David Bowie - Unplugged Various Venues - Various Dates Soundoards & FM Sources @320
A SILENT WAY SPECIAL
Tracklist
Smith’s Old Bar, Atlanta 8 Apr 1997
01. Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) 2:34
[Different “Country” version to WBCN.02]. Seven Years In Tibet 3:57
03. The Supermen 0:54
04. Dead Man Walking 4:06
05. The Jean Genie 4:14
06. I Can’t Read 4:52
Rehearsals, New York 5 Jan 1997
07. Quicksand 4:45
08. Aladdin Sane 3:30
09. The Man Who Sold The World 3:59
10. The Supermen 3:06
11. Andy Warhol 2:27
12. Repetition 2:58
13. Lady Stardust 3:25
14. White Light/White Heat 3:39
15. Shopping For Girls 3:25
Mountain View 19 Oct 1996 – Recorded at the Bridge School Benefit,
Shoreline Amphitheatre
16. “Heroes” 6:28
US TV Show 10 Apr 1997 – Late Night With Conan O’Brian
17. Dead Man Walking 4:18
TV Show 8 Mar 1997
18. I Can’t Read 5:05
TV Show 8 Mar 1997 – Recording is shot, very mess
19. Repetition 2:53
TV Show ,New York 3 Mar 1997 – Rosie O’Donnell Show
20. Rosie Girl 0:55
San Francisco 19 Oct 1996
21. Fuck You All Night Long 1:49
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This record is a collection of rare acoustic performances on various locations in superb soundboard quality, broadly all from 1996-97.
It’s mainly from the Smith’s Old Bar, Atlanta recording on 8th April and the BBC broadcast on 8th January, with extras for tracks 16-21. There’s a shorter version of this (omitting tracks 16-19) called “Acoustically High”\
Paul says : The flood of "PBS Soundstage" concerts continues with a 2010 concert by Norah Jones.
In November 2009, Jones released the studio album "The Fall." It was one of her better reviewed albums, and it sold well, selling three million copies worldwide. She went on practically every show that allows musical performances to promote it, including this one.
Most of the songs are from that album. However, at the end she played her two biggest hits ("Don't Know Why" and "Come Away with Me") plus a cover of "Strangers" by the Kinks.
I had a really tough time finding a source for this. As I write this in April 2025, the video can't be found on YouTube, and the audio isn't on any of the usual bootleg sites. But I dug deep and eventually found a way to stream it, recorded the audio as I streamed, then converted those to mp3s.
This album is 52 minutes long.
01 talk 02 I Wouldn't Need You 03 Tell Your Mama 04 talk 05 Light as a Feather 06 Even Though 07 Young Blood 08 It's Gonna Be 09 December 10 Man of the Hour 11 talk 12 Back to Manhattan 13 Sinkin' Soon 14 Come Away with Me 15 Strangers 16 Don't Know Why
Note he mentions a book Old Fart at Play, a collection of poetry Singing Ink and a new album Brown Star . . . . . . . . . . .
After "The Artist Formerly know as Captain Beefheart" was aired, BBC Producer Elaine Shepherd sent me a bunch of footage on VCR tape. This was one of the pieces sent to me. My ex-girlfriend can be seen in the very end with her friend Pat ( last name forgotten). This is NOT shot in Liverpool, but in L.A. on Wilshire Blvd. My ex lived just down the street. And there's no way that she could have been in Liverpool. People have argued with me about this, but I'm absolutely positive it was footage shot in L.A. because she told me about going to this exhibit”
John ‘Drumbo’ French
Personally I’ll take John’s word any and every day!
visitors at the Bluecoat Gallery ’72 photo George Tate
Captain Beefheart - Michael Tearson WMMR Interview (February 1972)
Michael Tearson of WMMR in Philadephia, Pennsylvania interviews Don van Vliet sometime in February, 1972. The topic is mostly about his new album at the time, the Spotlight Kid.
Picture is of Don at the time.
"Never read a book in my life . . but my wife reads to me . . . . . . “ the crow and the wolf . . .”
etc etc . . . .
Don at the BluecoatGallery 1972 copyright The Bluecoat Gallery
The Galliards sang the shanty Doodle Let Me Go (Yellow Girls) in 1960 on their eponymous Beltona EP The Galliards.
Colin Jewitt sang Yellow Girls live at Folk Union One in 1969; this was included in the same year on the privately issued album Blue Bell Folk Sing.
The Yetties sang Yeller Girls in 1970 on their Argo album Keep A-Runnin’—It’s The Yetties!.
A.L. Lloyd sang Doodle Let Me Go (Yaller Girls) live at the Top Lock Folk Club, Runcorn, on 5 November 1972. This concert was published in 2010 on the Fellside CD An Evening With A.L. Lloyd. Paul Adams noted:
Bert’s version seems to be based on that communicated to R.R. Terry by Harding ‘The Barbarian’—a black seaman from Barbados noted as “a fine shanty-man and first-rate seaman”.
Tony Hall recorded Yeller Girls during the sessions for his 1977 Free Reed album Fieldvole Music. The track was left out, however, and had to wait until 2007 to be included onto the album’s CD reissue.
