T-REX - 1972 - BOX SET WITH 5 CDs

T-REX - 1972 - BOX SET WITH 5 CDs - 2022

In March 1972, T. Rex played two sell-out concerts at Wembley’s Empire Pool which later featured in “Born To Boogie”, a feature film directed by Ringo Starr that included guest performances from Elton John and Ringo.

The band toured the US twice in 1972, and Bolan took the opportunity to perform solo acoustic sessions for local radio stations. The band featured regularly on the BBC throughout the year, recording special sessions for Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops. T. Rex ended the year with the singles ‘Children Of The Revolution’ and ‘Solid Gold Easy Action’ and the T. Rex Fan Club 1972 Christmas Record Flexi Disc, which is included in the boxsets in its entirety.

The 1972 box includes The Slider album, Live At Wembley The Matinee Show (with two previously unreleased 1972 mixes from The Evening Show), Born To Boogie: The Soundtrack Album (issued in full for the first time), Marc Bolan’s US Radio Sessions, T. Rex on the BBC in 1972, featuring a rare version of Telegram Sam from the Christmas Top Of The Pops, and more!

CD 1

01. Metal Guru

02. Mystic Lady

03. Rock on

04. The Slider

05. Baby Boomerang

06. Spaceball Ricochet

07. Buick MacKane

08. Telegram Sam

09. Rabbit Fighter

10. Baby Strange

11. Ballrooms of Mars

12. Chariot Choogle

13. Main Man

CD 2

01. Rosko's Intro [Emperor Rosko]

02. Cadilac

03. Jeepster

04. Baby Strange

05. Spaceball Ricochet

06. Girl

07. Cosmic Dancer

08. Telegram Sam

09. Hot Love

10. Get It on

11. 'One More Time?' [Emperor Rosko]

12. Summertime Blues

13. Baby Strange [Alternate Mix]

14. Hot Love [Alternate Mix]

CD 3

01. Marc Bolan - Marc's Intro

02. T. Rex - Jeepster

03. T. Rex - Baby Strange

04. Marc Bolan - 'Electric Wind' [Poem]

05. Elton John, Ringo Starr & T. Rex - Tutti Frutti

06. Elton John, Ringo Starr & T. Rex - Children of the Revolution

07. Marc Bolan & Ringo Starr - 'Look to the Left'

08. Marc Bolan - Spaceball Ricochet

09. Marc Bolan & Ringo Starr - 'Some People Like to Rock'

10. T. Rex - Telegram Sam

11. Marc Bolan & Ringo Starr - 'Some People Like to Roll'

12. Marc Bolan & Mickey Finn - Cosmic Dancer

13. Geoffrey Bayldon - 'They've Come, Tis Said'

14. Marc Bolan & String Quartet - Tea Party Medley: Jeepster / Hot Love / Get It on / the Slider

15. Geoffrey Bayldon - 'Union Hall'

16. T. Rex - Hot Love

17. T. Rex - Get It on

18. T. Rex - Chariot Choogle [Soundtrack Mix of Studio Recording]

19. Marc Bolan - Marc's Outro

20. Children of the Revolution [Strings Reprise]

CD 4

01. Spaceball Ricochet

02. Jeepster

03. Cosmic Dancer

04. Main Man

05. Ballrooms of Mars

06. Mystic Lady

07. Girl

08. Baby Strange

09. Left Hand Luke

10. The Slider

11. Spaceball Ricochet

CD 5

01. Metal Guru

02. The Slider

03. Mystic Lady

04. Rock on

05. Main Man

06. Children of the Revolution

07. Solid Gold Easy Action

08. Telegram Sam [Christmas Top of the Pops]*

09. Cadilac

10. Thunderwing

11. Lady

12. Children of the Revolution

13. Jitterbug Love

14. Sunken Rags

15. Solid Gold Easy Action

16. Xmas Riff - Born to Boogie

17. T. Rex Fan Club 1972 "Christmas Record" Flexi Disc

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Kak - Kak

Kak - Kak - 1968 (RE 1999)

Kak was an American psychedelic rock band, based in San Francisco between 1967 and 1969.

The band was formed in Davis, California, in late 1967, by singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist Gary Lee Yoder, and lead guitarist Dehner Patten. Both had previously been members of The Oxford Circle, a garage rock and early psychedelic band. Adding Joe Dave Damrell on bass and sitar, and Chris Lockheed on drums and harpsichord, they started performing together as Kak around San Francisco. After meeting songwriter and record producer Gary Grelecki, they were signed by Epic Records.

The band released their only album, Kak, in 1968, with all songs written or co-written by Yoder, some with Grelecki, in a style influenced by such artists as Moby Grape, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead, and Donovan. Reviewer Richie Unterberger characterizes the music as "minor-league San Francisco psychedelic rock". Two singles, "Everything's Changing" and "I've Got Time", were also released but were unsuccessful.

Damrell left the band before the end of 1968, and Kak split up early in 1969. After one solo single, Yoder later joined Blue Cheer.

