Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 1974-09-14 - London, UK | so many roads

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 1974-09-14 - London, UK (SBD)

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

1974-09-14

Wembley Stadium

London, England

Soundboard Recording

CD 1

01. Love The One You're With

02. Wooden Ships

03. Immigration Man

04. Helpless

05. Military Madness

06. Johnny's Garden

07. Traces

08. Almost Cut My Hair

09. Teach Your Children

10. Only Love Can Break Your Heart

11. The Lee Shore

12. Time After Time

13. It's All Right

14. Another Sleep Song

15. Our House

16. Hawaiian Sunrise

17. Star Of Bethlehem

18. Love Art Blues

19. Old Man

CD 2

01. Change Partners

02. Blackbird

03.. Myth Of Sisyphus

04. You Can't Catch Me > Word Games

05. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

06. Déjà Vu

07. First Things First

08. Don't Be Denied

09. Black Queen

10. Pushed It Over The End

11. Pre-Road Downs

12. Carry On 

13. Ohio

Speedy says: Believe it or not, CSNY has made only 2 appearances at Farm Aid, in 1990 and then again at the 15th anniversary show in 2000. We'll have that second performance for you later this month. 

This soundboard recording goes back 9 years prior to the first Farm Aid, capyturing the last night of  CSNY’s tumultuous 1974 tour at Wembley Stadium in London on September 14, 1974, 51 years ago today. The band, which has been driven apart in 1970 by tensions between the the four members, reformed in early 1974 to launch a nationwide tour. On opening night in Seattle, the band showed their total lack of planning, mapping out a 44 (yes – 44!) song set that they thought would last just a bit more than 3 hours. Well, at 12:35 am, 3 ½ hours into the show, they still had 9 songs to play. They plunged ahead, finishing the show, but that decision had enormous consequences. For future shows, some songs were trimmed off the set list, while others were reshuffled in the line up, pleasing none of the 4 band members. Tensions would continue to mount throughout the tour, and when it finally ended, so did CSNY for over a ¼ century. While there would be few special appearances, such as Live Aid in 1985, CSNY would not tour again until 2000! 

and as I have said before  rare that I get to thank folks for a gig I was at but this is an exception and Speedy excels here and whilst the CSNY boys and Joni were really very good, The Band blew everyone else away! But always nice to get a soundboard quality set so have at it . . .check my comments elsewhere and mostly on the Band’s set but that was a DAY of it fer sure! Know visitor Dell and others were there too

Can y a diggit? I think you can!

This is great quality (for the time) well it sure as eggs is eggs ain’t no soundboard mind and as visitors BC and Joan have pointed out it isn’t the quality they expected from a soundboard and I get ya on that but parts are really very listenable so give it a whirl and see what you think . . . . . Almost Cut My Hair is really very good! . . . . . it is mixed however so . . . . . .you pays yer money and ya takes yer . . . oh no that’s right its free!

Early Faces! | The Small Faces - Baby, Please Don't Go (Marquee Сlub, London, UK, 22 March 1966)

 Small Faces performing 'Baby Please Don't Go' live at the Marquee Club on the 22nd March 1966.

A bit rough n ready but I hadn’t seen this before! Trying to find the full version but it cuts off . . . . . 

a bit more but still fades out . . . . . . 

Led Zeppelin - 1979-08-04 - Knebworth, UK - So Many Roads to Ease My Soul (A Speedy Special)

LED ZEPPELIN - THE END OF ROCK ’n’ ROLL 1979

Led Zeppelin KNEBWORTH 79 - so many roads

As Speedy says in his comprehensive introduction:

 

Led Zeppelin, who had taken the rock world by storm earlier in 1969 with their ground breaking debut album, was invited to play Woodstock. The band declined, opting to play 2 shows at the convention  center in Asbury Park instead. The band's manager, Peter Grant, apparently decided that headlining their own concert was preferable, explaining "I said no because at Woodstock we'd have just been another band on the bill."  Of course, that explanation seems a bit hollow given that the band played the Texas Pop Festival on August 31, 1969, just 2 weeks after Woodstock where they were just one of over a dozen bands on the bill!

A decade after Woodtsock, Led Zeppelin found themselves on the grounds at Knebworth House, located 26 miles north of London. The site hosted its first rock festival in 1974, when the Allman Brothers, Van Morrison and The Doobie Brothers took the stage in front of 60,000 fans (go here for more on Knebworth's history). Additional festivals were held in 1975, 1976, and 1978 with acts such as The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Genesis. No Knebworth show might have been more anticipated, however, than the one in 1979, when Led Zeppelin agreed to perform. For Led Zep, it would be their first live show since the death of Robert Plant's son in 1977, and their first show in the UK in 4 years. Ticket demand for the initial August 4 performance was so great that a second show was added on August 11. Zeppelin would return to the stage in front of over 400,000 fans during those 2 days, reinforcing their place at the time as rock's biggest act. Their shows would also feature the first live performances of tunes from their soon to be released album. In Through The Out Door. Some reviews claimed the band sounded rusty -- hardly surprising after a 2 year lay off - and the band members themselves were not completely satisfied with their performance. Maybe they sensed it was the beginning of the end. Led Zep's original line up would never again perform live in their home country. In fact, within a year, John Bonham would be dead and Led Zeppelin would be no more. Download this soundboard of their 1st Knebworth show from 45 years ago today, August 4, 1979, therefore, to capture their next to last live performance in England.

Led Zeppein

1979-08-04

1979 Knebworth Festival

Knebworth, England

Soundboard Recording

320 kbps

CD 1:

01. Introduction

02. The Song Remains The Same

03. Celebration Day

04. Black Dog

05. Nobody's Fault But Mine

06. Over The Hills And Far Away

07. Misty Mountain Hop

08. Since I've Been Loving You

09. No Quarter

CD 2:

01. Ten Years Gone

02. Hot Dog

03. The Rain Song

04. White Summer - Black Mountain Side

05. Kashmir

06. Trampled Underfoot

07. Sick Again

08. Achilles Last Stand

CD 3:

01. Guitar Solo

02. In The Evening

03. Stairway To Heaven

04. Rock And Roll

05. Whole Lotta Love

06. Heartbreaker

This is far from the best I’ve heard but I am spoiled [and choosy - ED] and this is highly listenable and high quality so well worth the checking it out!

LED ZEPPELIN FANS - KNEBWORTH 1979

More Bonnie! | This from Albums That Should Exist Vol Four (of her appearances at the BBC)

Bonnie Raitt - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: BBC 4 Sessions, Stoke Newington Town Hall, Stoke, UK, 6-17-2013

Paul says : I've posted three BBC albums by Bonnie Raitt, all of them unreleased concerts with a band. Here's a fourth one, also an unreleased concert with a band. This is also the last one that I know of, at least up until now (2024).

The previous BBC concert took place in 2003, so this is ten years later, with many different songs. She was touring to support her 2012 album "Slipstream." Naturally, there are a lot of songs from that.

I'm glad to say the sound quality is excellent. For once, I hardly had to make any edits, other than breaking the banter into separate tracks. 

The songs are mostly what you'd expect, but she finished with a cover of the Elvis Presley hit "A Big Hunk o' Love," which she's never put on an album.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 talk
02 Used to Rule the World
03 talk
04 Right Down the Line
05 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
06 Thing Called Love 
07 talk 
08 Million Miles
09 talk
10 Love Has No Pride 
11 talk 
12 Nick of Time
13 talk
14 Marriage Made in Hollywood
15 talk
16 Love Me like a Man 
17 talk 
18 I Can't Make You Love Me 
19 talk 
20 A Big Hunk o' Love 
21 talk