From XRay
A VOODOO WAGON SPECIAL
I mean its got The Doors on it!!! Whatcha gonna do!?
XRay says:
Various Artists - Welcome To Fillmore East/West
Liberated Bootleg
Collection of tracks recorded live at the Fillmore East and West between 1968 - 1971
Excellent Sound!
XRay
Keep on Chooglin’ People!
The music is your special friend . . . . . . .
Music composed by Nicky Skopelitis, soundscaped and produced by Bill Laswell.
HERBERG DE KELDER
Sun is rising on the water
Light is dancing again
Let’s go under where the sun beams
Let’s go under my friend
Are we sleeping
Are we dreaming
Are we dancing again
HERBERG DE KELDER
eye test? Anyone?
More pop posted without a name!
I love how Pooneil does this. . . . . . mind you it cpoould back fire I guess
LUCKY DIP?
Gregson & Collister - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1985-1989
Here's a link to that other volume, so you hopefully don't get even more confused by having two BBC albums by this duo called "Volume 1."
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/09/gregson-collister-bbc-sessions-volume-1.html
Anyway, that 1985 session mentioned above opens this album with two songs, and it's a very interesting one. I'm pretty sure it was recorded (for the BBC TV show "Old Grey Whistle Test") before Gregson and Collister officially became a duo with that song. Instead, they were members of Richard Thompson's backup band, and those two songs were performed by that band, including some nice lead guitar interplay between Gregson and Thompson.
Tracks 3 through 8 comes from a 1988 BBC "In Concert" radio broadcast. I put it here instead of making a separate volume for it because it's only 20 minutes long. It happens to contain "Home Is Where the Heart Is," which also was played in the 1985 session discussed in the previous paragraph. I changed the song order some so those two versions wouldn't be so close to each other.
Tracks 9 through 11 are from a 1989 BBC studio session. I don't know anything about it except it's supposed to be dated March 3, 1989. If anyone knows more, please let me know.
The remaining tracks, 12 through 18, are from another 1989 BBC studio session. More details can be seen in the mp3 tags.
I believe everything here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is an hour and two minutes long.
01 Home Is Where the Heart Is (Gregson & Collister with Richard Thompson)
02 Open Fire (Gregson & Collister with Richard Thompson)
03 This Tender Trap
04 You Rascal You
05 I Specialise
06 talk
07 How Weak I Am
08 Home Is Where the Heart Is
09 Blues on the Run
10 Everybody Cheats on You
11 This Is the Deal
12 Blessing in Disguise
13 Trying to Get You
14 The Minute You're Gone
15 talk
16 Here I Go Again
17 talk
18 I Shake
(all tracks Gregson & Collister except where noted)
Al Stewart - Medicine Ball Caravan, Charlton Park, Bishopsbourn, Britain, 8-31-1970
Last week (as I write this in mid-September 2026), I posted a 1970 Jefferson Airplane concert, which had never been publicly available with that sound quality before. I mentioned that it sounded like that could be the start of a really big leak of hundreds of high quality bootlegs from long ago. Since then, I've learned a lot more about this. I want to share this with you, because it has the potential to be the best news when it comes to bootlegs in decades!
The key to all this is a person named Bob Matthews. He was a key member of the support staff for the Grateful Dead. He went to high school with band member Bob Weir, and because the band's first roadie, back in 1966. From all the way back then, he got involved with recording the band. He stayed associated with the Dead in various roles all the way through the mid-1980s. I guess around that time he drifted away and got involved with some telecommunications job. He died in 2021.
But he was not just involved with the Dead; he had musical links to many other bands. For instance, he was a sound engineer on various Dead albums from "Aoxomoxoa" in 1969 to "Go to Heaven" in 1980, but he also worked on albums by New Riders of the Purple Sage, Hot Tuna, Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Stoneground, Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Barry Melton, and others. He even was a bass player in New Riders of the Purple Sage in 1969. He also had a key role in a company called Alembic, which started in 1969 and made high-end electronic equipment and musical instruments for many famous musicians. In short, this is someone who was a very connected insider in the music industry.
Recently, another person with many long-time links to the Dead, Charlie Miller, was given custody of Matthews' bootleg recordings, which Miller says number about 1,000 concerts. A lot of those are of the Dead, but apparently a majority are not. Miller is working with some other people to release all of this material to the public for free. He started a few weeks ago, and so far he has released about 20 recordings. If you want to see these as they come out, he has a Facebook page where he is posting download links called "Charlie Miller's Google Drive Links." I've noticed not everything he releases comes out there, actually, but most do. Some others are getting posted at the Guitars101 bootleg sharing site.
