Tom Petty - An American Treasure (4 CD Deluxe, 2018) [Hi-Res FLAC]

 

An American Treasure, the first posthumous Tom Petty project, is designed as an aural biography of the late rocker, telling a tale that begins with a Mudcrutch session from 1974, running through the glory of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers in 1976, and concluding with a live version of “Hungry No More” from 2016, just over a year prior to his tragic 2017 passing. Arriving roughly a year after Petty’s death, the timing for An American Treasure makes sense — he certainly deserved a tribute — but in strict discographical terms, there didn’t seem a need for a second career-spanning box set, as he already had 1995’s rarity-laden box Playback and a multi-disc The Live Anthology from 2009. Happily, An American Treasure offers a story that’s not told on either previous set, and that’s a complete picture of Petty’s career, told entirely through byways, not highways. The compilers — a team consisting of his widow Dana, wife Adria, bandmates Mike Campbell and Benmont Tench, plus longtime producer Ryan Ulyate — made a conscious decision not to replicate any material from Playback, which meant that there wasn’t room for the original hit versions of any of Petty’s hits. Ultimately, this meant that many of his best-known songs are nowhere to be found on An American Treasure, but that winds up as a feature, not a bug.

Bruce Springsteen discography [1973-2022]

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949 in Long Branch, New Jersey), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey. Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 20 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the twentieth century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him as the 23rd greatest artist of all time in its 100 Greatest Artists of All Time list.

Bruce Springsteen-1973 Greetings From Asbury Park

Bruce Springsteen-1973 The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle

Bruce Springsteen-1975 Born To Run

Bruce Springsteen-1978 Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bruce Springsteen-1980 River Refinery

Bruce Springsteen-1980 The River

Bruce Springsteen-1982 Nebraska

Bruce Springsteen-1984 Born in the USA

Bruce Springsteen-1987 Tunnel of Love

Bruce Springsteen-1992 Human Touch

Bruce Springsteen-1992 Lucky Town

Bruce Springsteen-1995 The Ghost of Tom Joad

Bruce Springsteen-2002 The Rising

Bruce Springsteen-2005 Devil's & Dust

Bruce Springsteen-2007 Magic

Bruce Springsteen-2009 Working on a dream

Bruce Springsteen-2010 The Promise (2CD)

Bruce Springsteen-2012 Wrecking.Ball

Bruce Springsteen-2014  High Hopes

Bruce Springsteen-2015 The Ties That Bind The River Collection

Bruce Springsteen-2016 Chapter and Verse

Bruce Springsteen-2018 Broadcasting from Broadway  Live)

Bruce Springsteen-2019 Western Stars

Bruce Springsteen-2020 Letter To You

Bruce Springsteen-2022 Only the Strong Survive

The Monkees - Headquarters Sessions (3 CD, 2000/FLAC)

The Headquarters Sessions is an 84-track three-CD set by the Monkees containing 60 previously unreleased recordings from the sessions that produced the band's third album, Headquarters.

It includes recordings from sessions where the band exercised creative control over all aspects of the recording process and where they played most of the instruments. All vocal masters from the sessions that were not included on the original stereo album are included, as well as the surviving vocal demos and a few tracks with vocals which were never completed. In addition, the original mono masters are presented in an initially proposed, but ultimately unused, running order. 

 

 

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Live at the Fillmore, 1997 (4 CD, 2022/FLAC)

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers famous 20-night residency at the Fillmore venue in San Francisco in 1997 is celebrated with a major archival release across four physical formats, including 6LP and 4CD box sets.

The band would vary their sets each night at the small venue with re-arranged versions of their hits, ‘deep cuts’, and many cover versions. Six of the shows were professionally recorded and this release features highlights of those performance.

 

 

Phish (as Sci-Fi Soldier) - Get More Down (2022/FLAC)

Get More Down is an album by Vermont-based jam band Phish, released under the alter-ego "Sci-Fi Soldier". The band's sixteenth studio album, it was released for streaming and download on October 31, 2022 and contains the twelve songs debuted during the band's Halloween concert the previous year. Continuing their tradition of a "musical costume" during the second set of each Halloween concert, this show saw Phish perform as the band Sci-Fi Soldier, a futuristic, superhero-themed group, complete with costumes and alternate instruments to fit the theme. Get More Down features studio recordings of these songs, some of which have entered the band's setlists in later shows. 

