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Studio Quality 9.6 - When you look at these multi-disc sets, you have to wonder if you are just getting the same old stuff recycled over and over again…well, to be sure, there is some song duplication – no way around that. On the other hand, there’s also a lot of stuff that might be new to you, and therein lays the attraction. You have to sometimes just go for it, and in the end you end up with a more complete assemblage of materials. I found this particular set rich with alternate versions and other uncommon outtakes, and well worth the effort. THE ROLLING STONES BLACK BOX (Remastered Edition) Disc 1 01 Heart Of Stone 02 Not Fade Away 03 And Mr. Spector and Mr. Pitney Came Too 04 Andrew's Blues 05 Don't Lie To Me 06 Hi Heel Sneakers 07 Stewed And Keefed 08 Look What You've Done 09 Tell Me Baby How Many Times 10 Down In The Bottom 11 We're Wastin' Time 12 Hear It 13 (Walkin' Thru) The Sleepy City 14 Try A Little Harder 15 Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind 16 As Time Goes By 17 Blue Turns To Grey (2nd version) 18 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 19 Looking Tired 20 Paint It Black 21 Lady Jane 22 Get Yourself Together 23 Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow (#1) 24 Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow (#2) 25 Let's Spend The Night Together Disc 2 01 Get Yourself Together 02 Let's Spend The Night Together 03 All Sold Out 04 Yesterday's Papers 05 Ruby Tuesday 06 Complicated 07 Please, Go Home 08 My Obsession 09 Cosmic Christmas 10 Family 11 Downtown Lucy 12 Hamburger To Go 13 I'm A Country Boy 14 Memo From Turner # 1 15 Memo From Turner # 2 16 Sister Morphine 17 Still A Fool 18 You Got The Silver 19 Highway Child Disc 3 01 Sympathy For The Devil 02 Country Honk 03 Gimme Shelter 04 Loving Cup 05 Jiving Sister Fanny 06 Honky Tonk Women 07 All Down The Line 08 All Down The Line 09 I Don't Know The Reason Why (incomplete) 10 I'm Going Down 11 You Gotta Move 12 Brown Sugar #1 13 Brown Sugar #2 14 Bitch 15 Good Time Women 16 Sway 17 Schoolboy Blues 18 Bonus - Honky Tonk Women (OOPS mix) Disc 4 01 Confessin' The Blues 02 I've Been Loving You Too Long 03 Poison Ivy (alt) 04 Fortune Teller 05 Time Is On My Side 06 Con Le Mie Lacrime (As Tears Go By) 07 Da Doo Ron Ron 08 We Love You 09 Dandelion (demo) 10 19th Nervous Breakdown #1 11 Yesterday's Papers #1 12 Gimme Shelter #2 13 Sister Morphine #1 14 Brown Sugar (alt) 15 Wild Horses (alt) 16 Sister Morphine (with Marianne Faithfull) 17 Rare Telephone Call From Japan 18 Bonus - Brown Sugar (w Eric Clapton - from blue vinyl 12") 19 Bonus - CS Blues (from blue vinyl 12") -
Audience 9.5 - This recording is special, each instrument occupies its own space and has great depth and tone, especially bass which is woody and precise. This recording showcases one really intrinsically valuable characteristic lacking in soundboards – and that is the sense of time and place, distance and depth. In order to get a good feel of a live concert, you sometimes need to have those elements and this tape has them all. PINK FLOYD DEFINITIVE LANDOVER 1975 Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland, USA 9th & 10th June 1975 DISC 1 Raving And Drooling You Gotta Be Crazy Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1-5 Have A Cigar Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 6-9 DISC 2 The Dark Side of The Moon Speak To Me Breathe On The Run Time Breathe (reprise) The Great Gig In The Sky Money Us And Them Any Colour You Like Brain Damage Eclipse DISC 3 Audience Echoes DISC 4 (Live at Capitol Center, Landover, Maryland, USA 10th June 1975) Raving And Drooling You Gotta Be Crazy Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1-5 Have A Cigar Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 6-9 -
