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Back To Basic Series has been so popular it has been copied by at least four factory pressed labels, but are usually out of date by the time they hit the streets.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