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Our current CD catalogue, updated April 26, 2012, and with new additions {scroll down ... you'll find them listed in pink type!} to:  Jeff Beck, Big Star, Lindsey Buckingham, Miles Davis, Jay Ferguson, Free, Alfred Hitchcock, Humble Pie, John Lennon, Mandala, Porcupine Tree, Steely Dan, Traffic & Frank Zappa

All CD titles, A-Z:


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**AC/DC     Back In Canada: Complete Performance At Sarstock Toronto 2003     The Rolling Stones were the headliners, and other acts included Rush, The Guess Who, Justin Timberlake, Sass Jordan & The Isley Brothers, but it was AC/DC who blew the roof off at this all-day concert held in July 2003 in Toronto, attended by some 450,000 fans     featuring the complete show, including the encore (plus 2 alternate mixes as bonus tracks)   14 tracks in total

**Actor     There's Only One Way To Rock!  Lock Up Your Sons: Live, Studio & Unreleased       a huge favorite in western New York State in the 1980s, Jesse Galante & Actor offered up an abundance of great songs, twin lead guitars and, naturally enough, Jesse's vocal prowess      this features studio tracks by the band, a tasty live set, and 3 previously unreleased studio tracks by Jesse's band Fire (after she'd left Actor)    14 tracks

**Aerosmith   Off Your Rocker        features 9 tracks from the legendary Pall's Mall 1973 radio broadcast from Boston, plus 3 great bonus tracks recorded during their 1986 reunion tour, when they decided to get back together and start all over again       12 tracks in total        (also see: The Joe Perry Project)
**Aerosmith   Pitbulls On Crack (Anything Worth Doing Is Worth Overdoing)      you'd never know Aerosmith was about to go under, with both Joe Perry & Brad Whitford leaving for several years, judging by this superb concert from March 1978 in Chicago     right from the get-go, opening with "Rats In The Cellar", the band just charges ahead with one knockout performance after another, like a well-oiled machine       15 tracks in all
**Aerosmith   Riff And Roll: The 1982 Miami Sessions       with Joe Perry off to his Joe Perry Project and Brad Whitford starting up the Whitford/St. Holmes band, Steven Tyler carries on the Aerosmith tradition, ultimately releasing Rock In A Hard Place        these 1982 sessions are the studio rehearsals that led up to that album

**Lola Albright       Dreamsville      reaching back to 1959 for this martini-smooth pop vocal album recorded by the sophisticated 'n sexy lady best known for her role as Edie Hart, Peter Gunn's girlfriend on the groundbreaking television series       features 12 tracks, all of them under the direction of a band led by Henry Mancini, who also happened to be the musical genius behind the theme music for Peter Gunn

**The Allman Brothers Band     Macon Bakin' Rehearsals: Studio Outtakes 1969-1970      features studio rehearsals and outtakes of the original Allman line-up, with Duane & Berry        14 tracks
**The Allman Brothers Band     Peach Pie      recorded live in Pittsburgh at the Syria Mosque on January 17, 1971  features the original line-up, with Duane & Berry, doing 7 tracks, plus a bonus home recording of Duane playing solo bottleneck!
**The Allman Brothers Band     Peach Gumbo        recorded live in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 20, 1971, and featuring the original line-up, with Duane & Berry       12 tracks
**The Allman Brothers Band     Eat Your Georgia Peaches     the WPLJ radio broadcast, recorded on August 26, 1971 at A&R Studios in New York      features the complete 60-minute show with the original line-up!
**The Allman Brothers Band     Our Favorite Things: Rare Studio Sessions     part 1 features over 30 minutes of acoustic guitar studio rehearsals by Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, relaxing & talking & playing   part 2 features the full,original band working in the studio on multiple takes of Dickey's "Blue Sky", John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things", plus a 12-minute jam session     these great behind-the-scenes studio sessions are from circa 1971
**The Allman Brothers Band     Lonesome Peach    with Duane's untimely passing (but with Berry Oakley still in the band), Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts & company decide to soldier on, offering up this great show from Alabama in the spring of 1972         includes a 20-minute "Whipping Post" and an 11-minute "Les Brers In A Minor", with Dickey & Gregg in top form throughout         9 tracks in all
**The Allman Brothers Band     The Complete Cow Palace Performance: New Year's Eve 1973    4 CDs     every note is captured from a marathon performance on the last day of 1973 (and into the wee hours of New Year's Day 1974, too)      opens up with Bill Graham's band intro, and then 2 great sets by the band        by the end of the second set, Jerry Garcia & Boz Scaggs join in for a 45-minute "Les Brers In A Minor/Whipping Post", a 27-minute "Bo Diddley", plus several more jams      then, after a short break, they come right back for more, with set 3 featuring "You Don't Love Me" and "Mountain Jam"
**The Allman Brothers Band     Zakk's Night Out    2 CDs      Dickey Betts is unable to play, and Ozzy's Zakk Wylde fills in on guitar (with future Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes, too)      15 tracks, including a 35-minute version of Betts' "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed"
**The Allman Brothers Band     Beacon Theatre March 23, 2001     3 CDs     with Warren Haynes returning to the line-up, the Allman Brothers serve up a superb show, doing new songs & old classics alike, from "Sailin' 'Cross The Devil's Sea" to a re-arranged "Hot 'Lanta", plus a few Gov't Mule tunes to boot      includes both sets, plus the encore, with 20 tracks in total   

**Allman Joys     On The Outside Looking In: Historic Live & Studio Recordings      going back about as far as you can with Duane & Gregg Allman, this features 15 tracks from circa 1966, eight of them recorded live (in front of an audience of about 3 people, it seems!) and seven of them studio recordings      includes the pre-Allman Brothers Band boys doing such tracks as "Just Like Me," "Good Lovin", "My Girl" and The Yardbirds' "Heart Full Of Soul"

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**The Beatles     White Album Demos      features 21 demo tracks recorded BEFORE the lads went into the studio to create the actual White Album       also includes 3 bonus tracks, including a nifty early version of Paul's "Hey Jude"      24 tracks total
**The Beatles     Peter Sellers Tape      featuring 12 tracks from an early mix of the White Album, originally given to actor Peter Sellers by Ringo when they were working together on the film "The Magic Christian"
**The Beatles     Get Back       the original Glyn Johns (not Phil Spector) mixes       features 26 tracks from the Let It Be album sessions
**The Beatles     The Complete Apple Rooftop Concert     the boys last-ever live performance in its entirety (at just over 40 minutes) from January 30, 1969
**The Beatles      An Alternate Abbey Road      2 CDs     the complete Abbey Road album, re-done, with every single track (including the brilliant song suite) replaced with an alternate, mono, or outtake version       the second disc features unreleased oddball items from the Let It Be/Abbey Road era, including 2 versions of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" and plenty, plenty more         32 tracks in all

**Jeff Beck Group      Beck At The Beeb: Landmark BBC Performances 1967-68         featuring 12 tracks recorded for the BBC between 1967-68 by the original Jeff Beck Group, with JB on guitar, Rod The Mod on vocals and Ron Wood on bass       includes "I Ain't Superstitious", "Beck's Bolero", 3 versions of "Rock My Plimsoul", plus less-performed songs such as "Walking By The Railings" and "Stone Crazy"      there are 4 bonus tracks, too, also from the BBC, including the nifty "Get Down In The Dirt" from 1974     16 tracks in all
**Jeff Beck Group      Hi Ho Live!      recorded live in July 1968 at the Fillmore West by the original band, with Rod Stewart on vocals & Ron Wood on bass     the bonus tracks are from the summer of 1984, when Jeff & Rod briefly reunited for a few shows, with Jeff guesting in Rod's band and doing such tracks as "Rock My Plimsoul", "People Get Ready", "I Ain't Superstitious", plus a strong workout on "The Pump"     11 tracks
**Jeff Beck Group      In Miami      recorded live in August 1968 by the original band, wth Rod Stewart & Ron Wood        14 tracks in all
**Jeff Beck Group      Newport Jazz Festival 1969      featuring the original line-up, with Jeff, Rod & Ron       8 tracks total
**Jeff Beck Group      Rough And Ready Rehearsals      recorded in the summer of 1971 in England, and featuring multiple rehearsal takes of all the gems from the Rough And Ready album, among them "Got The Feeling", "Situation" & "I've Been Used"     also includes "Tiddlywinks", which was recorded during these sessions but never released      18 tracks in all
**Jeff Beck Group      Rough And Ready Quadraphonic        a different mix (at times, a radically different mix!) of Jeff's 1971 album that offers quite a few different sounds & guitar licks than the standard stereo version (and with a very powerful in-your-face sound quality, too)       (also see: Hummingbird)
**Jeff Beck Group      In Europe      a terrific performance from start to finish, recorded live in Finland in August 1971, with Jeff's guitar right up front in the mix      the quite unique 12 bonus tracks are the behind-the-scenes, individual working tracks for The Orange Album
**Jeff Beck Group      The Orange Album (In Quadraphonic)     as with the Rough And Ready CD (see above listing), this is the differently mixed quadraphonic version   released in 1972, it includes "Ice Cream Cakes", "Definitely Maybe" & "Going Down", the lot of them now considered El Becko powerhouse classics
**Jeff Beck Group      BBC London 1972        8 tracks from Jeff's 2nd incarnation of The Jeff Beck Group, with Max Middleton, Cozy Powell & Bob Tench       also includes 5 bonus tracks, among them 3 live tracks from the Wired tour (including an early rough & ready version of "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"), plus 2 live tracks from Jeff's short-lived BBA power trio       13 tracks in total

**Jeff Beck      Power! Live Alive 1975     with his very first all-instrumental album "Blow By Blow" newly released, Jeff and bandmates Max Middleton & Bernard Purdie rip through his brand-new fusion of rock-meets-funk-meets jazz, concentrating primarily on tracks from the new album     recorded in Boston in May '75 and including the complete 9-song set
**Jeff Beck      Essential Blows: Live in Toronto in 1975      2 CDs     from July '75 on the Blow By Blow tour, and featuring both the early show (disc 1) & the late show (disc 2)     23 tracks in all
**Jeff Beck     Orbit      opening up with the superb "Skin Thieves", this features extremely rare tracks from the Guv'nor himself recorded between 1985-1999, including unreleased tracks from the 1985 Escape album, from the Steve Lukather-produced mid-1990s Steakhouse studio sessions, and plenty more      17 tracks
**Jeff Beck     JB & The Big Town Playboys: Recorded Live In Europe 1993       taken from the European "Crazy Legs" tour, with 24 tracks, as Jeff's pet rockabilly project is finally realized
**Jeff Beck     Missouri Brakes: Live In St. Louis        with the Guitar Shop band of Terry Bozzio, Tony Hymas and Pino Palladino, JB flat-out smokes at this 1995 show       14 tracks
**Jeff Beck     Space For Jeff    2 CDs     recorded live in Toronto, Canada at Massey Hall in March 1999 on the opening leg of JB's Who Else world tour
**Jeff Beck     Beck Over Tokyo   2 CDs       recorded live in Tokyo, Japan August 1999 on the Japanese leg of the Who Else Tour       17 tracks in total, with JB just smokin' all the way through
**Jeff Beck     What Jeff Said    2 CDs      recorded live in Toronto, Canada at Molson Amphitheater in September 1999 on the second swing through Toronto of the Who Else world tour
**Jeff Beck     "Rock, Sucker" - Rehearsals '00     recorded in England in November 2000, with a red-hot JB & band positively smoking their way through a studio rehearsal of their complete set, getting ready for a tour of Japan in December '00
**Jeff Beck     Earthquake    2 CDs     recorded live in Toronto, Canada at Massey Hall in March 2001 on the You Had It Coming tour       there are 7 bonus tracks, too, taken from various television shows and a Brazilian concert between 1998-2001       27 tracks in total
**Jeff Beck     Beck In Beantown    2 CDs       recorded live in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2001
**Jeff Beck     Live In Montreux       recorded live at the 35th annual Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in July 2001 on Beck's You Had It Coming European tour, with JB backed by guitarist Jennifer Batten, drummer Andy Gangadeen and bassist Randy Hope-Taylor       highlights include "Where Were You", 2 versions of "Brush With The Blues" (opening & closing the show) and "Blackbird/Nadia"
**Jeff Beck     Beck Report: Alive In Austria       on the European segment of his You Had It Coming tour, JB plays Austria's Jazz Festival in July 2001      includes pristine versions of "Nadia", "Behind The Veil/Low Rider", "Rice Pudding/Right Off" and "A Day In The Life"      16 tracks in all
**Jeff Beck     Crossroads '07      Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival plays host to JB's 2007 touring band, with ex-Zappa drummer Vinnie Colaiuta & bassist Tal Wilkenfeld       of the new songs in the set, the Billy Cobham/Tommy Bolin funk-rock-jazz workout "Stratus" is a tour de force
 
**Beck, Bogert & Appice    BBA II       their previously unreleased "lost" 2nd studio album, featuring 8 tracks  also includes all 4 of the Coca-Cola TV commercial tracks that Beck did with Vanilla Fudge (who included Bogert & Appice), plus 4 unreleased BBA live tracks     16 tracks in all


**The Dickey Betts Band   Patterns   2 CDs   from 1988 in New York, with Dickey playing tracks from his Pattern Disruptive solo album, and then digging into the Allman Brothers vaults for such classics as "Elizabeth Reed" & "Statesboro Blues"     later in the concert, Rick Derringer shows up for "Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo", and Jack Bruce & The Rolling Stones' Mick Taylor join in on Cream's "Spoonful"   Dickey's Allman nugget "Southbound" is the closer and EVERYBODY (including Dickey's co-lead guitarist Warren Haynes) plays        a first-rate show!

**Big Star      Rejects, Etc.       Alex Chilton, Chris Bell & co. demos, alternate takes, rough mixes, etc. from their 1972-73 sessions at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee       23 tracks in all

**The Black Crowes    Mr. Crowe's Garden       initially calling themselves Mr. Crowe's Garden, this features the band's 1986-88 demo tracks, plus some nifty (and mostly acoustic) rehearsal rarities      17 tracks in all, among them "This Ain't No Election", "Carolyn's Psychic" & "Gravedigger Blues"
**The Black Crowes    Live In The Studio      with their debut album released, the Crowes rip it up live in late May 1990 in an L.A. studio before a small and enthusiastic audience      11 tracks in all, among them "Thick N' Thin", "Waitin' Guilty", John Lennon's "Jealous Guy" & "Stare It Cold"     the 5 bonus tracks were recorded live in Sheffield, England in October '91 and include a stretched out "Stare It Cold" and the terrific "Seeing Things For The First Time"     16 tracks in total
**The Black Crowes    Live At Ronnie Scott's       an intimate, (almost) unplugged set, recorded live at the famed Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London in June 1991       the electricity gets turned back on for the bonus tracks from a March '91 appearance on NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live
**The Black Crowes    Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (We Love You)      2 CDs      recorded live in Germany in November 1992, and highlighted by a superb 17-minute "Thorn's Progress/Thorn In My Pride" and an extended 11-minute "Remedy"        loud & proud & bang-on throughout, with 15 tracks in all    
**The Black Crowes     The Really Tall Sessions      unreleased tracks from the Tall studio sessions that were, amazingly, discarded as the Robinson brothers put together the Amorica album     opens up with the blistering "Exit," the 10-minute "Bewildered," plus "Bitter Bitter You" and "One Cop Story"     bonus tracks include nifty cover versions of songs by Bob Dylan & Gram Parsons      14 tracks in total
**The Black Crowes    Crowe Stuffing (or: Amorica Redux In The U.K.)       hot on the heels of the release of their Amorica album, the Crowes offer up a superb 6-song mini-concert (as part of their British Q&A press conference) at AIR Studios in London, England in 1994      also included are hard-to-find tracks from rare English EPs, plus live songs from 1991 in the U.K., including an absolute knockout version of Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35"      15 tracks in all
**The Black Crowes     Made in England      recorded live in January '95 at London's venerable Royal Albert Hall on the band's Amorica Or Bust tour
**The Black Crowes     FM Broadcast '95 (or: "I thought I saw a pussycat ... I did, I did!")    recorded in Germany in late January 1995 for an eventual FM radio broadcast, with 14 tracks in all, among them "P. 25 London", "Grinnin'", "Feelin' Alright?" and "Wiser Time"
**The Black Crowes     Crowes On A Wire (Or: B-Sides Galore)      featuring long ago out-of-print, non-album B-sides a-plenty, with 18 tracks in total
**The Black Crowes     Halloween Night      2 CDs     it's Halloween 1996 in New York City, and the Crowes, dressed up as they are, begin the night as the band Jellied Donut, doing 3 Elvis songs, including "Teddy Bear", and then after a quick break they come right back as themselves, delivering a very strong show, with Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes doing a guest spot on the Allman's classic "Dreams"        the 3 bonus studio tracks, all unreleased, are from a short-lived Crowes off-shoot band, circa 1994, called Sweet Pickle Salad that featured Chris Robinson & Marc Ford      20 tracks in all
**The Black Crowes     Viva Las Vegas!      2 CDs      a very entertaining show, with more cover tunes played than original songs, as the band winds down on the last night of their Three Snakes & One Charm tour in Las Vegas in mid-December 1996      also features guests Warren Haynes & Allen Woody from Gov't Mule
**The Black Crowes     "And Further ..."      headlining The Dead's Bob Weir & Mickey Hart's retro 1997 Furthur Festival, the Crowe's knock off one of their best sets of the entire tour in Toronto, including playing several tracks ("Blackberry", "Pimpers' Paradise" & "Just Say You're Sorry") for the first time, plus the Stones' "Happy" and (with Bob Weir's band Ratdog) an encore of Little Feat's "Easy To Slip"      13 tracks in all
**The Black Crowes     The Lions Sessions       rehearsals, instrumentals, & early working versions of songs that ultimately led up to the release of the 2001 Lions album     17 tracks in all
**The Black Crowes     Lions On Tour      taking a day off from their Brotherly Love Tour (with Oasis), the band goes right back to work, playing at Boston's River Rave charity concert in late May 2001       features their complete set, which included a guest appearance from Aerosmith's Joe Perry on "Jealous Again" and a rollicking take on Fleetwood Mac's "Oh Well"     the bonus track is a hugely entertaining 19-minute "Thorn In My Pride" jam, taken from a concert in Houston in early '93
**The Black Crowes     Something To Crowe About: Reunion In New York City    2 CDs      opening up with "Don't Do It" (done as The Band played it), the Robinson brothers patch things up between them and reunite their band for a series of 3 superb shows in New York City in late March 2005     16 tracks in all
**The Black Crowes      As The Crowes Fly: Reunion In New York City II     2 CDs      the second of 3 nights of shows, with the band serving up a completely different set list from the night before, including 2 thoroughly entertaining jams on "Wiser Time" & "Thorn In My Pride"
**The Black Crowes      Crowefest: Reunion In New York City 3    2 CDs      the third of 3 consecutive concerts and, amazingly, the third of 3 totally different set lists, this time featuring such tracks as "My Morning Song", Leon Russell's "Space Captain", The Beatles' "Yer Blues" & "Bend Down Low"

