http://www.rogertaylorofficial.com finally coming online?

The site is still blank for me. Can anyone post the details here perhaps?

And it's back to "Coming soon".....

[QUOTE] [b]Pingfah wrote:[/b]

Probably means 20 years since the musicians last met, which was presumably at the final gig in Gosport. Amazing gig that was.

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I assumed that's what it meant too....I was also at that gig, fantastic.

From Jacky:

"Just had a chat with the RT website team - we did indeed manage to come across the site while it was being briefly tested! They have said all is going well (and it did look great!) and will go live (officially!) on November 11th, when the shop will be up and running and you can pre-order your goodies!!"

Pre-order on 11th November????

1. I Wanna Testify
2. Turn On The TV
3. My Country (Single Version)
4. Man On Fire (Extended Version)
5. I Cry For You (Single Remix)
6. Strange Frontier (Extended Remix)
7. I Cry For You (Extended Remix)
8. Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad)
9. Nazis 1994 (Radio MIx)
10. Nazis 1994 (Kick Mix)
11. Nazis 1994 (Schindlers Mix)
12. Nazis 1994 (Makita Mix Extended)
13. Nazis 1994 (Big Science Mix)
14. Foreign Sand (With Yoshiki) (Single Version)
15. Final Destination (With Yoshiki)
16. Everybody Hurts Sometimes (Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 1994)
17. Old Friends (Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 1994)

1. Pressure On (Single Version)
2. People On Streets (Mashed)
3. Tonight (Dub Sangria)
4. Keep A Knockin' (Man Utd CD Single)
5. Surrender (Radio Mix)
6. A Nation Of Haircuts (Club Cut)
7. London Town C'mon Down (Single Mix)
8. Surrender (Live At Cyber Barn)
9. No More Fun (Live At Cyberbarn)
10. Tonight (Live At Cyberbarn)
11. One Night Stand
12. Woman You're So Beautiful Felix & Arty (Main Mix)
13. Woman You're So Beautiful Felix & Arty (Mad Mix)
14. The Unblinking Eye - Everything Is Broken (Single Version)
15. The Unblinking Eye - Everything Is Broken (Almost Completely Nude Mix)
16. Dear Mr Murdoch (2011 Version)

1. Cowboys & Indians (7" Single Edit)
2. Love Lies Bleeding (She's a Wicked Wily Waitress) (Single Remix)
3. Feel The Force
4. Shove It (Extended Mix)
5. Shove It (Metropolix)
6. Shove It (Denniz Pop Remix)
7. Heaven For Everyone (Roger Taylor Vocal) (7" Version)
8. Heaven For Everyone (Freddie Mercury Vocal) (7" Version)
9. Manipulator (Extended Version)
10. Manipulator (Single Version)
11. Power To Love (Extended Version)
12. Power To Love (Single Version)
13. In Charge Of My Heart (Single Version)
14. Liar (12" Mix)
15. In Charge Of My Heart (Extended Version)
16. Liar (7" Version)

1. New Dark Ages (Single Version)
2. Ain't Put Nothin' Down (Long Version)
3. Man On Fire (Live)
4. Life Changes (Single Version)
5. Heartland
6. Celebration (Jam Studios Session)
7. I Can Take You Higher (Jam Studios Session)
8. I Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Jam Studios Session)
9. Passion For Trash (Jam Studios Session)
10. Top Of The World, Ma (Extended Remix)
11. Shove It (US Single Version)

Damn.

So it´s missing:
-I Want To Break Free (Live Sheeperds Bush 94)
-Ride The Wild Wind (Live Sheeperds Bush 94)

And later as common demos
-Keep On Running
-I Wanna Take You Higher ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbl1_SzMasM )

On 2nd CD of The Cross material we can see this:
7. I Can Take You Higher (Jam Studios Session)

Is this one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeDmYmQPJ90 I always though it was from Strange Frontier Sessions...

[QUOTE] [b]A Word In Your Ear wrote:[/b]
Agreed with Brian's Wig...I am Very Disappointed in what is included, could have included so much more, like "Keep On Running" & Even the "Reaction" Acetates...[/QUOTE]

not if the other Reaction members failed to agree. you can't force people

[QUOTE] [b]brENsKi wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]A Word In Your Ear wrote:[/b]
Agreed with Brian's Wig...I am Very Disappointed in what is included, could have included so much more, like "Keep On Running" & Even the "Reaction" Acetates...[/QUOTE]

not if the other Reaction members failed to agree. you can't force people

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Yes, But money talks, I would have thought that any old ex-member of a band that featured Roger Taylor & Knowing that the tracks are not really rare anymore & just a little look around the internet, people can download them for FREE!!!! I would think that any ex-member of "The Reaction" would jump on the band wagon & at least recoup a little money for their efforts of ages past...

so... where's "let's get drunk", "Rip it up" and other live material ?
and what about the "official bootlegs" ?
what about the "surrender"-acetate ?

so many questions. so less answers.

