Going Ghibli

Jadis jump in on Ghibli-mania. Courtesy xAi/Grok.

 I don't know too much about anime, let alone Studio Ghibli, but I do know a good trend when I see one, and I became intrigued by the latest AI flavour of the month of turning any given photo into the Japanese animation powerhouses distinct style. Several bands I know don't have freely licenced images I can use on Wikipedia as I have pointed out before, and now there's this legal loophole that is questionable, but allowed for now. ChatGPTs Open AI initially just had it for paid subscribers, but I can't afford that, so I went to xAi/Grok after they bought X, if that makes sense and they did a poor mans version for me of Jadis. I wonder if Martin Orford (far right in drawing above, late of IQ) would slate AI the way he did illegal downloading since there may be some parallels. Would make interesting discussion. Then ChatGPT got it to work for everybody and the floodgates opened. I had a go with Pallas and It Bites original lineup (later one with John Mitchell of Arena, Asia, and so much more), and now I will do Savoy and even Magnum spinoff Hard Rain. I did the cover of Magnum propers 1983 album The Eleventh Hour!, which a bootleg label stole for a 1985 Marillion concert released as Childhood Mysteries from their Misplaced Childhood tour, which I covered last year, so I Ghibli-ed it to make it a new scene not from Rodney Matthews himself. I could even do this with the kid from the other cover. I can go on all day. Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki however is no fan of AI.
    I've been using AI this past year. Initially, it was for the sister blog, so go over there for more. As for here, I'm not as good at drawing people. Doing a whole person isn't a strong point with me as I can with other species. Some of the Status Quo can't even draw "Pictures of Matchstick Men", but AI can let you create "Whatever You Want" (even Francis Rossi et al are getting the Gene Shallit treatment here). We'll see how long this one sticks around before the next craze comes along just like everything else.

Pallas in colour since this was done from black and white.

It Bites. Courtesy ChatGPT Open AI.

With apologies to Rodney Matthews and Magnum.

Doggy also joins in on the fun!

Magnum take back their sleeve once again.

Savoys Ghibli-savvy is now tunnel vision!

xAi Groks version of Savoy didn't work out as well.

    Turns out I can't use these on Wikipedia if they're derived from copyrighted works, so that's it for this new sensation. I would have to go see these bands in person and sneak in photos to get my own free images or wait for them to break up or have press photos old enough to qualify, even from within my lifetime, whichever comes first. I did draw Savoy and the 2010-24 lineup of Pallas, but that just won't work on Wikipedia as they're too incomplete, crude and amateurish to be on there, and much of my work has disappeared over the years anyway. There are ways I could get permission to licence photos, but it's too much red tape. I just want something I can use straight away. If I could have AI make an original photo of any of these people, that would be great, but it's just they're not as well known as when I could even get last minute ones of Trevor Horn or Elton John for Facebook memories or Bluesky. I wind up with people who don't even exist, even when I submit a source photo. This is why AI gets slated on a daily basis, even though it's only going to get bigger like sci-fi had predicted.

Identity crisis

Fish in Franken Germany; 2018. Courtesy Stefan Brending/Wikimedia Commons.

 If an artist or group has a common or generic name, chances are someone else will have it too. Before the internet, that was the case. If one makes it big, the other may contact their solicitors and settle out of court. I wrote a similar post years ago on our sister retail blog. In recent years, when I try to look up some people, I find mp3s from the wrong ones, who may not realise that the "real" one even exist. Spinoffs and disputes over use of the name by former members isn't exactly what I mean since that's a different post entirely. These are the ones I know off hand, but there are tonnes more out there.

Asia (my Asia settled with lesser known mid-West band and lesser knowns come up for mp3s)

Duran Duran (there are an obscure band called Duran Duran Duran)

Fish (pictured; can even be confused with Phish)

Tony Banks (once found an unknown artist with same name)

Ray Wilson (same)

Justin Hayward (there's also a DJ)

Brian May (Queen guitarist and late Australian film composer)

Roger Taylor (drummers for Queen and Duran Duran, which would probably have caused issues back at EMI)

Rush (even the boys have some chancers that are really fly by night calling themselves that, as well as Big Time Rush [please!], Mahogany Rush [also Cancon], Tom Rush, Jennifer Rush, films called Rush)

Savoy (can also get mixed up with Savoy Brown with late Oswego County resident Kim Simmonds)

Jim Diamond (was once a Diamond Jim out there)

PhD (his duo had to contend with a hip-hop one)

Bandit (his earlier band with AC/DCs Cliff Williams and Kate Bush's husband Danny McIntosh)

Status Quo (not to be confused with hip hop artist Stat Quo or song from High School Musical)

IQ (you have to have one to know who the real one are)

Jadis (even them, but could even get conflated with character on The Walking Dead)

Pallas (founder Graeme Murray originally called his band Rainbow, but that's in the same boat)

Magnum (I recently got a CD from the wrong Magnum, which I got rid of)

INXS (was once a shop in the Mohawk Valley)

Visage (was spa run by my doctor likely stopped by Steve Stranges estate if not the state)

Genesis (was once obscure band in the US at the same of the one I know being formed and another in Colombia, and also the late Genesis P-Orridge)

Alan Williams (because of others with the name, the one I used to know used the name Al Chantrey)