**(The Black Crowes) Big Toe      Live In Hollywood       Chris Robinson & friends pull out their cover tunes catalogue and dig in for a great one-off gig at the Troubadour in Hollywood in January 1993       tracks include Stephen Stills' "Four Days Gone", Leon Russell's "Stranger In A Strange Land", Delaney & Bonnie's "Things Get Better", plus a jamming 15-minute "Tobacco Road" to end it all       11 tracks in total
 
**(The Black Crowes) Foamfoot     Name That Cover Tune      recorded live in Hollywood in 1994, with Chris Robinson & friends playing an intimate club date, offering up terrific versions of such classics as Free's "Walk In My Shadow", Clapton's "Presence Of The Lord", and CSNY's "Long Time Gone" (wherein David Crosby himself comes up on stage and helps out)       an absolute blast, with Robinson in top form

**Honor Blackman     Everything I've Got        the one-and-only album ever released by the superb British actress best known for two legendary roles, as Cathy Gale in the television series The Avengers and as Pussy Galore in the James Bond film Goldfinger       first recorded in 1965, with 12 tracks

**Black Sabbath    Classic Sabbath 1970-78      strictly Ozzy-era Sabbath, including songs from a monster performance in Paris in late 1970 (just days after, in fact, the European release of the Paranoid album), plus such tracks as "Killing Yourself To Live", "Hole In The Sky", "Gypsy" and "Symptom Of The Universe" taken from 2 great shows in the U.S. in 1975 & '78       13 tracks in all
**Black Sabbath    Hail The Conquering Zero!     a surprisingly strong show from the unique 1983 Born Again U.S. tour, which featured Deep Purple screamer Ian Gillan on lead vocals and The Move/ELO's Bev Bevan behind the drum kit         along with the newer tracks for that tour (such as "Digital Bitch" & "Zero The Hero"), the band offers up a meaty "War Pigs", a terrific 9-minute "Iron Man", and even takes a shot at Purple's "Smoke On The Water"       10 tracks in total

**Blaxploitation     Various Artists: Original Blaxploitation       classic music from classic Blaxploitation films by Pam Grier, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson and others, featuring hit-after-hit (plus a few very cool radio advertising spots for these movies, too!), along with a nifty bunch of truly obscure soul 'n funk tracks tossed into the mix as well (and they shoulda been hits, also)   20 tracks in all

**Tommy Bolin     The Alphonse Mouzon Jam Sessions       prior to the release of muscular drummer Alphonse's spectacular 1975 Mind Transplant album (which stands as one of Bolin's very best recordings), Tommy & Mouzon hooked up together for a series of meaty jam sessions, with Tommy's guitar front-and-center       9 tracks, plus a bonus outtake instrumental featuring Tommy & drummer Billy Cobham from the 1973 studio sessions for Billy's hugely influential  jazz-rock album Spectrum     10 tracks in total

**Tiffany Bolling    Tiffany     originally recorded in 1971, this is the only album the sexy TV & B-movie actress ever released     features 11 tracks

**Booker T & The MGs   Groovin' & Cruisin': Greatest Hits Recorded Live In 1993    briefly re-uniting for a small tour, Booker T, Steve Cropper and Donald "Duck" Dunn (along with David Letterman drummer Anton Fig) play all their Memphis-Stax rock 'n soul classics, including "Green Onions", a 9-minute "Melting Pot", a superb 11-minute "Time Is Tight" and a rousing "Soul Man"     recorded in Toronto, Canada        12 tracks
 
**David Bowie   Earth Oddity: Rehearsals, Demos & Rare Performances 1971-1973     opens up with 7 rehearsal songs by Bowie & Mick Ronson from the BBC Studios in 1971 (it's just the two of them, without the band), and then features 6 Spiders From Mars-era studio outtake tracks and live performances       13 tracks in total of vintage (and rare!) Bowie  
**David Bowie   Transmission    2 CDs      a terrific show in New York, taken from the 1976 Station To Station tour during Bowie's Thin White Duke period     at the end of disc 2, there are 2 bonus tracks from a Cher TV special, including David & Cher doing a "Young Americans" duet
**David Bowie   The 1990 Sound+Vision World Tour Rehearsals     recorded in New York City in February '90, with David and his band running through their (tentative) set list in preparation for his massive tour to support the release of the Sound+Vision box set
**David Bowie   Engagement In Japan      2 CDs      David's Sound+Vision World Tour, with sparkling lead guitar work from King Crimson's Adrian Belew, plays Japan's Tokyo Dome in May 1990 on the second of 2 sold-out nights       21 tracks in all 
**David Bowie   David At 50     turning 50 in 1997, Bowie gives a first-rate performance on his birthday, doing new & old songs alike    a bit later in the year, David travelled to the U.S. and appeared on several shows, including Saturday Night Live, David Letterman & Conan O'Brien, and songs from those shows are also included       16 tracks in total
**David Bowie   50th Birthday Bash       2 CDs       the complete 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden in New York City, with guests Lou Reed, Foo Fighters, Robert Smith, Billy Corgan and Sonic Youth     25 tracks in total
**David Bowie   Capitol Idea     featuring the complete MTV broadcast of Live From The 10 Spot, including the 3 pre-broadcast songs that David did (that weren't shown)       recorded October '97 at the Capitol Theater
**David Bowie   Kit Kat      Bowie's Hours promotional tour hits New York City's Kit Kat club for an intimate nightclub gig in November 1999     12 great tracks, with a first-class band, and including "Always Crashing In The Same Car", "Survive", "Stay" and "The Pretty Things Are Going To Hell"
**David Bowie   A&E: Live By Request     the A&E Network's popular Live By Request program plays host to Bowie in June 2002, with callers telephoning in their song requests to David       among the 13 tracks he performs are "Fame", "Let's Dance", "Slow Burn" & "I'm Afraid Of Americans"      the bonus tracks are from David's appearances that same month on the Letterman & Conan O'Brien talk shows      15 tracks in total
**David Bowie    A Heathen In Canada      Bowie opens up for Moby, delivering a very tasty set that includes tracks from his Heathen album, in early August 2002 in Toronto      the bonus tracks all feature David's Heathen-related appearances on Conan O'Brien, Dick Clark's Rocking New Year's Eve, Carson Daly, and the VH1 Fashion Awards     17 tracks in all
**David Bowie    "Very Strange" 1967-1975      2 CDs      David's rarest BBC performances straight from the beginning, including loads of vintage & unreleased material, opening with a cover of The Beatles' "Penny Lane" in '67, through the Ziggy/Alladin Sane eras, and then right up to an alternate take of "Right" from Young Americans in '75      40 tracks total

**David Bowie (with Stevie Ray Vaughan)   The Serious Moonlight Tour Rehearsals    2 CDs      newly-enhanced sound quality, plus 3 additional songs (there's now 31 tracks!), as the Thin White Duke (very) briefly meets up with the Texas guitar-slinger in April '83 in Dallas for the Serious Moonlight pre-tour rehearsals      sadly, once the tour started, SRV had vanished to begin his solo career; but for these rehearsals Stevie Ray was front-and-center, most especially on such tracks as the superb re-working of "The Jean Genie," "Cat People," "Station To Station," "Fame" and "Stay"

**Jack Bruce    Themes: Rare Performances 1971-1994        featuring 14 tracks from various stages in Bruce's long & varied career, including unreleased B-sides from 1994's Bruce, Baker & Moore, along with live tracks from 1975 with Mick Taylor, from 1980 with Billy Cobham, and from 1982 with Allan Holdsworth

**Bruce, Baker & Moore     The Cream Set       with Gary Moore offering up a Clapton-like touch (and, of course, with Jack Bruce on bass & vocals and Ginger Baker on drums), BBM play a Cream-only live set in Germany in November 1993 (on Jack's birthday, in fact)      tracks include a 7-minute "Sitting On Top Of The World", a strong version of "Politician" & "White Room"     bonus tracks feature the 2-song BBM performance at the 1994 Virgin Records Bash     8 tracks in all


**Lindsey Buckingham     We'll Meet Again: Selections From The 1992 Out Of The Cradle Tour     the former Fleetwood Mac leader's tour for his brilliant third solo album       16 tracks
**Lindsey Buckingham      (Re)Gift(ing) Of Screws       this was supposed to be the follow-up to LB's 1992 solo album Out Of The Cradle, but instead some of the tracks were donated (and then re-recorded) to Fleetwood Mac's Say You Will album, then his '06 solo album Under The Skin, and then his '08 solo album Gift Of Screws ... what a history!     this, however, is the original 16 song (not 10) project, recorded & mixed in 2000-01, and includes all three of Lindsey's cover versions of Rolling Stones' songs, plus terrific originals such as "Twist Of Fate" and "Shuffle Riff" 

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**Can     One More Night: Live In Germany 1976      there's only 4 tracks that make up this April '76 show, all of them long ones, as Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli & Can offer up their unique brand of music, which can best be described as a slightly funkier Pink Floyd  

**Lynn Carey   C.K. Strong       Lynn's very first group project, initially released when she was still a teenager and yet, amazingly, already fully displaying her tremendous 3-octave voice that could shake buildings   from 1969-70, this is the one-and-only album her band C.K. Strong ever made, and it's a nifty mix of rock, blues & psychedelia      also includes 5 bonus tracks featuring Lynn's vocals from the cult film classic Beyond the Valley of the Dolls      13 tracks in total
**Lynn Carey & Neil Merryweather   Vacuum Cleaner Redux       just before Lynn, together with bassist Neil Merryweather, formed Mama Lion, this album was released in 1971, filled with all kinds of rock and soul nuggets, for the most part keeping Lynn's huge trademark vocals front and center      includes Lynn's classic "Let It Shine", plus "Captain Terrific", the ice-cool "Sugar Man", and "Few & Far Between"        also features 6 bonus tracks, including four Carey/Merryweather songs from the extremely rare 1972 Heavy Cruiser album  18 tracks in total
**Lynn Carey    Mama Lion: Complete      featuring every track from Lynn's two Mama Lion albums, Preserve Wildlife (the monster debut album with Lynn's legendary front cover photo) and the terrific follow-up (Give It Everything I've Got), plus 3 additional super-rare bonus tracks       23 tracks in total
**Lynn Carey & The L.A. Jazz Choir   From All Sides      opening up with Lynn's pop rocker "Jim, Jam, Jump", this jazz- and pop-inflected album was Grammy nominated in 1985     also includes Lynn's "Love Is A Joy"       12 tracks
**Lynn Carey     Mama Lion Roars Back!      after far too long an absence, a rock 'n roll cult legend returns, her overpowering vocal range still fully intact      includes a generous bounty of new tunes, plus 9 never-before-released classic-era Mama Lion songs as well      21 tracks in all


**Mariah Carey     Live In Japan        beautifully recorded, Mariah sets the house afire in Tokyo, Japan on her Far East tour in March 1996       highlights include the bouncy opener "Emotions", "Always Be My Baby", "Underneath The Stars" and the funky "Make It Happen"      15 tracks in all

**Chilliwack      self-titled debut      long out-of-print, the 1970 debut of an FM-radio underground classic, featuring 7 tracks, among them the blues-ballad "Rain-O"
**Chilliwack      self-titled      from 1971, their 2nd album, also simply titled "Chilliwack," and initially a 2-LP set, with one-half straightforward rockers (including the hit "Lonesome Mary") and the other half devoted to jam sessions, some parts of which are wildly experimental
**Chilliwack       All Over You      from '72, and the last of the band's harder-edged music (before they turned toward a lighter, pop sound)    includes the complete album of 11 tracks, plus a bonus track

**Eric Clapton    461 Ocean Boulevard: The Rehearsals        the 1974 sessions at Miami's Criteria Studios that led up to the release several months later of one of Eric's most popular solo albums       14 tracks in total, including a bonus track from a Jamaican studio session (also from 1974) with Peter Tosh

**The Clash     Extra! Extra! Palladium Performance     23 tracks in all, recorded live in September 1979 at the Palladium in New York City
**The Clash     Appointment At Bond's      2 CDs      great sound quality highlights an intense, rip-roarin' performance by The Clash at Bond's International Casino in New York City on June 9, 1981       24 tracks
**The Clash     Jamaica Calling      recorded live in 1982 at the Bob Marley Performance Center in Montego Bay, Jamaica         features 16 tracks, including "London Calling", "This Is Radio Clash", "The Magnificent Seven", a 7-minute "Straight To Hell", "Police On My Back" and "Rock The Casbah"

**The Collectors   Grass and Wild Strawberries: The Collectors Collection     2 CDs     classic Canadian rock, with disc 1 featuring the entire 1969 Grass And Wild Strawberries album (their 2nd album), plus tracks from their 1968 self-titled 1st album, including the 19-minute psych opus "What Love Suite"     disc 2 features 8 very rare A- & B-side non-album singles, 2 long-lost live tracks recorded for a 1968 CBC broadcast (including the terrific "Ring The Bells"), and 5 early 1970-72 Chilliwack tracks (the group The Collectors would evolve into), among them the FM classic "Rain-O" and "The Fields And The Sea"     30 tracks in total

**Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains     Colonel's Secret Recipe Album     2 CDs     the 1st-ever performance by the band, recorded live in June 2002 at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Tennessee, with the band performing a wild set of other-worldly electro-funk power jams     band members are demon-fingers bassist Les Claypool & demon-fingers guitarist Buckethead, along with keyboardist Bernie Worrell and drummer Brain

**The Cramps    What Color Are Those Panties?      rockabilly-meets-psychobilly, as Lux, Poison & band rock New York City's CBGB's in January 1978     13 tracks in all, among them "Human Fly", "Sunglasses After Dark", "Baby Blue Rock" and "TV Set"

