Captain Beefheart - Live Amsterdam, NL. 1974

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Captain Beefheart - Live Amsterdam, NL. 1974

Captain Beefheart - Live Concertgebouw

Amsterdam, NL.

June 22, 1974

FM Source @320

Set List:

1. Mighty Crazy - Be Your Dog.
2. Sweet Georgia Brown.
3. This Is The Day.
4. Abba Zaba.
5. Peaches.
6. Who'll Be The Next One ? - Yer Gonna Need Somebody On Yer Bond

Really interesting set and whilst this sounds like the so called Tragic Band it is worth having for completists . . . . . . .l

  

On this day in music history: March 7, 1983 - “The Hurting”, the debut album by Tears For Fears is released (US release date April 11, 1983). Produced by Chris Hughes and Ross Cullum, it is recorded at Cresent Studios in Somerset, Bath, UK, Brittania Row Studios and Abbey Road Studios in London from Early 1982 - Early 1983. Originally part of the mod/new wave band Graduate, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith form the duo Tears For Fears in 1981, with their new name being inspired by Dr. Arthur Janov’s “primal scream therapy” in which patients purge themselves of personal traumas and pain that has often been repressed since childhood. Friends since the age of thirteen, Orzabal and Smith both come from broken homes and have been raised by their mothers. They use this as the basis for the songs that make up their debut album. It is a concept album about “feelings of abandonment, rejection and anger”, facing them and dealing with those emotions. In spite of the albums somewhat dark and morose subject matter, it is an immediate hit in TFF’s home country making them major pop stars, also gaining them a toehold of support in the US that will later develop into worldwide success. It spins off three top five singles in the UK including “Change” (#4 UK, #73 US Pop), “Mad World” (#3 UK), and “Pale Shelter” (#5 UK). The original UK version of the album features a photo of a child, sitting with his hands covering his face, against a stark white background. The international release with replace this image with a photo of Orzabal and Smith standing at the bank of a river (the same image is used for the UK single picture sleeve for “Mad World”), looking away from the camera. A remastered 3 CD + 1 DVD deluxe edition of the album is released in October of 2013, with the second disc featuring remixes, single edits and demo versions, the third disc containing live performances recorded for DJ John Peel’s radio program, BBC radio and two further performances recorded in concert. The fourth disc contains the first DVD release of the “In My Mind’s Eye” concert video, recorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in December of 1983 and originally released on VHS and laserdisc in November of 1984. “The Hurting” spends one week at number one on the UK album chart and is certified Platinum in the UK by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry, peaking at number seventy three on the Billboard Top 200, and is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.

Cover by Gary Jules so central to the film soundtrack for 'Donnie Darko' 

a favourite that I have watched over and over know about ten times or so

TINA

On this day in music history: March 7, 1966 - Tina Turner records her vocals on “River Deep - Mountain High” at Gold Star Studios in Hollywood, CA. Written by Phil Spector, Jeff Barry, and Ellie Greenwich, it is first solo release by Tina Turner. Producer Phil Spector, long an admirer of Tina, approaches her about working together. Spector pays Ike $20,000 to stay away from the studio though he is billed on the finished single and album. “River Deep - Mountain High” is released in May of 1966 but flops in the US, peaking at #88 on the Hot 100. However, it is enthusiastically received in the UK where it peaks at #3. The records US failure devastates Spector so much, that he stops recording for over two years. In spite of its failure in the US, years later the epic song is covered by numerous artists, with the original recording being regarded as one of Phil Spector’s greatest productions. “River Deep - Mountain High” is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999.

Ooops forgot this one from March 4th . . . . . . great song

On this day in music history: March 4, 1967 - “Ruby Tuesday” by The Rolling Stones hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is the fourth chart topping single for the British rock band. Keith Richards comes up with initial idea for the song, writing it in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966 while the band are in the city recording tracks for their current album “Aftermath”. The song about a free spirited woman, is based on a groupie Richards and his then girlfriend Linda Keith knew. Jagger writes most of the lyrics including the song's chorus. The Stones record “Ruby Tuesday” at Olympic Studios in London on November 8, 1966 with additional overdubs recorded on December 3, 1966. Guitarist Brian Jones also plays the recorder on the song, giving it its distinctive “baroque” sound. “Ruby” is originally released as the B-side of “Let’s Spend The Night Together” in January of 1967. When American radio stations feel that the former song is “too suggestive” for airplay, DJ’s flip the single over and play “Ruby Tuesday” instead. Entering the Hot 100 at #78 on January 21, 1967, it speeds to the top of the chart six weeks later. “Ruby Tuesday” is added to US LP pressings of The Rolling Stones’ next album “Between The Buttons” when it is released on February 11, 1967. 

