EVH Reveals Secret Project

Just seen this on VHND;

EVH: We were trying to figure out what to do since we didn’t have time to put a studio record together.
[My son Wolfgang] is working on his own project. Dave is off doing his thing. What I originally wanted to do was remix the original 25 song demos. That would have been really cool. But the tapes are lost. They are gone. So that was out the window.

Then we started digging through bootlegs from the club days. We tried our best to make those sound good, but ultimately it wasn’t good enough to put out. The quality of the recording was so bad that we tried to enhance them and make them better. Once we made them better, you lost that fly-on-the-wall aspect of it. It just didn’t jibe. So we decided, “How about a live record?”

Looks like die hard fans “almost” got what we’ve been asking for for years. The live Tokyo CD’s only came about after they were unable to find any decent sounding live material from the DLR era, including the original demo. It also looks like it’s probably never going to happen which is pretty consistent with what EVH has said since the 70′s – we won’t release anything unless it sounds good. Without sounding cryptic I’d say it’s never going ho happen and we shouldn’t expect to see anything from that era. That’s disappointing for sure.

My only question is about the demo tapes. How would they get lost? If Warner financed the demo that lead to VH getting signed, wouldn’t they retain the original demo tapes? It just hard for me to imagine that something so important would get lost or that somebody didn’t at least make a few 2nd Gen copies. The way record companies hoard anything of value I just can’t see how that is possible.