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R.E.M – ” Chronic Town ” 30th Anniversary ” Live At Merlin’s April 24th 1982

Posted: December 22, 2014 in MUSIC
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Today we celebrate one of the more significant milestones in the college-rock era, the 30th anniversary of the release of R.E.M.’s debut EP, “Chronic Town”. the five-song record that launched the band and, in many ways, the ’80s indie scene.

To commemorate this classic record — which, bizarrely, has never received an official standalone CD release — we present audio of a concert recorded a few months earlier, in Madison, Wisc., on April 24, 1982, that finds the band working through its early catalog.

This bootleg is widely available as “Carnival Of Sorts” from their 1982 tour stop at Merlin’s in Madison, Wisconsin. The rest of the cd is very good, save for a mysterious drop in volume for a few songs midway through the set. Some great rare stuff here, though, including this performance of “Stumble/ Skank ” as well as a blazing version of the unreleased song “That Beat” and a rare live performance of “Wolves, Lower”.

STEPHEN STILLS and MANASSAS – ” Live at the Beat Club ” March 25th 1972

Posted: December 20, 2014 in MUSIC
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I think this was recorded for Beat-Club (not for the MusikLaden, which replaced Beat-Club on December 13th, 1972). The show was broadcast on March 25, 1972 (referred to as Episode #1.77)

In 1972, with an already embarrassingly rich resume Stephen Stills career with Buffalo Springfield, Super Session, CSN&Y, Stephen Stills’ finest hour was still to come. Along with ex-Byrd/Burrito Chris Hillman, Stills co-founded Manassas and issued a 2LP set that was called “a sprawling masterpiece” . Manassas was barely 6 months old when they convened at the film studios of Germany’s Radio Bremen to record this excellent 35+ minute live performance for the TV show, Beat Club. Released on DVD in 2000 and reportedly, the only visual documentation of the band, Manassas, with no audience, expertly fusing Stills’ musical passions (blues rock, Latin & country) into a distinctively potent blend. Note this set’s suite of songs, beginning with “Song Of Love” and running uninterrupted through to “Jet Set (Sigh).” Instead of concluding the run as originally recorded on the LP (with “Anyway”), Stills throws the band a live curve ball (you can actually see and hear the momentary confusion at the 20:45 mark) and, in front of the rolling cameras, kicks off an extended jam instead (at 22:00). The DVD is worth owning just to see Stills’ short-lived Manassas in performance mode, something most of us never got the opportunity to experience. Find the DVD at Amazon,

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Manassas was a fairly short-lived project, but a highly creative one. The double album was in a sense a concept album of different genres from which the band could quite easily and most skilfully draw upon.
The core members of Manassas were:
Stephen Stills: vocals, keyboards & guitar (CSNY, ex-Buffalo Springfield)
Chris Hillman: vocals, mandolin & guitar (ex-Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers)
Al Perkins: steel guitar & guitar (ex-Gram Parsons and Flying Burrito Brothers)
Calvin “Fuzzy” Samuels: bass, backing vocals (ex-CSNY and John Sebastian)
Paul Harris: keyboards (played with John Sebastian during 1968-71)
Dallas Taylor: drums (ex-Clear Light, CSNY and John Sebastian)
Joe Lala: percussion, backing vocals (ex-Blues Image and Pacific Gas & Electric)

TALKING HEADS – ” Real Live Wires ” Live at The Park West Chicago 28th August 1978

Posted: December 16, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This great live set captures Talking Heads at The Park West, in Chicago, in 1978. After playing a selection of showcases in Europe at the start of the year – and taking time-out to record their second album in the Bahamas – the group were amidst a tour criss-crossing the USA from New York to Los Angeles. Talking Heads have their origins in a Providence, Rhode Island band called The Artistics, formed in 1974. True to their name, founder members David Byrne (vocals, guitar) and Chris Frantz (drums) were students of the School of Design there, as was Frantz’s girlfriend, Tina Weymouth. The band quickly folded and all three moved to New York together. Tina was persuaded to learn bass; achieved – apparently – by listening to Suzi Quattro albums! Now known as Talking Heads, the trio soon secured their debut gig as support to the Ramones, at the CBGB’s in mid-1975. The band was signed by Seymour Stein’s Sire Records and released their debut single, the intriguingly entitled “Love Goes to Building on Fire” in February 1977.  Talking Heads took a more oblique, avant-garde approach to their music. They were definitely New Wave rather than Punk. After their first single, the group immediately expanded the line-up, adding Jerry Harrison (previously with Jonathan Richman’s Modern Lovers) on keyboards, guitar and backing vocals. Their debut album, Talking Heads: 77 was released in September. All the songs, bar one, were written exclusively by David Byrne. The sole collaboration was the Byrne-Frantz-Weymouth number Psycho Killer, the album’s stand-out cut (first written for the The Artistics). With its insistent Psycho Killer… qu est-ce que c est hook and Weymouth’s driving bass-line, it was released as a single gained the band a huge amount of recognition and airplay over the years. Other standout cuts include the exuberant The Book I Read, the Caribbean styling of Uh-Oh Love Comes To Town and the punchy but nimble New Feeling.

