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BONO: MASCOT OF NEOLIBERALISM

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Wednesday 22 May 2013 at

The few who dislike the mannerisms of U2′s Bono, now have a hefty body of evidence to refer to. The Rock & Rap Confidential man, Dave Marsh, reports.

In 1984 I wrote a hostile (to both music and words) review of U2’s Unforgettable Fire. Some weeks later, I found myself dragooned (by a force too absurd to mention) into a late afternoon conversation with Bono. It wasn’t an interview. He wanted to talk one-on-one about why I’d written such a negative estimation of the record.

I arrived bemused, only to become more so when I was sent to the hotel’s penthouse. I knew this hotel, the Who made it their New York headquarters (Keith Moon got the suites about to be remodeled to save on demolition costs). I’d interviewed some other famous rockers in their rooms there, too. But I had never been to the penthouse. Yet here sat a young Irish star, who’d never had a top ten album or a top 20 single in the States.

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RAY MANZAREK – BERLIN 2006

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Wednesday 22 May 2013 at

RAY MANZAREK
Riders On The Storm [no label, 2CD]

Live at the Tempodrom, Berlin, Germany; April 13, 2006. Very good to excellent audience recording.

“I was deeply saddened to hear about the passing of my friend and bandmate Ray Manzarek today,” Doors guitarist Robby Krieger said in a statement. “I’m just glad to have been able to have played Doors songs with him for the last decade. Ray was a huge part of my life and I will always miss him.”

Thanks to vortex242 for recording the show and sharing it at The Traders’ Den.

Lineage:
OKMIIr > A3 > Sony D100 > MDAT > CD >
EAC > Adobe Audition CS6 > CDwave > TLH > flac

Disc 1
Track 101. Intro
Track 102. Roadhouse Blues
Track 103. Break On Through
Track 104. Love Me Two Times
Track 105. When The Music’s Over
Track 106. The Alabama Song
Track 107. Back Door Man
Track 108. Five To One
Track 109. Robbie Kireiger Flamenco Solo
Track 110. Spanish Caravan

Disc 2
Track 201. band introduction
Track 202. Peace Frog
Track 203. Wild Child
Track 204. Eagle In A Whirlpool
Track 205. Not To Touch The Earth
Track 206. Touch Me
Track 207. L.A. Woman
Track 208. audience
Track 209. Riders On The Storm
Track 210. audience
Track 211. Light My Fire (false keyboard sound)
Track 212. Light My Fire

Lineup:
Ray Manzarek – keyboards, vocals
Robbie Krieger – guitars
Ian Astbury – vocals
Philip Chen – bass
Ty Dennis – drums

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RAY MANZAREK R.I.P. 1939-2013

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at

Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founding member of The Doors, has died. He was 74. Publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald says Manzarek died on May 20, 2013 at the RoMed Clinic in Rosenheim, Germany, surrounded by his family. He had bile duct cancer. Manzarek founded The Doors after meeting then-poet Jim Morrison in California. The Washington Post reported that Manzarek had continued to remain active in music after Morrison¹s death in 1971. Manrazek had briefly tried to hold the band together by serving as vocalist, but eventually the group fell apart. He played in other bands over the years, produced other acts, became an author and worked on films.

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RAY MANZAREK
Roslyn 1975 [no label, 1CD]

Live at My Father’s Place, Roslyn, NY; March 26, 1975. Very good to excellent soundboard (?)

Thanks to everyone who shared this and for keeping it alive:
Originally upped on Dime by tombstone, a.k.a. KB69 in April 2006.
Seeded on Trader’s Den in August 2007.
Reseeded at Dime by hothcanada.

Lineage:
Soundboard? > Original Silver > WavePad > Flac Level 8

Picture posted at solodoorsianos.blogspot.

Track 01: I Wake Up Screaming 8:57 *
Track 02: Downbound Train 7:38
Track 03: (fades in) Bicentennial Blues/Light My Fire (fades out) 5:22
*Ray recites Jim Morrison’s poem “Ensenada” during this track.

Ray Manzarek – keyboards, vocals
Charlie Harrison – bass
Terry Sales – guitar
Hunt Sales – drums

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THE SPECIALS – TOKYO 1980

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at

THE SPECIALS
Tokyo 1980 [no label, 1CD]

Live at Carnival House, Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo, Japan; July 20, 1980. Very good to excellent FM broadcast.

