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Who – Live at Leeds (1970) (@256)
21 Jun 2007
(Review from wikipedia, amazon)
After releasing Tommy in mid-1969 The Who went on an extended world tour to promote it, and returned to England at year’s end with a desire to release a live album from the tour. However, they balked at the prospect of listening to the hundreds of hours of accumulated recordings to decide which would make the best album, so they ritually burned the tapes (to prevent bootlegging) and scheduled two shows, one at the University of Leeds and the other in Hull, for the express purpose of recording and releasing a live album. The shows were performed on February 14th (Leeds) and 15th (Hull) 1970, but technical problems with the recordings from the 15th – the bass guitar had not been recorded – made it necessary for the show from the 14th to be released as the album.
The original album only contained six songs, but it was a forceful assertion of the band’s power. The deluxe edition contains the entire show and it gives the listen the complete picture of what a Who show sounded like in 1970.
One of the reasons “Leeds” is prized among Who collectors is that it is one of the best-recorded; the mix is superbly equalized among all three instruments and Daltrey’s vocals, and Townshend’s guitar sounds especially full-bodied and wet. The performance is one of the tightest and note-perfect of that period–without losing any of its heat or raw power–and the audience is amazingly quiet and respectful, which almost gives the show a “live in the studio” quality.
Line-up:
* Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica, tambourine
* Pete Townshend – guitar, vocals
* John Entwistle – bass guitar, vocals
* Keith Moon – drums, vocals
Track List:
CD1
01. Heaven and Hell
02. I Can’t Explain
03. Fortune Teller
04. Tattoo
05. Young Man Blues
06. Substitute
07. Happy Jack
08. I’m a Boy
09. A Quick One, While He’s Away (Townshend)
10. Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran & Jerry Capehart)
11. Shakin’ All Over (Johnny Kidd a.k.a Fred Heath)
12. My Generation (Townshend)
13. Magic Bus (Townshend)
CD2 (Tommy)
01. Overture (Townshend)
02. It’s a Boy (Townshend)
03. 1921 (Townshend)
04. Amazing Journey (Townshend)
05. Sparks (Townshend)
06. Eyesight to the Blind (Sonny Boy Williamson)
07. Christmas (Townshend)
08. The Acid Queen (Townshend)
09. Pinball Wizard (Townshend)
10. Do You Think It’s Alright? (Townshend)
11. Fiddle About (Entwistle)
12. Tommy, Can You Hear Me? (Townshend)
13. There’s a Doctor (Townshend)
14. Go to the Mirror (Townshend)
15. Smash the Mirror (Townshend)
16. Miracle Cure (Townshend)
17. Sally Simpson (Townshend)
18. I’m Free (Townshend)
19. Tommy’s Holiday Camp (Moon)
20. We’re Not Gonna Take It (Townshend)
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Ekseption – Live in Germany (1993) (@256)
17 Jun 2007
(Info from progarchives.com)
Ekseption is a Dutch band that was famous during the late sixties/early seventies for the way it combined themes from classical composers with contemporary rock and jazz in a blend of dominating, virtuoso keys and trumpet plus sax(es).
Ekseption’s only live album was recorded during two German concerts in November 1993. Ekseption had a reunion for some live performances.
If you’ve always wanted to listen to Ekseption live, here’s your chance.
Line-up:
- Rick Van Der Linden / Farfisa 1-3 +5 and Grand piano
- Rein Van Der Broek / trumpet, flugelhorn
- Max Werner / drums
- Frans Muys Van Der Moer / bass
- Dick Remelink / soprano & tenor saxophone
Track List:
01. Toccata (5:23)
02. Your home (4:51)
03. Peace planet (3:43)
04. Concerto (4:02)
05. Haydn (3:08)
06. Air (3:57)
07. Rhapsody in blue (4:45)
08. Thoughts (3:57)
09. Summertime (2:50)
10. For example (9:43)
11. The fifth (3:12)
12. Italian concerto (4:03)
13. Sabre dance (3:35)
14. My pianoman (2:45)
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Who (as High Numbers) – Live at Marquee & Studio Sessions (1964) (@320)
16 Jun 2007
(Info from wikipedia, sleeve)
The Who first began in 1963. In their early days the band was known as The Detours. Like many of their British peers, the group was heavily influenced by American blues and country music, initially playing mostly rhythm and blues. The Detours changed their name to “The Who” in 1964 and, with the arrival of Keith Moon that year, their line-up was complete. However, for a short period during 1964, under the management of Peter Meaden, they changed their name to The High Numbers.
This is a bootleg CD, with live and studio material from that period.
Tracks 1-11 are live with decent sound considering the era. The tracks don’t flow smoothly and some cut in and out abruptly. Some sound like there is an audience while others don’t.
Tracks 12-18 are mono studio tracks. These are all instrumental, recorded in Abbey Road Studios.
As “High Numbers”, they released “Zoot Suit/I’m The Face”, a single designed to appeal to their mostly mod fans. When it failed to chart, the band fired Meaden and quickly reverted to The Who. They had also changed from The High Numbers to The Who because when they would have concerts, old ladies would come thinking that they could play bingo.
Line-up:
* Roger Daltrey – vocals
* Pete Townshend – guitar
* John Entwistle – bass
* Keith Moon – drums
Track List:
01. Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying
02. You Really Got Me (Instrumental)
03. Young Man Blues
04. Green Onions
05. I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying
06. Instrumental Jam
07. I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying
08. Long Tall Shorty
09. Pretty Thing
10. Smokestack Lightning, Money (That’s What I Want)
11. Here ‘Tis
12. Smokestack Lightning
13. Walking The Dog (Instrumental)
14. Unknown Instrumental
15. I’m A Man (Instrumental)
16. Instrumental Jam
17. Memphis, Tennessee
18. Unknown Instrumental
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REO Speedwagon – Live: You Get What You Play For (1977) (@192)
14 Jun 2007
Request of Rock Doctor.
(Info from wikipedia)
REO Speedwagon built their audience through constant touring. The band was always dissatisfied with the producers on their studio albums, because they continually failed to capture on tape the quality of the band’s live show.
Their first live album, Live: You Get What You Play For (1977), was the band’s first real commercial success and was certified platinum.
Line-up:
* Kevin Cronin – Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals
* Neal Doughty – Keyboards
* Alan Gratzer – Drums, Vocals (back)
* Gregg Philbin – Bass, Vocals (back)
* Gary Richrath – Guitar, Vocals
Track List:
01. Like You Do – 6:54
02. Lay Me Down – 3:39
03. Any Kind of Love – 3:34
04. Being Kind (Can Hurt Someone Sometimes) – 6:35
05. Keep Pushin’ – 4:06
06. (Only A) Summer Love – 6:05
07. Son of a Poor Man – 5:30
08. (I Believe) Our Time Is Gonna Come – 4:49
09. Flying Turkey Trot – 2:35
10. 157 Riverside Avenue – 7:38
11. Ridin’ the Storm Out – 5:47
12. Music Man – 2:58
13. Golden Country – 8:26
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Camel – Coming of Age (Live 1997) (@256)
11 Jun 2007
Recorded on March 13th, 1997 at The Billboard Live club in Hollywood, this double album captures a whole evening of Camel’s Harbour of Tears tour.
As usual with any Camel tour of a concept album; the album is played as a whole, among many Camel classics.
Line-up:
- Andrew Latimer/ guitar, vocals
- Colin Bass / bass vocals
- Foss Patterson / keyboards
- Dave Stewart / drums
with
- Mae McKenna / vocal on “Irish Air”
Track List:
CD1
01. Lunar Sea (8:57)
02. Hymn to Her (6:34)
03. Rhayader (2:53)
04. Rhayader goes to Town (5:03)
05. Preparation (3:19)
06. Dunkirk (5:05)
07. Drafted (4:28)
08. Docks (3:54)
09. Beached (4:00)
10. Spirit of the Water (3:09)
11. Ice (9:40)
12. Sasquatch (4:18)
CD2
01. Milk n’Honey (3:23)
02. Mother Road (4:29)
03. Needles (2:30)
04. Rose of Sharen (5:09)
05. Irish Air (0:57)
06. Irish Air Reprise (2:27)
07. Harbours of tears (3:16)
08. Cobh (0:52)
09. Send Home the States (4:04)
10. Under the Moon (1:46)
11. Watching the Bobbins (7:38)
12. Eyes of Irelands (3:13)
13. Running From Paradise (5:39)
14. End of the Day (2:44)
15. Coming of Age (7:38)
16. The Hour Candle (7:20)
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Camel – Never Let Go (Live 1992) (@256)
10 Jun 2007
(Review from allmusic.com)
Progressive rock bands like Camel have to be creative in their touring schedules, often traveling to Europe in order to find a substantial concentration of fans in a single place. So it was that Camel arrived with their 20th anniversary tour at Enschede, Holland. After their 10th anniversary tour, few would have predicted a 20th, but the release of Dust and Dreams in 1991 suggested the band had found another creative wind. Never Let Go confirms the point that Camel has plenty of life left in it. Spread out across two discs, this live show features two distinct sets.
The first is a remarkable retelling of their earlier travels, recounting highlights from each of their releases up to Nude, in chronological order no less. It starts out deceptively simple, with Andrew Latimer strumming a slow version of “Never Let Go”, which soon explodes into a spot-on rendition. With keyboardist Mickey Simmonds (ex-Mike Oldfield/Fish) joining a returning Colin Bass and Paul Burgess, the new quartet does a marvelous job of capturing Camel in its various guises: from the instrumentals “Ice” and “Earthrise” to familiar songs like “Spirit of the Water” (sung by Bass) and “City Life”.
The second set is devoted to a pristine presentation of their recent opus, the concept album Dust and Dreams, in its entirety. As a bonus, Camel closes with the instrumental “Sasquatch” (one of the bright spots from The Single Factor) and a beloved mirage from the past, “Lady Fantasy”. Latimer’s voice has grown a little thinner over the years (and it was pretty thin to begin with), but his guitar work gets sharper with age.
Line-up:
- Andrew Latimer / guitars, flutes, keyboards, vocals
- Colin Bass / bass, keyboards, vocals
- Paul Burgess / drums
- Mickey Simmonds / keyboards
Track List:
CD1 :
01. Never Let Go
02. Earthrise
03. Rhayader
04. Rhayader Goes To Town
05. Spirit of the Water
06. Unevensong
07. Echoes
08. Ice
09. City Life
10. Drafted
CD2 :
01. Dust Bowl
02. Go West
03. Dusted Out
04. Mother Road
05. Needles
06. Rose Of Sharon
07. Milk n’ Honey
08. End Of The Line
09. Storm Clouds
10. Cotton Camp
11. Broken Banks
12. Sheet Rain
13. Whispers
14. Little Rivers And Little Rose
15. Hopeless Anger
16. Whispers In The Rain
17. Sasquatch
18. Lady Fantasy
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Allman Brothers Band – Atlanta International Pop Festival (1970) (@320)
08 Jun 2007
(Review from allmusic.com)
The festival took place while the Allmans were in the process of recording their second album, Idlewild South, when they appeared on July 3 as the hometown openers of the entire festival and proceeded to blow the minds of over 100,000 people — for their last set on July 5 at 3:50 a.m. they performed in front of as many as 500,000.
