This appeals to the great North/South divide argument and the kudos (s’posed!?) of being more ‘authentic’ the further North you go! I am from Merseyside which is largely considered the heartland of the North (UK) but what is that to a SCOT?! Pah! . . . my family roots are Gaelic and from Scotland (Aberdeen/Montrose etc) and Ireland on my maternal side! Go figure! Northern Irish means something TOTALLY different from someone from the republic! I am usually surprised anyone thinks I am from planet Earth!
I’m From Further North Than You (Edinburgh) Cinerama Peel Sessions Cinerama-I’m From Further North Than You (Edinburgh)(2003) David Gedge clearly liked this song as he brought it to the Wedding Present when they regrouped. That said, I like the Cinerama version recorded as a Peel Session. I think we’re the same in many ways
"And I admit we had some memorable days…but just not very many"
02. Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
03. All Along the Watchtower
04. Just Like A Woman
05. Tangled Up In Blue
06. The Man In Me
07. Watching The River Flow
08. Little Moses
09. Tomorrow Night
CD 2:
01. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
02. Mr. Tambourine Man
03. Cat's In The Well
04. I And I
05. Maggie's Farm
06. Man In The Long Black Coat
07. It Ain't Me, Babe
Speedy says: On June 12, 1993, Bob Dylan launched a summer tour of Europe, which would run until July 17. It was his second trip to Europe that year. During this run, Dylan played some of the longers shows of his career, with many tunes faturing long extended jams and improvisation, unlike anything Dylan had done before or since. This "pre-board" recording captures Dylan in Barcelona on july 1, 1993. 33 years ago today, during that summer tour. Download this one, then come back tomorrow for the 2nd half of ths back to back set. Note - this and many other shows from the 1993 run are listed as "pre-boards". They are not quite soundboards, but rather are most likey line recordings, probably hooked to a sound monitor.
Now I will be the first to say I did not know what a pre-board was/is!? But am reassured by Speedy's explanation. Download it [lick the header!” ha ha ha CLICK it don’t LICK it! - ED] and let us (both!?) know what you think and watch out as he is posting the companion piece tomorrow
Not entirely sure what to make of this but hey, you pays your money and you takes your choice! Oh that’s right we don’t! Worth a download at the least but post Grace I am less interested . . . let me know what YOU think?
Jefferson Starship Blue Note, Fukuoka, Japan 1994-01-24 (Late Show - partial)
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01 Intro Music -> Ride The Tiger 02 It's No Secret 03 The Other Side Of This Life 04 Shadowlands 05 Yes Yes Yes 06 Hearts 07 The Light 08 Women Who Fly 09 Wooden Ships 10 3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds 11 Somebody To Love /
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Mark "Slick" Aguilar - Lead Guitar & Vocals Marty Balin - Vocals Jack Casady - Bass Tim Gorman - Keyboards Darby Gould - Vocals Paul Kantner - Guitar & Vocals Prairie Prince - Drums
"Despite being an artist who made a name for themselves by playing live music in whatever space he could find, Tom Waits’ ability as a live act still somehow flies under the radar.
I’m not kidding about Waits playing any stage he was given, either. Waits played gigs supporting comedians, magicians and even puppet shows in his time. The first ten years of his career were spent living a hard, road-hewn life with a year consisting of ten months touring and two months recording, with barely anything in between
The music he made in that time reflected this as well, his early albums being fairly straightforward piano or acoustic guitar-lead singer-songwriter-isms, and his late 1970s records only being slightly more fleshed out, full band, jazz-inflected barroom folk.
Perhaps it is the albums that came after that have prevented people from seeing Waits primarily as a live act. It is, after all, difficult to imagine cuts from Swordfishtrombones and Rain Dogs going down a treat live and resembling their recorded versions in any way, shape or form.
You can’t build an album around detuned xylophones, rusted sousaphones and that one accordion in all the world that makes a noise like a startled panther if you shake it in the right way, then take it around the rock clubs of the world. Waits knows this intimately as he probably tried to do just that.
Yet, through that whole time, Waits was playing live and delivering some of the best gigs of his whole career as he did. Perhaps that was mainly due to the fact that he never really tried to replicate the sound of his records live and embraced a sort of jazz-esque exploration of them. One that matched his famously strange way of being, which didn’t just extend to the content of said gigs, but the way he promoted them, too.
In 2008, he announced the US leg of his Glitter and Doom tour. At the time of writing, it’s his last tour to date, and he announced it in a way that’s just as surreal and joyous as his music. It was accompanied by writing an extensive interview with himself for NPR. Choice quotes from which include “Q: What are some unusual things that have been left behind in a cloakroom? A: Well, Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ cloakroom and was one-sixteenth Iroquois.”
The main announcement, however, was a staged press conference that was uploaded to YouTube on May 5th. One that saw Waits take a question from a supposed “reporter” which he didn’t answer, but instead revealed that he’d had an affair with their mother back in the 1970s. He also talked through the strange route the tour would take, which Waits attributed to a very simple reason. The route he’d take the tour would match his favourite constellation in the solar system, The Hydra.
He finished up by revealing that the constellation was only half the reason that he’d mapped the tour that way. The other reason was to reveal the acronym ‘Pehdtsckjmba’. Which he said stood for (what else) “People envy happiness, dogs sense courage, knowing jubilation means better ass…sets”.
This is absolutely just Waits having a bit of fun with an otherwise pretty standard bit of tour promotion. Yet the guy has such a colourful way of expressing himself that the chances of him being deadly serious, even with stuff as patently ridiculous as this, are never entirely zero.”
Cinerama - I’m From Further North Than You (Edinburgh) (2003)
