I've been looking for this box set and it seems like its out of print, the copies I have seen go for $400. Whats uh the deal ?
Is it out of print ?
I've been looking for this box set and it seems like its out of print, the copies I have seen go for $400. Whats uh the deal ?
Is it out of print ?
Probably. SACDs always seem to go out-of-print at some stage.
Hopefully, they'll re-release the whole lot as an HDTracks download without the excessive compression and clipping found on the SACD/CD remasters.
Looks like the regular CD version is OOP too.
I have another question, but it's about the Genesis Movie box. Is this comment from an Amazon customer correct about the missing medley?:
The 3rd DVD is "Live at Wembley"(originally titled "Invisible Touch Tour"), and the disc's contents are identical to the separately released DVD that most of us already have. This series of four concerts was shot on an early prototype Sony analogue high definition video recording system, of which only a few machines ever existed . When it came time to release this material on DVD, there was a question of there was still a machine in existence to play the original high definition tapes, to permit a properly mastered widescreen DVD(I.E. not a letterboxed 4:3 ratio disc). Fortunately one such machine was found in England, but the search for unreleased material had a sad result. In each of the four shows, the group played a 20 minute medley of early Genesis songs. Unfortunately, without asking or informing the group, in each of the four shows, the video crew used the 20 minute medley as a time to shut down their equipment and re-load their video recorders with more recording tape, so in all four shows, the medley was not recorded.
This is the only one of the box sets I didn't buy, and now I'm thinking maybe I should since I don't own any of the separate DVD releases. I'm just not as big a fan of the latter Phil era as the reast, but I should probably have Three Sides Live.
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If the red cardboard box is not a real problem for you, youb can also seek the individual albums separately >> these were sold ourtside the boxset as well (the lone and sole case, since they didn't do it for the next ones)
I bought TOTT alone.... because I didn't care enough for the others... I also modified the plastic guides of my green boxset to include ToTT in it
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
The story I heard was the band chose not to include the medley because it had been included on both Three Sides Live and The Mama Tour (yeah, the instrumental bits linking In The Cage and Afterglow changed, but the two "bookend" songs were the same). So it was their decision for the video crew to reload during the medley. I seem to recall reading somewhere, when the Wembley show was first released on DVD that when they went back to the original master recordings, on all four nights, the cameramen all resumed filming somewhere during Afterglow.
As I recall, on the first part of the tour, the medley was In The Cage/...In The Quiet Earth/Supper's Ready (basically just Apocalypse in 9/8, beginning with the organ solo, and As Sure As Eggs Is Eggs). That's the version that was broadcast on King Biscuit (I think taken from one of the LA Forum shows), with Phil announcing beforehand that the medley would constitute a history lesson and "there will be a quiz afterwards". I would assume that's the one that's on the Wolfgang's Vault site. I also have a bootleg VHS somewhere from, I think, one of the other shows on the tour where they do that version of the medley (it's probably on Youtube, too).
But by the time of the UK leg of the tour, they swapped out the Supper's Ready excerpts in favor of Afterglow. So the loss of the medley isn't nearly as great as one is probably thinking. The major difference between The Mama Tour medley and the one played at Wembley is that they had dropped the Cinema Show and Colony Of The Slippermen bits, and they do ...In That Quiet Earth in it's entirety (which they hadn't done since 1977, I don't think).
Coincidentally I just got an email from the official Genesis shop, containing:- http://shop.genesis-music.com/1983-1...et-514111.html
The 2 disc versions and the box sets are out of print. Personally I believe the original mixes should be restored to print- properly remastered, like The Beatles and solo/Pink Floyd catalogues- and let these remixes fade away. The extras were nice, though. I only have the Gabriel box and a few of the separate 2 disc versions. Those boxes were expensive.
I am sure there will be further re-issues from the band. I'd like to see them do one album a year, chronologically, in a big box (like Larks' Tongues in Aspic). Sadly, I don't think there are enough rarities of sufficient quality from the early years - at least not that the band want to release.
Ir's their legacy, so of course they can do whatever they like with it, but with so many high-quality boots around of the Seconds Out gigs I think it was a missed opportunity not to have released an expanded version of the album to include 'White Mountain', 'Eleventh Earl of Mar' and 'Inside and Out' as well.
IMO boots from the Gabriel era are more problematic because they really demonstrate how unreliable his vocals were.
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
I'd slap down any amount of money for such a series of boxed sets. There are plenty of live shows to choose from, and of course we all know the Selling England/Lamb/Trick album sessions. Supposedly Phil has a gigantic archive of tapes from all throughout their career - both live and studio - that would make bootleggers and fans absolutely drool. I'm sure he doesn't pay it much mind anymore though, and views any offers of releasing any of it with some amusement.
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