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LOU
REED AND DOUG YULE ON AN ISLAND?
At
least on the new Coney Island Baby 30th anniversary reissue of the
1976 album, Lou Reed and Doug Yule's unknown collaboration will
finally be made public on Aug 15. Coney Island Baby saved Lou Reed
financially as it was rushed out after his ambitious instrumental
album, Metal Machine Music failed.
"Metal
Machine Music had an unusually high number of returns and was taken
off the market in three weeks," Reed writes in the new liner notes.
"I had no money and no guitars. The roadies had taken them when
they hadn't been paid. I was in debt to everyone including the musicians
union. RCA put me up in a hotel while the future fell, to be decided."
In
his lonely room, Reed conceived Coney Island Baby which will now
be expanded to include the B-side "Nowhere at All". Also included
are "Downtown Dirt" and "Leave Me Alone", first released on the
1992 Reed boxed set "Between Thought and Expression." Of most interest
to devotees will be versions of "Crazy Feeling," "She's My Best
Friend" and "Coney Island Baby" recorded with Reed's former Velvet
Underground colleague Doug Yule in January 1975 during rehearsals
for "Coney Island Baby." These tracks have never been previously
released.
DON'T
LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN
A new
compilation that pays tribute to Kris Kristsofferson's songwriting
powers, Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down: A Tribute To Kris Kristofferson,
is due Aug 7. It includes versions of Kris' best known songs 'Me
And Bobby McGhee', 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' and 'Help Me Make
It Through The Night' and features Tom Verlaine (Television), Chuck
Prophet (Green On Red), John Doe (of X), Oranger, Jon Langford (Mekons)
& Chip Taylor, Hannah Marcus & Mark Kozelek (Red House Painters),
Eric Ambel (Steve Earle), John B.Strom (Blake Babies) and many others".
Kristofferson turned 70 on June 22.
RAINBOW
ROCKS
A series
of three double CDs collecting concerts Rainbow performed in 1976
is ready to roll. The first due July 10, is Live Cologne Sporthalle
and is the complete show. The three featured shows are from Koln,
Dusseldorf and Mannheim. The series is to celebrate the heavy metal
band's 30th anniversary. The discs are newly mixed from long lost
multi-track recordings made on the famous Rolling Stones Mobile.
Ritchie Blackmore was the band's founder and guitarist.
NEWS
FROM HOTWACKS.COM
Below
are the latest postings from bootleg central, Hotwacks.com, the
site which specialises in reviews of silver discs rarities. Remember
to sign up at www.hotwacks.com
CLAPTON'S
2006 CONCERTS READY TO ROLL
The
ARMS Label is set to issue three new Eric Clapton titles
sourced from excellent audience tapes... "Revolution" 2CD from Glasgow
on May 8, 2006... "Anyday" from Manchester on May 9 and "I Am Yours"
2CD from Sheffield, England on May 12.
DEEP
PURPLE IN '88
Darker
Than Blue Label will issue the Deep Purple 4CD set, "Knock
The Truckin'". It features two September 1988 soundboards.
NEW
LED ZEP FROM TARANTURA
Led
Zeppelin titles coming this summer from Tarantura are "We're
Unknown" 2CD, a longer Miami '69 source than previously released
and "Jupiter And Saturn Alright Tonight" 3CD, Complete Seattle '77
Soundboard.
METALLICA'S
20th ANNIVERSARY MASTER OF PUPPETS SHOW
Apocalypse
Sound will release on July 3, a DVD of Metallica's "20 Years
From Puppets" broadcast on MTV's Rock AM Ring program. This show
was offered as a bittorrent download about two weeks ago and it
was sourced from the superior German satellite broadcast. The MTV
broadcast is not as good. The show was live at Nurburgring, Germany,
June 3, 2006. A fantastic show. It is unclear which source Apocalypse
Sound's DVD is from.
THE
BIGGEST BANG IS YET TO COME
For
those Rolling Stones collectors who are totally confused
about all the Japanese performance titles and didn't act right away
Dog N Cat Records will issue "The Bigger Bang" Box Set featuring
all the shows from Japan Late-March/Early-April. With one exception,
all these are sourced from ALD, a soundboard source but missing
the bass and some backing vocals. The mix in this type of source
puts the vocals front and centre.
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THE
LOST TRAFFIC ALBUM
Gordon
Jackson' Thinking Back album might as well be a Traffic album. The
1969 LP was produced by Dave Mason and featured players like Steve
Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Mason himself, all Traffic
men. Also appearing are Jim King and Ric Grech, Julie Driscoll,
the Blossom Toes, Meic Stevens, Reg King and many others. The music
is similar in style to Traffic's featuring folk, pop and psychedelia.
Now finally, a CD of this album is to be issued, taken directly
from the quarter inch analog tapes with bonus tracks. A newly pressed
vinyl edition is already out in England.
