Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Magazine Mega Post - Part I
Presented by Dave Sez...
Last posted July 24, 2014
MAGAZINE MEGAPOST
PART ONE 1976-1980
by Dave Sez
Here, in approximate chronological order, are the Magazine video and audio recordings that I have been able to find on the World Wide Wobble.
Here ya go:
Buzzcocks & Magazine videos (.flv files, 113 MB) 1976-80
Buzzcocks - Breakdown 1976
Magazine - Burst Granada TV 1978
Magazine - Definitive Gaze OGWT
Magazine - Motorcade Elizabethan Ballroom 1977 (25 MB)
Magazine - Motorcade live nov77 Queen Elizabethan Ballroom, Belle Vue, Manchester (13 MB)
Magazine - promo Feed the Enemy
Magazine - promo Light Pours out of me
Magazine - promo Motorcade
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Magazine - TOTP 16.2.78 Shot by Both Sides
Magazine - Touch and Go
'76-'80
Buzzcocks & Magazine - 1978 Granada TV
show "B'dum B'dum"
(DVD full, pro-shot, 1.4 GB).
A 'What's On' special featuring the Buzzcocks and Magazine, broadcast on Granada TV on July 27th, 1978 and presented by Tony Wilson. This copy appears to be taken directly from the production master, complete with slates. I've created a DVD out of it using TMPGEnc. Here are the technical data as reported by G-Spot: Audio: 48000Hz, 256 kb/s, stereo (2/0), Video: 704x576, 25fps (4:3) PAL. The programme lasts nearly 40 minutes and consists mainly of Tony Wilson interviewing Pete Shelley and Howard Devoto, but there is also live footage of both bands shot at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester on July 21st, 1978.
15 chapters:
01. Slate Part 1
02. Section 1
03. Buzzcocks: What Do I Get?
04. Section 3
05. Magazine: Motorcade
06. Section 4
07. Slate Part 2
08. Section 6
09. Buzzcocks: Love You More
10. Section 8
11. Magazine: Burst
12. Section 10
13. Buzzcocks: I Don't Mind
14. Section 12
15. Buzzcocks with Howard Devoto: I Can't Control Myself
Here is an 80MB version as 7 flv files:
FLV
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Magazine - The Crown Jewels:
the Definitive Daze bootleg (FLAC)
Details and covers: http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=MCD001§ion=664
Demos, Pennine Studios. Sept '77:
01.Shot By Both Sides
02.Sandwiches [early version Of "My Mind Ain't So Open"]
03.The Light Pours Out Of Me
04.Motorcade
05.Touch & Go
06.Burst
Live at The Electric Circus. 02.10.77, recorded for the Electric Circus 10" LP but never used.
01.Shot By Both Sides
02.The Light Pours Out Of Me
03.I Love You, You Big Dummy
Flac - Daze
MP3 Daze
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Next up, one of Magazine's earliest TV performances, at the
BBC's Old Grey Whistle Test
Studio in London on 19th September 1978. MPEG video thanks to DCRoom4
OGWT - London
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Magazine - Hurrah’s, NYC - 2nd August 1979
(FM, mp3 @ 320)
The sound quality is very good. There are a few spots where the radio seems to have lost reception during the recording, but it's only a minor distraction.
Setlist: [from cassette tape]
01. My Tulpa
02. Give Me Everything
03. Definitive Gaze
04. Parade
05. Boredom [Buzzcocks]
06. Permafrost
07. The Light Pours Out Of Me
08. Shot By Both Sides
Thanks to bat29 of the late great noiseaddiction.blogspot.com.
Hurrah's '79
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Magazine - Paradise Club, Boston - 4th August 1979
(FM, FLAC, 294 MB).
The first and best live vinyl bootleg, Back to Nature. Full covers and text included.
