Talkin’ About My Revolutions

What’s left in the vault?

THE DOORS
Morrison Hotel Outtakes 1969 [no label, 1CD]
Collection of outtakes from 1969 plus The Doors 1965 demos. Very good sound.

Only four out of the 17 tracks on this R.O.I.O. can be offered.

Morrison Hotel Outtakes came into our possession before the Doors released their 1997 4CD boxset of rarities. It has since been less of an outstanding bootleg with many of its tracks now officially released in 1997 and then in 2007 when the Doors released all their albums in 40th Anniversary editions together with the Perception box.

Surprisingly, there are still a number of gems to be had. Here are the really raw versions of The Spy (demo) and the studio recording of the 17-minute long Celebration Of The Lizard. There was probably only one take and this raw 17-minute version is probably what transpired before the studio guys took over. When compared to the official release, both songs appear to have been heavily remixed and polished for release. No edits, just a lot of repositioning of the sound to make them modern rock.

Track 01. Queen Of The Highway (instrumental) 5:09m
02. Queen Of The Highway (jazz version) – Omitted +
03. Indian Summer demo – Omitted *
04. Push Push – Omitted #
05. Hyacinth House (demo at Robbie’s house) – Omitted +
Track 06. Blues Jam 6:40m
Track 07. The Spy (demo) 3:54m
Track 08. Celebration Of The Lizard 17:02m

Doors demos from 1965
09. End Of The Night – Omitted +
10. Hello, I Love You – Omitted +
11. My Eyes Have Seen You – Omitted +
12. I Will Never Be Untrue – Omitted +
Mistakenly identified as a 1965 demo on the cover. This is live at Aquarius Theatre, Hollywood, 1969.
13. Go Insane – Omitted +
14. Summer’s Almost Gone – Omitted +
15. Moonlight Drive – Omitted +

Miscellaneous
16. Moonlight Drive (Sunset Sound Studios 1966) – Omitted +
17. Orange County Suite (Elektra Studios 1970) – Omitted +

+ All found on The Doors Box Set released Oct 28, 1997.
* found on the 2007 40th Anniversary reissue of The Doors debut album.
# found on the 2007 40th Anniversary reissue of The Soft Parade.

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NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE
Studio Jam 2012
Redwood Digital, Broken Arrow Ranch, Woodside, CA; January 2012. Streamed from Neil Young’s website.

On January 22, 2012, the following note was posted at neilyoungnews.thrasherswheat.org:

Neil Young has been recording with Crazy Horse. One album is complete and they are working on another.

This is the first time Neil Young has worked with the band since 2004. In 2008, Young was asked if he had any desire to work with Crazy Horse again and he said: “I’m not thinking about that right now. We’ll just see what happens. Something might happen. You never know. Or something else we don’t even know about could happen, and that would be really good, rather than go back. But if the vibe’s right to go back and grab what’s back there and yank it into the future, that’s a big job.”

On January 28, a 37-minute Neil Young jam session was streamed on Neil Young’s site.

Thanks to zoso58 and nadiar who split the track and shared them on the net. (Ideal for those who want to carry the tracks around but do not have the tools to capture the audio stream.)

Picture by Per Ole Hagen – thanks!

Track 01. Jam 18:48
Track 02. Cortez The Killer 18:11

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R.E.M.
Buffalo 1984 [no label, 2CD]
Live at the Salty Dog Saloon, Buffalo, NY; July 15, 1984. Good to very good audience recording.

Thanks to Martine Holl for sharing the tracks at Dime.

Thanks also to: taper John (according to evr at Dime); leedsukmale (ticket stub) and gothic-addiction.blogspot (cover picture).

Martine noted: This is a pretty good AUD recording from the Reckoning Tour. According to the [R.E.M.] Timeline, it is missing most of the second encore, Batman Theme should merge into Second Guessing / Ghost Riders In The Sky / Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars). This show has an incredibly fun middle part of the set, consisting solely of cover tracks… I envy those of you who were old and smart enough (and local) to be there!

