In March 1992 Bruce Springsteen released his first albums in five years, Human Touch and Lucky Town. To support them he embarked on a world tour, his first without the E-Street Band (though he did retain keyboardist Roy Bittan). The new band’s final rehearsal before the tour was broadcast on 102.7 WNEW FM, and finds the Boss on superb form as he tackles a range of material from old classics right up to his newest compositions, with a guest appearance from Steve Van Zandt on 57 Channels (And Nothin’ On) and Glory Days.
CD 1
1. Born In The USA
2. Local Hero
3. Lucky Town
4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town
5. If I Should Fall Behind
6. 57 Channels (And Nothin On)
7. Big Muddy
8. Living Proof
9. My Hometown
CD 2
1. Leap Of Faith
2. Man s Job
3. Roll Of The Dice
4. Human Touch
5. Glory Days
6. Hungry Heart
7. Closing Remarks
Totally Stripped is a newly-revised version of the documentary that was originally made to coincide with the release of The Rolling Stones Stripped album released in November 1995. It tells the story of the two studio sessions and three live shows that made up the Stripped project. This followed the conclusion of the mammoth Voodoo Lounge tour and found The Stones reimagining tracks from their back catalog in pared back versions alongside a couple of carefully chosen covers in the studio and doing smaller scale club gigs to showcase these versions, which was a marked contrast to the huge arenas and stadiums that had hosted the Voodoo Lounge tour. This new version of the documentary includes previously unseen footage and lays bare the inner workings of both The Rolling Stones and of some of their best loved tracks. Revealing, intimate and moving, Totally Stripped is unmissable.
The Rolling Stones‘ 1995 acoustic live album Stripped will see the deluxe reissue treatment with a multi-disc overhaul due in stores later this year.
Titled Totally Stripped and due June 3rd, the expanded set collects the three complete shows from the spring of 1995 — the Paradiso in Amsterdam, L’Olympia in Paris and Brixton Academy in London — that the band later combed through to create the original LP’s live track listing. The new edition also includes an overhauled version of the Totally Stripped documentary, which offers a peek behind the scenes as the band assembled the album. “Taken together,” promises a press release, “the three concerts present the Stones at their raw, invigorated best.”
Totally Stripped will be available in a variety of formats, including DVD or Blu-ray documentary-only editions, as well as DVD/CD and DVD/LP adding a single disc of highlights to the film. The deluxe five-disc edition adds a 60-page book in addition to the three previously unreleased shows. Take a look at the complete track listing for the set below.
This Deluxe 4DVD+CD set is packaged in a 60 page 12 x 12 hardback photobook and contains the newly revised documentary, the single CD of highlights from the live shows and individual DVDs of the three full length live concerts.
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1) Not Fade Away Amsterdam 5/26/95 2) Honky Tonk Women Paris 7/3/95 3) Dead Flowers Amsterdam 4) Faraway Eyes London 7/19/95 5) Shine A Light Amsterdam 6) I Go Wild Paris 7) Miss You London 8) Like A Rolling Stone Amsterdam 9) Brown Sugar Paris 10) Midnight Rambler London 11) Jumpin Jack Flash Paris 12) Gimme Shelter Amsterdam 13) Rip This Joint Amsterdam 14) Street Fighting Man – Amsterdam
DVD 1
Totally Stripped Documentary
DVD 2 Paradiso, Amsterdam, May 26th 1995
1) Not Fade Away 2) It s All Over Now 3) Live With Me 4) Let It Bleed 5) The Spider And The Fly 6) Beast Of Burden 7) Angie 8) Wild Horses 9) Sweet Virginia 10) Dead Flowers 11) Shine A Light 12) Like A Rolling Stone 13) Connection 14) Slipping Away 15) The Worst 16) Gimme Shelter 17) All Down The Line 18) Respectable 19) Rip This Joint 20) Street Fighting Man
