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26 September 2011 saw the JAMES GUTHRIE and JOEL PLANTE CD Remasters of the Pink Floyd catalogue hit the shops to pretty much universal praise (they were transferred at Das Boot Studios and all single issues were known as 'Discovery Editions'). These have been superseded by the 15 January 2016 'Pink Floyd Records' Reissues – in most cases featuring upgraded artwork but still using the 2011 Remaster.

The August 1967 debut album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" is PFR1, June 1968's second album "A Saucerful Of Secrets" is PFR2 while June 1969's Soundtrack From The Film "More" is PFR3 (all Stereo) and so on. Their fourth release, the half-live, half-studio October 1969 double-album "Ummagumma" is PFR4.

So what's new (if anything)? The 2011 2CD set had specially commissioned artwork for the CDs (most of which I personally thought were meaningless rubbish images) - these 2016 replacements have swapped out those with a picture CD for each – usually always album artwork. PRF4 also has a tri-gatefold card sleeve, title sticker (on the shrink-warp) and although the colour booklet is still 16-pages long, it is newly laid out. You get the striking and iconic original Hipgnosis gatefold artwork (the equipment shot on the back cover is the past page of the booklet in near perfect quality), lyrics to all the songs (including live) and new band images from the period. A very cool inclusion is a proof set of photographs of each band member - going some way towards showing how they were spliced to make that 'window within a window' effect. I'd call it more coherent even if it does lack an essay enlightening the listener as to the history of the band and these new 1969 studio tracks.

But the real deal here is the AUDIO - and for those of us who remember our crackly SHDW 1/2 vinyls all too well - the sonic upgrade in the 2011 Remasters is massive. The Live Set is fantastically clear - the trippy drums and keyboard sound stage so much more centered - and that scream during "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" launches out of your speakers with frightening reality (as it was no doubt originally intended to do). Same too on the studio side - big improvements. Let's get to the Grantchester Meadows...

UK re-released 15 January 2016 - "Ummagumma" by PINK FLOYD on Warner Music Group/Pink Floyd Records PFR4 (Barcode 5099902893723) is a 2CD Remaster of the October 1969 double-album. This 2016 reissue has the same Barcode and International Catalogue Number as the 26 September 2011 'Discovery Edition' on EMI 50999 028937 2 3 but has the addition of 'Pink Floyd Records' catalogue numbers (PRF1, PRF2 etc) and upgraded artwork. As both releases have the same barcode, if you want 2011 rather than 2016, then you may have to specify this when purchasing. It plays out as follows:

CD1 "Live Album" (39:40 minutes):

1. Astronomy Domine [Side 1]

2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene

3. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [Side 2]

4. A Saucerful Of Secrets

Recorded at Mothers Club, Birmingham, 27 April 1969 and Manchester College Of Commerce, 2 May 1969

CD2 "Studio Album" (47:02 minutes):

1. Sysyphus - Part One [Side 3]

2. Sysyphus - Part Two

3. Sysyphus - Part Three

4. Sysyphus - Part Four

5. Grantchester Meadows

6. Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict

7. The Narrow Way - Part One [Side 4]

8. The Narrow Way - Part Two

9. The Narrow Way - Part Three

10. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - Part One - Entrance

11. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - Part Two - Entertainment

12. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party - Part Three – Exit

The double-album "Ummagumma" was released 7 November 1969 in the UK on Harvest SHDW 1 / 2 and in the USA on Harvest SKBB 388 (8 November 1969). Produced by PINK FLOYD (Live) and NORMAN SMITH (Studio) – it peaked at No. 5 in the UK LP charts and No. 74 in the USA. On CD2 - Richard Wright wrote all of "Sysyphus", Roger Waters wrote "Grantchester Meadows" and "Several Species..." - David Gilmour wrote all of "The Narrow Way" and Nick Mason wrote all of "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party".