Toyah (not to be confused with Toya)

Slaughter (Clark County and Canadian bands)

X (US and Japan)

The Beat (Paul Collins's Beat and The English Beat)

Earth, Wind & Fire (not to be confused with Earth Fire, who Boris wants me to find)

Cinema (short-lived Yes spinoff settled with other Cinemas after becoming Yes proper again)

Tony Kaye (original Yes member and fellow UK pat and director)

Jon Anderson (not to be confused with country artist John Anderson)

Michael Jackson (even the King of Pop had two others with the same name)

Joe Jackson (his dad and the pop/jazz artist)

Paul Young (solo artist and late Sad Café/Mike & the Mechanics vocalist)

Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmores band; original name for Pallas; Sissy Spacek once recorded as Rainbo)

Velvet Underground (band with SUs own Lou Reed; early band with AC/DCs Malcolm Young)

Vanessa Williams (SU alum, Melrose Place co-star [both did Soul Food], and gospel artist)

Bush (UK and Canadian bands)

Arena (UK band and over a dozen or so different artists with that name)

Hootenanny Singers (Swedish folk band with ABBAs Björn Ulvæus and obscure US band)

Musify/Myzuka

Courtesy Round Hill Records

 By the cover art can be obtained from Round Hill Music / Zuma Rock Records., Fair use, Link

    It seems like sister pirate mp3 sites Myzuka.club and Musify.club have lost the plot. After uploading dozens of albums to both simultaneously (it's a package deal) for over a decade, it seems they don't want anymore from me. I uploaded two albums they don't have yet, The Messenger from Pallas and Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023 by Bush (pictured). For the latter, I worked around it by going to an unofficial compilation by updating tracks that had a lower bit rate and adding ones not already there. I had downloaded the new official one legally from amazon since I got it free when I bought the CD from them around the time of Gavin Rossdales birthday and the bands most recent show in my area last fall. Pallas on the other hand are more limited by comparison. Had to go to another site for them. Can't afford Bandcamp too. To boot, band leader and manager Graeme Murray is also a barrister (albeit in criminal law rather than civil), so it may be karma for both bands; also considering neo-prog contemporaries' IQ and Jadis' Martin Orfords war or piracy. Since I can't access Pallas' new album on Musify or amazon at this stage, I had to put those mp3s on my Google drive to stream them from my phone. I would rather have the CD anyway, and I'll get it when it's available affordably. I may have invested heavily in Jadis and Denny Laine due to their catalogues' scarcity, but that's for another post.

    It's too easy to download or stream these days. Vinyl is back (like it never left, but again, for another day). It's like trading in something at the shop. Even if it's something they don't have and not on every corner, they still may not want it. I'm not going to waste time, money or data trying to upload them again. I tried contacting them, but have not heard back. Anyone looking for either of these albums on those site are on their own. File-sharing networks (Warez) like the old Napster, Limewire, BitTorrent, Kazaa and the Pirate Bay aren't as common anymore and can still cause damage to your devices. I actually don't upload or download as much as I used to nowadays. I don't even stream much TV. As for those sites, if I upload one more album and they don't do a thing, they'll never get another from me again. No one makes one ruble from it anyhow, which proves a point. Most of my old files have been wiped or disappeared over the years. Some are off of CDs I still have, but I can't rip them like I used to. Better to cut my losses and lossy files and just move on. (UPDATE: The Pallas one was uploaded by another person already, yet is not recognised in the bands discography.)

Warner Records

Not your parents' Warners!

After going the way of Glastonbury this past year, I'm back.
Warner Bros Records are no more, being reborn as just Warner Records. This was a surprise, although their licence from former sister company Warner Bros. ran out, a decade and a half after Warner Music Group spun off of Time Warner (since sold to AT&T), which was orchestrated by Edgar Bronfman Jnr, who also did the same for Universals purchase of PolyGram in 1999, only for them to separate from their former parent studio.  I have tagged artists with a tag who have been on Warner or Reprise, at least in the US and Canada if not worldwide.
The label moved across town from Burbank to downtown LA propers arts district.
There have been mixed reactions to this, but I think this is a new beginning.  I'm looking forward to seeing new releases on the new label, although Duran Duran and Liam Gallagher are the only ones I know so far confirmed to have one, and Fleetwood Mac have considered one with their newest lineup.   For back releases, I still have both (Duran mostly on sister label Parlophone) as well as a-ha, Black Sabbath and Depeche Mode (North America), Alanis Morissette, and related artists to get, mainly on LP.  For anything that has yet to be reissued, it could have the old logo on it to make it look accurate.  The Smiths were reissued on it as wea was retired as a label after the sale.
With all that's going on in the world these days, this is a mere change in strategy and we should embrace this.  Several catalogue releases have already been reissued with the new label.

eMusic

Current logo.

eMusic is where I go for independent artists on official mp3.  Doesn't mean it's all there.  One artist says he didn't get too much return (Spotify pays even less) and a label head in LA says it's a ripoff.  I managed to find a number of albums for over a decade.  They even had major label releases for a period before going back to their indie roots.  I truly would rather have everything on both LP and CD when I can.  Also there isn't always something there not at the other place.  What I do find I put on that site later.  I can only suspend my account twice a year and I won't cancel as something comes up eventually if I look for people I know.  My credits usually refresh when I pay my subscription for internet, so I'm able to download by then.

