Damn, you guys know all that old stuff!
The first recordings that we had for Ink Complete were "released" on cassette. We called it "Preview" (not sure why). This was right when the songs were completed. Those recordings sat around for nearly 2 years. When Dream Circle (in Germany) finally came around and wanted to officially released the recordings, I took the 4 track recordings, dumped them onto my ADAT, and "cleaned them up". As a result of the tapes sitting around for a while, some of the tracks (namely the whole left channel of 'Suspended On All Fours') had to be rerecorded. All of Thumper's dialogue had to be rerecorded. Can't remmener what else, but I remember the whole process taking a few months. But I may do that same "cleaning up" to all of those old recordings if I'm going to "officially" release that stuff. If the tapes are so worn (probably the case), I'll pass on it.
Ron