Gong - The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy (4 CD, 2015) [FLAC]

For the first time ever, Gong's quintessential trilogy comprised of the albums 'Flying Teapot', 'Angel's Egg' and 'You' are gathered together in one lavish EarBook edition, together with a fourth CD of bonus material that includes both sides of Gong's impossible-to-find debut single on BYG Records, released only in France in 1970. This set includes reproductions of mega-rare and long out-of-print promotional booklets which are crammed full of Gong-founder Daevid Allen's unique illustrations, along with the entire trilogy narrative and lyrics, a treasure-trove of original album artwork, band line-ups and credits. 

Disc 1 - Flying Teapot (1973) 

Disc 2 - Angel's Egg (1973) 

Disc 3 - You (1974) 

Disc 4 - Est-Ce-Que...? (2015) 

Syd Barrett - Psychedelic Artefacts (2 CD) [FLAC]

 Psychedelic Artefacts

CD 1

1. Adam, Mike & Tim - You're The Reason Why (1964)

2. Jokers Wild - Why Do Fools Fall In Love? (1966)

3. Jokers Wild - Walk Like a Man (1966)

4. Jokers Wild - Don't Ask Me (1966)

5. Jokers Wild - Big Girls Don't Cry (1966)

6. Jokers Wild - Beautiful Delilah (1966)

7. Interstellar Overdrive (demo, possibly fake)

8. Gimme a Break (demo, possibly fake)

9. Piggy Back (demo, possibly fake)

10. Pow.r.Toh.h. ((demo, possibly fake)

11. Interstellar Overdrive (CBS Edit, Dec.66)

12. Let's Roll Another One & Instrumental (Jan.67, Most Complete Tape)

13. Interstellar Overdrive (?) (Excerpt from the film "Dope", UFO Club, Feb-March 67)

14. Interstellar Overdrive (24 Feb.67, From "Die Jungen Nachtwandler")

15. Nick Mason Interview (March 67)

16. Arnold Layne (Fake Stereo)

17. Sunshine (Vocal Track of "Matilda Mother", March 67)

18. See Emily Play (Acetate 1, May 67)

19. See Emily Play (fake stereo)

20. Interstellar Overdrive (Outtake)

21. Scarecrow (Outtake)

22. Astronomy Domine (Outtake)

23. Complete Pathe Newsreel (July 67)

24. Scream Thy Last Scream (Half Speed)

CD 2

1. Syd Barrett Interview (August 1967)

2. Scream Thy Last Scream (Half Speed)

3. Roger Waters Interview (Stockgolm, Sept.67)

4. Reaction In G (With Voiceover, Beat Club, Sept.67)

5. Reaction In G (Beat Club, Sept.67)

6. Remember A Day (Backing Track with Voiceover)

7. Remember A Day (Backing Track)

8. In The Beechwoods / Vegetable Man / Vegetable Man Jam (Raw Original Source)

9. Apples And Oranges (BBC, 67)

10. Apples And Oranges & Interview (American Bandstand, November 67)

11. Syd Plays Guitar In The Studio (Unknown)

12. Singing A Song In The Morning (Kevin Ayers, Left Channel Mix, Dec.69)

13. Singing A Song In The Morning (Kevin Ayers, Right Channel Mix, Dec.69)

14. Singing A Song In The Morning (Kevin Ayers, Final Single Version without Syd)

15. Days (Steve Took with Syd (?), 1972)

16. Last Minute Put Together Boogie Band Intro (1972)

17. Syd Intro (1972) 

Steve Hackett discography 1975-2021 [FLAC]

Stephen Richard Hackett (born 12 February 1950) is a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. He gained prominence as a member of the British progressive rock group Genesis, which he joined in 1970 and left in 1977 to pursue a solo career. Hackett contributed to six Genesis studio albums, three live albums and seven singles.

