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 Post subject: Black Sabbath remasters with bonus tracks from all eras due in March?
PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:59 am 
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From Black-Sabbath.com and Joe Siegler who runs this wonderful some potentially exciting news regarding Sabbath remasters including the awesome Tony Martin era as well as the classic stuff (P.S. This was from November, so next year means this year-we'll see):

This story has been floating around a bit, and I didn't want to say anything until I checked into it myself. Here's what's been going around:

According to BW&BK sources, Sanctuary UK are putting together a full reissue program on BLACK SABBATH next year starting in March. The first three albums (1970's Black Sabbath, 1970's Paranoid and 1971's Master Of Reality) will be released with bonus tracks.
Now these things have been released many times already on CD. The original Warner prints in the US, the mid 80's NEMS releases (with live tracks from the Live at Last album), the 1996 Castle Remasters, and the finally (in my opinion), the best version, the ones in 2004's Black Box. So it was with some skepticism that I read that we'd get YET ANOTHER release. I run the Sabs' big fan site here. I've bought these several times myself, and there's nothing left to really, is there? Do we need YET ANOTHER release of these albums?

Now the only thing that's really left are some of the oddball demo and "unreleased" recordings from around 1970 or so. I'm talking about the tracks "When I Came Down", "The Rebel", "A Song for Jim", and things like that. Now as far as I can tell, these were done for then manager Jim Simpson, and weren't really intended for release on an album. But they were recorded. My point in mentioning this stuff is because these are about he only oddball/unreleased tracks from back then. Sure, there's the studio alternate takes kind of thing, but in terms of "songs that haven't been heard before", I'm not aware of much else. For years and years, the Sabs have made off comments like "We don't have copies anymore", or "They're crap" or something like that. The impression I've gotten is that they're not interested in releasing these old things.

So I decided to write to Tony Iommi's people myself to see what the deal is with this "Sanctuary UK re-release of the first three albums". This is what they told me back...

We can confirm that the whole Sabbath catalogue is under review right now from Ozzy through to Tony Martin and vaults are being scoured for any extra material.
Now THAT is very promising (and seriously long overdue) news. Ozzy THROUGH Tony Martin. Not just the Ozzy era - huzzah! I know there's a lot of oddball and unreleased stuff from the non Ozzy eras, so I'll be VERY interested to see what they come up with.

Now let me say this before you get too excited. It took quite awhile from the first announcement of Black Box till it's release. It's taken awhile since we first heard of the "Black Sabbath: The Dio Years" Box set (aka Black Box 2 - my name). It still isn't out. So I wouldn't hold your breath expecting it will be out "soon". But this is promising news, because historically, the impression I've gotten is that Tony was never fond of this kind of stuff.

/me crosses his fingers for really odd stuff turning up.


God-I hope this is true, this would rule!

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:20 pm 
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Dio box is coming soon...


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PostPosted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:25 pm 
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But,a few years back,"Record Collector" magazine reported the discovery of Ozzy-era multitracks with some unreleased songs,and early attempts at "Master of Reality" songs from the "PARANOID" sessions.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:47 am 
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Dio box is coming soon...

We've discussed the Dio stuff a lot in other posts-it's NOT a box but a best-of with 3 new tracks and will tie into the Heaven And Hell tour beginning in March.

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:55 am 
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Japan Mini Sleeve versions are going to be released too. The first five are being shown as Remastered but not including bonus tracks.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:45 am 
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OK, lessee...I bought most of the "classic" Sabbath albums as WB CDs, and then got a bunch of the import remasters on Castle/Essential, and then bought that Castle/Essential box set of the mini-lp CDs, not to mention the import Under the Wheels of Confusion 4-CD box, followed by Rhino's Black Box a couple years ago. Am I really gonna buy all that yet again? :o :sigh:

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:20 pm 
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Jimbo wrote:
OK, lessee...I bought most of the "classic" Sabbath albums as WB CDs, and then got a bunch of the import remasters on Castle/Essential, and then bought that Castle/Essential box set of the mini-lp CDs, not to mention the import Under the Wheels of Confusion 4-CD box, followed by Rhino's Black Box a couple years ago. Am I really gonna buy all that yet again? :o :sigh:


Of course you will.

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 12:12 am 
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There was a fella who just asked about these remasters (the first 3 specifically)and I found my old post from January.
This may shed a little light on the fact that there does seem to be an actual plan for the whole catalogue to be handled, but who knows?

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:49 am 
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Jimbo wrote:
Under the Wheels of Confusion 4-CD box, followed by Rhino's Black Box a couple years ago. Am I really gonna buy all that yet again? :o :sigh:


I have the last two Jimbo, after I parted with the Castle remasters. The Rhino set Black Box is the best sounding yet. :ohyes:

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