THE
KEITH TIPPETT GROUP
This
1970 album, You Are Here... I Am There by the Keith Tippett Group
is a rare British jazz album that was only issued in the UK. Now
the Akarma label out of Italy [?] is reissuing it on vinyl. The
players include many from the avant garde side of British blues
rock including Elton Dean on alto sax, Jeff Clyne on bass, Marc
Charig on cornet and flicorn Nick Evans on trombone and Alan Jackson
(formerly of the Mike Westbrook Orchestra) on drums. Tippett himself
was formerly a guest pianist on King Crimson's first album. Due
July 3.
A
RICKIE LEE JONES' SOUNDTRACK
Friends
With Money which made its debut at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival,
has a soundtrack heavily informed with Rickie Lee Jones' new songs
plus others by Neil Halstead, The Weepies, Big Red Button and a
beautiful score by Craig Richey. These are the first new songs since
Jones' broadside at George W Bush on her 2003 release, Evening Of
My Best Day. Due July 10.
ELVIS
IN VEGAS
Scheduled
for an early-July release from S&R Records is Elvis Presley's
The Sound Of Vegas Vol. 1, featuring a previously unreleased audience
tape from the Dinner Show on August 8, 1973.
FROM
THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN
On
the Y.S.P. Label comes the Miles Davis six-CD set, Three
Shows, from Jan-Feb. 1975; Idol Mind will issue Mick Taylor &
Hot Water Band's Stateboro Blues 1987; and Sirene will continue
with some more David Gilmour shows from the Royal Albert
Hall - Aimlessly So Blue, from May 29, and Silence Drifting from
May 30.
AND
EVEN MORE FROM JAPAN
Nothing
Songs Limited is releasing the Velvet Underground's After
The White Heat (2CD plus bonus disc) from Woodrose 1970; Scorpio
will release the new Traffic single disc on their Gold Standard
Label, Fillmore East Presents, a soundboard from New York 1970;
and Dog N Cat Records will issue a second version of the Rolling
Stones' Saitama show - this time, the broadcast/soundboard,
as Bigger Bang In Saitama.
THE
WHO AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Look
out for The Who's Complete MSG 1976 from Seymour Records.
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40 YEARS OF PET SOUNDS AND GOOD VIBRATIONS
For
its 40th anniversary, both Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations
will be reissued in collector editions on Aug 29 and June 27 respectively.
Good Vibrations features five versions of the 1966 smash hit and
its original U.S. B-Side, "Let's Go Away For Awhile.". Pet Sounds
will have a deluxe CD/DVD package with Mono, Stereo and Dolby Digital
5.1 Surround Sound Mixes, and rare promotional and documentary footage.
A double coloured limited edition vinyl (of 10,000 copies) will
also be available.
Pet
Sounds will have a bonus mono track, "Hang On To Your Ego" (an early
version of the album's "I Know There's An Answer"). The DVD's six
film and video cuts include a behind-the-scenes documentary, "The
Making Of Pet Sounds;" "Pet Stories," featuring interviews with
Brian Wilson, lyricist Tony Asher and members of the original "wrecking
crew" Hal Blaine, Carol Kaye, Don Randi, Frankie Capp and Tommy
Morgan; the never-before-released 1966 promotional colour 'firehouse'
film clip for "Good Vibrations;" original 1966 promotional black
& white film clips for "Sloop John B" and Pet Sounds, and an
excerpt from the unreleased BBC television documentary, "Rhythm
of Life," in which Sir George Martin joins Brian Wilson in the studio
for a discussion of the album's musical significance.
Fans
are however sceptical of the "exclusive" material. They compare
the CD/DVD "Pet Sounds" package to the standard 2001 CD in a box
with a slightly altered version of the 2003 DVD-Audio disc. Moreover,
they suspect that the original "Pet Sounds" promo film and the "Sloop
John B" promo film were on the DVD-A. Since the DVD-A also had the
1996 "Pet Sounds Sessions" EPK on it, they wonder if this is being
repeated on the new DVD. However, while the "Good Vibrations" promo
film is new to DVD, it is common fare among collectors and was even
aired a number of times only a few years ago on the AMC channel.
Also,
while "Pet Stories" is presumably new to DVD, they question if footage
from the Brian Wilson "Pet Sounds Live" DVD is being reused for
this. Hence the only apparent new material here is the "Rhythm of
Life" excerpt, the "GV" promo film, and maybe one or both of the
mini-documentaries.
Click here for the
full press release and what a fan says.
