Audience 8.6 - This is an untouched, raw transfer straight from the reels, and as such it will sound like it could be MUCH better sonically with some professional sound re-mastering. Many people will no doubt want to hear it as it was recorded, and it is good, it’s really pretty good, but what I would prefer is a sonic facelift because I think this one really deserves it. It’s still a great show. Pink Floyd 1970-11-14 Ernst-Merck Halle Hamburg Germany disc 1 01 -Astronomy Domine 02 -Fat Old Sun 03 -Cymbaline 04 -Atom Heart Mother 05 -Interstellar Overdrive disc 2 01 -The Embryo 02 -Green Is The Colour 03 -Careful With That Axe, Eugene 04 -Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 05 -Saucerful Of Secrets

Various Sources 9.0 - I give this a high rating for many reasons, as it can be easily assumed that the sound quality will vary being a compilation. The producers were smart to put it together this way, I found it to play much like a legitimate record company release. The worst of the recordings is in itself not even that bad, in the context you are hearing it in, it takes on new significance. I myself did not realize how few times some of these songs were played live, so having a collection like this makes sense. I enjoyed it immensely. So will you. Genesis Collection of Rare Live Recordings 1970 - 1998 Track List: Disc One: 1970-1972 01. Looking For Someone (2-22-1970) 02. The Light (3-7-1971) 03. Twilight Alehouse (2-26-1972) 04. Harlequin (3-4-1972) 05. Bye Bye Johnny (4-14-1972) 06. Happy The Man (4-18-1972) 07. Going Out To Get You (4-18-1972) 08. One-Handed Drum Solo (6-28-1972) 09. Can-Utility And The Coastliners (8-20-1972) 10. Seven Stones (8-22-1972) Disc Two: 1972-1975 01. Supper's Ready (11-18-1972) 02. Harold The Barrel (1-20-1974) 03. Horizons (5-4-1974) 04. Watcher Of The Skies (1-24-1975) 05. It (1-24-1975) 06. The Musical Box (1-24-1975) 07. The Waiting Room (5-2-1975) Disc Three: 1977-1978 01. Lillywhite Lillith-The Waiting Room-Wot Gorilla (01-01-1977) 02. All In A Mouse's Night (01-02-1977) 03. Inside And Out (06-24-1977) 04. Down And Out (06-07-1978) 05. Supper's Ready (From Apocalypse In 9/8) (06-14-1978) 06. Ballad Of Big (07-29-1978) 07. I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (07-29-1978) 08. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight-Musical Box (Closing Section) (10-13-1978) Disc Four: 1980-1984 01. Back In NYC (29-06-1980) 02. Me And Virgil (27/-09-1981) 03. Like It Or Not (30-11-1981) 04. The Knife (23-12-1981) 05. No Reply At All (22-08-1982 - Featuring Phenix Horns) 06. Paperlate (22-08-1982 Featuring Phenix Horns) 07. 11th Earl Of Mar - Squonk - Firth Of Fifth (11-10-1983) 08. 11th Earl Of Mar - Behind The Lines - Firth Of Fifth - Musical Box (17-01-1984) Disc Five: 1986-1998 01. In The Cage - In That Quiet Earth - Supper's Ready (10-15-1986) 02. Mama (05-09-1992) 03. Carpet Crawlers (10-23-1992) 04. Nowhere Else To Turn (Unreleased B-Side) 05. Small Talk (12-13-1997) 06. Thats All (01-23-1998) 07. Hold On My Heart (01.29.1998) Details: A wonderful live collection that gives you some of the rarest Genesis performances from throughout their career. Even if you're a collector of every individual show this is still a keeper to have, one reason being the unreleased track on disc 5, "Nowhere Else To Turn", sure it's a Ray Wilson-led Genesis track, but one of the very few