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Plans for future MoFi Rush re-releases canceled

Sat, Mar 14, 2009@7:33PM | comments removed/disabled

Late in 2007 Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs released their 180 Gram Vinyl and Ultradisc II 24 KT Gold CD remaster of Rush's 1980 classic Permanent Waves. At the time they also promised that re-releases of the MoFi versions of 2112, Moving Pictures and Signals were slated for future release. However, according to this recent post on the Steve Hoffman Music Forums, it looks like any plans for future Rush releases have been canceled:

After literally months of examination and discussions with the artists, due to the age and fragility of most of original first-generation analog masters to classic Rush titles, we’ve had to cancel plans to release the titles we had planned. They have deemed that the original masters should not be used for any future re-mastering, and we have to respect that decision. We apparently lucked out big-time with Permanent Waves as it was in pristine condition. Sorry for the bad news but we’re not feeling so hot about it ourselves. I believe another indie label is now looking into releasing some Rush titles in the future but mastered from copy tapes." - Best regards, Michael Grantham

Thanks to Power Windows for the news.

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