Golden Earring - Unknown Venue, Huizen, Netherlands July 1, 1989 (SBD)

Golden Earring
Unknown Venue
Huizen, Netherlands
July 1, 1989
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: ? > CD-r >E.A.C. > SHN > ? > Flac > Trader's Little Helper > Decode & Fix Sector Boundarie Errors > Flac Level 8

Disc 1
01 Just Like Vince Taylor
02 Sleepwalkin'
03 She Flies On Strange Wings
04 Too Much Woman (Not Enough Girl)
05 Weekend Love
06 Long Blond Animal
07 Quiet Eyes
08 When The Lady Smiles
09 Distant Love

Disc 2
01 They Dance
02 Turn The World Around
03 Can Do That
04 Radar Love
05 Twilight Zone
06 Clear Night Moonlight

Barry Hay – vocals, guitar, flute, saxophone
George Kooymans – guitar, vocals
Rinus Gerritsen – bass, keyboards, guitar, harmonica
Cesar Zuiderwijk – drums, percussion

This next post in our Roots Of Heavy Metal Series comes from Dutch Hard Rockers Golden Earring. This power house band that's criminally under rated and under represented on American Radio. That being the case in the US Golden Earring is known more for "Radar Love" & "Twilight Zone" than there name. Now the song "Radar Love" in America is considered to be one of the Greatest Rock songs to drive to. It's also in the top 10 songs that make you get a speeding ticket. Now the other thing about "Radar Love", with that riff Golden Earring spawned thousands of Hard Rock/Hair Metal bands. Hair Metal band White Lion even hit the charts with their (rather lame) cover of "Radar Love". This posting is dedicated to George Kooymans. On February 5, 2021 Golden Earring announced they were putting the band to bed. The reason is that George Kooymans has been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and can no longer tour.

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Gary Wright - Boston Music Hall, Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A. 10-11-1975 (VgAud) - Dan Lampinski Master Tape

Gary Wright
Boston Music Hall
Boston, Massachusetts U.S.A.
October 11, 1975
Very Good Audience Recording
Dan Lampinski Master Tape Encoding
Flac Level 8 24bit & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Master Cassette > Nakamichi CR-3A cassette deck with azimuth correction > M-Audio Firewire Audiophile 2496 > CDWAV 24-bit/96-KHz wav files > Goldwave (normalizing and crossfades) > CDWAV (track breaks) > FLAC Front End (FLAC 8)

01 Love Is Alive
02 Blind Feeling
03 Dream Weaver
04 Can't Find the Judge
05 Kyle
06 I Know A Place >
07 Keyboard solo
08 Drum solo
09 Instrumental
10 Are You Weepin'

Gary Wright was opening for Rick Wakeman on this tour. This is the only solo Gary Wright show that I have come across in my days of collecting. I usually don't post audience recordings but a Dan Lampinski recording is different. Dan Lampinski and Mike Millard both were audience taping superstars. Their recordings were clear and very listenable. Some even get mistaken for soundboard or FM recordings because of the quality. This recording is no exception to that rule, it Rocks. The music is clear, you can hear everything even the vocals. The bass is nice without being muddy as well. I recommend downloading this one, really it's a great listen & like I said Gary Wright shows are kinda rare.

The Flac is in 24bit so it makes for a large download. I separated the Flac into 2 parts both parts will open separately.

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Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland & Brian Blade - The Forensic Music Tour ~ Le Théâtre Antique de Vienne, Vienne, France 07-08-2004 (FM)

Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland & Brian Blade
The Forensic Music Tour
Le Théâtre Antique de Vienne
Vienne, France
July 8 2004
France Inter Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 6 MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Only

01 - Sonrisa 12:43
02 - Visitor From Nowhere/Somewhere 11:08
03 - Pathways 13:16
04 - Manhattan Lorelei 12:06
05 - Drum Solo/Footprints 14:37
06 - Prometheus Unbound 9:39
07 - Cantaloupe Island 8:54

Total Playing Time: 1hr 22mn 23sc

Herbie Hancock piano
Wayne Shorter tenor & soprano saxophone
Dave Holland bass
Brian Blade drums, percussion