unreleased studio tracks by Genesis to have leaked to the collector's. Disc One: 1970-1972 01 Looking For Someone (February 22nd, 1970 BBC Radio) 02 The Light (March 7th, 1971 - later morphed into "Lillywhite Lilith" and "The Colony Of Slippermen") 03 Twilight Alehouse (February 22nd, 1972 Civic Hall, Dunstable, U.K.) 04 Harlequin (March 4th, 1972 Technical College, Watford, England) 05 Bye Bye Johnny (April 14th, 1972 Palasport, Pavia, Italy - early version of "Can-Utility And The Coastliners") 06 Happy The Man (April 18th, 1972 Piper Club, Rome, Italy) 07 Going Out To Get You (April 18th, 1972 Piper Club, Rome, Italy) 08 One-Handed Drum Solo (June 28th, 1972 Town Hall, Watford, England) 09 Can-Utility And The Coastliners (August 20th, 1972 Piper 2000 Club, Via Reggio, Italy) 10 Seven Stones (August 22nd, 1972 Teatro Alcione, Genoa, Italy - rarely ever played live) Disc Two: 1972-1975 01 Supper's Ready (November 18th, 1972 Imperial College, London, England) 02 Harold The Barrel (January 20th, 1974 Palasport, Reggio Emilia, Italy - only 2 live versions exist) 03 Horizons (May 4th, 1974 Academy of Music, NYC) 04 Watcher Of The Skies (January 24th, 1975 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles) 05 It (January 24th, 1975 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles) 06 The Musical Box (January 24th, 1975 Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles) 07 The Waiting Room (May 2nd, 1975 Hippodrome, Birmingham, England) Disc Three: 1977-1978 01 Lillywhite Lillith - The Waiting Room - Wot Gorilla (January 1st, 1977 Rainbow, London, England) 02 All In A Mouse's Night (January 2nd, 1977 Rainbow, London, England) 03 Inside And Out (June 24th, 1977 Earl's Court, London, England) 04 Down And Out (June 7th, 1978 Scandinavium, Gothenburg, Sweden) 05 Supper's Ready (June 14th, 1978 Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany) 06 Ballad Of Big (July 29th, 1978 MSG, New York City) 07 I Know What I Like (July 29th, 1978 MSG, New York City) 08 Dancing With The Moonlit Knight - Musical Box (October 13th, 1978 Uptown Theater, Chicago, Illinois) Disc Four: 1980-1984 01 Back In NYC (June 29th, 1980 MSG, New York City) 02 Me And Virgil (September 27, 1981 Velodromo Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain) 03 Like It Or Not (November 30th, 1981 Capital Center, Landover, Maryland) 04 The Knife (December 23rd, 1981 NEC, Birmingham, England) 05 No Reply At All (featuring Phenix Horns) (August 22nd, 1982 Forest Hills, New York City) 06 Paperlate (featuring Phenix Horns) (August 22nd, 1982 Forest Hills, New York City) 07 11th Earl Of Mar / Squonk / Firth Of Fifth (November 10th, 1983 Mecca Arena, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) 08 11th Earl Of Mar / Behind The Lines / Firth Of Fifth / Musical Box (January 7th, 1984 McNichols Arena, Denver, Colorado) Disc Five: 1986-1998 01 In The Cage / ...In That Quiet Earth / Supper's Ready (October 15th, 1986 Forum, Los Angeles) 02 Mama (May 9th, 1992 Astrodome, Houston, Texas) 03 Carpet Crawlers (October 23rd, 1992 Mayflower Theater, Southampton, England) 04 Nowhere Else To Turn (Unreleased 1997 B-Side - Ray Wilson on lead vocals) 05 Small Talk (December 13th, 1997 RTL Studios, Paris, France) 06 Thats All (January 23rd, 1998 Bray Studios, London, England - only Ray Wilson version) 07 Hold On My Heart (January 29th, 1998 Sport Hall, Budapest, Hungary)