UPDATE: I have cancelled my account as this is a lost cause.

Rare publicity photos

Index of //patmil007

Pictures needed for Wikipedia

John Jowitt (late of IQ) and Gary Chandler of Jadis which I can't use on Wikipedia

Several artists are in need of free-licenced photos for Wikipedia. If the band are still together or the artist is still alive and kicking, then it has to be under an adaptable Creative Commons licence. Flickr sometimes have what I need, but people fall through the cracks. If you own original photos of any of these fine folks, are you willing to upload to Commons and/or Flickr? OTRS is too much trouble. Also tell me who else could use pictures.

Savoy
Pallas
Robert John "Mutt" Lange (hates having his photo taken more than me!)

Jadis (pictured)

Michalis Rakintzis

It Bites

Shadowland

Hard Rain (Magnum spinoff)
Geordie
Max Q
Kerry Minnear (Gentle Giant)
Big Country (current)
Berlin
GPS
Matt Bianco

Life after a-ha?

Original drawing by me.  L-R: Morten Harket, Pål Waaktaar-Savoy and Magne Furuholmen.

As all a-ha fans know, the band will come to an end by the holiday season. As hard as it is to say goodbye, all good things must come to an end. When the new year comes, we wonder what will come next for Messrs Harket, Waaktaar-Savoy, and Furuholmen. I see them having more time for their existing solo careers. New solo releases from Morten Harket and Magne F are immiment, as well as the long-awaited next studio release from Savoy with Lauren and Pål Waaktaar-Savoy. Mags also has an art career with works that are seen in a gallery or two, and the ocassional acting gig for father-of-five Harket, who sometimes appears in the Norweigian tabloids.
Many a-ha releases along with solo remain officially unreleased in North America (primarily the States where they continue to be overlooked), leaving fans here to order imports and downloads as usual. I'm hoping Rhino will reissue albums out-of-print as well releasing for the first time later releases, though the demand is low, despite a brief US leg on the recent tour (I'll have to fly to the EU when I get the dough).
Who knows? Maybe they'll get back together again in future. Others have. Surely, this is an amicable disbanding. The music will live on forever, so it'll seem like they never left.
UPDATE: a-ha have reunited in 2015 but for how long?

Imports needed

I know this will be on import.

I need these on import to fulfill my already vast collection:

ABBA
Greatest Hits Vol 1-2+++
Thank You for the Music (boxed set)
Agnetha Fältskog - Eyes of a Woman LP
All singles
Any bootlegs

AC/DC
Let There Be Rock: The Movie, LP and Australasian editions
Bonfire
Backtracks
Iron Man 2 soundtrack LP
Rock or Bust LP
Bootlegs
Tokyo 1981
Power Up LP

Ace of Base
Most singles
Happy Nation (Scandinavian release)
The Golden Ratio
Playlist
My Story (Jenny Berggren)
Hidden Gems (pictured)
New boxed set

a-ha
45 RPM Club
All singles except "Crying in the Rain" 30 cm and "Analogue (All I Want)"
Solo Magne F(uruholmen)
Any bootlegs
The Singles 1984-2004
The Swing of Things
Cast in Steel LP

True North LP

Jon Anderson
1000 Hands LP
Lost Tapes of Opio
The Lost Tapes
Live from La La Land
The Big If+
Open+
Zamran Experience+
Anderson Ponty Band - Better Late Than Never

Fiona Apple
Tidal LP
Extraordinary Machine (bootleg edition)
The Idler Wheel...
Fetch the Bolt Cutters LP

Arena

Songs from the Lions Cage

Pride

Welcome to the Stage

The Visitor

Immortal?

Breakfast at the Biarritz

Contagion

Peppers Ghost

The Seventh Degree of Separation

The Unquiet Sky

Double Vision

Lifian

Asia
Americana (Asia featuring John Payne)+
America - Live in the USA (AFJP)
Live in Buffalo
Live in Osaka
Live in Philadelphia
Fantasia
Live in Massachusetts
Under the Bridge
AFJP - Risen Sun Live
AFJP - Recollections: A Tribute to British Prog
Dukes of the Orient (2018) LP and Freakshow LP
Live at Pabst Theatre

AFJP - Aviana

Live in England

New album

Tony Banks
The Wicked Lady
Soundtracks+++
Strictly Inc (1995)
A Chord Too Far

Syd Barrett
Barrett (1970) LP
Opel LP
An Introduction to Syd Barrett
The Madcap Laughs LP
Peel Sessions EP

The Beatles
Reel Music
Japanese albums boxed set+
Let It Be DVD
Sgt Peppers boxed set+
The Alternate Abbey Road
Not for Sale
Yellow Submarine songtrack LP
Work in Progress, Outtakes 1963+
Casualties
Rarities (US track listing)+++
Any bootlegs including solo except Ringo Starr
Across the Universe... Again++
Christmas Album singles

