1/2/2023 0 Comments Ramones grammy museum![]() ![]() We only had an EQ copy of that because nobody knew where the actual master tapes were.īut Bill put them all together in Pro-Tools sessions, and I went through them. The only one we didn’t get the original master for was the Bill Laswell-produced Brain Drain. He compiles all this stuff and then gets it to me. That guy knows where everyone’s master is in the world. It was all transferred into Pro-Tools.īut first of all, the great Bill Inglot finds everything. But I did go from the original copies (for this). When we did Ramonesmania, we did use the tapes. I haven’t touched the original tapes since I worked on them. It wouldn’t be beneficial to FedEx original tapes. They basically bake the tapes and transfer them to digital and put the tape away. We don’t work from the tapes, the tapes are fragile. All the tapes over the years, the multi-tracks the EQ masters, the flat masters, have all been archived at a high resolution 192 kHz-sample rate/24-bit. So, they’ve taken all the master tapes and everything has been archived. has been very good about archiving everything. WHAT WERE THE SOURCE MATERIALS FOR THESE ‘80S REMASTERS, AND WHAT KIND OF CONDITION WERE THEY IN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS?ĮS: Warner Bros. ![]() JW: PUTTING THIS SET TOGETHER MUST’VE BEEN QUITE AN UNDERTAKING. And handle them, he did! What follows might not be for the casual Ramones fan, but if you’re a die-hard, you’re in for a treat. As you will soon learn, we did talk about the remasters, but as a hardcore Ramones obsessive, there was no way I wasn’t going to take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to gently punish Stasium with as many crucial, inside-Ramones questions as he could handle. The Ramones are my Beatles, and possibly yours, too.Īs a lifelong Ramones fan, I was beyond excited when asked to interview longtime Ramones engineer/producer Ed Stasium about the RSD-exclusive, vinyl-only, set of 1980s Ramones albums he oversaw and remastered. They were a flesh and blood gang of musical miscreants from Forrest Hills, Queens, who somehow came together to create some of the greatest pop songs of all time, while also being one of the most ferocious live acts to ever hit a stage. In 2022, it’s unusual to walk down the street and not be confronted with some variation of Arturo Vega’s iconic Ramones logo on a t-shirt, sticker or coffee shop sign. Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny and Tommy (and later, Marky, Richie and C.J.) altered the musical and cultural landscape in a way very few artists in any medium have. They proved, beyond a doubt, that you didn’t need to be a virtuoso to make music and express yourself. If you’re like me, the Ramones changed your life forever. JON WURSTER TALKS WITH ENGINEER/PRODUCER ED STASIUM, ON THE OCCASION OF THE RSD 2022 RELEASE OF THE RAMONES' THE SIRE ALBUMS 1981-1989īY JON WURSTER (Superchunk/Bob Mould Band/The Mountain Goats) Original Ramones photo by Roberta Bayley. ![]() Ed Stasium in front of the cover of the first Ramones LP, at The Grammy Museum in LA in 2016. ![]()
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