Audience 8.7 - This recording is very hard to distinguish between audience or soundboard. I guess the later, but who knows?  Either way, it’s pretty good. Peter Gabriel Parco Delle Cascine Firenze, Italy Sept. 28, 1980 Disc 1 1 -Intruder 2 -The Start 3 -I Don't Remember 4 -Solsbury Hill 5 -Family Snapshot 6 -Milgram's 37 7 -Modern Love 8 -Not One Of Us 9 -Lead A Normal Life Disc 2 10 -Moribund The Burgermeister 11 -Mother Of Violence 12 -Humdrum 13 -Games Without Frontiers 14 -And Through The Wire 15 -I Go Swimming 16 -Biko 17 -On The Air 18 -Here Comes The Flood

Audience 8.7 - A solid recording, some flaws including tape noise that lurks in the background at all times but only really makes its presence known when music is very quiet. Middle frequencies get just a touch crowded, still it is pretty clear, this is a very good, but not great, recording. Jeff Beck with The Jan Hammer Group May 29, 1976 (1976-05-29) Community Concourse San Diego, California USA 01) [00:21] Introduction 02) [05:13] Oh Yeah 03) [06:39] Country Eastern Music 04) [00:52] Band Introductions 05) [06:55] Darkness / In Search of the Sun 06) [04:43] You Know What I Mean 07) [07:14] Scatterbrain 08) [05:26] Freeway Jam 08) [05:12] Jan Hammer song ? 10) [07:07] Diamond Dust 11) [06:29] Full Moon Boogie 12) [08:09] Sophie 13) [04:37] Led Boots 14) [06:12] Blue Wind Total [1:15:19] Note: Jeff joins the The Jan Hammer Group during Track 5. Jeff Beck - guitar Jan Hammer - moog and Oberheim synthesizers. Tony "Thunder" Smith - drums, vocals Fernando Saunders - bass, vocals Steve Kindler - violin

Audience 8.7 - Easily one of the best recordings of the 1970 Euro tour. Mick and Keith really project, the sound is forceful, and even though you do get the rest of the band (and yes, Mick Taylor for sure), they are playing second fiddle to the Glimmer Twins. The Rolling Stones 'Roll Over Beethoven' Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany Wednesday September 16th, 1970 01 Jumping Jack Flash 02 Roll Over Beethoven 03 Sympathy For The Devil 04 Stray Cat Blues 05 Love In Vain 06 Prodigal Son 07 You Gotta Move 08 Dead Flowers 09 Midnight Rambler 10 Live With Me 11 Let It Rock 12 Little Queenie 13 Brown Sugar 14 Honky Tonk Women 15 Street Fighting Man

