The Magic Band LIVE in Bad Doberan Germany 2014

 The Magic Band 

Zappanale

Galopprennbahn 

Bad Doberan Germany

2014-07-18

Soundboard @320

01. Banter---Intro By Jim Cohen And John French

02. My Human Gets Me Blues

03. Clear Spot

04. Abba Zaba

05. Band Intro

06. Rockette Morton's Bass Solo

07. When It Blows Its Stacks

08. Golden Birdies

09. Hot Head

10. Nowadays A Woman's Gotta Hit A Man

11. Introduction

12. Ella Guru

13. Pachuco Cadaver

14. Audience Chatter (Ich suche meinen Papa)

15. Kandy Korn

16. Drum Solo

17. On Tomorrow (Instrumental)

18. Andrew Niven Returns To The Drums

19. Suction Prints

20. Hair Pie - Bake 1

21. Introduction

22. Steal Softly Thru Snow

23. Grown So Ugly

24. Crowd Noise---Tuning

25. Owed T' Alex

26. Mirror Man

27. Mirror Man Story

28. Sugar 'N Spikes

29. Band Intro

30. Big Eyed Beans From Venus

31. Band Intro---Encore Break

32. Electricity

33. Stage Outro

John French - Vocals, Harmonica, Soprano Saxophone, Drums

Eric Klerks - Guitar

Denny Walley - Slide Guitar

Mark Boston - Bass

Andrew Niven - Drums

Oh, That Magic Feelin'

Steve Earle / The Cannery, Nashville, TN March 4, 1986

Steve Earle
The Cannery
Nashville, TN
March 4, 1986

01 Steve Earle - Guitar Town
02 Steve Earle - Someday
03 Steve Earle - Hillbilly Highway
04 Steve Earle - Good Ol' Boy (Gettin' Tough)
05 Steve Earle - My Old Friend The Blues
06 Steve Earle - Down The Road

Another cassette I got in trade back in the 1980s.  This one had very little information...just the venue, city, and "1986" on it.  The show introduction identifies the show as "New Country."
I found a listing in the Sunday March 2nd Tennessean Sun saying "New Country" will be production for two shows daily at the Cannery...and the taping for Tuesday was for Steve Earle. Tuesday was March 4, 1986. 

Earle mentions that the songs are from his new album, and his first LP was released March 5, 1986. He also mentions that "Hillbilly Highway" is the first single off the album, and that song was released on March 22, 1986.

If this was recorded on the 4th, that has him speaking as if the record was already out...but I then found broadcast dates from June 29 to July 1.  So it makes sense; he's recording this just before the release of the LP but knows it won't be broadcast until three months later.  If you're eager for early Earle, ease on your earphones and enjoy.

The show was New Country, on the Nashville Network.

Sound quality is excellent.  I don't have documentation as to generation, but I believe this is a first generation right off of a stereo video tape of the television show.

https://mega.nz/file/fcZzlJJB#ItrAI-rH9pir5P1Gl2q9htaoAt3bh4PmwEUhiLI-nP0

About the venue:  The internet says, "Cannery Hall’s building was originally built as a flour mill for Liberty Self-Rising Flour in 1883. In the 1930s, the building was home to the Fletcher Coffee Company who milled coffee there. In the 1950s, Dale Foods Company began processing their jams, jellies, mustards, and peanut butter there until the mid-1970s. In 1981, The Cannery began its life as a music venue when the Dale family converted the building into an 18,000 square foot country style restaurant with a stage. In the early 80s, the Dale family let promoters book live bands in the space at night. By day, the club served as a stage for artists like Reba McEntire, George Strait, Patty Loveless and Tammy Wynette. At night, it was the place to catch some of the hottest rock and alternative touring acts. In 1984, The Nashville Network’s “New Country” concert series filmed at The Cannery regularly. "

KSAN'S Rising Stars Show / Romeo Void, Fun Addicts, SVT -- The Stone, SF Aug 24, 1980

KSAN's Rising Stars show
Romeo Void
Fun Addicts
SVT

The Stone
San Francisco, CA
August 24, 1980
KSAN-FM

01 Kate Hayes - Intro
02 Romeo Void - Unknown 1
03 Romeo Void - Unknown 2
04 Romeo Void - Myself to Myself
05 Romeo Void - White Sweater
06 Romeo Void - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
07 Kate Hayes - Intro
08 Fun Addicts - Crazy
09 Fun Addicts - You Don't Care
10 Fun Addicts - What Is Real Fun
11 Fun Addicts - Rock Around The World
12 Fun Addicts - How Come It Hurts
13 SVT - No Regrets
14 SVT - Always Come Back For More
15 SVT - All About You
16 SVT - Bleeding Hearts
17 SVT - All I Want
18 SVT - Red Blue Jeans

Flac files of wavs.  Includes the newspaper print ad for the show.

Here's the second of the KSAN Rising Stars shows that I recorded.

Romeo Void went on to release an LP in July of 1981...and hit the Mainstream Rock charts in December of 1981 with "Never Say Never."

