Eagles- Transmission Impossible (1973-94) [3 CD, 2017] (FLAC + 320)

 

Three CD ser featuring The Eagles finest live performances. Featuring four magnificent live broadcast recordings from the Eagles from across their career, all boasting superb audio quality and enticing set lists, this compilation of the group in concert is destined to become the definitive live collection documenting this extraordinary collective. Including an early show from the band recorded in the Netherlands in 1973 while the guys were on their first European jaunt, disc one further features their set at the California Jam Festival in 1974, which includes a guest appearance from Jackson Browne. Disc 2 continues with the Eagles show from The Forum in Inglewood, CA, at the beginning of the next decade in 1980, a rare broadcast which features the wonderful King Of Hollywood - a tune rarely played live - and an excellent version of Joe Walsh s Turn To Stone , among other favourites. Disc 3 concludes this compilation with an acoustic set from Burbank, CA in 1994, with the boys playing a selection of their very finest and best known songs, when even at this late period in the group s history it is clear that the Eagles had lost none of their live prowess or dynamic performance skills.

Pink Floyd - Discovery Boxset [14 studio albums remastered, 2011] (FLAC + 320)

 Since 1967 Pink Floyd have produced one of the most outstanding and enduring catalogues in the history of recorded music. All 14 original Studio albums have now been painstakingly digitally remastered by James Guthrie (co-producer of The Wall), and are reissued with newly crafted packaging and booklets created by the band’s long-time artwork collaborator Storm Thorgerson.

The Discovery editions collect the band's original 14 studio albums, newly remastered for 2011. They were released worldwide on 26 September 2011. The albums can be purchased individually or in a box set which also includes a 60-page book designed by Storm Thorgerson. All albums feature newly designed booklets and CDs. Many of the album covers have been modified to be textless (in 2016 the same remasters were reissued under Pink Floyd Records label and all modifications to the covers were reverted; the discs also got their previous artwork instead of "Discovery" logo from 2011 issues).

•     The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967)
•     A Saucerful of Secrets (1968)
•     More (1969)
•     Ummagumma (double album) (1969)
•     Atom Heart Mother (1970)
•     Meddle (1971)
•     Obscured by Clouds (1972)
•     The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
•     Wish You Were Here (1975)
•     Animals (1977)
•     The Wall (double album) (1979)
•     The Final Cut (1983)
•     A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987)
•     The Division Bell (1994)

Since the release of Discovery the band have released their fifteenth studio album, The Endless River, in 2014 and reissued Obscured by Clouds in a new stereo mix as part of The Early Years 1965–1972 box set in 2016; it features in Volume 6 – 1972: Obfusc/ation. Neither of these have yet been made part of subsequent issues of Discovery. 

Chris Rea - Blue Guitars [11 CD, 2005] (FLAC)

Blue Guitars is a Blues album released by Chris Rea on October 14th 2005 consisting of eleven CDs, one DVD and a full colour book, including paintings by the artist, liner notes and song lyrics. The album is an ambitious project with the 137 songs recorded over the course of 1 1/2 years with a work schedule - according to Chris Rea himself - of twelve hours a day, seven days a week.

The collection is the fifth and last release in a line of Blues recordings Chris Rea has made since recovering from a serious disease at the turn of the millennium and promising himself a return to his Bluesy roots in the event that he survived. According to Rea "Blue Guitars" will be his last solo effort; however, he will continue to release albums as a member of the band "Memphis Fireflies".

 

 

Grateful Dead - Transmission Impossible - The Benefit Shows (3 CD, 2018/FLAC-HD)

Renowned for having regularly performed concerts that ran in excess of three hours, when the occasion demanded such -such as at all-star benefit gigs - Grateful Dead could still bring the house down when playing sets lasting between an hour and ninety minutes. This triple disc sets features three such occasions from the Dead's glorious catalogue of live broadcast recordings, which prove the above without exception. 

Disc One is an early show for the band from November 19th 1966, recorded at Bill Graham s Fillmore, with the gig benefitting the venue itself, which was losing money at the time.

Disc Two features the groups set at the Cambodian Refugee Benefit on January 13th 1980, held at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, and again organised by Bill Graham, in support of those who d had to flee their homes following the 1979 invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam.

