Uriah Heep - A Time of Revelation : 25 Years On... [4 CD, 1996]

 A Time of Revelation is a four-disc box set spanning Uriah Heep's entire career. The bulk of the set draws from the Heep's '70s heyday, including album tracks, live cuts, and previously unavailable-on-disc rarities.

VA- The Many Faces Of Guns N' Roses [3 CD, 2014] [FLAC]

 

 

Guns N 'Roses took the pop music scene of the 80s by storm. With their wild looks, his irreverent attitude and a repertoire firing in all directions, Guns N' Roses caught the attention of both rockers and pop fans alike. His legacy and influence has been undeniable. The Many Faces in a stunning triple album, that not even the band itself had possible imagined. With an impressive presentation and re-mastered sound, this collection presents many of the band-members' side projects; some of their not so well known songs plus a complete map of music scene where they were born, with songs from each of the bands that shared their beginnings. For all these reasons, The Many Faces Of Guns N 'Roses is a unique album, a must for anyone who has ever enjoyed the band's music.

VA- Jazz Fest- The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival [5 CD, 2019]

  

For 50 years, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell, known to Fest-goers as simply Jazz Fest, has brought the sights, sounds, and tastes of the Big Easy to millions of festival goers. In celebration of Jazz Fest’s golden anniversary, venerable record label Smithsonian Folkways is proud to present a comprehensive box set of live recordings from the festival’s past. The five discs in Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival present the sounds of the festival as you’d hear them while wandering across the 145 acres of the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Track in the Gentilly neighborhood.

Though the festival attracts some of the biggest rock stars on the planet, the focus of this ambitious new box set is on the roots of Louisiana music, which comprise the vast majority of the festival’s bookings, from Jazz to Bounce, Zydeco to Gospel, Brass Bands to R&B.

Carefully selected from countless hours of live recordings, the box set includes unreleased material spanning the years 1974 to 2016 and features key moments with celebrated artists like Trombone Shorty, Irma Thomas, Big Freedia, Professor Longhair, The Neville Brothers, Allen Toussaint (solo and in a duet with Bonnie Raitt), Dr. John, Kermit Ruffins, Terence Blanchard, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Champion Jack Dupree, and Buckwheat Zydeco, among many others.

CD1:

1. the Golden Eagles – Indian Red  [04:03]
2. Larry McKinley – Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival [00:09]
3. Trombone Shorty – One Night Only (The March)  [03:27]
4. Donald Harrison, Jr. – Free to Be  [08:39]
5. Danny Barker – Basin Street Blues  [06:23]
6. Terence Blanchard – A Streetcar Named Desire  [09:03]
7. Kermit Ruffins Big Band – Royal Garden Blues  [05:47]
8. Champion Jack Dupree – Bring Me Flowers While I’m Living / Rub a Little Boogie [09:52]
9. George Wein – Back Home Again in Indiana  [06:31]
10. John Boutte – Louisiana 1927  [07:11]

CD2:

1. Allen Toussaint – Yes We Can Can  [04:51]
2. Earl King – Trick Bag  [04:56]
3. Irma Thomas – Ruler of My Heart  [03:04]
4. Snooks Eaglin – Dizzy Miss Lizzy  [03:54]
5. Clarence “Frogman” Henry – Ain’t Got No Home  [06:31]
6. The White Eagles – Big Chief Got the Golden Crown [07:29]
7. Professor Longhair – Big Chief  [03:49]
8. Dixie Cups – Iko Iko / Brother John / Saints Go Marching In [07:02]
9. Marcia Ball – Red Beans  [05:14]
10. Dr. John – Litanie Des Saints / Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk on Gilded Splinters [12:03]

CD3:

1. Ray Hackett – How Ya Gonna Clap?  [00:22]
2. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Blackbird Special  [07:30]
3. Henry Butler – Hey Now, Baby  [06:23]
4. Germaine Bazzle – Secret Love  [08:54]
5. Al Belletto Big Band – Jazznocracy  [05:14]
6. Original Liberty Jazz Band – Summertime  [07:36]
7. Preservation Hall Jazz Band – My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It [07:19]
8. The Zion Harmonizers – I Want to Be at That Meeting / Golden Gate Gospel Train [07:48]
9. Irma Thomas – Old Rugged Cross  [04:13]
10. Raymond Myles – Can’t Nobody Do Me Like Jesus  [06:42]
11. Johnson Extension – I Can Go to God in Prayer  [06:57]

