"THE IMMEDIATE BLUES ANTHOLOGY" - discs 1, 2 & 3 | TWILIGHTZONE

 

This is nice . . . . . . from over at the always fascinating TWILIGHTZONE. Now I thought I had this but it must have been another British Blues bands compilation and this is great fun if even every track isn’t exactly a gem it shows the development of early British blues like Clapton and Page etc

"THE IMMEDIATE BLUES ANTHOLOGY"- disc 1

Blues Anytime: An Anthology of British Blues is a series of compilation albums featuring tracks from various British blues artists. Three volumes were released by Immediate Records in 1968, followed by Blues Leftovers in 1969...

...The albums feature various tracks from such artists as John Mayall, Tony McPhee, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Jo Ann Kelly, Jeremy Spencer, Cyril Davies, Stuff Smith, Albert Lee, Dave Kelly and Rod Stewart and were also the first release of several exclusive tracks recorded for Immediate between 1965 and '67. These include recordings by Jimmy Page with Jeff Beck, Nicky Hopkins and the All-Stars, plus several tracks recorded by Page and Eric Clapton, backed by members of The Rolling Stones (Bill Wyman, bass, Mick Jagger, harmonica and Ian Stewart, keyboard) and the only recorded output by Santa Barbara Machine Head.When Immediate initially released the original Blues Anytime albums in the USA, the first two volumes were simply titled An Anthology of British Blues, with the third volume renamed as The Beginning: British Blues.

The Blues Anytime tracks were released again by Immediate in 1969 as two double albums titled Anthology of British Blues, albeit presented in a different running order. The first was made up of Vol. 1 side A, Leftovers side A, Vol. 3 side A and Vol. 2 side B, with the second being Vol. 1 side B, Leftovers side B, Vol. 2 side A and Vol. 3 side B.

In 1970, after the dissolution of Immediate Records, RCA Victor reissued the original Blues Anytime albums under the name British Archive Series: Blues for Collectors Vol. 1–4, and in 1986, Line Records in Germany released a Blues Anytime: An Anthology of British Blues box set, featuring reissues of all four of the original Blues Anytime LPs.

In 1996, Charly Records released a 3CD box set titled The Immediate Blues Anthology; the first two discs covering the tracks from Blues Anytime Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 and Leftovers presented in their original running order, with the third disc made up of other assorted tracks from the Immediate archives.

disc 1:

1. I'm Your Witchdoctor - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers 2. Snake Drive - Eric Clapton 3. Ain't Gonna Cry No More - T.S. McPhee 4. I Tried - Savoy Brown Blues Band 5. Tribute To Elmore - Eric Clapton 6. I Feel So Good - Jo-Ann Kelly 7. Telephone Blues - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers 8. You Don't Love Me - T.S. McPhee 9. West Coast Idea - Eric Clapton 10. Ain't Seen No Whisky - Jo-Ann Kelly 11. Flapjacks - Stone's Masonry 12. Cold Blooded Woman - Savoy Brown Blues Band 13. On Top Of The World - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers 14. Someone To Love Me - T.S. McPhee 15. Can't Quit You Baby - Savoy Brown Blues Band 16. Draggin' My Tail - Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page 17. Dealing With The Devil - Dharma Blues Band 18. Who's Knocking - Jeremy Spencer 19. Freight Loader - Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page 20. Look Down At My Woman - Jeremy Spencer 21. Roll 'em Pete - Dharma Blues Band 22. Choker - Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page 23. True Blue - Savoy Brown Blues Band 24. When You Got A Good Friend - T.S. McPhee

The Immediate Blues Anthology disc 2

disc 2:

1. Someday Baby - Cyril Davies & The Rythm & Blues All-Stars 2. Steelin' - The All-Stars featuring Jeff Beck 3. L.A. Breakdown - The All-Stars featuring Jimmy Page 4. Chuckles - The All-Stars featuring Jeff Beck 5. Down In The Boots - The All-Stars featuring Jimmy Page 6. Piano Shuffle - The All-Stars featuring Nicky Hopkins 7. Miles Road - Eric Clapton & Jimmy Page 8. Porcupine Juice - Santa Barbera Machine Head 9. Albert - Santa Barbera Machine Head 10. Rubber Monkey - Santa Barbera Machine Head 11. Howlin' For My Darling - Stuff Smith 12. The Next Milestone - Albert Lee & Tony Colton 13. Someone's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight - Earl Vince & The Valiants 14. New Death Matter - Dave Kelly 15. Back Water Blues - Jo-Ann Kelly 16. So Much To Say - Rod Stewart 17. Married Woman Blues - Dave Kelly 18. Water On My Fire - Albert Lee & Paul Williams 19. Keep Your Hands Out Of My Pockets - Jo-Ann Kelly 20. Alabama Woman - Dave Kelly 21. Crosstown Link - Albert Lee 22. All Night Long - Dave Kelly 23. Down & Dirty - Simon & Steve 24. Not Fade Away - Cyril Davies' Rythm & Blues All-Stars

