I figured I'd start off the posts in this forum with a bang. No, there's no box set in the near (or apparently distant) future, but I'm going to toss this idea out for some opinions. I'd like to have all TJB listeners chime in with some of their favorite picks for an eventual box set, or at least give ideas for what the ideal box set would contain.
For a TJB-only box set, I would not recommend exceeding 3 CDs. If you include solo Herb Alpert recordings in the set, you could not get away with more than four or five CDs before you hit a price barrier...perhaps a better idea would be to create a companion solo-Herb 2-CD set.
To start, my gut feeling is that for a TJB box set to be complete, it should cover three areas: hits, rarities, fan favorites. You don't want too many hits, or it will sound like just another compilation. You don't want to weight the set toward a lot of rarities, since they are interesting but don't hold up as well as the album tracks. (There's a reason they were B-sides.) And you don't want to scare away potential buyers with a lot of fan favorites at the expense of leaving off familiar hits.
It goes without saying that a Rhino-quality booklet would be a requirement for the set.
Discussions: this thread is for discussions of a box set. At some point in the future, I'm going to be attempting to put up a poll of all TJB songs so that we all can vote on what our favorite tracks will be.
And hopefully somebody will listen.
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For a TJB-only box set, I would not recommend exceeding 3 CDs. If you include solo Herb Alpert recordings in the set, you could not get away with more than four or five CDs before you hit a price barrier...perhaps a better idea would be to create a companion solo-Herb 2-CD set.
To start, my gut feeling is that for a TJB box set to be complete, it should cover three areas: hits, rarities, fan favorites. You don't want too many hits, or it will sound like just another compilation. You don't want to weight the set toward a lot of rarities, since they are interesting but don't hold up as well as the album tracks. (There's a reason they were B-sides.) And you don't want to scare away potential buyers with a lot of fan favorites at the expense of leaving off familiar hits.
It goes without saying that a Rhino-quality booklet would be a requirement for the set.
Discussions: this thread is for discussions of a box set. At some point in the future, I'm going to be attempting to put up a poll of all TJB songs so that we all can vote on what our favorite tracks will be.
And hopefully somebody will listen.
-= N =-