Jon Weisberger writes:
It's a double-CD in one of those flip cases, released a couple of
weeks ago. Basically, it's The Sun Sessions plus - the plus being
a number of live cuts from 1955, pre-Sun stuff and a couple of
alternate takes that didn't appear on The Sun Sessions. The
notes
Jon wrote:
It's a double-CD in one of those flip cases, released a couple of weeks
ago.
Basically, it's The Sun Sessions plus - the plus being a number of live cuts
from 1955, pre-Sun stuff and a couple of alternate takes that didn't appear
on The Sun Sessions. The notes consist of a good
I believe the live material (and I thought I read it in the liner
notes) is
taken from an acetate of a 1955 Louisiana Hayride appearance.
Oh, er, um, yeah. Still not dated more precisely, though g.
Regardless, the sound quality of those unreleased live tracks is
just short of abysmal.
In
Unfortunately, Jon, from the perspective of just about anybody'd who care,
you're absolutely rightThere's much good music and a lot of interets in
getting to hear how that sound was arrived at--and some of the alternate
versions hold their own anyway, some of which are the ones they keep on
Basically yeah--the Hayride tapes (and in no all THAT bad quality BTW)--are
readily available on gray market discs, and somebody repackages them every
year... Two around in stores now are from the UK--"Elvis Presley: The
Legend Begins" has some 19 cuts. It adds early TV appearances and an