1.     "Knuckle Bone Broth Avenue" – 3:39
2.     "Get More Down" – 3:26
3.     "Egg in a Hole" – 3:26
4.     "Thanksgiving" – 0:49
5.     "Clear Your Mind" – 4:54
6.     "The 9th Cube" – 0:51
7.     "The Inner Reaches of Outer" – 2:15
8.     "Don't Doubt Me" – 3:05
9.     "The Unwinding" – 0:58
10.     "Something Living Here" – 2:31
11.     "The Howling" – 3:25
12.     "I Am in Miami" – 2:13

•     Trey Anastasio (as Clueless Wallob) – guitar, vocals
•     Mike Gordon (as Half-Nelson) – bass, vocals
•     Jon Fishman (as Paulie Roots) – drums, vocals
•     Page McConnell (as Pat Malone) – keyboards, vocals

 

Queen - The Miracle (Collectors Edition) (4 CD 2022) [FLAC]

Widely recognised as Queen’s strongest album of the 80’s and one of their most inspired, the 1989 released The Miracle was a global success reaching No. 1 in the UK and several major European markets, even re-establishing the band in the US where it delivered a gold album. Brian May has often cited the title track as his favourite Queen song of all time.

The hugely prolific sessions for The Miracle began in December 1987 and stretched out to March 1989. It was to be one of the most consequential periods in Queen’s history. Fifteen months previously, on August 9, 1986, Queen’s mighty Europe Magic Tour had ended on a high, before an estimated audience of more than 160,000 at Knebworth Park in Britain. As the band left the stage that night – toasting the flagship show of their biggest tour to date – they could hardly have foreseen that Knebworth marked a line in the sand. This would be Queen’s final live show with Freddie and the first in a chain of pivotal moments that would lead towards a lengthy separation for the band.

It would take 15 months and a radical restructuring of internal band dynamics before Queen regrouped in London’s Townhouse Studios on December 3rd, 1987, to start work on their thirteenth studio album. For the first time, Queen would share songwriting credits equally, regardless of who conceived each song, a consensus of opinion that was to have fertile results. 

 

 

Ekseption 1973-2001 [FLAC]

In their eight-year existence, Ekseption came as close as any group from the European continent ever did to stealing the thunder of early classical rock outfits such as the Nice and rivaling the early work of Emerson, Lake & Palmer. In Holland, they charted singles based on classical compositions and released successful concept albums, and were along with Focus the top progressive rock band in the Dutch-speaking world. 

Ekseption (New Formula) - 1974 - Bingo (2019)

Ekseption - 1973 - Trinity + Ekseption 3

Ekseption - 1975 - Mindmirror (2019)

Ekseption - 1978 - Ekseption '78 (2019)

Ekseption - 1981 - Dance Macabre (2019)

Ekseption - 1989 - Ekseption plays Bach

Ekseption - 1999 - Selected Ekseption(2 CD)

Ekseption - 1999 - With A Smile

Ekseption - 2000 - Ekseption

Ekseption - 2001 - The Best From Classic (2 CD)

 

 

Van Halen - He Came, He Saw, He Reinvented Electric Guitar [9 CD / FLAC]

9 CD fun made compilation of  1974-1983 studio and live recordings of great Eddie van Halen

 

 

Rolling Stones - Nine 19 Teen [6 CD Live, 1989]

A taste of the Stones 1989 Steel Wheels tour of the US, with Eric Clapton sitting in for 1 song in LA and 2 in Atlantic City NJ.

 

 

The Rolling Stones - The Missing Jewels [4 CD, 1975/FLAC]

Rattlesnake RS 025/26/27/28
4 CD-Set with soundboard and audience recordings

 

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell (Deluxe Edition, Remastered) [1980/2022/FLAC]

BLACK SABBATH's Ozzy Osbourne-era undoubtedly changed rock music and expedited the rise of heavy metal with the landmark work they released in the early '70s. That lineup however had been running on empty with their last two albums. 1976's "Technical Ecstasy" and 1978's "Never Say Die" were solid rock albums with a few catchy songs here and there but were not befitting of what they had built with their previous records. Ozzy Osbourne's 1979 firing put an exclamation point on that decline. Ronnie James Dio's vocal energy and lyrical craftsmanship was the exact injection of life that was needed to guide BLACK SABBATH into the 1980's, and Rhino's new Deluxe Edition of "Heaven And Hell" celebrates over forty years of the record's legacy with its new remaster, released with a generous helping of bonus live tracks spotlighting the greatness of that short-but-legendary chapter of the BLACK SABBATH story.