THE LOST NAZZ MONSTER
Todd
Rundgren's Nazz album that never got released is finally about to
be. Castle Music will release the 2CD Nazz 2: The Fungo Bat Sessions
very soon. Allmusic.com had this to say about the lost album: "[Nazz]
began work on an ambitious self-produced double-album named Fungo
Bat. By the time it was released in April 1969, it was trimmed to
a single album, Nazz Nazz. Although the project's scale was diminished,
the music remained dizzyingly diverse, as the record ran the gamut
from psychedelic rockers to pop ballads. One problem emerged, however.
In the process of editing, much of Rundgren's newer, Laura Nyro-influenced
material - which he had sung himself - was left on the shelves."
THE LAST BLUE AFTERNOON
Spin
CDs in the UK offered their only copy of the out-of-print CD Blue
Afternoon by Tim Buckley for £50. First one to place the order gets
the album. Hurry to http://www.spincds.com/
FINALLY
FALLEN ANGEL GETS RELEASED
Gandulf
Hennig's excellent documentary on Gram Parsons, Fallen Angel, will
be released on DVD, June 26. Friends, contemporaries and devotees
of Gram Parsons talk about the importance of his work and the bizarre
circumstances of his early death. Rare footage of his performances
shows why Parsons has become a legend. Featured interviews include
Peter Buck, James Burton, Emmylou Harris, Chris Hillman, Phil Kaufman,
Bernie Leadon, Avis Bartkus Parsons III, Gretchen Parsons Carpenter,
Diane Parsons, Polly Parsons, Keith Richards, Dwight Yoakham &
more. DVD special features include: Interview with the director,
Gandulf Hennig; Gram Parsons biography; discography; Photo gallery.
£14.99 price.
BONZO'S
BIRTHDAY PARTY REMASTERED TO DVD-A
Genuine
Masters will release July 7, Led Zeppelin's "Bonzo's Birthday
Party" featuring both a soundboard/ audience mix and a complete
audience source in a double-DVD-Audio set. We thought SACD and DVD-A
players are extinct.
THE
SEEGER SESSIONS SHOWS
Crystal
Cat have Bruce Springsteen's & The Seeger Sessions Band's
"Milano Sesson Night" 2CD from May 12, 2006 coming soon. So far
the only board tape of this tour comes from the BBC4 broadcast.
The rest are audience recordings.
SIRENE'S
PINK FLOYD
New
Pink Floyd from Sirene released are "Aphrodite" 2CD with bonus
replica programme from the August 6, 1971 Japanese show; "Boredom
and Pain" 2CD with an excellent Boston '77 source plus bonus DVD-R
of "Film Archives:" 1972-77. The Godfather Records has issued the
David Gilmour 2CD title, "Let The Night Surround You" from a
March 25 show in Milan.
SNAKES
AND LADS
From
Rattlesnake comes David Bowie's oft-bootlegged "Aylesbury
Friars Club 1971" single disc.
BANGIN'
IN SAITAMA
New
Rolling Stones on the TMQ Label coming out of Japan soon - "Live
from Saitama Super Arena" 2CD sourced from the Japanese WOWOW satellite
broadcast. There will probably be a DVD release as well.
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MORE
COVER ME
The
new Grant-Lee Phillips album Nineteeneighties is yet another collection
of covers, this time from the '80s rock underground. Featuring semi-acoustic
renderings of cult classics by The Pixies, Joy Division, REM, The
Cure, Robyn Hitchcock, The Church, Nick Cave, New Order, Echo And
The Bunnymen and The Smiths. Nineteeneighties was performed and
recorded almost entirely by Phillips alone and it uncovers new dimensions
in old favourites of real alternative music. Due June 26.
TWO
SIDES OF KEITH MOON EXPANDED TO 2CDs
Keith
Moon's only solo album, Two Sides Of The Moon, has been expanded
with masses of previously unreleased bonus material, both musical
and spoken word. Includes collaborations with Ringo Starr and Harry
Nilsson. Not taken seriously at the time, this record now appears
to have captured the essence of The Who's drummer's nature. Due
June 26.
LOST JAPANESE ROCK ALBUM
Satori,
which was released in 1971 by Flower Travellin' Band, is a conceptual
hard rock-psych album driven by Hideki Ishima's furious guitar licks
which erupt and explode over the harmonic heart beat of the drums
and bass and Yamanaka's banshee-like vocal style. Satori is a huge
album in every way. From power chords to Eastern-tinged North African
six string freak-outs and crashing tom-toms, the band flexes its
collective muscle from start to finish. A 1000-only Limited Edition
180 Gram Vinyl is due soon.
TONGUE
TWISTER OF AN ALBUM
Yura
Yura Teikoku's 'Na. Ma. Shi. Bi.Re.Na.Ma.Me.Ma.I.' will be available
for the first time outside Japan. This 2003 hour-plus live recording
captures Japanese psyche rock legends Yura Yura Teikoku at the height
of their powers. Yura Yura Teikoku bass player Chiyo Kamekawa also
plays in The Stars with Ishihara. Michio Kurihara of Ghost plays
second guitar on a number of Yura Yura Teikoku tracks as well. Excellent
pedigree of noisemakers.