01.My Tulpa
02.Give Me Everything
03.Definitive Gaze
04.Back To Nature
05.Parade
06.Boredom
07.Permafrost
08.The Light Pours Out Of Me
09.I Love You, You Big Dummy
10.Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
11.My Mind Ain't So Open
Thanks to Dark Circle Room 4
Boston
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Magazine - Melkweg, Amsterdam - 8th June 1980
(FM, FLAC)
01. Intro
02. I'm A Party
03. Permafrost
04. The Light Pours Out Of Me
05. You Never Knew Me
06. Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin
07. Shot By Both Sides
08. Song From Under The Floorboards
09. Outro
Thanks to DCR4 for flac and AuralSculptors for mp3
Flac
MP3
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Magazine - Main Act, Lynn, Mass. 10th August 1980
(mp3 @ 256)
01.Intro - The Book
02.Feed The Enemy
03.Stuck
04.I'm A Party
05.Permafrost
06.The Light Pours Out Of Me
07.Because You're Frightened
08.Parade
09.Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin]
10.Shot By Both Sides
11.I Want To Burn Again
12.A Song From Under The Floorboards
13.Model Worker
14.Twenty Years Ago
15.Definitive Gaze
16.Give Me Everything
Thanks to Marky Dread!
Lynn, MA. '80
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Magazine - 1980.08.15 Fox Warfield, San Francisco
This top-quality soundboard recording made by KALX FM engineer Terry Hammer is online, in FLAC at http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/04/magazinedead-boysthe-members-fox.html or as one mp3@320 file at pastdaily at http://pastdaily.com/2014/07/12/magazine-live-fox-warfield-1980-nights-roundtable-concert-edition/
(Click on the Audio Player link, then, as the music plays, (right click/save) as on the file menu and download).
Other groups are also covered: http://pastdaily.com/?s=Terry+Hammer, or http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/04/ultravox-old-waldorf-san-francisco-ca.html and http://darkcircleroom4.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-jam-fox-warfield-san-francisco-ca.html.
Terry's recordings, not all available: http://www.angelfire.com/oh/liveperformances/livetapes.html. Terry's youtube channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_FrVJcRG0ocgJ8gTjnb-Qg which includes tons of groups not upped to pastdaily - due to the low bitrate of youtube, best to get the recording from pastdaily or darkcircleroom4.
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Magazine - Music Hall Theatre, Toronto, Canada
21st August 1980
(FM, FLAC)
1. A Song From Under The Floorboards
2. Permafrost
3. The Light Pours Out Of Me (sung in French)
4. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
5. Parade
6. Philadelphia
7. I Want To Burn Again
8. Because You're Frightened
9. Model Worker
Thanks to...DCR4
Toronto
mp3version
Thanks to rabbit
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Magazine - Rydalmere Inn, Sydney Australia
20th September 1980 (mp3 @ 320)
A worrying tinny beginning for ten seconds but then an excellent soundboard recording and solid performance. Eight of these songs were remastered and officially released on the Live And Intermittent CD several years ago. These are the un-remastered and unreleased versions from a cassette rip.
01. Feed The Enemy
02. Stuck
03. A Song From Under The Floorboards
04. Permafrost
05. The Light Pours Out of Me
06. Model Worker
07. Parade
08. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
09. Sweetheart Contract
10. I Want To Burn Again
11. Because You're Frightened
12. I Love You, You Big Dummy
13. Twenty Years
14. Definitive Gaze
Thanks to bat29 of the late great noiseaddiction.blogspot.com;
he continues to blog at https://noiseaddiction2.blogspot.com.
Sydney
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Magazine - Metropol, Berlin
30th October 1980, Rockpalast
Audio (FLAC) and video (.flv, 420 MB)
01.Feed The Enemy
02.Give Me Everything
03.Stuck
04.I'm A Party
05.A Song From Under The Floorboards
06.The Great Beautician In The Sky
07.Permafrost
08.The Light Pours Out Of Me
09.Model Worker
10.Parade
11.Thank You [Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin]
12.Because You're Frightened
13.I Love You, You Big Dummy
Audio- Thanks to DRC4
Rockpalast
Video:
Rockpalast '80
Part 2 of the megapost covering the Magazine reformation in 2009 will follow. Cheers for now, Dave Sez.