With their bouncy beat, ska certainly offers some of the best party music around. Yet, for this Coventry band (sometimes called The Special AKA), politics has always been part and parcel of the group. According to founder Jerry Dammers, anti-racism was intrinsic to the formation of The Specials, in that the band was formed with the goal of integrating black and white people (wikipedia). If not, why would they write a song called Free Nelson Mandela?

Thanks to Simmdale for sharing the tracks at The Hunger City.

Simmdale noted:

Here we go with one of the best of those [ska] bands caught spreading that genre to Japan and enjoying immense popularity while doing it there. This particular show is one that has bootlegged for many, many years, and in all formats. I am definitely not an expert of this recording or on any of the differing bootlegs… at all. I just know that I have had three versions of this show and, in my opinion, this was the best. So… there you go. This is the one I decided to archive until I get something better at any time in the future. Ska is the perfect Summer music… jamming, happy, upbeat… hell, it is just fun music…

Source:
FM Broadcast, I think there are several actual captures that have been used as sources in the various bootlegs.

Lineage:
FM (unknown capture) > ? > CDR Trade > Sony Soundforge (DC offset and edit point adjustment) > DR testing with log > FLAC (level 8, align on sector boundaries, fileset titles named using standard archiving nomenclature and are fully tagged) > TLH > Upload

Thanks also to braggtopia! for the artwork.

01 Dawning Of A New Era
02 It’s Up To You
03 Rude Boy’s Outta Jail
04 Hey Little Rich Girl
05 Monkey Man
06 Blank Expression
07 Concrete Jungle
08 Stupid Marriage
09 Luckel
10 Too Hot
11 Rat Race
12 Guns Of Navarone
13 A Message To You Rudy
14 Do Nothing
15 Stereotypes
16 Do The Dog
17 Man At C&A
18 Too Much Too Young
19 Gangsters
20 Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)
21 Skinhead Moonstomp
22 Nite Club
23 You’re Wondering Now

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EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Tuesday 21 May 2013 at

When JJ Abrams remade Star Trek, he practically created a new universe and, on this second outting, Into Darkness (2013), he expanded the canvas by having even more action and bringing back an old foe in new guise. Spoilers alert – so don’t boldly go as Critic After Dark Noel Vera obviously relishes taking this particular warp drive.

So what about the movie? Had a blast. Loved coming back to a largely familiar-looking crew (largely because they were chosen and dressed and made up to look familiar), the way the performances either played with our knowledge of the series (Spock arguing with McCoy, Scotty fussing over warp engines, Chekov flubbing his Russian accent (weirdly Anton Yelchin is Russian-born, in an in-joke might be a touch too elaborate)) or wrung surprising variations, this being a whole other timeline (Christopher Pike giving Kirk fatherly advice; Kirk and Scotty butting heads over photon torpedoes – torpedoes, for crying out loud!).

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NANCI GRIFFITH – AUSTIN 1985

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Monday 20 May 2013 at

NANCI GRIFFITH
Austin 1985 [no label, 2CD]
Disc 1: Live on KUT FM-Austin, broadcast live Superbowl Sunday; January 20, 1985. Disc 2: Austin City Limits 1985. Very good to excellent FM broadcasts.

Back in 1985, when Nanci Griffith did these shows, one could say that Griffith was probably known to a small circle of fans and folk/country listeners. She had recorded three records then – There’s A Light Beyond These Woods (1978); Poet In My Window (1982) and Once In A Very Blue Moon (1984) – and it was only with Little Love Affairs (1988) and One Fair Summer Evening (1988) that she became much better known.

Even then, Griffith was already an accomplished performer [she had been playing Austin since she was 14] and her amiable personality certainly shone through… and one just can’t miss that unmistakable “thank you”.

Thanks to the person who shared these tracks on the net in 2005; and to the person who created the artwork.