Miles Davis – Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2016/FLAC + 320)

 3 CD Set Featuring Classic Live Recordings From Miles Davis. Featuring material from live broadcasts from Rotterdam 1967, Boston 1972, Tokyo 1975, and Fukuoka 1981.

With enthusiasm for the music of Miles Davis stretching way further than that for any other Jazz musician who ever produced a note, and the new bio-pic movie about Miles' life creating even more interest, the time could not be better for the release of this 3 CD Collection of rare live material from the maestro. Featuring recordings from; Rotterdam 1967, Boston 1972, Tokyo 1975, Fukuoka (Japan) in 1981, and even a bonus cut from Tokyo in 1985, this mixed bag of eras and styles illustrates well the pre and post mid 1970s hiatus Miles Davis, a period highlighted in the aforementioned new film. Complete with details of all featured line-ups and illustrated with rare photographs this triple disc fold out digi-pack set will prove an essential addition to any Miles Davis collection. 

Ekseption - The First Five + Bonus CD (6 CD, 2019/FLAC)

In 1958 a school band The Jokers was formed in Haarlem. Members were Hans Alta (bass), Rein van den Broek (trumpet), Tim Griek (drums, he was the producer for the first Brainbox (3) album, he died in a car crash in 1988) and Huib van Kampen (guitar/saxophone). They played covers of well known songs. In 1965 the name was changed to Incrowd. In 1967 the name had already changed to Ekseption because there was another Dutch band with the name Incrowd.

The band was also joined by Rob Kruisman, who became the new bandleader. Later that year also Rick Van Der Linden (keyboards) joined the group. He was a classically trained musician who finished Conservatory and had played with several jazz- and popgroups, one of them was the Occasional Swing Combo. They met each other, because both bands played at the same gig. Van den Broek was impressed by the playing of Van der Linden and asked him to join Ekseption. In 1968 the band entered the Loosdrechtse Jazz Concours and won the first prize, a record deal with Phonogram.

At the end of the year the band was about to record their debut album with producer Tony Vos. By this time Alta and Griek were replaced by bass guitarist Cor Dekker (he died in 2005) and drummer Peter de Leeuwe. As the first single "Beethoven's The Fifth" was chosen and it became an instant hit for the band. The follow up singles "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Air" became big hits as well. Because of this chart success Van der Linden became the new bandleader. In 1969 Kruisman left the band because he was not happy with the new musical approach. Shortly after that also co-founder Van Kampen left the band (he dies in 2003). He left the music business, and became a music teacher. 

 

 

Pink Floyd - Meddle (High Resolution Remasters) (4 CD, 2018/FLAC)

Meddle is the sixth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd, by Harvest Records. The album was produced between the band's touring commitments, from January to August 1971 at a series of locations around London, including Abbey Road Studios and Morgan Studios.

With no material to work with and no clear idea of the album's direction, the band devised a series of novel experiments which eventually inspired the album's signature track "Echoes". Although the band's later albums would be unified by a central theme with lyrics written entirely by Roger Waters, Meddle was a group effort with lyrical contributions from each member, and is considered a transitional album between the Syd Barrett-influenced group of the late 1960s and the emerging Pink Floyd. The cover has been explained by its creator Storm Thorgerson to be an ear underwater; as with several previous albums designed by Hipgnosis, though, Thorgerson was unhappy with the final result.

The album was well received by critics upon its release, and was commercially successful in the United Kingdom, but lacklustre publicity on the part of the band's American label Capitol Records led to poor sales there upon initial release. 

 

Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks Vol.44 - Autzen Stadium, Eugene, OR June 23, 1990 (3 CD, 2022/FLAC)

Dave's Picks Volume 44 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Oregon on June 23, 1990. Also included is a performance of "Cold Rain and Snow" from the band's December 26, 1969 concert, which was cut from the previous Dave's Picks release due to lack of space. It was released on October 28, 2022, in a limited edition of 25,000 copies.

This concert was the first of a two-night stand in Eugene. The opening act for both shows was Little Feat.

    Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals

    Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

    Phil Lesh – bass, vocals

    Mickey Hart – drums, percussion

    Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion

    Brent Mydland – keyboards

 

 

Lou Reed - Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2015/FLAC + 320]

After quitting the Velvet Underground in August 1970, Lou Reed took a job at his father's tax accounting firm. In 1971 he signed a recording contract with RCA Records and recorded his first solo album in London with top session musicians including Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman. The album, Lou Reed, contained smoothly produced versions of unreleased Velvet Underground songs, some of which had originally been recorded by the Velvets for Loaded but shelved.