The Second album “More Songs about Buildings and Food” was a more diverse – and even more successful – collection of songs. Away from the confines of New York, the album was recorded in Nassau, in the Bahamas with Brian Eno producing. A cover of Al Green s Take Me to the River was also released as a single, and exposed Talking Heads to a significantly larger audience  Other standout cuts featured include, The Big Country, The Girls Want to be with the Girls and The Good Thing. This broadcast recording, which includes all three singles by then released, together with the cream of the two albums other cuts, is a superb distillation of all that made Talking Heads such a unique and remarkable band.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.STREET BAND – Live at The Fox Theatre, Atlanta Georgia 30th September 1978

Posted: December 16, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Echoes very proudly presents the entire FM broadcast of Bruce Springsteen s legendary performance at the The Fox Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia from 30th September 1978 in its definitive edition. Originally scheduled for 23rd July (but postponed due to Springsteen s occurring throat infection), the 30th September 1978 performance in Atlanta offers a valuable snapshot of The Boss in his energized, formative years. The show was broadcast on twenty FM radio stations in the southern eastern states.there is an awesome version of ” Prove It All Night” this is another of the wonderful sets available now through Amazon

Setlist From Atlanta 30th September 1978 Fox Theatre,Atlanta 1. Good Rockin’ Tonight 2. Badlands 3. Spirit In The Night 4. Darkness On The Edge Of Town 5. Independence Day 6. The Promised Land 7. Prove It All Night 8. Racing In The Street 9. Thunder Road 10. Jungleland 11. Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town 12. Night Train World prem 13. Fire 14. Candy’s Room 15. Because The Night 16. Point Blank 17. Not Fade Away 18. Gloria 19. She’s The One 20. Backstreets 21. Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 22. Born To Run 23. 10th Avenue Freeze-Out 24. Detroit Medley 25. Raise Your Hand

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN – ” Songs on the Piano “

Posted: December 15, 2014 in MUSIC
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Its not often Bruce Springsteen performs his songs in the live envoirnment on piano but here are some of the best ever giving some songs a quite different perspective.

“Thanks, I’ll do a song I haven’t, I think I’ve played it on this tour, I’ve given it a rest for a while, some of those old bastards need that, you know how it is, they need a rest, but I wanna play this one tonight for a special friend of mine, J.J, if you’re, I hope you’re still here (J.J: “I’m here”) oh, alright, this is for you, my, my, my good friend…..”

According to Backstreets Magazine, J.J is a young man who is battling leukemia and who met Bruce before the show and was present at the soundcheck.

Bruce Springsteen gives a solo piano performance of “Independence Day” in Paris, France on July 4, 2012 during the Wrecking Ball Tour

Filmed at U.S. Bank Arena, Cincinnati, OH, USA. 12-11-2002

Bruce Springsteen performs You’re Missing on Grand Piano during a rehearsal for a the TV show SNL on October 5, 2002 – complete take and  it’s an incredibly moving performance:

 

PATTI SMITH – ” Dreaming Of The Prophet ” Live Broadcast 27th December 1975

Posted: December 11, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This engrossing live broadcast captures Patti Smith at a pivotal moment in her career. Her stunningly original debut, ‘Horses’, had been released just a few weeks earlier. Although the record has since become a landmark release, and widely cited as one of Rock music’s greatest albums,  at the time Patti Smith was still performing in small clubs such as New York City’s 400-capacity Bottom Line, located at 15, West Fourth Street, and venue for this very gig. One of a string of seven sell-out performances Smith gave at this legendary Greenwich Village club in December 1975, they were intended as warm-ups for her first major tour of the USA, planned to begin in early 1976. In 1975 the group expanded to include second guitarist Ivan Kral and drummer Jay Dee Daugherty. The Patti Smith Group was signed to Arista Records by label supremo Clive Davis, allegedly on a recommendation from Lou Reed. Another ex-Velvet, John Cale, was bought in to produce ‘Horses’ at New York’s Electric Ladyland Studios. The sessions began in August 1975 and were completed the following month. Despite the records release being just a few months prior to this gig, the set features an eclectic mixture of material, opening with some quite extraordinary poetry recitals. From ‘Horses’ versions of Redono Beach, Free Money, Birdland and a medley of Land and Patti’s interpretation of Van Morrisons Gloria are included. Gloria was also issued as a single in 1976 together with a live version of The Who’s My Generation, a number that also closes this performance. The set also features two songs that would feature on 1976’s ‘Radio Ethiopia’, Ain’t It Strange and Pumping My Heart. Looking further ahead, both Privilege (Set Me Free) and Space Monkey remained unreleased until 1978’s ‘Easter’. There are also acknowledgements of Patti’s disparate musical influences in the shape of covers of the Velvets Pale Blue Eyes, Time Is On My Side, written by Jerry Ragovoy but immortalized by The Rolling Stones, and the perennial garage band classic Louie Louie. This is available through Amazon now.