**Cream    The Sound Of 66: 1st Album Rehearsals & Alternate Versions        features 16 outtake tracks from their 1st album, as Eric, Jack & Ginger fine-tune their debut recording       also includes bonus track of the drums master version of "White Room"      17 tracks in total
**Cream    Live Dates 1966-67      two of Cream's most sought after early English club dates are featured here, with 4 tracks taken from their late 1966 show at Klooks Kleek and 7 tracks from the band's show at the Ricky Tick club in early 1967       the 3 bonus tracks are from Cream's reunited performance at their Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame induction in January 1993      14 tracks in total
**Cream    Stepping Out: Live In Detroit      2 CDs        a powerhouse concert performance by Cream at their very best, with a 2-hour show from October 15, 1967        tracks include "Tales Of Brave Ulysses", "Sitting On Top Of The World" & "I'm So Glad"
**Cream    California Dreaming: Live 1968     featuring re-arrangements of "Crossroads" and "Passing The Time", plus a knockout 16-minute "Spoonful", this stands as one of Cream's best-recorded performances, with Eric, Ginger & Jack in peak form throughout       from early October 1968 in Oakland, California, with 8 tracks total
**Cream     In Texas 1968       Cream's Farewell Tour draws ever-closer to its completion with this strong show from Dallas in late October 1968       includes 7 tracks, among them the opener "White Room", "Sunshine Of Your Love", plus mammoth takes on "Toad" & "Spoonful"

**Crosby & Nash      Benefit      opening up with a powerful "Wooden Ships", Crosby & Nash play an all-acoustic prisoners benefit concert at San Fran's Winterland in March 1972     special guest Neil Young shows up, too, and the three of them proceed to mix-and-match their songs as a trio, a duo and, also, with some superb solo spots, among them Neil's "The Needle And The Damage Done" & Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair"

**Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young     Together Alone     2 CDs        recorded live at the L.A. Forum in the summer of 1970, when they all still got along with each other very well     features both an acoustic set & an electric set, with the acoustic set more inclined toward each of the members playing alone (especially Young and Stills), while the electric set is geared toward the full band playing together      15 tracks in total, including a 10-minute "Suite:Judy Blue Eyes", "Long Time Gone", "Ohio", and a 13-minute "Southern Man"

**Sheryl Crow    The First Time       Sheryl's immensely entertaining first solo album, which was supposed to have been released in Fall 1992 but was, amazingly, flatly rejected by her record label (and eventually replaced with the completely different album Tuesday Night Music Club)     features 12 tracks, among them "I Will Walk With You", "The Last Time" & "Near Me"    
**Sheryl Crow    Under The Covers       a very tasty collection of Sheryl doing nothing but cover versions, performed live between 1993 through to 1998, including songs done by Sheryl & her band, as well as Sheryl with The Rolling Stones, The Allman Brothers Band, Steve Earle, The Wallflowers and Eric Clapton   tracks include everything from John Lennon's "Cold Turkey" to Bobbie Gentry's "Ode To Billy Joe", to The Chambers Brothers' "Time Has Come Today", to The Stones' "Happy" and "Get Off Of My Cloud"     15 tracks in total

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**Miles Davis     Around The Next Block      recorded live in Berlin in early November 1971, and showcasing to great effect the bass-heavy, funk-filled On The Corner-era Miles that was soon coming, particularly on an absolutely wailing 13-minute "What I Say" and a 19-minute "Funky Tonk"    the first-class band includes bassist Michael Henderson, Gary Bartz on sax, keyboardist Keith Jarrett, and Mtume on percussion
**Miles Davis     M.D.D. Live '72    using the same 9-piece band line-up that would later be featured on the Get Up With It studio sessions, Miles' free-for-all of avant-garde jazz/funk/rock gets quite the workout on four extended tracks, among them "Rated X" & "Honky Tonk"     recorded live in Boston in Fall 1972

**Delaney & Bonnie & Friends      New York Gig      a terrific radio broadcast gig recorded in New York City in 1971, and divided into 2 parts      the first section features 4 acoustic tracks with Delaney, Bonnie, Duane Allman and Little Feat's Sam Clayton     the second section features 4 electric tracks, again with Duane on lead & slide guitar, plus brother Gregg on keyboards and King Curtis on sax      the 2 bonus tracks feature Delaney & Bonnie & Friends with Eric Clapton on lead guitar, recorded live in Germany in 1969 for TV's Beat Club program     10 tracks in all

**The Doobie Brothers     Toulouse Street Live     with their 1972 Toulouse Street album ready to roll, the Doobies play a live-in-the-studio, nearly 80-minute set for a handful of fans    it's a well-paced show, too, with a couple of tasty, quiet acoustic tracks mixed in with such hard-edged rockers as "Jesus Is Just Alright", "Road Angel" (a track that wouldn't appear until their fourth album) & "Disciple"    for the encore, which features two 16-minute jams, Santana's Gegg Rolie is added to the line-up, nicely fleshing out the band's guitar-driven sound with his meaty Hammond organ
   
**The Doors   Matrix Music    2 CDs      with their legendary 1st album out (but not yet anything close to the blockbuster it would become), The Doors perform in front of practically nobody at San Francisco's Matrix Club in the spring of 1967        they perform both of their sets, too, including songs that will be familiar (such as "Soul Kitchen", "Moonlight Drive" & "When The Music's Over") and several songs that are quite different from what we've been accustomed to hearing ("The End" and the classic instrumental section for "Light My Fire" are 2 notable examples that sound fabulous but are nowhere near the same as the studio versions)        16 tracks in total
**The Doors   In Sweden    2 CDs      features BOTH shows from a terrific pair of performances in September 1968   includes "Light My Fire", a 17-minute "The End", two versions of "When The Music's Over" and even a stab at part of the legendary "Celebration Of The Lizard" poem     17 tracks in total
**The Doors   Someday Soon: Live In Seattle 1970       Jim's pretty spaced and the unusual track listing reflects it: includes the never released "Someday Soon", plus the 2-part, 27-minute "Mystery Train"     8 tracks, with a running  time of 78 minutes
**The Doors   Isle Of Wight Festival 1970      one of Jim Morrison's final live performances, and it's a beauty at that   features a 13-minute "Light My Fire", an essential version of "The End", plus a great "Ship Of Fools" and plenty more, all of it recorded in the UK at the Isle Of Wight Music Festival on August 31, 1970

**Dr. John The Night Tripper   Live Gumbo      recorded live in the studio in 1972, with The Night Tripper offering a tasty mix of his mainstream hits ("Right Place Wrong Time", "Mama Roux") and his Creole-based voodoo ("I Walk On Gilded Splinters", "Loop Garoo")  16 tracks
 
**Bob Dylan    Go Ahead (Look Back): Essential Rarities 1961-1965    17 very rare tracks, opening with "Black Cross" (recorded by blues harpist Tony Glover in Bonnie Beecher's apartment in 1961) and also including such nuggets as 1963's "Farewell", 1964's "Bob Dylan's New Orleans Rag", and 1965's (with the Hawks) "Number One"     a great collection!
**Bob Dylan    Highway 61 Re-Revisited         taken from the original alternate acetate recordings, and featuring different versions of the 9 tracks that made up Dylan's landmark Highway 61 Revisited album (his first "electric" album), including "Like A Rolling Stone", "Ballad Of A Thin Man" & "Desolation Row", plus 4 other tracks from the very same summer of '65 recording sessions          13 tracks in total   
**Bob Dylan    Electric '65       Dylan plugs in his Stratocaster for the first time (to many folk purists' horror!) at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival (with Mike Bloomfield on lead guitar) and then 5 weeks later in California (with Robbie Robertson in the lead guitar spot)         11 tracks in total
**Bob Dylan    Original Blood On The Tracks     featuring the original versions of songs for Bob's brilliant Blood On The Tracks album, recorded before he abruptly went back into the studio to re-record them     includes 2 versions of "Tangled Up In Blue", 2 versions of "Idiot Wind", plus "Call Letter Blues"      11 tracks
**Bob Dylan    Woodstock Revisited    Bob's complete 12 track set from his performance at the Woodstock II Festival in August '94, and featuring "Jokerman", a rockin' "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35", and the beautiful set closer of an extended "It Ain't Me Babe"

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**Don Ellis    Connection/Reaction      rare tracks from the trumpeter/big band leader/drummer best known for his odd time signatures       includes the powerful theme he composed for the film "The French Connection", the 9-minute melodic tour de force "Chain Reaction", the 19-minute "Variations For Trumpet", and the opening & closing theme music for the vastly underrated film "The Seven-Ups"     12 tracks in total

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**Rod Stewart & The Faces     Boston Tea Party       with their debut album released, Rod and the band play songs from it at a small club gig in Boston, Massachusetts in October 1970    the bonus track "(I Know ) I'm Losing You" is an unreleased 1973 song from the Coast To Coast album        10 tracks in total
**Rod Stewart & The Faces    Had Us A Real Good Time: 1970 BBC Radio Performances    13 tracks, all of them recorded solely for BBC radio programs in 1970, both in concert and in the BBC studios
**Rod Stewart & The Faces     In Miami      a terrific show, recorded live in Miami, Florida, in late October 1970        9 tracks, among them "Cut Across Shorty", "Around The Plynth" and the encore "I Feel So Good"
**Rod Stewart & The Faces    Cabaret Music: 1970-72 Definitive BBC Performances     featuring tracks recorded between 1970-72 for both BBC-TV and BBC Radio, with Rod in top form throughout and Ron's electric slide guitar work as wicked as it would ever be     highlights include "That's All You Need", "Too Much Woman", and "Three Button Hand Me Down"     12 tracks in all
**Rod Stewart & The Faces     Va Va Voom      features outtakes, alternate recordings, live performances and rare B-sides, including 9 outtakes from the Ooh La La album sessions     19 tracks in total
**Rod Stewart & The Faces      Carousing In London: Live On Stage 1973      as rollicking as ever, this features Rod, Ron & the boys from a BBC performance in London, England in 1973       14 tracks in total, including "Silicone Grown", "Miss Judy's Farm", "Memphis", Free's "The Stealer", and "Stay With Me"
**Rod Stewart & The Faces      Too Drunk For The BBC: The Banned 1973 Broadcast     recorded live in concert in February '73 for broadcast on BBC Radio ... only some higher-ups at the BBC deemed the band "too drunk" and cancelled the broadcast!     30 years later, the BBC (and one-time-only, too) accidentally airs the entire show      guess what: it's a vintage Faces performance, well-worth hearing again and again     13 tracks
**Rod Stewart & The Faces      Motown Affair        loud 'n very entertaining, recorded live in Detroit in late summer of '74, with 3 bonus tracks taken from a rare performance on French television in 1971

**Jay Ferguson     Long (Thunder) Island Live       from a '77 show in Long Island, New York, the former frontman of Jo Jo Gunne (as well as a key member of Spirit) introduces tracks from his just-released 2nd solo album, Thunder Island, plus other solo and Jo Jo Gunne material, including a rousing 10-minute "All Alone In The End Zone"
   
**Fleetwood Mac    Cajun Dance     with Peter Green still at the forefront of the band,the Mac play back-to-back nights in New Orleans in late January 1970        21 tracks in total, including "Before The Beginning", "Sandy Mary", "All Over Again", "Oh Well" & "Tiger"
**Fleetwood Mac    Live Penguin     small treasures abound on this rare Bob Welch-led (with Christine McVie, too) 77-minute live-in-the-studio show from Mac in 1974      includes a 9-minute "Bermuda Triangle", "Why", "The Green Manalishi", "Hypnotized", a 10-minute "Rattlesnake Shake" and "Black Magic Woman"    13 tracks
**Fleetwood Mac    Over Our Heads: Live In The Studio 1975       with Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks now in the band, the brand-new Mac hold a special in-studio show for a small audience       songs are featured from all eras, too, including early Mac ("The Green Manalishi"), mid-period ("Hypnotized"), and songs from the just released first album with Buckingham and Nicks, including "Rhiannon" and "Over My Head"      11 tracks
**Fleetwood Mac    The Portable Live Fleetwood Mac       a compact, 50-minute radio show performance by Mac, with Lindsey, Stevie & the band all at the top of their game       recorded live in May 1975 at the Capitol Theatre in New Jersey, with 8 tracks in total, including "Station Man", "Landslide" and "World Turning"
**Fleetwood Mac    More Rumours     the most popular of all Mac albums (and one of the biggest sellers of all-time), this features alternate working versions of all 11 songs from the legendary Rumours album (including 2 versions of "Gold Dust Woman", as well as instrumental & vocal versions of "The Chain"), plus 3 additional songs, among them 2 versions of the terrific "Silver Springs"     17 tracks in total

**Focus   New York Waves       recorded live in concert in March 1973 in New York City, and including a 27-minute "Anonymous II", a knockout 12-minute version of "Questions? Answers!", and a jumpin' "Hocus Pocus"  7 tracks in all

**Free   BBC Broadcast Transmissions 1970-73        15 tracks recorded between 1970-73, including such classics as "The Stealer", "All Right Now" and a 9-minute "Sail On", as well as such rarer gems as "Seven Angels" and "Like Water"  
**Free   Rare Performances      includes songs taken from radio & TV shows, demos & B-sides     17 tracks in total        features the original line-up of Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff, Andy Fraser & Simon Kirke (with, it's believed, Stray Dog's Snuffy Walden filling in for Koss on one track)
**Free   Tokyo Performances: 1972 Studio & Live Sessions      as dysfunctional as they would get near the end, a re-formed Free headed by Paul Rodgers and Rabbit nevertheless still managed to produce some truly great music, entering a Tokyo, Japan studio in July '72 and laying down 4 tracks, then later that month (also in Tokyo) delivering a tasty concert set      splendid Heartbreaker-era performances, with 9 tracks in all
**Free    Final Curtain: Live In England 1973      Wendell Richardson of Osibisa replaces Paul Kossoff, as Paul Rodgers & Rabbit serve up one of the final shows of this beloved band, with highlights including "Come Together In The Morning," "Wishing Well" and "Seven Angels"

**Frogwings    Kickin' Back With Frogwings      2 CDs      a pet side-project of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, featuring his nephew Derek Trucks on lead guitar       recorded live in late 1997, and including a 24-minute "Loomis/Catchin' Up", Dylan's "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat", the Allman's "Hot 'Lanta", plus 2 bonus tracks by the Derek Trucks Band (who opened for Frogwings on this night)

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**Rory Gallagher   Europe 1972-73      63 minutes of prime-era Rory, with 9 tracks, including "Race The Breeze", "Faster On The Draw" and "Used To Be", all of it taken from his late '72/early '73 European tour
**Rory Gallagher   Souped-Up For London     live in England in late January 1977, with Rory offering both an electric set of 5 songs as well as a spirited acoustic set of 4 tunes     the 3 bonus tracks, which also feature mate Frankie Miller on guest vocals, are from 1979 in Germany, and include a terrific take on Chuck Berry's/The Rolling Stone's "Around And Around"    12 tracks in all        (also see: Taste)
Rory Gallagher   Calling Card Germany       recorded live in Germany in July '77, with a full-steam-ahead Rory playing in front of a wildly appreciative audience     tracks include "Moonchild", "Calling Card" & "Souped Up Ford"     there are 3 bonus tracks, among them a 1970 appearance on the Beat Club by Rory's old band Taste
**Rory Gallagher   What's The Story, Rory?       the CD version of the rarest Rory LP (only 100 numbered copies were ever pressed!)       also includes 2 bonus tracks that were originally issued on the bonus 7" that came with the original 1978 LP      12 tracks in total

**Danny Gatton     The Humbler In Philly       he was nicknamed The Humbler for good reason, since he pretty much humbled every other guitar-slinger out there      this show was recorded live at a nightclub in Philadelphia in October 1992, and includes 7 long tracks, among them a 21-minute "Harlem Nocturne", a 13-minute "Memphis" and a 13-minute "Blues Newburg"

**Danny Gatton & Robert Gordon     Live! Together!        rockabilly singer Robert Gordon & six-string legend Danny Gatton combine forces for a superb nightclub performance back in January 1983 in Washington, D.C.   features 19 tracks, including "Ubangi Stomp", "Linda Lu", "Rockabilly Boogie" and "Heart Like A Rock"

**Genesis    Studio Rehearsals: Selling England By The Pound      2 CDs      35 tracks of studio rehearsals for the group's breakthrough 1973 album, including a 21-minute "The Battle Of Epping Forest", plus multiple takes of "The Cinema Show", "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight", "Firth Of Fifth", "I Know What I Like" and "After The Ordeal"