There is a recent release of a show recorded across the street from the Stone at the Mabuhay Gardens two months later, so if you like this early incarnation of the band, go find "Live From The Mabuhay Gardens: November 14, 1980" over on Amazon.

Fun Addicts have a website up at:  http://rickclare.homedns.org:8080/times5/funaddicts.html
They've got this very show available as a free download in what (to my ears) sounds better than my old cassette, so if you like this set, go to their website and download it. It sounds like they've remastered it, and it sounds great!

And...of course...SVT.  Jack Casady...of the Jefferson Airplane, and Hot Tuna...cut off his hippie hair, and went back down into the City's grimy night clubs with his punchy punkish bar band, SVT.  They were the headliner this night.

Here ya go...'n happy Turkeyday Eve to you....

https://mega.nz/file/HRhwTB6B#IXI84pJepZszBt0bpY0hZHcm9_MTzmIkVcvQagSBCrA

Elvis Presley - Elvis A Holy Rockin' Christmas

 *THANKS TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER

Sorry for my lack of posts lately but I find it's harder for me now to post things that are not on a million other sites. My lack of postings stems from a lack of knowledge of things that are passed off as new music. You see I'm an old man. My taste, I guess, is from what the classifiers call Classic Rock. In my opinion most new rock and roll music is a derivative from music made by others. Of course it doesn't help that the corporations always on the look out for the next big thing will sign any band that sounds like a band whose latest album is on top of the charts. An example, look at all the clone bands that try to sound like Green Day, Pearl Jam, Metallica, Taylor Swift for god's sake. Then on top of that over half of new music is not even created in a studio anymore. It's all guys/girls from bands sending their parts in via computer. So even though Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth hate Sammy Hagar, if the price is right, and using AI subbing for Eddie, we could have a new Van Halen record any day now. Oh yeah one more thing. I refuse to post anything that say, The Stones have played in New York but the recording sounds like it was recorded in the parking lot with the mike in a used beer can that's been sitting on the floorboards for months. Well I guess that's it for now. Stay tuned for my next rant on why people don't leave comments. Merry Fucking Christmas. Maybe it because Marquez Valdez-Scantling drops a wide open pass that I'm in such a bad mood. See scans

         WELL I'M FEELING MIGHTY FINE GOT GOOD MUSIC ON MY RADIO

Prince - Benefit Concert Rehearsal 1983

Prince - August 3, 1983 

Rehearsal for The First Avenue Benefit Concert 
In Aid Of The Minnesota Dance Theater

Liberated Bootleg

Soundboard @flac

 This was part of 6 CD unauthorized box set

 

"Electric intercourse, electric intercourse (Wake up, Wendy!)
Don't U wanna?
Electric intercourse, electric intercourse
Don't U wanna make love, sweet love, my love?..."


1983-08-03, First Avenue: The Live Debut of The Revolution / Wendy Melvoin
...found seeding here  - http://www.hungercity.org/details.php?id=26002

 

Known Flaws: - Track 9 (BIAS), @ 0:07 - 0:43, channel volume-fluctuations

*Original Notes*

One of, if not the finest rehearsals of the man's career, and thankfully a stellar quality soundboard recording to match the content. This rehearsal has been circulating in various degrees of quality for years with Sabotage's 'Purple Rush Volume 2' perhaps being the most popular thus far. Sabotage's was good, great in parts, but the audible hiss throughout 'Purple Rain' and a number of small edits during the rehearsal were a source of frustration for me. Thankfully this release has zero hiss, a running order which appears to be a true reflection of the rehearsal (Sabotage placed both versions of 'Let's Go Crazy' back-to-back which always seemed strange) and the overall clarity of the soundboard recording is head-and-shoulders above any other. There's no comparison when it comes to the two as this is far superior, but of the 3 major glitches in the recording (which affects both), it should be pointed out that everything is left "as is" on here, so we get the original intro to the first version of 'Let's Go Crazy' (Sabotage edited in a different recording) complete with the "when you call up that nigger in Beverley Hills" spoken intro, we get a little distortion and/or tape-chew on 'Baby I'm A Star' here with the original "turn around, 1..2..3" intro which Sabotage removed, and finally the tape fluctuation and distortion on 'D.M.S.R.' is left on here untouched and unedited. Those are the three main flaws with the recording, but they account for 1 minute in total and are minimal when considering the overall quality. The originality of the recording aside, it's also simply a clearer, cleaner recording which allows you to hear things not audible on other versions - such as background comments by Prince during the band improvisation section. Excellent soundboard, excellent rehearsal and an excellent improvement over any other version - I really do enjoy this release immensely. The content is the real icing on the cake with a nasty-as-you-like (and we like) 'Computer Blue' to rival any other version, a stunning 'Electric Intercourse, a frenetic 'D.M.S.R.' which simply goes on and on and on...and on, and a 24 minute segment of the band fooling around with numerous genuinely funny moments and snippets from a vast array of songs from the James Bond theme through to 'Catch A Falling Star'. This isn't perfect, and outside the 3 flaws on the recording mentioned above, Prince's vocals on 'I Would Die 4 U' are raspy and hazy, but that also affects all other versions of the rehearsal, so no fault lies with FBG. If you only ever grab one version of this rehearsal, make it this one. If you already have this rehearsal, get this version, grab a set of earphones, turn it up loud and enjoy.