Some shameless advertising: Love-Songs
Monday, May 25, 2020
Leonard Cohen LIVE in Tel Aviv Israel 1972
Friday, May 22, 2020
BBC 6 Classic Concerts (.mp4)
Air
Blur
Cast
Embrace live at Glastonbury 1998
Florence the Machine
Frankie Miller
Gomez
Green Day
Hipsway
Horace Andy
Ian Dury & the Blockheads
Idlewild
Jeff Buckley
Johnny Cash
Joni Mitchell and James Taylor
Los Lobos
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
Modern Romance
Mystery Jets
Peter Tosh, Dominion Theatre 1983
Psychedelic Furs
Pulp at Glastonbury
R E M
Santana
Shriekback and Killing Joke
Skids
Supertramp
Talk Talk - Mark Hollis R I P
Tangerine Dream
Tears for Fears
The Cardigans
The Cranberries
The Crusaders
The Dandy Warhols
The Faces
The Good, The Bad & The Queen
The Jam
The John Miles Band
The Motels, live from Bradford University 1980
The Screaming Blue Messiahs and the Roaring Boys
The The, Brixton Academy 1993
The White Stripes
The Wonder Stuff
Then Jerico
Todd Rundgren - BBC Sounds
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Travis at Glastonbury 1999
Uriah Heep
Warren Zevon
Alan Freeman - The Story Of Pop (1-52 as .mp4)
02 It Began In Africa
03 Blacks, Whites and Blues
04 What a Long Strange Trip It's Been
05 Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll, Too Young to Die
06 Goin' Up Country
07 The King is Dead - Long Live the King
08 Teenagers in Love
09 Big Surf
10 Escape from Tin Pan Alley
11 When We Was Fab
12 England Swings
13 Hitsville USA
14 The Blues Had a Baby
15 Can Blue Men Sing the Whites_
16 Shut Up and Play Your Guitar
17 The Big Easy
18 Soulsville USA
19 I Know You Got Soul
20 Hobos to Hippies
21 Turning Rebellion Into Money
22 Listen to Me Me ME
23 Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine
24 Let's Go Get Stoned
25 Pomp It Up
26 A Trip on the London Underground
27 Glam Slam
28 Hit Factories
29 A Reasonable Guide to a Horrible Noise
30 Young, Loud and Snottys
31 Today's Music Today
32 All That Funky Stuff
33 Philly Groove
34 Another Saturday Night
35 Synthetic Material
36 Smile Jamaica
37 The Tuff Gong
38 The Graduates
39 Kiss My Axe
40 King Guitar
41 Kerrrrannnng!
42 Rap It Up
43 Parental Discretion Is Advised
44 Girls' Talk_ Women in Music
45 I Want You to Hurt Like I Do
46 Living on the Fault Line
47 Re-Make, Re-Model
48 It's a Steal - Sampling
49 Raving, I'm Raving
50 Where the Sun Don't Shine
51 Music for Money
52 The Global Village
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Arthur Lee & Love - Black Beauty & Rarities
Originally posted November 24, 2014
Black Beauty & Rarities
Studio soundboard recordings @ 160
~This is NOT the remastered version~
On the whole, this particular line-up sounds perfectly rough and unrehearsed, generating a tense energy on “Skid” and “Stay Away” even as they suggest a band still figuring out exactly what they can do together. It’s a strong album, but it’s not another Forever Changes, whose accomplishments in retrospect were unrepeatable, or even another Four Sail. On the other hand, Lee wasn’t aiming to craft something in that vein. Still, especially considering the professional setbacks he had faced in the years leading up to Black Beauty-- which includes being dropped by Elektra and shuffling through a series of independent labels.
Track List:
01 The Ninth Wave
02 Rumble-Still-Skins
03 Soul Food
04 Luci Baines
05 It's The Marlin, Baby
06 Everybody Jerk
07 Slow Jerk
08 I Been Trying
09 My Diary
10 I'm Good & Evil (Do What I Do)
11 Midnight Sun
12 Walk Right In
13 Skid, Not Really A Friend
14 Beep Beep
15 Stay Away
16 I Got To Find It
17 Lonely Man
18 Where Were You
19 You're Just A Product Of The Time
20 Give Me A Little Energy
21 Feathered Fish #1
21 Feathered Fish #2
Sunday, May 17, 2020
Television - Lyon, France 1977
The Television site The Wonder does not have this show listed
so not sure of the correct date. Closest is The Olympia on the 7th.