The July 3 set is magical. There is a stunning version of “Dreams” lasting almost ten minutes with beautiful Hammond/guitar interplay between Gregg and Dickey. Long and ferocious versions of “Whipping Post” and “Mountain Jam” are here, but the track on the July 3 set is Berry Oakley’s feral vocal read of Willie Dixon’s “Hoochie Coochie Man.” ” A short (5:49) version of this song, it has a rock & roll immediacy that is strained out of the longer versions to gain the improvisational edge. Disc one also restores Gregg Allman’s “Every Hungry Woman,” to its rightful place — previously only having been available on an anthology. Harp player Thom Doucette, no stranger to ABB fans, is here aplenty, adding his righteous, stinging harp lines to many tracks on both nights. The way Gregg’s organ playing is recorded here offers a new view of just how integral an anchor he was for both guitarists to play off. He is a monster musician and, even at this early date, was showing off his improvisational and rhythmic skills.
Disc two is graced by the original live mixes of “Statesboro Blues” and “Whipping Post” that were released on First Great Rock Festivals of the Seventies and these are stunning for their intensity and focus, as well as clarity. “Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’” is as tough a set opener as there is with the ringing slide guitars attacking one another and going for broke to kick things off. The long versions of “Stormy Monday” and “‘Liz Reed” are among the most intimate and groundbreaking the band ever recorded, while “Whipping Post” transmutes itself into a jazz tune for a few minutes and changes everything. The nearly half-hour “Mountain Jam” is deepened here by the addition of a third guitarist: Johnny Winter sits in with the Allman Brothers Band and Doucette for the definitive version of this classic — you can forget the one on Eat a Peach after this.
This live album provides an excellent, even mind-blowing introduction to a band that was at the peak of its power.
Line-up:
* Duane Allman: slide guitar and lead guitar
* Gregg Allman: vocals, organ
* Dickey Betts: lead guitar,
* Berry Oakley: bass guitar, backing vocals
* Butch Trucks: drums
* Jai Johanny “Jaimoe” Johanson: drums, congas
* Thom Doucette: Harmonica
Track List:
CD1 (July 3) :
01. Introduction
02. Statesboro Blues
03. Trouble No More (Muddy Waters)
04. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
05. Dreams
06. Every Hungry Woman
07. (I’m Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
08. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
09. Whipping Post
10. Mountain Jam, Pt. 1
11. Rain Delay
12. Mountain Jam, Pt. 2
CD2 (July 5) :
01. Introduction
02. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
03. Statesboro Blues
04. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed
05. Stormy Monday
06. Whipping Post
07. Mountain Jam
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Camel – Pressure Points : Live in Concert (1984) (@256)
08 Jun 2007
(Review from progarchives.com, progreviews.com, wikipedia)
“Pressure Points : Live in Concert” was recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon on May 11th, 1984; weeks after the release of “Stationary Traveller”.
There’s a soaring, yet subtle gentleness about much of the concert, dotted with moments of energy, led by Andy Latimer’s guitar and/or Tom Scherpenzeel’s keyboards. It’s slick and inoffensive in almost every possible way. It’s a reflection of the “Stationary Traveller” era. As bonuses, we get guest solos from Mel Collins on “Fingertips” and Peter Bardens on the “Rhayader Goes to Town”.
After the release of the live Pressure Points in late 1984, Camel disappeared without trace as far as the public was concerned. Finishing the contract with Decca, Latimer was unable to interest other British record companies and eventually moved to California when the lawsuit ended (successfully for him).
Line-up:
- Andy Latimer / guitar, flute, vocal
- Colin Bass / bass, vocal
- Ton Scherpenzeel / lead keyboards
- Christopher Rainbow / vocal, keyboards
- Richie Close / keyboards
- Paul Burgess / drums, percussion
with:
- Mel Collins / sax
- Pete Bardens / organ
Track List:
01. Pressure Points (7:17)
02. Drafted (3:51)
03. Captured (3:02)
04. Lies (5:16)
05. Sasquatch (4:09)
06. West Berlin (5:19)
07. Fingertips (4:48)
08. Wait (4:28)
09. Rhayader (2:29)
10. Rhayader Goes To Town (6:05)
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Judas Priest – Priest… Live! (1987) (@256)
07 Jun 2007
(Review from amazon.com)
Priest…Live! was recorded during two shows in their World Tour of 1986.
When it comes to the live albums, this one generally takes a beating from the fans because it doesn’t contain any of the 70′s Priest classics. Instead, this live album picks up after Hell Bent for Leather and showcases their best hits from British Steel to Turbo. It is missing some key songs such as ‘Grinder’ and ‘Hot Rockin’, but the songs that they do have here prove that the Priest is still the best when they’re live.
The album opens with the Turbo productional ballad ‘Out In The Cold’. It does get the crowd going, although I would have rather them open with ‘Electric Eye’. Next is ‘Heading Out To The Highway’ which proves to be much better than the original with the added guitar solos. Then it breaks into ‘Metal Gods’ which is heavier than the original, but missing the sound effects. ‘Breaking the Law’ is where the band starts kicking it into overdrive, as it is played faster and with more screaming than the original. ‘Love Bites’ was a very haunting Priest song in the studio, but it manages to play well in an arena setting. ‘Some Heads Are Gonna Roll’ is alright, but I prefer the original. Next is ‘The Sentinel’ played with sheer intensity as Halford screams out, “Condemn to Hell!!”. Even the more quiet bridge setting is excellent. The last track on the first disc is Turbo’s ‘Private Property’ which does rock, but isn’t epic like the last the last song.
Next up, ‘Rock You All Around The World’. I didn’t like the studio version much because it felt out of place, but in a live setting it fares much better. Now we get to ‘Electric Eye’ which contains cannons firing during ‘The Helion’. ‘Turbo Lover’, despite what everyones says, rocks the arena withh a passionate intensity not found in any other Turbo songs. I prefer the original, but Glenn and K.K. hold well with all the guitar synthesizer parts being played. Next is my favorite track on here:’Freewheel Burning’ opening with Halford driving in on a Harley! ‘Parential Guideance’ is the only song I think that shouldn’t be here. The album ends perfectly with sped up versions of ‘Living After Midnight’ and ‘You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’.
As a whole, this is a well-rounded live album. It has more variety in the song order than ‘Unleashed’, but ‘Unleashed’ is still the heavier of the two. Don’t listen to those who say that this album “has the heartless soul of Turbo”, when in fact they simply don’t have open minds due to their love for 70′s metal and hatred for 80′s metal. Priest is a metal band all about versitality, and this live show displays it perfectly. They rocked hard in the 70′s and still rocked in the 80′s.
Line-up:
* Rob Halford: Vocals
* K.K. Downing: Guitars
* Glenn Tipton: Guitars
* Ian Hill: Bass Guitar
* Dave Holland – Drums
Track List:
01. Out In The Cold
02. Heading Out To The Highway
03. Metal Gods
04. Breaking The Law
05. Love Bites
06. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
07. The Sentinel
08. Private Property
09. Rock You All Around The World
10. Electric Eye
11. Turbo Lover
12. Freewheel Burning
13. Parental Guidance
14. Living After Midnight
15. You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’
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Camel – On the Road 1981 (@320)
03 Jun 2007
Thanks to Silveraintr for this one.
(Review from amazon.com)
This concert was recorded for the BBC originally and was broadcast on Radio 1 in April 2nd, 1981. Camel at the time of the ‘Nude’ tour had two keyboard players, Kit Watkins and Jan Schelhaas. Their jazz riffs, particularly in ‘Song Within A Song’ and the unforgettable ‘Lunar Sea’, are quite noticable. The track ‘Never Let Go’ seems to appear on virtually every Camel Live album and the rest of the CD comprises of an abridged version of the studio album ‘Nude’ performed live. Heavier than it’s studio counterpart this version shows the versatility of the band. Latimer’s guitar screams it’s way through ‘Docks’,'Beached’ and ‘Captured’ accompanied by Andy Wards drumsticks hitting the skins with energy. Yet classical musicianship comes to the fore in ‘Landscapes’ and ‘Reflections’. The ethnic beat of ‘Changing Places’ is that little bit more energetic than it’s studio counterpart and the flute solos remain haunting to this day. A whole range of styles in one concert.
Line-up:
- Andrew Latimer / lead guitar, flute, vocals
- Colin Bass / bass guitar, vocals
- Andy Ward / drums
- Kit Watkins / keyboards, flute
- Jan Schelhaas / keyboards
Track List:
01. Never Let Go
02. Song Within A Song
03. Lunar Sea
04. City Life
05. Nude
06. Drafted
07. Docks
08. Beached
09. Landscapes
10. Changing Places
11. Reflections
12. Captured
13. The Last Farewell
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Vital Duo – Le Jardin Hors Du Temps (2004) (@Video)
18 May 2007
(Review from progressor.net)
Vital Duo is the Payssan brothers: Thierry and Jean-Luc. These two amazing composers and multi-instrumentalists formed the project in 1999 after they for some reason disbanded their brainchild and one of the best French bands ever existed in the history of progressive rock, Minimum Vital. Back in 2001, Vital Duo presented their first album “Ex Tempore”, which is an amazing masterpiece and is certainly one of the most innovative albums released in the new millennium. Vital Duo’s “Le Jardin Hors du Temps”, lasts about 55 minutes and includes nine compositions, only two of which: the 7-minute Se me dame and the 3-minute “Louez son nom” come from “Ex Tempore”. All seven of the other Vital Duo compositions on the DVD are fresh. In other words, “Le Jardin Hors du Temps” is actually the new Vital Duo album with two bonus tracks. It was performed, recorded, and shot in the Mussonville chapel, a small beautiful cathedral located not far from the city of Bordeaux in France. This chapel is a gorgeous monument of medieval architecture; so everything is filled with the spirit of the Middle Ages on “Le Jardin Hors du Temps”, starting with Vital Duo’s music, of course. Overall, the contents of the new Vital Duo album are about that wonderful trinity of symphonic art-rock, classical music, and medieval music, which the Payssan brothers presented on “Ex Tempore”. However, most of the numbers here are compositionally more complex than those on the duo debut album, so the predominant stylistics of “Le Jardin Hors du Temps” should, in my honest opinion, be defined as medieval classical music with elements of modern progressive rock. During the performance, Thierry plays a ‘multi-purpose’ synthesizer, cymbals, and the other metallic percussion instruments, and Jean-Luc an electric guitar, varied acoustic guitars, lute, a bass drum, and hi-hat. A couple of numbers feature vocals, and one of them: Zildeline Danse is with lyrics in one of the Slavic languages. It’s just amazing to see how skillfully these multi-instrumentalists play a few instruments simultaneously. It’s just wonderful to hear the sound of this duo: often, it’s not unlike that of a full-fledged band. Diverse interplay between solos of either electric or acoustic guitar and those of digital church organ and the other synthetic, yet, very realistically sounding keyboard and chamber instruments, including synth-bass, accompanied by the sounds of bass drum, tambourine, and cymbals, are typical for most of the contents of “Le Jardin Hors du Temps”. Performed within the precincts of a chapel, this album is possessed of a triple effect. Just open your eyes, ears, and soul and absorb this musical magic.
