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I have finally collated the feedback and mail Ken, awaiting a reply.

See below for the e-mail:

How did the meeting with Lindsey go? Hopefully you got the green light from him?

I did manage to get some feedback about what the fanbase would like to see on these DVD-A releases and I have been told that this has been sent to Robin at Rhino.

The feedback was as follows:

As for my DVD-A extras requests, all I can really say (without knowing specific titles in the WB vaults that have not been released) is any songs that have not been released I'd like to see released, regardless how inferior they may deemed by Ken (or whoever) to be. I'd like to think Ken and co. would give us enough credit to know that we would still respect the band (& it's members) even after hearing "bad" tracks as we are smart enough to know that such recordings were never meant to be released etc. but whatever, I hope all those concerned see it that way.
Although fairly interesting, I'd rather hear different VERSIONS of songs as opposed to different MIXES of songs (as extras that is of course) on the DVD-A's but he did such a good job with the Rumours one that I'm sure I'll enjoy whatever it is that he'd put out even if they were to have no bonus material. I do agree with him though that I like to hear the tracks without vocals etc. and such like what I said at the message board about "playing with the mix" but I do realize that the kind of technology that is required for a user to be able to do that is not available to the general public yet so that dream can wait for now.

"Interesting" is an understatement - I have one word for you.. Karaoke!

haha, that is exactly what I was thinking. But also can you imagine being able to hear 'Tusk'(album) with just the music, how incredible that must sound and in 5.1 sound! Being able to hear every crazy thing Lindsey put on that album.

Too bad dvd-audio isn't like regular dvds where you can change audio channels, that way we could have both, but dvd-audios can't do that... Well I don't think, but almost sure....

I know I'd like to have some of the TUSK outtakes including: Beauty and the Beast (blues version), Smile at You (Tusk outtake), The Dealer.

In my opinion... I would really enjoy the 5.1 mix without lead vocals, that would be excellent. I don't really care so much about the interviews, they are interesting, but I rather just have the 5.1 mic minus vocals.

I agree with the above, I don't care about interviews either, I wish that a DVD-A would let us "play with the mix" like how Ken (& Lindsey) did with Rumours on the "making of Rumours" DVD though unfortunately I don't think this is possible (as I asked him about this at his Q & A here). Hopefully we can get some kind of reasonable facsimile of that though with these.

I loved the interviews on the Rumours DVD-Audio, so I'd love to have them on these new DVD-Audios, too. However, considering that these DVDs are apparently not a priority with the band, who knows when they would get done and when these DVDs would finally be released? But, the 5.1 mix without the vocals would be very interesting, too.

I loved the interviews on the Rumours DVD-A, so it would be cool if they could get them for the next two. And non-vocal mixes would kick a$$! It sounds like Lindsey is into the projects, if he's in contact with Ken C. about them, and I've read interviews with Mick where he raves about DVD-A, so I'm guessing the people from whom they're having a hard time getting input are Stevie and Christine. And in fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just Christine who they can't get to cooperate on these. She is living a very "private life" now in England, and doesn't really seem to want to have anything to do with the band anymore. We'll see. At any rate, I can't wait for these to come out, along with the expanded CD's. Just more FM stuff on which to blow my $!

I would love to hear the jams and the slow version of ISA, basically any unheard alt mixes, or outtakes from the sessions would be excellent. It would also be good to have new interviews with the band members, as we all know everything about the Rumours sessions and recording process, it would be good to hear the band's take on the Tusk and White Album sessions in retrospect.

Well Ken, as you can see we have the fanbase talking, I hope this feedback can help you in anyway to get the rare material on these releases.