CHRIS O’DELL WASN’T FAMOUS. SHE WASN’T EVEN ALMOST FAMOUS. BUT SHE WAS THERE.

She was in the studio when the Beatles recorded The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be, and when Paul recorded “Hey Jude,” she sang in the chorus.

She was at Ringo’s kitchen table when George Harrison said, “You know, Ringo, I’m in love with your wife.” And Ringo replied, “Better you than someone we don’t know.”

She typed the lyrics to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. She lived with George and Pattie Boyd at Friar Park, developed a crush on Eric Clapton, and unwittingly got involved in the famous love story between Eric and Pattie.

She’s the subject of Leon Russell’s “Pisces Apple Lady,” a song he wrote to woo her. Other rock legends with whom she was intimate include Ringo, Mick Jagger, and Bob Dylan.

She worked with the Rolling Stones as their personal assistant on their infamous 1972 tour and did a drug run for Keith Richards.

She’s “the woman down the hall” in Joni Mitchell’s song “Coyote” about a love triangle on Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour. She’s the “mystery woman” pictured on the back of the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street. She’s the “Miss O’Dell” of George Harrison’s song about her.

Miss O’Dell is the remarkable story of an ordinary woman who lived the dream of millions — to be part of rock royalty’s trusted inner circle. Illustrated with private photographs and jam-packed with intimate anecdotes, Miss O’Dell is a backstage pass to some of the most momentous events in rock history.

“A riveting, honest, and brave account of life with the most famous names in rock and roll history…hard work, tough love, huge loss, pain and gain. I couldn’t put the book down. I just loved it.”
– Pattie Boyd, author of Wonderful Tonight

“Chris O’Dell knew all the greatest names in sixties and seventies pop, from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones to Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan. Nicknamed ‘the Pisces Apple Lady,’ she was the ultimate insider, a uniquely trusted employee and friend in a world where betrayal and backstabbing are the norm. Now at last she tells her story, in devastating detail yet without envy or malice…a rockin’ good read.”
– Philip Norman, author of Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation and John Lennon: The Life

“I enjoyed reading it very much. It is an astonishing look into the backstage of rock and roll.”
– Leon Russell

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CHICKENFOOT DELUXE EDITION DUE

International rock music record label earMUSIC will release a new, Deluxe Edition of the eponymous debut album by 2009′s biggest rock band “Chickenfoot”. The 2-disc Deluxe Edition includes a bonus DVD disc featuring over 60 minutes of live performances and promotional footage.

The band, comprised of former Van Halen and Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and world renowned electric guitarist Joe Satriani, is being hailed as one of the most exciting rock and roll guitar bands in years.

This deluxe version of the album will be released in the UK on Monday October 26th and will include an additional DVD, containing exclusive live footage, behind the scenes interviews and both the band’s official music videos, for debut single ‘Oh Yeah’ and upcoming single ‘Soap On A Rope’, set for a November release as a double A side with ‘My Kinda Girl’.

2009 saw Chickenfoot’s debut album reach phenomenal world wide acclaim, debuting at #4 on the American Billboard 200 (to date the band have sold over 300,000 copies of the album in the USA) and charting highly all over the World, including a Top 20 place in the UK album chart, and reaching #10 in Germany and Japan.

After the album’s release in June, Chickenfoot embarked on a huge world tour, selling out every show across Europe and America. The band’s debut UK gig at the o2 London Shepherds Bush Empire was rapturously received by the UK fans and music press alike; Metal Hammer magazine said of the performance “Chickenfoot Live are every bit as electrifying and exhilarating as we had hoped…a fantastic show!”

Due 16 October.

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BOBBY WHITLOCK ‘MY TIME’ CD DUE

Bobby Whitlock will be releasing another new cd in the coming weeks. He revisits a few Dominos classics as well as a host of new material. Bobby exclusively reveals the details to our readers:

~My Time~
I built a recording studio in the hill country down in Mississippi just to record this record. I sure am glad that I did too.

“Sold Me Down the River”

Brady Blade counts off this straight ahead rock and roll opener. Darryl Johnson is on bass and Buddy Miller is playing rhythm guitar. I’m playing the slide guitar and the piano and organ. My son Beau and daughter Ashley are singing background vocals on this whole record. Ashley has a lovely innocent sounding voice and Beau sounds exactly like me when I was his age and was with the Dominos. Our timbres are the same. I knew this would be the only opportunity I would ever have to sing with both of my children. Now it’s there forever.