Pro Studio 10 - Exceptional from start to finish. I am kind of glad I am discovering this Prince music now, it’s like walking into Ft. Knox having been living in poverty your whole life! Prince Lotus Set Disc One 1. Casue And Effect 2. Purple And Gold 3. Dance 4 Me (Radio Edit) 4. Dance 4 Me (Icon Remix) 5. Dance 4 Me (Tribal Drum Remix) 6. Dance 4 Me (Dominatrix Remix) 7. In A LArge Room With No Light (2009) 8. In A Large Room With No Light (1985) 9. Ambient Loop 10. (There'll Never B) Another Like Me 11. Chocolate Box 12. Disco Jellyfish 13. The Morning After 14. Radio Announcement 15. Turn Me Loose 16. LotusFlowr3r Soundz 17. Bria Valente - Here I Come 18. Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful 19. All Along The Watchtower - Best Of You 20. One, Two 21. Jukebox With A Heartbeat 22. I Like To Play 23. Madrid 2 Chicago Disc Two 1. Hard To Get (1981 version) 2. Traffic Jam 3. Go 4. Cosmic Day 5. Everybody Want What They Don't Got 6. Adonis and Bathsheeba 7. Witness 4 The Prosecution 8. Movie Star 9. A Place In Heaven 10. The Ballad Of Dorothy Parker 11. Starfish And Coffee 12. Girl O' My Dreams 13. Can't Stop This Feeling I Got 14. We Can Funk 15. Data Bank 16. Wonderful Ass 17. All Day, All Night 18. The Ball 19. Joy In Repetition 20. Rebirth Of The Flesh 21. Big House 22. The Rest Of My Life 23. Make Believe 24. I'll Do Anything Disc Three 1. I Don't Wanna Stop (Ren Woods) 2. Modernaire (Dez Dickerson & The Modernaires) 3. Traitor extended version (Elevation) 4. Traitor instrumental version (Elevation) 5. Cold Chill Prince Remix (Stevie Wonder) 6. Pop My Clutch (Chaka Khan) 7. Get Her Way (Kip Blackshire) 8. Old School (Morris Day) 9. Hit U In The Socket 1993 (Rosie Gaines) 10. In The Socket (1994) 11. (Hit U) In The Socket (2001 Remix) 12. Try Me 13. B.I.T.C.H. 14. Lost In The Wilderness Disc Four 01. Breathe 02. The Holy River - I Will 03. Hot Wit U (Dance Remix feat. Eve) 04. Sexy Dancer (DJ Rashida Dance Remix) 05. Don't Talk 2 Strangers 06. My Little Pill 07. Empty Room 08. There Is Lonely 09. Be My Mirror 10. Madhouse - Kamasutra -Overture 8 11. Xylophone (xcerpts) 12. Crazy Mutha Funky 13. The Greatest Touch 14. Play That Beat 15. Trouble (Never Give Up) 16. Exploding All Over Europe -
Soundboard 9.3 - This is an average of the rating that I confidently can say spans the entire set. There is some minor variance in the first disc being that is taken from four different sources, but consistently good. The exact date of the last disc (the rehearsals) is unknown but believed to be ’93 although people say it can be as early as 1989 also. I’ll let the experts decide but I have gone with the general wisdom of it being from ’93. The Kinks - The Kinky Collection Disc 1 Tracks 1-8: BBC, Old Grey Whistle Test, 1977 Tracks 9-11: Saturday Night Live Tracks 12-13: Fridays Tracks 14-15: Tonight Show 1. Sleepwalker 2. Life Goes On 3. Stormy Sky 4. Celluloid Heroes 5. Muswell Hillbillies 6. Full Moon 7. Life On The Road 8. Jukebox Music 9. Lola 10. Do It Again 11. Word Of Mouth 12. Destroyer 13. Art Lover 14. Hatred 15. Celluloid Heroes Disc 2 Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Missouri April 14 1988 FM 01 Destroyer 02 Low Budget 03 Apeman 04 Sleepwalker 05 Art Lover 06 Come Dancing 07 Lost And Found 08 Welcome To Sleazy Town 09 Think Visual 10 Living On A Thin Line Disc 3 01 A Well Respected Man 02 It (I Want it) 03 Guilty 04 All Day And All Of The Night 05 The Road 06 You Really Got Me 07 Celluloid Heroes 08 Lola Disc 4 The Club Vegas Sessions. Recorded live at The Kinks' North London Konk Studios. 