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Thanks to the original source, dalmar, Guitars101 and all involved!!

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Crowded House / Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA WIOQ-FM March 24, 1987

Crowded House
The Trocadero,
Philadelphia, PA
WIOQ-FM broadcast
March 24, 1987

01 Helen Leicht - WIOQ Intro and audience
02 Crowded House - This Is Massive
03 Crowded House - When You Come
04 Crowded House - Mean To Me
05 Crowded House - World Where You Live
06 Crowded House - That's What I Call Love
07 Crowded House - One Step Ahead
08 Crowded House - Jamaica Farewell Recurring Dream
09 Crowded House - Something So Strong
10 Crowded House - Love You 'Til The Day I Die
11 Announcer - WIOQ Station ID
12 Crowded House - Hole in the River
13 Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
14 Crowded House - Now We're Getting Somewhere
15 Crowded House - Throw Your Arms Around Me
16 Crowded House - Better Be Home Soon
17 Crowded House - Announcement KBFH
18 Crowded House - Happy Birthday To Mitch
19 Crowded House - I Got You

Deejay: Helen Leicht, from WIOQ-FM in Philadelphia, and yes, you guessed it, this is another tape we've borrowed from the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection. 

"Throw Your Arms Around Me" is a Hunters & Collectors song.

The band does a pisstake version of Split Enz "I Got You," in a lounge music style.  The show cuts off after that on this tape.

However, there's more out there:

A KBFH show sourced from the Trocodero show was broadcast on May 31, 1981 as KB 682. The three sides ran:

A-1. Mean To Me
A-2. World Where You Live
A-3. That’s What I Call Love
B-1. One Step Ahead
B-2. Jamaica Farewell
B-3. My Recurring Dream (Recurring Dream)
B-4. Something So Strong
B-5. All The People You Are Standing On (Sister Madly)
C-1. Hole In The River
C-2. Don’t Dream It’s Over
C-3. Now We’re Getting Somewhere

If there's a KBFH, we need to check Concert Vault, as their streaming audio is often (but not always) the KBFH show with a few extra cuts, as they have the source tape.

The Concert Vault version runs:
1 Introduction
2 This Is Massive
3 When You Come
4 Interlude
5 Mean To Me
6 World Where You Live
7 That's What I Call Love
8 Interlude
9 One Step Ahead
10 Jamaican Farewell / Recurring Dream
11 Interlude
12 Something So Strong
13 Love You 'Till The Day I Die
14 Hole In The River
15 Sister Madly
16 Medley: Not Fade Away / Stir It Up / Not Fade Away

However...this is one of the times where things get screwy.

This Is Massive, Mean To Me, World Where You Live, That's What I Call Love, One Step Ahead, Jamaican Farewell/Recurring Dream, Something So Strong, and Hole In The River are common to all three versions.

Don't Dream It's Over Is and Now We're Getting Somewhere are on the WIOQ tape and the KBFH discs.

When You Come and Love You To The Day I Die are on the WIOQ tapes and the Convert Vault streaming audio.

Sister Madly is on KBFH and Concert Vault.

Throw Your Arms Around Me, Better Be Home Soon, and I Got You are unique to the WIOQ show.
The Medley of Not Fade Away / Stir It Up / Not Fade Away is unique to the Concert Vault audio.
Also...and this is a speculation, not a fact...it may be that there were two sets, an early and a late show.  Do any members of Our Beloved Audience know if that is a possibility? 

Other notes:  Something So Strong (live) was a non-LP b-side on the Sister Madly CD single.

There is a bootleg CD "Live In Philadelphia '87" on the "ROXVOX" label that matches the Concert Vault audio.  It appears to be out of print but there's one copy up on EBAY and another on Amazon, so if you like this, you may want to go grab one.

https://mega.nz/file/CBQWkLzR#fw3_dHaTyd6zFUs26H2ohb4WciBeaU1Guh6cJw6nSfU

Dave Mason / Chestnut Cabaret, Philadelphia April 6, 1988 WMMR-FM

Dave Mason
Chestnut Cabaret
Philadelphia, PA
WMMR-FM
April 6, 1988

01 Dave Mason - Feelin' Alright
02 Dave Mason - Let It Go, Let It Flow
03 Dave Mason - World In Changes
04 Dave Mason - Just A Little Lovin'
05 Dave Mason - Look At You Look At Me 
06 Dave Mason - Two Hearts
07 Dave Mason - Every Woman
08 Dave Mason - We Just Disagree (cuts in)
09 Dave Mason - Dream I Dream
10 Dave Mason - Bring It On Home To Me
11 Dave Mason - All Along The Watchtower
12 Dave Mason - WMMR Break & tuning
13 Dave Mason - Only You Know And I Know
14 Dave Mason - Dear Mr. Fantasy
15 Dave Mason - WMMR outro

Flac files of .wavs, plus some newspaper clippings and a box of matches from the club.
Another dip into the vast pool of WMMR recordsing provided to us by our pal, Sam Eliot's Mustache.  He ships 'em across the country, I digitize 'em, and you get to hear the results.

