Ep177: The Y&T Tapes and the UMG Fire w Dave Meniketti
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The 2008 UMG fire destroyed over 100,000 master tapes across hundreds of artists, including Y&T. Today Dave Meniketti discusses what the band lost, the process of finding out, dealing with the new reality and picking up the pieces.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, all you rockers out there, this is Dave Menicketti from Y&T, and you're listening to The Vinyl Guide with Nate Goyer. Turn it up. |
| 0:07.3 | Well, hey, everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Vinyl Guide. This week on the show, |
| 0:12.0 | Dave Menacetti of Y&T discusses the loss of the Y&T master tapes in the Universal Music Fire and what it means to the band's legacy. |
| 0:22.3 | Now, as you may know in 2008, there was a fire in the Universal Lot in California, |
| 0:27.7 | which destroyed over 100,000 audio tapes, including a huge part of music history. |
| 0:33.1 | The fire destroyed the audio masters from bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden, Beck, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Eminem, Leonard Skinnerd, 100 plus more artists, including Y&T. |
| 0:45.6 | Dave recently shared the news online, and we speak with him today about that audio tape loss, how he found out the news, dealing with Universal before and |
| 0:55.1 | since the word of the fire came to light, and what happens next? |
| 0:58.5 | Now in case you don't know, Y&T is coming out with a documentary later this year, |
| 1:05.3 | as well as just releasing a vinyl record for Y&T Acoustic Classics Volume 1, available at Y&Trocks.com. |
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