Blogdegezou: The Living Tree, by Anderson/Wakeman

Blogdegezou: The Living Tree, by Anderson/Wakeman

The John Payne Collection

JP as we all know him.

In 2007, John Payne released a compilation of tracks with Asia, Lunatica, solo, and CCCP called Different Worlds.  Turns out theres more than enough for another such release.  He has been performing for over thirty years.  However, it took him a long time to get ahead. Here are some tracks that would go well on the comp:

The John Payne Band
Haunted
Born on Halloween
Magic Eyes
I Want You to Burn

Stringer
Thats When the Crying Starts
The Letter

John Payne (solo)
Fly Away
Coming Home
Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got
Looking at Her Picture

Asia
Rise

GPS
The Haunting

Keplers Law
Save Your Prayers

Lisa LaRue 2KX
Save Me
Fast and Blue
Mystery of the Rose
Jam Jehan Nima
Recurring Dream

Lunatica
Farewell My Love

Asia featuring John Payne
Military Man (2007)
Long Way from Home (2007)

Architects of Time
From Decoding the Lost Symbol:

What is Lost Will Be Found
Verbum Significatum

Moonstone
TBD

Right now, JP is trying to focus on finishing the new AFJP album, which is highly anticipated, and Raiding the Rock Vault.  Then after some time on the road, he may consider taking a trip down memory lane.
Many of these tracks are rare and/or unavailable, so trying to gather them all yourself would be an uphill endeavour, so lets just hold out for this collection then.

Queen remasters

Featuring "We Well Rock You", "We Are the Champions", "Spread Your Wings", and "Its Late".

Last December, Queen signed to Island Records after two generations with EMI.  They remain with Hollywood Records in the US and Canada (owned by Disney yet distributed by Island owner Universal).  Everywhere else, the back catalogue is being reissued in batches of five.  Last March, the albums from Queen (1973) to A Day at the Races reached the shops with extended liner notes and bonus tracks.  The next five will be released next June.  Not sure about the pattern of drop dates, but I am with five at a time (to save money perhaps).  More info as I get it.

News of the World (pictured above)
Jazz
Live Killers
The Game
Flash Gordon

Hot Space
The Works
A Kind of Magic
Live Magic
The Miracle

Innuendo
Made in Heaven
Live at Wembley '86
The Cosmos Rocks (Queen + Paul Rodgers)
Return of the Champions (Q+PR) (Rodgers was on Island in the UK with Free and Bad Company)

Greatest Hits (1973-81)
Greatest Hits II
Queen + Greatest Hits III
Queen Rocks
Queen on Fire

Possible solo re-releases from:
Freddie Mercury
Brian May
Roger Taylor/The Cross
All TBA

George Harrison - Awaiting on You All

Download

Dakou: Made for China

Chinese flag. When an article pertains to a particular country, I use their flag.  Also is copyright free.

The one thing made in mainland China that doesn't show up in shops in the west as often are CDs.  On the other hand, those that don't sell in the west wind up in the peoples republic of over a billion.  They're supposed to be recycled or left for dead at a dumpsite.  However, many wind-up in the hands of kerb-side dealers, selling them for a few yuan.  These are usually cut-out CDs that have a saw-gash (dakou in Chinese) on the spine the labels unload.  This is how a lot of western music is discovered in the communist nation, which limits the media as we all know (just saying whats in the papers).  Some CDs have cut marks, making them useless, but some survive, and a subculture has sprouted among the youth.
There are a lot of used CDs that even collect dust in the charity shops, so maybe I could collect some to send to China.  Maybe find some pirate releases someone could send back, like I found in the former USSR, though those are more painfully obvious than Russias even to the layman.  A chemist in my area before they sold out to a chain used to carry pirated DVDs (I have one of Cheaper by the Dozen '03).  Some CD-Rs are made on the Asian continent as well as Taiwan and Hong Kong, and those are used to make pirates, but thats too easy.
As for dakou, there could be albums that can't even be given away in my country, but could either be sold on the street in Shanghai or turned into compost.
Maybe record companies will find another way to outsource unwanted product if they feel they're haemorraging money this way.  Too easy to put something in the dustbin here.

Tony Banks - The Fugitive

Make that 12 extra tracks!

These are the tracks that should be on the remaster of Tony Banks's second solo album, The Fugitive.  Esosteric Recordings should be releasing it and not Virgin.

1.This is Love


2.Man of Spells

3.And the Wheels Keep Turning

4.Say You'll Never Leave Me

5.Thirty Threes (instrumental)

6.By You

7.At the Edge of Night

8.Charm (instrumental)

9.Moving Under

Bonus tracks:
10.K2

11.Sometime Never


12. This is Love (12" version)

13. Charms (12" version)

14.The Wicked Lady


15.Spring

16.The Chase

17.Caroline

18.Jerry Jackson

19.Repentance

20.Kit

21.Barbara

More details as I get them.

Big Sister



Their major label debut, which is available from amazon.com.

 This post is about a female blues-rock band from Woodstock, NY (not where the festival was, as I found out years ago) called Big Sister.  I heard of them through their bass player Desiree Williams from her day job where I used to live.  She gave me two of their indie releases, Why My Mind Up and Left and Some Songs.  I knew about 2000s So Hi How Are You? whilst it was being made, but it didn't come out until after I returned to CNY.  It fell into obscurity when the label Capricorn was absorbed into Volcano, and it's a cutout on CD, though used copies are pennies, which is bad because that shows that it could go out of print and/or it was a flop.  It is still in print on mp3, as well as Some Songs, but I will offer Why My Mind Up and Left here.  The first album, Live at the Lake, had another girl on bass, so I didn't get that, so it'd be a Holy Grail to the bands cult following. Their official site 404ed, but that and my fan site are on Wayback, so you can look at those despite the dated info they'll have.  The band were said to come to my area, but I never had a chance to see them.  I do have a listen to them now and again.  I don't usually get something just for a bass player (unless they're a solo artist and/or frontperson), but Dez was the exception.  I haven't seen her in over a decade, and only heard from her once, as we both moved on since then.
I remember that they know Patti Rothberg, whos had an underground career of her own.  She painted the Some Songs cover in acrylic and provided harmonies on the next album.
If you're looking for something new and different, have a listen to Big Sister.