SMITH FANS FIGHT POSTHUMOUS RE-RELEASE
Fans of tragic singer/songwriter ELLIOTT SMITH are furious about plans to release a remastered version of his debut album ROMAN CANDLE.
Smith’s friend Larry Crane has announced plans to release the album nex t month (Apr10), seven years after the star committed suicide, but the mo ve has angered died-hard devotees, who fear the remastering will tarnish the reputation of Smith’s lo-tech debut.
Crane tells Spinner.com, "I’m getting pretty much bashed around there o n message boards for something nobody’s heard. Some people are like, ‘Oh my god, how can you do that?’ "I’m not smashing it and flatlining it like a Metallica record. My firs t thought was: ‘Am I doing the right thing?’ I said to my girlfriend: ‘My God, should I be doing this?’ She said: ‘Are you making it sound better? ‘ I said: ‘I guess.’ She said: ‘How can that be wrong?’"
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