{"id":2377,"date":"2009-10-19T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-10-19T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T08:45:03","slug":"nothing-more-to-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/nothing-more-to-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing More to Give"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nVdNEPusGsA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nDecades after <strong>Beatles<\/strong> fanatics spent their hard-earned cash buying bootleg albums in search of the <strong>Great Lost Beatles Track<\/strong>, the band finally allowed for the release of that three-volume <em>Anthology<\/em> series. The series confirmed that, with the exception of a few well-known alternate takes, The Beatles had nothing more to give. There was not a treasure-trove of cool, unreleased original tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of <strong>The Kinks<\/strong> and <strong>The Who<\/strong> have been treated to some cool rarities and demos over the years. Some believe <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>&#8216;s unreleased tracks are as good as his released ones. <\/p>\n<p>The Rolling Stones never faced this question. Each new album since <em>Black and Blue<\/em> contains tracks that were revived from some aborted recording session in Jamaica or the Bahamas, circa 1974. A hundred years from now they will still be able to release a new album of material culled from one of those late-night jam sessions. And don&#8217;t think they won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>With each new reissue of the back catalogs of <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong> and <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>, new previously unreleased tracks emerge, most of which are of better-than-current-day-release quality of either artist. The other night, however, I was thinking about one major band with excellent studio chops that seems to have nothing more to give:<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tkU9pFh5sxI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong>. I recall a posthumous collection of leftover recordings coming out in the year or two following <strong>John Bonham<\/strong>&#8216;s death, but do any Zeppelin fans care about that album? Is it available in digital formats? The Led Zep catalog has been reissued at two or three times &#8211; and I&#8217;ve got a box set from an earlier reissue &#8211; but where are the <strong>previously unreleased bonus tracks<\/strong> from their vaults? Back in the day, did anyone ever collect Zeppelin bootlegs with studio outtakes?<\/p>\n<p><em>What other bands surprise you for their seeming lack of leftover recordings for inclusion as bonus tracks on reissues?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decades after Beatles fanatics spent their hard-earned cash buying bootleg albums in search of the Great Lost Beatles Track, the band finally allowed for the release of that three-volume Anthology series. The series confirmed that, with the exception of a few well-known alternate takes, The Beatles had nothing more to give. There was not a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/nothing-more-to-give\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[10,70,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}