...Pictured above is the latest ROLLING STONES compilation from Wonderland Records simply titled "American Tour 1972", which packages up 10CDs with the cream-of -the-crop tapes and performances from that legendary '72 tour, leveraging both audience and soundboard tapes (much like the Rattlesnake box from years ago)..but the box also contains 2 DVDs to round out the cohesive offering with the notorious 'Cocksucker Blues' film, along with the wonderful rock and roll flick, "Ladies & Gentlemen...The Rolling Stones".  I'm going to get on my soapbox now and completely lambast the Stones and their management for their mis-treatment of their status, importance, and mis-management of their catalog. They have one of the most exciting and tasty backlog of material in the vaults and ALL they do is 'remaster' their official releases every 3 years. What a blatant rip-off to the fans. The only thing they've done right in the last several years is the recent Anniversary Release of "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out", which is awesome - no question about it.  How about more of that treatment at least?  How about working out the legal matters and swallowing some pride to release 'Ladies & Gentlemen...' officially?  What an impossible situation The Stones have become, work it out!  Also, don't 'design' another world tour over the next 6 months either. Don't say anything and show up at some cities and do theater shows and clubs, and quit when you want to. The world tour act is tired. Whew!...he said with a cleansing breath!..what else have we got...The Godfather Records have a batch of new titles arriving to market next week...immediately below we have a re-packaging of THE ROLLING STONES nice Honolulu '73 show called "Methodical Slow-Burn In Honolulu" 1CD features the early show from Honolulu on January 22, 1973 plus a bonus mini-poster for the concert...and, GUNS N' ROSES "Parental Advisory - Explicit Content" 1CD of an excellent audience recording from The Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin on December 19, 1987 with bonus tracks from Roy Wilkins Auditorium in St. Paul on December 17th, 1987 and Allentown, PA at the Airport Music Hall  on October 17 1987...

...Also hitting the streets January 18th from GFR, 2 new BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN & THE E STREET BAND CD sets..."Mansions Of Glory" 3CD contains the November 10th show in Cleveland at Quicken Loans Arena with bonus tracks from Milwaukee on November 15th and November 18th in Nashville, "Out On A Midnight Run" 3CD contains the November 20th show at 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore. Both titles feature superb audience recordings of the band performing the entire 'Born To Run' album, and come with a deluxe 4-page booklet...Wait!..there's more ESB...Apocalypse Sound  has the new SPRINGSTEEN & ESB, pictured below is the new DVD "Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 25th Anniversary Concert" which contains the feature broadcast of the October 29, 2009 HOF concert at Madison Square Garden in New York, with bonus footage/clips from the October 30th of the band dueting wtih PATTI SMITH on "Because The Night" and U2 on "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For", as well as 3 songs from the Pete Seeger 90th Birthday Celebration at MSG on May 3, 2009...Also from Apocalypse Sound, look for the very welcome PEARL JAM DVD, "Backspacing" , which features their October 3, 2009 appearance on Austin City Limits with bonus footage from Conan O'Brien show on June 1st, Vote For Change Concert in D.C. on October 11, 2004, and MTV Music Awards on September 2, 1993...

...In other bootleg news around the board...some reconciling first, I mentioned the PAUL McCARTNEY "Good Evening Berlin" title from Picadilly Circus last month, but the label has also released a couple of sister releases recently as well.. "Good Evening Holland" 3CD features his December 9, 2009 show at Gelerdome in Arnhem with some interview bonus tracks and more...and "Good Evening Paris" 3CD featuring the show at the Bercy on December 10th with bonus tracks from Shea Stadium on July 18, 2008 in New York with Billy Joel guesting, 51st Annual Grammy Awards in February '09, plus some 'Good Evening Europe' rehearsals...On a BEATLES-related note anyway, the WWII Label has release THE BEATLES Rock Band Mixes CDs for both "Rubber Soul" and "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"..these mixes include the added studio banter that is included around the tracks as intros by GIL MARTIN (George Martin's son) who handled the production of the game soundtracks and videos...

...New announcements this week feature QUEEN "Vienna Magic" (above), a 4CD/1DVD package from Wardour that bundles up some fabulous audience recordings from July 21st and 22nd, 1986 at Stadthalle in Vienna, along with an audience shot video on DVD, nice...Also pictured above is the new RAINBOW title from Rising Arrow, "Heritage", which features yet another installment from 'the Cozy Tapes' (Rainbow drummer, Cozy Powell) and this is a stereo soundboard recording from Koseinenkin Kaikan, in Osaka on December 9, 1976 which is pretty cool...Out now and new from the Helden Label is the DAVID BOWIE 2CD, "Station To Grand Illusion" which presents a soundboard tape from the Sport Palais in Ahoy, Rotterdam on May 13, 1976 which isn't something to take likely either!...I can't wait to hear that..

...And that is a wrap for this Wednesday edition of the Bootleg News here at HotWacks On-line.  My apologies for having to push this posting overnight. Anyway..have a great week!

Svengi, January 13, 2010