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The Day the Music Burned
« on: June 11, 2019, 02:28:47 PM »
Fascinating article about a fire in the Universal Studios amusement park in CA back in 2008. In which a warehouse containing 175,000 original master tapes was destroyed.

It is a rather long read, but I felt it was worth the time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html?te=1&nl=morning-briefing&emc=edit_NN_p_20190611&section=longRead?campaign_id=9&instance_id=10110&segment_id=14169&user_id=2bbcfb446fe4f2f2986a7fbc8ba758f9&regi_id=65735157ion=longRead
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Re: The Day the Music Burned
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2019, 06:10:08 AM »
Read that yesterday and was very depressed. :?
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