DVD 3 L Olympia, Paris, July 3rd 1995
1) Honky Tonk Women 2) Tumbling Dice 3) You Got Me Rockin 4) All Down The Line 5) Shattered 6) Beast Of Burden 7) Let It Bleed 8) Angie 9) Wild Horses 10) Down In The Bottom 11) Shine A Light 12) Like A Rolling Stone 13) I Go Wild 14) Miss you 15) Connection 16) Slipping Away 17) Midnight Rambler 18) Rip This Joint 19) Start Me Up 20) It s Only Rock n Roll 21) Brown Sugar 22) Jumpin Jack Flash
DVD 4 Brixton Academy, London, July 19th 1995
1) Honky Tonk Women 2) Tumbling Dice 3) You Got Me Rockin 4) Live With Me 5) Black Limousine 6) Dead Flowers 7) Sweet Virginia 8) Faraway Eyes 9) Love In Vain 10) Down In The Bottom 11) Shine A Light 12) Like A Rolling Stone 13) Monkey Man 14) I Go Wild 15) Miss You 16) Connection 17) Slipping Away 18) Midnight Rambler 19) Rip This Joint 20) Start Me Up 21) Brown Sugar 22) Jumpin Jack Flash
PATTI SMITH | HORSES – LIVE AT ELECTRIC LADY STUDIOS
Electric Lady Studios has announced the launch of Electric Lady Records, an ongoing series of carefully curated and limited edition vinyl releases. On August 26th, 2015, the newly formed record company teamed with Patti Smith for a live, recorded performance of her landmark debut LP, Horses, itself originally recorded at the facility in 1975. Recordings from the in-studio appearance will be released on double 180g vinyl for the first time on Record Store Day as the first offering from Electric Lady Records.
Patti Smith’s Horses: Live at Electric Lady Studios doesn’t sound like a live album, and that’s a good thing. Too many concert recordings sound surprisingly flat. Even the most adventurous band can suffer from an audio engineer sticking mics in front of the amps and then leaning back while the tapes roll, ultimately making a glorified bootleg.
The new version of Horses, meanwhile, benefits from being live album cut in a recording studio in front of an audience. Patti Smith and her band celebrated the 40th anniversary of her breakthrough debut, with a performance of the whole record before a small yet excitable crowd of fans and VIPs (Michael Stipe, Liv Tyler, Dakota Johnson) in the mythic space where she originally recorded it, New York City’s Jimi Hendrix–founded Electric Lady Studios.
Their new versions can be raucous “Gloria”, resplendent “Break It Up”, morose “Free Money” and sobering “Elegie”. Smith warbles, growls, hollers and speaks with dramatic effect throughout, as guitarist Lenny Kaye wrests bluesy phrases from his instrument, making each song sound inspired and fresh. The rest of the band – drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, bassist-keyboardist Tony Shanahan and keyboardist-guitarist-bassist JackPetruzzelli – makes the music swell around Smith’s voice. But the best thing about it is the way it sounds on vinyl, the medium Electric Lady chose to release it on in an effort to preserve its fidelity.
Other than crowd noise at the beginnings and ends of songs – a positive side effect of a reverent audience – it sounds like a studio album, but with the unbridled energy of a concert. The sound of the guitars travels between speakers for a more psychedelic impact than the original studio album, and the whole experience is crystal clear, from the squeak of Kaye’s guitar pick striking his strings to Smith’s vocal intricacies.
Smith was in her late 20s when she recorded Horses. Now, in her late 60s, her voice has taken on more depth and grit, deepening the power of every song. You can hear her panting before the final “Gloria” (a surprise at the end of “Land”), and you can hear the tickle in her throat when she raves, “Tonight is a night toparty/ We want to have a good time” in “Land.” It’s an album resurrected and living dangerously.