The Live Set was a clever way (in some respects) for the four piece Pink Floyd to close the Syd Barrett chapter while the studio set showed they were moving on. And I'm amazed at how good the transfer is - "A Saucerful Of Secrets" giving it some Sixties Psych. The crescendo Part One of "Sysyphus" sounds good but not as clean as the piano solo Part Two. And those organ notes that lead in Part Four give way to vibes and bird noises that used to sound so far away they were irritating. Can't say I'm a fan of the doomy organ later on - hasn't aged well.

But if I was to pick out one track that astonishes - it's the Waters written "Grantchester Meadows" where bird tweeting slips the song in - the acoustic guitar and kingfisher lyrics clear as a bell - such an amazing clarity to the solo too. The five-minute "Several Species..." once again features percussion noises mixed up with animal tweets and chirps and by the time the indecipherable echoed lyrics come in - it may sound good but it's insufferable.

Guitarist David Gilmour's "The Narrow Way" comes as a Roy Harper-type blessed relief - gorgeous acoustic guitars swirling around your speakers as they mix with way-up-the-fretboard slide guitar notes - all of it filling up an ethereal vibe. It's one of my fave tracks on the album and to hear it sound this good is an absolute blast (I can also sequence fade-out that crude segue into Part Two at the end). The heavy-heavy grunge guitars of Part Two just sounds like period noodle to me now - but its rescued by the seven minutes of lyrics and very-Floyd Part Three.

Mason chooses a flute to open his three-parter "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" but it’s soon abandoned for experimental drum sounds and percussion noises – again great audio – but noodle that may have been interesting then but only feels ludicrously self-indulgent now. And it ends on fifty seconds or so of flute.

My problem with "Ummagumma" is that even when I struggled with it back in the day, I liked Pink Floyd. But five decades haven't been kind to the worst early excesses of the band - this sort of Experimental knob constantly pawned off on us as some kind of genius because it bears the PF moniker.

Fans will adore it for sure and Hell, probably bought it back in September 2011 (especially given the fantastic Das Boot Studios audio upgrade). But the uninitiated need to hear first, because 1970's "Atom Heart Mother", 1971's "Meddle" and 1972's "Obscured By Clouds" were so much better musically...

"Any Day Now" by JOAN BAEZ – December 1968 US 2LP set of Bob Dylan Covers on Vanguard Records (April 1969 UK) – featuring Grady Martin, Fred Carter, Pete Drake, Jerry Reed, Vinnie Bell, Hargus 'Pig' Robbins, Stephen Stills of Buffalo Springfield with Ken Buttrey, David Briggs, Buddy Spicher and Norbert Putnam of Area Code 615 and Barefoot Jerry (March 2005 UK Ace Records 'Vanguard Masters' Expanded Edition Reissue – 2LPs onto 1CD with Two Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks Recorded Live In Japan – Jeff Zaraya Restoration and Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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Against a backdrop of huge escalation in the Vietnam War, the assignations of Dr. Martin Luther King in April and Robert Kennedy in June and racial unrest in major American cities and University campuses – Joan Baez steps into Columbia's studios in Nashville in October 1968 with Producer Maynard Solomon, four members of Area Code 615 and other top session types to make a double-album of Bob Dylan cover versions - some featuring Indian Sitar in their Americana Folk Rock renditions.

Taking its title from lyrics in "I Shall Be Released" – the ambitious "Any Day Now" double-album would quickly see light of day only two months later at the tail end of December 1968 on Vanguard Records and hit Blighty in April 1969. This very cool and gorgeous sounding CD Remaster of 2005 is part of Ace Records 'Vanguard Masters Series' and has had major audio restoration work done – JEFF ZARAYA lifting this completely forgotten early twofer up by the boot straps. And at fewer than seven quid, VMD 79741 even throws in as Bonus Tracks two further BD covers from a Japanese-only tour album that wasn't issued anywhere else (unavailable too on digital until now). Let's get down with the Baz and Bob show…

UK released 26 March 2005 (8 February 2005 in the USA) - "Any Day Now" by JOAN BAEZ on Ace Records/Vanguard Masters VMD 79741 (Barcode 029667008426) offers the entire 1968 2LP set of Bob Dylan Cover versions Remastered onto 1CD with Two Bonus Tracks (Previously Unreleased outside of Japan) and plays out as follows (75:32 minutes):

