This just in from Floppy Boot Stomp and brother Jobe shares a real treat and read what he says about quality as, like him, I tend not to post links to audience recordings anymore (so spoilt am I?!) but there are exceptions
this four disc set of his four night residency in New York in 2000 is one of them
David Bowie - London Boy 4 New York Nights in June 2000 - Floppy Boot Stomp
Not-half-bad-indeed Productions 2022
Joplin was described by Record Mirror in 1969 as “a kind of mixture of Lead Belly, a steam engine, Calamity Jane, Bessie Smith, an oil derrick and rot-gut bourbon, funnelled into the 20th century between El Paso and San Francisco”.
As she told an interviewer: “Man, I’d rather have 10 years of superhypermost than live to be 70 sitting in some goddamn chair watching television.”
And she continued: “People aren’t supposed to be like me, make out like me, drink like me, live like me, but now they’re paying me $50,000 a year for me to be like me.”
“She was portrayed as this loud, Southern Comfort-drinking girl – and she definitely loved to have fun – but like so many women she was trying to find herself,” says Berg, who says that she fell in love with the singer as she learned more about her.
“She enjoyed the high of it, and she enjoyed what happened to her on stage when she was giving the audience everything she had inside, but she had a really hard time with trying to balance the high with the mundane aspects of life and finding the right people to balance it out with.”
-Edward Helmore
(UPGRADE)
Albums That Never Were - HOMEGROWN - Neil Young
Albums that Never Were has upgraded his effort at recreating the missing (well now not!) Homegrown Album. We have listed the first blast here and Sonic Love Noise has spent time to upgrade the project and his notes and details as ever are always worth a read
as he says:
This an oft-requested upgrade of one of my favorite albums that never were. This is a reconstruction—actually, more of a re-imagining, really—of Neil Young’s famous unreleased 1975 album Homegrown. Originally meant to be released in 1975 as the proper follow-up to On The Beach, it was shelved in favor of the more electric and immediate Tonight’s The Night. While the album was finally released in 2020 as a part of The Archive Volume 2 project, many fans complained that the album was not what they had imagined or what it could have been; some even seemed to like my own reconstruction better than the actual release! So this is an upgrade to my original reconstruction using the newly-released sources, swapping some tracks for others to make Homegrown actually live up to it’s own hype as the stark, acoustic record that was the successor to Harvest.
Tom Waits: “Sometimes it’s hard to separate the two identities”, “I may exaggerate a little onstage, but I’m not trying to be anyone else but me. I try not to be compromising and condescending. I talk about things I know about. Deep down inside there isn’t a man wearing a leisure suit."
“I live in a run-down hotel—the Tropicana. All room rents paid in advance. The other people who live there are four-speed automatic transvestites, unemployed firemen, dikes, hoods, hookers, sadists, masochists, Avon ladies on the skids, reprieved murderers, ex-bebop singers and one-armed piano players. The whole gambit—lock, stock, and bagels."
Dallas Morning News November 13, 1977
Maher, Paul. Tom Waits on Tom Waits: Interviews and Encounters
Hold On (Mule Variations)
So Urbanaspirines has done their usual historical number on the Creedence Clearwater Revival and a six disc biographical set from 2001 and veery comprehensive it is too!
Its peachy and you should check it out. They always have something fascinating to say . . . . . . this biographical look at CCR being no exception . . . .
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - BOX SET(6 discs) - Urbanaspirines
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Pulp // Death Goes To The Disco
No, don’t let me down
oh, don’t make me cry
Thanks as always to O My Soul
Pretty depressing out there and so . . . . . . . .
Harry Wayne Casey started disco group K.C. & The Sunshine Band back in 1973."Get Down Tonight" is their very first hit released in 1975. It is one of the tracks of their self-titled album KC and the Sunshine Band. The song became widely successful, becoming the first of their five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100.It also was an international chart hit, reaching No. 1 in Canada and charting in Australia (No. 44), Belgium (No. 11), the Netherlands (No. 5), and the UK (No. 21).This clip was recorded especially for Toppop on 5 September 1975.
possibly not but it looks like it . . . . . .
The self proclaimed healer-inventor Emery Blagdon: Blagdon spent decades working on constructing what he called healing machines in his Sand Hills shed in Nebraska. The 800 square feet shed was completely packed with his invention-sculptures, and Blagdon firmly believed that his pieces created an electromagnetic field that could treat various diseases.
When asked to explain, he would simply say - “I don’t know why it just works.“
which in my book is short hand for it doesn't! . . . . . . . . . .
XTC - Summer’s Cauldron/Grass (1986)
*Vinyl Rip
For the first day of summer (here?) there's this . . . . . . . . .