This one is Dave Mason at the Chestnut Cabaret.  Wiki says, "Chestnut Cabaret was a nightclub located at 38th & Ludlow Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It opened in 1978 and closed in 1994, then it reopened in 1995 renamed the Blockley before its closure in 2013."

Sam happened to have an original ad for the show, clipped out of the newspaper. With that ad to guide me, I found the ad (and two more from earlier dates) on Newspapers.com.

I've now figured out that the Philadelphia Inquirer had a Friday entertainment section where the club and concert ads were placed.

It was different here.... while we had two San Francisco newspapers "...in 1965, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner operated under a Joint Operating Agreement... The Examiner published the Sunday paper's news sections and glossy magazine, and the Chronicle contributed the features."
Entertainment ads were in the S.F. Chronicle's "Datebook" feature - locally referred to as "the pink section" because they originally published it on pink newsprint.

Anyway....concert ads were on Sundays here; it's weird to find 'em on a Friday in Philadelphia.  What day did they run in your area?

https://mega.nz/file/iNQCzBDD#60hQbU6D1PFsVbz_sTQNp25v2qAhgTZkrAplzeldRtY

Robyn Hitchcock / Revolver Records, San Francisco, CA 1986

Robyn Hitchcock

Revolver Records
San Francisco, CA 
1986
audience tape

01 Robyn Hitchcock - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
02 Robyn Hitchcock - Trams Of Old London
03 Robyn Hitchcock - Ted Woody and Junior
04 Robyn Hitchcock - Book of Love
05 Robyn Hitchcock - We Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones
06 Robyn Hitchcock - Dr. Sticky
07 Robyn Hitchcock - That's When Your Heartaches Begin

This is NOT GOOD.  It's probably recorded on a boombox, although it may as well have been some child's My First Sony.  It's got people bumping the microphone, talking, and Hitchcock sounds distant.  That said, it's not the worst thing I've ever heard and Hitchcock completists will want a copy.

I got this in trade and kept it around because I used to shop at Revolver Records.  It was a great record store (and sort-of still is, as it was bought out in the 1990s by the bookstore down the block and is still selling music, just under the name Green Apple Music).

No date...but Hitchcock played the I-Beam twice in 1986, on March 17 and November 1.

https://mega.nz/file/uVxBHAKZ#LwYkk1P-rlclOsgYvFbAAJ00wZ-p3Yq519xvk-gSSdg

The Hooters / Trump Plaza At The Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ Aug. 4, 1989 WMMR-FM

The Hooters 
WMMR Beach Concert
Trump Plaza at the Boardwalk
Atlantic City, NJ
August 4, 1989
WMMR-FM

01 The Hooters - Intro
02 The Hooters - All You Zombies
03 The Hooters - Don't Knock It Til You Try It
04 The Hooters - Satellite
05 The Hooters - Karla With A K
06 The Hooters - And We Danced
07 The Hooters - 500 Miles
08 The Hooters - Johnny B
09 The Hooters - Deliver Me
10 The Hooters - Give The Music Back
11 The Hooters - Brother, Don't You Walk Away
12 The Hooters - Fightin' on the Same Side
13 The Hooters - Hanging On A Heartbeat
14 The Hooters - You Never Know Who Your Friends Are
15 The Hooters - Day By Day
16 The Hooters - Mr. Big Baboon
17 The Hooters - Blood From a Stone
18 The Hooters - South Ferry Road
19 The Hooters - A Man Understands
20 The Hooters - Beat Up Guitar

Flac files of .wavs, plus two newspaper mentions of the show.

Okay...once more we dip into the Sam Eliot's Mustache Collection for another WMMR-FM broadcast with another Philadelphia Favorite: the Hooters!

The show itself takes place in Atlantic City, which Google Maps tells me is roughly 60 miles to the southeast of Philadelphia.  

As a West Coast guy, I'm clueless about the East Coast.  

First of all, is it okay to call it "Philly" or is that nickname like "Frisco" which sets some San Franciscan's teeth on edge?  (Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï does not care what you call it, but I'm from the East Bay).

Secondly, how far did WMMR's broadcast signal reach?  The Bay Area is full of hills (1,000 to 1,700 feet) and some dinky mountains (2,400 to 4,000 feet).  No San Francisco FM station reaches sixty miles out due to the terrain, but New Jersey looks pretty flat.   Can an FM signal actually go that far?