“Bell Bottom Blues”

I couldn’t resist doing this song. I am playing a 1956 Hammond B3 thru four Leslie speakers all set differently. It is very lush sounding. Beau is singing my old part on this.

“It’s Only Midnight”

Steve Cropper and I wrote this song. After I finished recording it at I sent it to him in Nashville and he put his signature guitar on it. Jim Horn came down to Mississippi and played sax and all of the horn section parts on everything.

“A Wing And A Prayer”

The piano that I’m playing is a new Yamaha C3. Along with the Hammond B3 and a couple of Leslies and my children’s choir it sounds like the little church in the woods.

“Home”

I did an acoustic radio tour across America in the mid seventies. During a live interview that I was doing in Red River, New Mexico a woman called the station on the request line and was on the air with us. She said that she had a request for me. I asked her what it was, thinking that it was going to be, what Thorn Tree was about or something like that. But that wasn’t it at all. She said that she needed help finding her son who had gone missing for some time. She said that no-one would help her because it was a domestic dispute. This conversation is live on the airwaves. I said that I didn’t know what I could do but to write a song about it and sing it. She said that she tried to get some people in Nashville to help her by doing just that but no-one would. I told her that I would do whatever I could do. After that during each and every interview that I did, and that was a lot of them, I would say to the DJ, “excuse me a second I have to say something.” Then I would say, ”Michael go home son, your Mother’s crying and she needs you and she misses you.” Then I would continue on with the interview like nothing had happened. It’s against FAA regulations to do such a thing. But it was live and no-one knew that I was going to do it. I didn’t ask their permission. I just did it. Michael did hear me and eventually went home to his Mother. After I got back home and off tour I wrote this song.

“Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad”

Big horn section and a funky track on another one of my favorite songs. I’m playing rhythm guitar and Hammond B3 and Barry Swain is playing lead guitar. With Brady Blade on drums and Darryl Johnson playing bass this song rocks!

“I Get High On You”

CoCo is singing on this one with me. I’m playing acoustic guitar and Barry is playing the lead guitar.
　
“It’s Only Thunder”

This is the only track on this CD that was not recorded at my studio.
Jim Keltner is playing drums. Tim Drummond is on bass. Steve Cropper in playing electric guitar. I’m playing acoustic guitar and Hammond B3.

“Ghost Driver”

Ghost Driver is about me learning how to drive and wrecking my Daytona Ferrari with the speedometer stuck on 155 mph. The story is in my book “Domino”. This is a driving song just like “Let It Rain”. I used to tear down the motorway at night playing that song at full volume and I would wind the engine up to whatever key the song was changing to and then I would shift out into the next gear. Rock and rolling down the road. Awesome! Some things never change. Ferraris are finely tuned and you can actually play them if going fast and getting there very quickly doesn’t bother you. And you’ve got to have the right song on your player. Darryl Johnson plays some very funky bass on this number. Barry Swain plays lead guitar on this. It was take one on every song he played on. What a fine player.
　
“There She Goes”

This song came to me as I watched my daughter drive away into the night back to an impossible situation that I could not help her with. So I had to let her go.

“I Love You”

This song was written by Beau and myself. He wrote the chorus while sitting in the swing under an apple tree in our back garden when we lived in Ireland. He had just turned eight. There is a photograph of him at work in the swing. He had my white Strat in his lap and was playing an open E. He finished it and came in and said, “hey Dad listen to this that I just wrote”. And he started singing, “I love you, I love the way you always make me feel. I love you, I love you.” I finished it and recorded it in Mississippi.
I’m playing the acoustic, main electric rhythm and lead guitar and Buddy Miller is doing the fills. I love the ending. The acoustic guitar has a lovely little melody and Ashley is singing at the end, “I love you, I love you”. I can’t express my feelings with words as to what this means to me. Except that I will always be able to hear her sing and say, “I love you” to me.

“Born to Sing the Blues”

My daughter was about four and had just learned to write. One evening I was down stairs sitting on the couch playing my guitar. As usual, I was in the doghouse with her mother again. I was playing a very cool little something when up walks Ashley with pencil in hand and a piece of paper that she had been writing on. She handed it to me and said, “Here Daddy, this is you”. It read, Born To Sing The Blues. I couldn’t believe it! I wrote the song right then and there. I have written two really great songs that were both started by each of my children when they were just that. Children. What an inspiration they were.

