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Sure. It is still nice package. And let us hope for the best - they will re-do it properly. Remember that awful compilation from 1997 - The Story Of Them Featuring Van Morrison (The Anthology 1964-1966) mastered by Jon Astley. That set was a total screw up - tons of fake stereo tracks, noise reduction, wrong takes, the same song recorded twice on the same disk etc. But in 2015 they made very nice re-make - The Complete Them 1964-1967 that got positive reviews even from hard-core fans. Mind, Van Morrison was involved and he is not an easy person to deal with.Quote
Rockman
worts and all its still a great package ta have and to hear over again ....
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24FPS
I'm so glad I have no boots to compare On Air with. It will be all new to me. Nothing to piss and moan about.
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24FPS
I'm so glad I have no boots to compare On Air with. It will be all new to me. Nothing to piss and moan about.
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Irix
If someone needs the Cover ....
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ash
I can't believe they've edited out the word FRONT from Bill's head for the iTunes release. It's not historically accurate.
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ash
I can't believe they've edited out the word FRONT from Bill's head for the iTunes release. It's not historically accurate.
The word 'FRONT' on top of Bill's head is also not on the CD-release (orange & yellow Cover), also not on the Standard-LP (orange Cover). It's also not to see on Amazon (yellow Cover) ....
And Charlie doesn't smoke on the 'On Air'-Cover -- B/W-Picture ....
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alexander paul
Not intended to spoil anyone’s fun of the On Air-release I have to admit that for me (with my interest in history and sources) both all the discussions are part of my personal pleasure, as contacts with experts like Ash.
I like On Air, because of its quality (e.g. the prominent bass). You now can hear they were a great band in their youth too, at least we have better proof of that.
We now know that the information on the cover is not always correct (Hi heel sneakers, Ain’t that loving you baby, Walking the dog). More?
A real shame is what totally unnecessary has been done with the edit of The last time, also not-using a more complete version (with a real ending) of Walking the dog and the glitch right at the beginning of Beautiful Delilah.
I think the tracks have been collected at the BBC, especially if they were of high quality from the start. Therefor all the tracks that the BBC remastered and rebroadcasted in the 80ties and 90ties we can find on On Air, but further improved. It is a pity that however a socalled on-air high quality track as Not fade away (Saturday Club, April 18 1964) was not used.
I can accept that there are no songs double on the On Air-cd, and chronology has been avoided. (We have that on all our familiar bootlegs, maybe sometimes only missing Not fade away, Joe Loss Show, Apr. 10, 1964, as on Another Time Another Place disc 5, and It’s all over now, Top Gear, July 23, 1964 as on The Lost Treasure. And we definitively can make our own chronology with the new On Air-cd.)
Also sadly missing are (off-air recordings) like Don’t lie to me, Bye bye Johnny (Saturday Club, Febr. 8, 1964), and Meet me in the bottom, You can make it if you try (Saturday Club, June 6, 1964), that are with respect to audio quality not less than On Air-tracks e.g. Beautiful Delilah or Ain’t that loving you baby.
I hope new as yet unknown BBC-recordings can show up in the future, not from the BBC itself probably, but from fans who have recorded tracks on their tape recorder from broadcasts in the sixties. And most urgently the Radio Luxemburg-tape of March 18, 1964.
Notwithstanding my and everybody’s critical comments I do love what we got as December-present.
I've heard something like that before
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24FPS
Wish they'd talk to other Stones about these recordings. I'm sure Bill has some memories. And I think he has to be compensated like the others because he was on these recordings. (Along with the Brian Jones estate, whomever that is).
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24FPS
Wish they'd talk to other Stones about these recordings. I'm sure Bill has some memories. And I think he has to be compensated like the others because he was on these recordings. (Along with the Brian Jones estate, whomever that is).
Especially Bill since he's always written everything down and has the best memory of the bunch. It's interesting that you mention the Brian Jones estate. Is his sister Barbara still alive? I would imagine that the estate goes through her or any children she may have had.