2010 Update History
26-Dec-2010
Additions to timeline:
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Added some pictures of the 1976 Venezuelan LP release of Wishbone Ash (first album). Thanks go to Ben Reinhardt. See e.g. year 1970.
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Added track lengths and source info to Live From Memphis promo LP. See year 1972.
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Some more info of the recent 180 gram LP release of Argus.
See e.g. year 1972.
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Added a white label test printing of There's the Rub LP. See year 1974.
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Added a white label test printing of Locked In LP. See year 1976.
Additions to Singles:
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Corrected the info of US promo single Get Ready, MCA 51149.
See Singles.
01-Nov-2010
A quick update before AshCon:
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New live CD: Live At The Grand - Road Works Volume 1 added to year 2010.
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Found a German LP printing on No Smoke Without Fire at a local record fair. Cat# is "MCA 3060". To see more, see year 1978.
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Added a picture of a cassette cover of Front Page News, a US release. See year 1977.
01-Oct-2010
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Pictures of Live Dates Volume 2, Japanese SHMCD added to the album's cover art page. See, e.g. year 2010.
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Back in 2003, a DVD called Almighty Blues was released. It's been released in several formats: Video DVD, Audio DVD and SACD. Now it's available on standard CD. The CD is called Live on Air. See year 2010.
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In 2006, two Various Artist DVDs with similar names and almost similar cover art were released. Both DVDs are called Hard Rock Collection.
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Bob Beresford helped me out again as follows:
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A brand new 180 gram vinyl release of Argus. See, e.g. year 1972.
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A lot of additional information concerning different releases of Twin Barrels Burning. See year 1982.
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Credits for a 1982 UK compilation LP called The Best Of Wishbone Ash.
11-Aug-2010
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Live Dates Volume 2 finally released on CD! See year 2010.
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Ted Turner's first solo album Eclektic Value added to his sideline.
26-Jul-2010
Additions to timeline:
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Track list of South African 3CD compilation updated and added a cover art page. See year 2010.
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Certain download sites offer an alternative cover art for Clan Destiny. See year 2006.
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On early UK printings of There's the Rub, there were some engravings on both sides of the vinyl. I've added photos where the engravings can be seen to the album's cover art section. See year 1974.
Additions to Bootlegs and Pirate Copies section:
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Added two pirate copies: Live Dates Volume 2 and Live in Tokyo.
Both look and sound like official releases, but for Universal to license these releases for the first time on CD to an "Austrian" company is more than unlikely.
See Pirate Copies.
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Yet another "Liverpool Bootleg" available as download. The "album" is simply entitled "Wishbone Ash". More info among Bootlegs, "Liverpool Bootlegs" section. This info courtesy of "spider".
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There's at least two versions of "Ted's Last Gig". Mike Weal sent me info of the first one back in November 2009. Almost forgot to add it. Well, now they both are included in Bootlegs, "1971 to 1976" section.
26-Jun-2010
Additions to timeline:
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Cover art and other minor tweaks added to Sometime World - An MCA Travelogue, the recent 2CD compilation. See year 2010.
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Preliminary info of South African 3CD compilation added to year 2010.
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Sadly, I had to include a warning on the printing lists of all MCA era albums (except Live Dates volume 2).
This because the most recent Japanese SHMCD's suffer from "loudness wars", i.e. the music on the CD is compressed to an extreme and in this case some serious clipping appears. Check the printing list of any MCA era album (except Live Dates volume 2).
Note.
What has happened was beyond control of current and former band members. It's the people that made the remastering that are the "guilty part".
Added a picture of a promo CD-R of Reason to Believe, the "download only" single. See Singles section.
23-May-2010
Additions to timeline:
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A bunch of Japanese SHMCD (Super High Material CD) releases added to year 2010, i.e. all 1970-1980 MCA releases, except a hopefully forthcoming Live Dates Volume 2, which will supposedly be released in June 2010.
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A 2CD compilation called Sometime World - An MCA Travelogue added to year 2010.
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Loads of Japanese SHMCD releases added to year 2009 too.
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Philippe Gweganton sent me a picture of Japanese mini LP CD cover art of There's the Rub. See year 1974.
Addition to Ted Turner's Sideline:
Addition to Singles:
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The new download only single Reason to Believe.
Additions to Bootlegs and Pirate copies:
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Philippe Gweganton's cover art variation of Live at Geneva Pirate Copy.
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Info of yet another "Liverpool Bootleg" called Wishbone Ash - New England Tour 1976, courtesy of Peter Cutler.
02-Apr-2010
Big gap between updates, sorry! I'm doing this on my spare time and there's a lot going on behind the curtains that took my time in February/March, but is still not ready to be published. However, here's something that is public now:
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Ted Turner, one of the original guitarists, is working on a solo album entitled Eclektic Value. More of it available here:
http://www.pledgemusic.com/artists/tedturner
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A Norwegian guy living in Canada, Stian Brekken, has an impressive web site.
See it here: www.hipgnosiscovers.com.
His site prompted me to add quite a few pictures of cover art variations etc. for the following albums:
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A French fan, Philippe Gweganton, sent me quite a few scans of cassettes and information on several French LP printings:
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Printing info of Lost Pearls has been corrected.
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Added a Turkish printing of Just Testing.
Then there's a forthcoming compilation Sometime World - An MCA Travelogue and (hopefully) a Japanese release of Live Dates 2. All this in the next update (unless something unexpected appear)...
30-Jan-2010
Not that many updates this time, but one of them's pretty big...
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Bob Beresford sent me scans of promo booklets.
One of New England and another of No Smoke Without Fire.
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Bob Beresford is also the reason why I've added pictures of
posters and lyric sheet photos to Wishbone Four
's Cover Art page.
Also the 8 page booklet that was included in a US LP printing of Live Dates.
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And then the big one:
A beta version of this web site's version 7 is available here. I'll gladly receive comments of it.
03-Jan-2010
Happy New Year and a Dew Decade!
Trying to go through old "to do" list. Here's what I managed come up with.
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A serious omission:
I've forgotten to add 2005 US release of Illuminations, by Friday Music. Now it's included here too.
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Back in 2005, I visited a second hand record shop in Helsinki. Plowed through their box of recently arrived stuff and a found two pristine Wishbone Ash LPs: Nouveau Calls and Here to Hear. Guess they must have been left there by a person working for a Finnish record company since both albums had some additional promo material inside their sleeves:
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Nouveau Calls had a printed four page booklet presenting the four first No Speak releases. Printed on it's back page: "I.R.S. NO SPEAK Insert". I've added an detail from the booklet to Nouveau Calls' Cover Art page.
See year 1987.
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Here to Hear had two faxes promoting Wishbone Ash and the album. The one dated July 5th 1989 had a Wishbone Ash biography that I've included
to Here to Hear's Cover Art page.
See year 1989.
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Added a detail picture of Nouveau Calls US promo LP.
See year 1987.
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Some copies of the German compilation called The Original Wishbone Ash were partly gilded. I've added a snapshot of the gilded part (a detail) to the album's Cover Art section.
See year 1977 .
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There's a lot of suspicious Russian printings circling around. Sold at ebay etc. I've added a section called Suspicious Russian Releases to section
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Still some stuff on the "to do" list, but guess they have to wait a while...
Written by: Rainer Frilund