This one is a bit rough to listen to.
2 Venus
3 Elevation
4 Foxhole
5 Little Johnny Jewel
6 Friction
7 Knocking on Heaven's Door
8 Marquee Moon (cut)
9 Satisfaction
10 O Mi Amore (encore)
Thanks to tinajazz!
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Them Crooked Vultures - Live Sydney Australia 2010
Originally posted October 10, 2012
January 26, 2010
JJJ FM Radio Broardcast (19th April 2010)
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Television - Live Paradiso, Amsterdam 1977
Originally posted May 2014
Lineage: Cassette>WAV>FLAC 5>you
From the Dave Sez archive:
Another ultra-rare recording by Hans De Vente, this time of Television playing with Blondie on their first European tour.
02 Venus
03 Elevation
04 Foxhole
05 Little Johnny Jewel
06 Friction
07 Knockin' On Heaven's Door
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08 Marquee Moon
09 Satisfaction
10 O Mi Amore
Besides a JEMS recording of a Television gig in Detroit on 13th March 1977, there are three known bootlegs of the European tour by Television in 1977, all B-/C+ audience recordings. One online is Manchester on 26th May 1977 at https://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/television-1977-05-26-manchester-uk-aud-flac-164575.html (FLAC, thanks to the great EDGE, all links still live). Bearing in mind the rarity and historical significance of this Dutch recording, it should be kept in circulation, and thanks to Hans De Vente for sharing his tape. Meanwhile, the best recording of Television in 1977 (a B+) is from New York, first released by the great gomonkeygo and recently reposted at https://floppybootstomp-ii.blogspot.com/2015/11/television-live-hartsdale-ny-1977-re.html.
Friday, May 15, 2020
Ginger Baker's African Force with Sonny Sharrock LIVE in Geneva Switzerland 1987
Sonny Sharrock
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Carla Bley (Double Dose)
02 Egyptian
03 Major
04 Still In The Room
05 Introduction
06 Time And Us
07 The Piano Lesson
08 The Lord Is Listenin’ To Ya, Hallelujah!
09 King Korn
10 A New Hymn
11 Eight and a Half
12 The Internationale
13 I Hate To Sing
02 Band intro
03 Life Goes On - On - And On - And Then One Day
04 Interview (german)
05 Ups and downs
06 Beautiful Telephones
07 Vashkar
08 Three Banana + Mister Misterioso
09 Outro (german)
10 Utviklingssang
Television - Live Rio de Janeiro 2005
Originally posted July 6, 2014
October 23, 2005
Soundboard @256
Richard Lloyd-Guitars
Fred Smith-Bass
Billy Ficca-Drums
02 - Venus(De Milo) (4:13)
03 - Call Mr. Lee (5:38)
04 - Prove It (5:57)
05 - Little Johnny Jewel (9:26)
06 - See No Evil (5:00)
07 - Knocking On Heaven's Door (7:40)
08 - Marquee Moon (17:17)
pass - fbsvw
Monday, May 11, 2020
Television - Live Hartsdale, NY 1977
Originally posted March 9, 2012 and November 22, 2015
Part 1
Part 2
Thanks to the original source and whoever
and wherever I got this from!
!*!
Sunday, May 10, 2020
I'm Taking Requests...
has been posted by me...
SilentWay
Please leave a comment on the original
post or here with the link to that post.
THANKS!!
*There may be a few show I no longer have due to a 90GB HD meltdown back in '13*
Coming Up...The finish of the Televsion reboot
and then the The Magazine Megapost Reboot!!!
Saturday, May 9, 2020
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Live Paris Theatre 1984
A Dave Sez contribution Originally posted April 26, 2014
From the Dave Sez archive: more LKJ, taken from a BBC Radio One In Concert performance, recorded at Paris Theatre in London on 30th May 1984.
