All Holiday Music Links Are Good & Dave Gets A New Toy!!

Well it's that time of year, Christmas Shopping Season. To help keep you entertained while shopping all of our Holiday Music links have been checked and are operating. Also I have posted 2 more Christmas shows.

I also wanted to share a picture of my soon to arrive Christmas Present I bought myself. My Parents and My Mother In Law always give me money for my birthday and Christmas. I have been saving it for the past few years for something I really wanted. It's a HumminGuru Ultra Sonic Record Cleaner. It uses 40khz ultrasonic waves in a liquid bath to remove contaminates from vinyl records. I first learned of this process about 3 years ago. There is a Record Store that I frequent that uses one on every used record they sell. It arrives in about 3 days along with a new needle for my turntable. I can not wait to try it out on some of my vinyl boots I want to encode. Will let you all know how it works!

JustDave

Public Image Ltd. - Westwood One Radio Networks ~ Crawford Hall, University of California, Irvine, California, USA March 26, 1992 (Pre-FM)

Public Image Ltd.
Westwood One Radio Networks
Crawford Hall, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
Recorded: March 26, 1992
Pre-FM Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Pre-FM Master > WW1 Prod. > Cassette > CD-r > Wav > Cool Edit Pro > Wav > Flac

01 Intro 1:49
02 This Is Not A Love Song 5:37
03 Criminal 5:10
04 Love Hope 4:15
05 Think Tank 5:41
06 Rules & Regulations 4:50
07 Disappointed 6:21
08 Acid Drops 6:33
09 Luck's Up 3:43 segues nicely into...
10 Cruel 3:35
11 The Body 6:56
12 Covered 4:47
13 Rise (Part I) 10:11

John Lydon – lead vocals
John McGeoch – lead guitar
Ted Chau – rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
Allan Dias – bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Mike Joyce – drums

Yes! This is a Public Image Ltd. Pre-FM recording! Johnny Rotten was not done assaulting the ears of anyone willing to listen. There are those that love PIL and those who think it is just a bunch of noise. Personally I was more impressed with PIL than The Sex Pistols. Don't get me wrong, I was into the Pistols, still am. I just am a bigger fan of The Plasmatics, Johnny Thunders, Black Flag, Dead Boys, Damned, and The Dead Kennedys.

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Journey - The Lloyd Noble Arena, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A. July 21, 1983 (FM) - Remastered

Journey
The Lloyd Noble Arena
Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
July 21, 1983
FM Broadcast Recording - Remastered
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Only

Rosebud's Pick

01 - Escape / Where Were You 09:52
02 - Line Of Fire 03:04
03 - Don't Stop Believing 04:34
04 - Stone In Love / Keep On Running 08:36
05 - Lights / Stay Awhile  [05:18
06 - Do You Recall / Loving You Is Easy 08:11
07 - Drum Solo 04:24
08 - Too Far Gone (The Baby's) 04:08
09 - Too Late 04:45
10 - Who's Crying Now 07:37
11 - The Party's Over 06:55
12 - Wheel In The Sky 07:44
13 - Encore: Lovin' Touchin' Squeezin' / Any Way You Want It 09:03

Steve Perry – lead vocals
Neal Schon – lead guitar, backing vocals
Ross Valory – bass, backing vocals
Steve Smith – drums, percussion
Jonathan Cain – keyboards, rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Rosebud picked a great one for us! This isn't my favorite era of Journey. The first Journey album I bought was Look Into The Future. The last one was Captured. We do however now have the complete Journey catalog. I was not into the Escape release but up to the last gig Journey was one hell of a live band (yes was, they are nowhere near that now, they are not even Journey). Steve Perry was a great front man, one of the best actually. His energy never slipped, I mean the guy never used a mic stand. He picked it up and ran, literally, around the stage like a man possessed. The band itself contained some great live musicians, able to deliver every song to maximum effect every single night.

The flac file set is a little large so I have divided it in 22 parts. Each part will open separately.

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Carla Bley & Ed Partyka Brass - Carla's Christmas Carols ~ György-Ligety-Saal Graz, Austria, December 5, 2013 (Satellite)

Carla Bley & Ed Partyka Brass
Carla's Christmas Carols
György-Ligety-Saal
Graz, Austria
December 5, 2013
Satellite Radio Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Front Cover Included

Source:
DVB-S > Digital Satellitereceiver Humax PVR8000 > aud
demux with DVR-Studio Pro >mp2
MPEG 1.0 Layer-2; 48,000 Hz Stereo; 160 Kbps
AudioEditDeLuxe > wav > dBpoweramp > Flac Compress level 8
ORF Steiermark and all Austrian regional Radiostations broadcast in 160 kbps via DVB-S
the Sound Frequency goes up to 20000 Hz

2008 portion source: DVB-S@320, 48kHz > raw data > ProjextX > mp3DirectCut > mp2
(lossy recording seeded in its original broadcast codec, yet the spectral still goes to 20kHz)

01 O Tannenbaum
02 Fernab in Einer Krippe
03 Jingle Bells
04 Hell's Bells
05 Jesus Maria
06 Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
07 The Christmas Song
08 O Holy Night/Joy to the World
09 Ring Christmas Bells
10 Silent Night and Day
11 God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen
12 O Come to Bethlehem, All Ye Faithful

Total time: 1:14:38

Tracks 10-12 are bonus tracks from Passionskirche, Berlin DE 12.4.2008 FM

Tracks 01-09:
Carla Bley - piano
Steve Swallow - bass
Axel Schlosser - trumpet & flugelhorn
Bernhard Nolf - trumpet & flugelhorn
Adrian Mears - trombone
Ed Partyka - bass trombone & tuba
Linus Pernulli - French horn