[QUOTE] [b]Pim Derks wrote:[/b]

1. I Wanna Testify
2. Turn On The TV
3. My Country (Single Version)
4. Man On Fire (Extended Version)
5. I Cry For You (Single Remix)
6. Strange Frontier (Extended Remix)
7. I Cry For You (Extended Remix)
8. Two Sharp Pencils (Get Bad)
9. Nazis 1994 (Radio MIx)
10. Nazis 1994 (Kick Mix)
11. Nazis 1994 (Schindlers Mix)
12. Nazis 1994 (Makita Mix Extended)
13. Nazis 1994 (Big Science Mix)
14. Foreign Sand (With Yoshiki) (Single Version)
15. Final Destination (With Yoshiki)
16. Everybody Hurts Sometimes (Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 1994)
17. Old Friends (Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 1994)

1. Pressure On (Single Version)
2. People On Streets (Mashed)
3. Tonight (Dub Sangria)
4. Keep A Knockin' (Man Utd CD Single)
5. Surrender (Radio Mix)
6. A Nation Of Haircuts (Club Cut)
7. London Town C'mon Down (Single Mix)
8. Surrender (Live At Cyber Barn)
9. No More Fun (Live At Cyberbarn)
10. Tonight (Live At Cyberbarn)
11. One Night Stand
12. Woman You're So Beautiful Felix & Arty (Main Mix)
13. Woman You're So Beautiful Felix & Arty (Mad Mix)
14. The Unblinking Eye - Everything Is Broken (Single Version)
15. The Unblinking Eye - Everything Is Broken (Almost Completely Nude Mix)
16. Dear Mr Murdoch (2011 Version)

1. Cowboys & Indians (7" Single Edit)
2. Love Lies Bleeding (She's a Wicked Wily Waitress) (Single Remix)
3. Feel The Force
4. Shove It (Extended Mix)
5. Shove It (Metropolix)
6. Shove It (Denniz Pop Remix)
7. Heaven For Everyone (Roger Taylor Vocal) (7" Version)
8. Heaven For Everyone (Freddie Mercury Vocal) (7" Version)
9. Manipulator (Extended Version)
10. Manipulator (Single Version)
11. Power To Love (Extended Version)
12. Power To Love (Single Version)
13. In Charge Of My Heart (Single Version)
14. Liar (12" Mix)
15. In Charge Of My Heart (Extended Version)
16. Liar (7" Version)

1. New Dark Ages (Single Version)
2. Ain't Put Nothin' Down (Long Version)
3. Man On Fire (Live)
4. Life Changes (Single Version)
5. Heartland
6. Celebration (Jam Studios Session)
7. I Can Take You Higher (Jam Studios Session)
8. I Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Jam Studios Session)
9. Passion For Trash (Jam Studios Session)
10. Top Of The World, Ma (Extended Remix)
11. Shove It (US Single Version)

Damn.[/QUOTE]



Although some stuff is still missing, I think these are better than nothing.. ;)

THUMBS UP:
Non-album tracks in high quality:
- Testify era
- Fun In Space era
- Strange Frontier era
- Manipulator
- In Charge Of My Heart

Bootlegged but now in high quality (I hope):
- Celebration
- Can't Get You Out Of My Head

Full version of a previously available song only as a 40 sec excerpt:
- I Can Take You Higher

DON'T HURT BUT DON'T BLOW MY MIND EITHER:
- Top Of The World (Extended)
- Passion For Trash (Josh on vocals)

THUMBS DOWN:
- No Keep On Running
- No I Wanna Take You Higher
- No Lucille
- No Olympic Theme (I honestly don't care)
- No A Nation Of Haircuts (Number 4 All Over)
- No RT unreleased songs or demos
- No RT work-in-progress versions
- Heaven For Everyone (Freddie) twice?

HONORABLE MENTIONS:
- What is "Shove It" (US edit) doing at the end of TC Singles disc 2?
- While the site was active, the handwritten lyrics book included a song called "Over My Dead Body"

Overall I am happy with this release, but it has anything absolutely unknown to all of us.

Just my two cents.

(double post)

Where are the extra 2 tracks on Fun On Earth???, its has 13 tracks as stand-alone edition

but i don't read anywhere it has been remastered....wasn't it all remastered?? if not, the original disc sound is poor !!

So it seems this is almost Freddie Solo Collection level of greatness, except for the unreleased material part but I never thought this would include much unreleased material.
This is supposed to be Roger's full body of RELEASED work, isn't it? Not a Beatles Anthology type of thing with a bunch of demos.

Complains about this release show that there's no way to please everybody. Olympic theme? WTF?! Next we'll have someone complaining we don't have all 18 "Interlude in Constantinople" takes. Geez!

Just try to get a hold of all these song versions on physical format and I'm sure you will spend much more than the current retail price for "The Lot". I guess we've been spoiled by convention recordings and downloads.