1. Love Minus Zero/No Limit [Side 1]

2. North Country Blues

3. You Ain't Going Nowhere

4. Drifter's Escape

5. I Pity The Poor Immigrant

6. Tears Of Rage [Side 2]

7. Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

8. Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word [Side 3]

9. I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

10. The Walls Of Redwing

11. Dear Landlord

12. One Too Many Mornings

13. I Shall Be Released [Side 4]

14. Boots Of Spanish Leather

15. Restless Farewell

Tracks 1 to 15 are her tenth album - the double studio-set "Any Day Now" - released December 1968 in the USA on Vanguard VSD 79306/7 and April 1969 in the UK on Vanguard SVRL 19037/8 (reissued 1970 on Vanguard VSD 79306/7).

BONUS TRACKS:

16. Blowin' In The Wind (Live)

17. It Ain't Me Babe (Live)

Tracks 16 and 17 recorded Live in Japan in 1967 and only released there – PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED anywhere else

The 12-page booklet is a pleasingly in-depth affair – ARTHUR LEVY going deep into social, commercial and personal reasons behind her recordings of the era. There are those pencil drawings that featured on the original artwork but mostly its just text – and a bloody good read it makes too. Engineered for release from original tapes by JEFF ZARAYA – sonic solutions and 20-bit digital audio was used and bass restored. This is a rather lovely sounding CD – giving it that analogue Folk shimmer that I love. Great transfer…

Dylan fans of the day would have scrutinized the track list and noticed that a few of the entries were not the usual fodder. Several tracks had been circulating on Basement Tapes bootlegs (“Too Much Of Nothing” and "You Ain't Going Nowhere" for instance) and two were only just heard on The Band "Music From Big Pink" July 1968 debut album - "Tears Of Rage" (a co-write with Richard Manuel) and Dylan's anthemic "I Shall Be Released".

In December 1968 - when the double was issued Stateside – impact-wise the lyrical powerhouse "I Shall Be Released" had a meaning that encompassed worlds. But it wasn’t only about his amazing lyrics - she stretched interpretations too. Baez gives "Tears Of Rage" a stunning Acapella rendition perfectly setting up her version of the Side 4 monster on 1966's "Blonde On Blonde" double - the eleven-minute "Sad-Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands" - her soft voice giving it a much more lovelorn Folky feel. There are four from the then recently issued "John Wesley Harding" album - "Drifter's Escape", a hurting "I Pity The Poor Immigrant", a softly sinister "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" and a pure man-on-the-street hatred in "Dear Landlord".

The new song to everyone was the lilting "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word" that opened Side 3. For me it's one of the prettiest on the whole project. In fact when the double-album troubled the US Billboard LP charts in late January 1969, Vanguard figured its unique presence here might even make a collector's hit and issued the song as a US 45 in March 1969 (Vanguard VRS-35088) with the opening song on its flipside - "Love Minus Zero/No Limit". That combo made No. 86 on the singles chart but no more. The long-player fared way better - with a 20-week chart run, the 2LP set peaked at an impressive No. 30 and was nominated for a Folk Grammy.

Her band featuring several instruments prominently – Fred Carter and Grady Martin on guitars, blind session-man Hargus 'Pig' Robbins on piano - Vinnie Bell on Indian Sitar and somewhere in there is Stephen Stills - with Buffalo Springfield at the time. 

"We’re both just one too many mornings and a thousand miles behind…" – Baez sang back in the day, knowing all too well what her relationship with Dylan was and how far both had travelled since 1962.

I suppose you could accuse "Any Day Now" of being an inevitable vanity project (given their famous pairing on so many tumultuous Sixties occasions). But it doesn't feel like that. Instead I'm moved again. Like it's time we went back 52 years and revisited the hugely influential Zim and his equally feisty activist New York Lady. Because both were, and are still - a class act. Check it out…

"With A Little Help From My Friends" and "Singing/Playing" by LARRY CARLTON – 1968 US Debut Album on Uni Records and 1973 US Second Studio Album on Blue Thumb Records – featuring Three Members of The Crusaders on the 1973 LP (6 March 2020 UK Beat Goes On Reissue – 2LPs onto 1CD – Andrew Thompson Remasters) - A Review by Mark Barry...

