This 2CD set compiles some of the best uncirculating or hard-to-find Badfinger demos and studio outtakes. Many other worthy tracks were excluded since they already appear in excellent quality on other collections(i.e. Apple Demos 1970-1972 and Complete Ass). Highlights include a new version of Coppertone Blues, the speed-corrected demo of without You(I Can't Live), the first appearance on CD of an alternate piano version of Do You Mind and rough mixes of serveral tracks from their classic Apple-era. In addition, the second includes the original mix of the 1974 Head First album taken from a cassette obtained directly from Mike Gibbins in the late 90's. These 1974 mixes are different from the 2000 Snapper CD mixes and are a major upgrade from other circulating copies.

...June 2nd: Announced overnight...Beano will release the 4CD set "Three Yardbirds In The Hall" (Below), transferred from nice master audience source tape(s) it features the September 20th & 21st, 1983 ARMS shows at London's Royal Albert Hall - featuring of course an all-star line-up that is anchored by ERIC CLAPTON, JEFF BECK & JIMMY PAGE...And...

...Sigma's next PINK FLOYD offering presents another sweet audience tape.  "Nassau 1975 Day 2" 3CD (above) features the June 17, 1975 performance at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York and will certainly be another one in a string of recommended titles from the growing Sigma catalog...Delving back in the archive a little further comes THE NICE "Fillmore West 1969" 1CD (below) from Virtuoso that leverages a stereo soundboard tape of the December 12, 1969 show at the famed San Francisco venue...

Svengi, June 1, 2009