New Easy Action ‘Theatre of Cruelty’ CD box!

Just got the Theatre of Cruelty box in! Ill post some more pictures but as far as presentation goes I’m very happy! (Iggy the cat doesnt seem to happy i got more low fidelity stuff to blast on my stereos :p)

Nice scans, thanx for sharing!

Any upgrades in sound?

Samples from each disc here: https://ealisteningpost.co.uk/the-stooges-theatre-of-cruelty-excerpts/

He'll soon waken up

neven wrote:

Any upgrades in sound?

I'm a long time Stooges fan. For what it's worth I'll give you my take.

Disc One - Oct./73 same as Heavy Liquid box set.

Disc Two - Sept. 16/73 . A definite upgrade over the Revenge Records CD Live At The Whisky A Go Go and its descendants. This recording is at least one tape generation earlier, plus songs are in the correct running order with additional stage banter.

Disc Three- Sept.17/73  Basically Bomp's California Bleeding CD + stuff Bomp left in the can - the overdubbed applause. Which is .. good... since the Bomp CD had very good sound quality. But you quickly understand why Bomp passed over a lot of this stuff. A lot of the songs are incomplete. But it does have a complete unreleased version of " Open Up And Bleed " which is great.

Disc Four - June/73 Supposedly with Bob Sheff on keyboards. The two versions of 'She Creatures Of The Hollywood Hills" were previously released on Bomp and Revenge CDs in the same good quality. The rest of the recording is pretty poor quality with the exception of "I Need Somebody" which is previously unreleased and which the band impressively trash rocks their way through.

slow extinction wrote:

neven wrote:

Any upgrades in sound?

I'm a long time Stooges fan. For what it's worth I'll give you my take.

Disc One - Oct./73 same as Heavy Liquid box set.

Disc Two - Sept. 16/73 . A definite upgrade over the Revenge Records CD Live At The Whisky A Go Go and its descendants. This recording is at least one tape generation earlier, plus songs are in the correct running order with additional stage banter.

Disc Three- Sept.17/73  Basically Bomp's California Bleeding CD + stuff Bomp left in the can - the overdubbed applause. Which is .. good... since the Bomp CD had very good sound quality. But you quickly understand why Bomp passed over a lot of this stuff. A lot of the songs are incomplete. But it does have a complete unreleased version of " Open Up And Bleed " which is great.

Disc Four - June/73 Supposedly with Bob Sheff on keyboards. The two versions of 'She Creatures Of The Hollywood Hills" were previously released on Bomp and Revenge CDs in the same good quality. The rest of the recording is pretty poor quality with the exception of "I Need Somebody" which is previously unreleased and which the band impressively trash rocks their way through.

Many thanks for your review!