Your favourite Rhino Handmades !

You all know my story re the Stooges box, right?

do tell.

is it too much to hope that the out of print stuff will be reissued someday?

i dunno. with some of the old stuff, they actually reissued them proper after the limited editions sold well. or the rights went to another label who then released them (e.g., the judee sill stuff on water). but given the state of the record industry, the answer's probably no. in general.

xpost*2 remind me on Monday...

REMINDED

RE. STOOGES BOX SET STORY

Oh sorry!

Well, what happened was that I ordered the first handmade, the Wild Man Fischer set, but CD2 did not play so I sent it back.

A few months later, they sent the Stooges box set. Presumably as a replacement. Which was nice. Although my wife wondered why I'd spent $*** (or however much it was) on it. Convinced her I hadn't..

Anyway, six months later they sent me another one. Didn't have to convince anyone I hadn't bought two of the same expensive boxset.

The spare ended up on e-bay a few years later after it had gone out of print, and got a nice sum for it. (as did the other one, eventually)

That's it.

"the Dio-era Sabbath Live at Hammersmith from '80"

This thing is fucking awesome. The version of "The Mob Rules" on here is one of the best things Sabbath of any era has done, up there with "Supernaut"

I have three: Stalk-Forrest, the first Cactus live edition, and the Fanny box.

The Fanny box is the one I enjoy the most. It gets the most play, looks the best, has the most in it etc. If I were them, though, I'd be a bit pissed at this point that no one has seen fit to reissue their albums in original formats as single CDs. The legacy would be better served. Wounded Bird, for example, has even reissued the two Mott record mades after Ian Hunter left the group.

http://www.rhino.com/product/complete-funhouse-sessions

This re-release is not individually numbered in order to preserve the collectability of the original release.

damned capitalists

The Fanny box is the one I enjoy the most. It gets the most play, looks the best, has the most in it etc. If I were them, though, I'd be a bit pissed at this point that no one has seen fit to reissue their albums in original formats as single CDs. The legacy would be better served.

Real Gone Music (the American one) is doing just that. So far they've done the first three (scroll down here)

On a semi-related note, Wounded Bird has done a few bare-bones (in packaging, not audio content) reissues of OOP Handmade titles, including the Linda Thompson album and The Crazy Horse on Reprise collection, at bargain basement prices ($10-13 each). They also gave the same treatment to the Doug Sahm on Atlantic set, but it's OOP and expensive again.