Black Sabbath
Seventh Star (BS feat. Tony Iommi w/Glenn Hughes) LP
Live at Hammersmith (Odeon, now the Eventim Apollo)
Headless Cross LP
Cross Purposes LP
Týr LP
Past Lives LPs
Forbidden LP
The Rules of Hell (has all Dio-era titles in boxed set)
Heaven and Hell - The Devil You Know LP and Radio City Music Hall
Any bootlegs
Gathered in Their Masses CD
Cross Purposes Live

Boy George
High Hat
Tense Nervous Headache
Boyfriend EP
The Martyr Mantras (Jesus Loves You)
All singles except "When Will You Learn?"
The Unrecoupable One-Man Bandit Vol 1
Yum Yum (The Twin)
Ordinary Alien
This is What I Do
Cool Karaoke Vol 1

SE18

Kate Bush
The KT Fellowship Presents Before the Dawn
This Womans Work (includes the first six studio albums with bonus discs)
Gold Ballads
The Red Shoes LP
50 Words for Snow LP (wait until it's cold!)

Bush
Deconstructed (as Bush X in Canada)
The Best of '94-'99
The Sea of Memories LP
Man on the Run LP

The Art of Survival LP

Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023 LP

I Beat Loneliness LP

Bob Catley

Live at the Gods

Legends

Middle Earth

Spirit of Man

Immortal

Phil Collins
Tarzan
Brother Bear
Remasters of 1990-93 albums on LP
Greatest Hits (bootleg)
The Singles Collection

The Cross
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know LP
Live in Germany

Crowded House
Temple of Low Men LP
Together Alone LP
Farewell to the World LPs
Afterglow LP
Time on Earth LP
Singles

Dreamers Are Waiting LP

Gravity Stairs LP

Culture Club
Culture Club (boxed set)
From Luxury to Heartache LP
VH1 Storytellers/Greatest Moments
The River Sessions
So '80s
Live at Wembley
Runaway Train RSD EP

New album TBA

Def Leppard
First Strike (bootleg)
Early Years (bootleg)
Warchild (bootleg)
Most singles
Mirrorball LPs
Slang (deluxe edition) LP
Def Leppard (2015) LP
And There Will Be a Next Time...Live from Detroit
The Story So Far

Hysteria Live at O2

The Hits Live

Hits Vegas

Diamond Star Halos LP

Drastic Symphonies LP

Depeche Mode
Catching Up with Depeche Mode LP
Any bootlegs
101 LPs
Exciter LP
The Remixes 81>11
Touring the Angel

Tour of the Universe 
Recording the Universe
Recording the Angel
Live in Berlin LPs
Spirit LP
Spirits in the Forest DVD
Singles

Memento Mori LP

Jim Diamond
Bandit (1976)+++
Bacco - Cha Cha Me
Broadway 12"
Jim Diamond (1988)+++
Desire for Freedom LP

Dio

Holy Diver Live LP

Sacred Heart LP

Intermission

Inferno/Last in Live

Dream Evil LP

Lock Up the Wolves LP

Stand Up and Shout: The Anthology

The Very Beast of Dio Vol 2

Strange Highways LP

Angry Machines LP

Magica LP

Live at Donington '87

Hammersmith Apollo

Master of the Moon LP

Live: Evil or Divine

Geoff Downes
Vox Humana
The Work Tapes (w/Glenn Hughes)
DBA - Pictures of You and new album+

Duran Duran
Liberty LP
Astronaut LP
Live at Hammersmith '82
A Diamond in the Mind
Reportage+
Big Thing LP

Danse Macabre LP

Elf

Elf (1972) LP

LA 59/Carolina County Ball LP

Trying to Burn the Sun LP

Live 1973

Emerson Lake & Palmer
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival LP?
A Time and Place
Live in Poland
Greg Lake and Gary Moore - King Biscuit Flower Hour
Greg Lake - From the Underworld Vol 1-3
Greg Lake - Songs of a Lifetime
Live at Royal Albert Hall
Return of the Manticore
Live at High Voltage Festival
Live at the Mar y Sol Festival/From the Beginning boxed set
Greg Lake - Live in Piacenza
Live at Montreux

Eurythmics
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (remaster)
Any bootlegs
In the Garden (remaster)++
Revenge (remaster)
Most singles
Peace (remaster)
All Tourists/Catch albums and singles

Neil Finn
Try Whistling This
7 Worlds Collide
The Sun Came Out
Goin' Your Way
Dizzy Heights

Pyjama Club (one-off with Sharon)

Tim Finn
Escapade
Big Canoe LP
Tim Finn (1989)
Say It Is So
Feeding the Gods
Imaginary Kingdom
The Conversation
North.. South.. East.. West.. The Anthology
The View is Worth the Climb

Finn Brothers
Finn (1995) LP

Everyone is Here LP

Fish
A Gentlemans Excuse Me 12"
The Company 12"/30 cm
Sashimi
Communion
Uncle Fish and the Crypt Keepers
Return to Childhood
Farewell to Childhood

Complete BBC Sessions
Fellini Nights
Bouillabaisse
Any other live releases except Fortunes of War, and singles starting with "A Gentlemans Excuse Me"
Scattering Crows
Gone Fishing
Weltschmerz LPs

The Last Straw

Vigils End

NEARfest 2008

Fleetwood Mac
English Rose LP
Black Magic Woman (compilation)
Live in Boston (1970)
Vaudeville Years
Rumours expanded remaster
Live at the BBC
Behind the Mask LP
Before the Beginning LPs

