What makes this concert recording stand out is the sound quality. It's an excellent soundboard bootleg. He was in good form, which wasn't always the case in 2003. He hadn't toured much since 2000, and he was playing a lot of new songs, some of which would end up on his 2004 album, "From a Basement on the Hill." It also ends with a nice cover of "Blackbird" by the Beatles.
By the way, I've noticed there's a video of this entire concert on YouTube. This isn't sourced from that, though. The video quality isn't that good, but I thought I'd mention it for people who might want to watch it.
This album is an hour and three minutes long.
01 Happiness
02 Memory Lane
03 Rose Parade
04 Strung Out Again
05 talk
06 Plainclothes Man
07 I Figured You Out
08 St. Ides Heaven
09 A Passing Feeling
10 Division Day
11 talk
12 Between the Bars
13 Twilight
14 I Better Be Quiet Now
15 talk
16 Pretty [Ugly Before]
17 Waltz No. 2 [XO]
18 Satellite
19 talk
20 Coast to Coast
21 Say Yes
22 talk
23 Blackbird
Fairport Convention - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 8-31-1970
In the end, I was able to make a lot of sonic improvements. (If you think this sounds rough, you should have heard it before.) There was a lot of muck in this recording. I used a few different audio editing tricks to reduce that, but I couldn't get rid of that entirely. I made a particularly big impact on the banter between songs. Before, that was barely intelligible. Now, most of what they're saying can be understood.
Frankly, there are some other live recordings from 1970 with similar set lists that sound better. But if you're a big fan of the band, especially in their early years, you'll want this one too. Richard Thompson was still in the band. He and violinist Dave Swarbrick had some good instrumental "duels" on some of the songs.
The music here is unreleased. As mentioned above, the sound quality is decent, but not the best.
This album is an hour and 21 minutes long.
01 talk
02 Walk Awhile
03 talk
04 Dirty Linen [Instrumental]
05 talk
06 Staines Morris
07 talk
08 The Lark in the Morning [Instrumental]
09 talk
10 Now Be Thankful
11 talk
12 Matty Groves
13 talk
14 The Banks of the Sweet Primroses
15 talk
16 Drums [Instrumental]
17 Flatback Caper
18 talk
19 Sloth
20 talk
21 Instrumental
22 talk
23 Tam Lin
24 talk
25 Sir Patrick Spens
Now as regulars will know I don’t post audience recordings (any longer) so spoilt am I but if Paul has done an engineering job on this recording for a fan/visitor it has to be worth checking out . . . . I couldn’t download it here so will leave it to you guys until I can get the VPN up and running
In 1692, an almost 100-year-old Sámi shaman named Anders Poulsen had his drum confiscated and stood trial for witchcraft in Vadsø (Northern Norway).
Before he was convicted, he was murdered in his cell with an axe by a mentally ill person named Villum Gundersen. He became the last victim of the Finnmark witch trials.
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Starting in 1609, owning this drum was a crime punishable by death in the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. In 1767, while hundreds of them were being thrown into the fire, a Norwegian priest sketched and documented one.
When the Norwegian priest and linguist Knud Leem (1697-1774) arrived in Finnmark (Northern Norway) as a missionary in 1725, he formed a deep bond with the Sámi people.He wore their clothes and learned their language.For years,he observed shamanic sessions and personally drew what he saw.
The engraver O.H.von Lode transferred these drawings onto copper plates. Published in Copenhagen in 1767, the book contained over 600 pages of parallel Danish-Latin text and 100 copperplate engravings. It's the most comprehensive Sámi ethnography published in Northern Europe in the 18th century.
The symbols on the drum's membrane were drawn with a red dye made from alder bark. This color symbolized blood. A single drum could hold up to 150 symbols. The noaidi (shaman) would place a brass ring called a 'vuorbi' on the membrane and beat the drum.The symbol where the ring stopped was the answer to the question asked: the location of a lost reindeer, the luck of a hunt, or which sacrifice to offer...
On Northern Sámi drums, the membrane was divided into three tiers by horizontal lines: the upper tier was the realm of the gods, the middle tier was the human world, and the lower tier was the realm of the dead. In 1692, an almost 100-year-old Sámi shaman named Anders Poulsen had his drum confiscated and stood trial for witchcraft in Vadsø (Northern Norway).
Poulsen played his drum in court. He called out to his gods, asking them not to be afraid of the Norwegians in the courtroom. In his 16-page testimony, he explained every single symbol on the membrane one by one. Before he was convicted, he was murdered in his cell with an axe by a mentally ill person named Villum Gundersen.
He became the last victim of the Finnmark witch trials.
Missionary Thomas von Westen had about 100 drums collected all by himself. He sent them all to Copenhagen. In the Great Fire of Copenhagen in 1728, 70 of them burned to ashes. Today, only 71 original Sámi drums are preserved worldwide.
a visitor to the page noted this which I thought interesting “Shamanic drumming 220 beats a minute in a small area (of the brain) where it creates a binaural beat and after while you feel different and you start halucinating and then. . .”
Bought when it came out (well I was at Art School!)
actually I was employed by then at The Museum of Modern Art [Oxford]!
(My baby does) good sculptures
THE REZILLOS
#OnThisDay 43 years ago, 2nd April 1982, The Beat released 'Save It For Later' b/w 'What's Your Best Thing' on Go-Feet Records.
The Beat feat. Ranking Jr. are live at the 'My Generation Weekender' in January 2027tinyurl.com/MyGeneration2027
This video is taken from the 'OTT' programme on ITV where THE BEAT perform the song live on 3rd April 1982 on the last ever episode. It was a CHILDREN’S programme