“Standing In The Rain”

This is one of my favorite songs. I really was standing in the rain when the inspiration for this came to me. Buddy Miller plays the tenor guitar and the mandolin on this. I’m playing the acoustic guitar. The rain storm was taking place while we were recording. So I had some mikes set up on the porch recording it while it was all happening. Thunder, lightening, rain and all.

CD will be available via CD Baby http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bobbywhitlock2

“Vintage” already available, buy your copy here.

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‘MEET THE MEATBATS’ BOMBASTIC, FUNKY, SEXY AND LOUD… CHAD SMITH IS BREAKING OUT ON HIS OWN!

From the powerhouse drummer behind the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the recently formed supergroup ‘Chickenfoot’, comes Chad Smith’s new instrumental band Bombastic Meatbats, and their debut album ‘Meet the Meatbats’. The album will be released in the UK on Monday 12th October by new international rock music label earMUSIC.

Along with guitar star Jeff Kollman, multi-faceted keyboardist Ed Roth, and Motor City bass ace Kevin Chown, they have created one of the most interesting and unpredictable instrumental bands in years; Chad Smith’s Bombastic Meatbats. Their sound creates a cutting edge sonic experience fusing together Classic Rock, Old School Funk, Punk, and seventies R&B.

The Meatbats’ sound is as uncalculated and spontaneous as their accidental beginnings, forged as an outgrowth of Jeff, Ed, and Chad’s recording and touring with rock legend, Glenn Hughes. Kollman recalls, “Whenever I would jam with Ed and Chad at Glenn Hughes’ rehearsals, we would warm up with some impromptu Jeff Beck-esque grooves. One day Chad said, ‘Hey, we should record something like this!’ Next thing you know we were in the studio making an album!”

Needing a bass player to round out the group, Kollman contacted long time friend, bassist Kevin Chown. “I called him on the day of the first recording session,” continued Kollman. “He came over and saved the day – we got five tunes down in no time and the rest is history!”

Stretching the envelope with their exhilarating live performances, often deviating from the original arrangements to keep things fresh, no one quite knows (even the band it seems at times) just where the Meatbats will go next. Each performance becomes a unique experience enjoyed by the listener.

“My influences, through my brother, were so many of the groups that came out of England in the late 60′s and early 70′s,” reflects Chad, “Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham, Ginger Baker from Cream, Deep Purple with Ian Paice, Queen’s Roger Taylor, Keith Moon with the Who; those groups were the ones that I really loved. I wanted to play like those guys. When I started learning to read music in school during fourth grade, initially I held the sticks in the traditional grip. But, I remember practicing and thinking if I turned my left stick around I could get a lot more power and hit a lot harder. I like to hit hard. Hitting hard is very important for me – that’s the way I play and the way I feel it. Playing guitar, that’s all great and everything, but hittin’ stuff… AWESOME!”

TRACKLISTING:

1) NEED STRANGE
2) THE BATTLE FOR VENTURA BLVD
3) OH! I SPILLED MY BEER
4) TOPS OFF
5) DEATH MATCH
6) NIGHT SWEATS
7) PIG FEET
8) LOLA
9) BREAD BALLS
10) INTO THE FLOYD

BONUS TRACK
11) STATUS / SPECTRUM

“This was the least amount of time each of us has spent agonizing over a record,” notes Kollman. “It’s funky, musical, and compositional. The melody is king.”

These recordings are very much live in the studio… it’s totally old school that way,” adds Ed Roth. “Nothing feels as good as a record cut with four guys recording live together, listening, and playing off of each other. Even without a vocal, you can sing almost everything that everyone played on this record. That’s real soul.”

Since their first live performance in 2007, the Meatbats has sold out a Japanese tour, have thrilled American audiences and regularly perform at L.A.’s famed Jazz venue, the Baked Potato.

“This band has a thing!” insists Kollman. “You can tell Chown and Chad both did their time in Detroit. They come from the same place musically and geographically. They are the funky heartbeat of this group. Chown’s a mix of Detroit Rock and Motown, while Chad brings that sick rock/funk groove that has helped sustain the Chili Peppers for all these years. Ed’s got the gritty funk and 70′s R&B thing going on. His clavinet playing is genius and he’s so great with leaving space in the arrangements. He has taste, knows just what to play, and his life goal is always ‘keeping it sexy.’ As for myself, I protect and defend the rock guitar!”

Released 12 October

THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION.