1. Gloria 2. Redondo Beach 3. Birdland 4. Free Money 5. Kimberly 6. Break It Up 7. Land (pt. 1 “Horses” pt. 2 “Land Of a Thousand Dances pt. 3 La Mer(de) 8. Elegie
“…[for] her hour-long, emotionally captivating performance of Horses in its entirety, the room grew silent…” Interview Magazine
“…the intimate concert from the peerless rock icon was full of more life, fire and spit than practically any other show I’ve ever seen.” Billboard
“[She] wore an Electric Lady T-shirt under her signature black vest and jacket, sound[ing] almost invariably the same as she did on the record…” Rolling Stone Magazine
“…deep into the record’s three-movement penultimate track “Land”… it became transcendent: Smith stepped off the small stage, onto a couch and shoved the mic into the face of a fan to sing ‘Gloooriaaa’ euphorically before hugging him. The fan was Michael Stipe.” Rolling Stone Magazine
Foals live from the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol two weeks ago. Formed in Oxford in 2005, Foals have been around some eleven years now and, according to their Wiki page, have had the same lineup in all that time. And in that time they’ve released 4 studio albums, 6 eps and 19 singles. And they’ve been given an NME (New Musical Express) Award for Best Live act in Britain in 2011 and 2013 as well as awards from Q Magazine for Best live act. In fact, they are recipients of piles of awards.
At any rate, they will be seemingly everywhere this year, so it might be a good idea to catch them in concert.
But if you can’t, or you’re on the fence, here is a chance to do it from the comfort of your computer and get yourself familiar before you head off to buy tickets. Like everything else with the BBC 6 Music Festival this year, it was all pretty extraordinary and this Foals set is no different. They have a habit of living up to their reputation as a great band to see live and if you aren’t familiar with them, now’s as good a time as any to get acquainted and add another band to your list.
Foals – February 14, 2016
BBC 6 Music Festival, Bristol, England, UK
Setlist:
Snake Oil
Olympic Airways
My Number
Birch Tree
Mountain at My Gates
Providence
Spanish Sahara
Red Socks Pugie
Late Night
A Knife In the Ocean
Inhaler
What Went Down
Two Steps, Twice
Car Seat Headrest’s driven mastermind Will Toledo makes languid indie rock with whirring, no-bullshit musings; and it’s a critical smash. His debut Teens of Style was one of Rolling Stone’s 50 Best Albums of 2015, and cheekily-entitled follow-up Teens of Denial is slated to release later this year on his new home of MatadorRecords. Though he told Rolling Stone that his music is bred from nerves and “reflects introversion,” Toledo will be busting the bedroom door open and hitting many SXSW stages in Austin Texas.
Car Seat Headrest performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded October 29th, 2015. Songs:
The Ending Of Dramamine
Times To Die
America
Something Soon
Maud Gone
Daughter inconcert at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol this past weekend. Getting started in 2010, and with a critically acclaimed debut album in 2013, Daughter have risen quickly in popularity with audiences as well as the press.
Described variously as Indie/Folk/Ambient and Pop, but leaning heavily in the ambient direction, the band is fueled by the heady-emotion-filled songs of Elena Tonra, and have struck on a winning combination, creating a luxuriant soundscape to compliment what has been characterized as a unique sonic landscape.
Since their debut, they have issued some four eps, three singles and another album, Not To Disappear, which was released this past January to worldwide sales, extending their appeal way beyond their UK fanbase.
They are one of the big acts again this year, at the BBC 6 Music Festival in Bristol, which has been a feast of great and diverse music. In 2013 they were just starting to get notice and recognition. In the 3 years since, they have grown (as any band would, given the amount of hard work and touring they put in) and the effort has paid off. What is presented now is a polished and accomplished band; assured and comfortable with a capacity audience.
One of the nice things about following bands via the internet, which you really weren’t able to do before having fingertip/worldwide access, is catching their live gigs and reading their reviews the night after, hearing their radio sessions and interviews and being witness to a band growing and maturing before your eyes – the cause and effect; the hard work and endless slog it takes, and the payoff of a growing and loyal audience and hitting that success, knowing you’re doing something right. It’s great stuff and it’s wonderful to watch.
