Kansas - The Box Set Series (4 CD, 2014/FLAC)

 

Epic/Legacy's four-disc Kansas box set is cut from the same cloth as previous label collections like 2004's Sail On: The 30th Anniversary Collection 1974-2004 and 2008's Ultimate Kansas. Longtime fans will find nothing here that they don't already have in their libraries, but casual listeners will find that the bare-bones package offers up a nice cross section of radio hits and album cuts, without the exorbitant price tag.

Peter Green - The Anthology (4 CD Deluxe, 2008/FLAC)

 

2008 four CD set, the most extensive retrospective look at Peter Green's truly legendary career. The set contains essential Peter Green music drawn from all stages of his career. From his first tentative recordings with the likes of Peter Barden's and John Mayall, it moves through the genesis of Fleetwood Mac and the band's many classic blues recordings including 'Ramblin' Pony' and 'Black Magic Woman'. Fleetwood Mac's subsequent blues and rock fusion chart hits - titles like the utterly unique 'Albatross', 'Oh Well' and the haunting 'Man of the World' - are all included, as is the best of his later solo work and Splinter Group recordings. Quite simply, this is the ultimate Peter Green collection - a special release befitting a special musician and songwriter who is rightly one of the most revered blues guitarists of all time.

The Rolling Stones - Live & Sessions 1963-1966 (6 CD, 2019/FLAC)

 

6 CD of early Stones

Country Joe and the Fish / Country Joe McDonald discography [1967-1994]

  

Country Joe and the Fish was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Berkeley, California, in 1965. The band was among the influential groups centered in the San Francisco music scene during the mid to late-1960s. Much of the band's music was penned by founding members Country Joe McDonald and Barry "The Fish" Melton, and consisted of issues of importance to the counterculture such as anti-war protests, free love, and recreational drug use, with lyrical content daringly to the point. Through a combination of psychedelia and electronic music, Country Joe and the Fish's sound was marked by innovative guitar melodies, and distorted organ-driven instrumentals which were significant to the development of acid rock.

 

 

The Band - A Musical History (5 CD, 2005/FLAC)

 

A Musical History is the second box set to anthologize Canadian-American rock group The Band. Released by Capitol Records on September 27, 2005, it features 111 tracks spread over five compact discs and one DVD. Roughly spanning the group's journey from 1961 to 1977, from their days behind Ronnie Hawkins and Bob Dylan through the departure of Robbie Robertson and the first disbanding of the group. The set includes highlights from each of the group's first seven studio albums and both major live recordings and nearly forty rare or previously unreleased performances. 

Colin Hay / Men at Work discography [FLAC]

Colin James Hay (born 29 June 1953) is a Scottish-born Australian-American musician, singer, songwriter, and actor. He came to prominence as the lead vocalist and the sole continuous member of the band Men at Work, and later as a solo artist. Hay's music has been used frequently by actor and director Zach Braff in his work, which helped a career rebirth in the mid-2000s. Hay has also been a member of Ringo Starr's Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band.

Hay has made appearances in movies such as Cosi and in television shows such as The Larry Sanders Show, JAG, The Mick Molloy Show, A Million Little Things, and Scrubs. along with episodes of ABC's What About Brian, NBC's The Black Donnellys, CBS's Cane, and the BBC hospital drama Casualty, have included performances of some of his previous songs; in Scrubs he performs an acoustic version of the Men at Work hit "Overkill". 

Colin Hay solo :

1987.Colin James Hay - Looking For Jack

1990.Colin Hay Band - Wayfaring Sons

1993.Colin Hay - Man At Work

1994.Colin Hay - Topanga (2009 Deluxe Edition)

1998.Colin Hay - Transcendental Highway

2007.Colin Hay - Are You Lookin' At Me

2011.Colin Hay - Gathering Mercury

2015.Colin Hay - Next Year People {Deluxe Edition}

 

Men at Work

Dio - Holy Diver (Super Deluxe Edition) (4 CD, 2022) [FLAC]

Holy Diver was a platinum-certified smash and one of the late singer-songwriter’s most groundbreaking achievements. Rhino revisits this epic metal moment on HOLY DIVER: SUPER DELUXE EDITION, available as a 4-CD boxed set. 

