STEVE HACKETT: "Premonitions - The Charisma Recordings" box due in October

**Mister Triscuits** · 11-02-2015

Originally Posted by Progatron

I plunked down the $1.29 and grabbed "Seven Of Cups" from iTunes because I was just too curious... kind of a disappointment. I had convinced myself it must be a track from the Acolyte sessions (based on the name) but it turns out it's a leftover from the PDT sessions, and really not very 'Hackett', truth be told. Oh well!

Thanks for the warning. I also assumed it was an Acolyte leftover.

**Troopers For Sound** · 11-06-2015

Couldn't afford the box set, but I'll be looking forward to getting the remixed Please Don't Touch and Spectral Mornings when they get issued separately.

I did however also grab Seven of Cups from iTunes and absolutely loved it! Gorgeous little instrumental. Although were it not for that little section of the Virgin and the Gypsy I don't think I'd have ever placed it as a Hackett piece.

Matt.

**2steves** · 11-06-2015

Originally Posted by Troopers For Sound

Couldn't afford the box set, but I'll be looking forward to getting the remixed Please Don't Touch and Spectral Mornings when they get issued separately.

I did however also grab Seven of Cups from iTunes and absolutely loved it! Gorgeous little instrumental. Although were it not for that little section of the Virgin and the Gypsy I don't think I'd have ever placed it as a Hackett piece.

Matt.

yeah I heard it too---and think it sorta sounds like Focus than Hackett but it is sweet.

**syncopatico** · 11-07-2015

plus Seven of Cups has Chester on drums on it: always a 'plus' imo!

**Dave (in MA)** · 11-23-2015

Looks like I missed out on this box unless I want to remortgage my house.

**Sordel** · 11-23-2015

Originally Posted by Dave (in MA)

Looks like I missed out on this box unless I want to remortgage my house.

Still available at the original price from amazon.co.uk.

**bobg56** · 12-15-2015

So are all the live sets in the box previously unreleased?

Bob

**jkelman** · 12-15-2015

Originally Posted by Sordel

Still available at the original price from amazon.co.uk.

And even cheaper at Amazon.it - after it removes vat. Just 80€ + 14€ to Canada so suspect similar to the USA, so just a little over $100 USD...which ain't bad for the number of discs.

**happytheman** · 12-16-2015

Originally Posted by jkelman

And even cheaper at Amazon.it - after it removes vat. Just 80€ + 14€ to Canada so suspect similar to the USA, so just a little over $100 USD...which ain't bad for the number of discs.

I just now am checking into this thread.. what gives with Amazon offering the full box 14 disc for $100 but then they show mp3 for $56.. then when you look at the fine details.. it's only 10 disc.. why not offer the whole 14 disc via mp3? They did the same thing with Tony Banks boxset.. I believe they left the 4th disc off.. Of course now they don't offer it in mp3 format.. but it was a great price..

**Progatron** · 12-16-2015

Originally Posted by happytheman

I just now am checking into this thread.. what gives with Amazon offering the full box 14 disc for $100 but then they show mp3 for $56.. then when you look at the fine details.. it's only 10 disc.. why not offer the whole 14 disc via mp3? They did the same thing with Tony Banks boxset.. I believe they left the 4th disc off.. Of course now they don't offer it in mp3 format.. but it was a great price..

Four of the discs are DVDs.

**happytheman** · 12-16-2015

Originally Posted by Progatron

Four of the discs are DVDs.

That answers that question.. ooops.. guess I didn't do my research before posting..

**rushfan** · 12-16-2015

Can anyone advise if there are any region restrictions with the DVDs? In other words, are they NTSC or PAL?

**jkelman** · 12-17-2015

Originally Posted by happytheman

I just now am checking into this thread.. what gives with Amazon offering the full box 14 disc for $100 but then they show mp3 for $56.. then when you look at the fine details.. it's only 10 disc.. why not offer the whole 14 disc via mp3? They did the same thing with Tony Banks boxset.. I believe they left the 4th disc off.. Of course now they don't offer it in mp3 format.. but it was a great price..

Because the DVDs are surround sound and high res stereo remixes (two of them anyway; two are, because original multitracks couldn't be found, done using the "up-surround" software). So you won't get surround sound and certainly not the high res...which may not matter to you, but to folks like me, they absolutely do. And yes, they are NTSC (not sure if that matters when it comes to DVD-A - does it?)

Cheers!
John

**JKL2000** · 02-06-2016

Finally digging into the GORGEOUS (if slightly flawed) Hackett set. What? Sally Oldfield is Mike Rutherford's sister? I had no idea! Why did no one tell me this? At the very least it means Genesis gets a sweet deal on air travel.

**JJ88** · 02-06-2016

Seems that 3 of these albums are getting deluxe sets with DVDs in May- presumably these will have the 5.1 mixes included there too. I suppose the success of this set led them to believe they could launch deluxe editions of them separately:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spectral-Mor...4766308&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Please-Dont-...4766376&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Defector-Ste...4766376&sr=1-6

**JKL2000** · 02-06-2016

Originally Posted by JJ88

Seems that 3 of these albums are getting deluxe sets with DVDs in May- presumably these will have the 5.1 mixes included there too. I suppose the success of this set led them to believe they could launch deluxe editions of them separately:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spectral-Mor...4766308&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Please-Dont-...4766376&sr=1-3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Defector-Ste...4766376&sr=1-6

Wow! I THINK I'm happy with the remasters I already have, and the big set, but thanks for the info, didn't know!

**JJ88** · 02-06-2016

^I would imagine it's the same as what's in the box, just mass-marketed.

**JKL2000** · 02-06-2016

Originally Posted by JJ88

^I would imagine it's the same as what's in the box, just mass-marketed.

But what's in the box is not complete albums.

**bill g** · 02-06-2016

Originally Posted by JKL2000

Finally digging into the GORGEOUS (if slightly flawed) Hackett set. What? Sally Oldfield is Mike Rutherford's sister? I had no idea! Why did no one tell me this? At the very least it means Genesis gets a sweet deal on air travel.

Does it really say that in the box? Pretty silly error to make, I'd say.

**JKL2000** · 02-06-2016

Originally Posted by bill g

Does it really say that in the box? Pretty silly error to make, I'd say.

You know, it might say "Sally Oldfield, Mike's sister," and I thought they meant Mike Rutherford because I was reading about Genesis. I have to check. I actually assumed Sally was Mike Oldfield's wife - I really didn't know. Anyway, never mind!

**Proglodite** · 02-06-2016

Mike Oldfield has a sister (Sally Oldfield) and a brother (Terry Oldfield) - they both are musicians and have albums of their own. --Peter

**interbellum** · 02-07-2016

Originally Posted by Proglodite

Mike Oldfield has a sister (Sally Oldfield) and a brother (Terry Oldfield) - they both are musicians and have albums of their own. --Peter

Sally and Mike even had a band together: The Sallyangie

**JKL2000** · 02-07-2016

Originally Posted by JKL2000

You know, it might say "Sally Oldfield, Mike's sister," and I thought they meant Mike Rutherford because I was reading about Genesis. I have to check. I actually assumed Sally was Mike Oldfield's wife - I really didn't know. Anyway, never mind!

I just checked - it's as I said above. Seems a bit offensive to Sally Oldfield. As if everyone will know of Mike Oldfield but not her. Of course, that's undoubtedly the case, but still...