jeudi 9 octobre 2014

Harvey Mandel & The Snake Band - Belly Up Tavern, Solano Beach, CA - 1990-08-16 (Soundboard) Flac


Tracklist
CD 1
1. Introduction
2. Blues Shuffle
3. Jive Samba
4. Miami Rain
5. The Divining Rod
6. When A Man Loves A Woman
7. I Got You (I Feel Good)
8. Dancing In The Street
9. The Thrill Is Gone
10. Got My Mojo Working (cut)
11. Come On Down
12. Midnight Sun (Fades Out)

CD 2
1. Baby Batter
2. The Snake
3. Green Apple Quickstep
4. Hot Stuff
5. Tobacco Road
6. I Know a Place
7. Red House
8. Peruvian Flake
9. Wade In The Water

Total time 1:33:54

Credits
Harvey Mandel - guitar
George Makovsky - keyboards
Bobby Scott - bass
Ernest Carter - drums

Here

samedi 19 juillet 2014

Spirit - Paramount Theatre - Seattle - Washington - KSIW-Broadcast - 1971-12-31 (Flac)

Disc One
01. Radio Comment > Something You Must Say (9:40) >
02. Nature's Way (2:53)
03. Just Care About Me (8:02) - (tape flip, 3 seconds are missing)
04. Hey Joe (9:02)
05. Improvisation (11:32) >
06. Veruska (3:15)

Disc Two
01. Going Away Somewhere (5:23)
02. Tow The Line (5:46)
03. It's All The Same (14:29)
04. I Got A Line On You (3:52)
05. Set Me Free / Comment (9:33)

Credits
Randy California - guitar, vocals
Ed Cassidy - drums, percussion
John Locke - keyboards
John Arliss - bass

This is one of the most intense Concert by Spirit. Powerful and perfect in Harmony. It's a Radio-Broadcast-Show.
The Sound Quality is near excellent Hey Joe is incredible.

Here

mardi 24 juin 2014

Steamhammer - Live In Germany 1969-70 - Rare Tapes (Wave & Mp3 @320)


The extraordinary blues-rock band Steamhammer was formed at the end of 1968 in Worthing. Martin Quittenton (g) and Kieran White (voc., g, harm.) came out of the British folk circuit. Quittenton had worked together with the Liverpool Scene and, like the other members Martin Pugh (g), Steve Davy (b) and Michael Rushton (dr), had played with numerous R&B groups.
Blues hero Freddie King ordered Steamhammer as his backing band on tour through Great Britain. Come Spring time, 1969, they signed a record contract with CBS. The first album, "Steamhammer", was a mixture of classic blues by B.B.King and Eddie Boyd and modern blues written by White and Quittenton with the help of Pugh. At the end of the British blues boom, only a few hardcore fans took interest on the finest lyrical blues-rock statement of the century.
Not selling as many records as they'd hoped to, Steamhammer nevertheless became a top European open-air attraction, mainly due to their brilliant live performance. For over two hours each night they would indulge in wide excursions in instrumental improvisations, embodied by the impressive guitar riffage of Martin Pugh and the sensitive harmonica of Kieran White. In the Summer of 1969, Quittenton left the band, followed by drummer Michael Rushton. They were replaced by Steve Jollife (sax, fl.) and Mick Bradley.
Jollife's feel for precise arrangements and jazz influences especially inspired the recording of Steamhammer's second, "Mk II", album. Overstepping the boundaries of traditional blues forms, they unleashed their own musical creativity and imagination without resorting to any technical trickery. These highly professional and creative musicians performed many live shows at various festivals in Scandinavia, West Germany and the Netherlands. On the continent, it turned out, they had become more popular than in England.



