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New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« on: March 22, 2016, 06:05:09 AM »
Any fans? I love his work and the just released 14CD "The Last Of The Teenage Idols" box was an auto-buy. Includes everything SAHB released plus great bonustracks (single B-sides and outtakes from the "Live" album) and most of his solo work pre- and post- SAHB.
http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/alex-harvey-the-last-of-the-teenage-idols-14cd-box-set/
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2016, 08:58:02 AM »
I liked what he did but 14 CDs of it would be a bit too much cherry pie!
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2016, 11:19:37 AM »
Quote from: uwe on March 22, 2016, 08:58:02 AM
I liked what he did but 14 CDs of it would be a bit too much cherry pie!

Yeah, that don't take much...
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2016, 06:01:25 AM »
Warrant? Please, make that go away. :-[

Here's Alex and his band at their proggiest:


That was the first track I ever heard from SAHB apart from occasional radio play of "Next" and I was hooked.
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2016, 06:09:50 AM »
Quote from: Pekka on March 23, 2016, 06:01:25 AM
Warrant? Please, make that go away. :-[

Hey, blame Uwe - he threw me a hanging curveball :o
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2016, 06:16:10 AM »
Quote from: lowend1 on March 23, 2016, 06:09:50 AM
Hey, blame Uwe - he threw me a hanging curveball :o

You can't blame germans for everything. At least not for Warrant!
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2016, 06:22:21 AM »
i saw the sensational alex harvey band in 1974. i don't see how you can get fourteen worthwhile cds out of that band. can you say money grab.
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2016, 07:20:48 AM »
Quote from: Pekka on March 23, 2016, 06:16:10 AM
You can't blame germans for everything. At least not for Warrant!

I was just about to say!!! WWI maybe half, WWII ok, that's our load indeed, but absolutely innocent as regards WWarrantIII!!!

I always liked Chris Glen's bass playing and the way the rhythm section of him and Ted McKenna interacted (he was even better with Ted than with Cozy, Ted being the more bass-sympathetic player). You heard that well on Assault Attack, Martin Birch's production really brought them out.



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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2016, 07:57:24 AM »
Quote from: nofi on March 23, 2016, 06:22:21 AM
i saw the sensational alex harvey band in 1974. i don't see how you can get fourteen worthwhile cds out of that band. can you say money grab.

Hey, no knocking a completist urge!!! I have great sympathy for Pekka! Collect, my son, do köllekt and hoard, it's all good ...



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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2016, 12:27:07 PM »
Quote from: nofi on March 23, 2016, 06:22:21 AM
i saw the sensational alex harvey band in 1974. i don't see how you can get fourteen worthwhile cds out of that band. can you say money grab.

No I can't. Quoting myself: "most of his solo work pre- and post- SAHB". The man started in the fifties and had about ten years worth of recorded output before SAHB who released 8 albums and managed to make to solo albums after SAHB and before his early death so to me 14 worthwhile cds isn't a difficult task at all.



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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2016, 12:34:52 PM »
Quote from: uwe on March 23, 2016, 07:57:24 AM
Hey, no knocking a completist urge!!! I have great sympathy for Pekka! Collect, my son, do köllekt and hoard, it's all good ...

Thanks, 'though I do not hoard, otherwise I would have kept the previously released 2-in-1 SAHB double cd's. The vinyls aren't for sale of course. :)

I would have preferred if they had released Alex' solo stuff  on one box and SAHB rarities and unreleased on other but the trend nowadays is having the whole lot in one big set. It wasn't expensive 'though, 100 euros from cdon.com.
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2016, 12:45:40 PM »
Quote from: uwe on March 23, 2016, 07:20:48 AM

I always liked Chris Glen's bass playing and the way the rhythm section of him and Ted McKenna interacted (he was even better with Ted than with Cozy, Ted being the more bass-sympathetic player). You heard that well on Assault Attack, Martin Birch's production really brought them out.

A brilliant rhythm section that could handle loads of styles with SAHB. Very groovy and at times sounded like Little Feat ("Jungle Rub Out") or Killing Joke ("Rock Drill").
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2016, 01:57:22 PM »
A thread with red squirrels...! :mrgreen:

Out of my price range at present but nice...
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Re: New (almost) comphrehensive Alex Harvey box
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2016, 01:59:08 PM »
Chris Glen had one of the best live bass sounds I ever heard.  I also saw him with MSG at a club date in Chicago.  I was there for the sound check...Glen left with a pair of lovelies, and the three of them returned an hour or so later, quite disheveled.

I'm sure this was remixed, but I do love the sound of Glen's bass.

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