Artwork thanks to www.bootlegzone.com.
Set List:
Introduction 1:00
Dread Beat An' Blood 3:21
All Wi Doin' Is Defendin' 3:02
Want Fi Goh Rave 4:01
Reggae For Dadda 3:53
Band Introductions 1:41
Reggae Fi Peach 3:14
Di Great Insohreckshan 3:43
What About The Workin' Class? 5:37
Makin' History 3:56
Reggae For Rodney 3:34
...
Instrumental 1:52
Listen to the gig online: http://www.mixcloud.com/dubwisegaragecollection/linton-kwesi-johnson-paris-th-london-1984-bbc-broadcast/
Paris Theatre '84
Friday, May 8, 2020
David Bowie - Cleveland Music Hall 1972
November 25,1972
Next comes a huge 10 min version of Width of a Circle with Ronson doing a great Guitar Solo in he middle of it. John Im only Dancing next sounding like the single. Its then into Moonage Daydream which rock like anything, he then introduces the Spiders and also Mike Garson. Waiting for the Man next though it sounds as if its there's a slight cut between the Band Intro and this. He then introduces the Jean Genie as a number to release on RCA records and tapes, then its straight into Suffragette City. The show ends with him introducing Rock'n'Roll Suicide as one of Ziggys numbers. Where the Santa Monica set seemed to be aimed more for the radio audience and was split into part acoustic show, this is much more like the Rock'n'Roll' show that it should have been. A word of caution, don't play it on your PCs CD ROM, with small it sounds shit but when played on a decent system it pisses on every other Ziggy boot. Sound quality doesn't quite match that of Santa Monica but as that was from a radio broadcast its only to be expected. As Santa Monica is now out officially this must for now be the best Ziggy boot at the moment. Essential for all fans. However the Rainbow theatre show also released it may have to be content with the best boot of the US tour.
Savage Hippo are really doing Bowie fans proud at the moment - keep up the good work guy.
2. Ziggy Stardust
3. Changes
4. The Supermen
5. Life On Mars?
6. Five Years
7. Space Oddity
8. Andy Warhol
9. Drive In Saturday
10. Width Of A Circle
11. Queen Bitch
12. John, I'm Only Dancing
13. Moonage Daydream
14. Waiting For The Man
15. Jean Genie
16. Suffragette City
17. Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
Television LIVE in Roslyn NY 1978
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Television - I Need A New Adventure (1978)
(with additional flac link)
Originally posted October 13, 2013 and August 7, 2018
Includes art
From the Dave Sez music archive: outtakes from Television's second album "Adventure", recorded amidst some acrimony at Bearsville Studios, 1978 @320; the group would disband shortly afterwards. Playing with Patti Smith from 1975 onwards, Television would release the seminal "Marquee Moon" and "Adventure" albums in 1977 and 1978; the group would reform briefly for a further album in 1992. The Dave Sez archive has a massive amount of Television, often live with Patti Smith. The crown jewels are however the studio demos (1975-76) for the first album and the outtakes from the second, an extremely rare recording offered here in mp3 @320 & flac
2 Adventure
3 Glory
4 Days
5 Foxhole
6 Carried Away (aka Vibrato Song)
7 Ain't That Nothin'
8 Careful (aka I Don't Care)
9 Glory (instrumental)
10 Carried Away (instrumental)
11 Up All Night (unreleased)
12 Grip Of Love
13 Last Night (Piano Song)
14 The Dream's Dream
15 Glory
16 The Fire
More info from http://www.thewonder.co.uk/tvboots.htm
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Thanks to edo at the late great http://knowyourconjurer.blogspot.com/2010/03/television-i-need-new-adventure-1978.html
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Television - Live at the Academy 1992 {Rebooted}
April 12, 1992
From the Dave Sez archive: a classic gig by the reformed original line-up of Television. A lossless rip (thanks to Hans De Vente!) of a CD produced by the group for sale during the 2003 tour, and now out of print.
