The box set marks the first time the band — Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, drummer Clem Burke, bassist Leigh Foxx, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen — authorized a collection and …
NEW YORK For decades, a New Wave treasure trove sat in a converted barn. For fans of the band Blondie, it was the equivalent of the Ark of the Covenant tucked away in a rickety storage space.
What has emerged is the comprehensive, 17-pound box set “Blondie: Against the Odds, 1974-1982,” with 124 tracks and 36 previously unissued recordings, demos, outtakes and remixed versions of Blondie’s initial six studio albums. There’s also an illustrated discography and a 144-page commentary by all seven original band members.
The tapes and tubs were stored in guitarist Chris Stein’s converted barn but locating them was only part of the journey. They were waterlogged from a flood and were infested with mold. They’d endured years of blazing heat and freezing cold. And then there were the unauthorized fans — rats and mice who had made the material their homes.
“The real joyous moments of making this thing was discovering things that nobody had ever heard,” said Shipley. “The most revealing things to me are always when you’re hearing that DNA of a song coming together.” It was that eclecticism that Shipley rediscovered while revisiting Blondie’s six studio albums recorded for Chrysalis — “Blondie,” “Plastic Letters,” “Parallel Lines,” “Eat to the Beat,” “Autoamerican” and “The Hunter.”
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