Disc Three which, somewhat ironically, features the Grateful Dead s appearance at the Bill Graham Tribute Concert held in Golden Gate Park, organised in the wake of the great man s tragic death, following a helicopter crash on October 25th 1991.

 

The Beatles- The Beatles (White Album) [6 CD Super Deluxe 2018/FLAC]

  

In The Beatles’ long and winding history, their self-titled 1968 album is considered by many to be the beginning of the end. Not musically, of course—raw and sprawling, “The White Album” contains some of their richest and most enduring songs—but insofar as the LP showed they were starting to work and develop distinct styles apart from one another. But to hear Giles Martin, son of the late longtime Beatles producer George Martin, tell it, the truth may be more complicated. His evidence: This new 107-track collection he has overseen, featuring a fresh mix of the original album, freewheeling studio outtakes, and the 27 holy-grail acoustic “Esher demos” largely recorded at George Harrison’s house following the band’s consciousness-expanding off-site in India. To Martin, these loose, candid recordings show a band playing off one another’s chemistry in the studio, working together with humor and camaraderie to spare. “You can’t make a record like ‘The White Album’ if you’re arguing,” he says. Martin tells Apple Music which tracks best prove his theory, and how this set offers insight for completists and casual fans alike.

Jay McShann - Chronogical Classics 1941 - 1946 (2 CD/FLAC)

The great veteran pianist Jay McShann (also known as Hootie) enjoyed a long career and it is unfair to primarily think of him as merely the leader of an orchestra that featured a young Charlie Parker. He was mostly self-taught as a pianist, worked with Don Byas as early as 1931 and played throughout the Midwest before settling in Kansas City in 1936. McShann formed his own sextet the following year and by 1939 had his own big band. In 1940 at a radio station in Wichita, KS, McShann and an octet out of his orchestra recorded eight songs that were not released commercially until the 1970s; those rank among the earliest of all Charlie Parker records (he is brilliant on "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Lady Be Good") and also feature the strong rhythm section team McShann had with bassist Gene Ramey and drummer Gus Johnson. The full orchestra recorded for Decca on two occasions during 1941-1942 but they were typecast as a blues band and did not get to record many of their more challenging charts (although very rare broadcasts have since surfaced and been released on CD by Vintage Jazz Classics). In addition to Bird (who had a few short solos), the main stars were trumpeter Bernard Anderson, the rhythm section, and singer Walter Brown. McShann and his band arrived in New York in February 1942 and made a strong impression, but World War II made it difficult for any new orchestras to catch on. There was a final session in December 1943 without Parker, but McShann was soon drafted and the band broke up. After being discharged later in 1944, McShann briefly re-formed his group but soon moved to Los Angeles, where he led combos for the next few years; his main attraction was the young singer Jimmy Witherspoon.

Grateful Dead: The Making of "Built to Last" 1989 [DVD 5]

The Making of "Built to Last" documents a rare behind the scenes look at the Grateful Dead's thirteenth and final studio album, Built to Last. The behind the scenes footage contains members of the band working on three songs for the album: Picasso Moon, Blow Away, & Just a Little Light. The footage was filmed at Club Front Studio in San Rafael, CA on March 1st 1989.

 

Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman (Super Deluxe, 5 CD, 2020) [FLAC]

 Tea for the Tillerman is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Cat Stevens, released in November 1970.

On 28 May 2020, Yusuf announced his new album, Tea for the Tillerman2, which was released on 18 September 2020. Tea for the Tillerman2 is a reimagining of "the same eleven songs for a new age with dramatic results", celebrating the 50th anniversary of Tea for the Tillerman. 