Madison Blues
Time
The Dance DVD
Live in Boston (2003)
Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie (2017) LP

Peter Gabriel
i/o LPs
Live Blood
Growing Up tour CDs
Bootlegs
Us LP

o/i

Genesis
Fantasia (bootleg)
Most singles
Archive 1967-75
Archive #2 1976-92
The Vertigo Years
Other bootlegs

BBC Broadcasts

Gentle Giant
Out in the Woods
Scraping the Barrel
Prologue
The Edge of Twilight
Under Construction
King Biscuit Flower Hour
The Missing Face
Live in Stockholm '75
Way of Life
Memories of Old Days
Live at the Bicentennial '76

Geordie
No Good Woman LP
A Band from Geordieland
The Singles Collection
Can You Do It?
Brian Johnson and Geordie
Singles with Brian Johnson

Glass Tiger
Diamond Sun LP
Simple Mission LP
Solo Alan Frew
Live

Martin L. Gore
Counterfeit EP
Counterfeit² LP
VCMG

Gowan
Gowan (1982) LP
Great Dirty World LP
Lost Brotherhood LP
Home Field
Solo Live: Au Québec
Dr Starlight and the Watchmakers+

GPS
Window to the Soul (bonus tracks a plus)
Two Seasons
Dreamscape+

David Gilmour
David Gilmour (1978) LP
New Game (bootleg)
Live in Gdańsk
Rattle That Lock LP
Luck and Strange LP

The Luck and Strange Concerts

Amy Grant

Unguarded LP
The Collection+++
Lead Me On+++
Home for Christmas+++
Time Again
A Christmas to Remember
Simple Things
Greatest Hits 1986-2004
Somewhere Down the Road
How Mercy Looks from Here
In Motion: The Remixes
Tennessee Christmas
A Christmas Album LP
The Christmas Collection

Lead Me On Tour

Steve Hackett
The Night Siren LP
Live Archive NEARfest
Time Lapse
Tokyo Tapes (BluRay)
Out of the Tunnels Mouth LP
Live Archive 70s 80s 90s 03 04 NEARfest (defunct Lehigh Valley prog festival)
Somewhere in South America
Hungarian Horizons
Live Rails
Beyond the Shrouded Horizon LP
Genesis Revisited II (complete) LP
Genesis Revisited: Live at Hammersmith and Royal Albert Hall
The Total Experience: Live in Liverpool
Premonitions
Wolflight LP
Wuthering Nights: Live in Birmingham
At the Edge of Light LP

Selling England by the Pound & Spectral Mornings: Live at Hammersmith

Surrender to Silence LP

Foxtrot at 50 + Hackett Highlights : Live in Brighton

Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel
A Closer Look (compilation)
Face to Face: A Live Recording
The Candidate LP
Greatest Hits
Yes You Can
Stranger Comes to Town
Anytime: A Live Set
Unplugged
The Cockney Rebel: An Anthology
Cavaliers
Birmingham: Live with Orchestra & Choir
The Quality of Mercy
Acoustic: Live and Pure

George Harrison
Best of Dark Horse 1976-89 LP
Electronic Sound LP
Wonderwall Music LP

Annie Haslam
Still Life
Annie Haslam (1989)/Moonlight Shadow (Japan)
Blessing in Disguise
Live Under Brasilian Skies
The Dawn of Ananda
It Snows in Heaven
One Enchanted Evening
Woman Transcending

Justin Hayward
Night Flight LP
Moving Mountains LP
Sings the Moody Blues Hits
Spirits of the Western Sky
Spirits Live
All the Way
Live in San Juan Capistrano
Sings the Moody Blues Hits

Roger Hodgson
Rites of Passage
Open the Door LP
Classics Live 1 & 2

How We Live (with h of Marillion)
Dry Land
Europeans?

Steve Howe
Beginnings LP
Homebrew 1, 2, 4 and 6

Lunar Mist (w/Virgil Howe)

Michael Hutchence
Max Q (1989)

INXS
INXS (1980) LP
Welcome to Wherever You Are LP
Taste It: The Collection
Stay Young (includes first two albums)
The Years

IQ
Seven Stories Into Eight/'98 LP
Nomzamo LP
Are You Sitting Comfortably? LP
Subterranea (studio LP and live editions)
The Seventh House LP
Forever Live
Niadems Ghost - In Sheltered Winds (spinoff with Peter Nicholls)
The Archive Collection: IQ20
The Archive Collection: IQ30
The Road of Bones LP
Bay area bootleg
Resistance LPs
A Show of Resistance

IQ 40: 40 Years of Prog Nonsense (live release)

Remixed

Dominion LP

IQ 45: Riding the Frequency Live

Jadis

Jadis (1989)

All LPs

Eddie Jobson
Zinc/The Green Album
Any UK bootlegs and live releases

Elton John
Lady Samantha+++
Most singles
To Be Continued... (US/Canada CDs 2 & 3 or UK edition)
The Red Piano
Number Ones/Rocket Man/Just Like Belgium
Your Songs LP
Wonderful Crazy Night LP

Jewel Box

Who Believes in Angels? LP (w/Brandi Carlile)