Disc 1
Track 101. I Can Only Give You Everything
Track 102. Radio Free Europe
Track 103. Catapult
Track 104. Driver 8
Track 105. Medicine Show
Track 106. Sitting Still
Track 107. Letter Never Sent
Track 108. 7 Chinese Bros
Track 109. Talk About The Passion
Track 110. Pale Blue Eyes
Track 111. So. Central Rain
Track 112. Sharp Dressed Man
Track 113. Every Word Means No
Track 114. Secret Agent Man

Disc 2
Track 201. Smokin’ In The Boys Room
Track 202. Does Your Mother Know?
Track 203. Tusk
Track 204. Crazy
Track 205. Gardening At Night
Track 206. 9-9
Track 207. Windout
Track 208. Old Man Kensey
Track 209. Pretty Persuasion
Track 210. Little America
Track 211. Pills
Track 212. California Dreamin’
Track 213. Batman

Lineup:
Michael Stipe – vocals
Peter Buck – guitar
Mike Mills – bass
Bill Berry – drums

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ROY ORBISON
Melbourne 1967 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Festival Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; possibly January 26 and 27, 1967. Excellent radio (FM?) broadcast.

Thanks to JJ who shared these tracks on the net in 2006. It’s unfortunate that the last track in the second show (Too Soon To Know) is cut off, otherwise it would have been a great set. Just listen to the crowd… and you thought Beatlemania was only reserved for the Fab Four.

Front cover from therockingipsy.blogspot.com. Thanks!

Show 1 (possibly January 26, 1967)
Track 01. Crying (missing first few seconds)
Track 02. Dream Baby
Track 03. Running Scared
Track 04. Mean Woman Blues
Track 05. Leah
Track 06. Communication Breakdown
Track 07. Too Soon To Know
Track 08. Pretty Woman

Show 2 (possibly January 27, 1967)
Track 09. Only The Lonely
Track 10. Crying
Track 11. Dream Baby
Track 12. Running Scared
Track 13. Mean Woman Blues
Track 14. Leah
Track 15. Communication Breakdown
Track 16. Too Soon To Know (cut off)

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Are people today more susceptible to lies, packaged and organised as truth? That’s the true role of any “nation-building press”.

The world of science acknowledges matter-of-factly that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapons program. There is simply no evidence for one. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, staffed by specialists on nuclear power and maintaining a tight watch on Iran’s civilian facilities, finds no evidence of a military program.

Two successive reports (National Intelligence Estimates) produced in 2007 and 2010 by all 16 US intelligence agencies have declared with confidence that there is no operative weapons program. US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and even Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak have both recently stated or let it slip that Iran is not currently attempting to build nuclear weapons.

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Troubadours, minstrels, singer-songwriters.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT
The Skip Weshner Tapes 1968-1970 [no label, 1CD]
Recorded at Skip Weshner’s studio at KRHM-FM in Los Angeles, 1968 and 1970. Very good to excellent FM stereo.

The discovery in this set is Gordon Lightfoot’s attempt to sing Elton John’s Your Song. He plays it casually, the way a fan would. It sounds like Lightfoot had just bought the album which was released in the US in July 1970. Back then everyone was a fan and it was unclear just how long rock ‘n’ roll could run. It was as much about your artistry as it was about having fun.

Then there are beautiful versions of Minstrel Of The Dawn and The Last Time I Saw Her (two versions). There are two versions of Lightfoot attempting Kris Kristofferson’s Me And Bobby McGee. In case you’re wondering, Janis Joplin’s angst-fueled version first appeared in January 1971, almost a full year after Lightfoot recorded his gentler version. Lightfoot flubs his second attempt though.

A big thanks to dajchance for sharing this rarity from his collection.

