VA - God Save This Box (Punk) [10 CD, 2005/FLAC]

 

Punk was more than a style in music. It was a style in society. It was basically antisocial, evoking opponents if not enemies, or simply conjuring them from thin air - well, thin air is a way of speaking - from the thickness of a social climate that was saturated with consumption, and that was only the beginning, and that was also corrupted and rotten from the inside by a disease that was incurable, consumption again. That was a turning point in western history.

Eric Clapton - Give Me Strength The 74- 75 Recordings [5 CD, 2013/FLAC]

 

Give Me Strength: The ’74/’75 Recordings is a 5CD box set that celebrates the period between April 1974 and June 1975 when Clapton produced the studio albums 461 Ocean Boulevard and There’s One In Every Crowd, as well as the live double set E.C. Was Here.

All three of those albums are included in this new box in remastered, expanded form, and all include previously unreleased session outtakes or unheard live performances.

461 Ocean Boulevard includes four previously released outtakes (including a couple of versions of Getting Acquainted), whilst amongst the bonus offerings on There’s One In Every Crowd are two unreleased session tracks Burial and Fools Like Me, and both sides of the Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door single.

E.C. Was Here is not only remastered, but REMIXED, and expanded across two CDs, with numerous unissued extras such as versions of Layla, Crossroads and Little Wing.

The fifth CD is taken up with Clapton’s sessions with blues guitarist and singer Freddie King. Originally recorded for King’s Burglar album, four tracks are featured here, including a previously unreleased 22-minute version of Gambling Woman Blues.

Slade discography [1969-1997] (FLAC)

 

Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton, who rose to prominence during the glam rock era of the early 1970s. With 17 consecutive Top 20 hits and six number ones, the British Hit Singles & Albums names them as the most successful British group of the 1970s based on sales of singles. They were the first act to have three singles enter at #1, and all six of the band's chart-toppers were penned by Noddy Holder and Jim Lea. Total UK sales stand at 6,520,171, and their best selling single, "Merry Xmas Everybody", has sold in excess of one million copies.

1969. Ambrose Slade - Beginnings

1970. Slade - Play It Loud

1972. Slade - Slade Alive!

1972. Slade - Slayed

1973. Slade - Sladest

1974. Slade - Old, New, Borrowed And Blue

1974. Slade - Slade in Flame

1976. Slade - Nobody's Fools

1977. Slade - Whatever Happened To Slade

1978. Slade - Slade Alive Vol. Two

1979. Slade - Return To Base

1981. Slade - Till Deaf Do Us Part

1981. Slade - We'll Bring The House Down

1982. Slade - Slade On Stage

1983. Slade - The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome

1984. Slade - Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply

1985. Slade - Crackers The Christmas Party Album

1985. Slade - Rogues Gallery

1986. Slade - You Boyz Make Big Noize

1991. Slade - The Slade Collection 81 - 87

1991. Slade - Wall Of Hits

1993. Slade - The Slade Collection, Vol. 2 79 - 87

1997. Slade - Feel the Noize - Greatest Hits

Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now, Volumes II, III & IV (2016/FLAC)

A 3 album collection of previously unreleased live concert recordings from Morrison’s mythic 1973 tour with the Caledonia Soul Orchestra, ..It's Too Late to Stop Now…Volumes II, III & IV collates peak performances originally recorded at three venues: The Troubadour in Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Civic Center, and The Rainbow Theatre in London. 

Often cited as one of the best live albums ever made, Van Morrison’s original ..It's Too Late to Stop Now…Volumes II, III & IV has been remastered in 24-bit high resolution sound.

Morrison’s highly acclaimed 1973 concert album was compiled from eight sets of live performances–recorded at The Troubadour, the Santa Monica Civic Center and The Rainbow Theatre–and was notably free of any post-performance overdubs or studios “fixes”. ..It's Too Late to Stop Now…Volumes II, III & IV returns to those original performances, first captured on two-inch 16-track analog tapes, and, through the mastery of noted engineer Guy Massey, puts the contemporary listener in the enviable position of being sonically present at each venue. All of the recordings on the new collection have been previously unavailable and none of them overlap with the performances on “Volume I” of ..It's Too Late to Stop Now…. 

Volume II: Live At The Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, May 1973

Volume III: Live At The Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica, CA, May 1973

Volume IV: Live At The Rainbow, London, UK, July 1973

Santana - At Budokan: Live In Tokyo 1991 (DVDRIP video)

 

By 1991 the band Santana had evolved from latin organ and percussion grooves through trippy jazz-fusion and arrived at a form of high energy latin soul/rock. It’s a journey few watching them at Woodstock in 1969 would have predicted. Twenty-two years and countless albums later Carlos Santana himself was the only original member present in Tokyo. A close friend of Miles Davis and devotee of John Coltrane, he had regularly incorporated elements of jazz into his music, so it is no surprise to see Japan’s greatest living saxophonist, Sadao Watanabe, added here. For his part Watanabe is happy to play latin, funk and fusion, his solos easily matching Santana’s overdriven guitar for invention and energy. The tunes are taken from the Santana albums Freedom (1987) and Spirits Dancing In The Flesh (1990) as well as classics from their LPs Abraxas (1970) and Amigos (1976). 

Performed at the Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, Japan 21st May 1991 and broadcast on NHK radio.

    Bass – Benny Rietveld

    Congas – Raul Rekow

    Drums – Gaylord Birch

    Guitar – Carlos Santana

    Keyboards – Chester Thompson 

    Percussion – Karl Perazzo, Raul Rekow

    Saxophone – Sadao Watanabe

    Timbales – Karl Perazzo

    Vocals – Tony Lindsay