The 50th anniversary of Benefit is in exactly one year, so perhaps that is the moment they are waiting for. Bring on the big book!
From David Rees... "There are -or were- plans to issue benefit in the book format. SW hgas already worked his magic of course on the set released a few years ago, and the book would need only a reworking of the existing small format book, but it´s possible that som elive recordings couod be included -if there are any to be found! If it matrerialises I imagine it would be before Stormwatch. Fingers crossed on that one..."
Yeah, I think there would be licensing issues with Tanglewood. Bill Graham's estate owns the audio and video and they tend to hold their stuff pretty tightly. At the time, the book format wasn't fully standardized. Aqualung was a huge lavish box and a stripped-down 2CD digipak. The 40th-anniversary editions of This Was and Stand Up were digipaks too. Thick as a Brick was a book, but part of that was to accommodate the newspaper from the original. Only after several more reissues did Benefit look like the odd one out.
Absolutely. I know they have tried to negotiate both for Tanglewood 70 with the Graham estate and for Landover 76 with Historic Films or whoever "owns" It to no success.
I hope that doesn’t mean we’ll have to wait 3 more years for a re-issue of the TAAB book edition, though!
gotcha, but IMO they still could have done a "book" of Benefit...such a great album...missed opportunity. : (
Can you imagine if the original Benefit album also included the non-album tracks "Teacher" and "Witch's Promise?" An amazing album would have been significantly upgraded. Boggles the mind.
I thought I'd give this thread a kick back to life. I'm going to be moving in a few weeks and have been going through the miserable task of dealing with all my media getting packed, and hit the Tull collection today. Of course there are odds and ends (MFSL of Thick as a Brick and Passion Play, M.U. for the remixed Aqualung tracks, etc.) but the most space is certainly claimed by the "book" program releases. Of course I'm glad Stand Up got a book, but it's weird to just have that "Collector's Edition" of Benefit. A minor life crisis to be sure but it would be swell to get Benefit supersized and including a larger booklet so it doesn't look like I missed a title in the series. And if the Carnegie Hall material could make its way on there then I could get rid of the 2013 Benefit and 2010 Stand Up. Shelf space these days is getting kind of... desperate
Looking forward to seeing/getting book format of Benefit if it is ever released but have you seen the price of the Collectors Edition of Benefit on Discogs, amazing !
Benefit sits on my shelf next to TAAB2, which is a little weird. I too am bothered by the lack of it among the book sets, which include a couple of less deserving of their albums. But yeah, first-world problem.
I'd buy a book format of Benefit in a heartbeat; even if they didn't add Carnegie Hall. The OCD in me is dying for a rerelease of TAAB, since I never picked it up due to its lack of extras. I was actually surprised at that; I would have bet the farm that there were alternate passages or stuff excised for length (like that extra verse in APP).
Probably because TAAB was the first one. Since it's so sought after now, I'm sure a re-issue is eminent, and I bet they will dig up some goodies to add to it.
The latest from the AND magazine is that Warners has it under consideration, yet they would like to have some extra material, which is not easy to find.
Also, Warner have never issued it in book format, as the previous edition was on EMI. Warner’s first book edition was A Passion Play, after their Benefit Collector’s Edition.
