Sunday, August 23, 2026
Neil Young - The Old Laughing Lady [Sugar Mountain - Live at Canterbury House 1968] | jt1674
. . . .this is just lovely and takes me straight back
Dead and Company : ‘Not Fade Away’ 2021
Mayer Moods posted a nice clip of Dead and Company playing Not Fade Away but it is unshareable sadly however John Mayer (for it is he!) has posted all the pod casts on YouTube so go check that out . . . . . see red link below . . . meanwhile I found them doing the song at Red Rocks . . . . . .so
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The Holmes Brothers - 2001-08-22 - Arcata, CA (SBD) | so many roads to ease my soul
The Holmes Brothers - 2001-08-22 - Arcata, CA (SBD)
A SPEEDYMAN SPECIAL
The Holmes Brothers2001-08-22Cafe TomoArcata CASoundboard Recording
Now we have featured the gospel stylings of blues brothers The Holmes boys before and thanks to Speedy he posted links to loads he has featured before at his blog space so he re-upped this one yesterday!
Artists of the Day II & III | Dorothea Tanning & Lee Miller
Dorothea Tanning in her studio, Sedona, Arizona, 1946 by Lee Miller
I think I have said enough for the moment about Lee Miller her relationship with Man Ray and her life as model, muse and war correspondent [first war photographer into Belson-Birchenau and the Nazi extermination camps] and maybe less the Surrealist Dorothea Tanning but that they are important to me at least warrants their duel appearance today. I will never forget shaking Lee hand at the opening of the ICA Man Ray exhibition and meeting Sir Roland too. The eye contact with Lee alone will stay with me . . . bright as a button, a brilliant not an easy read but she survived with an entirely unique place in art history for sure What a woman and still (in her eighties) a bright enigmatic presence I thought. What a life!
Prince - Rock Over Germany, Flugplatz, Luneburg, Germany, 9-3-1993 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST
Wow! and again Paul astonishes . . . I didn’t really realise he hadn’t posted any Prince so here goes:
Prince - Rock Over Germany, Flugplatz, Luneburg, Germany, 9-3-1993
I have to admit that, probably like a majority of Prince's fans, I haven't closely followed his entire career. If you look at the crowd-sourced ratings of the albums he released in his lifetime, all the really highly rated ones are from between 1979 and 1995. So I figure 1993 is a good time for a concert from him, as it can be kind of a greatest hits of his best songs from his most popular and creative era. This is the best sounding concert I found from that year. It's a soundboard.
At the time of this concert, Prince's most recent album was released in late 1992. It was his second album with his band at the time, the New Power Generation. I wish I could tell you the album name, but the "title" was an unpronounceable symbol. However, it later generally became known as "Love Symbol." (By the end of 1993, Prince claimed this symbol was his new name, due to a dispute he was having with his record company. The media responded by generally calling him "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince." He returned to calling himself "Prince" in 2000, when he finally was able to change record companies.)
Anyway, Prince didn't release a new studio album in 1993. This was very unusual for him, since he was extremely prolific. However, on September 10, 1993, he released a double album greatest hits collection called "The Hits." If you check the concert date, that was one week after this concert. He played two songs that were first released on that greatest hits: "Pope" and "Peach."
There's just a couple of notes about the songs performed. When you see "When Doves Cry" in the song list, don't get too excited. It's only about ten seconds of the introductory chords before switching to another song. However, he played nearly all of his other big hits he'd had up until that time. A few other songs also are short snippets.
And "talk by Mayte" is a spoken message entirely in German. I don't know what was said, since I don't speak German. But I do know who Mayte is. She joined his backing band, the New Power Generation, in 1992, when she turned 18 years old. She was born and raised in Germany, which explains her speaking in German to the German audience. She and Prince married in 1996 and stayed married for four years.
The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is an hour and 41 minutes long.
