De Lane Lea demo's...'In The Beginning' vs '2011 remaster'

Soundfreak wrote: Why else should they restore an acetate?

Erm, because they've lost (or "lost") any remaining tape copies that were in their possession of those demos - obviously. The concept that the band were only given an acetate from that session, from which they had to make a tape copy is evidently complete bollocks. No reel was assembled from acetates as the band had access to the original demo reels. Why spread misinformation? Does someone have something to hide?

What was the time difference between the demo session and them deciding to use the original demo and remix it, after having tried re-recording for the debut album? Quite a while I'd imagine. The band evidently had free access to the tapes, and if they weren't the bands to use they wouldn't have been able to get them out of the studio.

It was common practise that artists in those days went home with acetates, even the Beatles did so.
Also the band was poor in those days, they had no money and probably did not have studio tape machines at home. So for them it may have been easier to produce demo tape copies or cassettes at home from an acetate instead from a tape. To own even one tape machine was real luxury then. Never forget, it was 1971 !