25. Remastered, Remixed, Re-Recorded And New - Evolution
In early June 2011 SPV announced that the “Best of SPV-years”-album would already be out in November of the same year! The album was to contain re-recordings of tracks from the albums between “Breath Of Life” and “The Visitation” as well as two entirely new tracks. The band had already started working on recording the new instrumental and vocal parts. Tony stated that Olly Hahn of SPV had first come up with this idea, which had not found much of a response in the early stages. But the more Bob and Tony thought about it the more interested they became until the album was agreed upon. The recordings were mostly done in July.
The album was published on 11.11. 2011 (!), three days later in the UK. The tracklist of this compilation sounded very interesting: “That Holy Touch” (with re-recorded drums, bass,guitar & some vocals), “Just Like January” (with re-recorded drums, bass & guitar), “Brand New Morning”, (with re-recorded bass, guitar & some vocals), “Immigrant Son” (with re-recorded bass & guitar), “When We Were Younger” (with re-recorded drums, bass, guitar & some vocals), “Out Of The Shadows” (with re-recorded drums, bass, guitar), “All My Bridges” (with re-recorded bass & drums), Blood On Your Barbed wire thorns (with re-recorded bass) “The Visitation”, “Wild Angels” and two new tracks: “The Fall” and “Do You Know Who You Are”.
Only “The Visitation” and “Wild Angels” remained unchanged. Al described the two new songs as “very commercial”, which they were indeed – the fans loved them!
The first 9000 copies were sold out within a week so that SPV produced a second issue in a standard jewel case. The cover, designed by Al Barrow was mainly black with the MAGNUM-logo in the same lettering as on “The Visitation”. It showed a big “E” in an impressive-amulet-like frame, flanked by two-headed snakes.
In October it was announced that Magnum would get to have their names immortalised at the Civic Hall on the 30th Nov just hours before the Robin 2 Show along with Noddy Holder, Glen Hughes, John Bonham, Dave Hill & Jim Lea of Slade whose names were already engraved on the wall of
fame. Tony Clarkin, Bob Catley, Mark Stanway & Al Barrow, all attended the Civic to see the unveiling. In November and December there was a short UK tour with this setlist: “Back To Earth”/ “When We Were Younger”/ “Wild Angels”/ “Brand New Morning”/ “How Far Jerusalem”/ “Spin Like A Wheel”/ “The Fall”/ “Freedom Day”/ “Les Morts Dansant”/ “Black Skies”/”All My Bridges”/ “All England’s Eyes”/ “Vigilante” and as encores “Kingdom Of Madness” and “On A Storyteller’s Night”. Especially the new song “The Fall” was welcomed in the set and obviously the “Evolution”-tracks were rendered in their re-vamped versions.
Kommentar schreiben
Fred (Mittwoch, 01 Februar 2012 21:22)
Amazing site!
Lin O'Connor (Montag, 01 Oktober 2012 16:23)
Was the Archive album available on vinyl? If not is the cd quite rare cant find it anywhere!
Jordi Joan (Sonntag, 14 Oktober 2012 21:01)
my tribut to magnum, from catalonia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWtBkqx7bhM&list=UUPHUosYb-b3D6LsGuMsuscQ&index=6&feature=plcp
Chris Beddall (Sonntag, 29 Juni 2014 17:10)
Excellent info, really well done mate!
Birgit (Montag, 23 März 2015 15:54)
This is a great site. Thanks so much for putting all those facts together. Just a wee amendment on the double headliner shows: At least in Munich they played all three songs which you marked as dropped for double headline purposes... :-)
Kevol (Dienstag, 08 März 2016 00:54)
Just want to say thank you for this site. It's amazing. Spent there more than hour already :)
Gospel Pianos Sydney (Mittwoch, 20 September 2017 23:23)
Nice blog and absolutely outstanding. You can do something much better but i still say this perfect.Keep trying for the best.
AustrianMagnumFan (Montag, 05 Februar 2018 10:47)
Hi there,thank you for this wonderful Page.. is it possible to put this informations together to One .Pdf maybe to read it offline ? Regards
Dave Millward (Montag, 05 März 2018 10:00)
I saw the band on the last date in Wolverhampton on their darewell tour in 1995. Was there a concert programme for the gig?
William (Freitag, 30 März 2018 18:19)
One small error - KTNLB does count as a studio album, and LOTRTE is album #20 counting KTNLB (if skipping it, it's album #19). Otherwise great article!