**Gov't Mule    "Rosebud ..."      2 CDs       the power trio to pretty much end all power trios, featuring 3 world-class players (guitarist Warren Haynes, bassist Allen Woody & Matt Abts on the drums) in the opening stages of what's turned out to be a marvellous band over the years      recorded live in late 1995 at a small club in Pittsburgh called Rosebud, and including both their entire set and the encore      also included are 9 bonus tracks, taken from another club performance (this time in Austin, Texas) nine months later
**Gov't Mule    A Night At The Opera House     2 CDs     recorded live in Toronto in August 1997 at the Opera House on Gov't Mule's first visit to Canada     includes the terrific "She Said She Said/Tomorrow Never Knows", plus "Kind Of Bird", "Trane" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"
**Gov't Mule    Goin' Out West    2 CDs      recorded live in August 1997 at the Fillmore West, and featuring a knockout performance of The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows", plus "Crossroads", plus 2 songs with guest star Gregg Allman
**Gov't Mule    Live Dose     2 CDs      with their second studio album, titled "Dose," recently released, the Mule deliver the goods with a rock-solid 2-hour show from Pittsburgh in mid-May '98
**Gov't Mule    Tribute To Jimi     2 CDs     recorded live in Boston on September 18, 1998, coinciding with the 28th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's death    beyond several superb Mule staples (including an 18-minute "Left Coast Groovies"), Warren offers a heartfelt tribute to Hendrix by performing over a half-hour of his tunes, including "Third Stone From The Sun", "Red House", "Little Wing", "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" & "Catfish Blues"
**Gov't Mule    A Night At The Opera House II     2 CDs     recorded live in Toronto in early October 1999 at the Opera House     tracks include "I Can't Quit You Baby", "I'm A Ram", "Ride Like Hell" and "She's Nineteen Years Old"     featured guest guitarists are Big Sugar's Gordie Johnson and Big Wreck's Ian Thornley
**Gov't Mule    Mule Gumbo     2 CDs     recorded live in New Orleans on the last day of October 1999, with the band celebrating Halloween in style, opening up with a 10-minute "Get Behind The Mule", plus a smokin' medley of ZZ Top's "Waitin' For The Bus" and "Jesus Just Left Chicago"    for the encore, the band Deep Banana Blackout joins the Mule for Aretha's "Doctor Feelgood" and a 26-minute "Afro Blue"
**Gov't Mule    One For Woody: A Tribute To Allen Woody     5 CDs      the untimely death of Gov't Mule bassist Allen Woody becomes the inspiration for a stirring tribute to him on September 21, 2000 in New York, with sets by Phil Lesh & Friends (disc 1), The Allman Brothers Band (disc 2), The Black Crowes (disc 3), followed by Warren & Matt (discs 4 & 5) with all manner of special guests helping out, including Leslie West, Merl Saunders & Lynyrd Skynyrd's Artimus Pyle      taking a rest on only a couple of tracks, Warren plays guitar throughout the evening on all five discs      36 tracks in all
**Gov't Mule    Mulenium: The Millenium Show     4 CDs       recorded live in Atlanta on December 31, 1999 (and well into January 1, 2000, too!), nicely kick-starting the new Millenium with a bang      includes "21st Century Schizoid Man", Alice Cooper's "Is It My Body", "Dazed And Confused", Hendrix's "Power Of Soul" and oodles more         
**Gov't Mule    Dining Out In New Orleans     3 CDs      with the addition of Allman Brothers' & Rolling Stones' keyboard player Chuck Leavell, this May 2001 show in New Orleans offers up a newer, fuller-sounding Gov't Mule, with Warren Haynes' guitar still front-and-center   includes all kinds of great Mule tracks, plus a 17-minute version of Traffic's "The Low Spark Of The High-Heeled Boys"        a great concert throughout!
**Gov't Mule    Poolin' With The Mule    4 CDs     with monster bassist Les Claypool (of Primus) in tow for this sprawling September 20, 2001 show from San Francisco , the band cooks & cooks on Gov't Mule tracks, Primus tracks (including "Tommy The Cat"), plus several nifty songs from Pink Floyd ("Shine On You Crazy Diamond", which Claypool's side-band Frog Brigade also likes to perform), Led Zep ("Since I've Been Loving You"), and then, with Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady, a 17-minute shot at Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" (the original version of which Casady played on)
**Gov't Mule     Blue Mule       3 CDs        the complete show (both sets, plus encore) recorded in Los Angeles at the House Of Blues on September 21, 2001, along with 6 bonus tracks taken from two different Texas shows in May 1999      tracks include "Tastes Like Wine", "Look On Yonder Wall", a 21-minute "Sco-Mule", and a  21-minute "Afro Blue"     featured guests include Berry Oakley, Jr. & Dave Grohl
**Gov't Mule     Fire In The Cajun House     3 CDs      recorded in Scottsdale, Arizona at the Cajun House on September 24, 2001    as per usual, all kinds of songs are offered up, from John Lennon's "Revolution" to "Fire In The Kitchen", to "Moby Dick", to The Dead's "The Other One", among many, many others       
**Gov't Mule     Roseland        3 CDs        recorded at New York City's Roseland Ballroom in October 2001 and clocking in at well over three hours        guest performances by King Crimson's Tony Levin & Jefferson Airplane's Jack Casady (and with guitarist Warren Haynes playing his fanny off throughout, too!)     tracks include "Bad Little Doggie", "Down And Out In New York City", "On The Banks Of The Deep End",  "Lively Up Yourself", "Cortez The Killer" and "Rockin' In The Free World", among a host of songs
**Gov't Mule     Jersey Bound     3 CDs       recorded live in New Brunswick, New Jersey on February 27, 2002 and highlighted by a savage version of David Crosby's "Almost Cut My Hair", plus 6 bonus tracks from Warren's solo acoustic performance on Long Island on March 20, 2002       this is also the first of several Mule shows to feature guest guitarist Audley Freed of The Black Crowes
**Gov't Mule     Next Stop: The Vanderbilt     3 CDs       recorded live in Plainview, New York at The Vanderbilt on March 1, 2002, with Audley Freed of The Black Crowes as the featured guest guitarist (on nearly half the tracks, too, very nicely complimenting Warren Haynes)        highlights include a powerful "Mississippi Queen" and a terrific jam centered around Santana's "Gypsy Queen"
**Gov't Mule     Sco-Vermont     2 CDs     recorded live in Burlington, Vermont on March 2, 2002, with guest guitarist Audley Freed again sitting in       features both sets, plus encore, including an 18-minute "Fallen Down/The Other One", "Wild Horses", "Fool's Moon" and a 12-minute "Effigy"
**Gov't Mule     Word Of Mouth    3 CDs     recorded live in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in March 2002, with (just as the 3 above shows in New Jersey, New York & Vermont) guest guitarist Audley Freed once more helping out        features both sets, plus the encore, with standout performances of "It Hurts Me Too", "Dreams", "Is It My Body" and a superb "The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys"
**Gov't Mule     Back To Georgia        3 CDs       recorded live in Atlanta, Georgia on April 11, 2002, with both sets & encore included      along with a very strong setlist, also included are 6 bonus tracks taken from three separate concerts in '01 & '02
**Gov't Mule     One Night Stand In Buffalo     2 CDs      both sets (plus encore), recorded on April 15, 2002 in Buffalo, with highlights including "Pygmy Twylyte", "Comfortably Numb", "Sco-Mule" and "Far Away"
**Gov't Mule     No Quarter: Concert At The Beacon     3 CDs    recorded live in New York on April 17, 2002, and featuring both sets, the encore and 2 bonus tracks     along with meaty versions of "Pygmy Twylyte", "Bad Little Doggie" and "Blind Man In The Dark", the Mule offers up a fabulous version of Led Zep's "No Quarter", plus Black Sabbath's "War Pigs " & "Sweet Leaf"       the bonus tracks are from a pair of May 2002 television performances
**Gov't Mule      Top Of The World!      2 CDs      it's closing night of the Spring 2002 Tour in Madison, Wisconsin at the Barrymore Theater on April 21, 2002, and the band is in a relaxed mood, bringing in the Black Crowes' Audley Freed & Metallica's Jason Newsted to help out      both sets & the encore are included, with such featured tracks as the revved-up opener "Bad Little Doggie", the guitar-fuelled "Maggot Brain", "Dazed And Confused", "Soulshine" and "30 Days In The Hole"      19 tracks in all
**Gov't Mule      Larger Than Life      3 CDs       it's opening night of the Fall Tour 2002 in Boston on October 9, 2002, and Warren, Matt & company are intent on delivering the goods on all kinds of tracks, including Traffic's "Empty Pages", "Thorazine Shuffle" and "Banks Of The Deep End"       as always, includes both sets, plus the encore, plus a bonus track taken from the night before, when the Mule appeared on NBC-TV's Last Call doing "Beautifully Broken"
**Gov't Mule      Back To The Beacon       3 CDs       a favourite haunt of Warren's (and the Allman Brothers, too), the Mule returns to New York City's Beacon Theatre on October 11, 2002, and the longer the show goes, the better it gets        notable tracks include the jazzy "Devil Likes It Slow", Hendrix's "If 6 Was 9", Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Under Foot", plus the appearance of Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover on Purple's "Maybe I'm A Leo" and Jeff Beck's "Going Down"       includes both sets, the encore, and Warren's pre-show, 3-song acoustic guitar set
**Gov't Mule      Higher Ground      3 CDs      on the first of back-to-back nights in New York City (see below for the second night), the Mule & their guests serve up what would prove to be a surprisingly different show than the next night's, playing such tracks as Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground", "If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day", "Doing It To Death" & "Hottentot"       guests include Funkadelic's Bernie Worrell & guitarist John Scofield     19 tracks in all   
**Gov't Mule      Gov't Mule's Rockin' New Year's Eve      3 CDs      Warren & Matt celebrate December 31, 2002/January 1, 2003 with a huge, 25-track New Year's concert in New York, aided & abetted by Living Color's Vernon Reid, The Black Crowes' Audley Freed, King Crimson's Tony Levin, plus many other guest performers
**Gov't Mule      A Night At The Opera House III     2 CDs     the Mule's third time around in Toronto, with the band once again packing them in at the Opera House     highlights include a terrific "Devil Likes It Slow", "Monkey Hill/I Want You (She's So Heavy)", and "Ain't No Sunshine/Blind Man In The Dark"
**Gov't Mule      Rebirth Of The Mule: Live in Toronto 2003       2 CDs      after some 3 years of having guest musicians play with them (and never quite comfortable replacing their late bandmate, Allen Woody), Warren & Matt finally decide to put together a permanent group, adding Danny Louis on keyboards & Andy Hess on bass     the Rebirth Tour show in Toronto in mid-October 2003 is a strong one, too, with the band playing both crowd favourites ("Sco-Mule", "Soulshine" & "Blind Man In The Dark", among others) and also adding in fresh material, such as Frank Zappa's "Trouble Every Day"     18 tracks in all
**Gov't Mule      New Year's Eve In New York City       3 CDs      recorded live at the Beacon Theater on December 31, 2003/January 1, 2004, and featuring a host of great songs, particularly with the cover tunes, among them a 22-minute "Smokestack Lightning", "Sympathy For The Devil", "I Ain't Superstitious" & "For What It's Worth"      21 tracks in total

**(Gov't Mule)   Warren Haynes & Friends     Puttin' On The Ritz      3 CDs        a jam of all jams, recorded live at The Ritz in New York City in February 1993, with Warren joined by the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Noel Redding, Blues Traveller's John Popper, plus Allman Brothers & Funkadelic/Parliament members, as well as Trey Anastasio and the Dave Matthews Band     by disc 3, everybody's comfortable with each other and the musical sparks are flying everywhere, including a standout 12-minute version of Little Feat's "Spanish Moon", a 13-minute "All Along The Watchtower" and a monster 22-minute encore of "Gloria"

**(Gov't Mule)    Warren Haynes       Christmas Jam 2001       2 CDs       Warren and the Mule's 13th annual Xmas Jam, with help from the Allman's Oteill Burbridge on bass, and including superb versions of such Mule staples as "Rocking Horse", "Thorazine Shuffle" and particularly "Sco-Mule"      the 8 bonus tracks are from two May 2002 performances, the first of them featuring a horn section from a show in New Orleans, with an 18-minute "Spanish Moon" pretty much tearing the house down, plus a 3-song Mule acoustic set taken from a National Public Radio broadcast

**(Gov't Mule)    Warren Haynes Band       with the release of the Tales Of Ordinary Madness album (released with Warren already in the Allman Brothers Band but before he'd formed Gov't Mule), Warren's short-lived band opens up for the Allman's in Vermont in July 1993, offering a meaty, guitar-based set, with future Mule member Danny Louis on the keyboards      6 track set, plus a bonus track, and including "Fire In The Kitchen", "Invisible" and "Movers And Shakers"

**(Gov't Mule)    Blue Floyd      First Brick In The Wall       3 CDs       Gov't Mule's Allen Woody (switching from bass to guitar) & drummer Matt Abts go ALL Pink Floyd with their music, adding in touches of blues-rock, with their superb offshoot band, recorded live in Virginia in January 2000       the band also features the Black Crowes' Marc Ford and Allman Bros. alumni Johnny Neel & Berry Oakley, Jr.       this was their fifth-ever show, too!
**(Gov't Mule)     Blue Floyd     Beatle Jam     2 CDs      in a brilliant display of pure musicianship, the band briefly re-invents itself for a small series of shows, removing entirely their Pink Floyd setlist and replacing it with nothing but Beatles' songs      recorded live in New York in January 2002, with highlights including a full-speed-ahead 8-minute "Taxman", a re-arranged "Eleanor Rigby" and "Lady Madonna"      20 tracks in all

**Grand Funk    At Budokan     recorded live in Tokyo in September 1982 during the band's all-too-brief 1981-82 reunion     13 tracks in total, including "Footstompin' Music", "Queen Bee", "We're An American Band" and a savage "Inside Looking Out"

**The Groundhogs     Live In The Studio 1972: "Groundhog Day"    recorded for eventual FM broadcast out of Memphis, Tennessee in '72, Tony McPhee and his Groundhogs rip through a loud 'n heavy hour-long set, with a bonus track (from the same year) recorded live in London, England


**The Guess Who     Long Gone: Recorded Live Electric Lady Studios 1975       recruiting possibly Canada's best guitarist in Domenic Troiano, Burton Cummings & co. quickly released the album Flavours, and this live-in-the-studio show from Jimi Hendrix's studios in New York in January 1975 presents songs from that album, plus a few other bits & pieces        the highlight is the guitar-soaked 13-minute "Long Gone", in which Troiano offers up a blistering pace while Cummings lyrically barbeques former bandmate Randy Bachman for leaving the group to start up BTO      9 tracks in all
 
**Buddy Guy   Blues Condition: Chicago 1958-1964       featuring Buddy's rarest studio recordings, all of them recorded in Chicago, the home of the electric blues, between 1958 and 1964         14 tracks total

**Buddy Guy & Stevie Ray Vaughan     Birthday Party!      Buddy gets up on stage at his own club (called Legends, in Chicago) on his birthday, plays one song, and then Stevie Ray Vaughan joins Buddy on stage and they do a 25-minute version of "Champagne And Reefer", an 8-minute "Mary Had A Little Lamb", and an 18-minute "Leave My Little Girl Alone"      a great show!

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**The Jimi Hendrix Experience     The Are You Experienced Sessions             2 CDs     recorded in 1966-67, and featuring the outtakes & alternate recordings, plus a handful of terrific mono mixes, from the sessions that ultimately resulted in the landmark debut album by the Experience
**The Jimi Hendrix Experience     The Electric Ladyland Sessions       rehearsals, alternate takes & backing tracks for many of the songs that would ultimately appear on the Experience's groundbreaking 3rd album, including "House Burning Down", "1983 ... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)", "Gypsy Eyes" and "Come On"    16 tracks in all
**The Jimi Hendrix Experience     The Winterland Concerts I        2 CDs   BOTH shows from day 1 on October 10, 1968 of these classic Experience concerts
**The Jimi Hendrix Experience     The Winterland Concerts II       2 CDs   BOTH shows from day 2 on October 11, 1968
**The Jimi Hendrix Experience     The Winterland Concerts III      2 CDs   BOTH shows from day 3 on October 12, 1968
**The Jimi Hendrix Experience      In Sweden      2 CDs      features both the early & late shows from a very loud Experience, recorded live in Stockholm, Sweden on January 9, 1969
**The Jimi Hendrix Experience     The Voodoo Sessions     part 1 features 5 takes of the fabulous "Voodoo Chile" jam with Steve Winwood & Jack Casady, while part 2 features 15 takes of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" as Jimi slowly but surely builds up the entire classic song, bit by bit     20 tracks in total

**Jimi Hendrix   Rain & Mud      featuring 3 takes of Jimi's classic Electric Ladyland shuffle "Rainy Day, Dream Away", plus nearly 40 minutes of Jimi working & working on perfecting his version of Muddy Waters' "Mannish Boy"
**Jimi Hendrix   Band Of Gypsys: Complete      6 CDs       newly expanded, with better sound quality, and featuring ALL four of the December 31, 1969/January 1, 1970 Fillmore New Year's shows!       also features the 2 tracks (plus the introduction) that make up the infamous, aborted BOG performance in late January 1970 at Madison Square Garden's Winter Festival For Peace       51 tracks in total
**Jimi Hendrix   The Berkeley Soundcheck     the 40-minute soundcheck recorded before the actual May 1970 concerts in Berkeley, California
**Jimi Hendrix   New York Pop      recorded at Randall's Island, NY on July 17, 1970, and featuring the complete 55-minute show from the New York Pop Festival
**Jimi Hendrix   The Cry Of Love Sessions       rehearsals & outtakes from Electric Lady Studios in May 1970 that led up to Jimi's final studio album     tracks include 3 versions of the wicked "Freedom" (including an instrumental version), "Drifting", 2 versions of "Valleys Of Neptune", plus 3 bonus tracks, among them "Honey Bed"      11 tracks in all
**Jimi Hendrix   Blues, Inc.      a superb collection of previously unreleased studio performances that, rather amazingly, didn't make it onto the Hendrix "Blues" CD      with one listen, however, you'll quickly realize that such tracks as the 10-minute "Lord I Sing The Blues" and the 9-minute "Dancing Blues" are better than anything on the Blues CD itself!