At Last, Comprehensive Super-Deluxe 70-Cd Box Set Containing 52 Miles Albums, Recorded 1949 To 1985

Plus Bonus Dvd – Miles Davis Quintet: Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams / Live In Europe ’67 – Only Video Of This Group Ever Commercially Released

All Albums – Most Recent Expanded Editions Of ’90s And ’00s With Bonus Material, Others Heard In Original Form – Packaged In Japanese Style Mini-Lp Cd And Double-Cd Jackets, Replicating Original Artwork

Isle of Wight – historic 1970 UK concert, first time official issue of full-length performance on any album (CD)

New expanded editions with rare or previously unreleased bonus tracks added to four albums: In Paris Festival International De Jazz May, 1949 (1949); Quiet Nights (1962); At Plugged Nickel (1965); and We Want Miles (1981)

250-page full-color book with 11,000-word biographical essay by Frédéric Goaty, annotations on every album and DVD written by Franck Bergerot, rare photography, memorabilia, discographical production notes, complete tune index

Amazon EXCLUSIVE specially priced at $364.98 (only $5.14 per disc!) – available in physical package ONLY starting November 24, 2009, through Columbia/Legacy

Coincides with “We Want Miles” – three-month exhibition on Miles’ life and times, at the Museé de la Musique in Paris (October 16th through January 17th)

In all the annals of modern jazz, there is no other phenomenon that compares to the 30-year association of Miles Davis and Columbia Records, from 1955 to 1985. Both in the scope of Miles’ prolific output during the entire history of the 12-inch LP era, more than 50 distinct album titles in the U.S., Europe and Japan, as well as the primal influence that Miles – and his evolving group lineups – had on the course of jazz, there is simply no precedent. Miles at Columbia stands alone.
For more than two decades now, Miles Davis fans and aficionados, musicians and critics, collectors and configurationalists have wondered if the time would ever come that Miles’ entire Columbia album output would be assembled in one total package. That time has finally arrived.

THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION is an historic release event. The super-deluxe box set contains 52 CD and double-CD albums – which includes the previously unreleased full-length audio version of Isle Of Wight performance from 1970 – 70 CDs in all. (Rarities and other previously unreleased material still exist in the vast Miles Davis archive, and they are delineated below.)

The box set adds a bonus DVD, Miles Davis Quintet: Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams / Live In Europe ’67. Here are two separate European concert performances by the groundbreaking ‘second great quintet,’ filmed in Stockholm and Karlsruhe, Germany, October and November 1967, respectively. This DVD represents the only video of this Miles Davis Quintet lineup ever to be officially commercially released.

Along with the discs comes a generous 250-page book whose centerpiece is an 11,000-word biographical essay by Frédéric Goaty, the most in-depth liner notes ever included in any Miles Davis package. Goaty is the director of the French Jazz Magazine and the co-author of the 1995 book Miles Davis. The essay is complemented by brief annotations (about 200 words each) written by Franck Bergerot, covering every single one of the 52 albums and the DVD. Bergerot is the Chief Editor of Jazz Magazine and the author of Miles Davis: Introduction à l’écoute du jazz moderne. Rare photography, full discographic production notes, and a complete track index are also included.

THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION will be available starting November 24th through Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. The box set will be for sale exclusively from Amazon in the physical package only, priced at $364.98.

The release of the MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA box set coincides with a three-month exhibition at the Museé de la Musique in Paris (October 16, 2009, through January 17, 2010) entitled “We Want Miles.” The exhibition follows the evolution of the artist from his birth (May 26, 1926) and childhood in East Saint Louis to his final Paris concert in July, two months before his death on September 28, 1991.

The cornerstones of the MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA box set are the studio and live albums that were released during his tenure at the label, more than 40 titles that he recorded in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. The vast majority of these were released around the time of their recording or soon after; others appeared as historic discoveries years later. Since the critically acclaimed and multiple Grammy Award-winning Miles Davis Series was launched in 1996, the majority of all these albums have been reissued by Columbia/Legacy as expanded editions with bonus material. The expanded editions will be the ones utilized on this new box set. Since the original LP jacket artwork will be replicated, the bonus tracks will only appear as indexed in the book’s discographical section.