In 1986, Hackett co-founded the supergroup GTR with another progressive guitarist, Steve Howe of Yes and Asia. The group released a self-titled album that year, which peaked at #11 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and spawned the Top 20 single "When the Heart Rules the Mind". When Hackett left GTR in 1987, the group disbanded.

After leaving GTR, Hackett resumed his solo career and has released albums and toured on a regular basis since. His body of work has encompassed many styles, such as progressive rock, world music, and classical. His playing has influenced guitarists such as Eddie Van Halen, Alex Lifeson and Brian May. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Genesis in 2010.

Mott The Hoople - Mental Train: The Island Years 1969-1971 (6 CD, 2018)

 UK six CD set encapsulating legendary English Rock-band Mott the Hoople's recorded output for Island Records, to whom they were signed, between 1969 and 1971. Bringing together all of their albums from the period, the set also includes bonus material, BBC sessions and live concerts. The studio albums have all been remastered from the original tapes by renowned engineer Andy Pearce and have been complemented by bonus tracks selected by Mott the Hoople expert, Kris Needs. Disc Five comprises more unheard and, in some cases, unreleased music from the Island archive while Disc Six rounds everything off with live material recorded at Fairfield Hall, Croydon on September 13, 1970 and a BBC Radio One In Concert from the Paris Theatre, London on December 30, 1971.

Jane 1972-1978 [24-192]

Jane is a German progressive rock Krautrock band, that was formed in October 1970 in Hanover, Germany. 

The history of one of Germany's most successful bands of the 1970's was shaped by numerous changes in the line-up, a willingness to take stylistic risks, and an attitude towards their work that was characterised by honesty and professionalism. The naked figures read like this - twelve albums with total sales exceeding two million and an average of 150 concerts each year, each of them usually sold out.

Musically speaking, Jane were never a band to do the expected, but they still had some recognisable trademarks. Breathtaking guitar solos, powerful keyboards, polished and mighty arrangements and an almost constantly dragging tempo added up to the typical Jane touch and were characteristic for a melodic hard rock that had no equal in Germany.

Jane were formed in October of 1970 in Hanover out of the remains of the band Justice Of Peace. Klaus Hess (g), Peter Panka (dr) and Werner Nadolny (org) were looking for a new challenge and got together with Charly Maucher (b). In the Spring of 1971, they were joined by Bernd Pulst, a singer with a powerful voice. Shortly after that, the quintet signed a long-term record contract. After almost one year of work, Jane's debut album "Together" was released in the spring of 1972. The German rock world reacted positively to the technically well-versed newcomers and their "unvarnished style of making music" 

Grateful Dead - Here Comes Sunshine 1973 (17 CD, 2023) [FLAC]

Here Comes Sunshine 1973 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. Packaged as a box set, it contains five complete concerts on 17 CDs. It was recorded in May and June 1973. It is scheduled to be released on June 30, 2023, in a limited edition of 10,000 copies.

Here Comes Sunshine 1973 contains recordings of these concerts:

    May 13, 1973 – Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, Iowa

    May 20, 1973 – Campus Stadium, Santa Barbara, California

    May 26, 1973 – Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, California

    June 9, 1973 – Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.

    June 10, 1973 – Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C.

The box set also includes a poster and a tenugui.

At the June 10 concert, Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks from the Allman Brothers Band, along with Merl Saunders, sat in for the final set of music. The song "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" from that set was previously released on the album Postcards of the Hanging. 

 

Syd Barrett - Have You Got It Yet Vol. 1 - 10 [FLAC]

 

A compilation of unreleased material from Pink Floyd Barrett's era

 

Dave Mason discography [FLAC + 320]

 

David Thomas Mason (born May 10, 1946) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic. In his long career, Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Fleetwood Mac and Cass Elliot. Mason's best known song is "Feelin' Alright", recorded by Traffic in 1968 and covered by dozens of artists, including Joe Cocker, who had a major hit with the song in 1969. For Traffic, he also wrote "Hole in My Shoe", a kind of psychedelic satire that became a classic in its own right. "We Just Disagree", Mason's 1977 solo hit written by Jim Krueger, has become a staple of Oldies and Adult Contemporary radio playlists.