Track List:
01. Introit
02. Se Me Dame
03. Zildeline Danse
04. Sliman
05. Gothik
06. Le Jardin Aux Statues
07. Officium
08. Mauresque
09. Louez son nom
Video: Xvid, 720×480, 29.97 fps
Audio: MP3, @224
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Minimum Vital – Les Mondes de… (1994) (@Video)
16 May 2007
(Review from progressor.net, musearecords.com)
At the end of 1993, Thierry and Jean-Luc Payssan were very unsatisfied and nearly thought about quitting the band. But they had composed new music, and they were sure they could go one step further on the La Source direction. So they had no other choice but to form a fresh, new Minimum Vital. They kept Eric Rebeyrol on bass, and got drummer Charly Berna and Sonia Nedelec on vocals. This team was probably the best incarnation of the band. The new band began to tour in 1994 and got the opportunity to play at the Progfest Festival in Los Angeles, where the audience reaction was really enthusiastic. They began to think of a new album, but they wanted to present the new band as soon as possible. So they decided to record the videotape called Les Mondes De / Worlds Of Minimum Vital, which was released in March 1995.
Minimum Vital’s famous live video “Les Mondes de” allows to understand better the strange attraction that charmed the American audience, reputedly very demanding, during the 51 minutes that the Los Angeles’ ProgFest 1994 performance lasted. It comprises pieces from their first three albums, as well as unreleased tracks.
The material originally released on VHS were carefully remastered. Live numbers present the latest period of creation of Minimum Vital with charming Sonja Nedelec as a lead singer. Sonja’s vocals with lyrics in the Breton dialect are simply fantastic.
Track List:
01. Les Mondes de Miranda
02. Modern Trad’
03. Dans Les Chateaux / Porte Sur L’Ete
04. Ann Dey Floh
05. Mystical West
06. A Bien Des Egards
07. La Source
Video: Xvid, 720×480, 29.97 fps
Audio: MP3, @224
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Yardbirds – Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page (March 1968) (@320)
12 May 2007
Request of anonymous.
(Review from allmusic.com)
Arguably the most famous lost live album in history, Live Yardbirds Featuring Jimmy Page, cut at the Anderson Theater in New York on March 30, 1968, has been issued twice on vinyl legitimately (only to be suppressed by legal action) and innumerable times since as a bootleg. In August 2000, Mooreland St. Records put out the first authorized CD edition of the performance, and it is a complete revelation. The original master tape has been improved significantly; the absence of vinyl noise is an obvious plus, but the sheer impact of the instruments is also startling, given that the show was taped by a producer who had never recorded a rock band before, on equipment that was ten years out of date. The producers have expanded this reissue with help from a separate reference tape, an audience recording that preserved the complete unedited show; it’s somewhat low-fi, but it captures material edited from the finished master, and it allows for the restoration of little nuances. Page’s guitar (which goes out of tune several times) is the dominant instrument, alternately crunchy and lyrical, but always loud and dexterous; the roughness of Keith Relf’s singing is also more apparent, but his shortcomings don’t really hurt the music. The performance also reveals just how far out in front of the psychedelic pack the Yardbirds were by the spring of 1968; Page had pushed the envelope about as far as he could, in terms of high-velocity guitar pyrotechnics. Ironically, this album isn’t quite as strong as the contemporary Truth album by Jeff Beck, mostly because the Yardbirds were still juggling three sounds: the group’s progressive pop/rock past, the psychedelia of 1968, and a harder, more advanced blues-based sound. It’s clear that they had few places left to go with the first two; “Dazed and Confused,” by contrast, represented something new, a slow blues as dark, forbidding, and intense as anything that the band had ever cut — it showed where Page, if not this band, was heading.
Line-up:
* Keith Relf – lead vocals, harmonica
* Jimmy Page – lead guitar, rhythm guitar
* Chris Dreja – bass
* Jim McCarty – drums, backing vocals, percussion
Track List:
01. The Train Kept A Rollin’
02. You’re a Better Man Than I
03. Heart Full of Soul
04. I’m Confused
05. My Baby
06. Over, Under, Sideways, Down
07. Drinking Muddy Water
08. Shapes of Things
09. White Summer
10. I’m a Man
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Ufo – Ufo Live! (1972) (@256)
01 May 2007
(Review from amazon.com)
I heard Ufo for the first time in the early days of FM radio, when the DJ’s could play pretty much whatever they wanted. The local FM station kept playing Rock Bottom and Doctor, Doctor. I purchased the album (Phenomenon) and loved every song on it. I went in search of other Ufo albums, and the record store told me the one before Phenomenon was a live album. I bought it (this one)immediately and literally flew home to check it out. While my initial impression was not as good, over the next few days it began to really grow on me. A very energetic live performance, with excellent playing by all involved. Mogg’s voice is superb and the three musicians shine. Many people seem to be unable to get past the Schenker-era, either pre or post. That’s a shame, because Ufo is a great band, with or without Schenker. The live album is the pinnacle of their pre-Schenker career, with the vastly underrated Flying also worth exploring. Check this one out for a young band blazing away on stage.
Line-up:
* Phil Mogg – vocals
* Mick Bolton – guitar
* Pete Way – bass
* Andy Parker – drums
Track List:
01. C’mon Everybody
02. Who Do You Love
03. Loving Cup
04. Prince Kajuku/The Coming of Prince Kajuku
05. Boogie for George
06. Follow You Home
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Lynyrd Skynyrd – One More From The Road (1976) (@256)
29 Apr 2007
(Review from amazon.com)
Lynyrd Skynyrd released four studio albums prior to the release of this record and they were all outstanding. But as good as they were in the studio, Skynyrd really showed their chops on the road. Shortly after the release of their first record they toured as an opening act for The Who and did the unthinkable by actually blowing them off the stage. One More From The Road was released in late ’76 and it captures all of their power and fury. For the tour they added guitarist Steve Gaines to the mix of Allen Collins and Garry Rossington bringingt back the triple lead guitar attack that made them famous. Bolstered by Artimus Pyle’s drumming, Billy Powell’s boogie-woogie and Leon Wiliknson’s steady bass, the band provides the firm backing for frontman Ronnie Van Zant’s whiskey-soaked vocals. Standout tracks include the powerful “Workin’ For MCA”, the furious “Saturday Night Special”, “Tuesday Gone”, the rollicking “Call Me The Breeze” and of course their two most notable songs, “Sweet Home Alabama” and the flick your lighter on arena rock classic “Free Bird”. This is a remastered deluxe edition that contains additional performances from the Fabulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
Line-up:
* Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
* Gary Rossington – guitar
* Allen Collins – guitar
* Steve Gaines – guitar, backing vocals
* Leon Wilkeson – bass, backing vocals
* Artimus Pyle – drums
* Billy Powell – keyboards
* The Honkettes (JoJo Billingsley, Cassie Gaines, Leslie Hawkins) – backing vocals
Track List:
CD1
01. Workin’ for MCA
02. I Ain’t the One
03. Saturday Night Special
04. Searching
05. Travelin’ Man
06. Simple Man
07. Whiskey Rock-A-Roller
08. The Needle And The Spoon
09. Gimme Back my Bullets
10. Tuesday’s Gone
11. Gimme Three Steps
12. Call Me the Breeze
13. T for Texas
CD2
01. Sweet Home Alabama
02. Crossroads
03. Free Bird
04. Workin’ for MCA (Bonus alternate)
05. I Ain’t the One (Bonus alternate)
06. Searching (Bonus alternate)
07. Gimme Three Steps (Bonus alternate)
08. Call Me the Breeze (Bonus alternate)
09. Sweet Home Alabama (Bonus alternate)
10. Crossroads (Bonus alternate)
11. Free Bird (Bonus alternate)
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Traffic – On the Road (Live 1973) (@320)
28 Apr 2007
(Review from progarchives.com)
It is hard to criticise this incredible live album negatively at all. For me one of the top progressive live albums to come out of the 70′s. Remember Yessongs, Second’s Out and also Ricochet by Tangerine Dream, On The Road sits proudly up there with these gems and it was a double LP release. The musicians worked brilliantly together with Reebop Kwaku Baah back in the percussive fold. Here we have “jamming” at it’s absolute best. “Glad / Freedom Rider” the opener is 20 minutes of mesmerizing sound. Being live the tracks have been lengthened to accomodate for the apty titled On The Road, “Light Up Or Leave Me Alone” is another great track as is the live version of the much debated “(Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired” but for me the highpoint is the seventeen minutes of “Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys”. As I said all the instrument playing is of exceptional quality but Chris Wood’s sax and flute needs a special mention too. Not an album to ignore especially if you are fond of those great 70′s live albums.
Line-up:
- Jim Capaldi / vocals, percussion, drums
- Steve Winwood / vocals, guitar, piano
- Chris Wood / saxophone, flute
- Reebop Kwaku Baah / percussion
- Roger Hawkins / drums
- David Hood / bass
- Barry Beckett / keyboards
Track List:
01. Glad / Freedom Rider (20:49)
02. Tragic Magic (8:30)
03. (Sometimes I Feel So) Uninspired (10:20)
04. Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory (6:40)
05. Light Up Or Leave Me Alone (10:30)
06. Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys (17:35)
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Traffic – 1971-10-14 (Bootleg) (@256)
27 Apr 2007
Traffic
Boston Music Hall
Boston, Massachussetttes
1971-10-14
Line-up:
- Steve Winwood / vocals, guitar, piano, organ
- Jim Capaldi / vocals, percussion
- Rick Grech / violin, bass
- Chris Wood / flute, saxophone
- Jim Gordon / drums
- Reebop Kwaku Baah / percussion
Track List:
01. Medicated Goo
02. Light Up
03. Glad
04. Freedom Rider
05. Hidden Treasure
06. John Barleycorn Must Die
07. Rock ‘n’ Roll Stew
08. Many a Mile to Freedom
09. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
10. Gimme Some Lovin’
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Led Zeppelin – How The West Was Won (1973) (@192)
18 Apr 2007
For tons and tons of Led Zeppelin bootlegs, don’t forget to check out Zen Archer’s Hammer of The Gods.