They include: ‘Round About Midnight (1957), Miles Ahead (1957), Milestones (1958), Miles Davis At Newport (1958), Porgy and Bess (1958), Jazz At The Plaza (1958), Kind Of Blue (1959), Sketches Of Spain (1960), Someday My Prince Will Come (1961), In Person: Friday Night At the Blackhawk (1961), In Person: Saturday Night At the Blackhawk (1961), At Carnegie Hall (1961), Seven Steps To Heaven (1963), In Europe (1963), My Funny Valentine (1965), ‘Four’ & More (1966), Miles In Tokyo (1964), Miles In Berlin (1964), E.S.P. (1965), Miles Smiles (1966), Sorcerer (1967), Nefertiti (1967), Miles In the Sky (1968), Filles De Kilimanjaro (1969), In A Silent Way (1969), Bitches Brew (1970), A Tribute To Jack Johnson (1971), Live/Evil (1971), On the Corner (1972), Big Fun (1974), Get Up With It (1974), Water Babies (1976), and Aura (1985).

Many other albums spanning the decades remain unchanged from their original releases (except for digital remastering). These include: Circle In The Round (1955 through 1970), 1958 Miles (1958), Directions (1960 through 1970), Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It’s About That Time (1970), Black Beauty: Miles Davis At Fillmore West (1970), At Fillmore (1970), In Concert (1972), Dark Magus (1974), Agharta (1975), Pangaea (1975), The Man With The Horn (1980-1981), Star People (1982-83), Decoy (1983), and You’re Under Arrest (1984-85).

A third grouping of albums receive special attention on the new box set and are summarized as follows:

In Paris Festival International De Jazz May, 1949 (1949): Miles’ first trip to Europe was a resounding critical and commercial success, but upon his return to the U.S., he went through a long purgatory before recovering that acclaim in the ’50s. In 1977 (in the midst of Miles’ 1975-80 hiatus from touring and recording), Henri Renaud, head of the CBS France Jazz Department, collaborated with Bruce Lundvall, then president of Columbia Records U.S., on the release of the 1949 concert at Salle Pleyel. It was actually billed on the LP as the Miles Davis-Tadd Dameron Quintet (with James Moody on tenor sax, drummer Kenny Clarke, and bassist Barney Spieler). This new CD adds two previously unreleased tracks: pianist-composer Dameron’s “The Squirrel” and the classic ballad “Lover Man.”
Quiet Nights (1962): In the summer 1962, at the dawn of the bossa nova craze, Miles experimented on some tracks with arranger Gil Evans, whose interest in South American music went back many years. In order to complete the Quiet Nights project, producer Teo Macero pulled a track from the West Coast sessions that yielded Seven Steps To Heaven. That same summer, Wayne Shorter made his first recordings with Miles and Evans, two years before Shorter joined Miles’ quintet. One track was a bleak Christmas song called “Blue Xmas / To Whom It May Concern” (introduced on 1962′s Jingle Bell Jazz). Another track was “Devil May Care” which features one of Miles’ greatest recorded solos. Both are true rarities which only appeared together before on 1996′s three-time Grammy Award-winning 6-CD box set, Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings.

At Plugged Nickel (1965): Sony Music in Japan caused a sensation in 1976, when they released two LPs worth of highly-edited music from the December 22-23, 1965 appearance at this Chicago club by the Shorter-Hancock-Carter-Williams quintet. Columbia received similar raves when they eventually released the double-LP in the U.S. in 1982. Thirteen years later, the entire unedited program of performances from the Plugged Nickel was issued by Columbia/Legacy as an 8-CD box set (long out-of-print). This new double-CD version for MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA is the best of both worlds – retrieving the original track sequence of the classic LPs, but in their full unedited versions as heard in the 1995 box set.

Isle Of Wight (1970): The chaos of the third annual Isle Of Wight Festival is well-documented, as dissidents burned down and trampled as much of the place as they could on the final night, leading the powers-that-be to ban the gathering for more than three decades. Miles’ set on the fourth (and next-to-last) night was no less revolutionary on the bill he shared with Joni Mitchell, Ten Years After, Emerson Lake & Palmer, the Doors, the Who, and Sly and the Family Stone, among others. Here is the same general 1970 rhythm section (Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, and Airto Moreira) that Miles used on his 1970 double-LPs Black Beauty: Miles Davis At Fillmore West and At Fillmore. The Isle Of Wight additions are Keith Jarrett (who also played on At Fillmore) and Gary Bartz replacing Steve Grossman on sax. This box marks the first official release of the full-length Isle of Wight 1970 concert on any album (CD).