01 - Club Vegas Intro 02 - Catch Me Now I'm Falling 03 - Dedicated Follower of Fashion 04 - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Dave) 05 - Now and Then 06 - Victoria 07 - Hard Way 08 - I'm Not Like Everybody Else (instrumental) 09 - Come Dancing 10 - Till the End of the Day 11 - Top of the Pops 12 - Tired of Waiting 13 - Set Me Free 14 - Well Respected Man 15 - Muswell Hillbilly 16 - Have a Cuppa Tea 17 - Uncle Son 18 - Sunny Afternoon 19 - Dead End Street 20 - David Watts 21 - "Satisfaction" jam 22 - Autumn Almanac 23 - Around the Dial 24 - Low Budget 25 - Welcome to Sleazy Town 26 - State of Confusion 27 - Superman 28 - Destroyer -
Studio quality 9.2 -9.6 - The follow up to the package of earlier tracks, this one offers even more outrageously good alternate takes and unreleased tracks from the 70’s era. A great collection that flows nicely in the car stereo. Disc Three 1. -19th Nervous Breakdown RCA Studios, Los Angeles, 3. - 8.12.1965 2. -Looking Tired RCA Studios, Los Angeles, 6.9.1965 3. -Paint It Black 4. -If You Let Me RCA Studios, Los Angeles, 6. - 9.3.12.1965 5. -Con Le Mie Lacrime IBC Studios, London, 15.3.1966 6. -Yesterday Papers 7. -Yesterday Papers 8. -Let's Spend The Night Together 9. -Get Yourself Together 10. -Please Go Home RCA Studios, Los Angeles, 3. - 11.8.1966 11. -Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow IBC Studios, London, 31.8. - 2.9.1966 12. -Ruby Tuesday 13. -Dandelion - Sometimes Happy, Sometimes 14. -Trouble Mind Olympic Sound Studios, London, 8. - 26.11.1966 15. -Let's Spend The Night Together Live On The Ed Sullivan Show, CBS - TV, 15.1.1967 16. -She's A Rainbow 17. -We Love You 18. -Citadel 19. -2000 Light Years From Home 20. -Gold Painted Fingernails 21. -On With The Show Olympic Sound Studios, London, 17.5. - 9.6.1967 22. -Child Of The Moon 23. -Child Of The Moon Olympic Sound Studios, London, October 1967 24. -Jumpin' Jack Flash Olympic Sound Studios, London, 20.4.1968 Disc Four 1. -Did Everbody Pay Their Dues Olympic Sound Studios, London, 17.3. - 3.4.1968 2. -Stray Cat Blues 3. -Parachute Woman 4. -Prodigal Son 5. -Factory Girl 6. -Dear Doctor 7. -Hamburger To Go 8. -Blood Red Wine 9. -Still A Fool Olympic Sound Studios, London, 13. - 23.5.1968 10. -Family 11. -Memo From Turner Olympic Sound Studios, London, 28.6.1968 12. -Gimme Shelter 13. -You Gopt The Silver 14. -Sister Morphine 15. -I'm A Country Boy Olympic Sound Studios, London, 10.2. - 31.3.1969 16. -Jiving Sister Fanny 17. -Downtown Suzie Olympic Sound Studios, London, 17.4. - 2.7.1969 18. -Hillside Blues (I Don't Know The Reason Why) 19. -All Down The Line Sunset Sound Studios, Los Angeles, 17. - 26.10.1969 & Elektra Sound Studios, Los Angeles, 28.10. - 2.11.1969 -
Studio quality 9.0 -9.4 - Amazing collection of rarities in excellent quality. Thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish! Disc One 1. -Introduction - We Want Stones 2. -I Ain't Got You 3. -Beautiful Delilah 4. -Down The Road Apiece 5. -Little Queenie 6. -Little Queenie - Beatiful Delilah - La Bamba - Wee Baby Blues (On Your Way To School) - Around And Around Dartford, Kent, late 1961 for early 1962 Little Blue Boy & The Blue Boys 7. -You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The Cover ( Demo ) Curly Clayton Sound Studios, London, 27.10. 