THE DOORS
when paying tribute to Ray Manzarek 2016
Disc 1
Track 101. Times Like These 7:10
Track 102. All My Life 4:51
Track 103. Learn to Fly 5:28
Track 104. Something From Nothing 4:49
Track 105. The Pretender 8:17
Track 106. band introduction 6:01
Includes Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent), Another One Bites the Dust (Queen) and Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones)
Track 107. Cold Day in the Sun 3:27
Track 108. Congregation 4:48
Track 109. Walk 6:16
Track 110. These Days 6:36
Track 111. My Hero 10:14
Track 112. Wheels (slow version) 6:29
75 mins
Disc 2
Track 201. Run 8:22
Track 202. This Is a Call 2:14
Track 203. Arlandria 6:33
Track 204. Monkey Wrench 13:28
Track 205. Best of You 13:27
Track 206. Skin and Bones 7:36
Track 207. Under Pressure 6:58
Queen cover with Taylor on vocals and Dave on drums
Track 208. Everlong 7:38
67 mins
Disc 1
Track 101. Radio Intro (0:09) (253k)
Track 102. Bridge Burning (5:10) (8.2MB)
Track 103. Rope (4:34) (7.3MB)
Track 104. Dear Rosemary (4:10) (6.7MB)
Track 105. White Limo (3:40) (5.9MB)
Track 106. I Should Have Known (4:23) (7.4MB)
Track 107. Radio promo (0:30) (830k)
Track 108. Radio interview (0:47) (1.2MB)
Track 109. Learn To Fly (3:59) (6.4MB)
Track 110. My Hero (6:13) (9.9MB)
Track 111. Up In Arms (6:52) (11.0MB)
Track 112. Big Me (2:37) (4.4MB)
Track 113. Radio promo (0:30) (824k)
Disc 2
Track 201. Skin And Bones (4:35) (7.7MB)
Track 202. Hey, Johnny Park! (4:14) (6.7MB)
Track 203. Everlong (4:41) (7.5MB)
Track 204. Radio promo (0:09) (263k)
Track 205. The Pretender (5:44) (9.1MB)
Track 206. Radio promo (0:30) (855k)
Track 207. Best Of You (5:13) (8.3MB)
Track 208. For All The Cows (3:50) (6.1MB)
Track 209. Enough Space (2:35) (4.1MB)
Track 210. Aurora (7:16) (11.6MB)
Track 211. This Is A Call (5:06) (8.1M)
Track 212. Radio outro (0:29) (824k)
Total time: 1:28:11
Must have missed this over on the Floppy side . . . . . . . .
PINK FLOYD - LIVE IN City Hall SHEFFIELD 1970 - Floppy Boot Stomp
Brother Jobe says:
I remember when "Dark Side Of The Moon" came out. I also remember how many of my friends gushed over it. To me, it was alright, but I never thought it deserved all the accolades it got. I thought it was just a metaphor for all the cool kids to let you know that "Yeah I smoke weed" but will keep it on the down-low and listen to DSOTM. I still think "The Wall" is overrated when you consider it's a double album with about six actual "songs" I do love "Wish You Were Here" though. I like the "song side" of "Meddle" but never listen to "Echoes" (not enough time) Which brings me to "Atom Heart Mother" it is still my favorite PF record. My favorite cut on AHM has to be "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" from the first time I heard it I loved it. I can smell the bacon frying, the sound of the corn flakes being poured into the bowl, and of course the faucet drip, and from what I understand original pressing's of the vinyl have the faucet drip go on into infinity if you did not have an automatic turntable. I'll bet right now somewhere there is some acid casualty, sitting with his headphones on, who is now a pile of bones, still wondering what is leaking??? That brings me to this boot. It is not of the sound quality that I normally try to post. But in a way it's kind of a historical document. When you read the scans you'll see it is the only time they performed it live and captured on tape. (Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast) One other thing I don't see this posted a lot. I know over at "The Wagon" my last post was yet another PF boot, but hey it's always been about you and what I think you're looking for. However on numerous occasions I post what I like in hope that you'll listen to it and hear what I hear and like in it.
and you know what? I agree! hence my posting . . . . . check it out
Guy Clark - L.A. Freeway
with thanks as ever to O MY Soul
Clark featured singing on Nanci Griffith's Other Voices Other Rooms and he was one of her favourite 'country' songwriters. The guy was a master at writing the country steeped in the universal truisms and poetry but never quite made it on his own and didn't seem to travel well so we only discovered him here in Europe through covers by others [he wrote Desperados Waiting For A Train that featured as did he on Griffith's Other Voices Too] . . . . . both sadly lost to us now (Clark died in 2006 and Nanci we lost at 68 last year having beaten cancer twice before) and both are always worth checking out
Pack up all your dishes
Make note of all good wishes
And say goodbye to the landlord for me
That son of bitch has always bored me
Throw out them L.A. papers
That mouldy box of Vanilla Wafers
Adios, to all this concrete
Gonna get me some dirt road back streets
I can just get off of this L.A. freeway
Without gettin' killed or caught
Down that road in a cloud of smoke
To some land I ain't bought, bought, bought
And it's, here's to you, old Skinny Dennis
The only one I think I will miss
I can hear old bass singin'
Sweet and low like a gift you're bringin'
Play it for me one more time now
Got to give it all you can now
I believe every thing you're sayin'
Just to keep on, keep on playin'
I can just get off of this L.A. freeway
Without gettin' killed or caught
Down that road in a cloud of smoke
To some land I ain't bought, bought, bought
And you put the pink card in the mailbox
Leave the key in that old front door lock
They'll find it likely as not
I'm sure there's somethin' we have forgot
Oh, Susanna, don't you cry, baby
Love's a gift that's surely handmade
We got somethin' to believe in
Don't you think it's time, we're leavin'?
I can just get off of this L.A. freeway
Without gettin' killed or caught
Down the road in a cloud of smoke
To some land I ain't bought, bought, bought
If I can just get off of this L.A. freeway
Without gettin' killed or caught
Down the road in a cloud of smoke
To some land I ain't bought
So pack up all your dishes
Make note of all good wishes
And say goodbye to the landlord for me
That son of bitch has always bored me
Thank you
Here's a little song for y'all that might ever
Pounded any nails for a livin'
Or at least just hit your thumb a couple times
That counts too
Songwriters: Guy Clark
L.A. Freeway lyrics © Chappell & Co., Inc.