Kajagoogoo/Kaja
Gone to the Moon
Death Defying Headlines EP
Too Shy: The Very Best of Kajagoogoo or other compilations
So '80s
Islands/Extra Play LP
Crazy Peoples Right to Speak LP

Nik Kershaw

Human Racing LP

Radio Musicola

The Works

You've Got to Laugh

No Frills

Ei8ht

Live in Germany

Oxymoron LP

The MCA Years (1984-89)

King Crimson
The Night Watch
Epitaph
The Road to Red
USA LP

Denny Laine
Ahh...Laine!+++
Holly Days
Memory Laine
All I Want is Freedom
Birmingham Boy
Arctic Song
Spreading My Wings
Posthumous album+

John Lennon
Menlove Ave. LP
Peace, Love and Truth
Live in New York City LP/One to One
Gimme Some Truth
Most singles
The John Lennon Anthology
Double Fantasy Stripped Down (John & Yoko)
Signature Box

Julian Lennon
Valotte+++

Lucy
Mr Jordan LP
Help Yourself LP
VH1 Behind the Music collection

Annie Lennox
Any solo singles except "Precious"
Songs of Mass Destruction LP
Nostalgia LP

Limahl
Love is Blind
The Best of Limahl
1983 (2012 single)

John Lodge

Natural Avenue LP

10,000 Light Years Ago

B Yond

Live in Birmingham

Magnum

Marauder

Keeping the Nite Lite Burning

Into the Valley of the Moonking LP

Invasion Live

The Spirit

The Last Dance

Stronghold

Days of Wonder

The River Sessions/Live from London

Wings of Heaven Live

Escape from the Shadow Garden Live

Live from Symphony Hall

Chapter and Verse

Mirador

Foundation

Road to Paradise

Evolution

The Valley of Tears

The Ballads - Dance of the Black Tattoo

Hard Rain (1997)/Perpetual Commotion (spinoff)

Hard Rain - When the Good Times Come

All LPs and singles

Marillion
Christmas fan club releases
Any bootlegs***
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) LPs**
Live in Montréal (2009)
A Singles Collection/12 of One, Six of the Other LP***
Brave LP
Marbles Live (2004)
Anoraknophobia LP
Anorak in the UK
FEAR LPs
Happiness is the Road LPs
Recital of the Script**
Live from Lorelai (1987)**
The Gold
A Sunday Night Above the Rain (Nederand and Canada)
The h band - Live Body Live Spirit
Size Matters
Mirrors
With Friends from the Orchestra LP

An Hour Before It's Dark LP
An Hour Before It's Dark Live

All with h except **Fish and ***both.

Brian May
Star Fleet EP
Singles
Furia soundtrack (not by the late Australian composer Brian May)

Paul McCartney
Off the Ground LP
Good Evening New York City LPs?
Greatest Hits Vol 1 & 2 (bootleg compilations)
Any solo bootlegs
Pure McCartney LPs

JMA Dome bootleg DVDs

7" Singles Boxed Set

One Hand Clapping LP

Man on the Run soundtrack

The Boys at Dungeon Lane

Christine McVie
(née) Christine Perfect [maiden name] (1970)
Christine McVie (1984) LP
In the Meantime
Buckingham McVie LP
Blue Horizon sessions

Songbird LP

Freddie Mercury
Mr Bad Guy LP
Barcelona (w/Montserrat Caballé) (original edition) LP
Solo boxed set (includes the above)
Lover of Life, Singer of Songs
Messenger of the Gods 45s

George Michael
Five Live EP (w/Queen et al)
Last Christmas LP

Older LP
Upcoming posthumous releases

Mike + the Mechanics
Favourites
The Singles 1985-2013 (Complete)
Living Years 25th Anniversary and LP
Let Me Fly LP

Modern English
Most singles
Mesh and Lace*+++
After the Snow+++
Stop Start*+++
Pillow Lips*
Life in the Gladhouse
Someone's Calling
Everything is Mad
Any live releases
Soundtrack (studio album, not a film OST)
Blister EP
Take Me to the Trees LP

The Moody Blues
Any bootlegs
This is the Moody Blues+++
The Polydor Years 1986-92
Icon
Collected
Hall of Fame
Natural Avenue (John Lodge) LP
The Promise (Mike Pinder)+++
Ray Thomas - Hopes, Wishes and Dreams
The Very Best of Moody Blues
Prelude
Live at the BBC: 1967-1970
Say It with Love
Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
December
Collected
Time Traveller
Lovely to See You
Timeless Flight
Days of Future Passed Live LP

Patrick Moraz (formerly of the above and Yes)
The Story of I+++
Out in the Sun LP
Patrick Moraz (1978)+++
Timecode
Change of Space

Alanis Morissette
Alanis (1991)
Most singles
Live at Montreux 2012

The Mute Gods
Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me LP
Atheists and Believers LP

Mystery
Unveil the Mystery
Tales from the Netherlands
Second Home

Caught in the Whirlwind of Time

Redemption LP

Naked Eyes
Live DVD
The Best of Naked Eyes
Fumbling with the Covers
Piccadilly+
Fuel for the Fire LP
Burning Bridges LP

