With the release of Rhino remastered collector editions of choice New Order albums (Movement, Power, Corruption & Lies, Low-Life, Brotherhood and Technique) comes an interview with the always outspoken Peter Hook during his Section 25 tour. In this series of 5 clips titled simply ‘Saga New Order’, Peter candidly talks about his frustrations when dealing with Warner Bros. during the Rhino project, almost being called ‘Witchdoctors of Zimbabwe’, Happy Monday’s thieving ways while on tour and the best and worst New Order videos (including the Baywatch version of Regret and being snubbed David Hasselhoff).
I’ve always thought Peter was the best storyteller of them all and true to form, he doesn’t disappoint in this series of interviews.
The clips are not embeddable so here are the handy dandy links:
Saga New Order 1/5
Saga New Order 2/5
Saga New Order 3/5
Saga New Order 4/5
Saga New Order 5/5
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Horaayy..there are 3 comment(s) for me so far ;)
My frequent concert companion Jeff is deeply submerged in this saga. He’s cut ‘n pasted this response to all the remaster issues:
NEW ORDER RE-RELEASES UPDATE!
This is a very difficult one , we are aware of the problems and because we did not have finished product to listen to? It has, shall we say……. slipped through the net?? My great friend claude flowers has taken it on himself to sort this mess out personally, but please be aware , that after the fact it is going to be very difficult, unfortunately because many of you have purchased them already ( a great compliment in itself) we are doing all we can to try and get fresh masters made and available , somehow ? to try and remedy the situation, so please bear with us.
I have said before how difficult it is compiling this stuff, the masters steve and I listened to, were all basically from people’s collections, so it was then left to someone? In the library department to compile, as much as possible from original masters, this is where it seems to have gone wrong , unfortunately it is industry standard these days to not have production masters of the cd’s or the sleeves, much to pete saville’s amazement, but that’s just the way it is , hopefully they might resurrect the process after this. Here’s hoping, hooky.
Thanks Allison, here’s Rhino’s official take:
“Warner Bros. UK, Rhino and New Order regret that the initial pressings of the Collector Editions of “Movement”, “Power, Corruption & Lies”, “Low-Life”, “Brotherhood” and “Technique” contain some minor audio problems on the bonus discs. We are now in the process of correcting the problems, but it should be noted that due to the age and condition of some of the original source tapes, the sound quality may vary. A further statement will be issued once the corrected product is available. At that time, the procedure for exchanging CD’s will be announced. Thank you for your patience while we resolve this situation.”
They reportedly whitewashed everything. There were apparently huge problems with the UK releases and the company claimed they would fix them for the North American release…as a complete non-audiophile I think even I would notice the problems that stem beyond the bonus discs. The friend who bought them and wrote complaint letters to Rhino claims the original Polygram records sound better–audio actually cuts out on channels altogether for 5 seconds at a time.