Band Releasing Cds Of Live Performances

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In response to fan demand, the Dave Matthews Band is starting a series of live concert releases. The first two-CD set, which captures the group’s Aug. 15, 1995, show at Red Rocks, near Denver, will come out Oct. 28 on RCA.

Another set, taken from a 1993 show at Richmond, Va., club the Flood Zone, will likely follow in January. Price for the double set is $19.98.

“We wanted to go back to the shows we’ve taped and find the ones we like the most, the ones that were special nights, and not take out any of the flaws or the doozy notes and just put them out as real as they came to us,” says Matthews.

The band, which built its reputation on its stellar live show, will continue to permit audio taping by fans at all its shows.

“I don’t ever want to ask people to stop taping the shows and trading tapes among their friends; that would be biting the hand that feeds us,” says Matthews. A third studio album from the Dave Matthews Band is expected in April.

AC/DC boxed set

Elektra Records will release an AC/DC boxed set, “Bonfire,” in tribute to the group’s original lead vocalist, Bon Scott.

The four-disc set will include songs from the Scott era never available on CD, including live studio recordings, audio from the “Let There Be Rock” video, B-sides and early TV performances.

The box will also feature the entire original studio recording of “Back in Black,” the first album to feature vocalist Brian Johnson, also recorded as a tribute to Scott after his death in 1980.