The Day the Music Burned

[Dave W]

I remember hearing about the 2008 fire at Universal Studios but I had no idea about how much music was lost until I read this.

It's worth reading, you should be able to access without an account.

The Day the Music Burned

[doombass]

Wow, I had no idea. What a catastrophy. 

[Highlander]

How truly sad...

I've worked in vaults like these...  I was allowed to wander through this steel-housed section of a "paper store" that had an inert gas protection system... main building had a water dousing system... it was all steel walls, breeze-block and minimal flamables and wiring...
I have a photo of myself holding the master tapes to Free Live; gave me goose-bumps; this was prior to the re-issue, and I was marveling at the tracks that had not been issued... All Free's tapes were together... All of their albums...
In a short time I had found a stack of Bob Marley material, a bunch of Hawkwind material... I ran out of time...

When we look back over time, I wonder how much we have already lost to history... Homer was one of the great Greek writers, but iirc only two of his primary works are known to exist today...

[Rob]

A long read but worth it.
I am with you guys as I was under the impression that it was a minimal loss fire.

[amptech]

Wow, never heard about that fire. Huge loss for the music industry for sure.

[wellREDman]

woah

[ajkula66]

I was clueless about this since I really don't follow NYT (or any other media for that fact)... what a story.

Thanks for sharing.

[Dave W]

Obviously the artists affected didn't know about all the losses either.

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[Rob]

Obviously the artists affected didn't know about all the losses either.

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That's an even greater tragedy.