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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E. STREET BAND – ” Don’t Look Back “

Posted: December 6, 2014 in MUSIC
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Bruce Springsteen’s prolific nature as a songwriter has often been at odds with his meticulous attitude towards constructing an album, and while Springsteen is known to regularly feature new songs in concert, that doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily going to appear on his next album. “Don’t Look Back” was a song that first began popping up in Springsteen’ s live sets during his three-year lawsuit-motivated recording layoff between Born To Run and Darkness On The Edge Of Town, and along with “The Promise”, another tune that first appeared around this time, the song quickly achieved a near-legendary status among Springsteen fans. However, when Darkness On The Edge Of Town was finally released in 1978, neither song made it into the final sequence. In the case of “The Promise”, as strong as the song was, it also summed up the themes of the album so well that it would likely have seemed almost redundant in context, or made the rest of the album seem superfluous. The trouble with “Don’t Look Back” was a bit trickier; a song of uncommon passion from one of the most fiery performers in rock, “Don’t Look Back” was a tale of defiance against long odds and all but hopeless circumstances, and was cut from the same cloth as Darkness’s two side-openers, “Badlands” and “The Promised Land”. However, while “Don’t Look Back” was as good if not better than either of those songs, it lacked the anthemic quality that made “Badlands” a great overture, as well as the hard-won optimism that “The Promised Land” brought to the disc at a crucial moment in its sequence. In short, “Don’t Look Back” was a superb song that didn’t quite fit Darkness On The Edge Of Town, even though it was so strongly of a piece with the album’s other songs, and while Springsteen and The E-Street Band cut a crackling version of it during the Darkness sessions, the recording first reached fans on a bootleg album called Don’t Look Back (which also featured a live take of “The Promise”, as well as the long-unreleased Three Mile Island protest number “Roulette”). However, in 1998 “Don’t Look Back” finally gained an authorized release when it closed out the first disc of Springsteen’s ambitious box set of “songs that got away”, Tracks.

STRAND OF OAKS – ” Live On KEXP “

Posted: November 29, 2014 in MUSIC
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KEXP radio presents Strand Of Oaks performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded August 26, 2014.
Songs: Goshen ’97, Heal, For Me, Shut In,

 

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN and the E.STREET BAND – ” Jungleland ” Live Uncasville 18th May 2014

Posted: November 17, 2014 in MUSIC
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“Jungleland” is an almost ten-minute long closing song on Bruce Springsteen‘s 1975 album Born to Run, and tells a tale of love amid a backdrop of gang violence. It contains one of E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons‘ most recognizable solos. It also features short-time E Streeter Suki Lahav, who performs the delicate 23-note violin introduction to the song, accompanied Roy Bittan on piano in the opening.The song in its lyrics mirrors the pattern of the entire Born to Run album, beginning with a sense of desperate hope that slides slowly into despair and defeat. The song opens with the “Rat” “driving his sleek machine/over the Jersey state line” and meeting up with the “Barefoot Girl,” with whom he “takes a stab at romance and disappears down Flamingo Lane.” The song then begins to portray some of the scenes of the city and gang life in which the “Rat” is involved, with occasional references to the gang’s conflict with the police. The last two stanzas, coming after Clemons’ extended solo, describe the final fall of the “Rat” and the death of both his dreams, which “gun him down” in the “tunnels uptown,” and the love between him and the “Barefoot Girl.” The song ends with a description of the apathy towards the semi-tragic fall of the “Rat” and the lack of impact his death had- “No one watches as the ambulance pulls away/Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light,” “Man the poets down here don’t write nothin’ at all/They just stand back and let it all be.”

The ROLLING STONES – ” From The Vault “

Posted: October 30, 2014 in MUSIC
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“Hampton Coliseum – Live In 1981” is the first title in this series.
The Rolling Stones American Tour in 1981 was the most successful tour of that year taking a then record $50 million dollars in ticket sales.
The tour was in support of the critically and commercially successful “Tattoo You” album.
There were fifty dates on the tour which ran from Philadelphia at the end of September through to Hampton, Virginia on the 18th and 19th of December.The show on December 18th, which was also Keith Richards’ birthday, was the first ever music concert to be broadcast on television as a pay-per-view event.The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.

 

“L.A. Forum – Live In 1975” is the second title in this series. The Rolling Stones’ “Tour Of The Americas ‘75” was the band’s first tour with new guitarist Ronnie Wood.Even before the dates started there were dramatic scenes in New York City at the official tour announcement when the band unexpectedly turned up on a flatbed truck to play “Brown Sugar”.After a couple of low key warm-up shows in Louisiana the tour took in 44 dates between the 3rd June and the 8th August 1975.They settled into the L.A. Forum for a five night stint from July 9th to 13th and this concert film features the show from July 12th.The footage has now been carefully restored and the sound has been newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain for this first official release of the show.

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