LEAVE THIS OFF YOUR TRADELISTS
Long
sought by collectors, Nicolette Larson's Live At The Roxy arrives
July 3 on the Rhino Handmade label in a limited edition of 5,000
copies. This live concert, recorded at the famed Sunset Strip venue
on December 20, 1978, and previously available as a promo-only disc,
captures her fresh from the release of her debut solo album Nicolette.
Live At The Roxy has been shared by collectors via the Internet.
Now you can own an official copy.
MOTT
AT THE FILLMORE IN 1970
Live
Fillmore West, San Francisco is the latest Mott The Hoople album
featuring a "rampaging live show" from Mott The Hoople recorded
in July 1970 at the legendary Fillmore West. The master tapes of
the live concerts have been supplied from Overend Watts' personal
archives with Mick Ralphs and Dale Griffin providing the photos
from their own collections for the CD booklet. Due July 3.
IN
BAD COMPANY
A new
Bad Company album from the past is the 2CD Live Albuquerque, NM,
1976. By the time their "Burnin' Through America" Tour reached Albuquerque,
New Mexico on October 3, 1976 they were one of the biggest rock
bands and were playing to sell out gigs across America. Never before
released, the master tapes of this live concert have been supplied
from Mick Ralphs personal archives as well as photos from his own
collection for the 20 page CD booklet. Another archive release.
FROM
JOHN PEEL'S ARCHIVES
A wild
selection of 78rpm records from John Peel's collection is due to
be released by his wife Sheila, affectionately known as The Pig.
Extraordinary vintage music, chosen for the Trikont label by the
legendary DJ and his wife Sheila - their favourites from his late
night Radio 1 show. Twenty-three weird and wonderful tracks ranging
from English brass bands, schmaltzy dance music and yodeling, to
early rock 'n' roll and traditional music from China and Africa
can be found on The Pig's Big 78s.
HARVESTED
DVD 3 EXPANDED
The
folks in Japan that copied the Pink Floyd fan compilation
Anthology DVDs have decided to expand Harvested's Vol 3 with recent
shows by Pink Floyd and possibly David Gilmour. Harvested is one
of the best Pink Floyd fan groups who compile and share freely Pink
Floyd live shows.
RED
HOT HENDRIX
Coming
from Apocalypse Sound DVD on June 8 is Jimi Hendrix's "Classic
SixtySeven", a compilation of proshot video '67-'69 and Red Hot
Chili Peppers' "Another Way To Survive" from Milan, April 29,
2006. That's quick.
GODFATHER'S
BOSS TRACKS
New
June Bruce Springsteen Seeger Sessions Band releases from
The Godfather Records include "My Italian Home (It Blowed Away)"
2CD, "The Church Sessions" 1CD, and "The Spirit Of Uncle Sam" 2CD.
Only The Church Sessions is from either an FM or soundboard source.
If it is soundboard then this might be the complete sessions that
the BBC did not broadcast.
NEW
FROM BACK TO ZERO
New
titles just announced for June from Back To Zero comes The Clash's
"Samurai Warriors" 2CD and The Pogues' "Lullaby Of The Chocolate
City" 2CD.
ODDS
& SORTS
From
the Budgie Label: Pink Floyd's "Toronto September 22, 1987"
2CD, Frank Zappa's "Austin October 26, 1973" 1CD stereo soundboard.
RockMasters will release The Who's "Live At The Fillmore
1969" 1CD.
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MARY HOPKIN LIVE
A live
album from Mary Hopkin is currrently on sale at the family website
- the Morgan Hopkin website at http://www.morganhopkin.co.uk.
In May, 1972, Mary played what was to be her last concert for years.
Saying goodbye to the music business which had catapulted her into
worldwide fame barely three years before, she sings some of her
best songs including Earth Song and Ocean Song, Those Were the Days
and some of the folk classics that inspired her early career. Accompanied
by Danny Thompson (Pentangle) and Brian Willoughby (later of The
Strawbs), as well as her then husband Tony Visconti and the Pop
Arts String Quartet, this is an intimate concert which captures
Mary at her best.
Live
at the Royal Festival Hall 1972 is only available via the online
store. The CD costs £12.95 including FREE P&P for up to two
copies, anywhere in the world.
CANADIAN
STUDENTS VOICE OUT AGAINST COPYRIGHT LAWS
The
Canadians continue to show their ability to have a reasonable and
civil public discourse on issues of copyright. First, the Canadian
Music Creators Coalition, representing a number of Canadian musicians,
came out against the recording industry suing their fans. On May
25, a group representing 500,000 Canadian students sent a letter
to the Canadian government about digital rights management, copyright
police and onerous punishments on libraries, schools and students.
