Thanks for that!
In other news, the final MC5 album (Wayne & numerous guests, including two tracks with Dennis Thompson) is still coming according to producer Bob Ezrin
https://www.loudersound.com/news/mc5-album-update-bob-ezrin
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:02 (two months ago) link
It's too bad there wasn't a CD companion to that vinyl set, with each album augmented with bonus material, or at least spiffing up Babes In Arms as a 4th disc.
I don't think there is any (unreleased) bonus material. When Rhino looked into a releasing a 50th anniversary KOTJ, it seems that all the original Grande Ballroom tapes are lost - all that's available is the final two-track master and a folded down mono master. All of the masters from the two Atlantic albums were lost when the Atlantic tape warehouse burned up in the 1978 Long Branch fire :(
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 February 2024 01:49 (two months ago) link
Good to know. So pretty much the best they could have done was remaster the three albums, clean up the Babes In Arms stuff as best they could*, and add in "Thunder Express".
*Does anyone know how/where those Atlantic-era alternates on it were sourced from?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 10 February 2024 02:44 (two months ago) link
Fresh Air replayed the 2002 interview w Wayne (28 minutes---can also read, download, as well as stream)https://www.npr.org/2024/02/09/1230071788/remembering-guitarist-wayne-kramer-founder-of-the-mc5
― dow, Saturday, 10 February 2024 03:26 (two months ago) link