Always enjoyed (sic?) the blister of Ballad of a Thin Man and its vitriolic attack on some Billy no-mark journo who inspired it . . . . . . . . .but here it is transformed (again!?) by the live Tom Petty Band version back in ‘86. [Zippy says : 1986 Sydney Entertainment Center Sydney Australia.]
Enjoy!
I’m in that kind of mood where we revisit new discoveries and seeing as he lately juss played at The Grand Ole Opry he is worth a view of his platters from first two last [3 akshually!] . . . . deserves a hit!
says aint available . . . taint so! clicka heeyah!
They both (all - ED) hits on my Juke Joint Box you know hear tell . . . . . . spread the word, if it floats your coracle
Kamera - Wilco
We like Wilco
We like O My Soul and we like reds1981
her name is Alice
we like her . . . . .
| 1 | Wilson Rag | 1:35 |
| 2 | Freight Train | 2:42 |
| 3 | Going Down The Road Feeling Bad | 2:09 |
| 4 | I Don't Love Nobody | 1:10 |
| 5 | Ain't Got No Honey Baby Now | 0:53 |
| 6 | Graduation March | 2:29 |
| 7 | Honey Babe Your Papa Cares For You | 2:11 |
| 8 | Vastopol | 2:08 |
| 9 | Here Old Rattler Here / Sent For My Fiddle Sent For My Bow / George Buck | 3:45 |
| 10 | Run…Run / Mama Your Son Done Gone | 2:15 |
| 11 | Sweet Bye And Bye / What A Friend We Have In Jesus | 3:00 |
| 12 | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie | 4:40 |
| 13 | Spanish Flang Dang | 2:49 |
| 14 | When I Get Home | 2:21 |
and of course what happens when you keep digging in the Beehive Candy is you find endless treasures
today is no different and reveals these guys from Brighton just south of here . . . . .we like this
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G.W. McLennan - Fingers (1993)
A moving piano ballad from Grant McLennan’s second solo LP
I try to capture every minute
struggling to share the sounds so here? . . . .
another quieter reflective song about loss . . . .
thanks as ever to Guess I’m Dumb
. . . . .CANDY that is
Another posting today struck my mood of quiet contemplation today here another Summer Bank Holiday Monday and this suited it down to he ground . . . . . . . .
Nice one for a Sunday and great new voice from Wales . . . . . . . I like finding new artists and new voices and this is most often achieved by browsing Beehive Candy which is where I found this lassie and go check out what they say
Another cover and if you're going to post a cover on a Sunday who better than Bonnie?
From our recent play Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake, MN!You know it, you love it - LIVE From The #EnEspanol World Tour, it’s ‘DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY’
#TheMavericksLive
Something of a one hit wonder to me I bought Dance The Night Away when it came out but their recent live performances broadcast on the their Facebook pages are well worth following . . . . . .
Night all . . . . . . .don’t forget to Dance The Night Away!
The brilliant Albums That Should Exist is on his summer holidays but has left us some real doozies dedicated to the Isle of Wight Festival of 1970 and some 18 separate sets from participants from Leonard Cohen to Free, Joni to which we went to back in the day (allegedly! it’s along story I have documented before and there are some doubts as to what we collectively recall and whether we made it at all post car crash and getting to the island Jimi we certainly didn’t see, loads of others too, Miles, Leonard Cohen and Joni and John Sebastian) and yet this includes sets I loved from Terry Reid, Rory Gallagher and Taste and of course The Doors [This is one of the best quality versions of the set from Jim and the boys I have ever heard and I have heard many!]
I had vinyl bootlegs of the Doors set which frankly are unplayable, I had heard of the existence of a Terry Reid Superlungs set but never found a playable copy and the one thing that Albums That Should Exist does is find superb quality versions of boots of the period.If they don’t cut the mustard Paul the proprietor is given to tweak them himself!
Dig in people! Read what Paul says throughout the entire selection
This post is the start of something big. I've decided to post all the worthy music from the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, and there's a heck of a lot of it.