Golden Earring - The Complete Studio Recordings (29 CD, 2017) [FLAC]

 Legendary Dutch rockers Golden Earring see their long career celebrated with a  Complete Studio Albums box set.

All 26 studio albums are included in this box, from their 1965 debut Just Ear-rings to 2015’s The Hague. Three bonus CDs with non-album tracks (such as That Day, Sound Of The Screaming Day, So You Want To Be A Rock’n’Roll Star and L.A. Woman) complete the collection.

Mott the Hoople 1969-2007 [FLAC]

Mott the Hoople were an English rock band with strong R&B roots and dominant in the glam rock era of the early to mid 1970s. They are popularly known for the song "All the Young Dudes", written for them by David Bowie and appearing on their 1972 album of the same name.

• Ian Hunter – born Ian Hunter Patterson, 3 June 1939, Oswestry, Shropshire, England – vocals, guitar, piano (1969–1974)
• Mick Ralphs – born Michael Geoffrey Ralphs, 31 March 1944, Hereford, Herefordshire, England – guitar, vocals, keyboards (1969–1973)
• Verden Allen – born Terrence Verden Allen, 26 May 1944, Woodland Road, Crynant, Neath, Wales – organ, backing vocals (up to 1972)
• Pete Overend Watts – born Peter Watts, 13 May 1947, Yardley, Birmingham, England – bass guitar, backing vocals, guitar (1969–1980)
• Dale "Buffin" Griffin – born Terence Dale Griffin, 24 October 1948, Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England – drums, backing vocals, percussion (1969–1980)

Later members

• Ariel Bender – born Luther James Grosvenor, 23 December 1946, Evesham, Worcestershire, England – guitar, backing vocals (1973–1974)
• Morgan Fisher – born Stephen Morgan Fisher, 1 January 1950, Middlesex Hospital, Fitzrovia, West End of London, England – keyboards, backing vocals (1973–1980)
• Mick Ronson - born Michael Ronson, 26 May 1946, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England – guitar, backing vocals (1974)
• Mick Bolton - born Michael Bolton, 20 December 1948, Wigan, Lancashire, England - Hammond Organ, Yamaha keyboard, backing vocals (1973)

1969 - Mott The Hoople

1970 - Mad Shadows

1971- Wildlife

1971- Brain Capers

1972 - All The Young Dudes

1973 - Mott

1974- The Hoople

1974- Live (30th Anniversary Edition)

1975 - Drive On

1976 - Greatest Hits

1980 - Two Miles From Heaven

1993 - The Ballad Of Mott (A Retrospective)

2007 - Fairfield Halls, Live 1970

Paul McCartney - The 7” Singles Box (80 CDs, 2022) [24-96]

The 7" Singles Box Set is a box set by Paul McCartney released in December 2022 containing 80 seven-inch vinyl singles originally released between 1971 and 2022. The box set was packaged in a wooden crate manufactured in the United Kingdom and limited to only 3000 units worldwide. The box set sold out upon announcement by McCartney. It was also made available on various digital platforms.

Colin Blunstone - Collected (3 CD, 2014) [FLAC)

 

Colin Edward Michael Blunstone (born 24 June 1945) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Blunstone came to prominence in the mid 1960s as the lead singer of the English rock band the Zombies, which released four singles that entered the Top 75 charts in the United States during the 1960s, including "She's Not There", "Tell Her No", "She's Coming Home", and "Time of the Season". Blunstone began his solo career in 1969, releasing three singles under a pseudonym of Neil MacArthur. Since then, he has released ten studio albums and one live album under his real name. His solo hits include "She's Not There", "Say You Don't Mind", "I Don't Believe in Miracles", "How Could We Dare to Be Wrong", "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", and "The Tracks of My Tears". In 2019, Blunstone was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of The Zombies.