We Want Miles (1981): At the end of Miles’ five-year 1975-80 hiatus, he came back with a vengeance, releasing The Man With The Horn in ’81 and hitting the road with most of that album’s players: Bill Evans (saxophones), Mike Stern (guitar), Marcus Miller (bass), and Al Foster (drums), adding Mino Cinelu on percussion. Columbia recorded them live in Boston, New York and Tokyo, and numbers from all three cities comprised the original double-LP We Want Miles. CBS/Sony Japan followed up with additional performances from Tokyo on Miles!, Miles!, Miles!, whose impossibly rare LP and subsequent CD are both out-of-print. Three of those tracks, “Ursula”, “Aida” and “Fat Time,” transform We Want Miles into the newest expanded edition for the release of THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION.

THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION
(Columbia/Legacy 88697 55852 2)

# Title Rec. Rel. Catalog
01. In Paris Festival Int’l De Jazz May, 1949 – 1949 1977 SRCS 9724
02. ‘Round About Midnight – 1955-1956 1957 CK 85201
03. Circle In The Round – 1955-1970 1979 C2K 46862
04. Miles Ahead – 1957 1957 CK 65121
05. Milestones – 1958 1958 CK 85203
06. 1958 Miles – 1958 1974 C6K 65833
07. At Newport 1958 – 1958 1964 CK 85202
08. Porgy And Bess – 1958 1959 CK 65141
09. Jazz At The Plaza – 1958 1973 CK 85245
10. Kind Of Blue – 1959 1959 CK 64935
11. Sketches Of Spain – 1959-60 1960 CK 65142
12. Directions – 1960-70 1981 SRCS 9761/2
13. Someday My Prince Will Come – 1961 1961 CK 65919
14. In Person Friday Night At The Blackhawk, 1961 – 1961 C2K 87097 San Francisco – Complete
15. In Person Saturday Night At The Blackhawk, – 1961 1961 C2K 87100 San Francisco – Complete
16. At Carnegie Hall – 1961 1962 C2K 65027
17. Quiet Nights + “Blue Xmas (To Whom It May Concern)” and “Devil May Care” – 1962 1963 CK 65293
18. Seven Steps To Heaven – 1963 1963 CK 93592
19. In Europe – 1963 1964 CK 93583
20. My Funny Valentine – 1964 1965 CK 93593
21. “Four” & More – 1964 1966 CK 93595
22. Miles In Tokyo – 1964 1969 CK 93596
23. Miles In Berlin – 1964 1965 CK 93594
24. E.S.P. – 1965 1965 CK 65683
25. At Plugged Nickel – V. 1 1965 1976 18AP 2067
V. 2 1965 1976 18AP 2068
26. Miles Smiles – 1966 1967 CK 65682
27. Sorcerer – 1967 1967 CK 65680
28. Nefertiti – 1967 1968 CK 65681
29. Water Babies – 1967-68 1976 CK 86577
30. Miles In The Sky – 1968 1968 CK 65684
31. Filles De Kilimanjaro – 1968 1969 CK 86555
32. In A Silent Way – 1969 1969 CK 86556
33. Bitches Brew – 1969 1970 C2K 65774
34. Big Fun – 1969-72 1974 C2K 63973
35. A Tribute To Jack Johnson – 1970 1971 CK 93599
36. Live At The Fillmore East (March 7, 1970): It’s About That Time – 1970 2001 C2K 85191
37. Black Beauty: Miles Davis At Fillmore West – 1970 1973 C2K 65138
38. At Fillmore – 1970 1970 C2K 65139
39. # Isle Of Wight – 1970 2009 –
40. Live/Evil 1970 – 1971 C2K 65135
41. On The Corner – 1972 1972 CK 63980
42. In Concert – 1972 1973 C2K 65140
43. Dark Magus – 1974 1977 C2K 65137
44. Get Up With It – 1972-74 1974 C2K 63970
45. Agharta – 1975 1976 C2K 46799
46. Pangaea – 1975 1975 C2K 46115
47. The Man With The Horn – 1980-81 1981 CK 36790
48. We Want Miles + 3 bonus tracks from Miles!, Miles!, Miles! – 1981 1982 SICP 1235/6
49. Star People – 1982-83 1983 CK 38657
50. Decoy – 1983 1984 CK 38991
51. You’re Under Arrest – 1984-85 1985 CK 40023
52. Aura – 1985 1989 CK 45332 indicates double-CD.