There were dozens and dozens of big rock festivals in the late 1960s and early 1970s. But the vast majority of them are fading from memory because there's no audio or video to help remember. The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival is an exception. Apparently, ALL of it was professionally recorded. Furthermore, because it was a five-day long festival, all the big acts had plenty of time to play, often playing the equal of a full concert they would have performed somewhere else. Many of these professional recordings have remained in the vaults. But a whole bunch of official albums from individual artists have been released over the decades. Furthermore, some or all of some of the other sets have been leaked to the public. My goal was to post all the music that had soundboard-level quality, in chronological order, with all the sonic flaws fixed. And it turns out there were many, many sonic flaws.
The end result is nearly 20 albums, which I will post here over the next few days. I'm even posting the officially released stuff, because I think it's important to have all of this music easily accessible in one place, so one can hear the concert in its full glory. On purely musical terms, I think it's the equal of Woodstock or any other festival from that era.
The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival has had a pretty poor reputation over the years. It was the largest festival of its era, with about 600,000 to 700,000 people attending. The hope was that it would be seen as the British version of Woodstock. But there were some bad vibes, often related to conflicts between the promoters, who wanted to make money, and the audience who often expected everything to somehow be free. It didn't end up a total disaster like Altamont in 1969, but it wasn't an unabashed success and cultural milestone like Woodstock either.
The Afton Downs Isle of Wight Festival - TERRY REID 1970
Paul says:
. . . most of the music here is from Terry Reid's set, which is complete. Around this time, Reid was seen as a very talented lead vocalist who could also write songs and play guitar. He seemed poised for stardom, but it never happened. Most famously, in 1969, Jimmy Page asked him to be the lead singer of his new band, which would later be known as Led Zeppelin. But Reid had to decline, since he was already booked as the opening act for two tours. Reid told Page to consider another singer, Robert Plant, and the rest is history.
By the way, a member of Reid's band in this concert was guitarist David Lindley, who would go on to have a long and successful music career of his own.
Although Reid's set was officially released in 2004, in my opinion his lead vocals were still low in the mix. So I boosted them using the audio editing program UVR5.
There are three more songs after Reid's set. Two of them are by the British band Gracious. I'd never heard of them prior to putting this album together, but they put out two albums, in 1970 and 1972, that are very well regarded by prog rock fans. It's a shame there are only two songs here. But they never released an official live albums, and I couldn't find any bootlegs by them, so this may be the only live versions of their songs publicly available.
Finally, the last song is by the band Great Awakening. I looked them up, and it seems the only record they ever released was a single with a mostly instrumental version of "Amazing Grace" on the A-side. And that's the song performed here.
Afton Downs Isle of Wight Festival - Rory Gallagher and TASTE 1970
Taste. This trio had been in existence since 1968, but at the time of the festival they were on the verge of breaking up. This ended up being one of their last concerts, but they went out with a bang. The band liked their performance so much that they released much of it as an official album a year later, called "Live at the Isle of Wight." The complete performance was eventually released in 2015. Furthermore, some filmmakers were filming parts of the festival in order to make a music documentary. They were supposed to film only one or two songs from lesser known acts like Taste in order to save on the costs of the expensive film stock, but they were so impressed with the performance that they wound up filming nearly the entire set. So that can be found on DVD.
Despite the Taste set being released, I still thought the lead vocals were low in the mix. So I fixed that using the audio editing program UVR5.
The Afton Downs Isle of Wight Festival - THE DOORS - 1970
The next musical act on August 30, 1970 of the Isle of Wight Festival were the Doors.
It's fairly remarkable the Doors were able to play this festival. At the time, lead singer Jim Morrison was in the middle of a trial in the US, for allegedly exposing himself on stage in Miami. But apparently, they had booked this concert appearance before those troubles began, so they were granted permission to leave the US briefly to perform at the festival.
Murray Lerner, who directed "Message to Love," a music documentary about the festival, later recalled: “Jim Morrison said to me: 'I don’t think you’re going to get an image, because our lights are low. We’re not going to change it.' But in fact I got some beautiful images by looking into the light and making it look surrealistic and abstract. ... The Doors were hypnotic, but they had to leave right after their performance – they were on trial in Miami. They were let out just for that performance. So they had to leave right away."The band's most recent album was "Morrison Hotel," released in February 1970. But they only played two songs from it, "Ship of Fools" and "Roadhouse Blues." Instead, they generally leaned on classic songs dating back to 1967. It was pretty late at night by the time the band took the stage, and Morrison later complained about how cold and windy it was. So perhaps they relied on the songs they knew best to get their through a tough situation.
