"It was the biggest disaster in the history of the music business — and almost nobody knew. This is the story of the 2008 Universal fire."

Read The New York Times Magazine's full article HERE

And that's where I'm so glad I've never been able to release a single record. Its master tapes are safe and sound...

 

9 pages of comments about wild imaginings that only reflects some delusional disorder and for which it will remain quite hard to establish a single connection with any musical universe, however tortured it may be:
https://audiosex.pro/threads/please...tory-and-what-is-going-on-in-the-world.44530/
And absolutely nothing here.
Just WOW.

 

The list of affected artists who lost some or all of their original masters...

50 Cent
Aerosmith
Al Green
Al Jolson
Albert Ayler
Alice Coltrane
Aretha Franklin
Art Blakey
B.B. King
Barry White
Beck
Benny Goodman
Big Mama Thornton
Bill Haley and His Comets
Billie Holiday
Bing Crosby
Bo Diddley
Bobby Bland
Bobby Brown
Buddy Guy
Buddy Holly
Burl Ives
Burt Bacharach
Cab Calloway
Captain Beefheart
Cat Stevens
Charles Mingus
Chuck Berry
Clara Ward
Coleman Hawkins
Count Basie
Dizzy Gillespie
Don Henley
Duke Ellington
Ella Fitzgerald
Elton John
Eminem[nb 1]
Eric B. and Rakim
Eric Clapton
Ernest Tubb
Etta James
Fats Domino
George Jones
George Strait
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Guns N' Roses
Hole
Howlin' Wolf
Iggy Pop
Ike Turner
Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats
Janet Jackson
Jimmy Buffett
Joan Baez
John Coltrane
John Lee Hooker
Joni Mitchell
Judy Garland
Kitty Wells
Lefty Frizzell
Les Paul
Lionel Hampton
Little Walter
Loretta Lynn
Louis Armstrong
Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Mary J. Blige
Max Roach
Merle Haggard
Muddy Waters
Neil Diamond
New Edition
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
No Doubt
Ornette Coleman
Patsy Cline
Patti LaBelle
Pharoah Sanders
Queen Latifah
Quincy Jones
R.E.M.
Ray Charles
Rufus and Chaka Khan
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sheryl Crow
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Snoop Dogg
Sonic Youth
Sonny Rollins
Sonny and Cher
Soundgarden
Steely Dan
Steve Earle
Sting
Sun Ra
The Andrews Sisters
The Carpenters
The Eagles
The Flying Burrito Brothers
The Four Tops
The Impressions
The Ink Spots
The Kingsmen
The Mamas and the Papas
The Mills Brothers
The Police
The Roots
The Weavers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tupac Shakur
Willie Dixon
Yoko Ono

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Universal_fire

 

More info on this story from Rick beato

 

Notre Dame De Paris is nearly 800 freaking years old, many generations and countless Frenchmen lived and died during it's construction. And it will never be "restored" to it's original glory, as the knowledge of doing so has been lost to time. Kind of a disrespectful and shit comparison imo.

 

I mostly agree, but why are you telling it here? The mods finally closed it?

 

You don't know what you had 'til you lost it.
Sometimes you might find it down the back of the couch, but often times it's gone forever.
Yep, this stuff's gone man.

 

UMG won't admit the loss. That would crash their stock if they told the truth about loosing so many assets in their portfolio.
Seems like the Securities and Exchange Commission could have party with this one.

 

This was a tragedy beyond belief, though my greatest fear for much of the known present day totality of knowledge is a scattering of magnetic pulses from nuclear devices that would destroy the vast amount of storage drives, servers and just about everything electronic. It would be an immediate and devastating blow to civilization. The building was in one location, a great storage warehouse of priceless treasures, this would obliterate almost everything and render out hardware retrieval systems useless.

 

somewhat related discussion:
https://audiosex.pro/threads/so-much-gold.44655/