**Jimi Hendrix & Traffic     Traffic Jam      a huge fan of Steve Winwood & Traffic, this features 2 long grooving & noodling studio sessions Jimi had with the band in 1968 and again in 1970, plus a 5-minute performance of Jimi on solo guitar         total time is just over 60 minutes

**Alfred Hitchcock      Music To Be Murdered By       originally recorded in 1958, with the master of suspense introducing, just as he also did on his television show, each song (by the Jeff Alexander Orchestra) with his typically dry, droll, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and wit     10 tracks, with such titles as "After You're Gone" & "Suspicion", as well as Hitch's famous TV theme song "Funeral March Of A Marionette"
  
**Randy Holden      Population II       decidedly heavy psych guitar from the former Blue Cheer guitarist, together with ex-Kak drummer Chris Lockheed        originally recorded in 1970

**Humble Pie     Street Rats      what was, initially at least, supposed to be their last album, produced by The Rolling Stones' Andrew Oldham     features all TWELVE tracks, not eleven (the original U.S. vinyl version featured 11 songs, with "There 'Tis" as the 7th song; the original British vinyl version also featured 11 songs, but deleted "There 'Tis" and instead added "Funky To The Bone")

**Hummingbird    We Can't Go On Meeting Like This       for all intents and purposes, it's the Jeff Beck Group, minus Jeff Beck       recorded in 1976, with Bobby Tench, Clive Chaman & Max Middleton (all previously in Jeff's group), plus legendary funk drummer Bernard Purdie (who as it happens had just been in Jeff's Blow By Blow touring band)      surprisingly or not, this is every bit as good as the Jeff Beck Group's fine Rough And Ready album

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**Il Balletto di Bronzo     Ys       a prog rock classic (in Italian, no less!), originally recorded in 1972

**Chris Isaak    Chris Isaak & Silvertone: Live Sessions       Chris at his very best, taken from several performances, many of them live in-studio television sessions        features an amazing 22 tracks, too!
**Chris Isaak    Swiss Movement         a terrific concert from Chris & Silvertone, recorded live in 1987 in Zurich, Switzerland         includes a great 7-minute "Wild Love", a 7-minute "In The Heat Of The Jungle", "Caledonia", "Tequila", and plenty more        17 tracks in all
**Chris Isaak    Live In The Heart of Chicago       with Silvertone lead guitarist Jimmy Wilsey playing up a storm, Chris & his band perform a first-rate show in Chicago in 1991  highlights include a 10-minute "In The Heat Of The Jungle", a 10-minute rock 'n roll medley, plus great takes of "Dancin", "Wicked Game" and "Wild Love"       13 tracks
**Chris Isaak     Chris Isaak's Crazy Christmas!      a 75-minute radio show romp celebrating the Xmas season, with Chris & Silvertone playing songs and horsing around, plus several Christmas-related tracks interspersed throughout         very funny, very enjoyable

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**Susan Jacks     Forever Poppy      singles, both hits & misses, from 1968-1982 by the Poppy Family singer    includes "Forever", "No Good To Cry", "Twice As Strong" and "Evergreen", plus the smash hits from the Poppy days      13 tracks in total

**Mick Jagger   Outback Affair: Concert In Australia     a decidedly strong concert from 1988 in Australia, with Mick's top-notch band including Joe Satriani on lead guitar          bookended by 2 excellent acoustic guitar & harmonica rock 'n blues workouts (sounding very studio-like, actually), Mick offers up a great show primarily doing Stones tracks, with a few of his most popular solo songs thrown in for good measure     the 5 bonus tracks are a real treat, too: it's The Rolling Stones themselves, also recorded live in Australia, in 1966 20 tracks in all
**Mick Jagger    Red Devil       surprising a lot of people by returning to his roots in May 1992, Mick put together a proposed solo album based entirely on 1960s-style Chicago blues, then, sadly, scrapped the project       22 tracks in all (featuring what would have been the complete album, plus bonus outtakes), and including Muddy Waters' "Still A Fool", Little Walter's "Mean Old World" & "Blues With A Feeling" and Willie Dixon's "Evil"

**James Gang     Rides Once Again       playing as if they'd never been away, Joe Walsh, Dale Peters & Jim Fox get back together for a reunion concert in February 2001 in Cleveland, their hometown      each and every one of their many classics gets performed, too, among them "Funk #49", "Tend My Garden", "Walk Away" & "The Bomber" suite

**Jefferson Airplane     Grip    the legendary original Airplane line-up, recorded live at the Fillmore West in early February 1967     10 tracks in total, including "White Rabbit", "Somebody To Love, a 12-minute jam, "Let's Get Together" and "Fat Angel"
**Jefferson Airplane     Polo Field Performance 1969      recorded live at Polo Field in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park in May 1969      there are 11 tracks to the show itself, ending with a long jam, plus 2 spirited bonus track jams, circa the summer of '69, with the Airplane joined by the Dead's Jerry Garcia      13 tracks
**Jefferson Airplane     Volunteers Live     recorded live at Winterland at the end of October 1969, with the Volunteers album just weeks away from being released       just over 78 minutes running time, and including "Wooden Ships", "Volunteers", "Eskimo Blue Day" and a 14-minute "Bear Melt" jam that closes the show      12 tracks in all
**Jefferson Airplane     Volunteers Sessions         featuring demos, rehearsals, instrumentals and overdub tracks that led up to the release of "Volunteers", perhaps the Airplane's best album       15 tracks

**Jethro Tull     The Complete BBC Sessions 1968-69      the band's initial radio broadcasts, featuring both the original line-up (with Mick Abrahams) and then with Martin Barre, performed exclusively for BBC programs in 1968-69
**Jethro Tull     My Swedish Feeling     recorded live in Sweden in 1969 at the first of  2 shows at the Konserthuset       the 9-minute bonus track of "With You There To Help Me" comes from a 1970 performance on the German TV show Beat Club
**Jethro Tull     Sit Down: Live In Concert 1970     with their classic Aqualung album soon to be released, Tull performs an 11-minute "My God", plus selections from their first 3 albums, including "To Cry You A Song", "My Sunday Feeling", and "Dharma For One", all from a terrific show in Chicago in August 1970
**Jethro Tull     Cross-Eyed      with Thick As A Brick just released, Tull open up the New Year of 1972 with a strong concert in Germany, doing a pared-down "Thick", "My God", "To Cry You A Song", "Cross-Eyed Mary" and 3 other tracks        7 tracks in total, with a running time of over 70 minutes
**Jethro Tull     25th Anniversary: Opening Celebration Performance   celebrating 25 years together, Ian Anderson & company offer up a superb opening show, playing old & new tracks      Ian's between-song monologues are pretty funny, too       a great show, full of energy and first-class musicianship

**Elton John   1970 Demos      featuring 14 demo tracks done by Elton, some solo and some with his band, circa the Tumbleweed Connection/Madman Across The Water era

**Eric Johnson     Live In Texas      2 CDs      with the guitar wizard's Ah Via Musicom album just released, Eric performs an overpowering show in front of a surprisingly small club-like audience in his hometown of Austin, Texas in March 1990       the bonus tracks on disc two are from a November 2000 appearance on PBS-TV, including a splendid rendition of Hendrix's "Spanish Castle Magic"     17 tracks in all

**John Paul Jones    Live Zooma     recorded live in Boston in December 2001, with the legendary ex-Led Zep bassist/multi-instrumentalist playing material from his first 2 solo albums, along with a few nifty re-arrangements of such Led Zeppelin songs as "When The Levee Breaks" and "Black Dog"  

**Janis Joplin     Kozmic Koncert!     splendid sound quality highlights this terrific concert from Amsterdam in April 1969, with Janis & her Kozmic Blues Band tearing it up right from the get-go     Janis, as always, pretty much coughs up a lung with her vocals, most especially on the monster rock 'n soul classic "Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)"      8 tracks in all
**Janis Joplin     Raise Your Hand!      a homecoming of sorts for her, a spirited Janis offers up a rousing set from late August 1969 at the celebrated Texas International Pop Festival

**Sass Jordan    What A Lulu Of A Night!     2 CDs    she's currently one of the judges on TV's Canadian Idol, but at the time of this show, in September 1998, Sass could belt out her bluesy hard rock with the best of them      recorded live at the now-defunct Lulu's, which at the time was purported to be the largest nightclub in North America     16 tracks in total, including all of Sass's best, among them "Damaged", "High Road Easy" and a 17-minute "Rainshowers"

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**B.B. King   Completely Blue     invited to perform at his first-ever rock festival, B.B. knocks 'em dead at the 1969 Texas Pop Festival, his stinging guitar solos featured throughout on such tracks as "Sweet Sixteen", "Why I Sing The Blues" and "Don't Answer The Door"

**The Kinks   The Great Lost Kinks Album      originally released as a promotional LP back in 1973 with 14 songs, this CD version now includes 20 tracks, all of them outtakes and hard-to-find oddities from the late 1960s and the early 1970s        a great find for any Kinks' fan, to be sure
**The Kinks   BBC Performances 1972/1974    2 CDs     disc 1 features a terrific BBC broadcast from 1972, complete with not only songs, but interviews with the band, their manager, and even people in the street   disc 2 is from a 1974 concert

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**Led Zeppelin    Superhype        featuring studio rehearsals, outtakes & alternate versions for tracks from Led Zep's albums I-IV, including different versions of "You Shook Me", "Out On The Tiles", "Black Dog" and "Stairway To Heaven"     12 tracks total       (also see: John Paul Jones & Robert Plant)
**Led Zeppelin    Distillation      a superb (and superb-sounding!) collection of very rare studio & live Led Zep, including their first studio appearance as a band, backing British singer P.J. Proby, with the 6-minute "Jim's Blues"; several rehearsal takes of "Jenning's Farm Blues" (which eventually became "Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp"); Jimmy doing his acoustic "White Summer" on TV's Julie Felix Show; 2 great versions of "No Quarter" (including a nifty instrumental take), plus plenty more     12 tracks in all
**Led Zeppelin    Danish Pastry: Recorded Live In Denmark 1969       4 songs recorded for TV Byen (Danish Television) on March 17, 1969, including monster takes of a 9-minute "Dazed And Confused" and a 12-minute "How Many More Times", followed by 3 tracks recorded the night before (also in Denmark), including the rare track "I Gotta Move"
**Led Zeppelin    Percy's Lament      recorded live at the Fillmore West in April 1969      splendid sound quality highlights such unique Zep performances as a 17-minute "As Long As I Have You/Fresh Garbage" and the 12-minute "Pat's Delight"       
**Led Zeppelin    1969 Texas Pop Festival      one of the great early Led Zep shows, recorded live in August 1969 at the huge Texas International Pop Festival (still not quite the legends they'd eventually become, they're introduced as "The Led Zeppelin"!)
**Led Zeppelin    Hogtown       recorded live in Toronto, Canada in November 1969
**Led Zeppelin    Just Got Lei'd     recorded live in Honolulu, Hawaii in September 1970
**Led Zeppelin     The Curry Tapes       travelling to India in 1972 and utilizing several of India's best musicians on their traditional instruments (tabla, tambura, etc.), Led Zep III's "Friends" & Led Zep IV's "Four Sticks" get  re-worked, eastern style, with Jimmy Page (solely on acoustic guitar, never electric) prodding these great players of India on      recorded in April 1972, it's a unique set of rehearsals and songs
**Led Zeppelin    Performance: Live In Stoke, England 1973        2 CDs       a dazzling show in their native England in January 1973 that includes an overpowering 29-minute "Dazed And Confused"     12 tracks
**Led Zeppelin    New York New York     3 CDs      the complete Madison Square Gardens concert from February 1975, clocking in at almost 3 hours, and including a 12-minute "In My Time Of Dying", the funk-filled "Trampled Underfoot", and a mammoth 34-minute version of "Dazed And Confused"   

**Claudia Lennear   Phew      the one-and-only album ever released by this sexy & dynamic rock 'n soul singer, whose career is best known for being the hottest Ikette of them all; a singer on Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs & Englishmen world tour; and most especially as the real-life inspiration for Mick Jagger's lyrics to "Brown Sugar"      a forgotten little gem of an album, originally recorded in 1973, and featuring Ry Cooder & Allen Toussaint

**John Lennon     Over the Walls and Under the Bridges      21 tracks of rare mixes and demos, circa '74, that have far more punch to them than the actual Walls And Bridges album that John would eventually release from these sessions     includes two versions of "#9 Dream," "Goodnight Vienna," two versions of "Whatever Gets You Thru The Night," "Mucho Mango," "Here We Go Again" & plenty more

**Little Feat     Speaking Of Aromas ...      recorded live in the studio in New York in April '73, with Lowell & co. in fine form, particularly on a 16-minute triple play of "Cold Cold Cold/Dixie Chicken/Tripe Face Boogie"  10 tracks in all
**Little Feat     Live At Ebbets Field     2 CDs      features both shows (afternoon & evening)  recorded live in Denver, Colorado on July 14, 1973
**Little Feat     Big Smooch: Live On Valentine's Day 1975      classic Lowell-era Feat doing 9 tracks, including such nuggets as "Fat Man In The Bathtub", "Dixie Chicken" and "Rock & Roll Doctor"
**Little Feat     Spirit Of '76     2 CDs     recorded live in Washington, D.C. during the '76 U.S. bicentennial, with the band in top form throughout      includes "Lafayette Railroad", "On Your Way Down", "All That You Dream", plus 13 more tracks
**Little Feat     A Paramount Presentation     2 CDs       recorded live at the Paramount Theatre in Portland in June 1978        includes "Rocket In My Pocket", "Skin It Back", "Day At The Dog Races" and "A Apolitical Blues"     15 tracks in total

**Los Lobos      At The Fillmore      2 CDs        part rock band/part traditional Mexican band/part superb jam band, Los Lobos can pretty much do it all       recorded live at The Fillmore in San Francisco in December 1998, with highlights (and there are a bunch of them) including "Bout To Lose My Mind", a great version of Traffic's "Dear Mr. Fantasy" and an 11-minute "Mas y Mas"    21 tracks in all
**Los Lobos      The Bowery Boys      2 CDs       recorded live at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City in August 1999, and including meaty versions of "Colossal Head", "Oh, Yeah", Creedence's "Born On The Bayou/Susie Q" and "Cinnamon Girl"      23 tracks in total
**Los Lobos       @ Amoeba      located on Haight St. in San Francisco (about a 5-minute walk from the legendary corner of Haight/Ashbury) sits a terrific music store called Amoeba Music, and it's where Los Lobos played this nifty set in June 2002, crankin' up the amps for an 11-track workout that's a pleasure to listen to from beginning to end

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**Mahavishnu Orchestra     Beyond Fire       John Mclaughlin's super-charged jazz-rock fusion band, recorded live on their 1972 U.S. tour      features the classic line-up, too, with powerhouse drummer Billy Cobham, electric violinist Jerry Goodman, and Miami Vice/Jeff Beck keyboard player Jan Hammer
**Mahavishnu Orchestra     Soul Bird       2 CDs       recorded in November 1972 in Berkeley, California, and featuring 9 tracks (all of them greatly extended from their original studio versions) spread over two discs, among them a 15-minute "Birds Of Fire", the 24-minute "Dream", a 20-minute "The Dance Of Maya", and the 19-minute "One Word"

**Mandala     Soul Crusade     Toronto's very own first truly great rock 'n soul band, with Domenic Troiano, George Oliver & Roy Kenner    features 8 tracks that would make up their '68 album, plus 4 bonus tracks (the A and B-sides of two singles) from '66    includes 2 should-have-been classics, "Opportunity" & "Love-itis"