(Review from allmusic.com)
For years, Led Zeppelin fans complained that there was one missing item in the group’s catalog: a good live album. It’s not that there weren’t live albums to be had. The Song Remains the Same, of course, was a soundtrack of a live performance, but it was a choppy, uneven performance, lacking the majesty of the group at its peak. BBC Sessions was an excellent, comprehensive double-disc set of their live radio sessions, necessary for any Zeppelin collection (particularly because it contained three songs, all covers, never recorded anywhere else), but some carped that the music suffered from not being taped in front of a large audience, which is how they built their legacy — or, in the parlance of this triple-disc collection of previously unreleased live recordings compiled by Jimmy Page, How the West Was Won. The West in this case is the West Coast of California, since this contains selections from two 1972 concerts in Los Angeles: a show at the LA Forum on June 25, and one two days later at Long Beach Arena. This is the first archival release of live recordings of Zeppelin at their peak and while the wait has been nigh on interminable, the end result is certainly worth the wait. Both of these shows have been heavily bootlegged for years and while those same bootleggers may be frustrated by the sequencing that swaps the two shows interchangeably (they always prefer full shows wherever possible), by picking the best of the two nights, Page has assembled a killer live album that captures the full, majestic sweep of Zeppelin at their glorious peak. And, make no mistake, he tries to shove everything into these three discs — tight, furious blasts of energy; gonzo freak-outs; blues; and rock, a sparkling acoustic set. Like always, the very long numbers — the 25-minute “Dazed and Confused,” the 23-minute “Whole Lotta Love,” the 19-minute “Moby Dick” — are alternately fascinating and indulgent, yet even when they meander, there is a real sense of grandeur, achieving a cinematic scale attempted by few of their peers (certainly no other hard rock or metal band could be this grand; only Queen or David Bowie truly attempted this). But the real power of the band comes through on the shorter songs, where their sound is distilled to its essence. In the studio, Zeppelin was all about subtle colors, textures, and shifts in the arrangement. On-stage, they were similarly epic, but they were looser, wilder, and hit harder; witness how “Black Dog” goes straight for the gut here, while the studio version escalates into a veritable guitar army — it’s the same song, but the song has not remained the same. That’s the case throughout How the West Was Won, where songs that have grown overly familiar through years of play seem fresh and new because of these vigorous, muscular performances. For those who never got to see Zeppelin live, this — or its accompanying two-DVD video set — is as close as they’ll ever get. For those who did see them live, this is a priceless souvenir. For either group, this is absolutely essential, as it is for anybody who really loves hard rock & roll. It doesn’t get much better than this.
Line-up:
- Jimmy Page – Acoustic and electric guitars, producer
- Robert Plant – Vocals and harmonica
- John Paul Jones – Bass guitar, keyboards, and mandolin
- John Bonham – Drums and percussion
Track List:
CD1
01. L.A. Drone (John Paul Jones/Jimmy Page) — 0:14
02. Immigrant Song (Page/Robert Plant) — 3:42
03. Heartbreaker (John Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) — 7:25
04. Black Dog (Jones/Page/Plant) — 5:41
05. Over the Hills and Far Away (Page/Plant) — 5:08
06. Since I’ve Been Loving You (Jones/Page/Plant) — 8:02
07. Stairway to Heaven (Page/Plant) — 9:38
08. Going to California (Page/Plant) — 5:37
09. That’s the Way (Page/Plant) — 5:54
10. Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (Jones/Page/Plant) — 4:55
CD2
01. Dazed and Confused (Jake Holmes/Page) — 25:25
* Walter’s Walk (Page/Plant)
* The Crunge (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 15:34
02. What Is and What Should Never Be (Page/Plant) — 4:41
03. Dancing Days (Page/Plant) — 3:42
04. Moby Dick (Bonham/Jones/Page) — 19:20
CD3
01. Whole Lotta Love Medley (Bonham/Willie Dixon/Jones/Page/Plant) — 23:08
* Boogie Chillun (John Lee Hooker) — 3:10
* Let’s Have a Party (Jessie Mae Robinson) — 1:56
* Hello Mary Lou (Gene Pitney) — 2:08
* Going Down Slow (St. Louis Jimmy Oden) — 8:29
02. Rock and Roll (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) — 3:56
03. The Ocean (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) — 4:21
04. Bring It On Home (Dixon/Page/Plant) — 9:30
* Bring It On Back (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant)
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Led Zeppelin – BBC Sessions (1969-71) (@256)
16 Apr 2007
(Review from allmusic.com, wikipedia)
Frequently bootlegged and now digitally remastered by Jimmy Page, these tapes capture a 25-month (1969 to 1971) arc in which Zep’s sound grew to encompass the speed rush and jazz/blues festival stuff of their 1969 debut, the fully developed folkie musings of “Going to California” (in which Plant vowed to make a hejira right up to Joni Mitchell’s front door), and the band’s modestly popular multilayered epic “Stairway to Heaven”.
This release was widely welcomed by Led Zeppelin fans as the first official live release since The Song Remains the Same in 1976. Others have criticized the decision to edit some of the songs and drop others that were recorded for the BBC. Most notable are one session from 1969 which included the unreleased song “Sunshine Woman,” and large portions of the “Whole Lotta Love” medley from 1971.
Line-up:
* Jimmy Page – Electric and acoustic guitars
* Robert Plant – Vocals
* John Paul Jones – Bass Guitar, Keyboards, Mandolin
* John Bonham – Drums
Track List:
CD1
01. You Shook Me (Dixon/Lenoir) – 5:14
02. I Can’t Quit You Baby (Dixon) – 4:22
03. Communication Breakdown (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 3:12
04. Dazed and Confused (Page) – 6:39
05. The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair (Bonham/Estes/Jones/Page/Plant) – 3:00
06. What Is and What Should Never Be (Page/Plant) – 4:20
07. Communication Breakdown (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 2:40
08. Travelling Riverside Blues (Johnson/Page/Plant) – 5:12
09. Whole Lotta Love (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 6:09
10. Somethin’ Else (Cochran/Sheeley) – 2:06
11. Communication Breakdown (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 3:05
12. I Can’t Quit You Baby (Dixon) – 6:21
13. You Shook Me (Dixon/Lenoir) – 10:19
14. How Many More Times (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 11:51
CD2
01. Immigrant Song (Page/Plant) – 3:20
02. Heartbreaker (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 5:16
03. Since I’ve Been Loving You (Jones/Page/Plant) – 6:56
04. Black Dog(Jones/Page/Plant) – 5:17
05. Dazed and Confused (Page) – 18:36
06. Stairway to Heaven (Page/Plant) – 8:49
07. Going to California (Page/Plant) – 3:54
08. That’s the Way (Page/Plant) – 5:43
09. Whole Lotta Love (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 13:45
10. Thank You (Page/Plant) – 6:37
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Birth Control – Live (1974) (@192)
16 Apr 2007
(Info from progarchives.com, wikipedia)
Birth Control was a German krautrock band known for their progressive hard-rock sound and provocative album covers.
Their 1974 live album with progressive styled hard rock cuts with scorching guitar jams certainly gives a good idea of Birth Control’s extensive improvisational skills.
Line-up:
- Peter Föller / bass, vocals, percussion
- Bruno Frenzel / guitar, vocals, percussion
- Zeus B. Held / keyboards, percussion, backing vocals, Alto sax (1), harmonica (5)
- Bernd Noske / drums, percussion, vocals
Track List:
01. The Work is Done (16:50)
02. Back from Hell (15:35)
03. Gamma Ray (20:33)
04. She’s Got Nothing On You (5:35)
05. Long Tall Sally (10:50)
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Led Zeppelin – Song Remains the Same (1976) (@256)
14 Apr 2007
(Info from wikipedia, amazon.co.uk)
Robert Plant’s injuries prevented Led Zeppelin from touring in 1976. Instead, the band finally completed the concert film The Song Remains The Same, and the soundtrack album of the film. It would be the only official live document of the group available in their active career. The recording had taken place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in July 1973, during the Houses of the Holy concert tour.
Long acknowledged as one of the most formidable concert acts on the rock & roll arena circuit, “Song Remains the Same” lets you hear that songs like “Stairway To Heaven” sound wonderful even without the benefit of studio overdubs. Though not perfect, this is an honest documentation of the Led Zeppelin live experience, serving as a reminder that beneath the larger-than-life myths that surrounded the group, Led Zeppelin were simply a powerful blues-influenced rock band who lived for their music.
Line-up:
* Jimmy Page – Electric guitars, backing vocals
* Robert Plant – Vocals
* John Paul Jones – Bass guitar, keyboards, mellotron
* John Bonham – Drums, percussion
Track List:
CD1
01. Rock and Roll (Bonham/Jones/Page/Plant) – 4:03
02. Celebration Day (Jones/Page/Plant) – 3:49
03. The Song Remains the Same (Page/Plant) – 6:00
04. Rain Song (Page/Plant) – 8:25
05. Dazed and Confused (Holmes/Page) – 26:53
CD2
01. No Quarter (Jones/Page/Plant) – 12:30
02. Stairway to Heaven (Page/Plant) – 10:58
03. Moby Dick (Bonham/Jones/Page) – 12:47
04. Whole Lotta Love (Bonham/Dixon/Jones/Page/Plant) – 14:25
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Allman Brothers Band – Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas (1972-75) (@320)
08 Apr 2007
Request of Zdenko Milos.
(Review from allmusic.com, wikipedia)
This double live album was released by Capricorn Records largely as a way of raising money in a hurry, but it fares surprisingly well musically. Released after the group had already dissolved in acrimony, the album did not attract much praise or even attention at the time. The band did not like the selections and the record also inevitably suffered by comparison to their classic 1971 At Fillmore East, generally considered one of the best live albums of all time.
The 1973-1974 Allman Brothers Band featured here is the one that most fans actually saw, since most listeners didn’t discover them or get to their concerts until after the deaths of Duane Allman and Berry Oakley. Wipe the Windows isn’t a landmark release like the Fillmore tapes — a collection of rock’s greatest guitar albums could be complete without it. But no Allman Brothers Band fan should pass up Wipe the Windows, which is a most solid live album, and, in particular, a better representation of the songs off of Brothers and Sisters and Win, Lose or Draw than the original studio versions. “Southbound,” “Ramblin’ Man,” “Jessica,” and, to a lesser degree, “Wasted Words” come off exceptionally well. This second-generation band, with Dickey Betts as the sole lead guitar and Gregg Allman and Chuck Leavell sharing the keyboards, also performs a preconceived version of “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” — they could never spark more fire than the version from the Fillmore, so they transform it into a moodier piece with more space for the keyboards to open up. Compiled from shows in New Orleans, San Francisco, Bakersfield, Oakland, and Watkins Glen (New York).