 Lots of us heard it first via the wonderful Melanie Safka




Later we enjoyed Marianne Faithfull's version often confused with Sylvie Vartan's cover

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here with great visuals from Polanski's ' Repulsion' with the incandescent Catherine Deneuve

On this day in 1876, a 29-year-old teacher named Alexander Graham Bell registered  a patent for what became known as "the telephone" 

The idea caught on and soon enough became quite successful. The president of Western Union turned down buying Bell's patent, thinking the telephone was merely a toy, so Bell started the Bell Telephone Company himself.

Bell even filed a patent for a "photophone" in 1880, a wireless device in which the speakers could see each other as they talked. 

Bell  himself found his own invention annoying and refused to have a telephone installed in his home.

Zeebrugge Herald of Free Enterprise disaster remembered . . .

The BBC News reminded us today that it is 30 years since the terrible tragedy of the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise off Zeebrugge. We lost two dear pals from MOMA here in Oxford in Alison and Francis who I think of often. I was moved to discover Mrs De Rohan was one of the parents interviewed with moving remembrance of her daughter and son-in-law who were simply two of the nicest people I ever met. 

Thirty years ago a ferry left dock in Belgium. Within minutes the ship was in trouble and in just 90 seconds it capsized, killing 193 people. Here is the story of the Herald of Free Enterprise - told by those whose lives were forever affected by the disaster. 

One young couple who died were Alison and Francis Gaillard. They had been married for less than two years.
Alison's mother, Margaret De Rohan, was in Australia when the Herald tipped over - she had not known her daughter and son-in-law were on board until her husband mentioned they had gone on a day trip to Belgium.
The De Rohans flew home, and Mrs De Rohan said she was convinced she would find her daughter alive in hospital.
"I had the strongest feeling in the world I'd find Alison, and that she'd be so badly injured she wouldn't be able to tell people who she was," she said. "It's an awful thing for a mother to hope, that her daughter would be so badly hurt.
"We went to Belgium, to the hospital. We were told there were 16 unidentified bodies but Ali and Francis weren't among them. My husband insisted on going to the morgue to see for himself. He came back, kissed me on the cheek, and said 'Ali's there. Francis isn't'.
"And all our hopes were dashed. I was right, we'd found her in a hospital. I didn't realise it would be in the morgue. Francis was still on the Herald of Free Enterprise until it was refloated. It took about three and a half weeks before we got his body back. They're buried together in Windsor cemetery.
"You know, they were a young, idealistic couple. If they'd found something they really, really believed in, I could just imagine they'd sacrifice their lives for it. But not this."

I was unable to go to the memorial but understand the family and friends planted a tree which I always find most moving in terms of memorials. I had cause today to shed a tear and reflect upon my memories of them. I recall them both clearly and what fun we had when Ali worked as a volunteer at MOMA in Oxford and she was largely responsible for the cataloguing of a significant library of art catalogues and documents for the MOMA archive. I have no idea what happened to that but feel strangely it stood as testament to her unerring eye for detail and enthusiastic intelligence. Francis shared a sense of humour amongst the gang of us that hung out together during their time there. I recall a conversation with them once in which they had seen some of my own artwork and Francis jokingly suggested I might make serious money in the Summer in Oxford drawing local views, Christchurch Cathedral, Magdalen College etc in charcoal. Set up sitting on the street in a folding chair and have prepared several sketches which Francis thought I might make say £10 each [then] and I did some loose charcoal sketches from slides I bought to make him laugh and never got to show them to them both. I was going to post them here but cannot find them for the moment. I know they are there somewhere and I think of them along with the joy and fun of Ali and Francis that their friends and I shared whilst at MOMA. I miss them and think of them as the  years pass by and was shocked to find it had been 30 years . . . . I liked them and I do not believe it is possible to imagine two nicer people. 

