I think it's too much to hope for to see an Old Tunes reissue, at least this year. Right now, I'm just going to read it at face value - a (likely?) legitimate remix has been unearthed, a (likely?) hoaxer piggybacked on the find, and (inadvertently?) exposed another BoC mystery that has been hiding in plain sight.
Part of being a fan of these guys is a lot of mystery and constant withholding. I wonder how they feel in retrospect about including all of these impossible to find friends/family only releases in their early discography.
It must be a blessing and a curse - in the TCH era, they claimed to be normal guys that just want to be left alone,but it seems like every few years, they love to remind us of the vast troves of unreleased music they have stockpiled (all the way back to the early website with the unreleased song clips, then the 40+ unreleased songs recorded for Geogaddi, then the suggestion of there being piles and piles of tapes during the TH interviews) and I think part of their legacy thrives on the legend of this rarity (excellent quality of their released catalog aside, of course).
I'd like to respect their wishes to keep their past buried, but 15 years later, they're still not making it any easier on us.
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Opothecary on Sun Sep 15, 2013 11:52 pm, edited 2 times in total.