1962 8. -Baby What's Wrong 9. -Roadrunner 10. -Diddley Daddy 11. -Bright Lights, Big City 12. -I Want To Be Loved IBC Studios, London, 11.3.1963 13. -Come On 14. -Memphis, Tennesee 15. -Roll Over Beethoven BBC Sessions At Saturday Club, 26.10.1963 16. -Go Home Girl De Lane Lea Music Recording Studios, London, 14.11.1963 17. -It Should Be You 18. -Leave Me Alone 19. -That Girl Belongs To Yesterday Regent Sound Studios, London, 20. & 21.11.1963 20. -Tell Me ( Alternate Take ) Regent Sound Studios, London, 24. & 25.11.1963 21. -Not Fade Away ( Alternate Take ) 22. -I'm A King Bee Regent Sound Studios, London, 10.1.1964 23. -Andrew's Blues 24. -Mr.Spencer & Mr. Pitney Come Too Regent Sound Studios, London, 4.2.1964 25. -Wake Up In The Morning Pye Studios, London, 6.2.1964 26. -Route 66 27. -Cops And Robbers 28. -You Better Move On 29. -Mona BBC Sessions At Camden Theatre, London, 19.3.1964 30. -As Tears Go By ( Demo ) De Lane Lea Music Recording Studios, London, 11.3.1964 31. -Don't Lie To Me Regent Sound Studios, London, 12.5.1964 32. -Stewart And Keefed 33. -Hi-Heeled Sneakers Chess Studios, Chicago, 10. & 11.6.1964 Disc 2 1. -Reelin' & Rockin' 2. -Meet Me In The Bottom 3. -Tell Me Baby, How Many More Times Chess Studios, Chicago, 11.6.1964 4. -Da Doo Ron Ron 5. -Blue Turns To Grey Regent Sound Studios And Decca Studios, 31.8. - 4.9. 1964 6. -Around & Around 7. -If You Need Me 8. -I Can't Be Satisfied 9. -Crackin' Up BBC Sessions, 17.7.1964 10. -Try A Little Harder Regent Sound Studios And Decca Studios, 29.6. - 7.7. 1964 11. -We're Wasting Time 12. -Each And Every Day Of The Year 13. -Hear It Regent Sound Studios And Decca Studios, 31.8. - 4.9. 1964 14. -We Were Falling In Love Regent Sound Studios, London, 28. & 29.9.1964 15. -2120 Michigan Avenue BBC Sessions, 8.10.1964 16. -Mercy Mercy 17. -Goodbye Girl 18. -Key To The Highway Chess Studios, Chicago, 8.11.1964 19. -Everybody Needs Somebody To Love 20. -The Last Time 21. -Down The Road Apiece BBC Sessions, 1.3.1965 22. -Everybody Needs Somebody To Love 23. -Hey Crawdaddy Europe 1, French Radio At Olympia Theatre, Paris, 18.4.1965 24. -(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction RCA Studios, Los Angeles, 11. & 12.11.1965 25. -Oh Baby, We Got A Good Thing Goin' 26. -The Spider And The Fly 27. -Cry To Me 28. -Fanny Mae BBC Sessions At RCA Studios, Los Angeles, 11. & 12.5.1965 -
Audience 8.8 & 8.7 - Same taper for both nights, and thankfully this is someone who knew what they were doing as you can tell they diligently set their levels and position to maximize the end results, and man, what end results these are! More probably for the outstanding performance and great house mix, but the tapes have held up well with just maybe a touch of overload in very loud parts that do not annoy, just you may notice it on occasion. Great performances by the band especially Craig who just rips on the guitar on practically every song and even Grace is in excellent form. A must! -
Soundboard 9.7 - A pure unadulterated masterpiece of classic Prince music that ANYONE can appreciate. Rediscover this amazing talent, this is a packed set and well worth exploring. -
Soundboard 9.7 - Sparkling, and I mean all facets – the sound quality, the performances, the musicianship, everything! Get it now, you won’t regret it. -
