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[mama]

Will the Four Seasons tracks ever get put onto a remaster album with bonus tracks or an Odds and Ends from 2000-2010 kind of thing? I'd like to get the boxset but it's always too expensive for me. Maybe a Tapes From The Crypt vol. 2 is long overdue?

[jefflewis]

I've definitely been wanting to do a Tapes From the Crypt volume 2, especially since my method of making songs from the past few years has been to write a lot of songs then only keep the ones I think are the best... so there's a bunch of extra stuff that I could use for a collection of demos or something... similar to the material on the Message Board "secret album", there's a bunch more like that, songs that weren't used for the Manhattan album or for the new album (which is now finished, I just need to do the art work).
For the Four Seasons material I feel like the box set was always so expensive, even when it first came out, that the people who bought it deserve to have the exclusivity of knowing that they didn't spend their money in vain for something they could have gotten cheaper in another form, you know? Actually it's only such a small amount of songs on there, maybe 4 songs? And I think most of them are already available in different recorded versions somewhere else?
Another thing I'd like to do is sort of a "comics from the crypt" collection, there are many, many short (and not so short) comic book stories and pages and strips that are in my sketchbooks or in old magazines or zines or other projects, I could probably make a collection of 100+ pages of comix that most people would not have seen, but as usual it's just one of those projects that I'd like to do but I never make the time! Too many other things to do! But some day...