Mott The Hoople - Rest In Peace bootleg - Santa Monica, April 12, 1974

Mott The Hoople
"Rest In Peace" bootleg

recorded at:
Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
Santa Monica, CA

April 12, 1974

01 Jupiter Intro
02 American Pie
03 The Golden Age Of Rock And Roll
04 Sucker
05 Mott The Hoople - Roll Away The Stone
06 Mott The Hoople - Rest In Peace
07 Mott The Hoople - Here Comes The Queen
08 Mott The Hoople - One Of The Boys
09 Mott The Hoople - Born Late 58
10 Mott The Hoople - Hymn For The Dudes
11 Mott The Hoople - Marionette
12 Mott The Hoople - Drivin' Sister
13 Mott The Hoople - Crash Street Kids
14 Mott The Hoople - Violence
15 Mott The Hoople - All The Way From Memphis
16 Mott The Hoople - Walking With A Mountain

Back on July 20th, our pal XRay posted a classic Roxy Music bootleg, "Foolproof - The 1975 Tour Of The United States."

My niche here at the VW has been radio shows that I digitize, but I was like, INSPIRED, man, and thought, "Hey, maybe I oughta do one of those, too!"

This is a classic bootleg I downloaded off the Internet several years back.

As a lot of you may have this already, I wanted to do something to upgrade the package.

I declicked the files.  I did not "remaster" the recording; I just cleaned up the surface noise.
I added newspaper clippings, including five original print ads, press coverage in advance of the concert, and Robert Hilburn's review of the show.

There are several circulating versions listing the date as April 13.

As you can see from the newspaper ads, there was no show on the 13th.  Due to "heavy demand" a second show was added.  The first show was scheduled to start at 8:00 P.M. on April 12, and the second show at 11:30 P.M. "the same day."

It is possible that the second show started after midnight which would make it the 13th, but the show itself was unquestionably scheduled to start before midnight on April 12th.

Several sources say this was from an FM broadcast.  I have found no evidence this was broadcast on an FM station. There are no station identifications during the broadcast, no disk jockeys before or after the show.  Yes, the bootleggers might have edited them out.

While there weren't a lot of cassette recorders or reel-to-reel decks in 1974, in the Los Angeles area I think there would be multiple sources for an FM broadcast of Mott the Hoople.  Glam was a big deal in Los Angeles.  All the versions I've heard seem to be from the same source.  Yes, absence of a second source doesn't prove this was not broadcast.

Concerts were being broadcast in the Los Angeles market.  KLOS-FM was simulcasting ABC's "IN CONCERT" television show.  So there might have been a broadcast.  I just couldn't find any sort of confirmation, or uncover which station was the source.

Thank to reader Derek, who pointed out the rip I downloaded was missing the track "All The Young Dudes," which, however, was not recorded at Santa Monica but sourced from a 1972 recording in Philadelphia.

https://mega.nz/file/qRAGxDKK#JPRodU5R4esgYxg0P7Uj04Bh6uOc1gSd31eDvq1zjlk

Graham Parker / The Roxy, West Hollywood Apr. 14, 1979 "Local Girls" bootleg

Graham Parker & the Rumour
The Roxy, West Hollywood, CA ("Los Angeles")
Local Girls (The Impossible Recordworks IMP 1-102)
April 14, 1979

originally broadcast on KMET-FM

01 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Discovering Japan
02 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Local Girls
03 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Thunder And Rain
04 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Don't Get Excited
05 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Passion Is No Ordinary Word
06 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Protection
07 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Mercury Poisoning
08 Graham Parker & the Rumour - You Can't Be Too Strong
09 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Watch The Moon Come Down
10 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Tear Your Playhouse Down
11 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Don't Ask Me Questions
12 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Nobody Hurts You
13 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Soul Shoes
bonus cuts that were on the tape:
14 Graham Parker & the Rumour - Mercury Poisoning
15 Graham Parker & the Rumour - The Bleep

I taped this off a copy of the Local Girls bootleg, and it sounds MAGNIFICENT. Lots of those 1970s bootlegs were terrible but this is the sort of thing we used to cross our fingers and pray for when we bought a boot: a decent pressing, sourced from a radio broadcast, with a full dynamic range...and a fabulous performance from a band that is ON FIRE and an impassioned, committed singer.

As I used to fill in the ends of tapes with related rarities, this one comes with the original version of Mercury Poisoning, which was rare at the time, and the "for completists only" b-side "The Bleep."  It's the song "The Raid," with bleeps.  And yes, they actually named it "The Bleep."

Unfortunately, we have to make do with low resolution scans from Discogs.  I did find the original print ad and a review of the show from the Los Angeles Times.  Also...as a reminder of how we used to do it back in the olden days, I found a classified ad from a guy looking for a tape of the original broadcast.

