Bob Dylan - 1993-07-01 - Barcelona, Spain (Pre-Board) | so many roads . . .

Bob Dylan - 1993-07-01 - Barcelona, Spain (Pre-Board)

A Speedy Special

Bob Dylan

1993-07-01

El Pueblo Español

Barcelona, Spain

Pre-Board Recording

CD 1:

01. Hard Times 

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

Top Man!

Ry Cooder - Smack Dab In The Middle [ Chicken Skin Music] | jt1674

  . . . the maestro and one of his great album . . . . . . Chicken Skin anyone?

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/820857588857061376/ry-cooder-smack-dab-in-the-middle

Jefferson Starship - 1994-01-24 - Fukuoka, Japan | Heavybootz

 

Jefferson Starship - 1994-01-24 - Fukuoka, Japan

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 /

  
tt: 1:04:03

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

DANGEROUS MINDS: The Tom Waits tour mapped to match a constellation of stars : Will Howard: PEHDTSCKJMBA!

 You remember Bob Dylan’s famous press calls . . . . . ?!

PEHDTSCKJMBA!

The Tom Waits tour mapped to match a constellation of stars

Will Howard

Tue 30 June 2026 16:00, UK

"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.”

Emmylou Harris - Sleepless Nights [Pieces of The Sky] | jt1674

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/820874638590689281/emmylou-harris-sleepless-nights

EBBETS FIELD from ATSE [contd] | Emmylou Harris - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO USA 1975 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

Emmylou Harris - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 6-23-1975, Late Show

Paul continues his Ebbets Field series of concerts with the peerless Emmylou. He says:

In posting these Ebbets Field concerts, I've relied exclusively on radio broadcast recordings. But Emmylou Harris is a unique exception to that. Someone made an audio bootleg of one of her concerts at that venue, and it sounds good enough to post. So I have two concerts from her, one from June 23, 1975, and the other from June 24, 1975. Unfortunately, I am on vacation and I can't tell right now which one is which. But after I post both, maybe one of you can tell me which is which and I can adjust my write-up accordingly. I plan on posting the June 24th concert immediately after this one.

I decided to post both concerts because there was some overlap in terms of the songs that are played, but there also were a lot of unique songs in both shows. Luckily, both concerts started with the song "Cash on the Barrelhead." That's lucky, because the version in this concert was missing about the first minute, but the version in the June 24th concert is complete. So I used part of the June 24 version to fill the missing section. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

In an early 1975, Harris released her first "real" solo studio album, "Pieces of the Sky." I say "real" because she had a very early solo album in 1969 that she later disavowed, as well as two albums with Gram Parsons. Later in 1975, she would release another solo studio album, "Elite Hotel." She played a few of the songs that would appear on that album in this concert as well.  

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Cash on the Barrelhead [Edit] 
02 You're Still on My Mind
03 talk 
04 Never Take His Love from Me 
05 talk 
06 The Bottle Let Me Down 
07 I Really Had a Ball Last Night [Feelin' Single, Seein' Double] 
08 talk 
09 Together Again
10 Bluebird Wine 
11 talk 
12 Hank and Lefty
13 talk
14 Wheels 
15 talk 
16 Boulder to Birmingham 
17 Rock and Roll Music 
18 talk 
19 Cry One More Time 
20 Jambalaya [On the Bayou] 
21 talk 
22 Too Far Gone 
23 Hot Burrito No. 1 
24 talk by emcee 

(all tracks Emmylou Harris) 

 

‘China Boy’ (by Phil Boutelje and Dick Winfree) Paulus Schäfer Joscho Stephan Volker Kamp | Gypsyguitaracademy :

 My dear older brother Steve would have loved these guys, a guitar fan who introduced me to many a guitarist including Django Reinhardt etc . . . . . . .I have mentioned before but we went to see live in the OU Guitar Society (things were more lax back when my Steve was alive and we were able to get tickets really easily) the likes of Segovia (we sat feet away!) in The Sheldonian Theatre, Manitas De Plata in the New Theatre as I recall (beyond belief!) and a personal favourite Paco Pena (again front row and in a small student union hall, we sat at his feet! 

I dedicate this performance to my Steve, missed every day . . . . .

Gypsyguitaracademy

A pleasure to share this performance of "China Boy" (by Phil Boutelje and Dick Winfree) recorded during a great studio session with the fantastic Paulus Schäfer from the Netherlands. This is the third release from our collaboration.

Hope you enjoy it!

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💿 Music: https://www.joscho-stephan.de/shop

📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/joschostephan

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Guitar: Paulus Schäfer 

Guitar: Joscho Stephan   

Bass: Volker Kamp 

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Audio-Mix: Joscho Stephan

Recording & Video: Malte Weber

The Human League - Fascination

The Human League - Fascination

1983) The music video for "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" was filmed in a semi-derelict area of Newham, London which was due for demolition and redevelopment as part of the widescale redevelopment of Docklands and East London which took place in the early 1980s. The central theme of the video was based on a red dot on a map, which in turn is a real red dot on the ground. The red dot highlights a single house on the apex of a street where the band are playing the song in the front room, which is painted entirely grey.

Filmed before the widespread use of CGI for the video the house (which was 1 First Avenue,London E13 8AP) and surrounding area (Junction of 1st Avenue and 3rd Avenue) encompassed by the red dot were painted red for real, including a complete car. The opening scenes establish the landscape from a map before zooming through the front window of the 'red' house, as the band starts the song. The video was conceived and directed by Steve Barron who directed most of the Human League's early 1980s music videos. The band's scenes were all filmed in a studio; Susan Ann Sulley says that the house was still occupied by a family during the painting and filming of the external scenes. The house remained red for a couple of weeks before finally being demolished in mid 1983. The area where the red house stood, today is a grassed area on the junction of First Avenue and Third Avenue. (Satellite Image)

The poster comments that the League are mostly three people Phil and the two girls,Susan and Joanne  and that the band are flexible and made up of largely session players. This does a huge disservice to someone featured here the Pop writer par Excellence from the Rezillos and the League Jo Callis but to be fair there are numerous members of musicians who have played with the trio!

Susan Ann Sulley

Jacob Tolliver [for Jerry Lee Lewis] - "Rockin' My Life Away” Jerry Lee’s 85th Birthday Performance

 

Jacob says: In case you missed it....here's my performance for Jerry Lee Lewisat his 85th Birthday! Rockin' my Life Away 

which of course led me to look for more Jacob!

How about this one?!

Go on follow him he’s got duct to buy!

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Birthdays: Dan Ackroyd! Elwood, ELWOOD!

 Happy birthday to Dan Aykroyd, born in Ottawa, Ontario on this day in 1952. He's a soul man.

Again marginally disappointed with Route who found a source for this clip so I am postingthe whole thing! How can you post a mere clip? I truly don’t get it! It’s the BLUES BROTHERS FFS

Elwood and ‘Joliet’ Blues!