Although, at the time, Kak's records were not successful, they later became highly collectable, and the album was bootlegged. It was legitimately reissued in 1999, as Kak-Ola, with additional tracks including demo recordings and solo tracks by Yoder

01. HCO 97658

02. Everything's Changing

03. Electric Sailor

04. Disbelievin'

05. I've Got Time

06. Flowing By

07. Bryte 'N' Clear Day

08. Trieulogy

09. Lemonaide Kid

Bonus Tracks

10. Rain 

11. Everything's Changing 

12. I've Got Time 

13. Bye Bye / Easy Jack 

14. Bryte 'n' Clear Day 

15. Mirage / Rain (medley) 

16. When Loves Comes In 

17. I Miss You 

18. Lonely People Blues 

19. Flight from the East 

20. Good Time Music 

* 16-20 are Gary Lee Yoder solo tracks

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Sabicas - Rock Encounter With Joe Beck

Sabicas - Rock Encounter With Joe Beck - 1973

by AMG

An instrumental album of pretty good flamenco guitar overlaid with run-of-the-mill blues-rock. Though it might have made a splash in the late '60s, when "Beck's Bolero" and "Days of Future Passed" were blazing new trails in classical-rock fusion, by 1972 progressive rockers like Steve Howe were incorporating flamenco into rock at a much higher level of sophistication than anything found here. Beck and Sabicas don't really merge -- flamenco pieces segue into rock-band instrumentals, with Sabicas only occasionally peeking through when Beck isn't flooring an effects pedal. As such, it falls into the same category as Deep Purple's similarly striated "Concerto for Group and Orchestra." Still, opener "Inca Song" kicks out a satisfying jam and features a pleasingly wobbly bassline by Tony Levin. Only "Flamenco Rock" shows a truly successful marriage of the two styles, with Beck wailing effectively over a fluttering guitar part by Sabicas.

01 - Inca Song

02 - Joe's Tune

03 - Zapateado

04 - Zambra

05 - Handclaps

06 - Flamenco Rock

07 - Bulerias

08 - Farruca

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Jorma Kaukonen - Quah

Jorma Kaukonen - Quah - 1974

Quah is the first solo album by Jorma Kaukonen of Hot Tuna and Jefferson Airplane. The album was recorded with Tom Hobson. The initial plan was to have side-A be Kaukonen and side-B be Hobson. However, RCA felt that Hobson's recordings would not be accepted by the public. Initially the record was planned to be released in mid-1973, but because of the issues with Hobson, Kaukonen returned to the studio to record new tracks for side B in May 1974. Only "Blue Prelude" and "Sweet Hawaiian Sunshine" of the original 1974 release feature Hobson's lead vocal, although he also plays guitar on "I'll Let You Know Before I Leave." On the CD reissue, Hobson is featured on all bonus tracks except for "Lord Have Mercy."

In 1980, Grunt Records reissued the album with a different cover that used the photographs that were originally used inside the gatefold. In 1987, Relix Records released the album under license from RCA. It was released on vinyl and was one of the first CDs released by an independent record label in the USA. The first Relix version was pressed in Switzerland, then Japan and finally manufactured in the USA. Relix also released a remastered and graphically revised version in the late 1990s with computer improved tracks from the original masters. BMG (incorporating the former RCA) re-released the original album on CD in 2003, along with the bonus tracks featuring Hobson.

It was voted number 1 in the All-Time 50 Long Forgotten Gems in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).

01. Genesis

02. I'll Be All Right (Traditional)

03. Song for the North Star

04. I'll Let You Know Before I Leave

05. Flying Clouds

06. Another Man Done Gone

07. I am The Light of this World

08. Police Dog Blues

09. Blue Prelude

10. Sweet Hawaiian Sunshine

11. Hamar Promenade

2003 CD reissue bonus tracks

12. Lord Have Mercy" (also recorded for The Phosphorescent Rat as "Letter to the North Star"

13. No Mail Today

14. Midnight in Milpitas

15. Barrier

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Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man

Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man - 1971

Gil Scott-Heron's 1971 album Pieces of a Man set a standard for vocal artistry and political awareness that few musicians will ever match. 

His unique proto-rap vocal style influenced a generation of hip-hop artists, and nowhere is his style more powerful than on the classic "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Even though the media -- the very entity attacked in this song -- has used, reused, and recontextualized the song and its title so many times, the message is so strong that it has become almost impossible to co-opt.

Musically, the track created a formula that modern hip-hop would follow for years to come: bare-bones arrangements featuring pounding basslines and stripped-down drumbeats. Although the song features plenty of outdated references to everything from Spiro Agnew and Jim Webb to The Beverly Hillbillies, the force of Scott-Heron's well-directed anger makes the song timeless. More than just a spoken word poet, Scott-Heron was also a uniquely gifted vocalist.

On tracks like the reflective "I Think I'll Call It Morning" and the title track, Scott-Heron's voice is complemented perfectly by the soulful keyboards of Brian Jackson. On "Lady Day and John Coltrane," he not only celebrates jazz legends of the past in his words but in his vocal performance, one that is filled with enough soul and innovation to make Coltrane and Billie Holiday nod their heads in approval. 

More than three decades after its release, Pieces of a Man is just as -- if not more -- powerful and influential today as it was the day it was released

01. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

02. Save the Children

03. Lady Day and John Coltrane

04. Home Is Where the Hatred Is

05. When You Are Who You Are

06. I Think I'll Call It Morning

07. Pieces of a Man

08. A Sign of the Ages

09. Or Down You'll Fall

10. The Needle's Eye

11. The Prisoner

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