"...One More Chance..."

Very much a tale of two musical cities, the debut from 1968 talks of 'Larry's Bag...' in the cheesy liner notes that unfortunately sets up a functional two-to-three star starter LP from one of the most gifted of guitar players (and future Crusader). But his 1973 effort "Singing/Playing" is a world away from that underwhelming first LP – a wee bit of a forgotten and overlooked gem - fabulous production values and some really clever song choices.

And typically BGO whomp you with top quality audio from their long-time resident Audio Engineer ANDREW THOMPSON. A snazzy card slipcase on the outside, a 16-page fact-filled booklet with new liner notes from Mojo magazine's main Jazz writer CHARLES WARING and you get the quality reissue picture here. Let's get to those slick-licks...

UK released 6 March 2020 - "With A Little Help From My Friends - and - Singing/Playing" by LARRY CARLTON on Beat Goes On BGOCD 1405 (Barcode 5017261214058) offers his first two studio albums from 1968 and 1973 newly Remastered onto 1CD and plays out as follows (68:56 minutes):

1. With A Little Help From My Friends - Beatles cover [Side 1]
2. MacArthur Park - Jimmy Webb song, Richard Harris cover
3. Don't You Care? - Buckinghams cover
4. When Sunny Gets Blue - Johnny Mathis cover (amongst others)
5. Honey - Bobby Goldsboro cover
6. Monday Monday - The Mamas and The Papas cover [Side 2]
7. Eleanor Rigby - Beatles cover
8. The Odd Couple - Neil Hefti song, cover of the movie theme
9. By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Jimmy Webb song, Glen Campbell cover
10. People Get Ready - Curtis Mayfield song, Impressions cover
Tracks 1 to 10 are his debut album "With A Little Help From My Friends" - release 1968 in the USA on Uni Records 73036 (no UK issue)

11. Easy Evil [Side 1]
12. I Cry Mercy
13. One More Chance
14. With Respect To Coltrane
15. American Family [Side 2]
16. Wavin' And Smilin'
17. Captain, Captain
18. Free Way
Tracks 11 to 18 are his second studio album "Singing/Playing" - released 1973 in the US on Blue Thumb Records BTS 46 (no UK issue)

With beautiful audio on both platters (especially the second) - the debut is all instrumental covers and you can see from the detailed track list provided above uses contemporary hits of the 1968-day alongside some deeper cuts. His band featured Trumpeters Graham Young, Virgil Evans and jack Caan with Organist Terry Trotter, Bassist David Carre and Drummer Michael F. Mills. But even on crowd-pleaser melodies like "Eleanor Rigby" where he admittedly tries to do his version of the "Revolver" classic – it all feels like George Benson whacking out a 99 cents LP for Saturday shoppers who should know better. The uptempo Jazz-happy beat given to "People Get Ready" is awful pap ruining a gorgeous song. Let's cut to the altogether more rewarding Box Number Two…

Featuring Keyboardists Joe Sample and Michael Omartian with Bassists Wilton Felder, Reinie Press, Max Bennett and Joe Osborn and Drummers Ron Tutt, John Guerin, Jim Gordon and Norbert "Stix" Hooper – Carlton turns out to have quite a cool Ned Doheny type voice. Two tracks on his second platter – a cover of Tom Scott's "With Respect To Coltrane" and Carlton's own "Free Way" - feature three key members of his future musical compatriots The Crusaders – Keyboardist Joe Sample, Bassist Wilton Felder and Drummer Norbert 'Stix' Hooper (Carlton would become their fourth band member for the best years of their Blue Thumb and ABC Records output right up to "Street Life" in 1979). Another huge session player Michael Omartian who has credits with Michael McDonald, Steely Dan, Rickie Lee Jones (and so many more) turns up giving it some Electric Piano on two Alan O'Day songs - "Easy Evil" and "American Family". I first touched on the fantastic "Easy Evil" on John Kay's cool second solo LP outside Steppenwolf - "My Sportin' Life" from 1973. I think as many as fifteen covers of this sideway-referencing drug-addiction song exist including variants by Merl Saunders, Travis Wammack and even actor John Travolta. Carlton gives his "Easy Evil" a very effective Classics IV "Spooky" groove and a sensuous laid-back vocal – very cool and with gorgeous clean-as-a-whistle audio too.

