Ryan über das kommende Box Set
RA: Well, I can’t say too much. I can give you a general taste. I have to see the thing all together, myself. But it’s been worked on now for a year and some time – and when I say worked on, it’s been put together, collected. Source tapes, things being filtered, a few albums that were never mixed, a few albums that were traded heavily online. The idea that the linked material was missing its actual rhythm sections and strings on one record, called The Suicide Handbook. It’s just guitar and a voice that people know – but they don’t know there’s actually full-band accompaniment and up to sixteen strings on certain songs that I actually arranged myself. Or a few records that people think that they have, or they have the demos of, or they have three tracks, or eight things from a session at the same time but not the record. I think the label and myself and the band and people around me, it seemed appropriate to just make it available in its actual format for people. At this point, there are six complete records, but it will still be missing things. So currently right now, the last ideas of what the subsequent other records will be, which will be a compilation of B-sides of things that only came out on seven-inch in the U.K., or songs that people only knew live – they never actually heard the studio recording. Or the third side to Cold Roses, which no one ever heard. Many songs that people still have no knowledge of, because they’ve never been played. Things like that are being discussed, and we’re trying to figure out how to turn them into vinyl and CD. And I’ve been working with the artwork. The greatest thing about keeping all my notebooks and sketches over the years is that I actually have all the true, original artwork for all of this stuff that was intended to be with it. Almost all of it was completely done. It was conceived and executed fully, but at such a rate that there was nothing being left out. It was in no way not complete. It was just at a rate that I suppose no label that was affiliated with a major would be ready to facilitate. So it will be nice.
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