hello guys
there s been this issue that has been on my mind for the
longest time . when i or some of us collectively got into rahmans
music during the days of roja and afterwards , cds weren t that in
and popular and they were either too highly priced [ i had to give up
burning crackers on one particular diwali in exchange for my dad
agreeing to buy bombay original cd as it was rs 350 in those days and
for a 5 th grade kid in those days that was a massive amount to ask
for we only got 10 or 20 rupees max as pocket money ] or just didn t
release [ kabhi na kabhi ] or our parents just wouldnt agree despite
all the pleading and even crying [ muthu in my case ] . we would
however save nickles , pennies and ice cream money to buy first batch
original tapes [ second and later batch tapes would typically cut
down on album art and more often than not , the quality would
drastically drop ]. we all grew up to start making some money and
started buying original cds . i have so far successfully overcome the
temptation not to download bad mp3 s or buy dead cheap mp3 cds from
the pirated market . despite all our collective efforts we have
missed out on some stellar cds [ i only have about half of rahman s
discography in cd rest of it is in tapes ] . while i still love how
fanstatic my roja tape sounds i sometimes feel heartbroken when some
of those precious tapes are lost to fungus or misuse [ super police
and gang master in my case ] . i am also sadly aware of the fact that
someday most of my tapes would perish .
so this is an earnest plea to gopal , vijay and
other influential fans on this formum to try and get rahman to figure
out a way to get the record companies to issue high quality reissues
of his earlier work [ preferably with original album art archival
pictures and even some jam session bonus material from that
album.heck !!! they do it all the time in the west ] . i am also
supremely interested in all the scores and cues for his films .
recently rahman exclaimed that there are typically about 190 odd cues
in an indian film [ i was like wow !!! that is like a wealth of
scores unreleased ] . i would urge once again influential members on
this forum to request rahman to release his score cds as well. i am
hoping a modest sucess of a project like this would indirectly
trigger companies to release some older composers work as well which
is a great thing for those interested . i also believe that it would
be a positive step ahead for indian music in general , and would be a
little step forward in creating public awareness about good sound &
the importance of preserving older classics . i mean just listen how
great ABBA & PINK FLOYD still sound , compare it with how
ridiculously bad some of those rd burman and mukesh compilations
sound . people need to stop throwing away old classics like that .
DEAR BROTHERS GOPAL AND VIJAY IYER PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase............... FOR GOD S
SAKE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MEN .
REGARDS
SANDEEP