CD 1 - Audience 8.4 - A lively, jumping tape that is a fun listen but the limitations include some minor over-saturation which surprisingly does not ruin anything, but keeps the rating in the mid 80’s technically speaking. I like this recording personally, I find it exhilarating! CD CD 2 - Audience 8.8 - A very well made recording with a great balance to it, a warmth and tone that is pleasing to the ears. Lovely! CD 3 - Audience 8.2 - A tape with a preponderance of low end, to the point where you can’t ignore it, not that it is particularly muddy, just that it is bass heavy. I do get the other instruments thankfully, but like I said…bass. CD 4 - Same as disc 3, but I will say this much, on songs where the bass work is minimized, it sounds excellent. -
Soundboard 9.4 - (Early and Late Show) - Both sets are predominately 9.4 Soundboards with occasional audience sources patched in for completeness. Both shows are highly enjoyable too. Good guitar tone, and good mix! -
Early Show - Audience 8.4 - Not a tape that delivers a lot of dynamic range but is clear and everything on stage is heard. Also, some slight tape hiss present. A good recording maybe slightly above average. Late Show - Audience 8.8 - A lot more dynamic and brighter than the early set, this is a well recorded show. -
Early Show - Audience 8.8 - Superb for an audience tape really, the only real flaws are some lack of low end depth and instrument separation but it’s not a deal breaker at all. Late Show - Soundboard 9.7 - So good, I mean it is as if they recorded it for official release. Great mix, great fidelity. -
Early show - Audience 8.3 / Late Show - Audience 8.5 -
This set contains both shows recorded on Halloween night at the Felt Forum in NYC back in 1974. Early Show - Audience 8.5 - Right in the middle of the road, its good, not great. Late Show - Audience 8.9 - The only way I can explain this tape is that it starts off similar to the early show and at some point the taper moves to a hotter spot and the tape explodes with Frank’s amazing guitar right in your face. Even Frank himself makes a comment about his incendiary guitar work, I won’t spoil it though. -
Soundboard 9.5 - 4 Disc Set, 2 Shows (Early and Late show) It doesn't get better than this one (in my top 10) Killer! Also listed both shows (individually) under "Upper Darby" 1980. -
Audience / Soundboard / FM - This is a very special Halloween Marathon from 1981, with perfect clarity and sound balance. Another outstanding performance in NYC. -
Audience 7.5 - Two complete shows from 1984 that see very limited trading and as far as I know there’s been no CD release for either. There is good reason for this – these recordings sucked ass. Unfortunate too, because both gigs are screamers. Now, the good news! Both shows have been re-mastered using the best technology available (whatever they did 35 years ago obviously did not do much) and the results are that you can hear music now, you can hear what Eddie is doing and you can hear the band. No, it is not going to be sonically superior, but it is sonically better than any previous versions, and that is saying an awful lot! Best way to enjoy these is to listen to the original recordings and then pop these discs in, and THEN you will understand the work that went into saving these gigs from obscurity. The packaging on this title is superb by the way. -
Audience 8.4 (both shows) - I absolutely love this set. A must for fans. -
Audience 10 - This is the first 10 rating I have ever issued. Why? Simply put, this recording is BREATHTAKING. The detail, the precision, the mix, the dynamics, the atmosphere, the playing, the quality is nothing short of PERFECT. So, if I had the information on these tapers I would ask them for copies of anything else they recorded. It’s THAT GOOD folks. -