Tracks 10-12:
Carla Bley - piano
Steve Swallow - bass
Tobias Weidinger - trumpet & glockenspiel
Axel Schlosser - trumpet
Christine Chapman - French horn
Adrian Mears - trombone
Ed Partyka - bass trombone & tuba

This is an upgrade to an earlier Carla Bley Christmas show. The previous show was posted in MP3 224kbps, this one is in Flac and includes 3 bonus tracks from a 2008 performance. If you haven't heard Carla's Christmas Carols then you really should download this show. Carla makes great use of the Brass section, even using tuba, French horn and flugelhorn to achieve a nice range of instrumental voices. This show is in as heavy of a Holiday Playlist rotation as Trans-Siberian Orchestra (that's huge, TSO is big with my family!). Rosebud even asks for it to be played, so you know it's not an Avant-Garde Jazz event. It's easily digestible by even the slightest of Jazz fans.

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Eric Clapton - God Is A Guitar Player ~ Mississipi Valley Fairgrounds, Davenport, Iowa, USA July 27, 1974 (SBD)

Eric Clapton
God Is A Guitar Player - (The Godfatherecords ~ G.R. 855)
Mississipi Valley Fairgrounds
Davenport, Iowa, USA
July 27, 1974
Soundboard Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Silver CD > E.A.C. (secure) > Flac

01 - Badge 7:00
02 - Presence Of The Lord 9:59
03 - Tell The Truth 9:52
04 - Hideaway 4:56
05 - Steady Rollin' Man 6:56
06 - Blues Power 11:26
07 - Layla 5:25
08 - Little Wing 9:15
09 - I Shot The Sheriff 8:47

Tracks 01-06: Live at Mississipi Valley Fairgrounds, Davenport, MI, July 27, 1974
Track 07 "Layla" Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY, June 30, 1974
Track 08 "Little Wing" Civic Centre, Providence, RI, July 10, 1974
Track 09 "I Shot The Sheriff" Capitol Centre, Largo, MD, October 4, 1974

Eric Clapton lead vocals, lead guitar
George Terry 2nd guitar, backing vocals
Carl Radle bass
Jamie Oldaker drums, percussion
Dick Sims keyboards
Yvonne Elliman, Marcy Levy backing vocals

Fortunately for Eric Clapton, he played quite a few shows in 1974. Unfortunately for him most of them were recorded. Eric was not in fine shape at the time. Although recovering from heroin addiction he was sinking deeper into alcohol addiction. Many shows Eric was drunk and the performances suffered for it. This however is not one of those shows. Clapton seems to be in just the right mood here. There are some very fine moments during this show. Unfortunately a complete soundboard or audience recording has not surfaced. We have to be satisfied with what we have. A damn fine performance.

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A Christmas Celtic Sojourn, Boston 2015, The Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 12-20-2015 (Pre-FM)

A Christmas Celtic Sojourn
Boston 2015
The Cutler Majestic Theater
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Recorded: December 20, 2015
Broadcast: December 24, 2016
Pre-FM Recording
MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

01 Veni, Veni, Emmanuel/A Leaf from the Tree of Songs 6:52
02 Intro 0:24
03 Red-Haired Mary 2:50
04 The Little Drummer Boy 3:07
05 The First Noel 1:44
06 Deck the Halls 1:21
07 Intro 0:51
08 Fjellvåk 3:35
09 Intro 2:06
10 Here We Come A-wassailing 3:23
11 Frosty the Snowman Jingle Bells 2:13
12 Intro 0:37
13 Untitled 4:53
14 Intro 0:18
15 Angels We Have Heard on High 3:13
16 Lark in the Clear Air 3:07
17 Intro 0:37
18 Untitled 5:28
19 Oíche Chiúin 2:25
49 mins

Performers:
Cathy Jordan
Brian and Lindsay O’Donovan
Natalie Haas
Maeve Gilchrist
The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc
Solas

I like listening to Celtic Folk Music sometimes when I am sipping wine after dinner. It has a direct relationship to American Bluegrass Music. The rhythms, the tone, the timbre are all pretty much the same. It's also the music of my heritage, being Scots-Irish. My family came to America during the Gold Rush. They were miners and a corporation paid them to come here and teach them how to mine gold (yep that stuff actually happened). They were paid with land in Appalachia. The Appalachian Mountains is the cradle of American Country Music, the product of Bluegrass, Blues and Gospel/Spirituals.

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Junior Wells - Chicago Blues Fest '93: Live WYMS Broadcast, Unknown Venue, Chicago, Illinois, USA xx-xx-1993 (FM)

Junior Wells
Chicago Blues Fest '93: Live WYMS Broadcast
Unknown Venue
Chicago, Illinois, USA
xx-xx-1993
WYMS-FM Broadcast Recording
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Front Cover Only

01 - Cissy Strut 09:43
02 - I'll Play The Blues For You 05:56
03 - Junior Wells Intro / Broke And Hungry 07:28
04 - Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pockets 05:04
05 - Sweet Home Chicago 07:14
06 - It Hurts Me Too 07:08
07 - Honest I Do 05:34
08 - The Blues Is Alright 06:47

On tap here is some R & B tinged Blues played by The Legendary Junior Wells. I spent 3 days at the Chicago Blues Festival in 1993. I caught quite a few shows but would have flipped to have been at this one. It was impossible to catch every set you wanted to, there were to many.

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