I understand they weren't actually broadcasting FROM the beach, the antenna was whereever it always was....come to think of it, where do you put antennas when there's no nearby hill or mountain?

The setlist is huge, it's almost an hour and a half of music.  One of the songs - "A Man Understands" was an obscure B-side.  According to Discogs, the studio version was only released in Japan on a 3-inch "mini CD.

https://mega.nz/file/eQJDQZDT#pjXxt47DZIX6x9yj_Pej_7cu7L_EqSxj2SLv88_f5YQ

Long Ryders / Pandora's Music Box Festival, Rotterdam Oct. 12, 1985

Long Ryders
Pandora's Music Box Festival
Rotterdam, Netherlands
October 12, 1985
01 Announcer - Intro
02 Long Ryders - If I Were a Bramble and You Were a Rose (b-side)
03 Announcer - Intr0
04 Long Ryders - Lights Of Downtown
05 Long Ryders - Good Times Tomorrow, Hard Times Today
06 Long Ryders - You Just Can't Ride The Boxcars Anymore
07 Long Ryders - Ivory Tower
08 Long Ryders - Capturing The Flag
09 Long Ryders - Looking For Lewis and Clark
10 Long Ryders - I Had A Dream
11 Announcer - Outro

Another low generation cassette that I received in trade back in the 80s.  This one is a Dutch mono radio broadcast. The set list was edited down from a longer show.  There is soundboard tape of the entire concert but I do not have a copy.

The full set list was:
01 Run Dusty Run
02 Lights of Downtown
03 Southside of the Story
04 Wreck of the 809
05 Time Keeps Travelin'
06 Sweet Mental Revenge
07 Mason/Dixon Line
08 Two Kinds of Love
09 Capturing the flag
10 I Had a Dream Last Night
11 Ivory Tower
12 Final Wild Son
13 You Just Can't Ride the Boxcars Anymore
14 State of My Union
15 Tell It To The Judge On Sunday
16 Lookin' For Lewis and Clark

Pandora's Music Box Festivals were held in 1983, 1984, and 1985.

There's more about the festival in the Chris Isaak post below.

https://mega.nz/file/GV5XQRgT#i9urUm_Ek6GSInM8M8IkMqDZ4ZZV-ljqredbg_8MelE

Chris Isaak / Pandora's Music Box Festival, Rotterdam Oct. 12, 1985 FM

Chris Isaak
Pandora's Music Box Festival
De Doelan, Rotterdam, Netherlands
October 12, 1985

01 Chris Isaak - The Lonely Ones
02 Chris Isaak - Gone Ridin'
03 Chris Isaak - Talk To Me
04 Chris Isaak - Devil Woman (Marty Robbins)
05 Chris Isaak - Livin' For Your Lover
06 Chris Isaak - Unhappiness
07 Chris Isaak - Voodoo
08 Chris Isaak - Dixie Fried (Carl Perkins)
09 Chris Isaak - Diddley Daddy (Bo Diddley)
10 Chris Isaak - In The Heat Of The Jungle
11 Chris Isaak - Vaya con Dios (May God Be With You) (Les Paul & Mary Ford)
12 Chris Isaak - Jack The Ripper (Link Wray)
13 Chris Isaak - Announcer
14 Chris Isaak - Interview
15 Stray Cats - Look At That Cadillac (studio)
16 Chris Isaak - Interview
17 Chris Isaak - Tears (different show)

  1987-08-14  David Letterman Show: 
18 Chris Isaak - You Owe Me Some Kind of Love
  

  1987-03-25 Tonight Show:
19 Chris Isaak - Heart Full Of Soul
20 Chris Isaak - Blue Hotel
21 Chris Isaak - Interview

Chris Isaak – vocals, guitar 
James Calvin Wilsey – lead guitar, vocal 
Rowland Salley – bass, vocal 
Kenney Dale Johnson – drums

https://mega.nz/file/rZRiwSAL#50DCxbHhmpOmRB2aYEF-asBMO3unuSIYjtZSqEujf7E

Another low generation cassette that I received in trade back in the 80s.  This one is a Dutch mono radio broadcast. As was typical of tape trading when a show was short of filling a tape, my trading partner included bonus tracks.  This one has "Tears" added from an unknown radio source (also mono), plus stereo tracks from the David Letterman and Tonight Show.

The show is drawn primarily from his first album (released Jan. 10, 1985).  There are some interesting covers.  While "Diddley Daddy" would turn up two albums later on Heart Shaped World, and "Dixie Fried" finally saw the light of day in 2011, the rest remain unreleased.

Pandora's Music Box Festivals were held in 1983, 1984, and 1985.

There's a website dedicated to the festival at: https://pandoras-music-box.blogspot.com/

From Wiki:

"De Doelen is a concert venue and convention centre in Rotterdam, Netherlands. It was originally built in 1934 but then destroyed in 1940 during the German bombardment of Rotterdam in May 1940 at the outset of World War II. It was rebuilt in 1966, originally with one hall to which two more were added in the 1990s.

