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Sunday, 7 June 2009

Rare 1971 Vietnam War Pirate Radio broadcast




1971 Vietnam War Pirate Radio broadcast



A rare and historic piece this! An entire pirate radio show broadcast by Dave Rabbit from a whorehouse in Saigon in January, 1971!

An amazing historical glimpse into a crazy time, a crazy war, a crazy place! Some good acid rock too!

Radio First Termer was a Pirate Radio Station which broadcasted nightly from January 1, 1971 to January 21, 1971 from Saigon during the Vietnam War. Radio First Termer was hosted by on-air personality "Dave Rabbit," an anonymous United States Air Force sergeant. The two other members of the crew were known as "Pete Sadler" and "Nguyen". Their real names are unknown.

The show can be listened to on Dave Rabbit's website http://daverabbit.podomatic.com/

Dave Rabbit says on his website:
You DON’T HAVE TO SUPPORT A WAR To SUPPORT THE TROOPS

This is the HD HIGH QUALITY DIGITAL VERSION Of The Original Saigon, Vietnam Show Is Made Possible By The High Quality Reel To Reel Tape That Tim Mailhot Sent To Will Snyder From The Tape That He Acquired From Bruce Causey Sometime In The Early 70’s And Will Converted. There Are A Number Of Segments That Have Never Been Heard Before In Their Entirety.

This is the ONLY KNOWN EXISTING RECORDING of one of my 21 Pirate Radio Broadcasts that was done nightly from a Whore House in Downtown Saigon, Vietnam from January 1 to January 21, 1971. These recordings contain EXPLICIT MATERIAL, HARD ACID ROCK MUSIC and POLITICAL COMMENTS about the issues of the times which were SEX, DRUGS and ROCK and ROLL. These shows were created for the entertainment of the troops that put their lives on the line EVERY DAY in Vietnam and were part of the huge Anti-War movement which was happening within the military itself against the war in Vietnam.






DAVE RABBIT HISTORY - Courtesy Of Wikipedia

”Dave Rabbit”, who is greatly considered as the Godfather of Pirate Radio, began his radio career in Vietnam working as a studio engineer for Radio Phan Rang. After three tours in Vietnam, "Dave Rabbit" and his friends launched Radio First Termer from a secret studio in a backroom of a Saigon brothel. The make-shift studio walls were lined with mattresses to deaden the sounds emanating from the brothel. The station broadcasted for a total of 63 hours over 21 nights (between January 1, 1971 to January 21, 1971). “Dave Rabbit” later admitted in an interview, that he was forced to stop broadcasting because he was fearful that his friends, who were protecting him and the show, were in imminent danger of being arrested and imprisoned themselves by his base commander, who hated his show and suspected that someone was protecting him.

The purpose of Radio First Termer, according to “Dave Rabbit”, was to "bring rock and roll to the troops on the front lines." The station played "hard acid rock" such as Steppenwolf, Bloodrock, Three Dog Night, Led Zeppelin, Sugarloaf, the James Gang, and Iron Butterfly, bands which were popular among the troops but largely ignored by the American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN). The music was mixed with antiwar commentary, skits poking fun at the U.S. Air Force and Lyndon B. Johnson. Raunchy sex and drug oriented jokes were a tremendous part of the nightly shows. “Dave Rabbit's” show also included a number of bits including “Tooth Picks In The Toilet” and reading GI comments off the latrine walls across Vietnam.

Although the frequency was always announced as FM69, “Dave Rabbit” has said in several interviews, in reality the show was broadcast over numerous frequencies. In addition to 69 MHz FM as selected by “Dave Rabbit”, the Radio Relay troops across Vietnam also broadcasted Radio First Termer over other frequencies, including 690 AM.

In 1995 Will Snyder first posted sound clips from a Radio First Termer broadcast on the internet renewing interest in “Dave Rabbit” and Radio First Termer. In February 2006, after finding out that the surviving show was posted on the internet, "Dave Rabbit" came forward and told his story to several main stream media personalities including Corey Deitz with About Radio. Dave also did an interview with Director David Zeiger for a bonus feature on the DVD release of Sir! No Sir!, who had used some of his clips for the movie. Sir! No Sir!, was a Documentary Film dealing with G.I. counterculture and anti-war sentiment during the Vietnam era. On February 20, 2008, “Dave Rabbit” was interviewed on the Opie and Anthony Show from New York City. Opie and Anthony were long time Fans of “Dave Rabbit” and had come across their copy of the surviving 1971 show and tracked Dave down. Original clips from Dave's radio show were featured and continued the renewing interest in Radio First Termer and “Dave Rabbit”.

