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I would guess the other PPV specials are out of the question because of having to work out permissions from guest artists. One also presumes they don't want to compete with official live albums on the market unless the set list is vastly different. STILL LIFE was not even half the set list in 1981 so that didn't preclude Hampton.

If this is truly an Official Bootleg Series, Oakland '69 would be a good guess except it would be the property of ABKCO, not Promotone and YA-YA'S Deluxe has virtually the same set list. Brian Jones era releases are also potentially complicated by ABKCO ownership issues. My guess would be Leeds '71, the lost '72 live LP, and LA '75 for the next release.

El Mocambo is a bit like the 100 Club in '86, it would be a Holy Grail for fans, but there isn't a famous soundboard bootleg to slightly upgrade and release for the series. I suspect New Orleans '94 and the radio broadcast from 98 (Oakland, I think) are better guesses to fill out my specualtion above especially since NO SECURITY is only available as a download and did not receive a 2009 remaster with the other live albums. While I enjoyed Austin '06 much better than the Beacon Theater shows, I don't expect we'll see any 21st Century shows in this series.

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All well known stuff, too. There are also quite good recordings from these shows. Of course it is possible, but I thought actually after Brussels (they took the most tracks from the afternoon show and not from the well known evening show, from which are the tracks of "our" Brussels) that they release anything unknown or anything what is poorly released on boots: Brian era (BBC?), '69 (Detroit e.g.), Mocambo of course, the ingenious Hartford show from '81 - what we've got now is a inferior version (with reference to VGP 270) of Hampton. I'm a little disappointed, to tell the truth.

I'm disappointed in comparison to how I felt over the Brussels release, which I thought was terrific. I'm happy to have Hampton '81 in official quality, but like you, and probably many others, I would have been more excited about something that we either hadn't heard, or was a tremendous upgrade in quality. But then again, we didn't get anything like this for a long, long time. So its' certainly better than nothin as far as I'm concerned.

Of course it is better than nothing. But referring to the sound I do not understand that the "boot people" have better ears and mixing competencies than Bob Clearmountain who could even use the master tapes.

Yeah I understand but I can't comment on that particular point as I don't have the VGP boot you speak of. The official Hampton is certainly an improvement over the recording that I have, but it's not a mind-boggling improvement.

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Doxa
My hunch is rather similar to yours. LEEDS 71, The lost album of 1972, and LA FORUM 1975 sound logical choices given the reasons you offered. I think they will include one 'modern era' show just to balance a bit the big picture (and they most probably have a lot of high quality material for that. My guess would be something from NO SECURITY tour.

Of course, it is a shame if Brian Jones era is not covered at all, but given all the reasons - besides the very lack of decent material - what one can do? Well, I guess sending dead flowers to Allan Klein's grave.
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question: I've seen a couple references to "six" releases. Is that official? I don't recall seeing that anywhere.

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Not shure.
Didn't they say 5-6?

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disco, horn-tootin', synthesizers, that weaving thing -- it all adds up to a bad experience.