The Moody Blues - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-27-2012 | Albums That Should Exist

 The Moody Blues - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 27-11- 2012

Paul says: I just posted an announcement, asking for feedback on which of the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak concerts I should post first. The first comment suggested the Moody Blues, so here we go.

By 2012, the Moody Blues were well past their glory years, with their last studio album coming in 2003. They were down to three members dating back to the 1960s: Justin Hayward, John Lodge, and Graeme Edge. But they still put on a good concert, at you can hear here. They stayed together until the end of 2018, when Edge died. Since then, all the original members have passed except Hayward, the band's main singer and songwriter.

I have to admit I "cheated" a bit with this concert. The Capitol Theatre soundboard leak mentioned above actually included all of this November 27, 2012 concert, plus the second half of the November 28th. The set lists were basically the same, except the November 28th portion we have included the song "Driftwood." So I stuck that into this concert, in the same spot it occupied on November 28th.

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long. 

01 Gemini Dream 
02 The Voice
03 Steppin' in a Slide Zone 
04 You and Me
05 Tuesday Afternoon 
06 Gypsy 
07 talk 
08 Nervous
09 talk 
10 Say It with Love
11 talk 
12 Peak Hour
13 I Know You're Out There Somewhere 
14 The Story in Your Eyes
15 talk
16 Driftwood 
17 Your Wildest Dreams 
18 talk 
19 Isn't Life Strange
20 The Other Side of Life
21 talk
22 Higher and Higher 
23 Are You Sitting Comfortably 
24 talk 
25 I'm Just a Singer [In a Rock and Roll Band] 
26 Late Lament [Poem] 
27 Nights in White Satin
28 talk 
29 Question 
30 Ride My See Saw

 (all tracks Moody Blues)

The Moody Blues - Question [new single from Threshold records! 1970]

Kelly Boesch “Without You”

 We haven’t featured much Kelly lately but they can get a tad monotonous dare I say it (predictable if you will) but this writing is so heartfelt I felt like sharing this one as she reveals so much of the personal in this song but the music can get a tad typecast but none the worse for that here

Kelly shares:

"I wrote this song in Feb of 2025 but just reworked the production a bit. This is a very personal song for me. It comes from a time in my life, long ago, when I was in a relationship that wasn’t good for me, but I was afraid to leave. Sometimes you stay in something because you’ve convinced yourself that life without that person would be worse than the life you’re living.

I think one of the hardest things is recognising when something you once believed was love has become something that’s hurting you. And even when you know it, finding the courage to walk away isn’t always easy.

But something interesting happened when I finally did. All those things I was afraid of never really happened. Instead, I started feeling like myself again. I realised how much of myself I had lost trying to make something work that simply wasn’t right for me.

I wrote “Without You” about that realisation. It’s not really a song about anger or regret. It’s about getting to the other side of something difficult and discovering that you’re actually happier. And sometimes that’s a surprising thing to admit, even to yourself.

I think the line that says it all is: “Didn’t know how much I needed to lose you after all.” Sometimes letting go of someone is how you find your way back to yourself.

The visuals just really seemed to fit with this song. Again, I don’t always create visuals that are the exact story of the song. I pair them sometimes by feeling. I love the meditative feel of these scenes and the calmness in the characters. And the healing that is taking place in some scenes. Just really seemed to go together well. Hope you like it "

Kelly Boesch

I do!

“To Love Somebody” (The Bee Gees cover) by Nina Simone | HERBERG DE KELDER

 

To Love Somebody

“To Love Somebody” (The Bee Gees cover) by Nina Simone

The DEFINITIVE version!

I have mentioned Nina before and this song particularly as it was perhaps inexplicably a Mod HIT and then some . . . if you were a mod you had to own this, take it to house parties and youth clubs and play and dance to it over and over was de rigeur

I don’t think we even knew then it was the Bee Gees who had written it and who were a sort of strange pop hit making machine (Joke, Mining Disaster etc etc) were sort of cool but this early fans became horrified by the Satyuday Night Fever malarkey and considered them a sell out

“Forever In My Life” by Prince

 

Forever In My Life

“Forever In My Life” by Prince

HERBERG DE KELDER

Cat Stevens - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 4-26-1974 | Albums That Should Exist

 

Cat Stevens - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 4-26-1974

Paul says: Here is a full-length bootleg Cat Stevens concert from 1974. He was backed by a full band.

There are tons of great Cat Stevens concert recordings from 1970 and 1971, both officially released and unofficial. Then there's a pretty obscure official live album from 1974, called "Saturnight." I don't like that one though, because it's far short of a full-length concert, and the song order is mixed up. It was only released in Japan (where the concert took place) until 2024, and still has only a limited release since then. Also in 2024, an official concert album from 1976 was released, called "Majikat." That one is very nice, but there's a lot of years between 1971 and 1976, considering that was the prime of his music career.

When it comes to concert bootlegs for him, it's very slim pickings between 1971 and 1976. The best full-length one I could find is this one, from Boston in 1974. It's an audience boot, which is disappointing, but it's a particularly good one. It occurred to me that, thanks to the advances in audio editing technology in recent years, I could bring this up to nearly soundboard level. So that's what I tried to do. I used the MVSEP program to clean up crowd noise during songs, boost the lead vocals that were low in the mix, and so forth. I think it sounds a lot better. It's not as good as the "Majikat" or "Saturnight" official live albums, but it sounds plenty worthy to my ears.

This concert took place a month after the release of his 1974 studio album "Buddha and the Chocolate Box." That's one of my favorite albums from him. (I've posted an alternate version of it at this blog that makes it even better.) So naturally he played some songs from that. This also contains an except from his long "Foreigner Suite" called "Sunnyside Road" that makes a nice song when all on its own.

One song here, "Sitting" has "[Edit]" in its title. That's because there was a particularly difficult section of the song near the beginning. You can probably hear it. I tried all I could to make that sound better, but I could only do so much. 

This album is an hour and twenty minutes long.

01 talk 
02 Wild World 
03 talk 
04 Longer Boats 
05 Oh Very Young 
06 Sitting [Edit] 
07 talk 
08 Foreigner Suite- Sunnyside Road 
09 talk 
10 Where Do the Children Play 
11 talk 
12 Moonshadow 
13 How Can I Tell You 
14 Bad Penny 
15 Later 
16 Lady D'Arbanville 
17 talk 
18 Peace Train 
19 Father and Son 
20 Music 
21 18th Avenue 
22 Bitterblue
23 Hard Headed Woman 
24 talk 
25 King of Trees
26 Sun-C79
27 Sad Lisa

 (all tracks Cat Stevens)

Not entirely sure why I have posted links to this one as I feel a tad ‘Meh!’ about Cat Stevens now despite enjoying his work up until Catchbull At Four at the time and introduced to him via my wife and now can take or leave his rather over worked, tired and sentimental schtick but hey . . . he was important once

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights

 

The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 

This song was announced by Michael Sheen as his 'Daddies choice' of car song with his children!

He’s SO cool!

Leland Sklar on bass playing in the studio

I have always suspected a wisdom and wit beyond the normal expectations of a bass player but this anecdote from a favourite musician fills my heart with glee!

 

R.Crumb on music

Pretty much how Robert (Crumb) and I share music!

 

Captain Beehfeart ‘Hot Head' Live on TV 1980

 

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band perform the song “Hothead“ live on national television in 1980. From the album Doc at the Radar Station

Shall we?

 

 . . . . .I think we should