It has a variety of facilities, including the Grote Zaal (Grand Hall), a 2,200-seat concert hall, two smaller halls which each seat about 700 people."

The 1985 concert is noteworthy for a complex plan involving photographing everyone there (which apparently actually happened...).  I've included a press release with the full plan, but the short version was:

"all visitors, musicians, festival workers and building staff will be photographed upon entering the premises. The roughly 7600 negatives will be transported by armoured car to a safe place. On September 26, 1990 the negatives will be locked away in a new Pandora's Box placed under the care of the dutch government."

The new negatives will be locked away in Pandora's Box for another 76 years...this cycle will be repeated for 76 x 76 years...On October 13, 7761, the last Pandora's Box will be opened and the negatives become public domain.

There is only one way in which the cycle can be stopped...  The photographs from the negatives will be on sale for 760 days (from Dec. 11, till January 10, 1993)....the intending purchaser will be required to pay u.s. dollars 76,000,000."

This alternate plan included ..."the launching of a rocket containing...negatives...into outer space..." to the centre of the Milky Way, in search of the presumed black hole of our galaxy..."

Needless to say... other than the taking pictures of everyone there, none of the rest of that came to pass.

Nick Lowe / Slim's, San Francisco, CA April 23, 1989

Nick Lowe
Slim's
San Francisco, CA
April 23, 1989 

Musicians:
Nick Lowe - vocals, guitar
Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar
Austin de Lone - keyboards
Scott Mathews - drums
Kim Wilson - harmonica
James Burton - guitar

01. (cuts in)When I Write The Book - Nick solo
02. From Now On - Nick solo
03. Nick talks
04. Cruel To Be Kind - Nick solo
05. Heart - Nick solo
06. Rocky Road - Nick solo
07. My Baby's Gone - Nick solo
08. The Rose Of England - Nick solo
09. So It Goes - Nick solo
10. Without Love - Nick solo
11. Marie Provost - Nick solo
12. Raining, Raining - Nick solo
13. Half A Boy And Half A Man - Nick & Austin
14. All Men Are Liars (cut off) - Nick & Austin
15. Nick talks
16. (I Want To Build A) Jumbo Ark - Nick & Austin
17. Refrigerator White - Nick, Austin & Scott
18. Big, Big Love - Nick, Austin, Scott, Kim, & James
19. Bo Bo Skadiddle  - Nick, Austin, Scott, Kim, & James
20. I Knew The Bride - Nick, Austin, Scott, Kim, & James
Encore 1
21. Indoor Fireworks - Nick and Elvis
22. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding? - Nick and Elvis
Encore 2
23. Switch Board Susan - including Peace, Love And Understanding ending - Nick solo
24. Outro - Bonnie Simmons

Another multigeneration tape...a bit of hiss, but not too bad.  This one's a soundboard, probably a second or third generation down the line.

The show fell between 1988's "Pinker And Prouder Than Previous," and 1990's "Party of One."  Nick had just wrapped up a tour as the opening act for Elvis Costello the prior night in Chicago.  Both Costello, Kim Wilson, and James Burton were in town to play at Village Music's 21st Birthday Party at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley the next night (April 24th).

We've got flac files of wavs, the original print ad from the SF Chronicle/Examiner Sunday entertainment tab section, and a review of the concert from the Oakland Tribune. 

https://mega.nz/file/jI5FiJqa#GuMzFfGnr4yotqsx6jq9TAYUNM55xqw_UdFWfnjzkwc

While the print ad lists this as "Nick Lowe SOLO," half the show is Nick with various combinations of the other five musicians.  Announcing duties are by the fabulous Bonnie Simmons, who at the time was a deejay on KFOG-FM...but her Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame entry reads, "pioneer in free-form radio, Simmons was instrumental to the success of KSAN during its Jive 95 heyday. She also worked locally at KFOG, Live 105 (KITS), KOFY-FM, Double 99 (KDBK) and KUSF, and currently hosts a weekly show on KPFA."

Tower of Power - Live University of Kansas 1974

Back From the Dead...As Requested
Originally posted May 31, 2015

Tower of Power - Hoch Auditorium
University of Kansas

November 11, 1974

Lawrence, KS.

Soundboard @ 320

 

Set List:
1. Walkin' Up Hip Street 6:40
2. Don't Change Horses (In The Middle of A Stream)5:21
3. This Time It's Real 3:51
4. Willing To Learn 5:54
5. Give Me The Proof 2:44
6. Down To The Nightclub 2:29
7. What Is Hip? 5:59
8. So Very Hard To Go 5:00
9. Knock Yourself Out 19:25
10.(To Say The Least) You're The Most 4:13

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Dread Zeppelin LIVE in Rockford IL 1999

 Dread Zeppelin

Great Lawn Stage On The Waterfront 

Davis Park

Rockford IL

1999-09-05 

Soundboard @320

01. Intro

02. Immigrant Song

03. Doin' The Claw

04. Whole Lotta Love

05. Ramble On

06. Friend Bob Marley

07. Q & A with Tortelvis---Buttboy Song---C.C. Rider

08. Viva Las Vegas

09. What Is And What Should Never Be

10. Black Dog

11. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair (Tape Flip)