Line-up:
* Gregg Allman — lead vocals, organ, clavinet, guitar
* Richard Betts — lead vocals, lead guitar, slide guitar
* Chuck Leavell — piano, electric piano, background vocals
* Lamar Williams — electric bass
* Jaimoe — drums, percussion
* Butch Trucks — drums, percussion, tympani
Track List:
01. Introduction by Bill Graham – 1:05
02. Wasted Words (Allman) – 5:10
03. Southbound (Betts) – 6:03
04. Ramblin’ Man (Betts) – 7:09
05. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Betts) – 17:19
06. Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More (Allman) – 5:41
07. Come and Go Blues (Allman) – 5:05
08. Can’t Lose What You Never Had (Waters) – 6:43
09. Don’t Want You No More (Davis, Hardin) – 2:48
10. It’s Not My Cross to Bear (Allman) – 5:23
11. Jessica (Betts) – 9:05
Tracks 2-5 recorded at the Winterland, San Francisco, September 26, 1973.
Track 6 recorded at The Warehouse, New Orleans, December 31, 1972.
Track 7 recorded at the Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, July 28, 1973.
Tracks 8-10 recorded at the Bakersfield Civic Auditorium, Bakersfield, California, October 22, 1975.
Track 11 recorded the Oakland Coliseum, October 24, 1975.
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Uriah Heep – Live At Shepperton '74 (@192)
06 Apr 2007
(Review from progarchives.com)
The recordings on this album are taken from a Television special that Uriah Heep recorded in 1974. Although the special was never actually broadcast, a number of extracts from it appeared on the now deleted “Easy Livin’, a history of Uriah Heep” video. The performance was never intended for commercial release in any format, but with the ongoing demand for Byron era material by the band, a belated release took place in 1986.
The original album was rather brief, but this was rectified by the remastered version, which incorporates a number of additional tracks from the same performance, plus some other relevant additions. A few of the tracks duplicate the superior versions on the “Live 1973” album, but as these recordings took place around the time of the release of the “Wonderworld” album, tracks from that album and “Sweet Freedom” also appear.
The performance by the band is not one of their best, tempered perhaps by the fact that they were conscious of the need to appeal visually as well as audibly. The recording quality too reflects the fact that it was intended only for television broadcast.
While it is good to hear early live versions of tracks such as “Sweet freedom” and “Stealin’”, only the emotive ballad “The easy road” shines through as anything more than average here. Uriah Heep made one of the best live albums ever. Unfortunately, this wasn’t it!
Line-up:
- David Byron / vocals
- Mick Box / guitar, vocals
- Gary Thain / bass, vocals
- Lee Kerslake / drums, vocals
- Ken Hensley / keyboards, vocals
Track List:
01. Easy Livin’ (4:01)
02. So Tired (3.32)
03. I Won’t Mind (5:54)
04. Sweet Freedom (6:59)
05. Something Or Nothing (3:21)
06. The Easy Road (2:49)
07. Stealin’ (5:26)
08. Love Machine (2:23)
09. Rock ‘N’ Roll Medley (7:45)
10. Out-Takes (5:28)
a) The Easy Road
b) Sleazy Livin’
c) Easy Livin’
11. Stealin’ (6:19)
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Uriah Heep – Live (1973) (@256)
29 Mar 2007
(Review from progarchives.com)
There are many fine live albums, “Yessongs”, “Made in Japan (Deep Purple)”, “Welcome back my friends” (ELP) etc, but arguably the finest of them all is “Uriah Heep Live 1973″.
Despite numerous well documented problems which meant that it very nearly never happened, everything fell into place for the band for this recording. The line up is the classic one – Box/Byron/Hensley/Kerslake/Thain, with each member of the band attaining top form. There is some doubt as to whether the tracks included here were all taken from the same concert, but there’s no obvious indication that subsequent overdubbing has been undertaken.
There are so many highlights to the album, I could wax lyrical about every track. What is especially pleasing is the way the longer tracks have been developed and reworked, while retaining their identity. “July Morning” has a much more satisfactory ending, with the opening theme returning in place of the fade out. “Gypsy”, a track which changes with every tour, has a superb synthesiser solo from Hensley. “Circle of Hands” is completely transformed from the track on “Demons and Wizards”, the slide guitar which ends the studio version gives way here to a synthesiser solo, which builds majestically, powered on by Kerslake’s frantic drumming, to a euphoric crescendo.
The album closes with the encore rock ‘n’ roll medley. Byron is in his element here, as the band power through the old favourites. Truly a classic live album, which captures the essence of the band perfectly. The double LP came in a programme style sleeve, and sold for the price of a single LP which turned out to be a very effective marketing move.
Line-up:
- David Byron / vocals
- Mick Box / guitar, vocals
- Gary Thain / bass, vocals
- Lee Kerslake / drums, vocals
- Ken Hensley / keyboards, vocals
Track List:
01. Sunrise
02. Sweet Lorraine
03. Traveller In Time
04. Easy Livin’
05. July Morning
06. Tears In My Eyes
07. Gypsy
08. Circle Of Hands
09. Look At Yourself
10. The Magician’s Birthday
11. Love Machine
12. Roll Over Beethoven
13. Blue Suede Shoes
14. Mean Woman Blues
15. Hound Dog
16. At The Hop
17. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
18. Blue Suede Shoes
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Paul Kossoff – Live in Croydon, June 15th 1975 (@256)
23 Mar 2007
Unfortunately my “The Band Plays on” CD is MIA, so I’ll post “Second Street” next. If anyone can make or have a good rip of “The Band Plays On”, I’ll be happy to post it.
(Info from CD-inlay)
For two years Paul Kossoff spent much of his time fighting drug addiction, until in 1975 he formed his own band called Back Street Crawler. Apparently recovered, he set off on the touring circuit once again. Back Street Crawler played a memorable concert in Croydon, on June 15, 1975, which was recorded for posterity and eventually released in 1983. The band played material mostly from Kossoff’s solo albums, including ‘Molten Gold’, and the title track from Backstreet Crawler’s debut album ‘The Band Plays On’, which was released later in August 1975. These 14 excellent live recordings show what might have developed. But a full British tour had to be abondoned, as long afterwards Paul Kossoff suffered a massive heart attack, having collapsed at his mother’s home. He was taken to hospital and put in intensive care, during which time his heart, lungs and kidneys stopped functionally and he was considered clinically dead. Incredibly he recovered from this crisis.
Line-up:
* Paul Kossoff – guitar
* Terry Wilson-Slesser – vocals
* Mike Montgomery – keyboards
* Tony Braunagel – drums
* Terry Wilson – bass
Track List:
01. Band Played On
02. Side Kick To The Stars
03. Long Way To The Top
04. New York
05. Train Song
06. Survivor
07. Stealing My Way
08. All The Girls Are Crazy
09. Jason Blue
10. Rock ‘n’ Roll Junkie
11. Molten Gold
12. The Hunter
13. We Won
14. Bird Song Blues
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Free – Talking of Heartbreaker (Bootleg) (1972) (@320)
21 Mar 2007
Live at Coatham, on October 12 1972
Gypsy Eye Bootleg
Line-up:
* Paul Rodgers – Vocals
* Paul Kossoff – Guitar
* John “Rabbit” Bundrick – Keyboards
* Tetsu Yamauchi – Bass
* Simon Kirke – Drums
Track List:
01. I’m On The Run
02. Heartbreaker
03. Soldier Boy
04. Come Together in the Morning
05. Everyday I Have The Blues
06. Child
07. Wishing Well
08. Seven Angels
09. Fire and Water
10. All Right Now.
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Free – Free At Last Stage (1972) (@320)
19 Mar 2007
Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica
April 22, 1972
Gypsy Eye Bootleg
Re-pitched and denoised by Pink Robert
Line-up:
* Paul Rodgers – Vocals, piano
* Paul Kossoff – Guitar
* Andy Fraser – Bass
* Simon Kirke – Drums
Track List:
01. The Hunter
02. Fire And Water
03. Ride On A Pony
04. Be My Friend
05. Catch A Train
06. Hold On
07. Little Bit Of Love
08. Mr. Big
09. All Right Now
10. Travellin’ Man
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Mountain – Live At The Fillmore East (1970) (@320)
17 Mar 2007
(Review from wikipedia, starling.rinet.ru, mountaintheband.com)
Mountain was born out of the sixties music explosion. The band formed when guitarist Leslie West, having left the Long Island R&B band the Vagrants, recorded a solo album called Mountain with bassist and former Cream producer Felix Pappalardi producing. The band also featured powerful double bass drumming of Corky Laing and keyboard player Steve Knight. West’s raw vocals and melodic, bluesy guitar style, and Pappalardi’s heavy and elegant bass lines were the elements of Mountain’s distinctive sound.
The band was inspired by the power trio Cream, of which Pappalardi was an “unofficial” member: he featured heavily on Cream’s third album, Wheels of Fire, contributing organ, viola, trumpet and handbells as well as producing. While there are obvious differences between the two bands (Mountain had an organ player, for instance), there are much more similarities. The band carried on the grand tradition of combining Cream’s heavy riffage with Cream’s delicious psychedelic flavour. Mountain were definitely a psychedelic band, and one of the last truly enjoyable and worthwhile psychedelic bands.
Mountain didn’t just borrow Cream’s sound, they ‘updated’ it for the Seventies, i. e. made it more heavy and less compromised. This sometimes makes some of their more rocking numbers hard to endure, as Leslie West was particularly fond of drowning all the ‘rockers’ in a sea of fuzz and distortion; however, if you have nothing against a little extra distortion, don’t be afraid to crank up the volume on their best records and revel in the thunderstorms contained therein.
Mountain had a wild, somewhat extravagant set of personalities – they do look like they’re from the mountains indeed, always dressed in these fur coats and looking like a bunch of hungry yetis in most cases anyway.
Live at the Fillmore East features 101 minutes of superb live recordings from the band’s new year eve’s concerts on Dec 30 & 31, 1970.
Line-up:
* Leslie West – Guitar & Vocals
* Felix Pappalardi – Bass & Vocals
* Steve Knight – Keyboards
* Corky Laing – Drums
Track List:
CD1:
01. Never In My Life
02. Don’t Look Around
03. Mississippi Queen
04. Baby I’m Down
05. Long Red
06. Silver Paper
07. Solo
CD2:
01. The Animal Trainer And The Toad
02. Nantucket Sleighride
03. For Yasgur’s Farm
04. Travellin’ In The Dark
05. Blood Of The Sun
06. Dreams Of Milk And Honey
07. Auld Lang Syne
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Free – Live! (1971) (@320)
16 Mar 2007
(Review from amazon)
Due to the publicity caused by their breakup, a live album was rush-released by Island Records to commemorate the band.