What can I say about The Legendary Herbie Hancock that I haven't said already. For that matter the same goes for Wayne Shorter and Dave Holland. There are 17 Herbie Hancock related shows on the site (here), 10 Wayne Shorter related shows (here), and a staggering 21 Dave Holland related shows (here). So I am going to concentrate my comments on the awe inspiring performance on the drums by Brian Blade. Brian Blade has recorded/performed with more Jazz artists than I want to name here but Chick Corea, Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldah & Daniel Lanois have all used Brian for drums. Brian is the perfect anchor for the wandering improvisation that Herbie, Wayne & Dave want to present here. The man can go from powerhouse to soft inflections on a dime. The intricacies are superbly accented & supported by Brian's playing. This is another show from the quartets Forensic Music Tour. If you want more the 1st one posted on the site can be found (here).

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Jean-Luc Ponty - King Biscuit Flower Hour ~ The Tower Theater, Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, PA 10-21-1978 (FM)

Jean-Luc Ponty
King Biscuit Flower Hour
The Tower Theater
Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
October 21, 1978
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Lineage: King Biscuit Flower Hour FM Broadcast > Sansui 8 Receiver With Wire Antenna > Unknown Cassette Deck (Dolby Off) > Maxell XLII-S 90 Minute Cassette > Played On Tascam 112 Into Soundforge (Wave) > Flac (SB's Aligned)

01 - Bill Minkin Radio Intro :56
02 - Aurora 14:42
03 - Cosmic Messenger 4:46
04 - The Art Of Happiness 6:06
05 - Egocentric Molecules 7:47

Total Playing Time: 34mn 17sc

Jean-Luc Ponty violin
Joaquin Lievano guitars
Jamie Glaser guitar
Allan Zavod keyboards
Ralphe Armstrong bass
Casey Scheuerell drums & percussion

I love that Jean-Luc Ponty's music was deemed Rock & Roll enough to be on The King Biscuit Flower Hour. It's a short set, barely over 30 minutes, and Jean-Luc's performance makes it go by way too quick. In  other words he leaves you wanting so much more. Fans of Jean-Luc Ponty would be very wrong to let this one slip by without downloading it.

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Whitesnake - The Devil In Me ~ The Brighton Dome Brighton, England, U.K. 11-01-1978 (SBD)

Whitesnake
The Devil In Me - (Langley Records ~ Langley-295)
The Brighton Dome
Brighton, England, U.K.
November 1, 1978
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Soundboard Recording > CD > (?) > Trade CD-r > E.A.C. > Wave > Trader's Little Helper > Flac Level 8

01 - Intro
02 - Come On
03 - Might Just Take Your Life (Deep Purple)
04 - Lie Down (A Modern Love Song)
05 - Ain't No Love In The Heart Of The City (Bobby "Blue" Bland) >
06 - Trouble
07 - Micky Moody Solo
08 - Steal Away
09 - Mistreated (Deep Purple)
10 - Belgian Tom's Hat Trick
11 - Jon Lord Solo
12 - Take Me With You
13 - Rock Me Baby (B.B. King)
14 - Breakdown / Whitesnake Boogie

David Coverdale - Vocals
Bernie Marsden - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Micky Moody - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Neil Murray - Bass, Backing Vocals
David "Duck" Dowle - Drums, Percussion
Jon Lord - Keyboards

This is a Request from our friend Andy, so hear you are my friend! This great show from Whitesnake comes from when the band was still quite young. The set actually still has 2 MKIII Deep Purple tracks in it. "Might Just Take Your Life" wont last too many tours but "Mistreated" still pops up in Whitesnake setlists. Anyway after 2 solo albums David Coverdale
formed Whitesnake. At first the band was billed David Coverdale's Whitesnake but Dave stressed it was a band not a backing band. The band would release 5 Heavy Blues inflected Hard Rock albums. In 1984 there came a change in the music. The Blues inflected Hard Rock evolved into a Commercial Heavy Metal sound. This happened with the Slide It In album. Actually it came with the American version of the album. The album was not only remixed to have a heavier sound but parts were actually re-recorded. Guitar and bass parts were re-recorded by John Sykes and Neil Murray respectively. Both are great players and have recorded some awesome music but the change hurt a lot of original core fans. The bands transformation to a full on Los Angeles Hair Metal sound was completed by the 1987 self titled album. The fans Whitesnake lost were replaced by new ones, Coverdale's gamble paid off. The 25th Anniversary Version of Slide It In contains 8 of the original UK mixes (got it), the 35th Anniversary version includes them all (have to have it).

