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.