What's the story about a 40th anniversary Stones box set???

[Steve w]

I read that in the old Rave Recordings forum not long ago. And it is supposed to be the Abco years. Is there any truth to that?

[Sckott]

Better check the NY hospitals. Klien might be ill.

(Kidding!!)

[Grant]

Aak! Klein's been murdered!!!!!

[Larry Naramore]

Chubby Checker?

[Andrew]

Saw a picture of the supposed box-set cover in "Record Collector" magazine last year, but no news about it then or since. :confused:

[Matt]

As frustrated as we all are by ABKCO's tight-fisted policies, to my understanding, Allen Klein is a really nice guy. People I've talked to who know him like him, and reading Sam Cooke's biography, I have to admire his efforts to investigate Sam Cooke's death (something that was only dropped at the request of Cooke's widow).

I just can't understand how his company can handle their music so poorly in the last 10 years, especially the way they handled Cooke's catalog. It just doesn't seem consistent with his personal reputation.

[Jimbo]

From what I've heard, the box will NOT include any early/ABKCO stuff, but start with "Sticky Fingers." It's supposed to be released by this fall. I really really hope so, but I'm not holding my breath.

[Pat]

..."They put me on the Waiting To Exhale waiting list...but they told me not to hold my breath"............Homer J. Simpson

:D

[Douglas]

Originally posted by Matt
to my understanding, Allen Klein is a really nice guy. People I've talked to who know him like him,

Allen Klein a "nice guy?" Wow, I've heard lots of two word descriptions of him before but never that one.

[Grant]

Originally posted by Jimbo
From what I've heard, the box will NOT include any early/ABKCO stuff, but start with "Sticky Fingers." It's supposed to be released by this fall. I really really hope so, but I'm not holding my breath.

Now, how could an ABKO set start with "Sticky Fingers" when the last two songs they recorded, before their work switched to Atlantic, were under dispute with Allen Klien? They were "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses". Everything else up to 1986 was on Atlantic/Rolling Stones records. Then they went to CBS, and now everything's on Virgin, unless they resigned with Atlantic recently.

Jeeez, these artists and their jumpimg around from label to label. Elton John is the worst, but not all of it was his fault.

[lukpac]

From 1971 until 1994 or so, all Stones releases were on Rolling Stones Records. The deals with Atlantic and CBS (and EMI in the UK, I believe) were simply distribution deals - those companies never owned anything, they just put out RSR releases. Now, I'm not certain what the deal is with Virgin. I *think* that perhaps Virgin owns the new releases and distributes the older ones, although I could be wrong. Virgin might own everything now, and they might own nothing - I'm not sure.