...There's a new MICK TAYLOR Box Set arriving on the market now, as we continue the Tokyo theme here it's called "Tokyo 2009" and pairs up two recordings from master audience tapes over 5CDs from April 20th & 21st. The set is extremely limited to 50 numbered sets...Also pictured below is the new IRON MAIDEN "Ed Force One Route To Chile" DVD coming June 4th from Apocalypse Sound...presented here is the March 9th, 2008 proshot video from Pista Atletica Estadio National in Santiago, Chile in a tri-fold digipack sleeve...

...Displayed above, and below, are the June 4th releases coming from The Godfather Records...BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND "Got To Be Good" 3CD set gives us a nice Working On A Dream Tour artifact vua an excellent audience recording from Philips Arena in Atlanta on April 26, 2009 with bonus tracks from Philadelphia on April 28th & 29th -AND, a four page color booklet...PINK FLOYD "The Sixth German Show" 2CD presents the excellent Wall performance from Dortmund on February 18, 1981 -which they claim is the first time on CD, which is amazing to me. This wonderful looking set is packaged in a tri-fold deluxe paper sleeve and includes a miniature poster...LED ZEPPELIN "Adelaide Revival" 2CD seems a bit random but features the excellent audie tape from Memorial Drive on February 18, 1972...U2 "Born On The Bayou" 1CD leverages a stereo soundboard tape of the early show from The Bayou in Washington D.C. on March 3, 1981 with bonus tracks from Poets in Memphis on May 9th, 1981 -nice!...Finally from GFR, BOB DYLAN "Return To Me, Bella Mia" 2CD gives collectors a really nice 2009 tour momento with this excellent audience recording from Mandela Forum in Florence, Italy on April 18, 2009 and adds bonus tracks from Rome on April 17th...

...And, just when you were wondering how 'they' could repackage THE ROLLING STONES another way, I submit for your perusal the new "Blues By Blues" Box Set below...

...New Announcements tonight out of Japan (below)...Rising Arrow has divulged details on RAINBOW "Definitive Dynamo" 4CD - this compiles two excellent and different audience source tapes of the January 22nd, 1978 performance at The Budokan in Tokyo...Coming from Darker Than Blue is DEEP PURPLE "Electric Ghost" 2CD that mines yet another excellent audience recording from the classic Mark III line-up from The Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, UK on February 20, 1972...and finally from Virtuoso comes the new YES title, "Passion" 2CD set, an amazing audience recording from The Mecca in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on April 26, 1979...

...That's it for this holiday edition of the Boot News and we all hope you had a wonderful and relaxing Memorial Day weekend.  Have a great week as well!

Svengi, May 25, 2009