The obscure but delightful cover of "I Cry Mercy" was written by Tim and Steve Smith and first showed on the one and only Smith Perkins Smith album called (unoriginally) "Smith Perkins Smith" on Island Records in 1972 (featuring Wayne Perkins). I’ve always adored this album and in April 2020, it still remains stubbornly sans digital. What a blast to hear it here – anchored by ace sessionmen Jim Gordon on Drums and Joe Osborn on Bass and maybe too many syrupy strings. Speaking of uber obscure variants – Carlton also tackles a song called "Wavin' And Smilin'" penned by Bob Siller of the Reprise Records Psych act Mephistopheles (1969). He also had a sank-like-a-trace solo album called "This Is Siller's Picture" on RCA Victor Records in 1968. But his "Wavin’ And Smilin’" isn't on either, so is an exclusive here.

Things even get a tad Little Feat with the slinky Rock-Funk of "One More Chance" - the ladies echoing the title-chorus being Oma Drake, Julia Tillman and Maxine Willard - Carlton doing his best subtle B.B. King licks as the groove chugs along. A huge guitar sound jumps out at you for Tom Scott's "With Respect To Coltrane" - and if one track was to show how far Carlton had come from doing competent Woolworth's type covers - it's this one. His playing here is doubled-up and I'm reminded of Gary Moore in his "Grinding Stone" days when he'd make you sit up and perspire in awe.

A clever reissue from England’s Beat Goes On – fans will have to own it for that great audio upgrade – while the Jazz-Funk curious will find much to savour in the "Singing/Playing" album. Respect to Larry C...

"Slayed?" by SLADE – September 1972 UK Fourth LP on Polydor Records and February 1973 in the USA on Polydor Records – featuring Noddy Holder, Dave Hill, Jim Lea and Don Powell (21 August 2006 UK Salvo Expanded Edition CD Reissue with Five Bonus Tracks and Card Slipcase - Tim Turan Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"...Rock And Rave!"

Half way through Side 1's "The Whole World's Goin' Crazee" there's a give-it-all-you-got echoed lead vocal passage by Noddy Holder where he let's rip with line-after-line of screamed lyrics ("Rant And Rave!"). Such throat-shredding acrobatics would have made Brian Johnson (once of Geordie and then AC/DC of course) reach for lozenges even then. But it's SLADE and would we old-timer reprobates of the Seventies want it any other way.

In fact at the last count, I think Slade were the only Rock Band in the world that could count the same original line-up for 40 years straight from 1969's debut "Ambrose Slade" to the Naughties (or is it 50 years). There's always been something fun about these Wolverhampton anthem queens and rabble-rousers. Makes me want to don my glitter boots and mirror hat and misspell every song title. Let's get slaughtered and crazee...

UK released 21 August 2006 - "Slayed?" by SLADE on Salvo SALVOCD002 (Barcode 698458810229) is an Expanded Edition CD Reissue and New Remaster with Five Bonus Tracks that plays out as follows (53:41 minutes):

1. How D'you Ride [Side 1]

2. The Whole World's Goin' Crazee

3.  Look At Last Nite

4. I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen

5. Move Over

6. Gudbuy T'Jane [Side 2]

7. Gudbuy Gudbuy

8. Mama Weer All Crazee Now

9. I Don' Mind

10. Let The Good Times Roll/Feel So Fine

Tracks 1 to 10 are their fourth album (third studio set) "Slayed?" - released September 1972 in the UK on Polydor 2383 163 and February 1973 in the USA on Polydor PD 5524. Produced by CHAS CHANDLER – it peaked at No. 2 on the UK LP charts and No. 69 in the USA.

