Collections & Recordings
Private Stash By Mission Mountain Wood Band
Private Stash is one of the most ambitious Mission Mountain Wood Band collections, gathering music and visual material into a package designed to tell a broader story than a conventional album.
A Five-CD Collection With Video And Print
Discogs documents Private Stash as a 2006 box set containing five CDs and a DVD. The band’s historical music page also organized the recordings into five volumes covering different locations and periods.
That format fits M2WB particularly well. The group spent much of its prime as a touring act, so a multi-volume collection can reveal more than a single studio album about how the musicians sounded in changing environments.
The Five Volumes
Volume I, Live From the Big Apple 1978, and Volume II, More Bytes from the Big Apple 1978, place listeners in the New York-centered period. Volume III, Other Side of the Mountain 1978–1979, continues the late-1970s story. Volume IV reaches back to 1972–1973, while Volume V, Making Tracks 1976–1978, gathers material from another important stretch of the road years.
Together, the volumes make it possible to hear changes in repertoire, performance style and recording conditions while the core M2WB identity remains recognizable.
More Than Audio
The collection also included documentary video and a book component. Those elements matter because Mission Mountain Wood Band history is unusually visual: the tour bus, outdoor festivals, stage photographs, posters and Montana settings are all part of how the band is remembered.
The site retains dedicated pages for the Private Stash release story, reviews and reception and the book component.
Why Private Stash Matters
For listeners who know only the studio albums, Private Stash provides context. It emphasizes that M2WB’s strongest reputation was earned through performance, travel and the chemistry that developed from playing together constantly.
It also gives earlier recordings a second life by organizing them into a coherent collection rather than leaving them scattered across tapes and memories.
A Hub For The Band’s Recorded History
This page serves as the central guide to the collection while the original supporting pages continue to cover its individual pieces. From here, explore the band’s broader music and discography or move into the visual side through the photo page and video page.
Using Private Stash As A Research Starting Point
The collection is valuable because its five volumes point toward specific eras that can be explored further through the site. The New York material connects with the intensive touring years, the early-1970s recordings connect with the original lineup, and the accompanying book and video components lead naturally toward the photo and performance pages.
That structure makes Private Stash one of the best hubs for understanding the band beyond a conventional album-by-album chronology. It emphasizes places, years and live context, which are exactly the elements that made M2WB’s story distinctive.