CD 1-2 - Audience 8.7 - Most Who collectors may already be familiar with this set, sounds like a good tape source is used and it is complete (hence the title) . But wait a minute – we have the second show now too – how is it? CD 3-4 - Audience 8.2 - Somebody tried heroically to remaster this and I have to say, knowing what it used to sound like, they did a great job. Still some noise artifacts present, but man they did bring out a LOT from this unappreciated recording. Kudos to the sound guy! Worth having this set now. -
Audience 8.7 - Both very decent recordings capturing a band that is on the cusp of breaking up, but holding it together very nicely for the shows. Interesting stage banter and occasional extended lead jamming present, certainly worthy of your consideration. -
Studio and Live - Excellent source material used, especially the studio stuff. The June 10, 1979 performance is perhaps the weakest tape here but one can still hear all the action from the stage even if it sounds a little far back. Fans consider the Accolades set to be a classic piece, it’s easy to hear why. -
Multiple sources used to make up this first volume of the 70’s series. * The first is a really cool 1967 show that is professionally recorded in an amateur fashion. So, yes, a pro recording but whoever engineered it was slow on the uptake, levels are peaked, the mix is funky, oh well, it could have been much better but for a super early Spirit show this is PURE GOLD and the surprise is how jazzy they are here. * The second disc comes from another early gig (1969) from Seattle and is Audience 8.3 for the clarity but has some hiss, and is not exactly hi-fi but you can hear everything very nicely and clear, pretty much, maybe vocals are a little buried but that is all. * Disc 3 is the continuation of the previous plus begins the Chicago 1975 gig (Disc 4) which is Soundboard 8.8 and has lovely atmosphere, and I think it is in stereo, or at least the way it is panned, mimics a stereo effect. -
CD 1 - Audience 8.8 / CD 2 - Audience 7.7 / CD 3 - Audience 7.2 / CD 4 - Audience 8.3 Some tape problems persist but they are not severe and do not affect the tape or show for that matter, but for a minor faint pop type sound. -
Volume 1: CD 1 - Pro Radio Broadcast 9.5 CD 2 - Belgium 1974 - Pro Radio Broadcast 9.4 & Soundboard 9.1 CD 3 - Roslyn, NY 1974 - Soundboard 9.1 CD 4 - Bob Harris 1974 - Soundboard 9.1 and The Bottom Line, NY 1976 - Soundboard 8.7 -
Audience 9.4 (both shows) - Expertly recorded from optimal position with high end gear. Clear and nuanced, with some headroom allowing for the atmosphere of the event to add another dimension to the sonically excellent captures. -
Audience 8.8 - Crisp, well defined sound. -
Audience 9.3 - Another superb audience highly rated for not only the good clean capture but also for the show itself and the dynamics and effect it all has on the listener emotionally. It’s truly a time capsule, and the DVD is the icing on the cake. This set is now expanded to include the soundboard portion of the show. This is a must own! -
CD 1 - FM Broadcast 8.8 / CD 2 - FM Radio Broadcast 9.1 / CD 3 - FM Radio Broadcast 8.9 / CD 4 - Audience 8.7 -
Radio Broadcast 8.5 - This is a big upgrade to what you may have heard before. Music is total mind frying acid induced psychedelia ala Hendrix. KILLER MAN! -
Both Shows: Early Show - Audience 7.2 - The lesser of the two shows, but the performance is strong, you’ll know they mean business after the first 30 seconds of Immigrant Song! Late Show - Audience 7.7 - Several notches cleaner and stronger than the early show, but both are worth your time.