12. Don't Call Me Rasta, Fat Boy

13. Baba O'Riley

14. Going To California

15. Stairway To Heaven

16. Encore Break

17. Heartbreaker Hotel

When Elvis Presley Met Led Zeppelin

Thunder And Lightning - Chi Chi Club 1986

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted June 23, 2009

Thunder And Lightning - Live Chi-Chi Club
(Gravenites & Cipollina)
December 15, 1986

San Francisco, CA
from Soundboard Master @320


Nick Gravenites - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar
Doug Kilmer - bass
Greg Elmore - drums

 

CD 1 - 1st Set
01 Highway One
02 Blues In My Bottle
03 Wintry Countryside
04 Small Walk In Box
05 Four Floors Or Forty
06 Down In The Bottom
07 Banter
08 You Can't Hurt Me
09 Six Weeks In Reno
10 Dekalb Blues

CD 2 - 2nd Set
01 Hollywood Baby
02 Nick's Highland Fling
03 Pride Of Man
04 Fantasy World
05 I Did It For The Band
06 Who Do You Love
07 Unknown - with Diane on vocals
08 Bad Luck Baby
09 Southside
10 Outro

CD 3 - 3rd Set
01 I'll Pull The Trigger
02 Run Outta West
03 Eight Day Clock false start
04 Eight Day Clock
05 Trouble In Mind
06 Please Don't Come To My Party
07 Goodnight Irene
08 Outro

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KSAN's Rising Stars - The Hoovers, Cha Cha Billy, The Lloyds - Sept. 28, 1980

KSAN'S Rising Stars show
The Hoovers
Cha Cha Billy
The Lloyds

The Stone
San Francisco, CA
September 28, 1980
KSAN-FM

01 Hoovers - (cuts in) She Want It
02 Hoovers - World Gone Mad
03 Hoovers - To Your Mother
04 Hoovers - Captain Scarlett
05 Hoovers - Pretty Little Blossom Song
06 Cha Cha Billy - How Sincere Can You Get
07 Cha Cha Billy - Lost In The Lingerie Section
08 Cha Cha Billy - Rolling Away
09 Cha Cha Billy - Take It Or Leave It
10 Cha Cha Billy - Showgirls
11 Cha Cha Billy - Oh Wow
12 Lloyds - Boys
13 Lloyds - Loneliness
14 Lloyds - Lies
15 Lloyds - Nothing in Return (When the Party’s Over)
16 Lloyds - Curiosity
17 Lloyds - Kill Me
18 Lloyds - We Blew Them Away

I digitized the Hoovers portion of this tape back in 2010, and shared it with the Tone and Wave blog.  You can see that post at:

https://toneandwave.blogspot.com/2010/12/hoovers-live-on-ksan-1980.html

The file was picked up a month later in 2011 by Marco On The Bass, who wrote a great piece on the Hoovers. He contacted their keyboard player about the tape. I urge you to read it, it tells you more about the Hoovers than I ever could. That's still up at:

https://marcoonthebass.blogspot.com/2011/01/hoovers-live-on-ksan-fm-from-1980.html

It looks like both of their links are dead, so I figured I'd put the Hoovers back in circulation, along with the two other bands on the bill that night.

Cha Cha Billy was pop-rock, and they played all over the Bay Area for roughly 1979 to 1983.  I had to guess at all of the titles.  The second song in their set has about 15 seconds of low radio noise under the music.

The Lloyds were one of those "shoulda" bands...they shoulda got a contract.  Strong songs, powerful singer....they just had their demo tapes (and some live cuts from the Catalyst and Old Waldorf) released in 2023.

I recommend checking out "Nothing In Return (When The Party's Over)."  That one could have been a hit!

When I originally did the Hoovers set, I had to guess at the date.  With the aid of Newspapers.com, I was able to track down the print ad for the show, which proves the date was Sunday, September 28, 1980.

KSAN switched to a country and western format just a few months later (November 15, 1980).  They had been tightening up their playlist but this tape shows they were taking chances with unknown music right up to the end.

https://mega.nz/file/HARFVIgA#PV-GCDmPjw4P6vUPC-9nY9SWDfI2aSji0YYsa_Kys84

Grant Lee Buffalo - Live Black Session 1993

Back From the Dead...
Originally posted December 5, 2015

Grant Lee Buffalo - Live Black Session
Studio 106 - France Inter Radio - Paris, France
September 10, 1993
FM Source @192

Lineage: FM > Analog > Analog > Nakamichi DR-10 > Philips CDR 770 > EAC > 

Adobe Audition > CDWAVe > FLAC> MP3

 

Set List:
01.The Shining Hour
02.Jupiter and Teardrop
03.America Snoring
04.The Hook
05.Demon Called Deception
06.Soft Wolf Tread
07.The From 'Deliverance'
08.Fuzzy
09. Stockton

 

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Joe Ely / The Omni, Oakland, CA Jan. 6, 1986

Joe Ely
The Omni
Oakland, CA 
January 6, 1986

From a multi-generation tape, originally from the soundboard.  
Hissy. Not my usual high quality work...still...
there's "notta lotta" live Joe Ely....