I'd love to get my hands on that, too....bootlegs cut out all the disk jockey chatter.  We didn't value it at the time, but that stuff is priceless these days. 

https://mega.nz/file/WRBHjS7Y#kr2H_vlFoIoQRI8q9AoRKG-2vMYqLrW1si3qxDJXqYI

Gang Of Four - 'Gang Bang' Live 1980

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted December 16, 2009

Gang Of Four - 'Gang Bang' Live 1980
Unknown Venue, Unknown Date
Vinyl Rip @192
 
 

Track List:

 
1-in the ditch
2-return the gift
3-not great men
4-anthrax
5-it's her factory
6-if i could keep it for myself
7-damaged goods
8-outside the trains don't run on time
9-at home he feels like a tourist
10-natural's not in it
11-he'd send in the army
12-ether
13-armalite rifle

pass - fbsvw

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Erasure / The Dome, Brighton, U.K. counterfeit BBC In Concert LP

Erasure
The Dome, Brighton, England
1987

Matrix / Runout (A-side label): 158207-1
Matrix / Runout (B-side label): 158208-2

01. BBC Intro - Richard Skinner
02. Victim of Love
03. It Doesn't Have To Be
04. Don't Dance
05. Who Needs Love (Like That)
06. Leave Me To Bleed
07. Oh, L'Amour
08. The Circus
09. Say What
10. If I Could
11. Sometimes
12. Spiralling
13. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
14. Push Me Shove Me

This is the bootleg version of BBC In Concert #410.
The record label is black ink, instead of the green and black of the real record.

According to Discogs, the true matrix numbers end in -S instead of -1 and -2.

The sound quality is great on the main songs, but a little bit scratchy on the quiet parts between the songs.  You're not likely to notice it if played on a stereo, but you'll hear it on headphones.

As usual, flac files of wavs.  No cue sheet.  300 dpi scan of the disc labels.

The music?  Oh, yeah, I forgot.  Bouncy 80s synthpop by Vince Clarke (formerly of Yazoo and Depeche Mode) and singer Andy Bell.  Great stuff!  I'm not sure which one of 'em is doing the announcing between the songs, but they remind me of Ruby Rhod from The Fifth Element. "Oh, L'Amour" is my favorite track here!

https://mega.nz/#!PdYVmYJa!3q6cDVVQr2eBagNlZJCqYOqQraKAr2oDBPkSreLdaBM

The Beatles The Silver Album

My brother collects Elvis records and he knows I collect Beatle records.  So on one of our recent exchanges he got "Paradise Hawaiian Style, Frankie And Johnny, Time Life Presents Elvis Country, Elvis' Golden Records Volume Three Elvis' Golden Records Volume Two."  I got this. It's called "The Silver Album."  The first cover (pictured above) is what my copy looks like. Now for all those Beatle fans that have committed every note, burp, and fart the group ever made to memory, maybe someone can tell me how much of this is on the "Get Back" series. I'm figuring all of the cuts here appear on some bootleg or another. BUT WHO KNOWS.......maybe there is something on here the public has never heard before. As the trailer for the old horror flicks kinda used to say "YOU LISTEN, YOU DECIDE" All dropouts are the record and not a defect in your equipment. No covers but I'll give you the description that was provided to me below. *Vinyl Recording

1.Don't Let Me Down (I couldn't tell if this was a different version to the released original)

2.I Dig A Pony (Different than recorded version. Starts with "All I Want Is You" Lennon laughs during song)

3.Get Back (Different from released version especially the ending)

4.For You Blue (Different from the released version as there is no talking from George (i.e. encouraging Johns Playing) during song)

5.Two Of Us (Different version than released)

6.Dig It (Radically different version with Yoko singing and making cat noises sounds as Lennon rants. The released version used only a small portion of this one

7.Let It Be (Different guitar solo than released version,you can hear tape swish and sounds drops out for a second at one point)

8.Long And Winding Road (Different Version than released. Paul talks "..many times I've been alone.." instead of singing this part)

9.One After 909 (Different version with great lead guitar. Sound drops out for a few seconds here and there)

10.Across The Universe (Different from original release and from the version on "Let It Be..Naked."

LIKE THE F.B.I. AND THE C.I.A. AND THE B.B.C. B.B.KING AND DORIS DAY MAC BUSBY

Rockpile - Down Down Down bootleg

The first bootlegs I bought in the early 1970s had hand-stamped covers, or a cheaply printed monochrome insert slid into the plastic sleeve.  By the end of the decade, high quality sleeves turned up.  Unfortunately, the classy graphics outside were not always reflected in quality music inside, as is the case with this Rockpile bootleg.

