Well, our philosophy has always been to try and remain as true to the original recordings as possible. That said, certain liberties were taken thanks to new technologies which were unavailable at the time of the original recordings. There were extensive notes in some of the tape boxes which helped to identify the vision of each song. In some situations, the original multi track tapes were available, and in others, only a stereo mix on a cassette tape which must have been dubbed by the archivist in Spain. I had to use what was available. The saddest part of the whole process was the condition of some of the tapes. Several unbelievable songs had to be left out of the third collection due to the poor condition of the tapes. Some of them looked like they had spent 30 years in a hamster cage. I was willing to include several of these technologically flawed songs despite their inferior sound quality. In particular, an early song called "Baby I'm New" is a masterpiece of early rock and roll. And two others, "Christine" and "Where Are You?" which I believe were sung by the drummer had to be left off. I keep pushing David and Henry to release a collection of rare outtakes so these might be included at some time in the future.

That said, I was amazed at the pristine condition of some of the other tapes. As anyone who has listened to the band can tell, there seems to be two lead singers. I can only assume that whoever was the lead singer on each song was also responsible for taking care of the tapes, because all of the tapes with the one lead singer were in great condition, and the other singer's tapes all were in terrible condition. I was literally worried that the tapes might fall apart if I played those too much, so I had one or two shots at best to get the tape threaded, and transfer them to hard disk for further processing.