Never heard that story. The water damage refers only to ICP 014: here's the bit from Han's Jukebox:Martin wrote:Not sure about it, but water damage actually might have caused the loss.Salty Swift wrote:Martin wrote: ICP 022 was reissued on Imprint last year.
I thought I read somewhere that most of the ICP master tapes are irretrievably lost.
Where the hell did they loose the masters? In the canals of Amsterdam?
Han Bennink wrote: When the promoter saw that somebody was taping it [the gig with Dolphy] illegally he took the tape and gave it to me. For years it was in my car, with water leaking all over it. That's the real story. Then Misha had that recording of him playing with his parrot, so we put the parrot on one side of the album [ICP 015] and Eric Dolphy on the other. That was a good combination! I don't know why we don't release that as a CD.
For the rest of the catalogue..
Han Bennink wrote: Misha doesn't have any of them. I had boxes full of shit I gave to [recording engineer] Dick Lucas. No, when somebody offers us the money to reissue something we'd rather take the money and put out a new album instead.
Yeah, I'd like to hear 007, 008, 017 and 018 too!
BTW, noone seems to have spotted a mistake I made in that Jukebox. I wrote that the disc with Misha's parrot and the Dolphy boot was ICP 014 but in fact it's ICP 015.