Leonard Cohen - Live Concertgebouw 1980

The wonderful Floppy Boot Stomp has noted this fine concert of Leonard Cohen from Amsterdam in 1980

Leonard Cohen - Live Concertgebouw 1980

Leonard Cohen - Live ConcertgebouOctober 30, 1980

Amsterdam, NL
pre-FM @ flac

Leonard Cohen - guitar, vocals
Roscoe Beck - bass
John Bilezikjian - oud, mandolin
Bill Ginn - keyboards
Rafi Hakopian - violin
Steve Meador - drums
Paul Ostermayer - various wind instruments
Mitch Watkins - guitar
Sharon Robinson - b/u vocals

Set List: 

Disc One: (62:10)
01. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
02. Who By Fire
03. The Window
04. Passing Through
05. The Guests
06. There Is a War
07. Suzanne
08. The Stranger Song
09. -talk-
10. Chelsea Hotel #2
11. The Partisan
12. Story of Isaac
13. The Gypsy's Wife

Disc Two: (63:49)
01. The Music Crept By Us [poem] -> -improv: 'Concertgebouw'-
02. Diamonds in the Mine
03. Famous Blue Raincoat
04. Lover Lover Lover
05. -talk-
06. Memories
07. So Long Marianne
08. -applause, talk-
09. One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
10. Joan of Arc
11. I Tries to Leave You
12. -applause, talk-
13. Do I have to Dance All Night

Thanks to Dime and the people that share!

The Wondrous Willard's Wormholes does us proud again and explores the early BEATLES studio sessions

THE BEATLES Studio Sessions Back To Basics: Please Please Me Studio Sessions, With The Beatles Studio Sessions, A Hard Day’s Night Studio Sessions, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (2011)

March 5, 2017 – 03:11

Please Please Me Studio Sessions (2011)
With The Beatles Studio Sessions (2011)
A Hard Day’s Night Studio Sessions, Vol. 1 (2011)
A Hard Day’s Night Studio Sessions, Vol. 2 (2011)
The Best… Just Doing What They Did.

FROM 2011: The beauty of these original session tapes (available for many years in different incarnations, but meshed here with obscure mixes) is the opportunity to hear The Beatles playing live in the studio, unconsciously making up all new rules for the music industry, and all while the tapes were rolling. That they had such a fresh approach – both inventively and commercially – for virtually all their sessions is an accomplishment that still mystifies students of the arts to this day. This kinetic, spontaneous live sound is a joy, and it makes you wonder why you’d ever wanna listen to those official albums again (especially those old American LPs, HERE… some of which are included in these sets). There are, of course, non-essential tracks that weigh down the flow  – crappy monitor mixes are the worst offenders – but the live stuff is worth the fat. The old collector in me perversely appreciates the mixture of original studio tapes and eventually lost mixes (from LP sources like Reel Music all the way up to Rock Band). It’s a smart organizational trick, too, maintaining a consistent listening experience across decades of versions and releases. Historically speaking, these are the days, aren’t they? How great is it to be able to immediately access the nervousness in George Harrison’s voice as he records his first, solo composition (“Don’t Bother Me”)? Listen to the ease with which the band is able to count off, and nail, a middle eight whenever George Martin wants an edit piece. It just confirms that these guys were already club-worn pros when they walked through Abbey Road’s doors, and they sound it. Their adaptability is amazing. Listen for the years of pent-up club versions in McCartney’s first vocal take of “I Saw Her Standing There,” one of the few in the series where Lennon gets his ‘when’s, ‘and’s & ‘since’s straight. In another session, Lennon laments that things aren’t written down, illustrating his ongoing lyrical issues – from the first sessions all the way to the rooftop concert where Yoko can be seen holding lyrics for him. There are four discs of A Hard Day’s Night variations, for you gotta-have-it-all types, while the multi-take evolution of McCartney’s powerhouse vocals for the title track’s bridge are worthy of University study.

STATE OF THE UNION '75 - Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal by Steve Shapiro

“There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt — until recently … and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.” Gore Vidal, “State of the Union”  1975

The Boys . . . . . just some Beatles piccies to raise a smile on this sunny but cold day here

Early

Young young young . . . .

TV beckons . . . 

Paul and George at the Top Ten Club, Hamburg, April 1961

Larkin' abaht as ever . . . . . . .oh you boys!

Shea Stadium? Realising that the Beatles following meant venues that couldn't be matched by the technology - soon to change but still prolly playing with a few AC30's!

Great shot. If you know who by let me know for a credit

LATER

Magical mates

Wonder if these are Martha's puppies?

Aaah George . . . . .in New York

Mates . . . . . . of course