I wanted to remix it, but the record company lost the tapes, so I just had to live with it and try to put it out of my mind. In the early s, I found a cassette tape we made during our recording, of only the rhythm tracks — no solos, no vocals. It was very clean. The original had too many guitars overlaid and sounded like sludge, like a thick storm of static.
The clean, clear cassette became the only chance I had to improve the album. So I sang again. Quine, my glorious guitarist, had agreed to add the solos. But he died before I went into the studio, so I got the best possible replacements — admirers and friends of his who were top players.
I felt that the Repaired succeeded. Even though Quine was missing, the songs were better served. And it was fun. I always intended to eventually release the two versions together. And I thought that was the end. I would move on. Two years ago, someone found the original track tapes. It allowed me to do the remix I wanted to do. The Complete has all three of the versions, plus 10 or 12 demos made between Blank Generation and Destiny Street.
Interested parties are glad to have all three-plus versions in one place, but the important one is the Remixed. The full two CDs are a bizarre collection. But the whole theme of the album was time, so it makes sense that way too. I love the original Destiny Street. Can you still see the merit in the first recording? For me, the original album is still difficult to listen to.
When I got the rights back 15 or 20 years ago, I deliberately let it go out of print and refused to license it again. But the clarity and power of the remix is clearly preferable.
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