Just received the September line-up of titles from the European faction...Coming soon from Apocalypse Sound DVD are BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE SEEGER SESSIONS BAND "18 Nights To Folk" which compiles proshot clips - 1 song - from 18 different shows on the Summer Seeger Sessions U.S. Tour...MORRISSEY "Pasolini Is Me" packs in his entire Rock Am Ring Festival set from Nurburgring on June 2nd, and a slew of bonus clips that includes 5 tracks from his Pink Pop Fest appearance on June 5th, plus some late Spring UK Television appearances...JOY DIVISION "Once Was The Young Man" compiles 14 different TV appearances and proshot vids circa 1978-1979...New CD's on the way from The GodFather Records include:  BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND "Sparks On The Ballroom" 2CD features their Atlanta show at the Electric Ballroom on August 25, 1975 with bonus tracks from The Roxy in L.A. and Tower Theater in Philly 1975, plus Boston 2005...then we skip to the contemporary Boss with his SEEGER SESSIONS BAND show from New York on "American Land" 2CD, a soundboard tape from Madison Square Garden on June 22nd, 2006...GFR obtained a soundboard from MADONNA's current Confessions Tour and will issue "Italian Confessions" 2CD which captures her show in Rome on August 6th and comes with a deluxe 6 page booklet and collectible Postcard..."Champions Of The World" is the new ROLLING STONES 2CD set from The Godfather Records and it documents their return to the stage with the first European stop in Milan on July 11, 2006, it also comes with a deluxe  6-page collector's booklet and is sourced from an excellent audience tape.

And speaking of THE ROLLING STONES...plenty of other releases came to light the last few days.  So far, IMP, Silent Sea Productions (I erroneously cited The Godfather Records last week), Sister Morphine and Pignose Records are showing plans to release the newly surfaced Steel Wheels Session tapes...Pignose is offering a 2CDR set, while Sister Morphine a 1CDR and Silent Sea a single disc as well ...not sure what Pignose is filling the outtakes set with but here are the tracks we know about so far on the tapes:

• Sad Sad Sad
•  Mixed Emotions
• Terrifying
• Your Precious Love
• Hold On To Your Hat
• Hearts For Sale
• Blinded By Love
• Ready Yourself
• Rock And A Hard Place
• Can't Be Seen
• Almost Hear You Sigh
• Continental Drift
• Call Girl Blues
• Fancy Man Blues
• Slipping Away

I am sure there are a few different takes of several of these pieces and some jams of course too, more details as we get them.  IMP has several new titles for September that include "Steel Wheels Primitive Mixes 1989" 1CD Ltd Edition, the first 150 copies have a special gatefold sleeve presentation... "Listen Naples And Die" 2CD is the first time the complete July 17, 1982 Napoli, Italy show has been presented in a soundboard/audience mix - again, the first 150 copies have the special gatefold sleeve...the "Glasgow Broadcast 2006" 2CD Ltd. Edition features the FM Broadcast from Hampden Park on August 25th and, you guessed it - the first 150 copies come in a special gatefold sleeve.  The Halcyon Label announced "Wembley High Rollers" 2CD over the weekend and this one captures their first Wembley Empire Pool show on September 8, 1973 with a newly surfaced upgraded source that is more complete than previously available..as we talked about last week, the Rattlesnake Label is back in production and their DVD Label, Kingsnake, has the new STONES DVD "Waiting For The Bigger Bang" which contains the entire Digital Broadcast from Saitama on April 2nd, in glorious proshot, region free and widescreen quality!...I should also mention that Trial CDR will release both Twickenham shows from August 20th & 22nd on a 4CDR title called "Twickenham 2006" from wonderful audience tapes...

From Japan this week comes news of  Wendy Records next LED ZEPPELIN release...it's called "Black Beauty" and will be the excellent performance from the Fillmore West on April 24, 1969 as documented in another wild audience source...also, some new PINK FLOYD titles from Sirene..."M-502 Collector's Edition" 4CD, plus bonus DVD-R called "Aspekt", the set features a couple of different audience source tapes from February 25th, 1971 performance at the Musikhalle in Hamburg, Germany - with the bonus DVD featuring an 11 minute proshot segment on concerts performed at both Offenbach and Hamburg, broadcast on German TV Station ZDF on March 2, 1971...while the footage is crystal clear, in color and interesting to see after all these years, there isn't a lot going on as it is mostly shot during rehearsals - but will have you marvelling at the intimate venues and how maginficent it would have been to be there!....maybe a couple of you were!...we'd all love to hear about that!..the other silver disc Sirene title is "Copenhagen 1972" 2CD that also features an pretty nice audience tape at KB Hallen on December 10th...also from Sirene this week is the 4CDR set, "Earl's Court 1994", compiling 2 stellar audience tapes from October 14th & 15th, 1994 at Earl's Court's Exhibition Hall...other offerings include the Sirene title ASIA "Wildest Moment" 2CDR, an audience tape from their August 29th, 2006 show at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester, New York...from Trial this week we have, in addition to the STONES title above...ROBERT PLANT "Moonlight In Texas" 2CDR which compiles 2 stereo soundboards from Austin on September 21st, 1983 and Summit Arena in Houston on June 22nd, 1985...JETHRO TULL "Summer Of '74" 2CDR brings us a superb audience source tape from Tokyo on August 17, 1974...finally, DAVID BOWIE "Something In The Night" 2CDR is an audience tape from the Apollo Theater in Glasgow on June 20th, 1978.

That's it for this week!  Watch for the particulars on the HW Book Sale at the end of the week and keep an eye on the News Ticker, things are bound to really heat up this month.  Hope all of our friends around the U.S. enjoyed their long Labor Day Weekend...and I hope everyone enjoyed their Summer of 2006...wow, it's back to school for the kiddies!  I'll meet you back here next week.

Svengi, September 4, 2006