01 My Name Is Prince
02 Sexy MF - Love 2 the 9's
03 The Beautiful Ones
04 Let's Go Crazy
05 Kiss
06 Irresistible Bitch
07 She's Always in My Hair
08 Raspberry Beret
09 The Cross
10 Sign O' the Times
11 Purple Rain
12 Thunder - When Doves Cry
13 Nothing Compares 2 U
14 And God Created Woman [Instrumental]
15 Diamonds and Pearls
16 Venus de Milo [Instrumental]
17 I Love U in Me
18 Strollin'
19 Scandalous
20 talk
21 Girls and Boys
22 Arabic Intro [Instrumental]
23 7
24 talk by Mayte
25 1999
26 Baby I'm a Star
27 Rock the House - America [Instrumental]
28 D.M.S.R.
29 Gett Off
30 Pope
31 It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night [Instrumental Version]
32 Peach
Wendy Waldman - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-3-1975 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST
Now I didn’t know Waldman but this is really worth a read and thanks to Paul for finding this from his efforts tracking down more of the Emmets Field recordings. Given that I get excited about singer songwriters (especially) the story of Wendy Waldman is just fascinating - read the list of people who have covered her work and you will see why! Thanks Paul
Wendy Waldman - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 4-3-1975
Chances are pretty good that you've never heard of Wendy Waldman before. That was the case for me before I started working on these Ebbets Field shows. But sometimes finding success in the music business is more about lucky breaks than musical talent. That seems to be the case here. She put out a bunch of albums in the 1970s and after, but never made a commercial mark. Yet after listening to this, I realized Waldman is a talented songwriter and also a very good singer.
One way you can tell she's a good songwriter is the fact that her songs have been covered by over 70 musical acts. Those include: Garth Brooks, Aaron Neville, Kenny Rogers, Alison Krauss, Linda Ronstadt, Robert Smith of The Cure, Kathy Mattea, Maria Muldaur, Kim Carnes, Melissa Manchester, Vanessa Williams, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Percy Sledge, and many more. Yet, she got so little exposure as a performer that I couldn't find any decent TV performances or even photographs of her in concert in the 1970s. To make the cover, I had to take a screenshot of a TV performance where she was back-up singer in a Linda Ronstadt concert.
Here's the Wikipedia entry for Waldman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Waldman
In 1970, Waldman was a founding member of the band Bryndle. Unfortunately, they only released a single and then broke up, since they couldn't get a record company to release a full album from them. But the other band members were Andrew Gold, Karla Bonoff, and Kenny Edwards. Gold and Bonoff in particular went on to have a lot of success in the 1970s. Much later, Byrndle reunited and finally released albums in 1995 and 2001.
At the time of this concert, Waldman had just released her third album, cleverly titled "Wendy Waldman." It never bothered the record charts, like her other albums, sadly.
This bootleg recording generally sounds very good. However, there was a problem: the song "Wild Bird" got cut off halfway through, and the first half of the next song, "Train Song" was also missing. I managed to patch this, though the results weren't great. For "Wild Bird," I couldn't find any live versions. So I took the studio album version, used the MVSEP program to strip it down to solo acoustic, and then used that to fill in the missing part. For "Train Song," I was surprised to find another live version, from another rare bootleg, from 1974. So I used the banter from before that song, edited somewhat, and then the live version for that missing part. Unfortunately, both of these edits aren't that good, due to the lack of material to work from. I think it's extremely obvious when the edits happen, especially for "Train Song," which suddenly goes from an acoustic performance to a full-band one. But I figure it's better to have these patches than only partial versions of these songs.
Thanks again to Paul Newton for digging this up and sharing it. If you have other Ebbets Field broadcasts I haven't posted, please share them! Hopefully, by sharing this, hundreds of people will finally start to appreciate Waldman's music after not knowing about her for all these years.
This album is 47 minutes long.
01 Listen to Your Own Heart
02 Cold Back on Me
03 talk
04 North Woods Man
05 talk
06 Green Rocky Road
07 talk
08 Come On Down
09 Explain It
10 talk
11 Baby Don't You Go
12 Secrets
13 Wild Bird [Edit]
14 talk
15 Train Song [Edit]
16 talk by emcee
17 talk
18 Western Lullaby
19 talk by emcee
Sound Techniques, Chelsea: film, book and podcast | Pete Paphides, Andrew Scheps, Rose Simpson
We were talking (well my old pal Phil was telling me! He is a life long Chelsea fan - warning:football reference!) and knew full well where the studio was (being a top muso too!) and developed an interest as to what they were up to - of course) ) about the soon to be published Sound Techniques book about the historically legendary recording studio and I was happy to stumble across this
Sound Techniques, Chelsea: film, book and podcast
Pete Paphides loves the ladies of Sound Techniques! This week Pete talks about Pentangle and in particular the voice of Jacqui McShee on the two albums they recorded at Sound Techniques, Chelsea.
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