Looks beautiful Davide !
For me, I have started this FTD collection in 1999, day one, and come hell or high water, I’ll continue collecting until they either stop producing or I am forced to stop buying ‘em. I enjoyed the majority of them. Hated a very small minority of them, was indifferent to or bored by, by now, quite a few ones (mainly certain soundboards… 1974-1976).
Yes, I have had my complaints about certain FTD releases over the decades, but that has never stopped me one bit. A minor but not unimportant point of interest and consideration has now become, also, the value of my entire collection as a complete collector’s package.
By acting as an obsessive FTD collector, by saving money in order to get them, and not buying a lot of stuff or other pleasures a lot of other Elvis fans did choose spend their money on, I now have a nice pile of FTD stuff, as complete as I could collect it. But still made some misjudgments, like not leaving the shrink wrap around all of the releases and instead gently pulling out the thing… I did keep all the stickers etc but I threw the shrink wraps away. Not obviously the shrink wraps of all of the FTD vinyls that are still sealed. But far more stupidly, I should have bought those FTD vinyls twice or more, just to sell them and recuperate part of my FTD costs…. And also some FTD books.
I am not good at predicting all of these things. Been lucky and/or smart in different areas of collecting a few times in my life, collecting something (like special L.E. Jack Daniel’s whiskey), or a series (like comic books..) that became very expensive years later, but that was usually by sheer luck, not special foresight. “Wisdom of the ages”… ahhh… nah not me, not really.
davide wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 6:04 pm

Shawn1968 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:49 pm
Lee Wood wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 5:07 pm
Keith wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:34 pm
Wonderwall wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 1:18 pm
Or they've mastered the missing takes from vinyl.
Lee Wood wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 2:18 pm
All of the missing takes are already out there, and have been for years. My bet is they've used these.
The flyer clearly states
"The audio is newly mixed from the original 3-track tapes"
Keith
Yeah, somehow there's this niggling doubt in my mind that this will include all the audio.
Yeah, the cynic in me thinks that if all the audio was included they’d be shouting it from the roof tops. It’s like they have something to hide by not giving the track listing. But they’re not afraid to give a lot of detail on the books. Again, that’s the cynic in me, let’s hope I’m 100% wrong on this.
All the audio will be included..hope that helps.
David
Joe Krein interview with Sherril Nielsen: "YOU KNOW YOU FORGET HOW GOOD HE REALLY WAS. I SAID MY GOODNESS. YOU KNOW WHEN YOU ARE WITH HIM YOU ARE SO WRAPPED UP DOING THE SHOW, BUT HERE NOW 20 YEARS LATER, I HEAR HIM AND REALIZE WHAT A GREAT TALENT HE WAS. HE WAS THE REAL DEAL.