**Jayne Mansfield     Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky & Me      originally recorded in 1963, and featuring the one-and-only Jayne reading the poetry of Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and others, with background music by Tchaikovsky
 
**Bob Marley & The Wailers    Catch A Live Fire     recorded live in 1975 in a small club in Chicago on the Natty Dread Tour, which would turn out to be the last of Bob's intimate club tours      features superb, rockin' performances of "Rebel Music", a 12-minute "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Slave Driver"      the 2 bonus tracks (a great "Exodus" and a spirited "Jammin") are from 1979, when Bob had moved on to stadium-sized concerts       10 tracks in all  

**Max Webster (featuring Kim Mitchell)   Borrowed Brooms      2 CDs   recorded live in Vancouver, Canada in 1978, and featuring 15 of their best-loved tracks, including "Hangover", "Waterline" and "The Party"
**Max Webster (featuring Kim Mitchell)   The Boogie Is Everybody's Business     their best-ever performance, recorded in 1980 only days before the release of their "Universal Juveniles" album    10 tracks, with encore

**John Mayall's Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton, Peter Green & Mick Taylor   The Time Has Come: The BBC Performances        featuring live recordings from all 3 of Mayall's legendary lead guitarists, including tracks from 1965 with Clapton, from 1966 with Green, and from 1967-68 with Taylor       14 tracks in total

**Paul McCartney       Ram Is Live        2 CDs       recorded live in Tampa, Florida, and considered by his fans to be the absolute best show on his Spring 2002 Driving U.S.A. tour        Paul sings songs right from his beginning days ("All My Loving") straight up to today ("Vanilla Sky") and just about everything else in-between       34 tracks in total

**The Steve Miller Blues Band      Children Of The Past       his debut album still a long way off from being released, Steve Miller plays the intimate Matrix club in San Francisco, California circa January 1967     7 tracks in all during his complete set, among them "Going To Mexico", a 22-minute blues jam, "Mercury Blues" & "Motherless Children"
 
**Missing Persons     Singing In L.A.        featuring the gorgeous Dale Bozzio on lead vocals, super-drummer Terry Bozzio and guitarist Warren Cuccurollo, Missing Persons were a band to be reckoned with   they're captured live in concert here, with their debut album Spring Session M recently released        includes nifty versions of "I Like Boys", "Walking In L.A." and "Destination Unknown"        12 tracks in total

**Joni Mitchell     Coffeehouse Music     2 CDs       young, talkative & bursting at the seams with all kinds of music & words, this features Joni playing several acoustic guitar-and-vocals sets in 1966-67 in Philadelphia on the then-thriving hipster coffeehouse folk music circuit       33 tracks in all, including such gems as "Brandy Eyes", "Night In The City", "Carnival In Kenora", "The London Bridge Song", "Both Sides Now", "Mister Blue" and oodles more

**Montrose   100 Proof Sammy       recorded live at the Record Plant (East) in New York City in 1973, with Ronnie Montrose on lead guitar and Sammy Hagar on lead vocals     also includes 4 bonus tracks recorded live in concert in April 1974, with the band's second album (and last with Sammy) just released     14 tracks in total  (also see: Tony Williams)
**Montrose   Amps On High      recorded live at the Record Plant (West) in Sausalito, California in 1974, with Ronnie Montrose on lead guitar and Sammy Hagar on lead vocals     among other tracks, there's a smokin' version of "Rock Candy", "Bad Motor Scooter", a 10-minute "Space Station #5", plus such rarities as "This Beautiful Martin" & "Evil"    the 2 bonus tracks are from Ronnie's stint, circa 1973, with the Edgar Winter Group, recorded in concert doing their most popular songs, "Free Ride" and an 8-minute "Frankenstein"

**Alanis Morissette    More Or Less: Definitive Acoustic & Electric Live Performances       taken from various locales throughout Alanis' superb winter 1995 world tour, with the acoustic tracks from L.A.'s House Of Blues and the electric tracks from a pair of European shows
 
**Van Morrison   Roxy Performance       Van The Man offers up a great show in Hollywood at the Roxy Theatre in November 1978, doing a 9-minute "Cypress Avenue", a 9-minute "Caravan", plus "Brown-Eyed Girl" and a terrific "And It Stoned Me"    10 tracks

**Mountain   Mt. Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East 1971      featuring their twin classics, "Mississippi Queen" & "Theme For An Imaginary Western", along with a 13-minute "Dreams Of Milk And Honey"     there are 2 live bonus tracks as well, including a great "Nantucket Sleighride"     8 tracks in all

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**New York Dolls     Life's A Drag: Rare Live & Studio Performances   featuring the Dolls' 1973 studio demos, including "Hoochie Coochie Man", "Endless Party", "Frankenstein" and "Pills", plus 6 live tracks taken from a television performance circa 1974        19 tracks in total
**New York Dolls     Punishing Sweden: Live In Concert 2006      it took just over 30 years for the Dolls to release their third studio album, but when they did, they delivered a beauty    this live show, recorded in July 2006 at the Peace & Love Festival, showcases the new New York Dolls just as you'd hope they'd always be, raw and untamed     13 tracks overall, featuring new & old songs, with a bonus track included

**Nucleus    self-titled 1st album      from 1968         legendary Canadian hard rock/psych band that would soon evolve into the equally terrific A Foot In Coldwater

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**The Joe Perry Project     Pipe Dreams      just in case any Aerosmith fan needed to be reminded, Joe left that band for a few years to start up his vastly underrated Joe Perry Project (before, of course, he eventually returned to Aerosmith)      this live show from 1980 has Joe's guitar right up front in the mix and features 16 rockin' tracks, including his signature tune "Let The Music Do The Talking", plus "The Mist Is Rising", "Discount Dogs" and such Aerosmith crunchers as "Get The Lead Out" and "Same Old Song And Dance"

**Pink Floyd    Performance In Amsterdam 1969       great sound quality highlights a near-80 minute performance of 2 suites, "The Man" & "The Journey", incorporating several Floyd songs (and rarer material, too) into each suite, the entire performance recorded for a radio show back in '69 in The Netherlands
**Pink Floyd    Empty Meadows       in true quirky Pink Floyd fashion, recorded live at a completely empty Fillmore West in April 1970, to apparently be used for a TV broadcast at some point       features terrific takes of such tracks as a 17-minute "Atom Heart Mother", "Set The Controls" & "Grantchester Meadows"
**Pink Floyd    The Amazing Pudding       from a BBC performance in September 1970, and featuring the broadcast premiere of the complete 24-minute "Atom Heart Mother" (which was sometimes nicknamed "The Amazing Pudding")       5 tracks, and also including "If" and "The Embryo"
**Pink Floyd    Casino        recorded live November 1970 at the infamous Montreux Casino (immortalized by Deep Purple in "Smoke On The Water"), and featuring a great show that includes "Astronomy Domine", "The Embryo" and "More Blues"
**Pink Floyd    Meddling: The 1971 BBC Radio Broadcast   featuring the debut live performance of their Meddle album   simply put, a terrific-sounding show!
**Pink Floyd    Live At Pompeii     a classic performance from the autumn of 1971 from the Roman Amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy     also includes 2 bonus demo tracks of "One Of These Days (I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces)"
**Pink Floyd    Looking Through Knotholes      yet another brilliantly performed show, with a 26-minute "Looking Through The Knotholes In Granny's Wooden Leg" (it's the track "Echoes", actually!) a definite highlight       recorded live in Germany in 1972
**Pink Floyd    Tune-Up For The Dark Side Of The Moon    recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in early 1972 BEFORE the actual album had even been released, this performance was used as the press introduction to what would eventually become their masterpiece, with no audience (outside of journalists, that is) in attendance at the show!
**Pink Floyd    Obscured      2 CDs     recorded in Vienna, Austria in October 1973, with the second disc mostly devoted to Dark Side material, while the first disc offers up the great "Obscured By Clouds/When You're In", along with "Echoes", "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" and "Set The Controls"     14 tracks
**Pink Floyd    The Great Gig In Hamilton     2 CDs      long considered the definitive concert performance from the 1975 Wish You Were Here tour   features the 9-part "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Have A Cigar", plus Dark Side material, and then ending with a 25-minute "Echoes"

**Robert Plant and Priory Of Brion      Oxford Engagement        2 CDs      Plant's first-class cover band performs 16 tracks in a small club in Oxford, England in late 1999, including Donovan's "Season Of The Witch", the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man", and James Brown's "Think"

**Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation      Deep In The Heart Of Texas      Plant's terrific 2002 North American tour, recorded live in Austin, Texas on PBS-TV's Austin City Limits, with bonus tracks from 2002 appearances on the Leno & Letterman shows    highlights include "Down To The Sea", "Hey Hey What Can I Do", "Morning Dew" and a superb "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You"
**Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation      Mighty Live Rearranger     recorded in Paris in the summer of '05 for radio broadcast, with the set cleverly divided into alternating tracks from the Mighty Rearranger album, then rearranged (really rearranged!) Led Zep songs, among them "Black Dog", "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" & "When The Levee Breaks"

**Porcupine Tree    Live At The Fillmore    2 CDs     a stunning tour de force of Steven Wilson's neo-prog rock, recorded live in San Francisco at the Fillmore in November '02      the complete show, including the encore tracks, and featuring "Blackest Eyes," "Hatesong" & "Slave Called Shiver," plus a bonus track of a hugely extended alternate studio version (with different lyrics, to boot) of their classic "Even Less"

**The Pretenders    The Pretenders @ The Beeb      archive performances recorded for the BBC, featuring the original line-up in top-notch form, recorded throughout 1979, both in the studio and in concert
**The Pretenders    No Waiting       a strong showcase of the original band (with Chrissie, who gets quite ticked off at one point at a photographer, joined by James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon & Martin Chambers)       recorded live in Germany in June 1981, with 18 tracks in total, among them "Precious", "The Wait", "The English Roses", "Stop Your Sobbing" and "Message Of Love"  
**The Pretenders    Hyndesight       Chrissie Hynde and her razor-sharp band perform an upbeat, energetic show in her adopted home of England in June 1994     includes many of the classics ("My City Was Gone", "Back On The Chain Gang", "Middle of The Road"), plus such other nuggets as "Hollywood Perfume" and "Night In My Veins"        11 tracks in all

**Procol Harum     Shining Brightly      with Robin Trower still in their line-up (but not for long), and with their guitar-driven Broken Barricades album recently released, Gary Brooker, wordsmith Keith Reid & co. serve up a terrific live-in-the-studio performance in New York City from April 1971    tracks include "Memorial Drive", "Simple Sister", "Shine On Brightly" & "Juicy John Pink"      12 tracks in all
**Procol Harum     4th Of July Radio Broadcast     with one night off during their summer '74 tour of the U.S., the band nevertheless dives headfirst into a live-in-the-studio recording from Dallas, Texas     the setlist combines rarely played numbers ("Long Gone Geek", "Mabel", "The Idol") with scorching versions of  such familiar tracks as "Conquistador" and "Power Failure"

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**Queen    On Her Majesty's Secret Service: The First Recordings    before there was Queen, there was Smile, with Brian May & Roger Taylor (but not Freddie Mercury, although his predecessor sure sounds like him!), and in 1969 the band put together 6 terrific demo tracks, including the original version of "Doing All Right"    later, in 1970-71, before they'd released their first album, they laid down the demos for it, including versions of "Keep Yourself Alive", "Modern Times Rock 'N' Roll", "Great King Rat" and "Liar"     finally, there were the Larry Lurex (a.k.a. Freddie Mercury) tracks, also recorded before the 1st album was released      20 tracks

**Quicksilver Messenger Service   Acapulco Gold: Live 1968     featuring classic rare performances by one of the Bay Area's greatest bands     opens up with 5 tracks from a live '68 broadcast, including a 12-minute "Gold And Silver", followed by 3 tracks recorded live at the Fillmore East in '68, including a 13-minute "The Fool"     8 tracks in total, 64 minutes in length

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**Robert Randolph & The Family Band      Horseshoe     2 CDs      rockin' bluesy guitar-slinging with a Stevie Ray Vaughan feel to it, all of it played on a pedal steel guitar?       jam band favorite Robert Randolph somehow pulls it off      recorded live in Toronto, Canada at the Horseshoe Club in July 2003, with 16 tracks in all, including an 11-minute "Shake Your Hips", "Purple Haze", a 16-minute "Nobody", and "I Don't Know What You Come To Do"

**Rhinoceros     Anthology      best known for their smash hit "Apricot Brandy", this features all the songs from their superb 1968 debut album, plus the best songs from their second & third albums, plus 4 bonus tracks       20 tracks in total

**Keith Richards    Whip It Up!      2 CDs      Keith and his X-Pensive Winos recorded live in Germany in late November 1992     features the complete show, plus encore, plus 2 bonus tracks from Keef's 1988 appearance on Saturday Night Live, plus 3 more bonus tracks (featuring songs he didn't play in Germany) from a Boston show 2 months later in February 1993          23 tracks in total
**Keith Richards    Wicked     recorded live in Toronto in 1993 on Keef's Main Offender tour   a surprisingly strong show, too, with Keith offering up HIS versions of such Stones' gems as "Gimme Shelter" and "Time Is On My Side" (and "Happy", of course), plus several great solo tracks, among them the superb "Take It So Hard", "999" & "Eileen"     also includes 4 bonus tracks, recorded live in London at the Marquee Club just weeks before the Toronto gig     14 tracks in all
**Keith Richards    Acoustic Keith     over 20 tracks featuring Keef alone in the studio, with just him and an acoustic guitar      recorded in 1995, he sings and picks away on old blues tracks ("Salty Dog"), old Dylan ("John Wesley Harding"), old Beatles ("Please Please Me"), plus R&B tunes, and his solo and Rolling Stones songs       Keith clearly seems to be enjoying himself throughout, too