DVD
Miles Davis Quintet: Wayne Shorter, Herbie 10-11/67 2009 – Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams / Live In Europe ’67

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CHERRY RED AND ESOTERIC ACQUIRE LICENSING OF EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER’S MANTICORE LABEL

Cherry Red Records and their imprint Esoteric Recordings are pleased to announce the exclusive licensing acquisition of the entire MANTICORE RECORDS catalogue. This legendary imprint was established by EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER and their management in 1973 to handle not only future albums by ELP, but also to actively sign and promote music by artists admired by the band. In the three years of the label’s active existence the Manticore imprint released four albums by Italian Progressive Rock maestros PFM, two albums by singer songwriter KEITH CHRISTMAS, two by heavy rockers STRAY DOG, US group THEE IMAGE, and individual albums King Crimson and ELP lyricist PETE SINFIELD, HANSON and the Italian band BANCO. The licensing arrangement sees all of Manticore’s non-ELP related material handled by Cherry Red’s imprint Esoteric Recordings. Esoteric label manager Mark Powell commented; “It is a very special thing to be given the opportunity to reissue and remaster these wonderful albums from the original master tapes and to resurrect the legendary Manticore imprint under the Cherry Red umbrella. For many fans of Progressive Rock, the Manticore catalogue is legendary. With access to the Manticore tape vaults we will also be looking at adding previously unreleased bonus material to our reissues”.

The Manticore series of releases will begin in November 2009 with the release of a deluxe various artists compilation which details the history of the Manticore label and will include tracks by EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER, GREG LAKE & KEITH EMERSON, along with selections from the catalogue by PFM, KEITH CHRISTMAS, STRAY DOG, THEE IMAGE, PETE SINFIELD, HANSON and BANCO. Also gaining a newly remastered release in November is the album “STILL” by PETE SINFIELD, which features contributions from GREG LAKE, JOHN WETTON, IAN WALLIS and MEL COLLINS. The remainder of the Manticore catalogue will appear throughout 2010. Further announcements will follow.

NIRVANA’S LEGENDARY NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED 1992 READING CONCERT SET TO DEBUT IN NOVEMBER



“Nirvana headlining at Reading in 1992 was something you had to see, and if you didn’t see it then it was something you pretended you saw.”
–Kerrang (October 2003)


“The staggering energy and intensity radiating from the stage never let up… Cobain’s ravaged pop songs coming off like some dream marriage of the Sex Pistols and the Beatles, borne on bracing waves of distorted guitar noise.” –Rolling Stone (October 29, 1992)


Ranked #1 in Kerrang Magazine’s “100 Gigs That Shook The World” and voted as “Nirvana’s #1 Greatest Moment” by fans in an NME poll, Nirvana’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the UK’s Reading Festival is one of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock n roll. Now, fans will have an opportunity to own a pristine copy of that entire performance — color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition CD+DVD Deluxe Edition as well as DVD-only, CD-only configurations on November 3, 2009, followed by a 2LP version on November 17, 2009.

While the show’s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn’t be released until 2 years later on In Utero: “All Apologies,” “Dumb,” and in its first ever public performance, “Tourettes.” The career-spanning setlist also reached back to the band’s 1989 Sub Pop debut album, Bleach, for “Blew,” “About A Girl,” “School,” “Negative Creep” and first single “Love Buzz,” and even further back to the mid-‘80s for “Spank Thru.” Other songs from the Reading set would appear in studio form on the Incesticide compilation later in the year: “Aneurysm,” “Been A Son” and “Sliver.” Additionally, the band played a pair of beloved covers by two bands that helped shape the formative Nirvana sound – “The Money Will Roll Right In” by Fang and “D-7” by The Wipers.

Only 2 of the 25 performances on the DVD have ever been released before. 


Nirvana Live At Reading DVD:



1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. Tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. Love Buzz*
23. The Money Will Roll Right In
24. D-7
25. Territorial Pissings
* not included on CD

TOM PETTY “THE LIVE ANTHOLOGY” BOX

We are very excited to announce the upcoming release of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers’ The Live Anthology, a multiple disc set of recordings drawn from thirty years of live performances. The collection brings together material from 1978-2007 culled from hundreds of hours of live concert recordings covering every era of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ tours and represents the best tracks as chosen by producers Tom Petty, Mike Campbell and Ryan Ulyate.