01 Joe Ely - Are You Listenin' Lucky
02 Joe Ely - (Don't Put A) Lock On My Heart
03 Joe Ely - Boxcars
04 Joe Ely - instrumental
05 Joe Ely - Road Hawg
06 Joe Ely - Lord of the Highway
07 Joe Ely - Letter To L.A.
08 Joe Ely - Me and Billy The Kid
09 Joe Ely - If You Were A Bluebird
10 Joe Ely - My Baby Thinks She's French
11 Joe Ely - Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
12 Joe Ely - Fingernails
13 Joe Ely - Everybody Got Hammered Last Night
14 Joe Ely - Not Fade Away Who Do You Love Bo Diddley
15 Joe Ely - Johnny's Blues
16 Joe Ely - Ain't Got No Home

Flac files of .wavs.  Also found a review of the show he did over in San Francisco at the I-Beam.

https://mega.nz/file/edxhkCJb#GAgGklqCw71eHPVSVSv04qlOWb1a3anWW4YX_j1qQLg

AC-DC - 1976 - 1979 - The Complete Soundboard Collection With Bon Scott

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted by rdnzl May 11, 2021

AC-DC - 1976 - 1979 -  The Complete Soundboard Collection
With Bon Scott
(13cd)(SBD)[MP3-320]

 

I will never get tired of this group.
Namaste

 

AOOO

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Lou Reed / St. James Theatre, NYC, NY - FM broadcast

Lou Reed
St. James Theatre,
New York City, NY
March 23, 1989
Tokyo FM Broadcast

01 Lou introduces the show
02 Romeo Had Juliette
03 Halloween Parade
04 Dirty Blvd.
05 Endless Cycle
06 There Is No Time
07 Busload of Faith
08 Strawman
09 Dime Store Mystery
10 I Love You, Suzanne
11 Doin' The Things That We Want To
12 Rock 'n' Roll
13 Video Violence
14 Band intros
15 Sweet Jane
16 Walk On The Wild Side
17 The Original Wrapper

This is a first-generation tape I received in trade from Japan.  As is often the case, the tape created a mystery.  The tape label is dated "March 28, 1989." I recognize the handwriting of my Tokyo trading partner from all those years ago (Hi, Masanori Saito!! I hope the last 34 years have been good ones!)
But you know Đ®åⒻṬëŕṽøï... I follow Ronald Reagan's tape trading advice: "Trust but verify. Bootlegs often have incorrect information!"  

And sure enough, my first search on the Internet found a poster for the show, listing six dates:  March 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, and 25.  (I've included a copy in the Artwork folder for your reference).

I also found Internet information indicating a Tokyo broadcast of a Lou Reed show dated March 23 with an identical set list, so I'm going with date.  It is likely the 28th is the date of the broadcast in Japan...or that it's just a mistake.

What was broadcast was not the full show from the 23rd. Reed played the entire "New York" album as his first set but the tape only eight of the fourteen "New York" songs.  I found reviews of the shows, and it's likely the second set and encores are missing songs, too.

But what's here is very good. Got that? VERY GOOD.  The tape has some obvious edits where the audience is fast-faded out.  Most likely there were commercials or deejay breaks that were removed.  So this is a very good first generation copy of what was broadcast in Japan. Until a Japanese master shows up, you're gonna want this version.  

I found no evidence of a longer U.S. broadcast.  I would have thought a show like this would have been broadcast by WNEW, but I found no trace of a broadcast. Why Japanese radio got a copy of the show and U.S. radio didn't is a mystery.

I've included some contemporary newspaper reviews of the show, and a review of the New York album.  

Rock and Roll Geography Lesson:

One of the newspaper articles is about "rock in the theater district."  

Wiki tells us, "The St. James Theatre, originally Erlanger's Theatre, is a Broadway theater at 246 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1927, it was designed by Warren and Wetmore in a neo-Georgian style and was constructed for A. L. Erlanger. It has 1,709 seats across three levels... Both the facade and the auditorium interior are New York City landmarks."

Got that?  Warren and Wetmore!  Neo-Georgian facade!  Be ready for a pop quiz later this week...

"The theater has housed several long-running musicals in its history, including original productions of Oklahoma!, The King and I, Hello, Dolly!, The Who's Tommy, and The Producers."

The ticket prices were high for the time, $28.50 and $25.50...and the newspapers indicate that all six shows sold out. 

NOW WITH LINK!

https://mega.nz/file/DYYHXaAK#R0-wl8sny71k8Y3TZT3t-BUD1LurBKZT39JBtU5FPX0