He is also known for his participation on various albums with the Alan Parsons Project, as he sang their song "Old and Wise" which became famous with Blunstone's vocals. 

Commander Cody discography [1971-2018]

 

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen were equally adept at stripped-down basic rock & roll, R&B, and gritty country-rock. Commander Cody's country-rock rocked harder than the Eagles or Poco -- essentially, the group was a bar band. Much like English pub rock bands like Brinsley Schwarz and Ducks Deluxe, Commander Cody resisted the overblown and bombastic trends of early-'70s rock, preferring a basic no-frills approach. Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen never had the impact of the British pub rockers, yet their straightforward energy gave their records a distinguishing drive; they could play country, Western swing, rockabilly, and R&B, and it all sounded convincing.

Cat Stevens - In Search Of The Centre Of The Universe (4 CD, 2001) [FLAC]

4 CD box with the best of singer / songwriter Cat Stevens. In addition to a large number of well-known songs, this box also contains a number of songs that have not been released before, including some demo and live recordings.

Led Zeppelin - Lost Mixes EP & Sessions (14 CD, 2007, Empress Valley) [FLAC + 320]

 Empress Valley Supreme Disc is Japanese bootleg record label specializing in Led Zeppelin.

Burton Cummings 1976-2008 [FLAC]

Burton Lorne Cummings OC OM (born December 31, 1947) is a Canadian musician. He is best known for leading The Guess Who during that band's most successful period from 1965 to 1975, and for a lengthy solo career.

Cummings has been inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has been cited as one of the most influential performers in Canadian rock music. He has also been named as an officer of the Order of Canada and Order of Manitoba. The Burton Cummings Theatre and Burton Cummings Community Centre in Winnipeg are named in his honour.

1976. Burton Cummings - Burton Cummings

1977. Burton Cummings - My Own Way To Rock

1978. Burton Cummings - Dream Of A Child

1980. Burton Cummings - The Best Of

1980. Burton Cummings - Woman Love

1990. Burton Cummings - Plus Signs

1994. Burton Cummings - The Burton Cummings Collection

1996. Burton Cummings - Up Close And Alone

2006. Bachman Cummings - Bachman Cummings Songbook

2007. Bachman Cummings - Jukebox

2008. Burton Cummings - Above The Ground

 

Little Feat - Hotcakes and Outtakes (4 CD, 2000) [FLAC]

 

"Thirty years of sophisticated music is often more than any modern rock band is expected to accomplish, but Little Feat has spent the bulk of the last three decades offering the unexpected. This "box set" dovetails nicely with the band's last retrospective, "Hoy Hoy", that came out two years after the band's founder, Lowell George, died (1979). Since then, the band has gone their separate ways, reformed, re-tooled, and have rejuvinated a sound as authentic to our culture as buffalo nickles and velvet art work. "Hotcakes and Outtakes" provides a common ground for old and new fans to observe the rich, musical talents of a band that bravely never quite fit into any programmable radio format. The first three cd's offer a rich menu of the band's talents, humor, and innovative sound. Replete with an 80 page history of the band, the Little Feat story makes both sense and nonsense out of the band constantly in conflict, but totally dependent on the emotional traction each player brought to the table. However, it is the fourth cd that the die hard Little Feat fan will find the most gratifying. Here, demos and outtakes rule the day. It is a poignant reminder of a time when an entire band shunned sleek studio wizardry and produced simple nuts and bolts rock and roll.

Crack the Sky discography 1975-2023

 

Crack the Sky is an American progressive rock band formed in Weirton, West Virginia in the early 1970s. In 1975, Rolling Stone Magazine declared their first album "debut album of the year", and in 1978, Rolling Stone Record Guide compared them to Steely Dan; their first three albums charted on the Billboard 200. The band has never achieved great success outside the Baltimore area; despite this, they continue to release albums and perform to a small but devoted fan base to this day.

