To avoid confusion, I started the subject with "wish", to make sure you won't get excited, as these dream sets don't exist.
Yet.

As you may or may not know, Pink Floyd released a couple of super deluxe box sets. A bit too super deluxe for my taste as these boxes also contained stuff that degraded the value (imo!), like marbles and a scarf.

Anyway, on some Pink Floyd forums, people started threads about future sets - or what the current sets actually should have contained.

I thought it'd be a nice idea to start such a thread for Camel albums as well. :)


So, let's start with the superdeluxe edition of "Camel". What should be in the box?

- The album itself, of course - without bonus tracks but in the best available sound quality, also in hi-rez format
- A second album containing the demo's
- A complete live gig from that time
- All available video footage from that time
- A book with nice photographs and a lot of in-depth info about the contents of the box set.

What else? :)

Yeah, I thought about that after I posted my message. :) This formula would work for any Camel album.
Personally I don't really care for a (newly created) surround mix but I completely understand it'd be appreciated by many.
But I'd still be interested in the live material! :)

For Camel: a full gig from 1972 or 1973
For Mirage: a full gig from 1973 or 1974
For The Snow Goose: a full gig from 1975
For Moonmadness: a full gig from 1976
For Rain Dances: a full gig from 1977
For Breathless: a full gig from 1978 (or early 1979)
For I Can See Your House From Here: a full gig from (late) 1979 or (early) 1980
For Nude: the full Wijchen gig from July 19, 1980, or a full gig from 1981
For The Single factor: a full gig from 1982
For Stationary Traveller: a full gig from 1984
For Dust and Dreams; a full gig from 1992
For Harbour of Tears: a full gig from 1997
For Rajaz: a full gig from 2000 or 2001
For A Nod And A Wink: a full gig from 2003

Of course no gigs that have been released already. :)

I admit that surround versions give the opportunity to hear the separate tracks better, and you'll hear things you never heard before. This is very exciting indeed. Even when you play a surround mix through stereo headphones (in that case the surround mix is 'degraded' to stereo, of course), the experience is amazing.
But it's not that I'm always listening that way. Listening to a 'normal' stereo mix is more natural in daily life. For me, that is.

Maybe Camel didn't record that many live gigs on multitracks?

I have a recording of this show - I'm not sure it's same you have.
On my version, the last track on disc 1 (track 11) lasts for 4 seconds. I don't remember what these 4 seconds contain but I guess it's not much. I'll give it a listen one of these days.
I'd happily upload it (to yeeshkul for instance) ;) if you'd be interested.

My version must be the same as yours, Lynn, as I also heard these guys talking about 'regular jobs'. So I guess it wouldn't make sense to upload my version. Maybe Michael's version is different? The way the recording is tracked is definitely different, and the timing is a bit different (mine has a total time of 139:37 but that doesn't really say anything).