At
issue are the damages that copyright holders can claim on anyone
who infringes copyright. They said: "We are writing to urge the
Canadian government to reject proposals for restrictive copyright
laws, and to instead embrace policies that will support Canada's
vibrant and open knowledge community." In $ingapore, two young adults
were sent to jail for sharing MP3 files.
They
pointed out the insanity that is statutory damages: "Statutory damages
have no place in license bargaining between collectives and Canada's
public institutions. Statutory damages are an effective tool to
address enforcement of IP rights in commercial piracy cases." The
students said educational institutions, libraries and archives "are
not commercial pirates" and should not suffer the threat of statutory
damages. The students are concerned that the major publishing and
recording industries - motivated by profit - have been wielding
too much influence, thereby "drowning the legitimate concerns of
teachers, researchers, librarians, and students."
Full
text of the letter here:
http://www.bigozine2.com/tradelist/list01.html
BRAND
NEW CLAPTON AT RAH
New
Eric Clapton from Trial is the 4CDR set "Getting Snappy" which
captures both shows from Royal Albert Hall on May 19 and 22, 2006.
Super fast from the taper to the disc maker.
LENNON
ON TV
There
has been a John Lennon "TV Tapes Archives 1968-1975" 5DVD-R
set released. The most complete to date.
SIRENE
BOOTS
Sirene
will issue 2 new Pink Floyd titles "March Of The Dambusters"
4CD and "Dusseldorf 1972" 2CD sets.
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ENO
IS IN
Eno
has contributed two songs to the upcoming Roxy Music album and played
keyboards on various other songs, the avante garde musician confirmed.
TRANSPARENT
TABBY HAS THREE NEW DYLANS
Crystal
Cat has been busy putting the final touches on some Bob Dylan
titles. Available now in time for Bob's 65th birthday are Manchester
05 2CD set, Birmingham 05 2CD and the beautiful Brixton 05 10CD
Box Set.
NEW
TATTOO
There
is another new Rolling Stones label called New Tattoo. Their
first title is the 4CD set "Tokyo Two Days" featuring both Tokyo
Dome shows March 22nd & 24th, 2006 and supposedly feature superb
audience sources.
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WARNER
BROS TO GO BITTORRENT
The bittorrrent software maker has
signed on with Warner Bros to distribute Warner's content on the
net. BitTorrent's technology is similar to that of peer to peer
file sharing but unlike programs that are used to sharing music
BitTorrent is made for easy downloading of large files such as television
shows or movies. Starting this summer customers will be able to
download movies and television shows from the Warner Bros catalogue.
Unfortunately, though you will be able to burn the downloadable
movies onto DVD they will not play on a DVD player - only your computer.
TV shows are expected to cost $1
an episode while movies will cost about the price of a DVD.
As BitTorrent works best when there
are a lot of users downloading a particular show at the same time,
we are not sure how this will work in a business model where users
trickle in at irregular intervals for less popular shows. It might
take a customer days to get an odd show.
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY OWNERS OUT TO CLOSE ALLOFMP3
As reported earlier, the Russian
site AllofMP3.com is fast becoming a firm favorite among music fans
for its efficient service and low, low prices for downloads. It
is already No. 2 in the UK after iTunes. But now the International
Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella organization that includes
the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry
Association of America and the Business Software Alliance, are flexing
their muscles to close the site.
"We want Russia in the WTO [World
Trade Organisation], but they must first abide by the rules and
obligations," said Eric Schwartz, vice president of the group. The
G8 Summit is scheduled in Moscow in June and lobbying has begun
to accuse AllofMP3.com as a pirate site. Actually the site follows
Russian laws where it is legal. But the U.S. Trade Representative's
office has called AllofMP3.com the world's largest server-based
pirate Web site.
SUPER
QUICK FROM TORRENT TO BOOT
Hitting the streets this week from
Silent Sea is the DVD Pink Floyd's "Festival de Musique,
Saint Tropez, August 8, 1970". This came out first a few weeks ago
as a bittorrent download by Cochon Productions as a fan endeavour
to be distributed free.
VU
REMASTERED
Nothing Songs Limited has just issued
Velvet Underground & Nico "If It's Too Loud For You Move
Back!" (2006 Remaster) 2CD + a bonus CDR. It features the November
4, 1966 Valleydale Ballroom tape from Columbus, Ohio. As we recall,
this show was a noise fest so they made the "noise" more distinct?
THE
RETURN OF THE THIN WHITE DUKE
New David Bowie alternates
and outtakes DVD to street from Boys Next Door Label. It's called
"Return Of The Thin White Duke 1967-1980".
