Creedence Clearwater Revival - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2019/FLAC)

Disc 1 contains the group's full set from the legendary Woodstock Festival in 1969, while the second CD offers CCR's performance at the final concert at Bill Graham's Fillmore West, in July 1971. The third disc features a bit of an oddity, with a jam session the band took part in at Fantasy Studios on 30th July, 1970, when the guys were joined by Booker T & The MGs for what was clearly one hell of a musical party.

 

 

Captain Beefheart - Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2015, FLAC]

 

Noted for his powerful singing voice with its wide range, Van Vliet also played the harmonica, saxophone and numerous other wind instruments. The group drew attention with their cover of Bo Diddley's "Diddy Wah Diddy", which became a regional hit. It was followed by their acclaimed debut album Safe as Milk, released in 1967 on Buddah Records. The first disc in this set concentrates on this period of Beefheart s career, featuring a radio broadcast of a live performance at The Avalon Ballroom in 1966, and a number of other tracks from various radio sessions from 1967 and 1968. By 1974, six albums in and frustrated by a lack of commercial success, Beefheart released two records of more conventional rock music that at the time were critically panned. This move, combined with not having been paid for a European tour and enduring Beefheart's less than benevolent behavior towards them, led the entire band to quit. Beefheart eventually formed a new Magic Band with a group of younger musicians. The second disc of this collection comes from this era and features a solid performance by a group who have at times been unfairly dubbed The Tragic Band ; but as this broadcast attests, they were actually a solid unit of master musicians playing some quite extraordinary rock music - albeit music less challenging than Beefheart s previous fare. Fast forward to 1980 and Beefheart has his original fan-base back intact, following his critically acclaimed Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) and Doc at the Radar Station albums - and is out on the road promoting the latter. Stopping off in January 81 at Vancouver s Commodore Ballroom, for a performance that again is the subject of an FM radio broadcast, this show from his late resurgence forms the basis of the third disc in this collection. Beefheart would completely retire from music a year later to concentrate on his work in the areas of art and sculpture - ironically a venture which proved to be his most financially secure. His expressionist paintings and drawings command high prices, and have been exhibited in art galleries and museums across the world. Captain Beefheart died in 2010, having suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years.

Black Crowes- Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2015/FLAC + 320]

 

This 3 CD set includes two discs featuring superb live radio broadcasts, recorded and transmitted in 1990 and 1991 respectively, plus a CD of band interviews and spoken word biography, all of which make for a fitting tribute to a group who, across more than 25 years, proved that in-yer-face rock music is alive and well and selling like it always has done in droves. The Black Crowes have sold over 30 million albums, and are listed at number 92 on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock". They were also labeled by Melody Maker magazine The Most Rock 'n' Roll Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World and the readers of Rolling Stone voted them 'Best New American Band' in 1990. Their discography includes nine studio albums in all, four live albums and several charting singles. After a hiatus between 2002 and 2005, the band released Warpaint, which hit number 5 on the Billboard chart. After the release of a double album, the greatest hits-like and mostly acoustic Croweology in August 2010, the band started a 20th anniversary tour that was followed by an ongoing second hiatus. The band announced that they would return in early 2013 but that December they returned to hiatus status with no specific return date. They announced their break-up in early 2015.

Bob Seger - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2017 , FLAC + 320)

  

Despite having released classic album after classic album during his lengthy career, the best way to witness the extraordinary power of Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band remains to be in a live setting. Indeed, the great man’s most successful record of all has been hisstill hugely popular 1976 release, Live Bullet. This enticing set features a selection of FM radio broadcasts of live shows from Seger and his group recorded between 1974 and1983 - the period which, for most fans, was Bob’s ‘Golden Era’. Kicking off with a show played at the famous Ebbet’s Field club in Denver,CO, at the end of’74, moving to his 1980 gig from the Cobo Arena in his hometown of Detroit, MI, and culminating with a classic concertfrom Hartford.

Allman Brothers Band - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2018/FLAC + 320)

This 3  CD boxed set celebrates the extraordinary career of The Allman Brothers, and features live broadcast recordings from each era of the band s history.

