Rush - Transmission Impossible (3 CD, 2017/FLAC)

Having formed in 1968, it was not until 1974 that the band proper with Neal Peart joining Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to create the line-up that has remained in place ever since came to be. And just two weeks after Peart joined the group, Rush began their first US tour. On 26th August 74 the group played at the Agora Ballroom in Cleveland , Ohio, a show recorded and broadcast by WMMS radio, which made it Rush s very first radio broadcast. It is this now legendary gig which forms the first disc of this set, alongside some bonus tracks which were recorded at the same venue a year later. The second disc here is home to an FM broadcast recorded at Holland s Pinkpop Festival in June 1979. Perfomed while the group were promoting their 1978 album Hemispheres, this rarely heard recording is included here on CD for the first time. The final disc in this collection featured the classic 1980 broadcast from the group, recorded at the Kiel Auditorium in St Louis, Missouri, on 13th February as part of their Permanent Waves Tour, and this recording remains arguably one of Rush s very finest live performances.

• August 26th, 1974 - Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio
• June 4th, 1979 - Burgemeester Damen Sportpark, Geleen, Netherlands
• February 13th, 1980 - Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous (8 CD super deluxe edition, 2023/FLAC-HD)

To celebrate the 45th anniversary of Thin Lizzy’s 1978 live album Live And Dangerous, Universal Music Catalogue has released a definitive 8CD super deluxe edition featuring a newly remastered version of the album and alongside it all the gigs recorded for Live and Dangerous!

These seven shows from London, Toronto and Philadelphia have been newly mixed by Ben Findlay from the original multi-tracks and mastered by Andy Pearce, overseen by legendary Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham.

Disc 1: Live And Dangerous (Super Deluxe, Remastered 2022)

Disc 2: Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, London / 14th Nov 1976

Disc 3: Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, London / 15th Nov 1976

Disc 4: Live At The Hammersmith Odeon, London 16th Nov 1976

Disc 5: Live At The Philadelphia Tower Theatre, USA / 20th October 1977

Disc 6: Live At The Philadelphia Tower Theatre, USA / 21st October 1977

Disc 7: Live At The Seneca College Fieldhouse, Toronto / 28th October 1977

Disc 8: Live At The Rainbow Theatre, UK / 29th March 1978)

Bob Dylan - Fragments—Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997) The Bootleg Series, Vol. 17 [5 CD, 2023/FLAC-HD 24-96]

'Fragments—Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997)' shows how Dylan made his first late-career classic. 

Most editions of Bob Dylan’s three-decades-and-running Bootleg Series focus on a particular phase of his career, but a few have zoomed in on the making of an especially hallowed record. As its title makes clear, that’s the case with Fragments—Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997), the 17th volume in the series. That one album is blown out into a five-disc package, which includes two full sets of unissued outtakes and another of live recordings from the Dylan-comes-alive tours that followed in the record’s wake.

Disc One – Time Out of Mind (2022 Remix)

Disc Two – Outtakes and Alternates

Disc Three – Outtakes and Alternates

Disc Four – Live (1998-2001)

Disc Five – Bonus Disc (Previously Released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006)

 

Steve Miller Band - The Early Albums (1968-71) [6 CD/FLAC]

 

Originally called the Steve Miller Blues Band, the group first made its mark as a psychedelic blues rock band in San Francisco. They went through a fallow period commercially in the early seventies before coming back with the hit album The Joker and the song of the same name in late 1973, followed by the band's two most successful studio albums in 1976 and 1977, Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. In 1978.

Children Of The Future is where it all started for Steve Miller. Originally released in 1968, this debut, chock full of unpredictable acid blues, is very different from the mainstream rock sounds of the '70s that brought Miller fame and fortune. Although few of these songs are ever featured on the radio or performed at Miller's concerts, Children Of The Future remains one of Miller's more interesting and challenging releases.

 

 

Phish - The Gorge '98 (5 CD, 2023/FLAC-HD)

The Gorge '98 is a live box set by Vermont-based jam band Phish. Released on December 9, 2022, it documents their performances at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Grant County, Washington on July 16 and 17, 1998.