 The collection comes with two versions of Holy Diver. The first is a new mix of the album made by Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot). He used the original analog tapes to remix all nine tracks on the album. The second is a newly remastered version of the original 1983 mix. The Super Deluxe Edition also features unreleased live performances and outtakes, along with a selection of rarities from the era.

 

 

Snarky Puppy discography [2006-2016]

Snarky Puppy is a jazz ensemble led by bassist, composer, and producer Michael League. League once described Snarky Puppy as "a pop band that improvises a lot, without vocals".

The band was formed by Michael League in Denton, Texas, in 2004 and comprises a changing membership of about 40 musicians who perform on guitar, bass, keyboards, woodwinds, brass, strings, drums, and percussion. Many band members were students at the University of North Texas. Individual members have performed with Erykah Badu, Marcus Miller, Justin Timberlake, Kirk Franklin, Ari Hoenig, Roy Hargrove, David Crosby, and Snoop Dogg. While touring, the band frequently gives clinics, workshops, and master classes throughout North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

2006 - The Only Constant

2007 - The World Is Getting Smaller

2008 - Bring Us The Bright

2010 - Tell Your Friends (2020 Remaster)

2012 - groundUP

2013 - Family Dinner Volume One

2014 - We Like It Here

2015 - Live In Concert At La Cigale (2 CD)

2015 - Sylva

2016 - Culcha Vulcha

2016 - Family Dinner Volume Two (Deluxe Edition)

2019 - 17 (Limited Edition, Live)

2019 - Immigrance

2020 - Live At The Royal Albert Hall

2022 - Empire Central

Warren Haynes & Friends - The Ritz Power Jam 1993 [SBD FLAC]

The Ritz Power Jam
February 5th 1993
The Ritz, NYC, NY

• Warren Haynes (The Allman Brothers Band) : electric guitar
• John Popper (Blues Traveler) : harmonica
• Noel Redding (The Jimi Hendrix Experience) : bass, acoustic guitar
• Leland Schliefer(Warren Haynes Band) : bass
• Chuck Leavell(ABB/Aquarium Rescue Unit) : piano
• Bernie Worrell (Parliament Funkadelic) : clavinet, organ
• Jaimoe (ABB) : drums
• Jerome Brailey (Parliament Funkadelic) : drums
• Marc Quinones (ABB) : percussion

Disc 1

Set I
1. Back at the Chicken Shack (Jimmy Smith cover) ==>
2. Born Under a Bad Sign (Albert King cover) vocals: Warren Haynes
3. Let it Rock (Chuck Berry cover) vocals: Warren Haynes
4. Improv Blues in G, vocals: John Popper
5. She Caught the Katy (Taj Mahal cover) vocals: John Popper
6. Down the Road (Elvis Presley cover) vocals: Noel Redding
7. Mess of the Blues (Elvis Presley cover) vocals: Noel Redding
8. Little Wing (Jimi Hendrix cover) vocals: Warren Haynes
9. Day Tripper (Beatles cover) vocals: Noel Redding (verse 1) Warren Haynes (verse 2) & John Popper (verse 3)
10. Escaping (John Popper original) vocals: John Popper
11. Hey Joe (Billy Roberts cover) vocals: Warren Haynes

Disc 2

Set II
1. Hip Hug-Her (Booker T & the MG's cover)
2. Rock Me Baby (B.B. King cover) vocals: John Popper
3. In the Nightvocals: Noel Redding
4. Red House (Jimi Hendrix cover) w/ Dave Tronzo (slide guitar) vocals: Warren Haynes
5. Yonder Wall (Junior Wells cover) vocals: Warren Haynes
6. She Belongs to Me (Bob Dylan cover) vocals: Noel Redding
7. Not Fade Away (Buddy Holly cover) vocals: Noel Redding
8. That's Heaven to Me (Eddie Cochran cover) vocals: Noel Redding