THE
GOLD STANDARD
With the price of oil going the way
it is, Scorpio has brought back their Gold Standard Label with four
new titles - Roxy Music's "The Pride And The Pain", Cream's
"This Wheel's On Fire", Pink Floyd's "The Amazing Yorkshire
Pudding" and Neil Young & The Lost Dogs' "The Road To
ElDorado".
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HAVE
YOU EXPERIENCED A LAWSUIT?
"Experience
Hendrix", the Hendrix Estate company has just shuttered another
two labels based in the UK that sold Hendrix recordings without
permission. The company set up by Jimi Hendrix's step-sister seems
to have learnt from the entertainment giant that has a rat for a
mascot to protect their "reputation" at all cost. To the extent
that there is hardly anything new from the official record label.
The last release was the mail-order only audience recording "Live
At The Isle Of Fehmarn".
If
the point the Hendrix estate wants to make is that they are the
sole owners of any and all Hendrix recordings, then why hoard? If
it is that these unauthorised releases tarnish the legend's reputation
by their poor quality, then why release something like "Fehmarn"?
VINYL
DREAMS
"Damn!
The funkiest woman of all time (no arguments) immortalised on a
superb double heavy vinyl set, Betty Davis' This Is It [double LP],
featuring all her best moments. Great sleevenotes and photos complete
the picture" Released May 15. And on May 30, Neil Young's 'Living
With War' (200 Gram Vinyl) is an exclusive limited edition of Neil's
new album available on Quiet Vinyl.
ETHIOPIAN
JAZZ FOR COLLECTORS
Three
Ethiopian Jazz Vinyl titles arrive May 15. Ahmed Mahmoud's 'Ere
Mela Mela' a very tasty 1975 album by the Ethiopian jazzman who,
together with Mulatu Astatke dominated the Ethio jazz scene in the
1970's.
Mulatu
Astake's 'Ethio Jazz' is an amazing orchestral 'Ethio-groove', filled
with soul, jazz, some Latin, & the deepest eastern rhythms.
This early '70s outing has become recognised as one of the key Ethiopean
albums. Finally, 'Ethiopian Modern Instrumental Hits' is more essential
Ethiopean grooves featuring more Mulatu tracks from 1969 & 1972
and offering several other artists. Ethiopia, where the lion sleeps
tonight and jazz is wide awake.
COVER
ME
Matthew
Sweet and Susanna Hoffs release 'Under The Covers' Vol 1, a collection
of 15 of the duo's favorite pop tunes from the '60s, that combines
popular hits and obscure gems from such important names in music
as The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Who, Neil Young,
The Bee Gees, Love, and The Velvet Underground. Released May 15.
TIME
FOR ANOTHER CCR REVIVAL
Fantasy
now owned by Concord is reissuing the core Creedence Clearwater
Revival albums on Sept 26. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country,
Green River, Willy and The Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory and The Concert
have been marked for yet another reissue. On the same day, Fantasy
will release John Fogerty's The Long Road Home - In Concert live
album. A DVD version of the concert is due on June 13.
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here
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U.S.
RECORD LABELS TARGET 12 CITIES FOR CD, DVD PIRATES
The
music industry has announced May 3, a new campaign to clear the
streets of pirates who sell illegal CDs and DVDs. They have identified
12 U.S. cities where they say have suffered a significant drop in
music and DVD sales possibly caused by the availability of pirated
discs.
The
12 are Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Los Angeles;
Miami; New York; Philadelphia; Providence, R.I.; San Diego and San
Francisco.
The
music industry are using the same old arguments that piracy affects
the industry's ability to invest in new artists, and counterfeit
discs often suffer from inferior quality. If you consider how far
the indie label industry has grown that puts to rest the first silly
argument that major labels support new artists. As for "quality",
for the price you pay for an official CD, you would hope they would
improve the mastering. Check any audiophile site to read the brickbats.
EDDIE
IS BACK
Genuine
Masters' Led Zeppelin "Listen To This Eddie - Collector's
Edition" Hybrid DVD-Audio now has a solid release date of May 26.
STONES
IN SHANGHAI
The
Rolling Stones' Shanghai show comes to disc on Exile's "Shanghai
Banging" 2CD from the April 8, 2006 gig at the Shanghai Grand Stage.
The April 5, Nagoya show is seeing yet another release, this time
from Silverdiscs and what could be a 3rd source for this concert.
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HOW
LONG WILL YOUR CD-Rs LAST?
A discussion
broke out at a music website about the reliability of certain brands
of blank CDs and DVDs. We think this opinion is worth a read:
"I
will say that I have burned 100's of the 1-8X Made in Japan by Taiyo
Yuden, Sony +R's and only had a handful of coasters. Which given
the process of mass manufacturing is quite acceptable IMO.
However,
since Sony has seen fit to introduce 1-16X the quality has dropped,
if you are burning the Sony ID and not TY, It's a little hard to
tell the difference in packaging, but it can be done.