Disc 1
Track 101. Intro and Once In A Very Blue Moon
Track 102. Oberman and Nanci Talk
Track 103. Nanci Talk
Track 104. Roll You Colorado
Track 105. More than a Feeling
Track 106. Nanci Talk
Track 107. Open Doors and Windows
Track 108. Oberman and Nanci Talk
Track 109. Daddy Said
Track 110. Nanci Talk
Track 111. Last of the True Believers
Track 112. Love’s Found a Shoulder
Track 113. Oberman and Nanci Talk
Track 114. Dream of Highways
Track 115. Oberman and Nanci Talk
Track 116. No Expectations [tape flip occurs here]
Track 117. Oberman and Nanci Talk
Track 118. St. Olaf’s Gate
Track 119. On Down the Road
Track 120. Oberman and Nanci Talk
Track 121. Fare Thee Well

Lineage:
FM > TDK SA90 Cassette > Wav (Sony SoundForge 7) > Flac Frontend (level 8, verified and aligned on sector boundaries)

Disc 2
Track 201. Ballad of Robin Wintersmith
Track 202. There’s A Light Beyond These Woods
Track 203. Roseville Fair
Track 204. Once In A Very Blue Moon
Track 205. Last Of The True Believers
Track 206. West Texas Sun
Track 207. Spin On A Red Brick Floor
Track 208. Outro/London Homesick Blues

Lineage:
FM > TDK SA90 cassette > Creative SB Live!soundcard > WAV (Sony Soundforge 7) > Flac Frontend (level 8, verified and aligned on sector boundaries)

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LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO – OKLAHOMA! 2013

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Sunday 19 May 2013 at

LYRIC OPERA OF CHICAGO
Roger & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! [no label, 3CD]
Director: Gary Griffin
Conductor: James Lowe

Live at the Civic Opera House, Chicago, IL; May 4, 2013. Excellent HD FM broadcast.

Sitting in the Civic Opera House on Saturday night – listening to the increasingly rare treat of a full-sized orchestra playing the original orchestrations and watching a production that could afford to carry an ensemble of top-tier dancers who don’t sing much, and formidable singers who don’t dance much – it was impossible not to ponder anew the brilliance of these two masters of the musical-theater form. Here, Rodgers and Hammerstein succeeded in making a simple Plains love triangle a subversive metaphor for America itself.
- Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com

Oklahoma! feels right at home in one of the world’s great opera houses, showing how the definition of works to be performed here can change even as the institution’s mission remains constant. Oklahoma! is not opera, but it is grand and popular musical theater that has proven to have enduring appeal. This musical just passed its 70th birthday on March 31, making it even older than La Bohème was when it was performed in Lyric’s inaugural season back in 1954. It’s time to just call Oklahoma! a classic – not just a classic of musical theatre.
- Scotty Zacher, chicagotheaterbeat.com

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs’ 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie.
- wikipedia

Thanks to mdshrk1 for recording and sharing the tracks at The Traders’ Den.

Lineage:
HD over FM > Sangean HDT-1 > Rotel-05 SE > SoundBlaster (Live! 24 bit External) > wav (CD Wave Editor) > flac

Track 101. Announcer 3:59
Track 102. Announcer/Interviews 11:25

Act I
Track 103. Overture 5:24
Track 104. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ (Curly) 3:26
Track 105. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Curly) 8:18
Track 106. Kansas City (Will, Male Chorus) 7:58
Track 107. The Surrey with the Fringe on Top (Curly) 2:43
Track 108. I Cain’t Say No (Ado Annie) 7:03
Track 109. Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ 8:52
Track 110. Many a New Day (Laurey, Girl Chorus) 7:40
Track 111. It’s a Scandal (Ali, Chorus) 7:11 (
Track 112. People Will Say We’re in Love (Laurey, Curly) 7:40
Track 113. Pore Jud is Daid (Curly, Jud) 6:55
Track 114. Lonely Room (Curly) 10:03
Track 115. Out of My Dreams (Laurey, Girl Chorus) 7:11
Track 116. Laurey’s Dream 10:53

Track 201. Announcer 1:33
Track 202. Announcer/Intervews 21:02

Act II
Track 203. The Farmer and the Cowman (Andrew, Aunt Eller, Chorus) 7:23
Track 204. The Auction 11:50
Track 205. All Er Nuthin’ (Will, Ado Annie) 6:32
Track 206. Oklahoma (Curly, Chorus) 16:24
Track 207. Finale: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’/People Will Say We’re in Love (Laurey, Curly, Chorus) 9:10
190:45

Cast:
John Cudia (Curly)
Ashley Brown (Laurey)
David Adam Moore (Jud)
Tari Kelly (Ado Annie)
Curtis Holbrook (Will)
Paula Scrofano (Aunt Eller)

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PETER GREEN – GERMANY 1998

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Saturday 18 May 2013 at

PETER GREEN SPLINTER GROUP
Cells Alive [no label, 1CD]
Live in Gesendef Auf, Germany; June 28, 1998. Excellent audio (from TV broadcast?).

