Tales From The Vault (album)

This was meant to be a crowd sourced project where Allan would pull stuff from his vault, plus finish some unfinished recordings. What we ended up with, was one new track written by Virgil Donati, a lot of alternate mixes and lead vocal takes from “Road Games”, two new SynthAxe numbers, an early version of “Abingdon Chasp”, and a recovered IOU recording of “Water On The Brain”.

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ACCESSPASS UPDATE 02 MARCH, 2015

Many thanks!!

Hey gang it’s Allan. Just taking a minute to say thanks to all of you for supporting this new idea I’ve had for ways to release some new tracks and merch with the Pledge folks. So far so good! Thanks to you. I am really humbled by your support and the incredible response so far.

Just to clarify since there have been some questions as to what people are receiving as the first “downloads”, I originally recorded the basic tracks for two albums’ worth of material over the last 10 years or so with different trios. One with Joel Taylor and Ernest Tibbs (the one and only recorded version of this amazing trio) and the other with one of favorite trios Gary Husband and Jimmy Johnson. All new music.

Due to record industry changes and some personal stuff I went through, I never completely finished them and so never released them. Some of you may know that the original title for one of these albums was “Snakes and Ladders”. “Snakes and Ladders” in now part of these tracks. None of this music has been fully mixed, edited and mastered until now. Your pledges allow me to finish these tracks, add some new solos, edit/tweak the tracks, mix and master them and then have an outlet that bypasses the traditional way I have released albums over the years.

As I finish each track(s) in the coming months, I will be releasing one or two each month over the next 6 months for download in high res formats. Towards the end of 2015 I hope to release ALL of the tracks from both unreleased albums in special cd and vinyl sets available only through Pledge. Each will have technical notes from me, rare pictures from my career, liner notes written by me, audiophile sound, amazing packaging and some other very cool surprises.

Thanks to all of you for all the support! As I move through this process I will posting video of the final recording processes, answer questions and give you general updates over the coming months.

My thanks to the Pledge folks, Benji, Michelle, and Leigh, Leonardo “Nardini” Pavkovic of MoonJune Music and John McCracken from JMG for all their help in this. Also, Mark Kiesel and Jeff Kiesel at Carvin Guitars, Chris Van Tassell at Rockett Pedals, and Lorenza Coco at LaBella Strings. I feel this is the way of the future for many musicians and I’m excited to be part of it.

Look for the first tracks coming very soon. I am very proud of this music and as always, the contributions of Joel, Ernest, Gary and Jimmy are truly brilliant. I can’t wait for you to hear it!

Later this week I will be posting a video update from Carvin Guitars.

Cheers, Allan