I trade/giveaway
using these very discs and have had no complaints of unplayability
on either PC or standalones.
However,
before I educated myself on media, a few years ago when I started
I was using Ritek Ridata G03 - earlier this year I scanned them
on a lark and discovered the quality was deteriorating. "Oooops"!
Go and extract and reburn LOTS of discs.
So,
in the end, do what you want, but if that cheep media works now,
I will bet money that in a year the disc will be unplayable. Bummer.
Take some time, go to cdfreaks website and read all about it.
Educating
yourself on media with the help of 100's of people that are using
the stuff and posting the results for you to peruse is the best
thing you can do, and best of all it doesn't cost anything."
AMERICA'S
BRAND
Seldom
seen but out now are U.S. silver disc pressings of The Eagles'
"Hotel California Tour 1977" DVD which features Houston Proshot
footage and The Rolling Stones' Digital Broadcast from Copacabana
Beach in Rio, "Music And Passion".
NICE
ONE SIRENE
Sirene
will continue their Pink Floyd Deluxe releases with "California
Stockyard" 5CD + DVD. It will feature the very nice May 6th &
7th Anaheim audience recordings from 1977.
ANOTHER
PAIR OF WINGS
Jumping
on the Paul McCartney and Wings bandwagon this week is Beatles
Master Works with their own 30th Anniversary title "Wings Over Toronto
- Excavation Edition" 2CD, also from May 9, 1976.
WINTERLAND
DAZE
The
ever reliable Scorpio will issue two new titles, Jimi Hendrix
"The Historic Winterland Arena Days" 6CD and Eric Clapton's
"Back To 1967".
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WHAT TIM BUCKLEY WANTS
Private
collectors are being invited by the Tim Buckley Estate to help source
for rare audio and video of the late singer-songwriter. The estate's
minders claim they are aware of what's available in the record company
vaults and the commercial bootlegs. Now "we need to know about what
survives
and
what has been cared for all of these years in private collections
so that everything which should to be included in these restorations
can be". The Buckley Estate hopes the remastered catalog will have
the input of his fans and collectors specifically in these areas:
[1]
Original 7-inch singles, whether or not they have their original
sleeves, released in any country on Planet Earth.
[2]
Surviving soundboard or broadcast or audience recordings not already
circulating.
[3]
The best possible copies of the source recordings that have already
been used to originate the existing bootlegs and circulating recordings.
So if you originated these, please get in touch.
[4]
Surviving film or video not already known or circulating.
[5]
Surviving interview recordings.
[6]
Surviving contemporaneous concert handbills or news articles or
other printed ephemera related to any performance.
[7]
Any other Tim Buckley artifacts or memorabilia you have you think
we should know about.
Some
of the specific items the Estate most urgently seek to find are:
[A]
A physical copy of the US Elektra single 45618 "Once Upon A Time"
b/w "Lady Give Me Your Heart" or any acetate or reference or other
copy of these two masters.
[B]
A source or surviving copy of the 1968 Netherlands NCRV 'Twien'
television broadcast of the Amsterdam Fantasio Club performance.
[C]
A source or surviving copy of any recordings Tim made for the 1969
USA motion picture 'Changes'. Either formal recordings or production
elements.
[D]
Source or surviving recordings made at any venue known to have occasionally
or routinely made recordings of their performers. For example, a
complete performance from The Troubadour in Los Angeles or Cafe
Au Go Go in New York City.
You
can see from the above how "careful" the record company has been
in keeping reference copies of their artist's works. This is what
the Estate promises:
"The
end result of this assessment and collection of surviving Tim Buckley
recordings and ephemera will be lovingly created, comprehensively
compiled and pristinely crafted restorations undertaken with the
full authorization and cooperation of the Tim Buckley Estate." You
can contact them at timbuckleyproject@gmail.com
You
bet the real work of keeping a late artist's memory alive is best
served by his die-hard fans. The same fans the dimwits in the recording
industry are seeking to find and SUE.
ALERT: HENDRIX RADIO ONE HAS CD ROT
If
you own the first Jimi Hendrix CD of his performances on BBC radio,
please check your copy. The CD, Jimi Hendrix Radio One, was mostly
manufactured at the PolyGram plant in the US [PDO]. It was released
on RykoDisc.
A member
of the Steve Hoffman Forum reported that he "pulled this one out
to listen to today, after a long time on the shelf and it is riddled
with pinholes in the aluminum."
Another
member responded with a scarier tale: "A lot of PDO and WEA CDs
made in the mid to late '90s should be examined if shelved for an
extended period of time. Many of mine have rotted, but usually on
the non-used portion of 99% of the discs I own."