So this latest installment in the ongoing story of Daughter continues to be the success they’ve achieved in the past three years. From the sounds of it, there appears to be no letup and 2016 should be another good year for them.
This solo acoustic recording fromRy Cooder, in a radio studio and without an audience, illustrates perfectly where this maverick musician and consummate performer was at in 1972. The “Radio Ranch,” Cleveland, OH
With the educational and informative introductions given by Ry before many of the numbers – for the benefit of those listening at home and radio station personnel equally – alongside some of the very finest guitar playing you’re ever likely to hear, this release is a near perfect artifact of this era of Ry Cooder’s career.
SIDE A
1.Interview (Live)
2.Police Dog Blues (Live)
3.Ry Cooder Introduction (Live)
4.Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer (Live)
5.Song Intro (Live)
6.Great Dream from Heaven (Live)
SIDE B
7.Sleepy John Estes Introduction (Live)
8.Clean up at Home (Live)
9.Dedication to Radio Ranch Personnel (Live)
10.Tattler (Live)
11.You’re Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond (Live)
SIDE C
12.Radio Announcement (Live)
13.F.D.R. In Trinidad (Live)
14.More Sleepy John Estes Stories (Live)
15.Floating Bridge (Live)
16.Billy the Kid (Live)
SIDE D
17.Ditty Wah Ditty (Live)
18.Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground (Live)
19.Jesus Is on the Mainline (Live)
20.Going to Brownsville (Live)
This superb radio broadcast recording captures Talking Heads live at the Saratoga Performing Arts Centerset in the lush environs of Saratoga Spa State Park in New York State during the summer of 1983. At this stage in their career, Talking Heads were at an artistic peak, having progressed from their initial spiky art-punk stance into something much funkier and more ethnically diverse in inspiration.
Crucially, bassist Tina Weymouthand her husband, drummer Chris Frantz, had also formed the successful dance-oriented splinter group, Tom Tom Club, in 1981.
SIDE A
1.Psycho Killer (Live)
2.Heaven (Live)
3.Cities (Live)
SIDE B
4.Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) (Live)
5.Burning Down The House (Live)
6.Life During War Time (Live)
7.Home (This Must Be The Place?) (Live)
SIDE C
8.Once In A Lifetime (Live)
9.Big Business / I Zimbra
10.Houses In Motion
SIDE D
11.Genius Of Love (Live)
12.Girlfriend Is Better (Live)
13.Take Me To The River (Live)
Double 140 Gram Grey Vinyl Set. This superb radio broadcast recording captures Talking Heads live at the Saratoga Springs Performance Center set in the lush environs of Saratoga Spa State Park in New York State during the summer of 1983. At this stage in their career, Talking Heads were at an artistic peak, having progressed from their initial spiky art-punk stance into something much funkier and more ethnically diverse in inspiration.
This live album was recorded in Sunderland and Croydon, places where the band had a strong following, during January and September 1970. Although only two tracks, namely ‘The Hunter’ and ‘All Right Now’, could be used from the Sunderland show, producer Andy Johns did use a lot of the crowd noises from that gig between tracks, to create a virtually seamless live experience.
Interestingly, the final song on the album is actually a studio recording, and is one of four they did before splitting up; the other three surfaced on the ‘Highway’ album. One of the pleasures of this album is that the original recordings were clearly not altered in the studio. Everything is heard as it happened on stage. And what it proves overall is that Free were a masterful live band.
‘Free Live!’ is a fine representation of how good the four were when in this environment and the enthusiastic crowd response is utterly authentic and sets the atmosphere for the whole event.
Because that’s what this album is…a true event. Capturing FREE at their peak.
In the pantheon of blues-rock there has never been a band that burned so brightly, was more commercially successful and made so much great music in so comparatively short a period of time as Free. They are probably best known for their 1970 signature song, ‘All Right Now’ but theirs is a rich deep catalogue, surprisingly so given their comparatively short career.