There are some who think that Fleetwood Mac could have done even more with Peter Green in the lineup. As this 1998 gig shows, the guitarist still had the chops.

Thanks to Greg Kerbel for transferring and sharing these tracks on the net in 2003.

This show was broadcast live on German TV.

May also be referred to as Live at Studio 5, Baden-Baden, Germany,

Source:
DSBD > CDR > eac(secure) > mkw > SHN > WAV > CDR

Track 01. Intro
Track 02. Black Magic Woman
Track 03. Mama Keep Your Big Mouth Shut
Track 04. Rattlesnake Shake
Track 05. The Supernatural
Track 06. Shake Your Hips
Track 07. Traveling Riverside Blues
Track 08. Steady Rolling Man
Track 09. The Stumble
Track 10. Albatross
Track 11. Green Manalishi
Track 12. Going Down
Track 13. Look Yonder Wall

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FRANK ZAPPA – LOS ANGELES 1970

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Friday 17 May 2013 at

FRANK ZAPPA & THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
Los Angeles 1970 [no label, 2CD]
Music Director – Zubin Metha; Guest Conductor – Pierre Boulez
Contempo 70; live at the Pauley Pavillion, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; May 15, 1970. Good to fairly good audience recording.

“The musicians union wanted royalties for recording rights, so Frank declined to record that show. But somebody in the crowd did have a tape recorder, and the resulting music has wound up on a variety of bootlegs.”
- Splat’s Zappapage

Frank Zappa & Peter Occhiogrosso, The Real Frank Zappa Book, 1989, p. 109-111:

Sometime in 1970, I had an offer for a major concert performance of the orchestral music accumulating in my closet. During the M.O.I.’s first five years, I had carried with me, on the road, masses of manuscript paper, and, whenever there was an opportunity, scribbled stuff on it. This material eventually became the score for 200 Motels (based on an estimate of the number of gigs we played in the first five years–forty jobs per year?).

The performance was to be held at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion (a basketball arena seating about fourteen thousand people), with Zubin Mehta conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. A pretty big deal.

There was a ‘catch,’ though–the orchestra didn’t really want to play the stuff–they wanted AN EVENT; something ‘unique’–like–uhh, maybe a ROCK GROUP and–uhhhhh–a REAL ORCHESTRA sort of–uhhh–well you know–’rocking out together.’ It didn’t matter what the music was.

This eventually led to a few problems. First of all, I didn’t have a ‘ROCK GROUP’–the M.O.I had been disbanded for about a year. Second, there were no parts copied for the scores, and I was being asked to pay for this enormous job (seven thousand 1970 dollars). The third problem was that I wanted some kind of tape of the show, and the Musicians’ Union wouldn’t allow it. (They didn’t do anything when some asshole in the audience ran a cassette and made a bootleg album out of it, but they were promising stern action if I made one for my own use–just to find out what my pieces sounded like . . . but let me slow down here.)

We solved problem number one by putting together an interim one-shot ‘Mothers-Of-Invention-Sort-Of-Group.’ It did a short tour to warm up, maybe half a dozen dates, and returned to L.A. for the show.

The second problem was solved by me spending the seven thousand bucks on a team of copyists.

The third problem never got solved, and I never got a tape of the show.

It was the most successful indoor concert of the L.A. Phil’s season that year–sold out. Somewhere in the mass of spectators were Mark Volman and Howard Kaylan, a.k.a. Flo & Eddie.

They came backstage after the show, said they liked it, and told me that the Turtles had split up and they were looking for something to do. The rest is history.

Thanks to the person (davmar77?) who shared these tracks on the net in 2005.

Thanks also to Drumage for the artwork.

