Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy (Super Deluxe Edition) [4 CD, 2021/FLAC]

 Black Sabbath embraced change in 1976 when the heavy metal innovators started managing themselves and began exploring different sounds on the band’s seventh studio album, TECHNICAL ECSTASY. The record reached #13 in the U.K. and was certified gold in the U.S.

In the summer of 1976, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward headed to Miami to record TECHNICAL ECSTASY at the famed Criteria Studios. The band was coming off a world tour for their previous album, SABOTAGE, that had found their live performances evolving to include keyboards and synthesizers. These newly incorporated instruments and sounds were then introduced into the recording process on Technical Ecstasy.  The new songs encompassed a wide range of styles from the hard charging “Back Street Kids” and ballad “It’s Alright,” to the funky “All Moving Parts (Stand Still)” and progressive “Gypsy.” The album also featured the single “It’s Alright,” which was the first Sabbath song to feature lead vocals by Ward. The Deluxe Edition presents a newly remastered version of the eight-track album, along with an entirely new mix of the album created by Steven Wilson using the original analog tapes.

This new collection includes a newly remastered version of the original, a brand-new mix by Steven Wilson, plus more than 90 minutes of previously unreleased outtakes, alternative mixes and live tracks. 

 

Creedence Clearwater Revival - 2022 - At the Royal Albert Hall; 1970 [24Bit]

Creedence Clearwater Revival, also referred to as Creedence and CCR, was an American rock band formed in El Cerrito, California. The band initially consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty; his brother, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty; bassist Stu Cook; and drummer Doug Clifford.

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AC/DC- Transmission Impossible [3 CD, 2016] (FLAC + 320)

  

Unoffical recordings - sources: FM & TV Broadcasts

• Bon Scott – lead vocals
• Angus Young – lead guitar
• Malcolm Young – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
• Mark Evans – bass guitar (1975–1977)
• Cliff Williams – bass guitar, backing vocals (1977–)
• Phil Rudd – drums

 

VA - Troubadours: Folk & The Roots Of American Music (12 CD, 2012-2014/FLAC/320]

 

In the one hundred years that folk music has been recorded in the United States, the tradition has embraced ballads - mostly new, but some transplanted from Europe, political statements, personal introspection, and much more. Now the story is here from the 1920s to the 1970s and beyond in four exclusive 3-CD sets. Through this music, we feel it all from the isolation of early twentieth century Appalachia through the economic and political upheavals of the Depression, War, and Civil Rights eras to contemporary west coast singer-songwriters looking within for inspiration. The story is here: original artists and original versions in stunning sound with detailed notes from folk scholar Dave Samuelson.

 

 

 

The Band - After the Waltz [6 CD, 2003]

 

After the Waltz is a 6-CD monster compilation spanning 15 years, concentrating on the period from 1982 to 1996, during which members of The Band performed solo, in various combinations with others, and as The Band. Many songs rarely performed are included as well as some very interesting versions of the great standards. The sound quality is average to excellent, with most of it being very good .

 

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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