The Savages - Live n Wild vinyl reissue

jujuman77

Pharaoh Class
Joined
Nov 28, 2014
Hi,

Can anyone comment on the Savages vinyl reissue - is this a legit reissue or a bootleg? I believe the label is Twitchin Beat. Not much info on this label....
 
I'd like to know on this one as well as i was looking at pre-ordering vs. waiting. Never heard of this label either. Hoping it's like Break-A-Way releases in terms of quality.
 
I think it must be a bootleg, and almost certainly not from the original master.

De Mello is dead now, he was always uncooperative and so was his family after he had passed. Also I believe he had reissued it on CD back in the '90s, taken from a very scratched vinyl copy. So I wonder if he even had the original tape.

Some of the band were willing to help with a reissue, but two different Spanish labels tried and ran into difficulties of some sort, and then I was contacted by someone from Merlin's Nose Records label in Germany who was also trying.

I don't know who runs the Twitchin' Beat label, they only have 3 releases. I see Bev Welsh is thanked on the back cover, he was their manager, so maybe he gave his blessing to it.