A favourite actor and have never seen a bad performance from Detectorists to Marvellous, Mr Bates and the Post Office to The Ruth Ellis Story, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to personal favourite TV series Don’t Forget The Driver (co-written too!) a huge fan of his dad Freddie who has handed on the chalice to his son . . . . even dare I say it overtaking as 'greatest character actor ever' mantle!
. . . oh some more Bluegrass . . . . . ?
Don’t mind if’n we do!
we have had this before but Twilightzone reposted it and who am I to argue!?
so we’ll strat the week with some Prophet! why it’s enough to wake the dead!. . . . . . . .
In 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the music I could find from the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival. It's a big one. In my opinion, it's right up there with the granddaddy of all rock festivals, Woodstock in 1969, in terms of the big name musicians and the musical quality of the festival. At that time, though, there were a few sets I didn't post, because the sound quality didn't meet my usual standards.
Now, I'm posting those missing bits. Specifically, I'm posting the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens. Most everything else I posted from the festival are from soundboard-level quality recordings. But for those three, we only have audience bootlegs, probably all recorded by the same person, since they sound similar. They all share the same problems. For instance, there was a lot of wind blowing against the microphones, which marred the recordings. There also were frequent airplanes flying overhead, sometimes quite loudly. There were people talking near to the taper. Worst of all, the sound quality of the recordings were just okay, probably due to mediocre tape recorders being used.
So that's why I didn't post these sets back then. But there has been a lot of improvement in audio editing technology in just the last three years. So I gave these a try. A big problem was the wind blowing on the microphone noises. Luckily, the audio editing program Izotope has a filter just to get rid of those exact kinds of noises. I ran most of the songs through that filter, and got rid of most of it (but not all!). I used other tricks, like separating out the lead vocals and boosting them over the muck. I also used MVSEP to reduce reverb and get rid of noise.
The good news is, I consider these sets sound decent enough for me to post them now. But beware! There's still a lot of problems. One can only do so much with problematic source material. I'll post the Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens sets after posting this.
It so happens that all three of these sets are from the last day of the festival, August 30, 1970. If you're going to download some of them, I'd also suggest re-downloading the other sets from that day. The reason is, the Donovan set is the second one, so that becomes the new "Part 2," and all the sets after that are renumbered with their album titles. By the end of the day, there are nine parts instead of six. Furthermore, the song numbering for each part continues from the last part, so all that changes too. There ends up being 163 songs instead of 115, so there are lots of changes on all the sets from that day.
On top of that, I've made some minor changes to the cover art of some of the other albums, now that the technology for that has been improving as well. That includes changing some of the covers from the other days of the festival, specifically the sets by Chicago, Procol Harum, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, the Who, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. So you might want to redownload those as well.
and might close it down for the day there . . . . .
Norah Jones - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-8-2015
In 2015, Jones didn't really have an album to promote. Her most recent solo studio album at the time was "Little Broken Hearts," released in 2012. She would release "Day Breaks" in 2016. However, only two songs here are from that album ("Flipside" and "And Then There Was You"). So she performed songs from all over her career up until that point.
The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent.
This album is an hour and 35 minutes long.
01 What Am I to You
02 Out on the Road
03 I've Got to See You Again
04 Carnival Town
05 talk
06 Black
07 talk
08 It Must Have Been the Roses
09 talk
10 Chasing Pirates
11 Flipside
12 talk
13 Stuck
14 talk
15 Lonestar
16 And Then There Was You
17 Painter
18 Little Broken Hearts
19 talk
20 Don't Know Why
21 Miriam
22 Sinkin' Soon
23 talk
24 Don't Know What It Means
25 talk
26 Come Away with Me
27 talk
28 Sunrise
29 Creepin' In
30 How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart
(all tracks Norah Jones)
approaching close of day . . . . .