Track 01. Bitter Green [edited, 1968-04-01]
Track 02. Talking In Your Sleep [edited, 1970]
Track 03. Your Song [edited, 1970]

1969-08-09 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California
Track 04. Minstrel Of The Dawn [edited]
Track 05. Looking At The Rain [edited]
Track 06. Sit Down Young Stranger [edited]
Track 07. Cobwebs & Dust [edited]
Track 08. Me And Bobby McGee [edited]
Track 09. The Last Time I Saw Her [edited]
Track 10. The Seabird Song [edited]

1969-08-09 Skip Weshner Show, KRHM-FM Radio Studio, Los Angeles, California
Track 11. Cobwebs & Dust [unedited]
Track 12. Me And Bobby McGee [unedited]
Track 13. The Last Time I Saw Her [unedited]
Track 14. The Seabird Song [unedited]

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LYNYRD SKYNYRD
Cape Cod 1976 [Dan Lampinski Tapes, 1CD]
Live at the Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA; August 27, 1976. Very good audience recording.

Thanks to Dan Lampinski for taping the show and to djscomics who shared the tracks on Dime. Thanks also to Kev & Carl.

Track 01. Workin’ For MCA
Track 02. I Ain’t The One
Track 03. Saturday Night Special (spliced)
Track 04. Searching
Track 05. Travellin’ Man
Track 06. Gimme Three Steps
Track 07. Call Me The Breeze
Track 08. T For Texas
Track 09. Sweet Home Alabama
Track 10. Freebird (spliced)

Lineup:
Ronnie Van Zant – vocals
Allen Collins – guitar
Gary Rossington – guitar
Steve Gaines – guitar
Billy Powell – keyboards
Leon Wilkeson – bass
Artimus Pyle – drums

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A woman’s grandson and his friends have been repeatedly raping a girl so much so that she takes her own life. Add to the woman’s grief – she discovers she is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Lee Chang Dong’s Poetry takes root and emerges from life’s pathos. By Critic After Dark Noel Vera.

Lee Chang Dong’s Poetry (2010) basically follows two storylines: a grandmother’s late-life quest to write a proper poem, and her equally belated attempt to deal with her grandson Wook’s (Lee Da-wit) involvement in a schoolmate’s apparent suicide.

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NEIL YOUNG
I’m Happy That Y’all Came Down [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, CA; February 1, 1971. Good to very good audience recording.

This double-LP, from Rubber Dubber Records, made its mark before bootleg CDs caught on and Neil Young collectors probably owned either a copy of the vinyl or the tracks on cassette or CD.

There he is, captured on someone’s portable reel-to-reel deck somewhere from the front rows, changing from guitar to piano, chatting with the audience and slowly singing his songs with quiet power. The kind of power that’s found in truthfulness.

1971 was a long time ago. Who would have thought we would still care for Neil Young’s music? The person who recorded this show loved the music enough to make the effort. These days you can buy an expensive hi-fi system for the price of a front-row seat to watch a show of dubious quality. But crackles and all, this bootleg, taken from a Rubber Dubber original vinyl, is the real journey through the past.

Track 01. On the Way Home
Track 02. Tell Me Why
Track 03. Old Man
Track 04. Journey Through The Past
Track 05. Cowgirl In The Sand
Track 06. Heart Of Gold
Track 07. A Man Needs A Maid
Track 08. Sugar Mountain
Track 09. Don’t Let It Bring You Down
Track 10. Love In Mind
Track 11. The Needle And The Damage Done
Track 12. Ohio
Track 13. See The Sky About To Rain
Track 14. I Am A Child
Track 15. Dance, Dance, Dance

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With Iran surrounded and with two of Washington’s fleets in the Persian Gulf, another war of aggression seems inevitable. Why does the prime supporter of “democracy” want yet another war? Paul Craig Roberts explains.

The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft carrier, that the US is maintaining a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers in order to project sea power against Iran and to convince Iran that “it’s better for them to try to deal with us through diplomacy.” If it requires 11 aircraft carriers to deal with Iran, how many will Panetta need to project power against Russia and China?

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