Combined Package: NEW Limited Edition 50th Anniversary pressing of the original "Demo-Return Requested" LP, plus the NEW 3-CD set of the complete recordings of Trizo 50. Includes 8 tracks sung by future Rainmakers founder, Bob Walkenhorst - guitarist & songwriter in Phantasia and Trizo 50. (Note: LP and 3CD set are available separately - see my other eBay listings for those.) Free Media Mail in continental U.S.
In 1973, in the middle of the Great American Nowhere, five guys aged 16-23 recorded almost 60 sixty tracks on a 4-track recorder. It was a crazy mix of power pop, hard rock, psychedelia, proto-metal, bubblegum and pre-punk. We pressed up 100 15-track demo records. They went to family, friends, disinterested record labels and eventually the collector's market, where a copy could fetch up to a grand. Over the last two years, I've spent hundreds of hours digitally re-mixing all the tracks transferred from the original 4-track tapes in 24 bit stereo. Everyone in the band has heard it, and they all agree with me that THIS is how it was supposed to sound. I figure that's good, because I had to make twice as many this time - 200. All the info is below - thanks for your consideration. I'm proud to offer this for sale, and hope you enjoy the music.
NOTE: These are NOT the inferior mixes included in the previous partial compilation on World In Sound. These are the "real deal" !
Combined Package: NEW Limited Edition 50th Anniversary pressing of the original "Demo-Return Requested" LP, plus the NEW 3-CD set of the complete recordings of Trizo 50. (Note: LP and 3CD set are available separately - see my other eBay listings for those.) Free Media Mail in continental U.S.
DETAILS:
NEW 50th Edition LP Pressing on 180 gram w/ download card. Full color inner sleeve, plus 4 pg 12" x 12" color booklet w/ 5,000 word history of the band, written by the producer (me).
NEW 50th Anniversary 2-CD set. Includes the original 15-track album, plus 36 extra tracks. 12 pg 8” x 8” color booklet w/ expanded 7,300 word history of the band.
NEW “Live in the Studio” CD, includes “Bye Baby Goodbye” and 2 other songs exclusive to this CD. Plus 4 more studio tracks. (SEE PHOTO FOR FULL TRACK LISTINGS)
A TOTAL OF 70 TRACKS! (35 first ever release!). All re-mixed and re-mastered in 2023.
NOTE: The 50th Anniversary LP and CDs are a limited edition of only 200 copies.
NOTE ABOUT THE RECORDING: Original 4-track tapes recorded on TEAC 2340 in two makeshift studios in Norborne, MO. This edition digitally re-mixed in 24-bit stereo and professionally mastered 2023 at Cowboy Technical Services, Brooklyn, NY.
Guide to Photos:
1: Everything you receive (1 LP, 3 CD)
2: LP front cover, 5-page booklet, color inner sleeve
3: LP back cover
4: 2 CD set plus live CD, inner spread of 12 pg CD booklet
5: CD TRACK LISTINGS (Back of CD Booklet, Live CD sleeve)
6: MORE INFO: Ad for the 50th Anniversary from "Ugly Things" magazine
7: Winter 2023 review in Ugly Things magazine (All rights reserved)
8: 9/3/23 reunion in Norborne, MO: (l-r) Clapper, BW, me, JB (DJ, seated) / Photo (l-r) John, me, BW, DJ JB (NOT included in purchase)