Pro Studio 10 - Immaculate, pristine, sourced from master studio reels. A unique insight presented here, and I was totally absorbed hearing it as if I was invited to sit on the actual recording sessions with the engineer. The Rolling Stones 'Sotheby's Reel 1969-1970' (The Glyn Johns Work Tapes) Studio Outtakes 1969-1970 Track List: (Artwork Included) 01. Gimme Shelter [4:36] 02. You Got The Silver [2:56] 03. Sister Morphine [5:40] 04. Loving Cup [6:37] 05. Brown Sugar [3:52] 06. You Gotta Move [2:39] 07. Dead Flowers [4:11] 08. Sister Morphine [5:34] 09. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:20] 10. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:15] 11. Brown Sugar [4:09] 12. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:16] 13. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:10] 14. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:12] 15. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:13] 16. Brown Sugar (till 1st verse) [0:50] 17. Brown Sugar (intro only) [0:13] 18. Brown Sugar (till 2nd verse) [1:54] 19. Brown Sugar [4:09] 20. Brown Sugar [4:04] 21. Bitch [3:49] 22. Bitch (Till Guitar Solo) [2:28] 23. Bicth (intro only) [0:15] 24. Bitch (count only) [0:07] 25. Brown Sugar [3:54] 26. Bitch (Till 1st verse) [0:25] 27. Bitch [3:46] 28. Bicth (intro only) [0:14] 29. Bitch (Till 2nd verse) [1:26] 30. (Can't Seem To) Get A Line On You [4:24] The Sotheby’s Reel are Glyn John’s working tapes when he was the Stones' studio producer during Let it Bleed through the Sticky Fingers sessions, the Stones classic rock period.  The tape reel was auctioned some years ago at the famous Sotheby's London auction house and featured some different versions of great songs. Something to point out; "Gimme Shelter" recorded here on 15th March 1969 and featuring Nicky Hopkins on piano, a version of "You Got The Silver" sung by Jagger from 16th February and an early take of “Sister Morphine” almost without piano. But remarkable is also "Loving Cup" that starts with a striking different piano intro and lasts more than 6:30 minutes. Minimal are the differences in the mix for songs like "You Gotta Move", "Dead Flowers" and "Sister Morphine" second version that all resemble the finished "Sticky Fingers" release. On the other side of the coin we have to put the many opening riffs of both "Brown Sugar" and "Bitch" that are tirelessly repeated by an engineer that rolls back and forth the tape looking for a better echo effect, it seems. When the Stones recorded "Brown Sugar" in Muscle Shoals Studios it is said that they tried the song the whole night to get it right, we can feel how they felt while listening to all these false starts. Anyway when the tracks are completed like version number 11 of "Brown Sugar", here comes an early take with Stu on piano and no sax or takes 19 and 20 of "Bitch" where you can hear Jagger ad-libbing over Keith Richards' guitar solo. Last track offered is a primitive version of "Shine A Light" called "(Can’t Seem To) Get A Line On You" that stems from Leon Russell’s session at Olympic Studios in early October 1969 with Jagger on vocals (different words) but this take was officially released in January 1994 on a Leon Russell CD.

Audience 9.1 - Excellent stuff, because you get a clean, well balanced capture with all the best elements of a live atmosphere.  Two songs ran into some problems, like a muffled sound, where maybe the taper had to hide the mic, but it recovers. Very enjoyable! Genesis Date: 06-Oct-1978 Venue: Riverside Centroplex, Baton Rouge LA 1.1 Eleventh Earl Of Mar 08:41 1.2 In The Cage 08:07 1.3 Burning Rope 08:06 1.4 Ripples 10:34 1.5 Deep In The Motherlode 05:49 2.1 One For The Vine 10:59* 2.2 Squonk 08:23* 2.3 Say Its Alright Joe 08:01 2.4 The Lady Lies 06:11 2.5 Phil Talking 02:30 2.6 Cinema Show 10:53 Total Running Time: 1:28:14

Audience 8.4 Sourced from three different tape recordings, all audience, to make a complete show. Not that bad, but you aren’t listening to this for the high fidelity anyway. This was a celebration, a monumental event, as were pretty much all Stones shows from 1972 on. So, yeah, rowdy crowd, noise, all that and more. But, you know, I listen to these and I still enjoy them a lot. It’s the event that I hear, I really don’t care if I don’t get every detailed note I mean it’s the sloppy Stones isn’t it? The Rolling Stones Madison Square Garden New York, NY (USA) June 26, 1975 Disc 1 101 -Honky Tonk Women 102 -All Down the Line 103 -If You Can't Rock Me - Get Off of My Cloud 104 -Star Star 105 -Gimme Shelter 106 -Ain't Too Proud to Beg 107 -You Gotta Move 108 -You Can't Always Get What You Want 109 -Band Introduction 110 -Happy 111 -Tumbling Dice Disc 2 201 -It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It) 202 -Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) 203 -Fingerprint File 204 -Angie 205 -That's Life 206 -Outta Space 207 -Brown Sugar 208 -Midnight Rambler 209 -Rip This Joint 210 -Street Fighting Man 211 -Jumpin' Jack Flash