**The Rolling Stones     England's Finest: In The Beginning And Elsewhere      opens up with the 5 demo tracks from 1963 the Stones used in an effort to land their very first recording contract       after that, there's tracks from both the 1964 & 1965 British NME Poll Winners concerts the Stones were featured in, their Fall '64 set on the TAMI Show revue in California, and several of their appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show, including the infamous "Let's Spend Some Time Together" (when Mick was pressured into altering the chorus for "Let's Spend The Night Together")     23 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones     Roots: The BBC Performances 1963-1965     2 CDs  right from the beginning of their career, here's 50(!) songs the Stones did for the BBC between '63 to '65       also includes a couple of short interviews with Mick & Brian         this is, without question, the Stones at their youngest and freshest
**The Rolling Stones     The Legendary Chess Sessions 1964-65      the superb Chess Studio sessions in Chicago (there were 4 sessions in total), including such rare tracks as "Reelin' And Rockin'" and the unedited, longer version of "2120 South Michigan Avenue"     25 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones     Stereo Masters: Big Hits & Alternate Takes            2 CDs      the stereo masters for both the final versions & outtake versions of one classic 1960s Stones' song after another      these are the true Andrew Loog Oldham-produced stereo versions, not those ugly-sounding 'electronically re-processed' versions on the supposed 'stereo' LPs collectors have suffered with for years       several songs sound absolutely superb, too, including "Satisfaction", 2 versions of "19th Nervous Breakdown", and 2 versions of "Heart Of Stone"            40 tracks in total
**The Rolling Stones     Their Satanic Majesties Request Sessions        the all-instrumental(!) outtakes and alternate versions for all the songs on the original "3D" album, plus additional instrumental tracks for songs from this era, including the B-side "Child Of The Moon" and "Majesties Honky Tonk"      16 tracks in total
**The Rolling Stones      Beggars Banquet Sessions       the spotlight is on the cleanest-sounding version yet of "Everybody Pay Their Dues" (which, in time, became "Street Fighting Man"), plus alternate/outtake versions of all of the other tracks that made up the landmark Beggars Banquet album, plus a few other bonus track treats added in for good measure
*The Rolling Stones      Hyde Park 1969       historically significant to say the least, with the Stones playing a free concert for an estimated 300,000 people at London's Hyde Park in July 1969, as they say goodbye to Brian Jones and introduce Mick Taylor (and introduce, too, a couple of songs from the soon-to-be-released Let It Bleed album, as well as do several songs they'd never played live before)      the complete performance, with 15 tracks in all, including closing the show with a 19-minute "Sympathy For The Devil"
**The Rolling Stones      Bleeding: Free Concert At Altamont December 1969      2 CDs      the complete show, with the Stones previewing tracks from their brand new Let It Bleed album (and performing "Brown Sugar" live for the very first time, too)      little of this is remembered, however, as an 18 year old was killed during "Under My Thumb", which in turn led the band to stop playing "Sympathy For The Devil" for quite some time (in fact, both of these songs had to be played twice, because of the violent interruptions)     put plainly, the significance of this concert cannot be overestimated, as it signalled an ugly end to the love & peace Woodstock era    
**The Rolling Stones      High Keef & Green Mick T: Outtakes & Alternate Versions 1969-1973     featuring great (butdifferent!) versions of "Brown Sugar", "Bitch", 2 takes of "Gimme Shelter", the terrific "I'm Going Down" and plenty more     16 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones      Live At Leeds 1971    with Mick Taylor now on lead guitar, and  recorded live on March 13, 1971 at Leeds University in England      11 tracks, including the encore
**The Rolling Stones      Jungle Disease      outtakes & unreleased tracks recorded in 1970-71 in preparation for Exile On Main St., easily one of the best Stones albums of them all       includes terrific (and sometimes very different!) versions of such tracks as "Good Time Women" (which would become "Tumbling Dice"), "Shake Your Hips", the complete 11-minute version of the unreleased "I Don't Know The Reason Why", "Got A Line On You" (which would become "Shine A Light"), and plenty more     17 tracks in total
**The Rolling Stones       "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones"     as rough & tough as they'd ever be, this is the Stones we all love, recorded live 'n loud on their whirlwind 1972 North American tour through the heart of Texas
**The Rolling Stones       The Continuing Adventures Of      outtakes & alternate recordings galore, featuring unreleased tracks left off Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, Black And Blue and Tattoo You     18 tracks in total, among them the kickin' "Criss-Cross Man", Mick Taylor's terrific "Leather Jacket", the longer version of "Dance Little Sister", an 11-minute "Slave", plus different mixes of "Fingerprint File", "100 Years Ago" and "Hide Your Love"     
**The Rolling Stones       Black Sugar/Red Devil: The Complete 1973 Bedspring Symphony Recordings In London & Brussels       with Mick Taylor on lead guitar, and with a 12-minute "Midnight Rambler" performed like never before (or since), this is an absolutely legendary performance by the Stones, taken from their 1973 European tour        14 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones       Rip This Town     2 CDs       recorded live in Los Angeles in 1975 at the L.A. Forum, during that particular time in the Stones history when their jet-setting decadence was on full display       22 tracks from the band, including "Star Star", "Rip This Joint", "You Gotta Move", "Fingerprint File", plus all the classics as well       also includes 2 tracks by Billy Preston, who was briefly given the spotlight in the middle of the show throughout the tour    24 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones      Some MORE Girls      with a host of tracks recorded (but only ten actually used for the album), here are 18 studio outtakes from the 1978 Some Girls sessions, including the rockin' opener "Linda Lu", "It's All Wrong", "So Young", and the notorious "Claudine"
**The Rolling Stones      Thoroughly Wasted: The Complete Some Girls 1978 Tour Rehearsals     4 CDs      spread over four discs (and containing an enormous number of songs, instrumentals & jams), this features the May 1978 tour rehearsals, recorded in Woodstock, New York at Bearsville Studios      opens up with a 17-minute "Miss You", and then proceeds to feature all kinds of nuaggets, as they dig into songs both past & present, including "Cocksucker Blues", a 14-minute "C'mon Everybody/Summertime Blues", "Crackin' Up", a 10-minute "Rocket 88", 2 versions of "Brown Sugar", 2 versions of "Tumbling Dice", and oodles more      56 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones      Shattered       2 CDs        recorded at the small Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey during the 1978 Some Girls tour, this is considered by many to be by far the best-sounding show of the entire tour    19 tracks in all
**The Rolling Stones      Under Our Thumb: Live At The Pontiac Silverdome, 1981      recorded in concert in Pontiac, Michigan on November 30, 1981 on their Tattoo You World Tour     16 tracks
**The Rolling Stones      Testing The Wheels       2 CDs      the July/August 1989 rehearsals recorded at a private school in Connecticut, as the band gets together their complete, rough 'n ready setlist of tracks for the Steel Wheels Tour        there's also some between-song rehearsal dialogue scattered throughout
**The Rolling Stones      Keith Richards: Voodoo Lounge Sessions        rehearsals for the Voodoo Lounge album, with the album done according to Keef ... he's the lead singer, not Mick on ALL of the tracks!
**The Rolling Stones      Stripped Again       featuring unreleased live & studio tracks, plus hard-to-find B-sides, this is something of the companion album to the live Stripped album and the studio Voodoo Lounge album      recorded between 1993-95, it features 19 tracks, many of them absolutely first-rate, both old ("Gimme Shelter" & "Live With Me") and new ("Jump On Top Of Me" & "The Storm")
**The Rolling Stones       Bridges To Babylon: The Toronto Rehearsals   taken from their August/Sept '97 rehearsals as they prepared for the release of the album and the subsequent world tour      features a wide variety of songs from their entire career, as they worked on everything from "Satisfaction" to "Ruby Tuesday", and from "19th Nervous Breakdown" to "Anybody Seen My Baby"      with no audience around, this is a uniquely up-close way of hearing the Stones practice and play   13 tracks in total
**The Rolling Stones      Knock Knock        the Stones kick off their Bridges To Babylon tour in intimate fashion, with a surprise club gig at Chicago's Double Door on September 18, 1997       13 tracks
**The Rolling Stones      Fifteen Licks      it's become a tradition: before the Stones begin one of their massive tours, they first play a small nightclub gig      with superb sound, this was recorded live in Toronto at the Palais Royale in August 2002, just before the start of the Licks Tour     15 tracks
**The Rolling Stones      Get Yer Live Licks In!      2 CDs     the 2002-2003 Licks World Tour comes to New York's famed Madison Square Garden in January 2003, and the Stones are already in high gear      as is the custom on this huge tour, a certain album is featured in the set list, and for this show it's Let It Bleed, so "Monkey Man", "Midnight Rambler", "Gimme Shelter" & "Let It Bleed" all get played       along with a whole bunch of classics, also featured is a terrific 11-minute "Can't You Hear Me Knocking"      21 tracks in all
 
**David Lee Roth     Let's Get Ready To Ruuuumble!      recorded live in Finland in June '99, with Diamond Dave in top form and leaning heavily (and loudly) on his Van Halen tunes, among them "Unchained", "Jump", "Little Guitars" & "Runnin' With The Devil"     the 7 bonus tracks are from the 1986 studio rehearsals for DLR's first solo album Eat 'Em And Smile, with Steve Vai & Billy Sheehan     22 tracks in all
  
**Roxy Music       For Your Live Pleasure    2 CDs     over 2 1/2 hours of live Roxy Music, much of it performed in 1972-73 for the BBC, when both Bryan Ferry & Brian Eno managed to co-exist with their brilliant mix of slightly off-center pop, glam & experimental sounds     27 tracks in all

**Todd Rundgren     Everything/Nothing?     with his landmark album Something/Anything? newly released, Todd offers up 7 tracks at a live studio performance in 1972, including "Broke Down & Busted" and "Slut"       in 1978, at the old warhorse of a nightclub in Toronto called the El Mocambo, Todd rocks a bit harder, with 6 tracks featured, including "Black Maria", "Couldn't I Just Tell You" and "Hello It's Me"   13 tracks in total

**Rush   Finding Our Way: Live In The Studio 1974     back in 1974 Rush began all over again, with a new drummer (Neil Peart, of course) and the development of a much more sophisticated sound        with their Fly By Night album just weeks away from being released, they played a terrific show at Jimi Hendrix's famed Electric Lady Studios       tracks are featured from their 1st & 2nd albums, including powerhouse versions of "Finding My Way" and "Anthem", a combined song from both albums (an intense workout of "Working Man/By-Tor & The Snow Dog"), and the guitar-laced "Bad Boy" that would never be released on any album
**Rush    A Passage To Detroit      2 CDs     with their Tour of the Hemispheres in full swing, the band pulls out all the stops for their December 1978 show in Detroit, offering up a complete 18-minute "Hemispheres", a complete 19-minute "2112", a 10-minute "Cygnus X-1",  a 12-minute "Xanadu", and a 10-minute "La Villa Strangiato"      18 tracks in all  

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**Santana     Felicidad!     with Jose Feliciano waiting in the wings to join in on encores of "Black Magic Woman", "Oye Como Va" & "Guajira", Santana first tears through their set, recorded live at the L.A. Forum in March 1971     that patented mix of spirited Latino percussion, Carlos & Neal Schon's guitars and Gregg Rolie's organ & vocals are all right up front throughout, too
**Santana     Reunion     the original band line-up (which included Carlos, drummer Mike Shrieve, and singer/keyboardist Gregg Rolie) re-united in August 1986 in California for this rousing reunion concert, which featured many of their original classics from when they first began    highlights include "Soul Sacrifice/Voodoo Chile", "Black Magic Woman" & "Jingo"

**Joe Satriani    The Cotton Club     not yet the full-fledged guitar hero that he is today, Joe plays before a packed house at Atlanta's Cotton Club in 1988, blasting through "Surfing With The Alien/Birdland", "Satch Boogie" and "Hordes Of Locusts"       10 tracks

**The Brian Setzer Orchestra      Swingin' In Montreal      Brian's super-charged big band recorded live at the 1995 Montreal Jazz Festival      highlights include "Brand New Cadillac/Peter Gunn", "As Long As I'm Singin'", & "Good Rockin' Daddy"     the 4 bonus tracks include performances on the late-night U.S. TV talk show circuit, plus a terrific guitar-only version of the classic "Sleepwalk" that Brian recorded for the old Nashville Network        16 tracks in all
**The Brian Setzer Orchestra       Live Hoodoo Voodoo      recorded live in Minnesota in Fall 1996, Brian and his superb big band charge through 16 tracks, among them "The James Bond Theme", "Route 66", "There's A Rainbow Round My Shoulder" and "Town Without Pity"      (also see: The Stray Cats)

**Simon & Garfunkel      Time It Was (And What A Time It Was)      recorded live in concert at Miami University Of Ohio in November 1969     includes the debut live performance of "Bridge Over Troubled Water", the unreleased "Cuba Si - Nixon No", "Mrs. Robinson", "The Sound of Silence", and "The Boxer" (with an extra verse)       16 tracks

**Sly & The Family Stone     Fillmore A Go-Go      a rip-roarin', knockout of a show from the Fillmore East in October 1968      10 tracks, including "M'Lady", "It Won't Be Long", "Color Me True", "Life" and "Love City"
**Sly & The Family Stone     Sly A Go-Go      Sly's funk-filled performance from the 1969 Texas International Pop Festival        features the original band line-up, with monster bassist Larry Graham, and includes the show & the encore
**Sly & The Family Stone     TV A Go-Go       a remarkable collection of Sly & The Family Stone's landmark appearances on U.S. television between 1968-74, including The Dick Cavett Show, The Leslie Uggams Show, Soul Train, Music Scene, and plenty more    15 tracks in all

**Spirit     Live Garbage      featuring the original Spirit line-up, with Randy California and Jay Ferguson, first at the 1969 Texas Pop Festival (10 tracks), and then 3 very rare tracks from a show at the Magic Mushroom club in Los Angeles in 1967

**Spirit/The Staehely Bros.   Feedback/Sta.Hay.Lee     The Staehely Brothers-era of Spirit, with Ed Cassidy and John Locke       features the 1972 Spirit album "Feedback", plus the terrific 1973 Staehely album "Sta.Hay.Lee"       19 tracks in total

**Spooky Tooth    Alive!     a vastly underrated band, Spooky Tooth featured Gary Wright ("Dream Weaver"), Greg Ridley (from Humble Pie) & Luther Grosvenor (from Mott The Hoople)       13 tracks in total, taken from BBC performances and a live concert, and including the monster "Evil Woman", "Better By You, Better Than Me" & their wild re-arrangement of "I Am The Walrus"

**Steely Dan    Motel California     recorded live in the studio in March 1974 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles     features plenty of Fagen & Becker's early classics, too, including "Do It Again", "Reelin' In The Years", "Bodhisattva" and the rare "This All Too Mobile Home"   
**Steely Dan    Memphis Ribs (Wet & Dry)    the Pretzel Logic Tour continues in Memphis in '74 on what would be their last tour for ages & ages      13 tracks in total, including both encores  
**Steely Dan   The Royal Scam Studio Sessions     featuring 10 rehearsal tracks (including two instrumentals) from 1976 for Steely Dan's fifth album, The Royal Scam      as a bonus, there are 3 rehearsal tracks from the 1980 Gaucho album sessions also included   13 tracks in total

**Steppenwolf     Hodge Podge     recorded live at the Fillmore West in 1968, with "Born To Be Wild" just released as a single     John Kay & band offer up a terrific performance, too, the clear-cut highlight of which is a 20-minute take of the "Hodge Podge/Resurrection" medley from the second Steppenwolf album, plus a 12-minute "Your Wall's Too High", "Tighten Up Your Wig" and plenty more

**Cat Stevens     Live Performances 1971       classic-era Cat Stevens, with songs culled from two 1971 shows, the first from the BBC and the second from PBS         tracks include "Moonshadow", "Wild World", "Where Do The Children Play" and "Hard Headed Woman"        18 tracks in total

**Stray Cats    Rumble In Tokyo     recorded live in Tokyo, Japan in 1990, with the retro-rockabilly kings zipping through 17 tracks in front of an adoring Japanese audience       (also see: The Brian Setzer Orchestra)


**Stray Dog   How It Is: The Stray Dog Anthology     led by guitar slinger Snuffy Walden, this features tracks from their 2 albums, including the monster hard rock classic "Tramp (How It Is)", "Very Well", "You Know", "Slave", "Dreams & Junk" and the stunning "Rocky Mountain Suite"        also included are several non-album songs, among them the 10-minute "The Journey"         16 tracks in total

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**Taste (featuring Rory Gallagher)   Taste This!       recorded live in Switzerland in 1970   10 tracks, including a 13-minute "Catfish", plus "Sugar Mama", "Eat My Words", "Railway And Gun" and more

**Ten Years After     In Finland '69       from December 1969, with the band (and the sound quality, for that matter) as good as could ever be wished      the show is augmented by 2 bonus tracks, both also from '69, with "Bad Scene" taken from the TV show Music Scene and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" from a performance on Beat Club
**Ten Years After     Made In America 1969-1970       divided into 2 parts, with the first part (4 tracks, all of them long ones) recorded live at the Texas International Pop Festival in September 1969, while part 2 is six months later at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles in March 1970, also featuring 4 tracks        highlights include an 18-minute "I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes", 2 great tracks from the Cricklewood Green era ("Love Like A Man" & "Working On The Road") and, of course, a rousing "I'm Going Home"
**Ten Years After     Marquee Reunion      Alvin & the original line-up are in fine form as they briefly re-unite for a show celebrating the 25th anniversary of London's famed Marquee Club in July 1983        among the tracks is  a 13-minute "I'm Going Home", "Woodchopper's Ball" and "I May Be Wrong" 

**Thin Lizzy     Phil 'Er Up: Live At The Rainbow 1978     recorded live in March 1978 in London, England at the Rainbow Theatre       features 11 tracks, including "The Boys Are Back In Town", "Dancing In The Moonlight", and the wicked twin guitars on "Massacre"     the 2 bonus tracks are from separate performances in Ireland in 1980, including "Whiskey In The Jar" with Midge Ure      13 tracks in total
**Thin Lizzy     Lizzy On The Loose       with their Renegade album set for release, Lizzy debut several tracks from it during a 4-night stand in late 1981 at London's famous Hammersmith Odeon       they then pour it on with several earlier knockout songs, including "Killer On The Loose" and "Emerald"      the 2 bonus tracks are from the previous year's tour     11 tracks in all 
**Thin Lizzy     Luck Of The Irish      recorded live in 1983 at England's Regal Theatre, with Lizzy's legendary twin-guitar attack at full force on such heavyweight tracks as "This Is The One", "Cold Sweat", a 7-minute "Rosalie", and the beautiful ballad "The Sun Goes Down"    the 3 bonus tracks are Phil's last-ever studio recordings     14 tracks in all

**Toronto     Recorded Live In Toronto     a great Canadian band, led by guitarist & songwriter Brian Allen and lead singer Holly Woods       they released 5 solid "rock 'n' wave" studio albums between 1980-84 and then split up       this is their only known live recording, done in Toronto in 1980, and features 3 tracks that were never released on any of their albums       11 tracks in total

**Traffic   Traffic Unwrapping: Live In Sweden 1967      with their classic debut album yet to be released, the original Traffic, with Dave Mason on lead guitar, plays its 2nd-ever concert      includes all kinds of songs that would rarely be performed by the band without Mason, including "Paper Sun", "Hole In My Shoe" and "Giving To You", plus a great version of "Dear Mr. Fantasy"  
**Traffic    Mad Shadows        in the midst of their John Barleycorn era, Steve Winwood & Traffic perform a concert in their native England in the spring of 1970   tracks included are "Pearly Queen", "Glad" & "Freedom Rider", among several others
**Traffic    Gamekeeper     recorded in the summer of 1970 at the Fillmore West, with the trio doing tracks from all 3 albums, plus a nifty version of Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home"      12 tracks
**Traffic    Traffic Report       recorded live in late 1970 at New York's Anderson Theatre, with the band back to being a quartet   tracks included are "40,000 Headmen", "Every Mother's Son" & "Medicated Goo"      also includes 2 bonus tracks, "Low Spark" & "Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory", taken from a 1973 performance in England     11 tracks in total
**Traffic    Sessions: The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys     recorded in England in 1971, and featuring alternate versions & mixes (including a decidedly different take on "Low Spark"), unreleased tracks and jams from the studio sessions for perhaps Traffic's most famous album      12 tracks in all
**Traffic    High Spark: Live 1972      recorded live in California, with their album "Low Spark Of The High-Heeled Boys" recently released, and with Winwood, Capaldi & Wood at their songwriting peak
**Traffic    Shoot Out At Winterland    2 CDs     although recorded with the same line-up as the officially released "On The Road" live album, this is a much more spirited performance from their '73 world tour (and with 12 tracks compared to just 7, it's a whole lot longer, too)
**Traffic    Woodstock Performance      reuniting for an album & tour in 1994, Traffic plays the huge Woodstock Festival II, and they do a world-class show, too, sounding better than ever         there's one new track featured called "Mozambique", plus several age-old classics, including "Low Spark", "Light Up Or Leave Me Alone", "Rock 'N' Roll Stew", "Dear Mr. Fantasy" & "Medicated Goo"       just a great show!

