![]() ![]() Gray is an excellent engineer (and will make this stuff sound better than recent album remasters). On the plus side, this will probably be the best-sounding remasterings to date. ![]() Potentially more interesting is Kevin Gray at Analog Productions taking a crack at a big hunk of the Beach Boys catalog on SACD and high quality vinyl. Some of it is literally pulled from the same sources as bootlegs, so we're not even sure right now how much of this will sound better than what's already out there, and if so, how much better. ![]() I'll reserve judgment until I hear this collection, but I'm not super enthused about. To this end, we're seeing download-only releases. The idea here (as with the supposed/alleged and equally bizarre release of Beatles outtakes from 1963 rumored to take place on the same day) is to simply technically get this stuff "officially" released by the end of this year. ![]() This is odds and ends, sourced from everything from master tapes to acetates to cassette tape dubs. But this is by no means any sort of "opening of the vaults" of Beach Boys outtake material from 1963. For those that have a fetish for early era Brian productions and collaborations, this will be an interesting release. Basically, the labels have to put out anything that has already been bootlegged, because that's the stuff that any label has direct access to and can put out legitimately if it falls into public domain.Īs far as this release goes, it's a hodge-podge of demos and tracks with varying degrees of Brian Wilson/Beach Boys involvement. Apparently, this pertains mainly to the odd category of material that has not been "officially" released but does already exist out there. First up is the odd compilation "The Big Beat - 1963." What exactly is the story here? Well, read all about it here:īasically, we're seeing a bunch of weird activity from record labels housing oldie bands, as there are a bunch of confusing, vague copyright laws floating around that basically dictate that labels have to put out "unreleased" material in order to avoid having it pass into public domain and thus be freed up for anybody to legitimately release. There are a few interesting things announced on the horizon for Beach Boys fans. ![]()
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