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Greg Kihn Band / Point Blank ~ Westwood One In Concert #82-12 (Pre-FM) - Vinyl Rip

Greg Kihn Band / Point Blank
Westwood One In Concert #82-12
Greg Kihn Band recorded at Wolf and Rissmiller's Country Club
Reseda, CA. with a likely date of August 28, 1981
Point Blank recorded in Hara Arena, Trotwood, OH (suburb of Dayton)
with a likely date of November 08, 1981
Airs: 6/26 - 6/27 1982
Pre-FM Recording
Vinyl Rip
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Label, Cue Sheet & Extra Scans Included

Thanks Go Out To Draftervoi For This One

Sides 1 and 2:
01 Westwood One In Concert #82-12 Intro
02 Commercial - Sony Walkman
03 Commercial - U.S. Army
04 When The Music Starts
05 Rendezvous
06 Moulin Rouge
07 Trouble In Paradise
08 Higher And Higher
09 Commercial - U.S. Army
10 Commercial - Busch Beer - Jamie Fricke
11 Commercial - Sony CSF-500
12 Westwood One In Concert #82-12
13 The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)
14 Next To You
15 Can't Stop Hurting Myself
16 True Confessions
17 Things To Come
18 Commercial - Sony Walkman
19 Commercial - Busch Beer - Charlie McCoy
20 Commercial - U.S. Army
21 Westwood One In Concert #82-12 Break

Sides 3 and 4:
01 Penthouse Pauper (listed as "Rich Man" on the cue sheet)
02 Turnin' Back
03 The Hard Way
04 The Way You Broke My Heart
05 Commercial - U.S. Army
06 Commercial - Busch Beer - Hoyt Axton
07 Commercial - Sony CSF-500
08 Westwood One IC 82-12 Break
09 Do It All Night Tonight
10 Mean To Your Queenie
11 Uncle Ned (listed as "Mr. Duke's Lament" on the cue sheet)
12 Westwood One 82-12 Outro
13 Westwood One In Concert 82-12 Promo

Draftervoi's Notes:

Tracks from the Greg Kihn Band's 1981 Country Club show were broadcast at least twice by Westwood One. Westwood One In Concert 81-10 with the Greg Kihn Band is sourced from the same concert at Wolf and Rissmiller's Country Club. Five songs are duplicated on both shows, but 81-10 has seven unique songs, and 82-12 has four unique songs.

The set list for 81-10 is:
Rendezvous (repeated on 82-12)
Womankind
Valerie
Trouble In Paradise (repeated on 82-12)
The Girl Most Likely
Sheila
Higher and Higher (repeated on 82-12)
The Break Up Song (repeated on 82-12)
Can't Stop Hurting Myself (repeated on 82-12)
For Your Love
Around and Around
Things To Come (repeated on 82-12)
Roadrunner

Billboard Magazine of Sept. 19, 1981 mentions that the August 28, 1981 Kihn show at the Country Club was filmed for MTV. There is a YouTube video of When The Music Starts that matches this WW1 performance.

justdave's notes:
Just one of the many Pre-FM recordings encoded by Draftervoi that Rosebud and I have in our archives. I decided that we have way too many of them just sitting there on hard drives doing nothing. So for the next month or so we will be including a Pre-FM show in every upload. These are all prime encodings of some great shows so that means you are in for a lot of good stuff starting here with The Greg Kihn Band and Southern Rockers Point Blank....Yeah That's Right A Point Blank Pre-FM ... Ever think you would see that ... Well we have Draftervoi to thank for it. He gets in bidding wars for Pre-FM vinyl and CD sets then carefully encodes them. The vinyl ones he meticulously de-clicks them in Audacity 1 click at a time. So download and sit back and listen to some great music