The sound quality is excellent, because the whole performance has been officially released on album and DVD as "Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970." However, I felt the lead vocals were rather low, so I boosted them in the mix using the UVR5 audio editing program.
This album is an hour and seven minutes long.
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there are loads more to enjoy over at Albums That Should Exist and frankly any muso worth their salt would be foolish to to explore the offerings there that Paul has diligently scored and tweaked and posted there.
here's what Peter Daltrey of Fairfield Parlour / Kaleidoscope has said about the festival:
"All I remember is the view from the stage: the endless blue sky, the endless audience, the thousands camped for free on the rolling hills to the right, the heat, the clouds of red dust, Joan Baez wandering by looking stunning, the movie camera thrust in my face as I was told our set was to be cut in half, the terror, the sublime lift after the first wave of applause, the evenings in the Red Indian camp with the fires burning, the thump of distant music, crouching below the stage waiting for the nod so I could leap up and be allowed to play an acoustic 'Let the World Wash In' to half a million hippies, the leaden realization that we'd been conned and ripped off and stuffed and abused by the [festival promoters] brothers Farr, the sleepless nights of total physical and mental exhaustion, breakfast at Herbie Snowball's hotel in Shanklin -- and returning there thirty years later on a family holiday and standing across the road and looking up at the window where three decades earlier a young man once stared at the orange moon... No, I don't recall much."
Jimi does Dylan . . . . . love this and remember it so well . . . . . . indelibly etched upon my eardrobes
thenameofthisbandis
talkingheads:
mrd.byrneonfenderguitarandsinging,
mrc.frantzondrumset,
misst.weymouthonbassguitar
forsilentway
floppybootstomp
The posting of the Guvnor recently provoked such kind and appreciative responses I thought we best have some more . . . . . . (this are bein’ mostly for that Diamond Dave! . . . . he are a neighbour ya know!?)
This is from the first live Sight & Sound gig I taped from the radio on a BASF cassette player! (ask your grandparents) I LOVE THIS gig!
New Boots and Panties indeed 😉!
"It simply can't resist Boots and pants like this Abracadabra for all" - Ian Dury 'I'm Partial to Your Abracadabra' 1977 BBC Sight & Sound Live #iandury #blockheads
With thanks to the Facebook page of The Bob Dylan Fan Club
(www.thebobdylanfanclub.com)I will go down with this shipAnd I won’t put my hands up and surrender.There will be no white flag above my door
I’m in love, and always will be.
“ The La's were an English rock band from Liverpool, originally active from 1983 until 1992. Fronted by singer, songwriter and guitarist Lee Mavers, the group are best known for their hit single "There She Goes". The band was formed by Mike Badger in 1983 and Mavers joined the next year, although for most of the group's history, the frequently changing line-up revolved around the core duo of Lee Mavers (vocals, guitar) and John Power (bass, backing vocals) along with numerous other guitarists and drummers including Paul Hemmings, John "Timmo" Timson, Peter "Cammy" Cammell, Iain Templeton, John "Boo" Byrne, Chris Sharrock, Barry Sutton and Neil Mavers. “ Urbanaspirines
*In an interview with Les Inrockuptibles, Mavers admits to trying heroin in 1990. The song therefore predated his experience as it was originally released in 1988. Mavers himself has also emphatically denied that the song is about heroin.
From Facebook it is worth noting that today is Maestro’s birthday!
Born 22 August 1917, in Tutwiler, Mississippi, United States of America
Another ear worm of a song that we may not like but can’t stop humming! You have been warned!
You really need to pop down to your local bookstore (bookshop to you limeys!) amongst the platters on the decks like John Cale circa Paris 1919, Ruth Brown RnB, to Teddy Thompson (yeah you know it, Richard’s son) there’s a whole load of new books in from Nick Drake, to David Bowie and Jack Kerouac at the end of his road!
Jeremiah has blown a gasket and sent his bookwagon ‘round’
(he’s a bullfrog you know?)
A Jeremiah Special
I should have started by saying they collection is great quality and only after listening did I appreciate how good. Even the early acetates are full and balanced well and crisp as you like. Good job, Jeremiah! Great find