and disc three 

The Immediate Blues Anthology disc 3

disc 3:
1. Come Home Baby - Rod Stewart & P.P. Arnold 2. Life Is But Nothing - P.P. Arnold 3. Little Miss Understood - Rod Stewart 4. Handbags & Gladrags - Chris Farlowe 5. That's What A Friend Will Do - Barbara Lynn 6. Our Soul Brothers - Charles Dickens 7. Cuttin' In - Chris Farlowe 8. Treat Her Good - Chris Farlowe 9. Skit Skat - Mockingbirds 10. Every Little Bit Hurts - Small Faces 11. Baby Make It Soon - Chris Farlowe 12. She's My Girl - Mick Softley 13. It'll Never Happen Again - P.P. Arnold 14. Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac 15. Chocolate Rolls, Tea & Monopoly - Golden Apples Of The Sun 16. You Can't By My Love - Barbara Lynn 17. Rockin' Pneumonia & The Boogie Woogie Flu' - Chris Farlowe 18. North South East West - Chris Farlowe 19. So Come On - Les Fleurs De Lys 20. Talk To You - Small Faces 21. Moanin' - Chris Farlowe 22. Madame Garcia - Apostolic Intervention 23. Summertime - Chris Farlowe 24. Gin House (live) - Amen Corner

Jo-Ann Kelly - Feel So Good

Stephen Stills - Brady Theatre Tulsa OK - 1995 | Soundaboard

 

Stephen Stills - Brady Theatre Tulsa OK - 1995

Really fine quality recording and Stephen on fire here . . . . . . . .  

Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: Soundboard

Track List:

01 - Midnight Rider

02 - So Begins The Task

03 - Love The One You're With

04 - Change Partners

05 - Treetop Flyer

06 - Southern Cross

07 - Born In Chicago

08 - Born Under A Bad Sign

09 - It Won't Go Away

10 - Long Time Gone

11 - Can't Get Next To You

12 - Dark Star

13 - For What It's Worth

14 - Woodstock

 

Song to start The Day : Neil Hannon | The Divine Comedy - The Summerhouse

• Track Name

  The Summerhouse

• Artist

  The Divine Comedy

The Divine Comedy - The Summerhouse (1994)

Bathed in the warm light of nostalgia and loss.

You were only nine years old
And I was barely ten
It’s kind of weird to be back here again 

We love Neil Hannon . . . great writer and singer songwriter and all round musical genius! 

Thanks as ever to the legendary bookseller Sharon Murray, my ole muckah who introduced me to his work . . . . . . . . . 

Song To Close the Day : The Moody Blues - Question

 

Thanks to TwilightZone for posting this version . . . . . . . . I was never a great fan of The Moody Blues but this song really spoke to me back then and does still. I loved the voice of Justin here and always have but the prog-rock pomp and overblown aspect of so many of their songs put me off somehow . . . . .the sentiment here though spoke volumes to the youngster who knew what it was to lose someone he loved . . . . . . . 

Why do we never get an answer when we're knocking at the door
With a thousand million questions about hate and death and war?
'Cause when we stop and look around us, there is nothing that we need
In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed

Why do we never get an answer when we're knocking at the door?
Because the truth, it's hard to swallow, that's what the war of love is for

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me
It's more the way that you mean it
When you tell me what will be

And when you stop and think about it
You won't believe it's true
That all the love you've been giving
Has all been meant for you

I'm looking for someone to change my life
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the love I knew could safely lead me through

Between the silence of the mountains
And the crashing of the sea
There lies a land I once lived in
And she's waiting there for me

But in the grey of the morning
My mind becomes confused
Between the dead and the sleeping
And the road that I must choose

I'm looking for someone to change my life
I'm looking for a miracle in my life
And if you could see what it's done to me
To lose the love I knew could safely lead me to
The land that I once knew
To learn as we grow old the secrets of our souls

It's not the way that you say it
When you do those things to me
It's more the way you really mean it
When you tell me what will be

Why do we never get an answer 

when we're knocking at the door?