Recorded in 1970 and comprising of tracks drawn from their 1st four studio albums (Tons of Sobs, Free, Fire and Water, Highway), this is a brilliant and powerful live album from one of the great blues rock bands ever…. In addition to the 1971 original track listing, several bonus tracks (all live except ‘Get Where I Belong’)) have been added and their presence greatly enhances this CD version. A couple of these actually surpass the 1971 vinyl versions (All Right Now and Mr Big).The ‘new’ All Right Now is far better than track one, which is a bit sloppy and not a patch on the single/fire & water version.
A fitting live document to a magnificent band who were sadly short-lived. At the time, Free was on the verge of becoming extremely big, they just couldn’t see it. These live tracks capture this feeling very well indeed. I would give my paycheck to see these guys play live if only I could. Alas, Free Live! is the next best thing.
Line-up:
* Paul Rodgers – Vocals
* Paul Kossoff – Guitar
* Andy Fraser – Bass
* Simon Kirke – Drums
Track List:
01. All Right Now
02. I’m A Mover
03. Be My Friend
04. Fire and Water
05. Ride A Pony
06. Mr Big
07. The Hunter
08. Get Where I Belong
09. Woman
10. Walk In My Shadow
11. Moonshine
12. Trouble On Double Time
13. Mr Big
14. All Right Now
15. Get Where I Belong (Alternate version)
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Who – BBC Sessions (1965-73) (@256)
12 Mar 2007
(Review from amazon.com)
One of the most creative and explosive bands of the ’60s, the Who didn’t record an official live album until 1970. For fans of the revved-up, introspective, and humorous fare that made records such as My Generation, Sell Out, and A Quick One instant classics, 1970 was a good three years too late. Rather than referring to sometimes-dodgy bootlegs to discover what “Pictures of Lily,” “Disguises,” or “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” sounded like live, we are now presented with a surprisingly clear document of the band at–arguably–their peak. The CD, culled from archival live-in-the-studio radio broadcasts made between ’65 and ’73, keeps all the radio-announcer introductions and short interview segments intact, with a few bonus, real-life Sell Out jingles for good effect. A fabulous portrait of the artists as a young band, the disc brims with minor revelations–chief among them that they were pretty sorry as an R&B outfit and that (surprise) with Moon, Entwhistle, and Townshend bashing about, even a midtempo number like “Happy Jack” was a total scorcher live.
Line-up:
* Roger Daltrey – lead vocals, harmonica
* Pete Townshend – guitar, vocals
* John Entwistle – bass, vocals
* Keith Moon – drums
Track List:
01. My Generation (Radio 1 Jingle) – 0:57
02. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere – 2:44
03. Good Lovin’ – 1:49
04. Just You and Me, Darling – 2:01
05. Leaving Here – 2:34
06. My Generation – 3:23
07. The Good’s Gone – 2:59
08. La La La Lies – 2:11
09. Substitute – 3:30
10. Man with Money – 2:31
11. Dancing in the Street – 2:23
12. Disguises – 2:57
13. I’m a Boy – 2:39
14. Run Run Run – 3:16
15. Boris the Spider – 2:13
16. Happy Jack – 2:09
17. See My Way – 1:50
18. Pictures of Lily – 2:34
19. A Quick One (While He’s Away) – 7:01
20. Substitute version 2 – 2:12
21. The Seeker – 3:04
22. I’m Free – 2:24
23. Shakin’ All Over/Spoonful medley – 3:41
24. Relay – 4:56
25. Long Live Rock – 3:52
26. Boris the Spider (Radio 1 Jingle) – 0:10
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Iron Butterfly – Live (1970) (@256)
08 Mar 2007
(Review from progarchives.com)
After such a disastrous album as Ball, Iron Butterfly had to to do something to reassure their fans, and a live album might have been the solution, maybe an easy one, but they had to make known they were still a rock group and not a pop outfit.
Right away, the first thing striking you is the great psychedelic collage of the artwork as it is obviously trying to restore credibility with their fans. But by starting off the album with three tracks of their previous Ball album, I am sure this was also a gamble, but they did choose the two best tracks (and most Iron Butterfly-like) from that album, and they work well as an opener. The third track is also from that dreaded Ball album, but in a much better version. Up next is a good track from their debut album, but I must say that I like the original version better as I find the sound rather muddy (and Ingle was not the singer on that album too). Are You Happy is from their seminal second album, but not the one I would’ve chosen from the ones present on that first side. A good rendition of it though, with a slight drumming bit announcing the drums galore of their cornerstone track. the live version is not vastly different thanthe studio version, though.
One funny thing that I listened in this album was the interaction between the band and the audience. It is maybe more of “historic importance” now: a woman in the audience sings a not identified “song” during the drums solo! It was the time of the Hippies (the cover design is also very “Hippy” / “Flower Power” and psychedelic in style). This interaction is similar to parts of The Doors`”Absolutely Live” album. “Those Were the Days”, as Mary Hopkin sang in 1968! “Peace and Love”!
Line-up:
- Doug Ingle / vocals, keyboards
- Erik Brann / lead guitar
- Lee Dorman / bass guitar
- Ron Bushy / drums
Track List:
01. In The Time Of Our Lives (4:42)
02. Filled With Fear (3:42)
03. Soul Experience (4:09)
04. You Can’t Win (3:27)
05. Are You Happy (4:03)
06. In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (18:50)
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Taste – Live at the Isle of Wight (1970) (@320)
06 Mar 2007
This ends the Taste posts. If you have any Taste (not Rory solo) bootlegs I haven’t posted, please feel free to drop me a note; I’d love to post them.
(Info from lastoftheindependents.com)
The festival at the Isle of Wight was to Europe what Woodstock was to the USA. Many problems came about as more rock fans than tickets available came to this usually peaceful island just off the coast of Portsmouth, England. The festival was held at East Afton farm in Freshwater, on the 13- by 23-mile island off the coast of Southern England. This was considered the last monster tribal gathering — the five-day 1970 Isle of Wight Festival — where 600,000 mostly stoned flower children turned ugly in obnoxious displays of hippie self-righteousness.”
Many of the biggest rock stars of the time appeared at this festival including The Who, Free, Donovan, Ten Years After, The Moody Blues, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen and Jethro Tull, and ELP. Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison of the Doors made their last live stage appearance here.
Taste played through the madness of this giant concert where those who did not have tickets rushed and crashed the gates. ‘Taste Live at the Isle of Wight’ has some wonderful songs by Taste themselves and a cover for blues star Broonzy in “I Feel So Good.”
Line-up:
* Rory Gallagher (Lead Guitar/Harp/Vocals)
* John Wilson (Drums)
* Richard McCracken (Bass Guitar)
Track List:
01. What’s Going On
02. Sugar Mama
03. Morning Sun
04. Sinner Boy
05. I Feel So Good
06. Catfish
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Ufo – Strangers in the Night (1979) (@320)
05 Mar 2007
(Review from allmusic.com)
Unfortunately, this concert album is often overlooked when discussions of the great live rock albums of the ’70s arise. UFO’s Strangers in the Night deserves to be right up there with Kiss’ Alive! and Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous, based on the excitement the group and its audience generates and due to the quality of the hard rock compositions. This is a band at its peak, with its prime lineup (led by German guitar-monger Michael Schenker) and all of its best songs. The group paces itself at the beginning, opting for some lesser material, but begins to hit a stride on the early track “Doctor Doctor.” “Mother Mary” and “This Kids” combine all the elements of Led Zeppelin’s best rock (concise riffs, mammoth drumming, etc.), while the introduction to “Love to Love” displays the talent of the instrumentalists. “Lights Out” is probably the band’s best-known song, while the guitar solo-soaked “Rock Bottom” was an oft-requested fan favorite. UFO closes their set with the let-the-good-times-roll singalong “Too Hot to Handle” and the then-state-of-the-art heavy metal of “Let It Roll.” The group may have been at its peak at the time of Strangers in the Night, but Schenker had a falling out with singer Phil Mogg (whose vocals bear a resemblance at times to AC/DC’s Bon Scott) soon after the album’s completion, and promptly left UFO.
Line-up:
- Phil Mogg – Vocals
- Michael Schenker – Guitar
- Pete Way – Bass
- Andy Parker – Drums
- Paul Raymond – Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Track List:
01. Natural Thing – 3:57
02. Out In The Street – 5:07
03. Only You Can Rock Me – 4:08
04. Doctor Doctor – 4:42
05. Mother Mary – 3:25
06. This Kids – 5:11
07. Love To Love – 7:58
08. Lights Out – 5:23
09. Rock Bottom – 11:08
10. Too Hot To Handle – 4:26
11. I’m A Loser – 4:13
12. Let It Roll – 4:48
13. Shoot Shoot – 4:07
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Taste – Irish Werewolf (Bootleg) (@160)
05 Mar 2007
Bootleg recorded live in Stadhalle, Basil, Switzerland in February 1970.
Line-up:
* Rory Gallagher (Lead Guitar/Harp/Vocals)
* John Wilson (Drums)
* Richard McCracken (Bass Guitar)
Track List:
01. Morning Sun
02. Sugar Mama
03. I’ll Remember
04. Walkin’ Blues
05. Eat My Words
06. I Feel So Good
07. Railway And Gun
08. What’s Going On
09. Catfish
10. Same Old Story
11. Pontiac Blues
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Morphine – Bootleg Detroit (1994) (@192)
26 Feb 2007
(Info from wikipedia, allmusic.com, amazon.com)
Bootleg Detroit is the only authorized release of a live recording of Morphine. Recorded by a fan during Cure for Pain tour on March 7, 1994 at St. Andrew’s Hall in Detroit, Michigan, it was edited and mixed under Mark Sandman’s supervision. He also laid out, and delivered, the low-fi artwork for the album.
While the tapes were mastered by Sandman, the original quality of the recording cannot be overcome. The drum sound echoes, and the baritone sax and bass are muddy. However, Sandman’s dry voice shines through fairly well. The total package is somewhat voyeuristic, as if Bootleg Detroit were meant to sound like putting an ear up against the outside of a theater. For those who never got the chance to see Morphine’s amazing live show, this is, sadly, as close as one can get.
Still, this is a good document of Morphine’s excellent live show and displays the energy and passion that they played with during the tour that supported their breakthrough album. On the whole the album stands as a loving tribute to an innovative band.
