YOUR QUESTION

11/06/2020 Royce

As far as the OG Raging Wrath goes, wondering if it would ever be even possible to do a new mixdown from the original 4 track tapes, or are those cassettes gone forever? If they’re history, do you or Trey at least have the first generation mixdown of it that was used to dupe copies back in the day?

Also, what on earth is going on with that 1992 WB split 7 inch with Flaming Lips of Sudden Death? What’s the story behind that? Why was Warner interested in putting out that material in ‘92? Do you remember what the tape source was for that pressing?

MY ANSWER

Pretty sure all those cassettes are lost or have degenerated. Most likely both. There would also be no reason to do a new mix as it was amateurishly performed and recorded.

I had completely forgotten about that split and have no memory of what the story is. Probably WB asked us for an extra song for the split and we sarcastically gave them that. They probably never listened to it. The tape source could have been Trey’s original mixdown (at that point the OG RW was only 5 years old) or one of us had an unplayed dupe that still sounded decent.