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Focus - Newport Jazz Festival in Europe ~ De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 10-29-1971 (SBD)

Focus
Newport Jazz Festival in Europe
De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
October 29, 1971
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Soundboard > (?) > Trade CDR > E.A.C. > Wave > Cool Edit Pro 2.0 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > Flac Level 8

01 Intro/Tuning 3:09
02 Eruption 46:04
   a) Orfeus
   b) Answer
   c) Orfeus
   d) Answer
   e) Pupilla
   f) Tommy
   g) Pupilla
   h) Answer
   i) The Bridge
   j) Euridice
   k) Dayglow
   l) Endless Road
   m) Answer
   n) Orfeus
   o) Euridice

Jan Akkerman - guitar
Thijs van Leer - flute, keyboards, vocals
Bert Ruiter - bass
Pierre van der Linden - drums

Today's post in our Salute To Progressive Rock Bands is by Focus. The Dutch Progressive Rockers are known by most New JDP readers, we have featured them before. Their Jazz/Hard Rock mostly instrumental brand of Progressive Rock is a favorite of mine. I love this show in particular because it consists of just one song, a almost 50 minute version of "Eruption" off of Focus II or Moving Waves as it was called in The U.S.A. It was my first Focus album purchase, of course bought for "Hocus Pocus" which was the only song I ever heard from Focus on American Radio. I soon however, began spinning side 2 of that album over and over again. The single track on side 2 was "Eruption" and I loved to get stoned and listen to it, like "Echoes" on Pink Floyd's Meddle.

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Donny Hathaway - The Hampton Jazz Festival ~ Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Virginia U.S.A 06-16-1973 (SBD)

Donny Hathaway
The Hampton Jazz Festival
Hampton Coliseum
Hampton, Virginia U.S.A
June 16, 1973
Soundboard Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Source/Lineage: Soundboard > Master Tape > Normal-Bias Cassette Dub Unknown Generation > PC > Stereo 16-bit 44.1 kbps Wave > Tracked & Edited In Audio Editor > Wave > SBEs Repaired, Flac Level 8 files created in Trader's Little Helper

01 Valdez In The Country 3:45 (fades in)
02 Someday We'll All Be Free 4:22 (some small tape slips)
03 Little Ghetto Boy 4:59
04 I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know 6:11
05 Love, Love, Love 4:17
06 The Ghetto 10:38

34mn 12sc

Donny Hathaway - vocals, piano, electric piano
Gil Silva - guitar
Bassie Saunders - bass
John Sussewell - drums
Chuggy Carter – congas

The Legendary "Mister Soul" Donny Hathaway is another gone way too soon story. Donny got his start in music as a young songwriter, musician producer for Curtis Mayfields Curtom Records. He work sessions for The Staple Sisters, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield himself. It wasn't long before this bright young star in the making had his own singles out. In his short career Donny released 4 studio albums, one live album and a handful of singles. From those releases Donny received 4 Grammy Nominations winning one. Donny's energetic live shows and sweet voice made him a concert favorite where ever he played. Unfortunately Donny Hathaway started to experience the onset of mental illness during his career peak. Hathaway was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in 1971. The following years were a roller coaster ride as Donny didn't take his medication regularly. In 1979 while working with Roberta Flack on  second album of duets, Donny broke down again. This time his mental state resulted in the sessions being shelved. Some hours after Donny Hathaway was found dead. He had jumped from his 15th floor apartment, he was just 33. Donny Hathaway's music will keep the memory alive of this talented young man. We all should work for a day when stories like Donny Hathaway's have better endings. Mental illness is no joke, nor is it a dirty secret to be swept under the proverbial family rug. If you know someone who needs a hand keep reaching out no matter how many times it takes. If you need help there are many outlets, please, please seek them out...

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