Many
of the Pristine Audio Direct reissues of recordings from the late '40s
and early '50s were transferred and restored by Peter Harrison.
Peter studied
the violin until it left him on the grounds of
cruelty; then took up the tuba until it was used as an offensive weapon
against him by an insurance salesman, breaking a tooth. He decided
that life on the other side of the microphone was probably safer.
The first
commercially-released LP he recorded came out in 1965, when he was
also doing work for the BBC and a major record label, all of which
led to his being thrown out of university. He could also occasionally
be found in recording studios in Woodstock, NY, and San Fransisco, though
his memory of some of those events is a bit hazy.
Forced
to earn money for food, he had a career of sorts trying to persuade computers
to do things that they are not naturally capable of, and in 1994 started
his own business which continues today as disk2disc.
He now describes himself as "mostly retired" which means he
spends only six days a week in his studio in the English New Forest, where
he transfers and restores recordings in any one of a dozen formats for
hundreds of satisfied (and one dissatisfied) clients.
He has
been associated with Pristine Audio Direct since its inception, and is
delighted to be able to bring back into circulation wonderful but forgotten
recordings some of which (he ruefully admits) were, when he started
collecting records, "new releases".
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Many
of the Pristine Audio Direct reissues of recordings from the late '40s
and early '50s were transferred and restored by Peter Harrison.
