You are probably right, which is a shame because what I think what we need right now is for a really high profile act (like The Eagles) to embrace a set like this. Chicago & The Doobies were big back in the day, but unfortunately their back catalogs don't continue to sell as well as The Eagles catalog does. What's worse with The Eagles is (assuming that the rumored 4.0 mixes of the first 2 LPs actually exist) that their entire classic era catalog has already been mixed into 4.0 or 5.1. A few year back they released the box below on both vinyl & CD:
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Why couldn't they release it again on blu-ray with the 4.0 mixes of the first four albums and the 5.1 mixes of the other two?
The flip-side of the coin here is that the Chicago box not only sold well enough to warrant a second production run, it sold well enough for Rhino to consider releasing a similar set for another artist. A Doobies set could conceivably outsell a Chicago set simply because it would probably have a lower price tag as it will require fewer discs (unless we get a major surprise and find out that there are unreleased 4.0 mixes of the first album,
Takin' it to the Streets &
Livin' On the Fault Line sitting in the vaults. Unlikely, I know, but I can dream!) If the Doobies set sells well also, maybe then WB can approach Henley. With boxes from Chicago and The Doobies showing that it is a successful business model, perhaps Henley would then be persuaded.
(I hope all of the above made sense. I am recovering from spine surgery. This Oxycodone is powerful stuff, LOL.)