Crack The Sky-(1975)- Crack The Sky (2002 Remastered)

Crack The Sky-(1976)- Animal Notes

Crack The Sky-(1978)- Live Sky

Crack The Sky-(1978)- Safety in Numbers

Crack The Sky-(1980)- White Music

Crack The Sky-(1981)- Photoflamingo

Crack The Sky-(1983)- World in Motion 1

Crack The Sky-(1987)- Raw

Crack The Sky-(1988)- Live on WBAB Plus Bonus Cuts from Live Sky

Crack The Sky-(1989)- Dog City

Crack The Sky-(1989)- From The Greenhouse

Crack The Sky-(1994)- Rare!

Crack The Sky-(1997)- Crack Attic (The Best Of Crack The Sky)

Crack The Sky-(1998)- Cut

Crack The Sky-(1999)- Live Recher Theatre 06.19.99

Crack The Sky-(2001)- Ghost

Crack The Sky-(2003)- Dogs From Japan

Crack The Sky-(2006)- Alive And Kickin' Ass

Crack The Sky-(2007)- Safety in Numbers- 21St Century Redux

Crack The Sky-(2007)- The Sale

Crack The Sky-(2010)- Machine

Crack The Sky-(2012)- Ostrich

Crack The Sky-(2018)- Living in Reverse

Crack The Sky-(2021)- Between the Cracks

Crack The Sky-(2021)- Tribes

Crack The Sky-(2023)- From The Wood

Fleetwood Mac - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967-1969 (6 CD, 1999) [FLAC]

  

A six-CD set of everything Fleetwood Mac recorded for the British Blue Horizon label. Wait, you're saying, didn't they only do two albums for Blue Horizon before leaving the company in early 1969? True, but there were also the non-LP singles that comprised the bulk of the U.K. compilation The Pious Bird of Good Omen, the two albums of blues jams in Chicago that came out later in 1969, and the 1971 LP The Original Fleetwood Mac, comprised of early outtakes. Make each of those half-dozen LPs a CD, add some outtakes and alternate takes to each, and you've got a pretty full box. Unintentionally, this box makes the Mac a candidate for Most Erratic Major Rock Group of the Late 1960s, ranging from the sheer brilliance of Peter Green's songs to rote blues covers that are downright mundane, particularly some of the Jeremy Spencer showcases and Chicago blues jams. If you're a committed enough fan to consider buying this box, you already know that; you're probably more concerned with whether the previously unreleased material merits the cost. Those extras are marginal, to be honest, comprised largely of false starts, incidental studio chatter, and alternate versions that are pretty close to the official takes. Certainly the highlight of those newly unearthed tracks is the 37 minutes of alternate takes of "Need Your Love So Bad." It's also nice that the Danny Kirwan tracks that appeared only on the U.S. album English Rose are here as well. Unfortunately, this is not a complete retrospective of the Peter Green era, whose best material was recorded for Reprise; there's also a lot of noteworthy live stuff that appeared on different labels.

The Action - Shadows And Reflections: The Complete Recordings 1964-1968 (4 CD, 2018) [FLAC]

The Action were an English band of the 1960s, formed as the Boys in August 1963, in Kentish Town, North West London. They were part of the mod subculture, and played soul music-influenced pop music. 

The band (originally known as ‘The Boys’) were signed by George Martin after he left EMI in the mid-sixties and the ‘fifth Beatle’ produced the five singles issued on Parlophone between 1965-1967 as well as tracks for a never-released album.

Shadows and Reflections (issued by Cherry Red imprint Grapefruit) is said to be “the most comprehensive tribute” to The Action thus far, with many of the original single mixes getting their debut on CD as part of this set and newly found multi-tracks and rehearsal tapes allowing for a whole disc’s worth of previously unheard mixes and performances.

This deluxe set comes as a bookset and includes a 16,000 words of notes by David Wells in a 36-page booklet.