CD4:

1. Buckwheat Zydeco – Hard to Stop  [09:59]
2. Boozoo Chavis – Paper in My Shoe  [03:32]
3. The Savoy Family Cajun Band – Midland Two-Step  [03:49]
4. Bruce Daigrepont – [04:29]
5. BeauSoleil – Recherche D’acadie  [04:24]
6. The Neville Brothers – Yellow Moon  [07:16]
7. John Campbell – When the Levee Breaks  [06:18]
8. John Mooney – It Don’t Mean a Doggone Thing  [05:06]
9. Kenny Neal – Starlight Diamond / Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don’t Have to Go / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / Going to New York / Honest I Do [13:05]
10. Allen Toussaint – What is Success  [06:15]
11. Tommy Ridgley – Double-Eyed Whammy  [03:46]

CD5:

1. Funky Meters – Fire on the Bayou  [09:19]
2. Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Take the “a” Train  [04:27]
3. Walter Wolfman Washington – Blue Moon Rising  [07:00]
4. Deacon John – Happy Home  [05:08]
5. Larry McKinley – Rain Alert  [00:17]
6. Sonny Landreth – Blue Tarp Blues  [05:40]
7. Anders Osborne – Back on Dumaine  [06:25]
8. The Subdudes – Thorn in Her Side  [04:57]
9. Big Freedia – N.O. Bounce  [03:23]
10. Wild Magnolias – Smoke My Peace Pipe  [07:04]
11. The Neville Brothers – Amazing Grace / One Love  [07:46]

Pink Floyd - The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules 1970 – 1974 [10 CD bootleg, 2012]

 

The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules 1970 – 1974

Several Species Of Some Unique Performances Gathered Together In A Box And Making A Joy

(Godfather Records GR BOX 09)


"A Saucerful of Secrets" was originally known as "The Massed Gadgets of Hercules" in its earliest performance and became a Pink Floyd live staple from 1968 until 1972. The subtitle, Several Species Of Some Unique Performances Gathered Together In A Box And Making A Joy is a riff on the Roger Waters song on Ummagumma called “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict.” It’s silly, but in keeping with the bootleggers tradition of coming up with absurd titles for their releases. Given the rarity of this material, this is a very good collection.


The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules 1970-1974 is the amazing new box set by Godfather documenting Pink Floyd’s greatest tangent of creativity from Atom Heart Mother through to Wish You Were Here and Animals.

Four of the five shows have never been pressed on silver disc before and the fifth was released almost a decade ago and is now out of print and impossible to find today. Godfather utilize the best available generations for the shows and all of them are listenable and enjoyable.

Vangelis - Delectus [13 CD, 2017]

 

13CD box set, called Delectus,  features all of Vangelis‘ Vertigo and Polydor albums – including the Oscar winning Chariots Of Fire – newly remastered (from the original first generation master tapes) ever under the legendary composer’s own supervision.

As well as the albums Earth, L’Apocalypse Des Animaux, China, See You Later, Antarctica, Mask, Opera Sauvage, Chariots of Fire, Soil Festivities and Invisible Connections, Delectus also features recordings with Jon Anderson as ‘Jon & Vangelis’. These are Short Stories, The Friends of Mister Cairo, and Private Collection. Additionally, this set features four bonus tracks, one of which, Neighbours Above (on the See You Later disc) is previously unreleased.

Speaking about the box, Vangelis said “I always welcome remastering my old work for two basic reasons. Firstly, I get the opportunity to bring the sounds to today’s standards, secondly, it gives me the chance to go through the experiences and memories of the time.”

CD01. Earth (1973)
CD02. L'apocalypse Des Animaux (1973)
CD03. China (1979)
CD04. Opera Sauvage (1979)
CD05. See You Later (1980)
CD06. Chariots Of Fire (1981)
CD07. Antarctica (1983)
CD08. Soil Festivities (1984)
CD09. Mask (1985)
CD10. Invisible Connections (1985)
CD11. Short Stories (1990)
CD12. The Friends Of Mr. Cairo (1991)
CD13. Private Collection (1993)