To start with, the cover looks great, but screws it right up by misspelling Dave Edmund's name as "Dave Edmonds."  Then there's the cover itself: there's some sort of structure in the background that reminds me of a prison.  Perhaps they're going for the old cliche of chained prisoners smashing rocks with a hammer; if so, why are the prison walls done up in a textured paisley pattern?  And the center piece of the front cover art is a plant, not a rock pile.

The back is no better; the stylish art college image has no connection Rockpile's earthy roots-rock; it would look great on a bootleg of a New Romantic band but here it's just filling up space.

But it's the music where this 2-lp set really falls apart, ranging from an interesting-but-low-fidelity session to a dire unlistenable audience tape, with a short detour through some FM recordings you can get elsewhere in better quality.

The first side and half the second side have Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds running through a stack of covers, including the four by the Everly Brothers that turned up on the "Nick Lowe & Dave Edmunds Sing the Everly Brothers" EP that was included as bonus with the "Seconds Of Pleasure" LP.   These may be the same takes; it matters not because the tape is hissy and the arrangements identical, so if you've got that EP you don't need 'em again.

The other four songs are fun, but low-fidelity.  You can hear a television playing in the background at various points.  If you really liked Nick 'n Dave's take on the Everly Brothers, you'll enjoy these as long as you can stand the hiss.

After that, you get four songs from a New York club appearance which sound okay, the source is probably an FM broadcast.  Probably the Bottom Line show, but I didn't compare 'em.

The next two sides are sourced from a terrible audience tape attributed to Santa Monica Civic in May of 1978.  If you want some Rockpile from that tour, go track down the KSAN Winterland broadcast from a week later.  It's three songs shorter but you'll listen to it more than once.  This sounds like it was recorded with the microphone stuffed under a pillow in the back of the auditorium.   If you make through to the end, you have more patience than I do.

Whoever "Edinburgh Records" were, I'll bet they didn't really have offices at that address.  I looked it up on Google Maps and that looks like a very nice building in the heart of London.

https://mega.nz/#!fMRVgD5S!C08OiOm-vcNF1zHpxggCTIZfVvkLdfheQkZ_3yq0074

FLAC FILES OF WAVS, so you can experience this in all of it's muffled glory.   I've included 300 dpi scans of the covers and record labels, too.

Here's what Discogs.com has to say about it:

Nick Lowe & Dave Edmonds* With Rockpile – Down Down Down
Label: Edinburgh Records – 2R-65
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release
Country: UK
Released: 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: Blues Rock, Rock & Roll, Classic Rock

A1 Problems
A2 Crying In The Rain
A3 Poor Jenny
A4 When Will I Be Loved
A5 What Would Look The Best
A6 I Knew The Bride
B1 Blue Moon Of Kentucky
B2 Heartaches
B3 Deborah (New York 1978)
B4 Breaking Glass (New York 1978)
B5 Let It Rock (New York 1978)
B6 Heart Of The City (New York 1978)
C1 So It Goes
C2 I've Been A Fool Too Long
C3 I Knew The Bride
C4 Breaking Glass
C5 Down Down Down
D1 She's So Fine
D2 They Called It Rock
D3 Fallin' In Love Again
D4 Heart Of The City

Produced By Jeffrey Dyer.
Engineered By Edwaerd Potter.
Cover Concept By Graphix Street.
Thanks to the personnel of Stark Studios, Hanover.

Side A + B1/B2: London Studio August 1979.
Side C/D: Santa Monica Civic May 1978.

Edinburgh Records, Ltd. Offices: 32 Bedford Street, Hanover, London.

Culture Club live bootleg

Culture Club
bootleg
flac files of wavs.

01  Church of the Poison Mind
02  Victims
03  Black Money
04  Love Twist
05  Miss Me Blind
06  Mr. Man
07  I'll Tumble 4 Ya!
08  It's A Miracle
09  Karma Chameleon

This bootleg uses a similar font and text layout as the Warner Brothers Music Show promo albums, takes the King Biscuit Flower Hour's name, and replicates the BBC Rock Hour's
disc label for show #448.  And Uncle Scrooge McDuck and his nephew Donald are on the cover, too.

Each side is 20 minutes long, compared to the 30 minutes per side of an official BBC Rock Hour. During quiet passages between songs, another band can be faintly heard, as if they taped over something and it didn't completely erase.

In spite of that, show is clear and enjoyable and it's only noticeable in a few spots .  The bootleg doesn't provide any information on source or venue.

The actual BBC Rock Hour #448 was a Culture Club show from the Apollo Theatre in Manchester with a longer set list, in a different running order. It's likely the bootleggers edited down the original show to 20 minutes a side, and that the music on here is all from the Manchester show.

https://mega.nz/#!7VImAJLY!z1-f-BlCR0huCCWI0abXAM6m00ueFBRBSSrh7yynxg4