September 30, 2006, “Dave Rabbit”, along with a new crew including “Charlie Cooper” and “Nadirah”, broadcasted a 35th Anniversary Show for the troops in combat. The complete show is available FREE on Pod-O-Matic on MP3's as well as the original 1971 Saigon, Vietnam Show.

On July 11th 2007, “Dave Rabbit”, “Johnny Anonymous” and AboveTopSecret.Com created and launched a new worldwide show called ATS MIX.


Tracklisting

Bloodrock - Double Cross
Carlos Santana - Evil Ways
The Who - Pinball Wizard from the rock opera Tommy
Cream - White Room
Sugarloaf - Green-eyed Lady
Cactus - You Can't Judge a Book By Looking at the Cover
Iron Butterfly - Soul Experience
James Gang - Funk #49
Three Dog Night - Mama Told Me Not To Come
Steppenwolf - The Pusher
Jimi Hendrix - Fire
Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies - Changes
Led Zeppelin - Good Times, Bad Times
Spencer Davis Group - I'm a Man
The Byrds - Eight Miles High
The Beatles - Tax Man
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hanging On
Eric Burton - Monterrey
Love - My Flash On You
The Who - The Overture from the rock opera Tommy
The Who - It's a Boy from the rock opera Tommy
Three Dog Night - Rock and Roll Widow
Bloodrock - Dead On Arrival
James Gang - Stop
Cactus - Feels So Good
The Who - See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me from the rock opera Tommy
Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
Steppenwolf - Don't Step on the Grass Sam
Three Dog Night - Chest Fever
Sugarloaf - West of Tomorrow
Bloodrock - Gotta Find a Way
Santana - Soul Sacrifice
Led Zeppelin - Heartbreaker
Donovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man
Three Dog Night - Cowboy
Bloodrock - Fancy Space Odyssey
Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild




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Sunday, 20 July 2008

Cream - Disraeli Gears [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] [DELUXE EDITION] - FLAC

Cream - Disraeli Gears [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] [EXTRA TRACKS] [DELUXE EDITION] - FLAC

Audio CD (September 28, 2004)
Original Release Date: September 28, 2004
Number of Discs: 2
Format: Original recording remastered, Extra tracks, Deluxe Edition
Label: Polydor / Umgd
ASIN: B0002XDOBC


Disraeli Gears was the second album by British blues-rock legends Cream.

Cream, of course, included music masters, bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. They were celebrated as the first great power trio and supergroup of rock. Their sound was characterised by a hybrid of blues, pop and psychedelic rock.

http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa2/Keath007/225px-Cream_band.jpgCream combined Clapton's blues guitar playing with the powerful voice and intense basslines of Jack Bruce and the jazz-influenced drumming of Ginger Baker. They have sold over 35 million albums worldwide, while their Wheels of Fire LP was the world's first platinum-selling double album.

Cream made a significant impact upon the popular music of the time, providing a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed the emergence of bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and The Jeff Beck Group in the late 1960s. The band's live performances influenced progressive rock acts such as Rush, jam bands such as The Allman Brothers Band, Grateful Dead and Phish, and even heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath.

Cream were ranked #16 on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/DisraeliGears.jpg/200px-DisraeliGears.jpgDisraeli Gears was released in November 1967 and went on to reach #5 on the UK album chart. It was also their American breakthrough, becoming a massive seller there in 1968, reaching #4 on American charts.

The album features the two classic singles "Strange Brew" and "Sunshine of Your Love". By this time, the group was veering quite heavily away from their blues roots to indulge in more psychedelic sounds.

The title of the album, Disraeli Gears, was actually a bit of an inside joke. Eric Clapton had been thinking of buying a racing bicycle, and was discussing it with Ginger Baker, when Mick Turner, one of the roadies, commented on the performance of "those Disraeli Gears" meaning to say "derailleur gears"!! The band thought this was hilarious, and decided that it should be the title of their next album. Had it not been for Mick, the album would simply have been entitled Cream.


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Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker all contributed songs with the help of lyricist Pete Brown and producer Felix Pappalardi. The track "Blue Condition" was unusual in that Baker, although by any account not a singer, took the lead vocal. The album was recorded in New York by their American label, the Atco division of Atlantic Records during the band's stay in the United States.

The psychedelic cover art was created by Australian artist Martin Sharp, who lived in the same building as Clapton at the time of the Chelsea artists colony The Pheasantry. At their first meeting in a London club, Clapton mentioned that he had some music that needed lyrics, so Sharp wrote out a poem he had composed on a napkin and gave it to Clapton, who recorded it as "Tales of Brave Ulysses".

When interviewed on the episode of the VH1 show, Classic Albums, which featured Disraeli Gears, Bruce stated that when writing the song "Take it Back", he had been inspired by the contemporary media images of American students burning their draft cards and wrote the song in that spirit of rejecting militarism.

