> From: Jim McLean
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> I was their road manager in 1967 when they first became 'famous' and the line up was that which was featured on the live at the Albert Hall album for which I wrote the sleeve notes/poems.

Thanks for your contribution, Jim. For an enthusiast such as myself, it's an honour to hear from someone so closely involved.

Although I've now digitised my vinyl copies of "Live At The Royal Albert Hall" and "Finnegan Wakes"*, the main reason that I kept them and did so was because - certainly at the time I investigated this and AFAIAA since - neither was ever released on CD. They're both great albums and I was originally really gutted to discover this.

Do you happen to know if I'm correct about this? Or were they released as CDs? If so, do you have any details?

* I'm glad to say that I've managed to make a pretty good job of the digitisation. Most of the 150 - 160 or so vinyls I still had came out as 'almost new' condition, only a few being so badly scratched as to be almost not worth the effort (though I perservered even with these) - by 'almost new' I mean that there may be one or two scratches of course, but very few are so serious as to not be removable by software editing of the resulting wave file, when I have time. In the meantime, it's really great just to be able to listen to them all again without fear of their condition degrading further:
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