Disguise the Limit

Stevie Nicks
Buckingham Nicks (1973) (w/Lindsey Buckingham) - official edition+++
The Other Side of the Mirror LP
Most singles
Enchanted
Live on Air
24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault LP
Live at Red Rocks/in Denver 1986
Beauty and the Beast (no relation to the Disney franchise)
Bootlegs except At Yasgurs Farm

oasis
Any singles except a few
Liam Gallagher  - As You Were LP
Familiar to Millions
Lord, Don't Slow Me Down
Noel Gallaghers High Flying Birds Council Skies LP, other LPs and EPs

Martin Orford
Classical Music and Popular Songs
The Old Road (better make these real CDs 'cos of his anti-piracy stance)

Ozzy Osbourne
Just Say Ozzy LP
Live and Loud
The Ten Commandments
Prince of Darkness
Memoirs of a Madman
Ordinary Man LP
See You on the Other Side

Patient No. 9 LP

Pallas
The Sentinel LP and singles
Arrive Alive
The Wedge LP
Knightmoves EP
The Cross and the Crucible LP
Moment to Moment
The River Sessions 1-2
XXV (2011) LP
Solo Alan Reed
wearewhoweare
Real to Reel
The Messenger

No Sleep Till Rotherham

Anthony Phillips
The Geese and the Ghost*+++
Wise After the Event*+++
Sides*+++
Invisible Men+++
Radio Clyde
Anthology
Harvest of the Heart

Ph.D.
Is It Safe?+/+++
New posthumous album+

Pink Floyd
Works
P*U*L*S*E* LPs
Is There Anybody Out There?
The Endless River LP
The Early Years
Most singles and RoIOs
The Later Years
Bootlegs

Live at Pompeii official release LP

Queen
Live in Ukraine (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Return of the Champions DVD (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Absolute Greatest
Live Magic
Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl DVD
Live at the Beeb (BBC) LP/On Air: The Complete BBC Radio Sessions
Queen Rocks
Queen Rock Montréal
Deep Cuts Vol 3
Live at the Rainbow '74 LPs and DVD
Queen Forever LP
A Night at the Odeon LP
Queen + Adam Lambert - Live Around the World LP

Trevor Rabin
Trevor Rabin (1978)/Beginnings LP
Face to Face
Wolf LP
Can't Look Away
90124 (2003)
Live in LA

Rio LP

Rabbitt
Boys Will Be Boys
A Croak and a Grunt in the Night
Rock Rabbitt
Any compilations
Any singles

Rainbow

Ritchie Blackmores Rainbow (1975) LP

Rainbow Rising LP

On Stage LP

Long Live Rock 'n' Roll LP

Live bootlegs 1975-78

Renaissance
Prologue LP
Ashes Are Burning LP
Live at Carnegie Hall LPs (only have half the UK LP)
Time-Line+++
Tales from Renaissance Days
Tales of 1,001 Nights Vol 1-2
Da Capo
Live at King Biscuit Flower Hour
Live at Union Chapel+
Live 2011
de Lane Lea Studios LP
Live in Chicago

REO Speedwagon
REO (1976) LP
Live: You Get What You Play For LP
You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish LP
Life as We Know It+++
The Hits LP
The Earth, a Small Man, His Dog and a Chicken
The Ballads
Building the Bridge
Find Your Own Way Home
Not So Silent Night LP
Live

Rush
ABC 1974 LP
R30
Presto LP
Spirit of the Airwaves LP
Replay x 3
Chronicles LPs
Any DVDs (NTSC)
Snakes and Arrows Live DVD
Moving Pictures Live (though the same tracks are on Time Machine: Live in Cleveland, which I bought in Canada)
Live on Air
The Very Best of Rush Broadcasting Live: Rare Gems

Rush 50

Sad Café
Misplaced Ideals (UK album)
Live (1981)
The Politics of Existing
Whatever It Takes
Saving Grace (last two albums together)
The Best of Sad Café/Anthology
Solo Paul Young compilation (not the same one who sings the covers of "Come Back and Stay", "Everytime You Go Away", "Love of the Common People" or "Oh, Girl")
Saving Grace (last two studio albums together)

Savoy
Lacklustre Me LP
Savoy (2004)/Whalebone
Savoy Songbook Vol 1
See the Beauty in Your Drab Hometown LP

Under

Split Enz
Mental Notes+++
Second Thoughts+++
Dizrythmia+++
Frenzy
Waiata/Corroboree+++
History Never Repeats LP
See Ya 'Round
Spellbound
The Beginning of the Enz
Enz of an Era

Supertramp
Any singles up to 1983 except "Dreamer (live)"
Is Everybody Listening?
Bootlegs recorded up to 1983
The Autobiography of Supertramp LP

Nad Sylvan
Courting the Widow LP
Angels of Mercy CDs
Life of a Housewife
The Bride Said No LP
Sylvanite
The Regal B------ LP
Spiritus Mundi LP

Monumentata LP

Talk Talk
History Revisited
London 1986

Roger Taylor
Strange Frontier LP
Electric Fire LP
Fun on Earth LP
The Lot (includes all of the above plus The Cross)
Best Of
Outsider LP
Outsider Tour Live