So far, here are the musical acts that he has released bootlegs for: the Grateful Dead, the Joy of Cooking, Jefferson Airplane, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, Mickey Hart, the Faces, Al Stewart (this recording), Stoneground, Mott the Hoople, and the Youngbloods. Most of them so far are from 1970, and a lot of them are from a small Bay Area concert venue called the Family Dog on the Great Highway, which was only in existence from 1969 to 1970. We don't know what else Miller has and plans on releasing. He's only dropped a few hints. But I've looked at the musical acts that played at the Family Dog on the Great Highway at that time, and it's an intriguing list that includes multiple shows by the Kinks, the Velvet Underground, the Steve Miller Band, Canned Heat, Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), It's a Beautiful Day, Elvin Bishop, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Commander Cody, Albert Collins, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and many, many more. The idea of getting pristine, previously unknown soundboard concert recordings from the likes of these bands after all this time boggles my mind!
And that's just one possible lead. Probably, most of the music is related to the Dead and the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. But a lot of bands from all over the world passed through there. One thing I found out is that Matthews was involved in the recording of the infamous Altamont festival in 1969, headlined by the Rolling Stones, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and others. He is said to have had soundboard recordings of that entire festival, which he would sometimes play for visitors to his house. A few years ago, a soundboard of the Flying Burritos Bros. set from that festival somehow became available. Perhaps it was an early leak from the Matthews trove?
So if you like music from the late 1960s until the mid-1980s, the time Matthews was involved in the music industry, hold on to your hats. Hopefully, there will be a steady release of hundreds of recordings in the months and years to come. I'm going to try to select the ones that interest me the most, make further edits if need be, and post them here. Normally, previously unknown recordings of this sound quality from this era are made public once in a blue moon. But so far, Charlie Miller seems to be releasing something new every couple of days!
This Al Stewart concert was part of a 1970 rock festival in England called the "Medicine Ball Caravan." In fact, there was an entire tour by that name that year. There's a long, tangled story about the tour and this concert in it, so I'll save that for the write-up of the next album from it.
Since this write-up is getting too long already, let me finally focus on this recording. The sound quality is fantastic, which is mind-blowing for its era. I'm pretty sure this now becomes the earliest publicly available concert recording by Stewart period, unless you count short radio and TV performances. In 2022, Stewart released a massive box set called "The Admiralty Lights," which was over 50 CDs in size. I'm sure this would have been included had Stewart had access to it back in 2022. That indicates to me that Matthews sat on his trove of recordings until his death, so nobody really knows what other treasures may be hidden in there, other than maybe Charlie Miller and a few people working with him now to get them to the public.
But this recording had a noticeable flaw, which was that there was almost no audible crowd noise. As I've said in other write-ups, this is a common problem for soundboards when they record everything on stage very well, but at the expense of capturing cheering from the crowd. Luckily, there was a little crowd noise. So I used the MVSEP program on all the songs to bring it up to a reasonable level.
This album is 33 minutes long.
01 Electric Los Angeles Sunset (Al Stewart)
02 talk (Al Stewart)
03 Old Compton Street Blues (Al Stewart)
04 talk (Al Stewart)
05 In Brooklyn (Al Stewart)
06 talk (Al Stewart)
07 Zero She Flies (Al Stewart)
08 talk (Al Stewart)
09 Small Fruit Song (Al Stewart)
10 talk (Al Stewart)
11 Maybe Someday She Will Come Along (Al Stewart)
In October 2017, Squeeze released the studio album "The Knowledge." It got positive reviews from critics. For instance, allmusic.com calls it "a masterly latter-day work." As expected, there a few songs from this album mixed in with older classics.
Happily for me, the version I found already had the music broken up into separate tracks, so I didn't have to do much except mark off the talking tracks. The sound quality is excellent, but keep in mind all the recordings from the big leak mentioned above are in mono.
This album is an hour and 41 minutes long.
01 talk by emcee
02 Please Be Upstanding
03 Pulling Mussels [From the Shell]
04 talk
05 Patchouli
06 Hourglass
07 Final Score
08 talk
09 Rough Ride
10 Annie Get Your Gun
11 Innocence in Paradise
12 talk
13 Cradle to the Grave
14 Nirvana
15 Cool for Cats
16 Another Nail in My Heart
17 Departure Lounge
18 talk
19 Albatross
20 Take Me, I'm Yours
21 Tempted
22 Wicked and Cruel
23 Goodbye Girl
24 Up the Junction
25 If I Didn't Love You
26 Slap and Tickle
27 talk
28 Is That Love
29 Black Coffee in Bed
30 Band Introductions - Black Coffee in Bed [Reprise]
(all tracks Squeeze)