Free disbanded in 1973 and lead singer Paul Rodgers became the frontman of Bad Company along with SimonKirke on drums. In 2004 Paul Rodgers worked with Queen offering a different take on Freddie Mercury’s vocals for the band. Bass player Andy Fraser formed Sharks and wrote ‘Every Kinda People’ that Robert Palmer covered, while the brilliant lead guitarist Paul Kossoff formed Back Street Crawler and then tragically died from a drug-induced heart failure at the age of 25 in 1976.
Vinyl debut, Triple-LP Collection Features 22 Live Recordings From The Band’s 1979-80 Tour, That Were Previously Available Only As Part Of The Tusk: Deluxe Edition, Available On March 4th From Warner Bros. Records
Fleetwood Mac unveiled a massive Deluxe Edition of its revered double album Tusk late last year that featured 22 previously unreleased live performances selected from the band’s 1979-80 tour. Until now, those concert recordings have only been available as part of the set and only on CD and digitally. That will change soon with the release of FLEETWOOD MAC: IN CONCERT.
All of the live music from the 2015 reissue of Tusk will be available on March 4th from Warner Bros. Records as a three-LP set. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, the albums will be presented in a tri-fold jacket.
Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks originally released Tusk in October of 1979. The Grammy® Award-nominated, double-album went onto sell more than four million copies worldwide and introduced fans to hits like “Sara,” “Think About Me,” and the title track.
The music heard on In Concert was recorded at four stops during the band’s 111-show world tour promoting Tusk. This new collection serves as a worthy companion to the classic 1980 album Live. Although a few songs are duplicated from that album, including “Say You Love Me,” “Landslide” and “Go Your Own Way,” each performance on In Concert is unique and taken from a different show.
In Concert boasts 10 songs not heard on Live, including “World Turning” from the Fleetwood Mac’s 1975 self-titled release, and “The Chain” from the band’s best-selling album Rumours (1977), a Grammy-award winning juggernaut that has sold more than 40 million copies.
Several songs from IN CONCERT were recorded at the Checkerdome in St. Louis just a month after the release of Tusk, and only seven shows into the tour. Those performances capture the band already in top form on songs like “Angel,” “Save Me A Place” and “What Makes You Think You’re The One.”
The rest of the performances were recorded several months later, including 11 songs from the band’s six-night stand at Wembley Arena in London in June 1980. Among the highlights are “That’s Enough For Me,” “Sisters Of The Moon,” and the Top 10 smash from Rumours, “You Making Loving Fun.”
FLEETWOOD MAC: IN CONCERT
LP Track Listing
Side One
1.Intro (Wembley, 06/26/80),2.“Say You Love Me”(Wembley, 06/26/80), 3.“The Chain” (Wembley, 06/20/80) 4.“Don’t Stop” (Wembley, 06/27/80), 5.“Dreams” (Wembley, 06/20/80)
Side Two
1.“Oh Well” (Wembley, 06/20/80), 2.“Rhiannon” (Tucson, 08/28/80), 3.“Over And Over” (St. Louis, 11/05/79), 4.“That’s Enough For Me” (Wembley, 06/21/80),
Side Three
1.“Sara” (Tucson, 08/28/80), 2.“Not That Funny” (St. Louis, 11/05/79), 3.“Tusk” (St. Louis, 11/05/79), 4.“Save Me A Place” (St. Louis, 11/05/79)
Side Four
1.“Landslide” (Omaha, 08/21/80), 2.“What Makes You Think You’re The One” (St. Louis, 11/05/79), 3.“Angel” (St. Louis, 11/05/79), 4.“You Make Loving Fun” (Wembley, 06/20/80)
Side Five
1.“I’m So Afraid” (St. Louis, 11/05/79), 2.“World Turning” (Wembley, 06/22/80)
Side Six
1.“Go Your Own Way” (Wembley, 06/22/80), 2.“Sisters Of The Moon” (Wembley, 06/22/80), 3.“Songbird” (Wembley, 06/27/80)
The Fat Angel Sings 