Lineage:
Aud Master Reel > Reel > Reel > M-Audio Transit > Cool Edit > CD Wave Editor > Flac

Disc 1
Track 101. Frank’s Introduction
Track 102. My Boyfriend’s Back/I’m Gonna Bust His Head/Tiny Sick Tears/Argon
Track 103. Call Any Vegetable (including Integrales)
Track 104. Blowing Discordant Sounds
Track 105. 200 Motels introduction
Track 106. Pound For A Brown
Track 107. 200 Motels/Duke Of Prunes/Who Needs The Peace Corps/Oh No – Part A
Track 108. 200 Motels/Duke Of Prunes/Who Needs The Peace Corps/Oh No – Part B
Track 109. 200 Motels/Duke Of Prunes/Who Needs The Peace Corps/Oh No – Part C
Track 110. 200 Motels/Duke Of Prunes/Who Needs The Peace Corps/Oh No – Part D
Track 111. 200 Motels/Duke Of Prunes/Who Needs The Peace Corps/Oh No – Part E

Disc 2
Track 201. King Kong intro
Track 202. King Kong explanation
Track 203. King Kong
Track 204. Plastic People/Lumpy Gravy/Orange County Lumber Truck
Track 205. Wino Man/Concentration Moon/Mom & Dad
According to the artwork, Disc 2 Track 5 was recorded at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, August 21, 1970.

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JAMES BROWN – SWITZERLAND 1973

Blogged under Uncategorized by bigozine3 on Thursday 16 May 2013 at

JAMES BROWN AND THE JB’s
An Avalanche Of Funk [Big Fro Discs, 2CD]
Live in Switzerland (possibly Lausanne); 1973 (probably February/March). Very good to excellent soundboard.

Thanks to bleroy for sharing the tracks at Dime. Bleroy added: “A complete recording of a 1973 James Brown Show/Revue concert including the full JB’s opening set.”

Disc 1 (The JB’s – 49:23)
Track 101. Intro (1:06) (1.9MB)
Track 102. Backstabbers (4:43) (8.0MB)
Track 103. Hot Pants Road (3:04) (5.2MB)
Track 104. Theme from “Shaft” (3:27) (5.8MB)
Track 105. instrumental (4:17) (7.2MB)
Track 106. instrumental (3:40) (6.2MB)
Track 107. Pass the Peas (6:14) (10.5MB)
Track 108. Party (5:51) (9.9MB)
Track 109. Me & Mrs. Jones (1:51) [Maceo Parker, vocals] (3.1MB)
Track 110. I’ll Take You There (2:59) (5.0MB)
Track 111. Never Gonna Give You Up (3:05) (5.2MB)
Track 112. Do Your Thing (4:39) (7.8MB)
Track 113. Think (4:20) (7.3MB)

Disc 2 (James Brown – 52:17)
Track 201. Intro (1:19) (2.2MB)
Track 202. Get On the Good Foot (3:47) (6.4MB)
Track 203. Soul Power (4:22) (7.3MB)
Track 204. Make It Funky (4:25) (7.4MB)
Track 205. Bewildered (8:04) (13.6MB)
Track 206. Super Bad (5:51) (9.9MB)
Track 207. Try Me (3:51) (6.5MB)
Track 208. Hot Pants (2:23) (4.0MB)
Track 209. Sex Machine (7:23) (12.4MB)
Track 210. I’ve Got a Brand New Bag of My Own (3:00) (5.0MB)
Track 211. It’s A Man’s, Man’s, Man’s World (2:42) (4.6MB)
Track 212. Please Please Please (2:06) (3.5MB)
Track 213. I Can’t Stand Myself (1:21) (2.3MB)
Track 214. Cold Sweat (1:38) (2.8MB)

Lineup:
James Brown – vocals, organ, drums
prob. Darryl “Hasaan” Jamison, prob. Isiah “Ike” Oakley and prob. Jerone “Jasaan” Sanford – trumpet
Fred Wesley – trombone
Maceo Parker – alto sax, flute
St. Clair Pinckney – tenor sax (& baritone sax?)
poss. Eldee Williams – tenor sax
Jimmy Nolen and prob. Hearlon “Cheese” Martin – guitar
prob. Fred Thomas – bass
prob. John “Jabo” Starks – drums
prob. John Morgan or Johnny Griggs – percussion
Lyn Collins, Martha High – vocals
Danny Ray – MC

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