I've been wanting to do this for a long time. I got tired of waiting for the powers that be, and made my own TJB box set.
It's got 3 disks - 87 songs - covers every album from LONELY BULL up through CONEY ISLAND (with the exception of the Christmas album -- I want to be able to listen to this in the summer, too) and even had room for half a dozen rarities (singles).
I put in just two tracks each from the first three albums -- from LB and V2, there's only a couple on each that I like, and from SOTB, there's only a couple that I HAVE...but my favorite stuff is the mid-period anyway. Every album after those three is represented by five to eight songs. It's a TJB fest!
To complete the package, I appropriated the packaging from an old 3-disk "book on disk" set, scanned some TJB photos and made my own package. It looks pretty good.
I'll still buy Herb's official version when it comes out, but for now this will do.
It's got 3 disks - 87 songs - covers every album from LONELY BULL up through CONEY ISLAND (with the exception of the Christmas album -- I want to be able to listen to this in the summer, too) and even had room for half a dozen rarities (singles).
I put in just two tracks each from the first three albums -- from LB and V2, there's only a couple on each that I like, and from SOTB, there's only a couple that I HAVE...but my favorite stuff is the mid-period anyway. Every album after those three is represented by five to eight songs. It's a TJB fest!
To complete the package, I appropriated the packaging from an old 3-disk "book on disk" set, scanned some TJB photos and made my own package. It looks pretty good.
I'll still buy Herb's official version when it comes out, but for now this will do.