oh, I'm pleased to see its coming out. But three different shows instead of two wouldnt have been that hard to do. If youre going to aim a project at collectors, then it makes sense to maximise the likelihood of them buying each release.

The Stones Archives download series was very welcome and enjoyable - but re-issuing them all again on vinyl/CD (Brussels Affair was already issued on vinyl - if you wanted to pay several hundred quid for a couple of concert tickets) is a bit of a swizz, which is sadly typical of Stones Inc.

And it pisses me off, that with all the various permutations of the Hampton release, that if I want to buy the CD AND the best video quality release (ie, blu ray) of what is one of my favourite shows,  I have to buy it twice.  You could get Sweet Summer Sun in multiple formats in the same deluxe package, so its really not rocket science.

'Lets Spend The night Together;' is visually terrific, but musically unlistenable due to having something like 22 songs edited to fit into a 90 minute movie, effectively removing about half an hour of music. Unfortunately, it'll never get a 'directors cut' with the missing footage restored.

http://youtu.be/Ou90MPHZzXs

Just picked up the 2 Cd, 1 DVD package. Merry Stonesian Xmas to me.

I got LA & Hamton for me Bday (dvd+2)
but have yet to give them a spin.

and now whe're on the subject, I also got this:

http://www.yellowkorner.com/photos/950/stones-by-godard.aspx

and this:

http://www.amazon.com/Pirates-Caribbean-Captian-Teague-Action/dp/B000ROOSF2

And underwear from my mom...

Been listening to the CD's. They rock. This is a concept I can get behind. Release well known bootlegged show in a cleaned up, tightend up CD format. In pother words, bootlegging for dummies! 

No idea.

Always thought it was a potentially strange choice anyway, seeing as we've had an expanded Exile and about half the songs on BOTH the original Exile and the extra disc originate from the Sticky Fingers sessions  (or earlier)

Have never really been convinced that there's much mileage in expanded versions of old albums, personally. The two they did put out, while very enjoyable musically, were only fully realised due to a combination of new overdubs, new lyrics and questionable research regarding the authenticity of the dates given for the original basic tracks (eg "Title 5" is no more an 'Exile' outtake than "Doom and Gloom" is, and some of the songs on disc 2 of "Some Girls" werent even begun until after the original album was released)

I'm unconvinced that there are that many finished original songs in the Stones vaults. Most of what is finished are covers or alternate takes of released material. Its pretty evident from the hundreds of studio bootlegs down the years that finished lyrics and final vocal takes are added pretty late on in the recording process, which pretty much makes the chances of most Stones albums having a surplus of several finished songs as highly implausible - if they're finishing lyrics at the eleventh hour to get a record ready they're very unlikely to waste resources on finishing lots of extra songs.

I think you'd be lucky to assemble a 3-CD set of finished outtakes spanning their entire studio recording career. And probably about half of those would be covers like "Still a Fool", "Drift Away", "For Your Precious Love" and the like.