I recently got the Permanent Waves 40th Anniversary box set from Amazon ($125 after tax) and I opened it up last night. What a nice set it is, and the vinyl-sized artbook is a nice touch. I love all the new graphics and art for each song. I haven't had time to read the essays and liner notes in the book, but I look forward to it.
I really love that set as well, Marc. I got it "damaged" from Amazon a while back for 100 bucks, and nothing was damaged much. Just a nicked corner of the package. Love all of it. Really a nice job.
I haven't plunked down the cash for Signals. 212 seems a bit pricey to me, and my level of fandom, for what I get with it. I love live material. I don't really play 7" vinyl, nor Blu-Ray Audio, honestly. Once in a while, sure. Maybe I should more. But we'll see. I'll see fi the price comes down a chunk and consider it.
Any of you Rush fanatics have a take on what Rush may (or may not) do for Grace Under Pressure? I absolutely adore that album. I have the original vinyl and CD, but hoping for a big anniversary release on that one.
For $125, mine wasn't in too bad of a shape either. The soft cardboard envelope for the extras had a side that was bent a bit, and the gatefold for the live vinyl also had a bit of a bend in the spine, but other than that, the set was pretty immaculate, so I'm pretty happy with it!
Yeah, as I've stated elsewhere, that Signals box set is pretty MEH for me in terms of extras. If I ever see it go for $100 or less, I might hop on it, but for it's current price... pass.
As for GUP, I would hope that they can un-earth the complete September 21st, 1984 show from Toronto, parts of which were used for the GUP Tour live concert video. Has there ever been any evidence to suggest that the band don't have the whole audio somewhere? Maybe they took what they needed from the show and then discarded the rest after they mixed the final show, but that would be really dumb and weird for them. If the GUP Anniversary set DOES happen, and that Toronto show is included IN FULL, it'll be an instant buy. My personal GUP Tour live set is cobbled together from that Toronto show, the Largo, MD soundboard, and bits of the Milwaukee show (for "Afterimage" and "Red Lenses/Drum Solo"). It would be nice to get a whole complete show of that great tour like we did for the Moving Pictures set.
After GUP, though, I'm not sure if they'll do any more anniversary sets, though I would kill for a Power Windows set with a complete show from that tour as well. For HYF, I'm sure they've got the whole Birmingham show tucked away somewhere as well. After that, I'm good, because there are quite a few really good soundboard/FM broadcast shows from the Presto-RTB-CP-TFE tours that those bootlegs are quite suitable for my personal listening pleasure. I just want to fill in the gaps from their 80s shows and I'll be good!
-Marc.