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28 minutes ago, RussTCB said:

The masters for AFD & Lies could have been destroyed in that fire. I'm not overly familiar with the marketing but I don't remember any of the remastering saying anything about it being the original master recordings. Also, if the UYI masters were destroyed, that would suck.

 

Not of the original master recordings, no.

I know you're joking but what the bootleggers have doesn't compare in any way to the original masters. 

They were able to remix the AFD and Lies tracks for 5.1, so they either had the masters or very high quality safety copies.  Plus they had access to the the "Shadow of Your Love" and "Move to The City" outtakes which also got newly mixed.  My gut feeling is the AFD/Lies archive was safe elsewhere.   But until more details are available, I suspect educated guesses are all we are left with.  

17 minutes ago, 80309561 said:

lot more than 0% were sold

Amazon keeps a running percentage of how much of their stock of an item has been sold during their lightning sales. As the time of the sale's conclusion, it still read 0%.   Did you see something to indicate that wasn't accurate?   

18 hours ago, RussTCB said:

I'm sure it will. We're edging closer and closer to my $499 price point! 

The sale ended with 0% sold.  Which suggests your price point (or better) is increasingly likely.  

This is a spectacular piece of work.   

Has anyone verified if the versions of "Mr Brownstone" and "Sweet Child O Mine" in the reproduction singles are the alternate mixes from the original vinyl (though I'm not clear if all versions of the Sweet Child single used the remix)?  

On 7/2/2018 at 10:04 AM, nevergotochurch said:

I don’t think they’d save that demo for an Illusions reissue just because that song eventually ended up on Illusions. If so, they probably would have saved the November Rain and Back off Bitch demos for that as well.

Unless there was genuine confusion and they THOUGHT the Sound City demo was the b-side.   After all, they don't seem to have realized that the Sound City "Shadow of Your Love" was previously released as a b-side.