The Strangulated Beatoffs - Beating Off All Over the World - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The Strangulated Beatoffs - Beatoffs (White Album) [COMPACT DISCS] Jewel Case Packaging date 11/26/2013

A comprehensive 21 CD boxset of concert performances from the Scottish legends. Includes 144-page hardback book, rare memorabilia, signed band photo, replica program and more. There was never another band like The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. They didn't just play shows - they made every venue feel like their territory, told stories, cracked jokes, and then tore the roof off the place. Scotland has produced it's share of musical legends, but SAHB remain something rarer still a band whose myth came from the stage, night after night, sweat and swagger and steel-toe precision. Good Evening Boys & Girls is the most comprehensive attempt yet to bottle that lightning. Gathering 16 previously unreleased live performances, this 21-CD set traces the group from the Marquee in '73 through the band's final run with the original lineup. It's a tour through ballrooms, city halls, theatres and festivals - London, Newcastle, Glasgow, New York, Berlin, Reading - and the famous Glasgow Apollo Christmas Show of 1975, long spoken of in fan circles, now finally unearthed. Much of what's here comes straight from the source soundboard and radio recordings, remastered with care to preserve their bite and atmosphere. You hear the band as the crew and punters heard them - gritty, elastic, unpredictable, and completely themselves. This is SAHB without varnish, and that's exactly how it should be. The box also digs into the story behind the noise. A 144-page hardback book tells the tale with unseen and rare photographs, accompanied by new notes from longtime Harvey historian Martin Kielty. Much of the memorabilia posters, passes, scraps, treasures - comes from Ted McKenna's private archive and the remarkable collection of Martin Davies, offering a glimpse into the working life of a band that lived as hard as it played. A replica Glasgow Apollo program and a signed photograph from Zal Cleminso

Harry Christophers - Traditional Christmas Carol Collection [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/14/2006