Line-up:
* Mark Sandman – 2 string slide bass, vocals, organ, tritar, guitar, piano
* Dana Colley – baritone sax, tenor sax, double sax, triangle
* Billy Conway – various percussion
Track List:
01. Intro
02. Come along
03. Dana Intro
04. Mary
05. Banter 1
06. Candy
07. Sheila
08. Billy Intro
09. Claire
10. My Brain
11. Banter 2
12. Head With Wings
13. Cure For Pain
14. You Speak My Language
15. Thursday
16. Banter 3
17. You Look Like Rain
18. Buena
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Annie Haslam – Live Under Brazilian Skies (1998) (@128)
11 Feb 2007
(Review from progreviews.com)
This live album documents the shows that the ex-Renaissance vocalist performed in Brazil in March 1997, accompanied by one member of her band at the time, multi-instrumentalist David Biglin. The liner notes relate how the shows were organized, as is often the case with progressive music events, from a grass roots level spearheaded by three Brazilian fans. I was actually at Haslam’s performance at The Bottom Line a few months prior in June 1996 where she first met two of the fans, as I remember her mentioning them on stage; that concert was also my first introduction to the music of Renaissance.
With the economy of only two people, Annie wisely eschews tackling the longer Renaissance pieces. Instead, Under Brazilian Skies contains a very representative selection of her solo performances during that time: the shorter Renaissance chestnuts, a number of covers, and solo material. Haslam’s trademark voice is in great form, so it all comes down to what you think about the songs themselves. For myself, the short Renaissance songs are always a pleasure to listen to and well-suited to these pared-down arrangements. Also, it is touching to hear the Brazilian audience, many of whom were probably lifelong fans just getting to see Haslam for the first time ever in their lives, singing along as on “Let It Grow.” Of the covers, Mike Oldfield’s “Moonlight Shadow” sounds better in acoustic form than the dated keyboard studio version from Annie’s 1989 eponymous solo album. While not touching Yes’ original, “Turn of the Century” is decent, though “If I Loved You” (a song from Rogers & Hammerstein’s Carousel), while competently delivered, does not approach the beauty of the arrangement featured on Annie in Wonderland. As for Annie’s solo material, mostly co-written with Biglin, I wish I could support it equally with the other stuff, but these are really pretty banal pop songs that have way too much schmaltzy adult contemp to them. Yes, I acknowledge that the line drawn in the Sweet ‘n’ Low is a particularly thin and subjective one when holding Renaissance up as a standard of comparison. Still, songs like “Seashell Eyes,” “Summon the Angels,” and “After the Oceans Are Gone” manage to cross that self-defined inner threshold of sugar tolerance for me, and so I’ll pass.
Overall, though? Makes a handy disc for Renaissance and Annie fans to pull out and sing along with once in a while. Just have it cued up to the right spots. Soon after this, Haslam and Biglin parted ways, for reasons that have never really been fully explained.
Track List:
01. Carpet of the Sun — 4:08
02. I Think of You — 3:31
03. The Captive Heart — 4:39
04. Moonlight Shadow — 3:31
05. Blessing in Disguise — 3:27
06. Seashell Eyes — 4:41
07. Summon the Angels — 5:09
08. Nature Boy/If I Loved You — 4:46
09. After the Oceans Are Gone — 4:40
10. The Young Prince and Princess — 6:00
11. Let It Grow — 4:01
12. Brazilian Skies — 4:52
13. Turn of the Century — 6:37
14. Northern Lights — 4:37
15. Spare Some Love — 5:50
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition (1972) (@256)
05 Feb 2007
(Review from vintageprog.com)
ELP’s legendary “rape” of Mussorgsky’s beautiful “Pictures at an Exhibition” remains one of the best examples of a rock version of a classical piece. The band stays true to all the original themes, but plays them with the energy, rawness and loudness of rock. They also added some self-written pieces, like Lake’s “The Sage” and the energetic jam “Blues Variation”. The piece was one of the band’s favourites on stage, so the album was then naturally also recorded live. This is the live-album that best demonstrates what a tight and powerful unit ELP were on stage. It was also their most moog-dominated album to that point, and Emerson experiments with any sound possible on the instrument. But his organ-playing was still the main focus in the music, and especially on side 2 deliver the whole band some of their most raw and energetic playing ever. The album also featured a rather cheesy version of “Nutrocker” that was released as a single. “Pictures at an Exhibition” is probably not the best place to start with ELP, but you’ll surely enjoy it a lot when you’re into them.
Line-up:
- Keith Emerson / keyboards
- Greg Lake / vocals, bass, guitar
- Carl Palmer / drums, percussion
Track List:
01. Promenade
02. The Gnome
03. Promenade
04. The Sage
05. The Old Castle
06. Blues Variation
07. Promenade
08. The Hut Of Baba Yaga
09. The Curse Of Baba Yaga
10. The Hut Of Baba Yaga
11. The Great Gates Of Kiev. The End
12. Nutrocker
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Renaissance – Unplugged Live at The Academy of Music (1985) (@VBR 160-192)
05 Feb 2007
Another VBR (I don’t prefer but don’t have a better quality, if someone has a quality constant bitrate rip of it, I’d be more than happy to post it) rip Renaissance.
(Review nlightsweb.com)
Renaissance Unplugged Live at The Academy of Music, recorded live in 1985, a year before the band’s final breakup, is comprised of twelve tracks more or less from the classic period.
Unlike the live albums before it, this one features an interesting alternative lineup with only Annie Haslam and Michael Dunford from the mainstream period remaining. Raphael Rudd (keyboard, piano and harp), Charles DesCarfino (drums) and Mark Lambert (guitars) complete the group. The tracks are faithfully reproduced with “Okichi-San” from Camera Camera being the only one not heard in a live setting before this release. Interestingly, every one of the tracks chosen by the artists for this album was written by Dunford/Thatcher with the exception of “Young Prince and Princess” (from Scheherazade and other Stories which was written by Dunford/Newsinger/Tout.
This is clearly an album that many of the band’s loyal following will find a valuable addition to their collection and appropriate to whet their appetite for what is yet to come. Recording quality is quite good.
Line-up:
- Annie Haslam / lead vocals
- Michael Dunford / guitars
- Raphael Rudd / piano, harp
- Mark Lambert / guitars
- Charles Descarfino / percussion
Track List:
01. Can You Understand (6:45)
02. Carpet of the Sun (3:14)
03. Midas Man (4:12)
04. Okichi-San (5:32)
05. I Think Of You (2:47)
06. Black Flame (5:11)
07. Mother Russia (4:36)
08. Northern Lights (4:01)
09. The Young Prince and Princess (2:42)
10. Trip to the Fair (6:27)
11. The Vultures Fly High (3:40)
12. Running Hard (6:50)
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Zulfu Livaneli – Istanbul Konserleri (Live 1984) (@256)
04 Feb 2007
(Info from livaneli.gen.tr)
Zülfü Livaneli was born in Ilgin, Turkey in 1946. As a young man, he started a publishing company in Ankara but the political turmoil of the 1970′s that influenced all intellectuals’ lives at the time, reshaped his life too. He was accused for his political views and ideals on a number of accounts. After being held under military detention for three months during the coup of March 12th, he had to leave Turkey and move to Sweden. In Sweden, he studied music and philosophy. After Stockholm, he lived in Paris and Athens, and he returned to Turkey in 1984. Livaneli became one of the most outstanding figures in the cultural, artistic and political life of Turkey. He achieved prominent success not only as a musician but also as a writer and a film director. His compositions, books and films brought him national and international acclaim, and more than 30 international awards. Alongside his brilliant artistic career, Livaneli has been a highly influential political figure for the past thirty years.
In his accomplished musical carrier, Livaneli composed 300 songs, one rhapsody -which was recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra- and one ballet. His songs reached cult proportions on a national scale and they were performed by many internationally known soloists such as Joan Baez, Maria del Mar Bonet, Udo Lindenberg, Maria Farandouri, Haris Alexiu, Kate Westbrook. He also composed 5 theatrical scores and 30 soundtracks including award winning films such as ‘The Road’ (Golden Palm Award at Cannes Film Festival; Directors: Yilmaz Güney & Serif Goren); ‘The Herd’ (Directors: Yilmaz Güney & Zeki Okten) and ‘Shirin’s Wedding’ (Director: Helma Sanders Brahms). His albums were released in Spain, USA, Sweden, Germany, Holland and France, and he gave hundreds of concerts all over the world. He produced joint albums and gave concerts with Mikis Theodorakis and Maria Farandouri, and he also worked with Manos Hacidakis, Giora Feidman, Chilean Inti Ilimani and Angel Parra. ‘Best Album of the Year’ (Greece), ‘Edison Award’ (Holland), ‘Best Album of the Year’ (Music Critics Association, Germany), Award for Best Art of Songwriting (San Remo, Italy) are some of the awards that he received.
This is an official recording of his concerts in 1984 in Istanbul. Peter Schulze, a composer and Radio Bremen Music Director says : ‘I was present at most of the concerts that Livaneli gave in 1984 at the San Theatre. I already knew these beautiful songs. They were played and performed with beauty; the stage presentation and the arrangements were impressive. But this was only part of what was going on. The warmth and enthusiasm expressed by the audience, their thirst for honesty added a new dimension, a deeper meaning to Livaneli’s songs. This was completely in harmony with the deep humility of the music. Turkey is fortunate to have such an artist. Livaneli is fortunate to have such a people. And I am fortunate to have lived through all this.’
Track List:
01. Merhaba (3:51)
02. Kardeşin Duymaz (3:40)
03. Karli Kayin Ormani (4:07)
04. Odam Kireçtir Benim (3:44)
05. Eşkiya Dünyaya Hükümdar Olmaz (5:03)
06. Çirak Araniyor (2:46)
07. Bulut mu Olsam (2:47)
08. Kiz Çocugu (4:00)
09. Leylim Ley (4:23)
10. Yigidim Aslan1m (3:19)
11. Özgürlük (3:23)
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Renaissance – BBC Sessions (1975-78) (@256)
04 Feb 2007
(Review from nlightsweb.com)
BBC Sessions is one of the finest live recordings of the classic lineup to be released. A treasure for fans and newcomers alike, the album features some of the band’s best live performances and with it’s superb mix, showcases each of the artists’ talents extremely well. A marvelous compilation of live recordings, Renaissance’s BBC Sessions will certainly psyche up enthusiasts.
Line-up:
- John Tout / keyboards, vocals
- Annie Haslam / lead and backing vocals
- Jon Camp / bass, bass pedals, cello, vocals
- Terence Sullivan / drums, percussion, vocals
- Michael Dunford / acoustic guitar, electric guitars, vocals
Track List:
CD1
01. Prologue (6:56)
02. Vultures Fly High (2:52)
03. Midas Man (3:54)
04. Day Of The Dreamer (9:53)
05. Touching Once (10:15)
06. Song Of Scheherazade (25:30)
CD2
01. Can You Hear Me (13:24)
02. Ocean Gypsy (7:29)
03. Carpet Of The Sun (3:36)
04. Mother Russia (10:18)
05. Running Hard (9:36)
06. Ashes Are Burning (18:29)
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Renaissance – Live at Carnegie Hall (1976) (@256)
30 Jan 2007
I don’t like VBR but unfortunately I don’t have the audio CD of it and this was the best rip I could find. If someone has a quality constant bitrate rip of it, I’d be more than happy to post it. Same goes for King Biscuit concerts Vol.02.