Disc One - Essential Action: The Parlophone Masters (01:03:35)

Disc Two - The Action At Abbey Road: Stereo Mixes And Outtakers (01:13:48)

Disc Three - Rolled Gold Plus: The Lost 1967-1968 Recordings (01:10:50)

Disc Four - Extra Action (00:55:44)

The Byrds - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (13 CD, 2011/FLAC)

 

The Byrds were one of the most progressive and exciting band in '60s rock, with no peers outside the Stones-Beatles-Beach Boys triumvirate. This box set, which collects their original Columbia albums, represents over 90-percent of their career, basically everything they released, all 12 albums (aside from their 1973 reunion album recorded for Asylum). This material was frequently astonishing at the time, and still is, ranging from their debut single "Mr. Tambourine Man" through the bracing folk-rock of their first two LPs, growing psychedelia and experimentation during 1966 and 1967, then a sudden detour into country-rock and mellow pop for the rest of the '60s. Whether early linchpins Gene Clark and David Crosby were a part of the lineup or not, the Byrds with Roger McGuinn at the helm always featured tuneful songwriting and accomplished musicianship, qualities which shine through brightly on this collection. Each album comes in a replica LP sleeve, and the package includes all the bonus tracks (plus the liner notes from Johnny Rogan) that were originally included with the mid-'90s expanded reissues; also included is the two-disc Sweetheart of the Rodeo expanded edition, with rehearsals and alternate takes. 

1965 - Mr. Tambourine Man (45:41)

1965 - Turn! Turn! Turn! (49:12)

1966 - Fifth Dimension (62:22)

1967 - Younger Than Yesterday (47:35)

1968 - The Notorious Byrd Brothers (58:27)

1968 - Sweetheart Of The Rodeo (55:05 + 61:20)

1969 - Dr. Byrds And Mr. Hyde (52:07)

1969 - Ballad Of Easy Rider (56:50)

1970 - (Untitled) / (Unissued) (71:25 + 49:25)

1971 - Byrdmaniax (46:51)

1971 - Farther Along (46:03)

 

 

Phil Lynott's Grand Slam – Slam Anthems (6 CD, 2023) [FLAC]

When Phil Lynott died in 1986, he was a mere 36 years of age. Lynott founded and fronted one of the most underrated rock bands of the ‘70s, Thin Lizzy, and was the most popular rock singer to emerge from Dublin (prior to the Bono era). When the band broke up in the early ’80s amid struggles with substance abuse, Lynott started working with Magnum keyboardist Mark Stanway as part of Lynott’s live solo band in 1983. By 1984 he would eventually solidify a line-up that included guitarist Laurence Archer, rhythm guitarist Doish Nagle, and drummer Robbie Brennan and change their name to Grand Slam. Although the group never issued an official studio album, they played numerous shows around Europe and cut a series of demos that proved Lynott still had incredible songs in him and a brilliant career ahead.

Now those songs and live performances have been remastered and packaged in a deluxe 6-CD box set, released on June 9, 2023. Slam Anthems, via Cleopatra Records, is a treasure trove of new mixes of Grand Slam songs as well as concert recordings that feature songs from throughout Lynott’s stellar career, including many Thin Lizzy favorites.

Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes - Live At The Greek : Complete Live Masters (4 CD, 2001/FLAC)

 The Black Crowes were dogged with comparisons to the Rolling Stones and the Faces throughout the first decade of their career, so it came as a mild surprise that they teamed with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in late 1999 for a couple of concerts. Zeppelin had a mystique and majesty about them that the Crowes never attempted to emulate. They were an earthy, bluesy rock band and while they found a number of different ways to rework their influences, they never tried the stately grandeur that was Zeppelin's second nature. So, some observers were curious to see how these two approaches worked.

 

 

Fleetwood Mac - Vintage Years (2 LP, 1975) [24-96]

Vintage Years is a 1975 compilation album by British blues rock band Fleetwood Mac and was released on the Sire Records label. The album peaked at #67 in the U.K. and #138 in the U.S. As of 2012, the album has sold over 75,000 copies in the U.S. alone.