There was some earlier stuff that wasn’t able to get the multi-track masters for, so I listened to those anyway and compared them with what I was doing with the ones that I had managed to copy across digitally, and just see if they blended sound wise throughout the album.
SDE: How much of the material did you actually go back and remix? Was it all of it or just some of it?ĮS: I think probably about half of it. It does sound very, very good, it’s very, very close to analogue, which I still think is slightly better, but we don’t really believe in analogue systems any more, apart from people buying them again, which I’m delighted to hear. So yeah, I got down to it, and then, because I had all the original masters, even the analogue masters for 16 and 24 track masters, I copied them all again to digital and then started to remix them, using a lot of sounds that are only available now because of all the apps that we can now move into, recording system like Logic on Apple Macs, which is terrific. SDE: But focusing on your particular anthology, you would have been aware that your albums weren’t available digitally – the early ones aren’t on CD – so was there a feeling that it was about time you got the stuff back out there and into the marketplace?ĮS: It wasn’t me, Paul, actually, it came to me from Cherry Red themselves, the people there actually called me and said ‘We’ve been looking at your past history, we’d love you to put together a compilation of what you think were the best tracks’, which was a lovely project. I think the covers were done by Kevin Godley, and the title, Before During After, which was quite interesting, because it is stuff recorded before 10cc, during 10cc and after… SDE: That’s right. Did you get involved in the box set project as well, or have you just been focusing on your own anthology?ĮS: No, no, it’s the record company themselves decided on the compilation of that. SuperDeluxeEdition: There’s a few 10cc related projects out at the moment, there’s the ‘Before During After’ box set and then there’s your Anthology and there’s a few other things…Įric Stewart: Yeah, and Godley and Creme… SDE caught up with him a few weeks ago to discuss the project and his new book Things I Do For Love…
Cherry Red encouraged Stewart to curate a two-CD Anthology which was released in the summer. Stewart’s solo work is less well known, with much of it out of print or simply unavailable on CD at all.
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