Tears for Fears
Live from Santa Barbara DVD
Sowing the Seeds of Love 12"/30 cm
Pale Shelter (1982) 12"
Suffer the Children (1982) 12"
Secret World Live
Curt Smith - Halfway Pleased
(Curt is) Mayfield (1998)
Curt Smith - Aeroplane EP
Curt Smith - Deceptively Heavy
Curt Smith - Soul on Board+++
Covers 10"
The Tipping Point LP
Rule the World

Rick Wakeman
White Rock 1+++ & 2
Rock 'n Roll Prophet Plus+++
African Bach
Cirqué Surreal
Fields of Green
Themes
Can You Hear Me?
The Six Wives of Henry VIII Live
The Time Machine LP
Vignettes++++
Classic Tracks
King Biscuit Flower Hour
Out of the Blue
Voyage
Live at the BBC (1976)
In the Nick of Time
King Arthur re-recording
++++with Adam Wakeman
The Red Planet LP

Yessonata
A Gallery of the Imagination LP

Roger Waters
Music from The Body (w/Ron Geesin)
The Wall - Live in Berlin (w/various artists) and recent release on LP
Is This the Life We Really Want? LP

John Wetton
Wetton Manzanera (1987)/One World (w/Phil Manzanera) LP
Monkey Business (w/Richard Palmer-James)
Chasing the Dragon
Live in Tokyo
Duncan Mackay - Score (ex-10cc/Cockney Rebel) LP
Jack-Knife - I Wish You Would (now coupled with Dickie)
Raised in Captivity (Japanese release)
Amorata
Amata
Live at Sun Plaza
Live via Satellite

Wetton Downes (Icon)
Never in a Million Years
Acoustic TV Broadcast
Heat of the Rising Sun
Urban Psalm

Ray Wilson
Swing Your Bag (Guaranteed Pure)
She (Stiltskin)
The Minds Eye (Stiltskin)
Millionairhead (cut_)
Genesis Klassik (live in Germany and Poland)
Genesis vs Stiltskin (studio and live)
An Audience and Ray Wilson
Unfulfillment (Stiltskin)
Stiltskin Live
Time and Distance
Up Close and Personal
Ray Wilson Live

The Weight of Man LP

Yes
The Word is Live
Keystudio
In a Word (1969-[2002])
YesYears CDs+++
The Yes Album (1971) (Steven Wilson 5.1 mix)
House of Yes
Union Live boxed set
Bootlegs of recent tours
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Live at the NEC
Chris Squires Swiss Choir (festive season solo album)
Progeny (boxed set)
Topographic Drama: Live Across America LP
From a Page

The Quest LP

Mirror to the Sky LP

Aurora+

Non-US made only (even if its just the disc or tape itself). Singles can also be thrown in if I don't have them already. Do contact me if you're interested in a trade or sale. CD-Rs do not count! Pirates are OK though. If you think somethings missing, then I have it already. Subject to change at anytime. Will make reasonable offers.  If you suggest VHS cassette or DVDs, make sure it'll play in an NTSC player.  I can possibly convert PAL and SECAM DVDs, but the tapes I'd have to go to a specialist for, so do ask first or copy it for me, please.  I may list what video titles I'd like at a later time, but it is painstaking and time-consuming.  Mainly CDs I need right now though wanted LPs are now in a separate list to avoid confusion. Subject to change.

+ Yet to be released.
++Pending
+++I only have this on LP and/or cassette right now which isn't as convenient for me anymore.
* Also on Boris's list.
***On the way.

Savoy - Mountains of Time (1999)

Track listing

"Man In The Park"
"Star"
"End Of The Line"
"Any Other Way"
"Grind You Down"
"Bottomless Pit"
"Mountains"
"Ocean Floor"
"Everyone"
"See What Becomes"
"Break It Gently"
"Tongue Tied"

Bonus disc

"The Bovarnick Twins"
"This, That, & The Other" (alternate version)
"Feels Good (To Be This Way)"
"Rain" (acoustic version)
"Foreign Film" (rock version)

CD 1
CD 2

Savoy - Lackluster Me (1997)

Track listing

1. "Lackluster Me"
2. "Unsound"
3. "You Should Have Told Me"
4. "Foreign Film"
5. "Flowers for Sylvia"
6. "I Still Cry"
7. "Sycamore Leaves"
8. "Rain"
9. "Butt Out"
10. "This, That & The Other"
11. "Hey Luchie"
12. "Easy"
13. "If You Tell"

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Savoy - Reasons to Stay Indoors (2001)

Track listing

"Reasons to Stay Indoors"
"If You Won't Come to the Party"
"Face"
"Half of the Time"
"Once Upon a Year"
"Fearlist"
"I Wouldn't Change a Thing"
"Paramount"
"The One That Got Away"
"Against the Sun"
"Five Million Years"
"Overgrown"

Bonus disc

"You Should Have Told Me" (alternate version)
"I Wouldn't Change a Thing" (alternate version)
"Totally Hide"
"Once Upon a Year" (alternate version)
"D.A.R.

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Savoy - Live in NY (1997)

Includes tracks from Mary is Coming and Lacklustre Me.

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Savoy (2004)

"Empty of Feeling"
"Girl One"
"Bovine"
"Whalebone"
"Shooting Spree"
"Melanie Lied to Me"
"Watertowers"
"Is My Confidence Reeling?"
"Rain on Your Parade"
"Cyna"
"The Breakers"
"Isotope"

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