If it sounds like it's playing through an old portable 60's radio with no bottom, no drums and no bass, then it's the "regular" most widespread version, as heard on all CDs issued so far (save Iggy remix from 97 of course). To recap it all in one post, you can easily point out the different RP LP version by listening to Search & Destroy, the opening track. CBS UK record as seen hereīut I'm sure more references will come to light as people realise there is two versions running around. So far, only the one with the following numbers S 65586 A1 & S 65586 B1. The two tracks they added on CD 3 from the "Embassy" reels actually sound just like the ones on CD 1 : they ruined the whole purpose of the reels, by re-EQing the two tracks so that they sound just like the ones on CD1. The sad part is that the wrong thin sounding version have transferred to CD for posterity and not the correct one. All I know is that the Embassy one have huge drums and bass and kicks ****, while the other is like listening to an old transistor radio. I don't know which version of S&D is Bowie, and which is Iggy. Search & Destroy being a totally different mix might be a last minute decision (as you remember, Iggy still says all the record is Bowie apart from the opening track, where he insisted his mix to be used). It might be possible that the US pressing was ruined by the technicians in charge of the pressing and lacquer (hence Scott Asheton reaction as he threw the record away after giving it one listen), and that a last minute shift made for a better mastered version being shipped to the UK pressing plant. I do think the existence of a better vinyl version of RP might help clear some light on the disc troubled history. Multiple versions of the same record are no surprise here (just witness the variations in Beatles discs). (Thought it was reissued by Embassy on tape, we still don't have come across a fan owning an Embassy LP version with this mix). I believe it's a mistake to call it the "Embassy" reel, because as etablished now, this better sounding version of the record came out in the UK on CBS in 1973 at the same time as the other one. Once you heard this UK LP version, there's no turning back. I think a couple of guys on this board came across it, or realised they own it as part of the multiple pressings they collected over the years. Probably because they qualify in their press release the Embassy tapes as a totally different mix, when actually it's a different (good) EQ for 7 tracks, and a different mix for the first (thought on first listen, you might be fooled into thinking it's a different mix due to the huge sounding bass and drums).Ĭlick to expand.Yes, totally. It's just too bad they didn't just put the Embassy reels on CD1 with a nice mastering, and put the thin version of S&D as bonus on CD3 for completists. Of course the Legacy CD makes the most in the mastering of what is on their "master" tape. ![]() I'm not sure either Iggy or JW can remember because let's face it, it was over 35 years ago, and I doubt they went to the pressing plant to survey if everything was going on right with the pressing the first time around (they probably were busy with girls girls girls !) - but I'm certain there wouldn't be all this hoopla about the Bowie mix that went on for years, if the one above was the only one available. ![]() ![]() Now that it's etablished that Raw Power came out in 1973 in two different versions, one sounding awfully bad with a Search & Destroy mix that sounds thin with no bass and drums (which is the version now on Legacy), and the other sounding like a full on mastered LP (and with a version of Search & Destroy featuring clear drum and bass) - it would be worth investigating which is the correct one. I used the world alternate quote unquote because apart from Search & Destroy, the rest of the LP sound like it's the same mixes after attentive listening and comparison, only mastered correctly. Matrix numbers are S 65586 A1 & S 65586 B1 for the Raw Power 1973 LP holding the "alternate" mix.
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