In 2004, this version of the album was released as a 2-disc Deluxe edition including the complete album in both mono and stereo, demos, alternate takes and tracks taken from the band's live sessions on BBC radio.


Rolling Stone review (Jan 20, 1968);

Within the grooves of this record are miles of listening pleasure. Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are simply superb musicians with the gift of unending virtuosity. The title of the album, as Eric explains it, is a pun. The group was driving along one day trying to think of names for the record, coming up with things like "Elephant Gerald" (Ella Fitzgerald) and hit upon "Disraeli Gears," a word play on English racing bicycles which have derailer gears.

Unfortunately the album does not totally hang together, marred by some poor material. They usually compensate for what they lack as composers and songwriters by thorough brilliance of performance. But in some tracks ("We're going Wrong," "Dance the Night Away" and "Blue Condition," among them), the material is too pale to support the heavy instrumental work which makes Cream such an overwhelming trio.

"Strange Brew" stands out as the most complex song and rather an unusual one in that Eric uses reverb—to stunningly mean and sensual effect—and it is really very far away from the usual blues stylings for which he has been noted. In some places in the song, it sounds like the guitar has been triple-tracked.

"Sunshine of Your Love" (an incredibly strong number) and "Tales of Brave Ulysses" are typical Cream pieces. They are structured on a simple, repeating run of heavily syncopated descending (or ascending) chords. In these songs, and on "Outside Woman Blues," where the chord structure is classic, the beauty of Cream becomes readily evident: Clapton's lines, Baker's dynamics, and, to a slightly lesser extent, Bruce's runs are so simply put together that the listener has no choice but to stand in awe of their precision, grace and exquisite sense of time.

"Swlabr" (pronounced "Slobber"?) and "Take It Back" are also two excellent cuts (these written by Jack Bruce and Peter Brown). Cream's new album is more difficult to get into, and thus more rewarding, then the first one. Fresh Cream was recorded over a year and a half ago, at a time when the group was less than two months old. This new LP reflects a more original direction, greater musical sophistication (the guitar is double-tracked throughout) and the polish of a year together.

Despite their recorded shortcomings, Cream happens to be one of the great modern rock and roll groups. If you aren't already hip to it, pick up on Fresh Cream (Atco 33-206) and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers (London PS 492), a highly polished album which features Eric in a strict blues context.

On top of the music in the new LP, there is the cover done in exploding day-glo style. The photo-montage on the back is reflective of the fact that Eric Clapton happens to be a Nikon-freak.




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Tracklisting

CD1(Stereo)

01. Strange Brew (2:49)
02. Sunshine Of Your Love (4:12)
03. World Of Pain (3:05)
04. Dance The Night Away (3:36)
05. Blue Condition (3:32)
06. Tales Of brave Ulysses (2:49)
07. SWLABR (2:34)
08. We're Going Wrong (3:29)
09. Outside Woman Blues (2:27)
10. Take It Back (3:07)
11. Mother's Lament (1:49)
12. Lawdy Mama version 2 (2:50)
13. Blue Condition (Alternate Version) (3:11)
14. We're Going Wrong (Demo) (3:49)
15. Hey Now Princess (Demo) (3:33)
16. SWLABR (Demo) (4:33)
17. Weird Of Hermiston (Demo) (3:14)
18. The Clearout (Demo) (3:55)


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CD2(Mono)

01. Strange Brew (Mono) (2:51)
02. Sunshine Of Your Love (Mono) (4:14)
03. World Of Pain (Mono) (3:09)
04. Dance The Night Away (Mono) (3:37)
05. Blue Condition (Mono) (3:31)
06. Tales Of Brave Ulysses (Mono) (2:53)
07. SWLABR (Mono) (2:35)
08. We're Going Wrong (Mono) (3:28)
09. Outside Woman Blues (Mono) (2:27)
10. Take It Back (Mono) (3:08)
11. Mother's Lament (Mono) (1:50)
12. Lawdy Mama (Version 1) (Mono) (2:04)
13. Blue Condition (Alternate Version) (Mono) (3:12)
14. Strange Brew (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:00)
15. Tales Of Brave Ulysses (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:39)
16. We're Going Wrong (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:25)
17. Born Under A Bad Sign (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:41)
18. Outside Woman Blues (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:18)
19. Take It Back (BBC Recording) (Mono) (2:17)
20. Politician (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:59)
21. SWLABR (BBC Recording) (Mono) (2:32)
22. Steppin' Out (BBC Recording) (Mono) (3:36)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/DisraeliGears.jpg/200px-DisraeliGears.jpgPersonnel

* Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
* Jack Bruce - bass, harmonica, lead vocals
* Ginger Baker - drums, percussion, vocals


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