one track that I heard earlier this evening that I don't recall hearing when I initially got the reels. It is a very stripped down version of the much-maligned Jane. Like most people on these boards, Jane is on my list of Least Favorites. But I actually love this version (despite the chimpanzee)...


Jane (from Master Reel 10)
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0ziyhm1jtz1