01 - Intro
02 - 1880 or So
03 - This Tune
04 - Venus
05 - Beauty Trip
06 - No Glamour for Willi
07 - Call Mr Lee
08 - Prove It
09 - The Rocket
10 - Rhyme
11 - In World
12 - Marquee Moon
Don't forget to grab Enoch's Television - My Father's Place Roslyn, NY 1978
Other available 1992 recordings of Television include their appearance at the Glastonbury Festival (bootleg LP "Interference") and at the Inrockuptibles fifth FNAC festival at La Cigale in Paris. I am particularly looking for their performance at the Nagano Sun Plaza ("Rose Of My Heart"/"1992 Or So") - can anyone help?
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Echo & The Bunnymen - Live Mont-de-Marsan, France 1984
Originally posted on April 29, 2015
August 10, 1984
Mont-de-Marsan, France
Excellent Remastered Soundboard or FM Source @256
Thanks to the original source and Texas Barbudos for the remaster!
01 - Intro
02 - Going Up
03 - With A Hip
04 - Villiers Terrace
05 - My Kingdom
06 - Angels & Devils
07 - Heads Will Roll
08 - Crocodiles
09 - Zimbo
10 - Stars Are Stars
11 - The Killing Moon
12 - All That Jazz
13 - Back Of Love
14 - Thorn Of Crowns
15 - Never Stop
16 - Heaven Up Here
17 - The Cutter
18 - Do It Clean
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
George Harrison-Somewhere In Utopia
While your at it. Don't forget to check out The Adult Bookstore Motel...........
GEORGE HARRISON
Somewhere In Utopia
CD 1:
1. Got My Mind Set On You - extended version
2. Zig Zag - from Shanghai Surprise
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Prince's Trust Rock Concert, June 6, 1987
4. Here Comes the Sun - Prince's Trust Rock Concert, June 6, 1987
5. When We Was Fab - reverse end
6. For You Blue
Dec 13, 1974 - Live version recorded in Largo, Maryland.
Live version issued with Songs By George book on Feb 15, 1988
7. Flying Hour - remix
8. Sat Singing - remix
9. Lay His Head - remix
10. That's The Way It Goes
Rockline Radio Show, KLOS Studios, Los Angeles, February 10, 1988
11. Medley: Drive My Car / Here Comes The Sun / The Bells Of Rhymney / Mr. Tamborine Man / Take Me As I Am
12. That's All Right
13. Let It Be Me
14. Something
15. Every Grain Of Sand
16. Miss O'Dell
17. Deep Blue
18. I Don't Care anymore
19. Johnny B. Goode - The Heartbeat Concert, Bermingham, March 15, 1986
CD 2:
1. Ding Dong Ding Dong (Demo)
2. Dark Horse
Saturday Night Live, Paul Simon TV Show, November 18, 1976
3. Here Comes The Sun
4. Homeward Bound
5. Rock Island Line
6. Bye Bye Love
7. Awaiting On You All
8. Far East Man
Tarrant Country Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, November 22, 1974
9. While My Guitar Gently Smiles
10. Something
11. Sue Me Sue You Blues
12. For You Blue
13. Give Me Love
14. Soundstage of Mine
15. In My Life
16. Maya Love
17. Dark Horse
18. My Sweet Lord
BUT IT'S ALL OVER NOW BABY BLUE
WHEN THE SUN SHINE IS NOT ENOUGH TO MAKE ME FEEL BRIGHT
Monday, May 4, 2020
Radiohead - Live Reading Festival 2009
Originally posted November 29, 2011
Reading, UK.
August 30, 2009
02 - The National Anthem
03 - 15 Step
04 - There There
05 - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
06 - Reckoner
07 - Karma Police
08 - Weird Fishes - Arpeggi
09 - Just
10 - Idioteque
11 - Bodysnatchers
12 - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
13 - Paranoid Android
14 - Maps - Everything In Its Right Place
15 - Outro
Miles Davis - Live Felt Forum, NY. 1982
Rebooted by request by localpriest
Originally posted July 7, 2018
Madison Square Garden
Sunday, May 3, 2020
Supertramp LIVE in Munich Germany 1983
Saturday, May 2, 2020
Television - Neon Boys and Double Exposure Demos -'73-'74-'75
A Dave Sez contibution...
