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Thursday, August 05, 2004

Halen producer chimes in on BOBW "mistakes"

Melodic Rock: "It seems talk of 'errors' within the [Van Halen] Best Of Both Worlds compilation have reached back to 5150. Producer Glen Ballard, who oversaw the mastering of the compilation as well as production of the three new tracks issued this note on Monday: 'Notes on "Finish What You Started' - There's a great irony associated with our choice to present Finish What Ya Started in a way that belies the title. We retrieved the analog master from the WB vault only to learn that it needed to be treated or 'cooked' to restore its ability to be reproduced on the analog machine. The original two-track mix ends exactly as presented on the new Best of Both Worlds. In the first mastering of the record nearly twenty years ago it was faded manually and that is the way it appears on the original OU812. We literally decided to let it 'Finish' in its truly original form, almost like a 'director's cut.' To the legions of Van Halen fans who remember it the other way, we can only hope that the added one second of music and its slightly truncated ending represents a unique version of a song that we all know and love and becomes in its own right a collectors item. We have spent hundreds of hours in conjunction with Ed and Alex pondering the tone, texture and tenor of these amazing recordings, and we appreciate the responses from the many listeners who cherish this music. It has represented a sacred mission for all of us and we present it to you with love, respect and passion, and if you hear something you might have missed before, please realize it is included to present what we deem to be the more complete archive of this amazing band. --Sincerely, Glen Ballard."

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