Disc 3

1. Just Before the Bullets Fly (Warren Haynes original) vocals: Warren Haynes
2. Been Lovin' You too Long (Otis Redding cover) vocals: Warren Haynes
3. Spanish Moon (Little Feat cover) w/ Trey Anastasio (Phish) on lead guitar. vocals: Warren Haynes and Trey Anastasio
4. All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan cover) w/ the Dave Matthews Band and Trey Anastasio. Vocals: Dave Matthews and John Popper

Encore:
5. Gloria (Van Morrison cover, also includes a tease from 'Thank you for Letting Me Be Myself by Sly and the Family Stone) w/ Trey Anastasio, and Mike Gordon (Phish) on bass. vocals: John Popper

 

REO Speedwagon- The Classic Years 1978-1990 [9 CD, 2019/FLAC + 320]

By the end of the 70s and beginning of the 80s, R.E.O. Speedwagon had won the hearts, minds and airwaves of continental North America. This hard won ascendance was comprehensively documented on the 8CD “Early Years 1971-1977” collection from HNE.

R.E.O. Speedwagon’s long history goes way back to their formation in Champaign, Illinois in 1967. Initially a covers band playing bars and fraternity houses, the initial line-up featuring Neal Doughty on keyboards and Alan Gratzer on drums and vocals, named themselves after the R.E.O. Speed Wagon, a model of American flat-bed truck.

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2016/FLAC)

The most formidable of contemporary rock groups, the Red Hot Chili Peppers don t just defy categorisation, they appear to invent their own with every new release - and often do likewise within the confines of a live performance. Indeed, the group s startling eclecticism is only surpassed by their lofty talents and astonishing musical catalogue.

 This 3 x CD set features a selection of rare FM radio broadcasts recorded between the end of the 1980s and the middle of the 1990s, when for many the band were at their absolute pinnacle of achievement. Kicking off with a show recorded at the famous Ahoy venue in Rotterdam in 1995, the collection continues in reverse order with a recording from the equally familiar Pat O Brien Pavilion in Del Mar, California in 91. Last up comes a terrific performance from the Chilis given in Kawasaki, Japan in 1990, which concludes an extraordinary selection of live performances that provide evidence if such were ever required of the Red Hot Chili Peppers peerless position as the finest live musical act working today.

 

 

The Doors - L.A. Woman: The Workshop Sessions [2012/FLAC]

 

L.A. Woman: The Workshop Sessions is a double LP featuring all of the previously unreleased material found on the CD collection on three sides of vinyl, with the fourth side featuring a laser etching of the original "Electric Woman" art originally included with the L.A. Woman album. It also includes the previously unreleased song "She Smells So Nice."

1. The Changeling (Alternate Version)
2. Love Her Madly (Alternate Version)
3. Cars Hiss By My Window (Alternate Version)
4. L.A. Woman (Alternate Version)
5. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) (Alternate Version)
6. Been Down So Long (Alternate Version)
7. Riders On The Storm (Alternate Version)
8. She Smells So Nice / Rock Me 

REO Speedwagon - The Early Years 1971-1977 (8 CD, 2018/FLAC)

When “Keep on Loving You” reached the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1980, some listeners could be forgiven for thinking that REO Speedwagon came out of nowhere. Prior to that seminal power ballad, the Illinois-formed band had never attained a chart position higher than No. 56 (“Time for Me to Fly,” 1978). When the success of “Take It on the Run” (No. 5) quickly followed, it was clear that REO Speedwagon was here to stay. But their success was hard-earned, and their catalogue already quite deep by the dawn of the new decade. The original group formed in 1967; after conquering the local and regional scenes, the band signed with Epic Records in 1971. Now, the first part of their Epic journey has been chronicled on a comprehensive new box set. The Early Years 1971-1977, available now from Cherry Red’s Hear No Evil imprint, has REO’s first six studio albums and first live album remastered and expanded on 8 CDs.