(Review from vintageprog.com)
Renaissance was for some unknown reason always more popular in the USA than in Europe, so it was quite natural for them to record their classic double live-album over there. “Live at Carnegie Hall” featured songs from the four previous albums, and proved that the band could pull off their complex and orchestral compositions and arrangements very well on stage too. The title-track from “Prologue” kicks it all off, and is followed by strong versions of “Ocean Gypsy”, “Can You Understand”, “Carpet of the Sun”, “Running Hard” and “Mother Russia”. These versions may not add anything that the studio-recordings didn’t have, but it’s still great to hear them in a live setting. The band also talks and comments a lot between the songs, adding the magic live-atmosphere that far too many live-albums lack. The second record in the set is taken up by only two tracks. Fist we have of course “Song of Scheherazade”. The album itself was actually still not released when the band played it here, and the audience must have gotten some quite enormous expectations for it after hearing the track for the first time that night. But the real highlight of the album is the fantastic 23-minute version of “Ashes are Burning”. This is undoubtedly one of the best performances the band ever caught on vinyl, and Camp delivers some of the most beautiful bass playing I’ve ever heard. “Live at Carnegie Hall” remains one of the best live albums from a progressive rock band.
Line-up:
- Jon Camp / bass, pedals, vocals
- Michael Dunford / acoustic guitar, vocals
- Annie Haslam / lead vocals
- Terrence Sullivan / drums, percussion, backing vocals
- John Tout / keyboard, backing vocals
- New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Tony Cox
Track List:
CD1:
01. Prologue (7:35)
02. Ocean gypsy (7:55)
03. Can you understand (10:20)
04. Carpet of the sun (4:15)
05. Running hard (9:43)
06. Mother Russia (10:48)
CD2:
01. Scheherazade (28:50)
02. Ashes Are Burning (23:50)
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Flairck (+Corpus) – Circus Hieronymus Bosch (2002) (@Video)
19 Jan 2007
Well actually I had planned this one as a memorable ending for the Flairck posts on Tuesday, but damn the slow upload speeds, I just finished uploading.
Audio is exactly copied (AC3 5+1), video is encoded in xvid4 – 720×576 – 25 fps, the total show is 95 minutes long.
(Info from flairck.nl)
The ‘acrobatic’ musicians of Flairck, Holland’s foremost acoustic band and the ‘musical’ acrobats of Corpus, the well-known acrobatic theatre group from Amsterdam have joined forces in a new theatrical circus production called Circus Hieronymus Bosch.
For five hundred years after painting his unparalleled masterpieces, the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch has never ceased to astonish those who have come into contact with his work.
This production was inspired by a long search for the meaning of the work by this most secretive master-painter of the Low Lands.
Track List:
01. Overture (Erik Visser) 7:24
02. Creation (Erik Visser) 10:25
03. Circus of Life (intro) (Erik Visser) 2:36
04. Laziness (Eric Vaarzon Morel) 8:25
05. Vanity (Nihad Hrustanbegovic) 5:59
06. Lust (Erik Visser) 6:52
07. Jealousy (Erik Visser) 2:56
08. Circus of Life (coda) (Erik Visser) 3:23
09. The Blue Barge (Erik Visser) 4:41
10. Hell (Erik Visser) 17:29
11. Hesitation (Erik Visser) 6:28
12. Heaven (Erik Visser) 14:23
13. Finale (Erik Visser) 3:20
14. Credits (Erik Visser) 1:01
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Flairck – Chilean Concerts (1995) (@256)
12 Jan 2007
(Info from flairck.com)
This CD contains the live recordings of the 1995 Santiago concerts. Most of the pieces are live versions of the Kamers compositions, but it also features older material such as: Variations on a Lady and Sofia. In “The Art of Drinking” Pisco-bottles (a Chilean spirit) were used as wind-instruments.
Line-up:
* Erik Visser – guitars, guitarango
* Annet Visser – silver & wooden flutes, melodica, sampogna
* Carla Veen – cello
* Ben van den Berg – accordeon & piano
* Thomas Dirks – double- & electric bass
* Michel Grens – marimba, sampogna, drums, djembe & percussion
with
* Franco Cabeillo – Sampogna and kena on “Sofia”
Track List:
01. Concerto Rosso 3:49
02. Rhapsody 2:00
03. Sofia 6:03
04. The Velvet Room 8:35
05. The Garden 5:15
06. The Chapel 3:57
07. The Working Rooms 9:06
08. The City 2:42
09. The Park – Intro 2:39
10. The Park – Cello Solo 2:42
11. The Park – Guitar Solo 3:08
12. Los Momentos 3:53
13. The Art of Drinking 5:43
14. For Antoinette 4:06
15. Variations On A Lady 7:40
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Flairck – Alive (1990) (@320)
09 Jan 2007
Special thanks to CrimsonKing for providing this one. It was a missing piece in my Flairck collection. Quality scan covers also included.
(Info from flairck.nl)
This double CD contains recordings of Flairck concerts in 1989 and 1990. From a diversity of concerts in Holland, Germany and Japan, best recordings were selected. It’s a selection of compositions which members of Flairck wrote since the foundation in 1978, with an accent on the most recent work.
Line-up:
* Sylvia Houtzager / violin, sopranino-violin, cello-violin, Salvi concert harp, Hohner accordeon, amadinda, anklung, lyra, wooden shoes
* Peter Weekers / silverflute, bassflute, piccolo, panpipes, bass-panpipes, sampogna (South American panpipes), Uilleann pipes, bambooflute, tin whistle, amadinda, marimba, congas, steeldrum, pebbles, wooden shoes, suitcase-accordeon, milkbottles
* Erik Visser / double-neck guitar, resonance guitar, 6 s. guitar, tanburu, 12 s. guitar, 5 s. banjo, sitar, timpani, wooden shoes
* Stan Stolk / double bass, acoustic bass guitar, gong, snare, wooden shoes
Track List:
CD1:
01. De Houten Bruiloft / The Wooden Wedding 5:27
02. De Smid / The Blacksmith 8:43
03. Tango 5:42
04. De Tol / The Toll 5:52
05. Thin Air 2:31
06. Syldavishe Wals / Syldavian Waltz 5:27
07. Amsterdamse Grachten / The Canals of Amsterdam 2:27
08. De Klopjacht / The Hunt 5:15
09. Andante Poco A Poco Presto Ma Non Troppo 5:26
10. Nieuwe Nederlandse Dansmuziek / New Dutch Dance Music 4:26
11. De Emigrant / The Emigrant 9:57
CD2:
01. De Eerste Dag Na Je Vertrek / The Day You Left 25:47
02. Oost West Express / East-West Express 5:35
03. Aiofe 7:40
04. Sofia’s Voorspel / Sofia 4:35
05. Circus 8:23
06. Variaties Op Een Dame / Variations on a Lady 11:15
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Beck, Bogert and Appice – Live in Japan (1973) (@256)
08 Jan 2007
(Review from allmusic, progarchives)
Although the all-star power trio of guitarist Jeff Beck, bassist Tim Bogert, and drummer Carmine Appice discussed a potential collaboration as early as 1970, the project went on indefinite hiatus after Beck suffered a fractured skull in an automobile wreck. With the guitarist on the sidelines for well over a year, Bogert and Appice — who previously teamed in Vanilla Fudge — opted instead to form Cactus with singer Rusty Day and guitarist Jim McCarty, issuing a series of boogie rock LPs for Atlantic before dissolving. In the meantime, following his recovery Beck founded a new incarnation of his Jeff Beck Group, releasing a pair of albums before disbanding the project in 1972; with Bogert and Appice again available, the threesome immediately set to work on recording, issuing Beck, Bogert and Appice to solid sales in 1973. A much sought after live album was subsequently issued in Japan only.
This album was in par excellent with live albums by other classic rock bands like Led Zeppelin “The Song Remains The Same”, Deep Purple “Made In Japan”, Grand Funk “Live” and Humble Pie “Live at Fillmore”. They were all so rockin’!
Beck explores his range of technical capabilities in sliding his guitar. It’s marvelous. It’s not only Jeff Beck who rocked the audience during the the show in Japan. Tim Bogert also performed his tight and dynamic bass lines excellently while Carmine Appice not only providing beats for the rest musicians but he also played dynamically to create great grooves of the songs performed. Of course, the most legendary track is Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”. But other tracks also excellent. “Jeff’s Boogie” and “Going Down” are also great favorite of all time.
Line-up:
- Jeff Beck / guitar, vocals
- Tim Bogert /bass, vocals
- Carmine Appice / drums, vocals
Track List:
01. Superstition (5:17)
02. Lose Myself Without You (10:49)
03. Jeff’s Boogie (3:33)
04. Going Down (3:33)
05. Boogie (4:57)
06. Morning Dew (14:11)
07. Sweet Sweet Surrender (4:43)
08. Livin’ Alone (6:11)
09. I’m So Proud (5:42)
10. Lady (6:16)
11. Black Cat Moan (9:13)
12. Why Should I Care (7:20)
13. Plynth/Shotgun (Medley) (5:57)
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Flairck – Live in Amsterdam (1980) (@256)
02 Jan 2007
(Review from flairck.nl)
This double album contains recordings that were made on the evening of the 31st of March in the Nieuwe dela Mar theatre in Amsterdam. One of the four sides is covered by The Day You Left, a composition that had been part of the repertoire for quite some time but was never released on record, because it is based on improvosations, and gets off much better in front of an audience than in a studio. Most other pieces come from the album Variations on a Lady and The Lady’s Back, but these live recordings are very different from the studio versions. Four solos are added in the opening number, East-west Express, a harp is used in Aoife and April 3rd starts with a sitar improvisation. On Variations on a Lady the slow first part is left out and the flute improvisation is extended. The encore Sofia’s Foreplay leads to a love scene between two birds.
Line-up:
* Peter Weekers – Powell dwarsfluit, Yamaha piccolo, de Kupper altfluit, panfluiten, Indiase bamboofluit, Uilleann pipes, Lindholm spinet
* Sylvia Houtzager – viool van Nicolas Vuilaume, Hardanger viool, Salvi harp, panfluit
* Erik Visser – Bozo, Guild en Triumph 12 snarige gitaren, Fylde 6 snarige gitaar, Kashua Vina sitar, Ebow panfluit
* Hans Visser – Klassicke gitaren van Dieter Henze en Manuel Contreras, Guild akoestische basgitaar, panfluit
Track List:
01. Oost-West Express 8:20
02. De Stoomwals 6:35
03. Aoife 6:45
04. Reklame 0:14
05. De Eerste Dag Na Je Vertrek 17:50
06. April 3rd / De Vlinder 14:30
07. Voorspel In Sofia 9:00
08. Variates Op En Dame 19:35
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