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Thunderball R.I.P. I've been away from the org for so long it feels well weird to be back. I'm still happily stranded in northern Italy and I'm borrowing someone's laptop to type this so I'd better be quick.
Dunno if this has been discussed recently but I've had a word with my supplier and he's just told me the 'Thunderball' label is no more. 'Thunderball', incidentally, were the Skandinavian label responsible for 'The Work' volume series of unreleased Prince demos and outtakes. Can anybody else elaborate on this piece of info? . "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person." | |
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well, I'm sorry to tell you this, but their work on that 20 CD set was bad. the guy who used the filter for cleaning noises has a lot to learn. but I'm glad someone finally put most of the outtakes and demos in one set. | |
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Actually, I agree with your assessment. 'Thunderball' pretty much ruined some of the best sounding demos (particularly on volumes 1 & 2) by needlessly increasing the bass frequency on most of the more decent-sounding tracks, creating distortion and generally buggering most of the material to perdition.
I also agree that it was about time someone thought about releasing outtakes in something resembling a chronological order, something 'Thunderball' also failed to get right. Besides, a golden opportunity was wasted when many of the demos already available on other labels were left out altogether from 'The Work' series. Anyway, 'Sabotage' can now kiss goodbye to their main competition... . "You don't frighten us, English pig dogs. Go and boil your bottoms, sons of a silly person." | |
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Thats a shame,some great releases came thru on Thunderball
They werent that bad,I love the Work CD set Much love  Pochacco | |
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I read about this about a week or 2 ago. What's really bad about this is all of the shows that were about to come out will now NEVER see the light of day!! They had the most complete version of this year's Celebration, and now we'll never hear it. This was to include the first night and anything Premium didn't get right on theirs!! TB's work may not have been all 5 stars, but it's bad to lose a label like them in the boot world! Variety and competition is ALWAYS a good thing, and Moonraker/Thunderball put out some good shit back in the day!!
RIP Thunderball! | |
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hmmm... so what is to become of the rumored volumes 6 & 7 of "The Work" that were supposed to come out late in '02?  | |
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