• Disc 1: Original Album (2020 Remaster)
• Disc 2: Original Album (2020 Mix)
• Disc 3: Tea For The Tillerman²
• Disc 4: Demos / Outtakes / Alternate Versions
• Disc 5: Live

•     Cat Stevens – classical guitar, acoustic guitar, keyboards, lead vocals
•     Alun Davies – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
•     Harvey Burns – drums, congas, tambourine
•     John Ryan – double bass
•     Del Newman – string arrangements
•     Jack Rothstein (as John Rostein) – solo violin

 

Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders - Keystone Companions (The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings) [4 CD, 2012/FLAC]

  

The recordings that made up the original Live at Keystone albums by Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, John Kahn, and Bill Vitt took place over two nights in July of 1973. The band had been playing a regular gig at the famed San Francisco venue for some time, but it was here that it gelled. Their program was a wide range of covers from Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come" to Motown numbers, Bob Dylan songs, jazz standards, and even a wholly improvised jam. Recorded by the Grateful Dead's sound engineers Betty Cantor and Rex Jackson, the first release was issued in late 1973, compiled from the "best" of both nights. In 1988, two volumes called Keystone Encores were released on three discs. This deluxe four-disc package contains remastered versions of all the material from both those concerts presented in original running order.

 

The Beatles - Studio Sessions: Back To Basics Collection [6 Sets / 18 CD, 2011]

 

A European Fan created label looking to provide a new core collection of material, accurately transferred without processing and they have achieved it with several other labels copying their releases.

The number of reissues from this label is frustrating for some collectors and all discographers but for anyone looking for the new material as it becomes available and/or the best sources what is there to complain about well sourced and collated material for free.

The Back To Basic Series has been so popular it has been copied by at least four factory pressed labels, but are usually out of date by the time they hit the streets.

 

David Bowie- Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2018] (FLAC + 320)

 

 

David Bowie s output from the late 1980s and 1990s has been reassessed in all the right quarters since the great man s tragic passing in 2016, and has rightfully now been awarded plaudits often denied the releases and concerts from this era at the time they took place. This triple disc set goes some way to contributing to this effort by bringing together broadcast recordings form 1990 and 1992. The first of these was recorded at Bowie s gig in Buenos Aires in August of 90, while the second is from Tin Machine s legendary tour of Japan in the early part of 92, with the show presented here being the group s performance at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on 17th February. The set is completed with a disc of television appearances recorded between 1975 and 1995, which features some of Bowie s best ever live TV spots.

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.

 

 

Spooky Tooth discography 1969-1999 [FLAC/FLAC-HD]

Part of the early-'70s British hard rock scene, Spooky Tooth grew out of the bluesy VIPs and prog rock group Art and consisted of vocalist Mike Harrison, keyboardist/vocalist Gary Wright, guitarist Luther Grosvenor, bassist Greg Ridley, and drummer Mike Kellie. The group built a following through countless gigs and recorded its debut album, It's All About, in 1968. Spooky Two became their most successful album in the U.S.; afterwards, Ridley left to join Humble Pie and was replaced by Andy Leigh. Following 1970's Ceremony, Wright left to form Wonderwheel, while Grosvenor took the name Ariel Bender and joined Stealers Wheel and later Mott the Hoople. The addition of three members of Joe Cocker's Grease Band - Henry McCullough, Chris Stainton, and Alan Spenner - was not enough to keep the band afloat, and Spooky Tooth broke up after The Last Puff in 1970. A reunion in 1973 with Wright, Harrison, and future Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones produced several LPs, including the moderately successful You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw, but personnel shifts and a lack of top-notch material ended the project in 1974. Wright went on to a successful solo career, scoring pop hits like "Dream Weaver," and Mike Kellie later joined the punk-pop Only Ones. 

 

Poison discography 1986-2007 [FLAC]

Poison is an American glam metal band formed in 1983, in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The most successful incarnation of the band consists of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bret Michaels, drummer Rikki Rockett, bassist and pianist Bobby Dall, and lead guitarist and backing vocalist C.C. DeVille. The band achieved huge commercial success in the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s and has sold 16 million records in the United States and over 50 million albums worldwide.

1986 - Look What The Cat Dragged In

1988 - Open Up And Say... Ahh!

1990 - Flesh & Blood

1991 - Swallow This Live

1993 - Native Tongue

2000 - Crack A Smile... And More!

2000 - Power To The People

2002 - Hollyweird

2007 - Poison'd!

 

Grateful Dead: Backstage Pass (DVD 5)

 

Backstage Pass is a music documentary video by the Grateful Dead. It was directed by Justin Kreutzmann, son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, and produced by Gillian Grisman, daughter of musician David Grisman. It was released in 1992, and is 35 minutes long. 