**(Traffic) Steve Winwood     Alive & Well In Chicago     with his About Time album recently released, Steve serves up live-in-the-studio performances of "Bully" & "Why Can't We Live Together" from the new album, as well as something of a career retrospective that includes a great version of Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home", plus nifty re-arrangements of such Traffic staples as "Dear Mr. Fantasy", "Freedom Rider" & "Glad"

**The Tragically Hip    By Invitation Only        with Christmas fast approaching, The Hip held a very special, by-invitation-only concert in Toronto, Canada in December 1989       11 tracks, including knockout versions of "New Orleans Is Sinking", "Opiated" and "38 Years Old"       a great show!

**Pat Travers Band     Live In Germany      recorded in 1976 at Rockpalast WDR Studio in Germany, with Pat flat-out smokin' on his six-string from beginning to end      10 tracks in all, including "Boom Boom (Out Go The Lights)", "Hooked On Music", "Medley, Parts 1&2", and "Rock 'N' Roll Susie"

**T.Rex    Electric Warrior Sessions      from 1971, these are the studio sessions that led up to the release of Marc Bolan's best album   includes 3 different versions of "Bang A Gong (Get It On)", plus outtakes of "Honey Don't", "Cosmic Dancer", 2 versions of "Monolith", and the rare (and decidedly guitar-heavy, too) 12-minute closing jam session  11 tracks in total

**The Ike & Tina Turner Revue     The Soul Train Performances       2 of Ike & Tina's high energy guest spots on TV's Soul Train, including their appearance in the very first year of the long-running show (1972) and in 1975      11 tracks in all, with interviews (mostly with Tina, since Ike rarely has much to say) and featuring such songs as "Feel Good", "Nutbush City Limits" & "Sexy Ida"

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**U2   New Year's Night: Concert In Dublin 1989     2 CDs     recorded on New Year's 1989 and considered by many U2 fans to be one of the best-ever concerts by the band        the bonus tracks feature the complete "Save The Yuppie" concert in San Francisco in November 1987        35 tracks in total 
**U2   The Achtung Baby Sessions       recorded in 1991 in Germany during the early stages of recordings for the "Achtung Baby" sessions, and featuring a dozen tracks that would not appear on the forthcoming album
**U2   Broadway Extravaganza        the Irish supergroup plays a free concert for 1,000 adoring fans in New York City in December 2000, playing old & new tracks alike, adding in a couple of cover tunes to liven things up even further

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**Van Halen     Building Blocks: In The Beginning      opens up with 10 demo tracks produced by Kiss's Gene Simmons in 1976, followed by 6 demo tracks mixed by Van Halen themselves in 1977, all of them put together BEFORE they had signed their record deal with Warner Bros.      many of these songs remain unreleased to this day, too      the bonus tracks are even earlier(!) than these demos: still a bar band, there are 4 tracks, among them a kicked-up version of Bad Company's "Rock Steady" & Bowie's "The Jean Genie"       22 tracks in total      (also see: David Lee Roth)
**Van Halen     L.O.A. (Live On Arrival): The Pasadena Performances 1977-78      2 CDs      featuring 2 separate shows, both recorded in Pasadena, California, with disc 1 performed just before they'd released their stunning debut album and disc 2 recorded after the album had been released

**Stevie Ray Vaughan    Lou Ann        features early studio recordings with Lou Ann Barton (in those days, before SRV had gone solo, Stevie would sing a song, then Lou Ann the next song, then back to Stevie, and so on)     includes 10 studio recordings from November 1979, plus a live bonus track from the 1979 Austin Blues Festival
**Stevie Ray Vaughan    Texas Heat      2 CDs       a very special concert to celebrate the release of SRV's 1st solo album, Texas Flood, recorded live in Houston, Texas at Fitzgerald's Club on June 20, 1983        disc 1 seems something of a warm-up; disc 2, however, is without question Stevie at his world-class best, as he simply blazes away from start to finish          21 tracks total       (also see: David Bowie)
**Stevie Ray Vaughan    Ripley's Believe It Or Not      recorded live in Philadelphia at Ripley's Music Hall in October 1983, with SRV blazing away on Jimi's "Little Wing", "Third Stone From The Sun" & "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", plus a 10-minute "Texas Flood"      13 tracks in all
**Stevie Ray Vaughan    Chicago Affair       featuring 8 tracks from SRV's blistering appearance at the 1985 Chicago Blues Festival, plus 3 bonus tracks from Stevie's guest spots on a 1986 Saturday Night Live and a B.B. King TV special      11 tracks in total
**Stevie Ray Vaughan    He Got Soul! - The Soul to Soul Studio Sessions     2 CDs      a wealth of superb studio material from Dallas in 1985, as SRV puts together Soul to Soul, his 3rd solo album      includes several wicked instrumentals, a great 19-minute "Little Wing/Third Stone From The Sun", unreleased tracks, a 15-minute "Life Without You", bits of studio dialogue, wild solo guitar spots from Stevie, and much more      21 tracks in all   
**Stevie Ray Vaughan    Spring Break!       recorded live during the notorious March spring break in Daytona Beach, Florida on March 25, 1987       a sizzlin' performance by SRV, featuring 11 tracks  
**Stevie Ray Vaughan    Live ... And More!        11 live tracks seamlessly taken from back-to-back nights in November 1989 in Albuquerque, New Mexico & Denver, Colorado on Stevie's In Step tour, and including powerhouse versions of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and "Riviera Paradise"     the 2 bonus tracks are from a rare Los Angeles studio session, circa April 1973, with SRV on lead guitar for recordings by Marc Benno & The Nightcrawlers     13 tracks in all

**Stevie Ray Vaughan & Buddy Guy    Birthday Party!     Buddy  gets up on stage at his own club (called Legends, in Chicago) on his birthday, plays one song, and then SRV joins Buddy on stage and they do a 25-minute version of "Champagne And Reefer", an 8-minute "Mary Had A Little Lamb", and an 18-minute "Leave My Little Girl Alone"     from July 30, 1989

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**Raquel Welch      Raquel!      recorded in 1970 in Paris & Mexico for a television special, with the stunning movie star at her peak of popularity     includes 10 tracks, among them "California Dreamin", "Good Morning Starshine" & "The Sound Of Silence"     the 2 bonus tracks feature the two extended dance re-mixes of Raquel's very sexy 1987 "This Girl's Back In Town"     12 tracks in all

**Paul Weller    Wild Weller Wood       16 tracks performed by the ex-frontman of The Jam, recorded live for the BBC in February 1996   includes "The Changingman", "Tales From The Riverbank" & "Whirlpool's End"
**Paul Weller     Live Heavy Soul: The Modfather Live 1998      recorded live for BBC's Radio One in November 1998, with The Face's Ian McLagan guesting on Paul's classic "The Changingman"

**The Who    Fillmore Concerts      2 CDs       classic-era Who shows, both recorded live at the Fillmore East, with disc 1 from April 6, 1968 and disc 2 from October 22, 1969
**The Who    Tommy: The Who Live In Concert    2 CDs     just 5 weeks after their historic performance at Woodstock, The Who do their first-ever major opera house performance of their legendary rock opera   recorded live in Amsterdam on September 29, 1969  
**The Who    Who's Who (Or: Odds And Sods, Too)     2 CDs      an absolutely terrific collection of rarities, demos, live performances and general oddities, right from the earliest days of The Who (tracks from the 1965 Richmond Jazz & Blues Festival) up to demos & rehearsals from the late seventies      41 tracks in all
**The Who    Don't Be Afraid To Make A Fool Of Yourself: Just Look At Us     2 CDs     recorded live in Toronto in December 1975, and long considered to be one of the definitive concert performances by Pete, John, Keith & Roger when they were at their peak

**Tony Williams    Live Ego      the late, legendary drummer's live 2-set performance at the 1978 Tokyo Jazz Festival, with a fabulous band that includes Ronnie Montrose on guitar & Brian Auger on keyboards, plus a special guest appearance by Billy Cobham

**Johnny Winter   Texas International Pop Festival     Johnny's blistering set from 1969 at the Texas Pop Festival     also features 2 bonus tracks from a 1971 show in Sweden (with Rick Derringer in the line-up), including a smokin' 15-minute "Rock And Roll Medley"     8 tracks in total, 77 minutes in length
**Johnny Winter   Winterized!     Johnny's great concert in Seattle on March 19, 1985   10 tracks, including encore      just over 70 minutes in length
**Johnny Winter   Ol' Pink Eyes Is Back       hard-to-find knock-out performance by Johnny, recorded live in Oshawa, Canada on March 21, 1987

**Steve Winwood    Alive & Well In Chicago      with his About Time album recently released, Steve serves up live-in-the-studio performances of "Bully" & "Why Can't We Live Together" from the new album, as well as something of a career retrospective that includes a great version of Blind Faith's "Can't Find My Way Home", plus nifty re-arrangements of such Traffic staples as "Dear Mr. Fantasy", "Freedom Rider" & "Glad"

**Stevie Wonder    Wonderland        recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre in London, England in 1974, when Stevie was at the absolute height of his creative powers        includes such classics as "Superstition", the funk-heavy "Higher Ground", an 11-minute "Living For The City", plus the two-part, 16-minute funk-fusion opening "Contusion"        11 tracks

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**Neil Young   Electric Young: Plugged-In Performances 1970-1993     featuring some of Neil's greatest guitar-heavy live tracks, including a 9-minute "Southern Man" from a 1976 show with the short-lived Stills-Young Band, an 11-minute take of the rare "Touch The Night" from a 1984 show with Crazy Horse, and concluding with "Mr. Soul" from a 1993 concert in Europe     there is one "quiet" track, and it's the 1984 Austin City Limits PBS-TV version of "Helpless", long considered one of the best-ever versions    9 tracks total
**Neil Young   Acoustic Young: Unplugged Performances 1970-1971    the companion to the above "Electric Young" CD, this features some of Neil's best purely solo work, backed only by his acoustic guitar (and sometimes his harmonica, or sometimes just his piano)       includes some of his earliest performances of "Heart Of Gold", "Old Man", and 12 other tracks
**Neil Young   Cajun Spices: Live In New Orleans 1984      a great performance by Neil, with the International Harvesters, recorded in the Crescent City in September 1984      features 8 tracks, including a superb 9-minute version of "Southern Pacific"     the bonus track of "Hippie Dream", recorded live in September 1986 with Crazy Horse, tops the studio version, too          9 tracks in total
**Neil Young and Crazy Horse    Bonnaroo '03     2 CDs       opening up with a 22-minute "Love To Burn", Neil & Crazy Horse let loose with a twin electric guitar-drenched show from June 2003 that also features such classics as "Cinnamon Girl", "Cortez The Killer" and a 25-minute "Like A Hurricane"     12 tracks in all   

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**Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention   Get The Gas Mask: Assorted Live Adventures 1968      a superb variety of FZ, all of it recorded live in 1968, in England (late October '68), Germany (early October '68) and California (August '68)    11 tracks in all, including 2 versions of "Gas Mask" contained within 2 long medleys, plus (horror of horrors) an appearance by Wild Man Fischer at the California show
**Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention   Bacon Fat: Live In Toronto 1969      a terrific show from Toronto's long-gone Rock Pile, loaded with Frank's off-kilter music (and his funny monologues, too, for that matter) the show's highlight is the 30-minute "The String Quartet", which clearly shows that Frank's songwriting, even away back in '69, was simply leagues ahead of everybody else        10 tracks in total, with a running time of over 66 minutes

**Frank Zappa   Hot Rats Live      live versions of an instrumental "Willie The Pimp," "Sharleena" and a 25-minute "Chunga's Revenge" highlight a terrific show from Los Angeles in March 1970, as FZ ventures away from his Mothers Of Invention and into a long and varied solo career      the new band cooks, too, with Ian Underwood, Sugar Cane Harris & Aynsley Dunbar all playing up a storm
**Frank Zappa   Picnic Piknik       taken from the superb 1970 Dutch television program "Piknik", and featuring FZ's new band at the time with Flo & Eddie, plus Ian Underwood and Aynsley Dunbar        tracks include "Wonderful Wino", "King Kong" and "Call Any Vegetable"
**Frank Zappa   Memorial Barbecue     recorded live in the studio for the Swedish TV program "Oppopoppa"       features the complete 73-minute show, with 7 tracks, including a 24-minute "Dupree's Paradise", a 21-minute "Farther Oblivion", "Eric Dolphy Memorial Barbecue" and "Penguin In Bondage"
**Frank Zappa   Extreme     taken from the 1974 TV program A Token Of My Extreme, with the "Montana" and "Cosmik Debris"-era band in full swing, and pretty much presented as one long suite of  7 tracks      the bonus tracks are 2 songs from Frank's 1976 appearance on Saturday Night Live and a studio outtake of "I'm The Slime"       10 tracks in total
**Frank Zappa   Zoot Allures Live    2 CDs    FZ's Zoot Allures band (with Terry Bozzio, Eddie Jobson & Patrick O'Hearn) offers up a great show from Boston in October 1976     includes an 18-minute "Black Napkins", a 12-minute "The Torture Never Stops", "Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station" and "Stinkfoot"    17 tracks
**Frank Zappa   Holiday In Berlin    2 CDs      recorded in Berlin, Germany in mid-February 1978, with Frank and his band performing a terrific show that lasts well over 2 hours      25 tracks in total
**Frank Zappa    I Have Been In Germany     2 CDs      recorded in Germany in late February 1978, and loaded with 4-letter expletives, particularly during "I Have Been In You"     also features "Baby Snakes", "Watermelon In Easter Hay", "Peaches En Regalia" & "King Kong"     the 3 bonus tracks are from a rare show in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in November 1974, and include a 10-minute "Inca Roads" and a 10-minute "Penguin In Bondage"       22 tracks in all
**Frank Zappa   Ahoy!     2 CDs      recorded live at the Ahoy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands in May 1980, with plenty of humor, plenty of world-class playing, and top-flight sound quality      highlights include "Keep It Greasy", "Charlie's Enormous Mouth" and "Ms. Pinky/I Love Lucy"      24 tracks in all
**Frank Zappa   Heavy Duty    2 CDs     recorded live in Saratoga Springs, New York in September 1984, and featuring 27 tracks, including a 14-minute "Let's Move To Cleveland", "Heavy Duty Judy", "Crew Slut", an 8-minute "Sharleena" and "Chana In De Bushwop"
 
**ZZ Top   Adventures On The Autobahn: Live In Germany 1980     before their techno-boogie phase had set in (but after their beards had grown in!), this is ZZ Top at its best, with their patented mix of Texas-style hard rock & blues in full gear   loaded with their classics, too, including a 10-minute "La Grange", "Dust My Broom", "Jesus Just Left Chicago", "Manic Mechanic", "Arrested For Driving While Blind" and "Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers"       20 tracks in total

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