Monkees Headquarters Sessions 3 CD BOX SET Rare SEALED Rhino Handmade 2000 NOT reissue Beautiful SEALED Start Price USD 299.99 Current Price USD 299.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Thursday, September 04, 2008 End Time Thursday, September 11, 2008 Location Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio See more about 'Monkees Headquarters Sessions 3 CD BOX SET Rare SEALED' Description This is the 3 CD Rhino Handmade Monkees Box "Headquarters Sessions"  VERY limited only 4,500 released worldwide, now long out of print.  This is sealed, beautiful, new, stored safely away since it's release in 2003.  This is number 4475.   Box Contains:  3 CDS (84 Tracks) 60 Previously Unreleased 3-CD Set 40-Page Booklet Overseas must pay approx. 12.99 insurance depending on your location, write for details.   Below is the information we found on the internet about the release/recording of this very rare Monkees collection... An individually numbered, limited edition of 4,500 copies from Rhino Handmade. From the group’s pre-fab inception, The Monkees’ albums were the brainchild music industry veteran Don Kirshner. The Monkees started out being actors playing the parts of musicians singing songs written by and selected for them by others. They supplied the singing voices to music performed by session players.    In 1967, this changed. After a series of creative tug-of-wars, Kirshner was out of the picture and Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz were -for the first time ever- given creative control over the making of a Monkees album. They now found themselves at RCA Studio C in Hollywood as a working band, just as they had always been on the small screen. And the album they were about to create, Headquarters, would be released on May 20, 1967; a month later it would hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and remain in the Top Ten for almost three months.   The Monkees Headquarters Sessions is an 84-track 3-CD set which contains 60 previously unreleased recordings and which also includes the complete original mono mixes of the album on compact disc for the first time anywhere. Researched and compiled by longtime Monkee maniacs Andrew Sandoval and Bill Inglot, Headquarters Sessions collects almost four hours of unique audio insight into the recording of this Monkee milestone. It includes almost three-and-one-half-hours of alternate takes, demos, backing tracks, and recording session audio hijinx never before preserved on compact disc.   We’ve combed through all of the known surviving Headquarters session reels -both complete and intermediate mixes- to assemble a strikingly cohesive peek into The Monkees’ inner workings as a finally unencumbered creative entity and as the genuine -if sometimes still learning- musicians that they were. To this end, Headquarters Sessions includes only recordings from those sessions where the band had control over all aspects of the recording process and where they played most, if not all, of the instruments. The 3-CD set collects all of the vocal masters from these sessions that were not included on the original stereo album as well as all of the surviving vocal demos and a few tracks with vocals which were never completed.   However, the beefy middle of this tasty digital triple-decker is the collection of previously unreleased instrumental backing track sessions (both for familiar and previously unknown compositions), rehearsals, spoken word oddities, and studio chatter. And to top it all off, the original mono masters are presented in an initially proposed, but ultimately unused, running order. All contained in a gatefold digipack with a 40-page booklet filled with photographs, a contemporaneous day-to-day chronology, track notes as well as interesting ephemera. Headquarters Sessions is sure to make you a believer.   Headquarters Sessions is available as an individually numbered limited edition of 4,500 copies.       Powered by eBay Turbo Lister Place a Bid!