Originally posted February 9, 2014
The obscure but semi-legendary Neon Boys were a precursor to Television, featuring Tom Verlaine, Richard Hell, and drummer Billy Ficca. Their duration, from the fall of 1972 to the spring of 1973 according to Clinton Heylin's From the Velvets to the Voidoids, was brief. They were certainly ahead of their time, however, as recordings that later surfaced proved. On "That's All I Know" and "Love Comes in Spurts," which finally came out as one side of a seven-inch EP years later, the group played with an edge suggestive of both speed freaks and punk rock. There was shrieking guitar, half-spoken lyrics declaimed in a semi-state of hysteria, and words that were too scabrous to have been considered for commercial airplay in 1973 (certainly on "Love Comes in Spurts," at any rate). A then-unknown Dee Dee Ramone unsuccessfully auditioned for the band as a second guitarist before the Neon Boys, still a trio, decided to disband.
Of course all three of the principals would rapidly resurface as members of the original Television lineup, although Hell dropped out of that group before their first album. Hell would re-record "Love Comes in Spurts" himself as a solo act. The Neon Boys' versions of "That's All I Know" and "Love Comes in Spurts" were issued as one side of a seven-inch EP on Shake Records that had two later Hell solo recordings on the other side.
Another Neon Boys recording, "High-Heeled Wheels," surfaced on a CD single (which also included the two previously released Neon Boys cuts) on the UK Overground label. According to From the Velvets to the Voidoids, three other Neon Boys songs — "Tramp," "Hot Dog," and "Poor Circulation" — were also recorded, although they have not yet
been released. [Source: AMG]
The press release that came with the single, written by Richard Hell, says in part:
"That’s All I Know (Right Now) and Love Comes In Spurts were recorded in late 1973. It was the final effort of the group we tentatively (never finding the second guitarist we needed to gig) called The Neon Boys. We’d formed about six months earlier. It was my first group and my first bass. The tape was made at the cheapest four track studio we could find advertised in the paper--a man’s basement in Brooklyn. The only way we’ve tampered with the recording is to remix it--no new overdubs. We’ve left it in mono since no single instrument could be located to send through a speaker because each track on the tape carries more than one instrument/vocal."
On the 18th of November 1976 Richard Hell - later to be Richard Hell and the Voidoids - released the three-track 45rpm 7" Another World EP on Ork Records in the US.
Track List:
1.That's All I Know (Right Now)
2. Love Comes In Spurts
3. High Heeled Wheels
4. Time
5. Don't Die
Neon
Thanks to isksp.blogspot.com and drunksongs.blogspot.com!
From the Dave Sez archive:
The crown jewels of Television bootlegs, the late 1974 demos recorded at Good Vibrations Studio, NYC and produced by Richard Williams, observed (not produced!) by Brian Eno, and the Ork sessions recorded in August 1975, allegedly at Fairland Studios. The track Little Johnny Jewel is taken from the Ork single recorded during this session.
Lossless rip of the Double Exposure bootleg, omitting the lower-quality live tracks available in full on other boots. These demos would also be released from a much worse cassette source with speed problems as the "Bryan Eno Demos" and as the "Fairland demos". All CD and alternative artwork included.
Track List
1. Prove It (12-74)
2. Friction (12-74)
3. Venus (12-74)
4. Double Exposure (12-74)
5. Marquee Moon (12-74)
(bass: Richard Hell)
6. Hard On Love (8-75)
7. Friction (8-75)
8. Careful (8-75)
9. Prove It (8-75)
10. Fire Engine (8-75)
11. Little Johnny Jewel (8-75)
(bass: Fred Smith)
Thanks to the late great aikolosslessboots!
Tom Verlaine - La Edad de Oro, Madrid 1984
64 minutes. Live at TVE studios, Madrid, broadcast live by La Edad de
Oro on September 25, 1984.
This is #7 in the Solen Files DVD series.
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