Along with powerful interpretations of their own classic hits and originals, The Live Anthology features the band tackling some of their best-loved cover material, from classics to obscure beauties to unexpected adaptations. The theme from TomPetty.com Announcing ‘The Live Anthology’Goldfinger, the Zombies’ “I Want You Back Again,” the Grateful Dead’s “Friend of the Devil,” early Fleetwood Mac’s “Oh Well,” Booker T. and the MGs “Green Onions”, James Brown’s “Good, Good Lovin’” and many more. The Live Anthology is the band’s story told through the music alone; the producers made no fixes or overdubs.

In addition to offering The Live Anthology via digital outlets including iTunes, The Live Anthology will be available in the following four configurations, each with artwork and packaging by renowned contemporary artist Shepard Fairey (Studio Number One, Obey Giant).

1. A four CD set of 48 tracks.

2. A deluxe box set featuring 62 tracks on five CDs PLUS
- Two previously unreleased DVDs including the 1978 New Year’s Eve concert from Santa Monica, CA and the Martyn Atkins documentary 400 Days shot during the recording and tour for Wildflowers.

- A re-mastered vinyl of the 1976 Official Live ‘Leg bootleg.

- A High Resolution Blu-ray Audio Disc featuring all 62 tracks in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound. This disc has 256 times more audio resolution than a CD.

- AND MUCH MORE (see details below).

3. A seven LP vinyl box set mastered directly from the uncompressed 24-bit 96K files and pressed on audiophile quality high performance vinyl.

4. The entirely unique Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Superhighway Tour

The Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Superhighway Tour is a first of its kind digital tour experience that delivers to ticketholders 24 of the 48 Live Anthology tracks over an 8 week advance period. During this period ticketholders will receive an insider’s view of those 24 tracks, whether through archived memorabilia, new band commentary, classic reviews from the vaults, and more amassed rare vintage Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers content.

Upon the official street date of the album ticket holders will digitally receive the remaining 24 tracks on The Live Anthology, thereby completing the entire album.

Tickets for the entire 8 week SuperHighway Tour will go onsale soon and the Tour will start with a FREE PREVIEW including a FREE DOWNLOAD from The Live Anthology.

Buy your copy here.

GET YER YA-YA’S OUT: THE ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET

Rolling Stones fans are thrilled at the news of the deluxe edition of the classic live album “Get Yer Ya-Ya;s Out”. It contains 3 CDs, 1 DVD, a 56-page Collectors Book and a postcard replica of the original Rolling Stones 1969 tour poster by David Byrd. The first CD is a remastered version of the original Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out release. The second CD contains 5 unreleased tracks by The Rolling Stones from the original Madison Square Garden concert. The third CD contains 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features performances by The Rolling Stones from the 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, backstage footage, scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collectors Book includes photos and an essay by the acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell, an original article by Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone magazine and remembrances from concert-goers. Each box will also have an insert with a code to download “I’m Free (Live)” for Guitar Hero.

Tracklistings:

Disc: 1

1. Jumpin’ Jack Flash (Original Release)
2. Carol (Original Release)
3. Stray Cat Blues (Original Release)
4. Love In Vain (Original Release)
5. Midnight Rambler (Original Release)
6. Sympathy For The Devil (Original Release)
7. Live With Me (Original Release)
8. Little Queenie (Original Release)
9. Honky Tonk Women (Original Release)
10. Street Fighting Man (Original Release)

Disc: 2

1. Prodigal Son (Unreleased Track)
2. You Gotta Move (Unreleased Track)
3. Under My Thumb (Unreleased Track)
4. I m Free (Unreleased Track)
5. (I Can t Get No) Satisfaction (Unreleased Track)

Disc: 3

1. Everyday I Have The Blues (Unreleased B.B. King Track)
2. How Blue Can You Get (Unreleased B.B. King Track)
3. That s Wrong Little Mama (Unreleased B.B. King Track)
4. Why I Sing The Blues (Unreleased B.B. King Track)
5. Please Accept My Love (Unreleased B.B. King Track)
6. Gimme Some Loving (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)
7. Sweet Soul Music (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)
8. Son Of A Preacher Man (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)
9. Proud Mary (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)
10. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)
11. Come Together (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)
12. Land Of 1000 Dances (Unreleased Ike & Tina Turner Track)

Disc: 4

1. Prodigal Son (DVD content)
2. You Gotta Move (DVD content)
3. Under My Thumb (DVD content)
4. I m Free (DVD content)
5. (I Can t Get No) Satisfaction (DVD Content)

Buy your copy here!