Bob Fox and Stu Luckley sang Doodle Let Me Go (Yeller Girls) in 1978 on their Rubber Records LP Nowt So Good’ll Pass and in 1997 on their Fellside CD Box of Gold, which was also included in 2006 on Fellside’s 30th anniversary anthology, Landmarks. Bob noted:
Doodle Let Me Go is a well known sea shanty that I learned during a great period of folk club prosperity in the North East that seems a lifetime ago now. Graham Whittley was the organiser of the Hartlepool Folk Club in the Nursery Inn (still going as I write these notes!) and this was one of his standards. We dedicate our version to him!
Jolly Jack sang Doodle Let Me Go on the 1986 anthology celebrating 10 years of Fellside Records, Flash Company. This track was also included in 1999 on the band’s Fellside anthology CD of shanties and songs of the sea, Rolling Down to Old Maui.
Danny Spooner sang Doodle Let Me Go on his 1988 album We’ll Either Bend or Break ’Er.
Louis Killen sang Doodle Let Me Go on his 1997 album A Seaman’s Garland: Sailors, Ships & Chanteys Vol. 2.
Roy Harris sang Doodle Let Me Go live in 1997 at The White Lion folk club in Wherwell, Hampshire; this was published om 199 on his WildGoose CD Live at the Lion. He also sang it on the 2004 Lancaster Maritime Festival anthology Beware of the Press-Gang!.
Jackie Oates and chorus sang Do Let Me Go in 2012 on the S&A Projects / WildGoose series of songs from the repertoire of Watchet sailor John Short (1839-1933), Short Sharp Shanties Vol. 3. The album notes commented:
Considering how widespread this shanty is in the revival, it is interesting to note that only Sharp and Terry give it, apart from Hugill—and his version comes (surprise, surprise) from Harding the Barbadian. ‘Doodle’, of course, is simply ‘Do’ with interpolated extra consonant(s) again! Short gave Terry only the first verse (“Mr. Short had one verse of words; I have perpetrated the remaining two”), but he gave Sharp more, which are duly recorded in mss, although he only published the first verse. Although Short starts with the more or less standard ‘merchant’s daughter’ verse, his text rapidly becomes the folk song Blow the Candle Out. Here, the Sharp fragments are expanded to coherent narrative from standard versions of Blow the Candle Out. The broadside text is however edited—the full text would over-fill even the longest of capstan tasks!
Lyrics
A.L. Lloyd sings Doodle Let Me Go
It’s of a merchant’s daughter brought up in Callao
Hurrah, me yaller girls, doodle let me go
She took me in the parlour and said, “Won’t you be my boy?”
Hurrah, me yaller girls, doodle let me go
Doodle let me go, me girls, doodle let me go,
Hurrah, me yaller girls, doodle let me go
Oh all around the sofa, lads, and wasn’t it a show
And about the hour of twelve o’clock her own man he came home
As I was out a-walking down by the riverside
It was e’er I seen this pretty girl a-swimming in the tide
As I was out a-walking all in the bright moonlight
It was e’er I seen this girl a-swimming and arise, it shone so bright
I wish I was in Madame Gashay’s down in Callao
Where the girls hold on your bobstay and they never let it go
We’ll cast a line ’round Madame Gashay’s and take the house in tow
We’ll tow it back to Liverpool all the way from Callao
Talking Heads – Slippery People - Stop Making Sense 1984 Hollywood Pantages Theatre
Oh my, Kostas has excelled (again?!) and covered my perhaps most favourite band of all time. If I had to chose one band over all others to take with me to a desert island (Desert Island Discs) then it would be David Byrne’s Talking Heads . . . . . enjoy what he has done here!
Kostas says :
"Talking Heads were an American band formed in 1975 in New York City. It consisted of vocalist guitarist David Byrne, drummer Chris Frantz, bassist Tina Weymouth and guitarist-keyboardist Jerry Harrison. Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed groups of the '80s," Talking Heads helped to pioneer new wave music by combining elements of punk, art rock, funk, and world music with "an anxious yet clean-cut image"; they have been called "a properly postmodernist band”. . . . . .
Do we know The Bullfight? I didn’t! [the depths of your lack of knowledge knows no bounds - ED err . . . . R-U-D-E-! ]
I am minded of this wonderful band by ‘cousin' Geoff Swapp who features in the video (about .26 seconds in!) for ‘All That’s Left’ from the album of last year ‘Amen, Demon’
The Bullfight - All That's Left
Lyrics & vocals by Daisy Cools
Music by Thomas van der Vliet
Taken from the Album "Amen, Demon" - official soundtrack to the novel "Het Interview" by Thomas van der Vliet
Novel + double album (+ vinyl) out Januar4 2024
Geoff says : the new compilation album from The Bullfight ‘The Storm Behind Our Smiles' features a whole disc of live recordings of favourites. This is a particularly good cut.
Album available from Brandy Alexander Recordings and the usual streaming/download places.
Enjoy!
The Incantation & This Village's Lonely Pastor (Live)
and still more from last year’s ‘The Storm Behind Our Smiles'