With a thousand million questions

About hate and death and war

When we stop and look around us

There is nothing that we need

In a world of persecution

That is burning in it's greed

writer: Justin Heyward

Mo’ Tom Verlaine . . . . . . Television Playlist Aquarium Drunkard | t wilcox

 RELUCTANT FAREWELL

More Tom Verlaine

Tell-A-Vision - Tom Verlaine playlist - AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

A reluctant farewell to Tom Verlaine, who helped define (and then quickly transcended) the NYC punk scene of the 1970s, inspiring countless groups through the decades. 

We’ll likely have more to say about the man in the days/weeks to come, but in the meantime, here’s an hour’s worth of Television covers stretching from the 1970s on through the present day, putting a spotlight on the impact the band had on the generations of artists that followed in their wake.

by

t wilcox

Tom Verlaine - December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023 ~ R.I.P. The definitive REBOOTS FLOPPY BOOT STOMP | Silent Way

TOM VERLAINE AT FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

Beautiful job here from the Boss over at Floppy Boot Stomp

another unique and haunting voice lost to us . . . . . . 

James Hamilton, Tom Verlaine, 1981

Television - Live All Tomorrow’s Parties, UK 2001 April 8, 2001 Camber Sands, England

Television - New York Stories (live 1975-76) at CBGBs

Tom Verlaine - Live Big Club Torino, Italy 1987

Television - Live Paradiso, Amsterdam 1977

Television - Live Rio de Janeiro 2005

Television - Live Hartsdale, NY 1977

Television - Live at the Academy 1992 

Television - Neon Boys and Double Exposure Demos -'73-'74-'75

Tom Verlaine - Live In Rouen France 1987

Tom Verlaine & Dave Bascomb - London Sessions 1986

Tom Verlaine - Live Gothenburg, Sweden 1987

with accompanying videos

UPDATE: Oh and there’s more today (31/01/23) 

Television - Live in The Old Waldorf San Francisco 1978 - Waldorf Moon - FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine with Lou Reed at CBGB, New York City, 1975

“Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.” Tom Verlaine,  1982

I think the Boss liked Television!

ADVERT! JOHN CALE | MERCY | OUT NOW! ALBUM OF THE WEEK

MERCY

John Cale - STORY OF BLOOD feat. Weyes Blood (Official Video)

Pentangle - Travelling Song French TV 1969 | TWILIGHTZONE

 TWILIGHTZONE posted this yesterday and a fine piece of archive work it is too. Bert Jansch and Jacqui McShee all trying their best to keep straight faces (sic) with the rest of the great sixties folk rock band ‘Pentangle’ featured on French TV

Thanks to TWILIGHTZONE

Tom Verlaine: (13 December 1949 - 28 January 2023) : URBANASPIRINES | Obituary

Tom Verlaine: (13 December 1949 - 28 January 2023) 

Nice biography from Kostas over at Urbanaspirines

Tom & Patti

Looking specifically at four albums; Tom Verlaine (’78), Dreamtime (1981), Songs and Other Things (2006) Around 2006

Tom Verlaine (born Thomas Miller, December 13, 1949 – January 28, 2023) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter. Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB — but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorisable as punk, or for that matter as any other genre — died on Saturday in Manhattan announced by Patti Smith’s daughter Jesse. 

TOM VERLAINE - OBITUARY - URBANASPIRINES

More Sad News . . . . . . . . .TELEVISION "New Adventure In Lo-Fi" Live at the University Of London Union 2004 | For TOM VERLAINE

Tom & Patti 

. . . . it seems apposite and understandable that it is Patti’s daughter, Jesse’ who announced Tom’s death

Another revolutionary figure passes away . . . . . .

TOM VERLAINE 

R.I.P. 1949 - 2023

Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB - but whose exploratory guitar improvisations and poetic songwriting were never easily categorisable as punk, or for that matter as any other genre - died on January 28 in Manhattan. He was 73. His death was announced by Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Verlaine’s fellow musician Patti Smith. She did not specify a cause, saying that he died “after a brief illness.”

