Deep Purple - Made in Japan - Complete Japanese Tour '72 (2014 Box Set Edition) [24-48]

By 1972, Deep Purple had achieved considerable commercial success in Japan, including several hit singles, so it made sense to tour there. Three dates were booked; the Festival Hall, Osaka on 11 and 12 May, and the Budokan, Tokyo on 16 August, though these were later changed to 15 and 16 August, and 17 August respectively due to an earlier US tour being rescheduled.The dates sold out almost immediately, and consequently the Japanese arm of the band's label, Warner Bros. Records, wanted to record the tour for a live album to be released in the country. The band eventually agreed to the idea, but insisted if it was going to be released, they wanted it to be done properly. Gillan recalled, "we said we would have to OK the equipment, we wanted to use our own engineer and we would have the last say on whether the tapes were released". The band enlisted producer Martin Birch, who had worked on previous studio albums, to record the shows onto an 8-track recorder so they could subsequently be mixed.

    Ritchie Blackmore – lead guitar

    Ian Gillan – vocals, harmonica (uncredited), percussion (uncredited)

    Roger Glover – bass guitar

    Jon Lord – organ, piano

    Ian Paice – drums

 

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble discography 1983-1991 [SACD ISO]

Double Trouble is an American blues rock band from Austin, Texas, which served as the backing band for guitarist/singer Stevie Ray Vaughan. The group was active throughout the 1980s and contributed to reviving the blues, inspiring many later blues and rock musicians. Formed in Austin, Texas in 1978, the group went through several early line-up changes before settling on a power trio consisting of Vaughan, Chris Layton (drums), Tommy Shannon (bass). They became a four-piece by 1985 after adding Reese Wynans (keyboards). While with Vaughan the band was billed Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Rooted in blues and rock music, the group worked in many genres ranging from ballads to soul, often incorporating jazz and other elements.

Initially a five-piece lineup with Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton (vocals), Fredde Walden (drums), Jackie Newhouse (bass) and Johnny Reno (saxophone), they built their reputation playing clubs around Texas over a four-year period. Molded into a trio (Vaughan, Layton, Shannon), their musical potential was encouraged by producer John H. Hammond, who got the band a recording contract with Epic Records. They gained popularity after their debut album, Texas Flood, became a critical and commercial success in 1983. By the mid-1980s, they had become an international act, touring extensively around the world until August 1990, when Vaughan was killed in a helicopter crash after departing East Troy, Wisconsin. 

 

Van Halen - The Studio Albums 1978-1984 (6 CD, 2013) [FLAC + 24/192]

 

Six disc set collects all of the David Lee Roth era studio albums in one clamshell box. 

CD1 - 1978 - Van Halen - Van Halen 

CD2 - 1979 - Van Halen - Van Halen II 

CD3 - 1980 - Van Halen - Women and Children First 

CD4 - 1981 - Van Halen - Fair Warning 

CD5 - 1982 - Van Halen - Diver Down 

CD6 - 1984 - Van Halen - 1984 

Lowell Fulson 1993-2004 [FLAC]

Lowell Fulson was one of the most important figures in post-war West Coast blues, a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was active from the late 1940s to the mid-'90s. While Fulson seemed willing to do a little bit of everything over the course of his career, his best-known work was informed by jump blues and the polished, impassioned, big-city sound typified by his fellow California bluesman T-Bone Walker. However, Fulson also cut spare, rural blues-styled material, strong soul-styled sides in the mid- to late '60s (1967's Tramp, including the hit title track), a smattering of funky, rock-infused blues (1970's In a Heavy Bag), and barroom-style guitar workouts (1995's late-era Them Update Blues). 

1993 Lowell Fulson - Reconsider Baby Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 48 

1997 Lowell Fulson - The Complete Chess Masters 

2000 Lowell Fulson - The Tramp Years 

2001 Lowell Fulson - Black Nights The Early Kent Sessions 

2002 Lowell Fulson - The Final Kent Years 

2004 Lowell Fulson - Classic Cuts 1946-1953 (4 CD)

John Mayall – Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (1966/2010) [SACD ISO]

Blues Breakers, colloquially known as The Beano Album, is the debut studio album by the English blues rock band John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, originally credited to John Mayall with Eric Clapton. Produced by Mike Vernon and released in 1966 by Decca Records (UK) and London Records (US), it pioneered a guitar-dominated blues-rock sound.