Led Zeppelin - 180g Deluxe Edition Box Set's 1968 - 1982 [Hi-Res FLAC + 320]

 

During 2014-2015 all the Led Zeppelin albums were issued as a separate super deluxe edition box sets which contain ALL the content on CD and vinyl; a high-definition download card with ALL content in 96kHz/24 bit (live tracks are 48/24); a 70+ page photo book and a high quality print of original album artwork. The first 30,000 copies were numbered. 

All the audio on these sets has been remastered by guitarist and producer Jimmy Page. 

 

Keef Hartley Band - Sinnin’ For You (The Albums 1969-1973) (7 CD, 2022)

Limited seven CD set. Features 67 tracks including the albums Halfbreed, The Battle Of North West Six, The Time Is Near, Overdog, Little Big Band, Seventy Second Brave and Lancashire Hustler plus 15 bonus tracks drawn from rare live recordings and singles. Includes an illustrated book with essay. Keef Hartley first came to prominence as a member of the British R&B group The Artwoods before joining John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1967 before leaving to form the first line-up of his own band.

 

 

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Once Upon A Time in South America 1993 [4 CD, 2015/FLAC]

Four CD box-set containing three live shows done in South America between 1993 and 1997.

Emerson Lake and Palmer’s 1993 saw close to a year of almost non-stop touring, the bands first shows ever in South America and in 1997 their final tour of the region. Once Upon A Time In South America documents some of ELP’s historical shows 1993 the first in Santiago, Chile and the final show of the tour at Obras Sanitarias in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

- Greg Lake / Vocals, Bass, Guitar

- Keith Emerson / Keyboards

- Carl Palmer / Drums, Percussion

 

 

Van Der Graaf Generator - Interference Patterns – The Recordings 2005-2016 [13 CD, 2022/FLAC]

13 disc limited edition boxed set featuring all of the recordings by Van Der Graaf Generator issued between 2005 and 2016. 

 Including The Albums Present, Real Time, Trisector, Live At The Paradiso, A Grounding In Numbers, Alt, Merlin Atmos and Do Not Disturb. 

Van der Graaf Generator were one of the most original and inspiring bands of the 1970s. When Peter Hamill, Hugh Banton, Guy Evans and David Jackson announced their reformation in 2005 to perform concerts and to record a new album, it took many by surprise, but the group proved they were still making relevant and truly progressive music.

Their reunion would not be a short-lived affair, as VdGG continued to record a series of excellent studio and live albums, despite the departure of David Jackson in late 2005 following the release of the album ‘Present’. Over the next ten years VdGG issued a string of albums and toured as the mood took them.

This boxed set celebrates this second era of Van der Graaf Generator with all of the albums issued by the band between 2005 and 2016 and includes the long deleted live double album and concert DVD Live At Paradiso and the rare additional live CD previously issued only on the limited Japanese release of Real Time.

 

 

John Lennon - Anthology (4 CD, 1998/FLAC)

John Lennon Anthology is a four-CD box set of home demos, studio outtakes and other previously unreleased material recorded by John Lennon over the course of his solo career from "Give Peace a Chance" in 1969 up until the 1980 sessions for Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey.

The anthology was divided by its compiler and co-producer, Yoko Ono, into four discs representing four eras in Lennon's solo career: "Ascot", "New York City", "The Lost Weekend" and "Dakota".

 

 

The Beatles with Tony Sheridan - Single Box (9 CD, 2013/FLAC)

 

Japanese-only nine SHM-CD single box set containing pre-fame recordings by The Beatles with Tony Sheridan. 

Bad Company- The Swan Song Years 1974-1982 (6 CD, 2019) [FLAC+320]

 

Bad Company are to celebrate their 45th anniversary with, The Swan Song Years 1974-1982, a new 6 CD box set of their albums.

The six-disc Bad Company: The Swan Song Years 1974-1982 collects together their output for Swan Song. These are all fairly recent remasters (from the original tapes), with Desolation Angels and Rough Diamonds brand new 2019 remastered versions. The other albums included are: Bad Company (1974), Straight Shooter (1975), Run with the Pack (1976), and Burnin Sky (1977).