After putting out a 7-inch single in 1975 on their manager Terry Ork’s label, Television would sign with Elektra and release Marquee Moon in 1977 to critical and commercial success, cracking the Billboard 200 album chart. They quickly followed it up with the more subdued Adventure in 1978, and broke up shortly after. The band would briefly reform in the early ‘90s to record a self-titled studio album.

“Tom Verlaine is the guitarist to mention these days if you’re a young rocker with some pretense to intelligence and originality,” Robert Palmer of The New York Times wrote in 1987.

The layered, often ethereal sound that Verlaine and the other members of Television developed was a far cry from the stripped-down approach of the Ramones and other leading lights of the punk scene. But that scene - which also included bands as disparate as Blondie and Talking Heads - was never as one-dimensional as it was often portrayed.

After hearing of Verlaine’s death, countless musicians have posted tributes in his honor, including the Bangles’ Susanna Hoffs, Thurston Moore, Real Estate, Heems, and Ryley Walker, among others. “Tom Verlaine was a true great, tweeted  Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite. “His role in our culture and straight up awesomeness on the electric guitar was completely legendary. Name 10 minutes of music as good as Marquee Moon. You can’t. It’s perfect. Rest in peace Tom x.”

TELEVISION
New Adventure In Lo-Fi
Live at the University Of London Union; June 23, 2004. Very good audience recording.

The review for Television’s 1977 debut album, Marquee Moon, in BigO’s 100 Best Albums 1975-1995 is still relevant when listening to Television live in 2004:

“Marquee Moon vacillates between the New York sound of CBGB and the then current rock style of long songs and meticulous soloing which earned Television the unwanted title, Grateful Dead of punk. Fronted by twin guitarists in Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, both played in a finger-picking style that showed no traces of the usual heavy metal/hard rock cliches… The CBGB side of Television was in the stream of consciousness lyrics that some critics accused of being meaningless and also in Verlaine’s less than macho singing. This was against the grain in ‘77.”

While it might have been uncool then to use the word “epic” for Television, there is certainly a sense of the epic on tracks such as The Dream’s Dream, The Sea and Persia, a similarity found on some of the songs by Calexico. Interestingly, Persia would well be the theme song for what’s currently unfolding in Egypt and the middle east. And for those who felt that the usual 10-minute Marquee Moon wasn’t long enough, here’s one that goes for 13 minutes.

Strong musicianship, their presence at CBGB, drawing influences from the Velvet Underground to Steve Reich and the bands they shared the stage with, not only are Television considered one of the founders of New York punk and new wave, they are still influential to this day (Marquee Moon was No. 2 on Uncut magazine’s 100 Greatest Debut Records).

While the artwork for this show, which was received in a trade, says New Adventure In Lo-Fi, the tracks are tagged as “In To The Dream”, possibly taken from a Japanese boot.

Television - Live at The Union, London University 2004 - For Tom

Thanks to Alice over at O My Soul

for this reminder . . . . . 

Television - Days (1978)

The Rolling Stones - Live at Chalk Farm Roundhouse 1971 - Heavy Bootz

Oh you wanted more Groobin’ Stooves . . . . . . .well here goes nuffin’!

The Rolling Stones - Live at Chalk Farm Roundhouse 1971 - Heavy Bootz

Rolling Stones
Chalk Farm Roundhouse, London, England
1971-03-14

aud (vinyl rip)
mp3 @ 320 [120 mb]
sq: A

London Roundhouse
artwork included

01 Jumpin' Jack Flash
02 Live With Me
03 Dead Flowers
04 Stray Cat Blues
05 Love In Vain
06 Prodigal Son
07 Midnight Rambler
08 Bitch
09 Band Introductions
10 Honky Tonk Women
11 Satisfaction

tt: 51:58

Its as rough as it should be!

I was raised by a toothless dirty hag!

Smokin' Cigarettes and Writing Something Nasty on the Wall... HEAR ROCK CITY

The Rolling Stones - Something Nasty - Hear Rock City

More rocking’ for the weekend? Well don’t mind if I do! Have we had this before? Can’t find it in the vaults and down past the ha=ha and passed the dungeon I couldn’t find this excellent Groobin’ Stooves masterpiece of live malarkey!

TURN IT UP!

You’re a Star-star!

LED ZEPPELIN [Eelgrass, 3CD] Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; June 7, 1977. - Big O

Led Zeppelin Madison Square Gardens 1977 - Big O

Oh you wanted it LOUD!