 On Disc One, from the group s first wave when brother Duane was still on board, comes the very rare Warehouse broadcast, recorded in New Orleans in September 1971. Next up is the classic broadcast from the Cow Palace in San Francisco on New Year s Eve 1973, by which time, tragically, both Duane Allman and bass player Berry Oakley had been killed in separate motorcycle accidents. The set is concluded with an extraordinary late period show recorded at the Woodstock Festival in 1994 (on the 25th Anniversary of the original 1969 event) when the band performed a dynamic set in front of some 500,000 attendees

 

Neil Young - Transmission Impossible (4 CD, 2019)

 

This Four disc collector's box set features rare broadcast recordings by Neil Young, originally transmitted from live shows the great man performed in the 1970s and 1980s + a Bonus fourth from 2012; Â Disc One includes two such superb performances : the first a short set Neil played alongside Bob Dylan and members of The Band at the San Francisco SNACK Benefit concert in 1975, and secondly his legendary acoustic set from the late show he gave at Boston's Music Hall in November 1976. Disc Two features Young's marvellous appearance on the Austin City Limits programme in 1984. Including recent cuts mixed with NY classics, this is perhaps Neil's finest performances of that period. Disc Three houses another '80s gig, played at the end of the decade in Hamburg, Germany, on 8th December 1989, shortly after the release of his dynamic Freedom album.

Deluxe Disc 4 Neil Returns to Austin TX in 2012 and Just Proves once again that he has not lost a step or a note over the years and Crazy Horse with him as usual are his greatest co conspirators. 

Rush - Transmission Impossible (Deluxe 4 CD, 2018)

Excellent Radio Broadcasts

1. August 26th, 1974 - Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio
2. June 4th, 1979 - Burgemeester Damen Sportpark, Geleen, Netherlands
3. February 13th, 1980 - Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri
4. 1986 Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto

• Geddy Lee - bass, vocals, keyboards
• Neil Peart - drums, percussion
• Alex Lifeson - guitar

  

 

 

Van Halen - Transmission Impossible (5 CD Deluxe, 2018/FLAC)

 Among the most popular and successful rock bands of the past 40 years, Van Halen remain an inspiration to young groups, performers and musicians with ambitions to take things a little further than your average act. Initially featuring one of modern music s finest front men paired with a guitarist of legend, Halen were always a buzz-word for excess, excitement and energy. 

 

  

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Transmission Impossible (3CD, 2021/FLAC)

 

Ronnie Van Zant, Bob Burns, and Gary Rossington had been playing together since 1964 under various names, but in 1970 they became Lynyrd Skynyrd, and so began one of the most dynamic albeit tragic music careers in the annals of rock music. Crafting a distinctive southern sound through a creative blend of country, blues, and a British rock influence, the group became incredibly popular through the 1970s and it was only the tragic events of autumn 1977- that do not need repeating here - which stopped their onward march through the music biz. 

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2018)

An occasional quartet, the first singer-songwriter supergroup and, in their day, one of the most successful US bands on the live circuit, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young have always been a quite extraordinary proposition. This 3 X CD Set contains broadcast recordings from CSNY s heyday, which together form a majestic collection of their live work. Kicking off with an early show recorded at the Fillmore East in New York, in June 1970, the set continues with a fine gig from the group s 1974 reunion tour, at the Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island, also in New York. Completing this collection is a set the foursome performed at the Bill Graham Memorial Concert, held in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco in 1991. 

Steely Dan -Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2016)

 

 As extraordinary as the music of Steely Dan remains, the how and why of it all coming about is stranger still. The joining forces of two nerdy students - one an English Lit. major, the other a musical prodigy in the late 1960s could hardly be seen as the most promising recipe for success, nevermind a springboard for the creation of perhaps the most unique, creative, musically adventurous, enormously listenable and downright joyous run of albums in the entire history of pop music. But despite it all that was what the mighty Dan achieved during the 1970s and beyond, and as those records continue to inspire just about everyone who hears them, the mystery remains.

 Steely Dan however were essentially a studio band. The complexity of their arrangements mixed with the reluctance of the group s two protagonists - the supremely gifted Walter Becker and Donald Fagen - to go out on the road meant that live performances were a rarity. That said however, when they were persuaded to perform, the shows were nothing short of wonderful. This unique 3 x CD box set features a collection of such live material, all of which was broadcast at the time on FM radio, thus ensuring perfect audio quality. From recordings made in 1974 - during the early part of the group s career - and again almost two decades later in 1993, when the pair had reformed for live events and couple of new albums. In completion this beautifully packaged collection features almost four hours of live Steely Dan, from performances that quite simply must be heard to be believed.