Crystal Cat emerges from the wings in a big way this week...shown above is the brand new  BOB DYLAN "Brixton Box 05" 10 CD set we touched upon last month...also hitting the streets this week from CC are "Manchester 05" 2CD (shown below) and "Birmingham 05" 2CD...New releases out Japan this week include the JEFF BECK GROUP 1CD from Wardour called "Rough, Ready, Go!", a nice audience tape recorded live at the Aerie Crown Theatre in Chicago on May 13th, 1972...Out this week from Sirene are the silver KING CRIMSON sets "Volkhaus" 2CD recorded in Zurich on April 8th, 1973...and..."L.A. Confidential" a great tape from their Greek Theater show in Los Angeles on June 6th, 1984....Sirene also released an interesting tape from the band called "Discipline In Liverpool" on CDR which is a May 8, 1981 gig at Liverpool University where they played under the assumed name of DISCIPLINE...Fans of DAVID BOWIE's 1976 Tour should note that Trial has issued a couple of nice shows this week that include "Drive Like A Demon" 2CDR from Boston Garden Arena on March 17th, 1976 in excellent quality, and "The White Duke At Wembley" 2CDR which features Wembley Empire Pool show from May 8, 1976.  I failed to mention this in the last couple of weeks...there are 2 new BON JOVI titles out on generic Japanese Labels..."Have A Nice First Day" 2CD and "Have A Nice Second Day" 3CD from their Tokyo Dome shows on April 8th & 9th, 2006 respectively.

Some boot DVD releases from the last week...Silent Sea is shipping out it's latest titles PINK FLOYD "Festival de Musique, Saint Tropez, April 8, 1970" (making it's first appearance on DVD x2 with Apocalypse Sound just releasing in the last week or so as well)...also from Silent Sea is ARCTIC MONKEYS "Arctic Monkeys 2005", which compiles 4 different TV appearances including MTV Europe, London Astoria, Liverpool and Later With Jools Holland.  Amongst the windfall of Japanese DVD-R releases there are a couple of nice looking GRAND FUNK RAILROAD discs that you may want to track down:  from Footstomp comes "Shinin' On Live!", a 55 minute proshot show from the San Diego Sports Arena on June 2nd, 1974...then there is "Video Anthology 1969-1973" from V-Jam with 100 minutes worth of proshot clips...from Johanna DVD-R comes JAMES TAYLOR "Mudslide & Sweet James '70-'71" proshot vids...and ROBIN TROWER "From S.F. To Texas '75-'88" 105 minute proshot compilation...and the cool stuff really goes on and on.

In some BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN boot news, Anubis has issued a cross-section of titles this past month and among their remastered efforts are these:  "Shake!" 2CD featuring the April 14, 1981 Frankfurt tape..."Mystery Train In Kansas City" 3CDR from Kemper Arena in K.C. on November 19, 1984, plus "Do You Love Me?" from the August 16, 1984 Meadowlands show - all are supposedly nice upgrades to what was available previously.  Other recent titles to look for from Anubis..."Midnight Run at the Firenze" 3CDR from June 8, 2003..."Ocean Sings" 3CDR from Bologne, Italy on October 18, 2002...and "This Gun's For Hire" 3CDR from Philadelphia on September 18, 1984.

As we mentioned yesterday, there is a new ROLLING STONES label on the scene called New Tattoo.  Their very first title is going to be "Complete Tokyo 2 Days", a 4CD set bringing yet another version of the Tokyo Dome shows from March 22nd & 24th to the table...word is that these are suppose to be some primo audience tapes that are potentially different sources than the others.  It's getting to the point where it feels like everyone who attended those Japanese concerts in March and April taped the events!  Keep your scorecards handy, we have staff awaiting several of the releases to shed some light on the different flavors in circulation.  It seems that Yugoslav STONES label Risk Disc is going to further test the interest of collectors by offering another DVD audio project...called "Sydney Bang Gang", this is 2 different sources of the April 11th Telstra Stadium concert presented on a DVD-R...however there won't be any visuals included with this one and it's "limited" to 116 copies.  I'm not going to inquire as to the logic of this approach but the label is unique and I'm ALL about that, you can see a scan of the package below.  One piece of clean-up STONES boot news from last week...I failed to point out that there is another classic boot label reference/release coming back around with "Nasty Music 2006 Remaster" on the SODD Label.  Make what you will of that...and say what you will...it's a great, classic recording from Brussels and London 1973.  I guess you can't ever get enough of those commonly available KBFH tapes - but really!

It was a light week on the news front but contributing staff writers procured the latest listings of titles coming from the Way Of The Wizard DVD Label and we'll sign off with that.  Thanks for the support and have an awesome week.  With one eye on the News Ticker and the other...well, elswhere...make sure to visit often and check out the latest reviews here at HotWacks On-line.  See ya next week.

Svengi, May 22, 2006

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