Breathtakingly good quality Led Zeppelin from Big O yesterday and you better download it now or it won’t be there long (7 days only!) . . . . it exists in various formats over the years and known widely as Magical Sound Boogie but the guys here have tinkered and tweaked it back up to maximum quality. Grab it now and turn it RIGHT UP to 11

The notes from Dime clear this up

Thanks to nakedeye25 for the remaster and for sharing the show at Dime.

nakedeye25 noted:

This is Zep’s first show of a six-show run at MSG in New York in 1977. The original release is the EVSD “Magical Sound Boogie”, which is a soundboard release of the show. For this remaster I used RipX to separate the original tracks into four wav stems each (Bass, Drums, Other, Vocal).

While it is not a perfect sound separation, it does a surprisingly good job at it. The good part is it does a nice job of separating out the bass, drums and vocals. The tricky part is it combines the keyboards, acoustic guitars, and electric guitars into one track. So please don’t confuse this with a muti-track mixdown…

Having said all that, I believe the results are good enough to share with the community. The original tape cuts are still there. No Quarter has a slight cut in it. Most of the end of Black Country Woman is missing as is the beginning of the next song Bron-Y-Aur Stomp. There is also a slight cut in Over The Top. I have applied some EQ to this recording as well. I also fixed some volume issues in places throughout the show. The tracks are now set up to run as one continuous show.

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pp25texas, Dime:

this sounds amazing to my ears. just about melted my speakers down to IN MY TIME OF DYING on the drive into work today. many, many thanks to the people responsible for making this recording and remaster happen. if you are on the fence trying to decide whether or not to grab this one (as I was), trust me grab it. you won’t be disappointed.

Brackstar, Dime:

What a gem this is. Incredible sound, well balanced, Jimmy is on fire, Robert is on point, & the band seems to be having a GREAT time. No idea who pressed ‘record’ to save this amazing show to tape, or who released it to the masses, but THANKS!

Nicky19, Dime:

Hello Nakedeye25, I Love this show. It’s a dream come true to have it in this sound quality. Thanks so much for the time and effort you put in. It’s greatly appreciated.

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and you know what? They are not wrong . . . . . . . . . . 

Alternate artwork:

Magical Sound Boogie - LED ZEPPELIN 1977 - Collectors Music Review

Journey To Inner Space With The Groundhogs | AQUARIUM DRUNKARD

 This is worth a read too . . . . . . . . . TS McPhee and The Groundhogs

Journey To Inner Space With The Groundhogs

Posted on January 26, 2023

Built on stones laid down by John Lee Hooker, Tony “T.S.” McPhee’s The Groundhogs were labeled “post-blues” by the rock & roll press of the late ’60s and ’70s. The band was farther out than Cream, and they tapped into an end-of-flower-power darkness like a less disdainful The Doors, and shared the medieval attitude of Ladbroke Grove bands like Deviants, Pink Fairies, or Hawkwind. but their journey to Inner Space reflects entirely unique concerns.

go here . . . . . .

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARGO TIMMINS (61)

COWBOY JUNKIES - SWEET JANE (OFFICIAL RECORDING)

twice?

TWICE!

Canadian Music Week broadcast 

Cowboy Junkies

Peter Green & Kolors - 1984-12-13 - Frankfurt, Germany - HeavyBootz

Peter Green and Kolors - Live Frankfurt 1984 - Heavy Bootz

This is nice , the vocals mixed a bit too far back but an equaliser adjustment or two and this is highly listenable FM broadcast.

Set from Germany of Peter Green playing with ‘Kolors’* on his blues classics - we miss him

Peter Green & Kolors

Sinkkasten Arts Club, Frankfurt, Germany

1984-12-13

fm (broadcast NDR)

mp3 @ 320 

01 Womanizer

02 Green Instrumental

03 White Sky

04 Where You Goin'

05 A Loser Two Times

06 Intro to In The Skies

07 In The Skies

08 Love That Burns

09 Man Of The World

10 I'm A Big Boy Now

11 Oh Well

12 Intro to Black Magic Woman

13 Black Magic Woman

14 Albatross

15 Stay Out

16 Green Manalishi

17 Applause for Encore

18 Need Your Love So Bad

Peter Green - guitar, vocals 

*Kolors are: 

Alfred Bannermann - guitar, vocals 

Emmanuel Rentzos - keyboards

Willie Bath - bass 

Jeff Whittaker - percussion