"We've
covered this before," said another "but there's nothing you can
do to the discs except treat 'em well. It has to do with the laquer
coating on the label side. Batches made in many manufacturing plants
just go south at different extremes."
We
checked our copy of Ryko's Jimi Hendrix Live At Winterland and yes
there are pinholes but it did not affect play. Anyway, we backed
up a copy.
WINGS
ROCK SHOW
Coming
from MisterClaudel is Paul McCartney & Wings' "Rock Show"
2CD from Toronto 1976. Probably yet another audience recording.
Not many, you can count them on one hand, of these shows are any
good.
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TIME TO OPEN DOORS AGAIN
To
celebrate The Doors 40th anniversary, yet another boxset is being
prepared for yearend by Rhino. This time it will be a 12-disc boxset
of six CDs and six DVD-As with 5.1 surround mixes by Bruce Botnick
of the six studio albums. All the six CDs will for the first time
contain bonus tracks which we hope will be outtakes. There will
also be a vinyl boxed set of the first six albums and January 2007
will see two-CD versions of the albums released individually. This
is perhaps the fifth time the Doors albums have been reissued in
the CD format.
LIVE
STONES
New
Rolling Stones from Dog N'Cat Records. Look for recent shows
from the Far East to hit boot CD - "Sapporo Dome" from March 29th,
"Saitama Arena" from April 4th and "Nagoya Dome" from April 5th
- all 2CD sets. Already hitting the streets are the two shows from
Tokyo, March 22nd (First Bang Tokyo) and March 24th (Tokyo Dome).
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JAPAN
RELEASES RARE EUROPEAN JAZZ
The
following are all Fontana/Philips European Jazz Vinyl Reissues from
Japan and are strict one-off Limited Editions.
The
Tubby Hayes Quartet - 'Mexican Green'
Recorded
in 1967. In original mono sound. With Mike Pyne (p), Ron Matthewson(b),
and Tony Levin(ds). "Incredibly rare and mega-collectable late '60s
offering by Brit tenor genius! A true masterpiece of long and original
compositions!"
Tubby
Hayes and the All Stars - 'Return Visit!'
Recorded
in 1962. In original mono. With James Moody (ts, fl), Roland Kirk
(ts, fl), Walter Bishop Jr. (p), Sam Jones (b), and Louis Hayes
(ds). "Even rarer mega-buck early '60s album in collaboration with
the great Roland Kirk! A jazz marriage made in Heaven and a truly
incredible masterpiece recorded in USA."
Ronnie
Ross - 'Cleopatra's Needle'
Recorded
in 1968. In original mono. With Les Condon (tp), Art Ellefson (ts),
Bill le Sage (p, vib), Spike Heatley (b), Ronnie Stephenson (ds),
and Tony Carr (ds). "Another mega-rarity and Gilles Peterson rave
from the late '60s Brit Jazz scene"
Pim
and Ruud Jacobs - 'The Jacobs Brothers In Jazz'
Recorded
in 1958. In original mono. With Wim Overgaauw (g), Cees See (ds),
etc. "Extremely rare album from the 50's Dutch Jazz scene, these
brothers mainly recorded with Rita Reys"
Monica
Zetterlund - 'Ohh! Monica!'
Recorded
between 1962-4. In original mono. With the Georg Riedel Orchestra.
"Swedish Jazz vocalist legend with her rare platter of USA bossa
Jazz"
Rita
Reys - 'The Cool Voice Of Rita Reys'
Recorded
in 1955-6. In original mono. With the Wessel Ilcken Combo and the
Jazz Messengers. "A fantastically rare set by arguably one of the
"coolest" voices in Jazz, so cool in fact, you'd be excused calling
her the Ice Queen!"
Rita
Reys - 'Jazz Pictures'
Recorded
in 1961. In original mono. With Pim Jacobs (p), Ruud Jacobs (b),
Wim Overgaauw (g), and Kenny Clarke (ds). "Another very rare album
by the Ice Queen herself, her vocals are very, very good, needs
to be heard"
Released
in June £29.99 each.
THESE
SHOWS OF VAN
The
Retro Music Label has a rare Van Morrison DVD, "Those 70's
Shows", a compilation of proshot performances, from the Fillmore
West 1970 to Dublin & London 1979!
WHERE
DID SIRENE GET THIS PINK?
New
this week from Sirene is Pink Floyd's "Best Of Tour '72"
offering three versions of the Rainbow Theater performance of "Dark
Side Of The Moon" from February '72. Could this be from the bittorrent
version that circulated a few weeks ago?
FRESH
FROM BITTORRENT SITES
Silent
Sea's two new DVDs are ready to hit the streets, The Rolling
Stones' "Buenos Aires 2006" and U2's "Vertigo Broadcast Sao
Paulo 2006". Both shows hit bittorrent sites just days after their
live broadcasts.
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