BONUS TRACKS:

11. My Life Is Natural - non-album B-side to "Coz I Luv You", 8 October 1971 UK 7" single on Polydor 2058 155

12. Candidate - non-album B-side to "Look Wot You Dun", 27 January 1972 UK 7" single on Polydor 2058 195

13. Wonderin' Y - non-album B-side to "Take Me Bak 'Ome", 19 May 1972 UK 7" single on Polydor 2058 231

14. Man Who Speeks Evil - non-album B-side to "Mama Weer All Crazee Now", 25 August 1972 UK 7" single on Polydor 2058 274

15. Slade Talk to MELANIE Readers - 8 September 1973 UK 1-Sided 7" Flexi Disc on Lyntone LYN 2645, Melanie Magazine freebie

SLADE was:

NODDY HOLDER - Lead Vocals and Guitar

DAVE HILL - Guitar

JIM LEA - Bass and Violin

DON POWELL - Drums and Percussion

The 12-page booklet sports new liner notes from DAVID LING that is clearly part of an on-going history of the band and they're entertaining and informative – discussing Jim Lea's discomfort with rapid Nationwide fame - ending on Don Powell's near fatal car accident in July 1973 that did take the life of his then 20-year old girlfriend, Angela Morris. There are black and white period photos of the boys looking sometimes bewildered at the sudden fame and Number 1 singles status, shots of 'slayed' fans, memorabilia and a really nice two-page display of rare colour picture sleeves from around the world. TIM TURAN who did the Nazareth and Procol Harum remasters for Salvo has done the master-tape business and made a non-audiophile screamer of a Rock album seem more beefy and alive. For sure the vocals are still that bit distant (a trade mark sound for Slade) but the guitars and rhythm section are (in band parlay) in yer face. And how cool is it to hear those B-sides, especially the Acoustic Rock Swing of the non-album B-side to "Coz I Luv You" – the rather brill "My Life Is Natural". To the music…

Like Chas Chandler had done with Jimi Hendrix and Andrew Loog Oldham with The Rolling Stones – Noddy Holder and Jim Lea in particular were forced by their Manager/Producer Chas Chandler to write their own material – and preferably boys – some hits if you don’t mind. And that they did - "Slayed?" went all the way to the top – No. 1 – capitalizing on the mighty "Slade Alive!" LP that went before it in March of 1972 which had in itself smashed all the way up to the No. 2 position. Their next two vinyl platters, the compilation LP "Sladest" and the studio album "Old New Borrowed And Blue" would do the same in September 1973 and February 1974 – No. 1s. Slade singles became like T.Rex or Beatles releases – an event that saw huge chart highs and triumphant appearances on Thursday’s "Top Of The Boys". All of it culminating in the November 1974 film and soundtrack LP "Slade In Flame" which had to settle for a lowly No. 6 position on the Blighty album charts as the winning streak began to tail off and tastes moved on. But for two to three years there - the girls liked them and the boys lived to boogie by Slade.

The huge so young hits "Gudbuy T'Jane" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" both hit their rambunctious No. 1 spots on the British single charts - while other romper-stompers include the sexy almost T.Rex slink of "I Don't Mind" and the shake your tambourine throw me out "I Won't Let It Happen". Amidst the eight originals are only two covers – a superb Noddy Holder like-for-like performance as he does justice to "Move Over" from Janis Joplin's brilliant "Pearl" album of the year prior (1971). The other cover is a double - the Shirley and Lee 1956 and 1955 Aladdin Records classics "Let The Good Times Roll" and "Feel So Good" bringing proceedings to a close nicely. I'd forgotten about "Candidate" – a no-one seems to like him B-side that is equal to anything on the album. Fans will be pleased with the here I am in the same old clothes looking back on my life of "Wonderin' Y" – a sort of lollygagging Faces-type love song.

For sure the Audio is of the hurried kind and not everyone in 2020 will think it the Glam Rock genius we thought Slayed was back in the day – but every time I see that Gerard Mankowitz artwork – I smile. And I likes dat I duz…