•     "Hard to Handle" (Jones, Isbell, Redding)
•     "Fearless Groove" (Hart, Kreutzmann)
•     "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann)
•     "Easy to Love You" (Mydland)
•     "She Belongs to Me" (Dylan)
•     "Infrared Roses Revisited" (Garcia, Hart, Healy, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Mydland, Weir, Bralove)

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Jamiroquai discography [1993-2017] (FLAC)

Jamiroquai are a British acid jazz band formed in 1992. Fronted by lead singer Jay Kay, Jamiroquai were initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the James Taylor Quartet, and the Brand New Heavies. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions such as pop, rock and electronica. Their best known track is "Virtual Insanity", which won four awards at the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards. Jamiroquai have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and won a Grammy Award in 1998.

Jamiroquai.1993 - Emergency On Planet Earth

Jamiroquai.1994 - The Return Of The Space Cowboy

Jamiroquai.1996 - Travelling Without Moving

Jamiroquai.1999 - Synkronized

Jamiroquai.2001 - A Funk Odyssey

Jamiroquai.2005 - Dynamite

Jamiroquai.2006 - High Times. Singles 1992-2006

Jamiroquai.2010 - Rock Dust Light Star

Jamiroquai.2017 - Automaton

 

Be Bop Deluxe - Futurist Manifesto 1974-1978 (5 CD, 2011 FLAC)

UK four CD box set from the influential British Rock band led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Bill Nelson. This release contains the five studio albums Be Bop Deluxe recorded for Harvest Records '74-'78 (Axe Victim, Futurama, Sunburst Finish, Modern Music and Drastic Plastic) plus bonus material including the 1977 single 'Japan' and a handful of single edits. Also includes a whole disc of previously unreleased rarities, demos and live tracks. 

 

 

Jerry Garcia Band – Live At Shoreline 9/1/90 [DVD 5]

On September 1, 1990, at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, the Jerry Garcia band performed a particularly poignant kind of magic. A Grateful Dead show was originally scheduled for that date but was cancelled due to the untimely death of the Dead's brilliant, passionate keyboard player, Brent Mydland, in late July. Rather than cancel the gig, the Jerry Garcia Band stepped in to deliver one of their most heartfelt performances."

•     Jerry Garcia     guitar, vocals
•     John Kahn     bass
•     Melvin Seals     keyboards
•     David Kemper     drums
•     Jacklyn LaBranch     backing vocals
•     Gloria Jones     backing vocals

Special Features:

• 5.1 Surround Sound
• Interviews - Blair Jackson talks with Robert Hunter and band members
• Songwriter mini-documentary/photo galleries

Filmed live at Shoreline Amphitheatre, September 1, 1990.

Set 1

1.     How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
2.     Stop That Train
3.     Dear Prudence
4.     I Shall Be Released
5.     Run For The Roses
6.     My Sisters And Brothers
7.     Deal

Set 2

1.     I Second That Emotion
2.     Think
3.     And It Stoned Me
4.     Waiting For A Miracle
5.     Don't Let Go
6.     That Lucky Old Sun
7.     Tangled Up In Blue

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.

Swans discography 1983-2019

Swans is an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. One of the few acts to emerge from the New York City-based no wave scene and stay intact into the next decade, Swans have become recognized for an ever-changing sound, exploring genres such as noise rock, post-punk, industrial and post-rock. Initially, their music was known for its sonic brutality and misanthropic lyrics. Following the addition of singer, songwriter and keyboardist Jarboe in 1986, Swans began to incorporate melody and intricacy into their music. Jarboe remained the band's only constant member except Gira and semi-constant guitarist Norman Westberg until their dissolution in 1997.

In 2010, Gira re-formed the band without Jarboe, establishing a stable lineup of musicians which has toured worldwide and released four albums to critical acclaim. This iteration of the group performed its last shows in November 2017, ending the tour in support of its final album The Glowing Man. Since 2019, Gira has been touring and recording with Swans as "a revolving cast of contributors". The band's latest album, Leaving Meaning, was released on October 25, 2019. Since 1990, all Swans records have been released through Gira's own label, Young God Records.