In the Summer of 1970, Steamhammer recorded their "definitive album" (rock session), called "Mountains", as a quartet. White, Pugh, Davy and Bradley were really working as a team and offering electrified white urban blues of highest quality. The live cut, "Riding On The L&N", is one of the highlights of the "Mountains" album, which contains straight-ahead blues numbers with a healthy dose of rock'n'roll. It was only with the release of this album that Steamhammer began to be noticed by the rock world. After the Altamont and Fehmarn fiascos, the era of open-air events of such calibre was ended at least for quite a while.
In the late Summer of that same year, Steamhammer toured for the last time in Germany and the Benelux. The following Autumn, the line-up changed again. Only Pugh and Bradley stayed together and engaged ex-Renaissance member Louis Cennamo (b) for the recording of one more album. "Speech" was recorded in the Winter of 1971 and released in the beginning of 1972. By that time, Steamhammer had ceased to exsist. "Speech" was a disappointing, partly chaotic album, and the negative reception of the record led to the end of the group's popularity. Mick Bradley died in February 1972 of leukemia. Kieran White released a solo LP, "Open Door", in 1975 and Martin Pugh and Louis Cennamo put together a cult band Armageddon (with Keith Relf on vocals), which released only one album.



Link in Wave
&
Link in Mp3

dimanche 15 juin 2014

Ten Years After - Fillmore Auditorium San Francisco - June 28Th 1968 - SB (Flac)


Here's another of my all-time fave TYA shows, and hopefully - and most likely - a major upgrade to what most fans have; I got my source tape in a trade sometime in the late 90's from my low generation god Larry Clark - thanx again for this, Larry!
TYA arrived on June 13, 1968 in America to begin a seven week US tour, their first of not less than reputedly 28 until their farewell tour in 1975.
They had recorded their May 14, 1968 Klook's Kleek Railway Hotel show and released parts of it in August as their second album "Undead" in order to have a fresh product to promote during their tour - even nowaydays promoters usually demand a new album for touring.
This show here is one of their very first dates, and their first at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium. As it turned out, this was the last weekend of the original Fillmore before  Bill moved his venue to the much larger Carousel Ballroom the next weekend (on which TYA also played!), now renamed Fillmore West; since Bill had opened his Fillmore East in March 1968 in NYC, the renaming had become necessary.
TYA's two sets differ nicely from the original UNDEAD set: you get the  - AFASIK - only known recorded live rendition of "I WANT TO KNOW" from their first album plus the almost equally rarely played traditional version of "I WOKE UP THIS MORNING" (i.e. not the "Sssssh!", variation). Exactly these two numbers were left off the floating-around bootleg CD that was made from a higher gen. copy of this tape. Funnily BTW, Wolfgang's Vault used that CD for their upload although one would imagine they had access to better and more complete versions in their ...well, vaults. 
Like on the boot CD, my source tape started off with HELP Me which is nonsense and I put at the end of the second set where it belongs. This had been their closing number until they developed I'M GOING HOME as their anthem and show stopper; at that point in their career, ROCK YOUR MAMA was the standard opener and proposed next single (which was shelved). It seems someone early in the copy line placed it at the start to make the two shows fit on the two sides of a C 90 cassette. It is safe to assume TYA also did I'M GOING HOME to end their 2nd set but it is missing from both my tape and the boot CD. 
It's real nice to hear TYA doing such a variety of still fresh numbers many of which would disappear from their set for good soon after.
Enjoy early, raunchy, jazzy, bluesy, rocking, jamming TYA! (Th:-)mas)


CD 1
First set:
01- Rock Your Mama
02- Spoonful
03- I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
04- No Title
05- Summertime - Drum Solo
06- I Woke Up This Morning

CD 2
Second set:
01- I Want To Know
02- Spider In My Web
03- Crossroads
04- Woodchoppers Ball
05- Help Me

dimanche 11 mai 2014

The Blues Project - The Matrix - San Francisco - September 1966 - Soundboard (Flac)


The Blues Project was a short-lived band from the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City that was formed in 1965 and split up in 1967. While their songs drew from a wide array of musical styles, they are most remembered as one of the earliest practitioners of psychedelic rock, as well as one of the world's first jam bands, along with the Grateful Dead.

In 1964, Elektra Records produced a compilation album of various artists entitled The Blues Project which featured several white musicians from the Greenwich Village area who played acoustic blues music in the style of black musicians. One of the featured artists on the album was a young guitarist named Danny Kalb, who was paid $75 for his two songs. Not long after the album's release, however, Kalb gave up his acoustic guitar for an electric one. The Beatles' arrival in America earlier in the year signified the end of the folk and acoustic blues movement that had swept young America in the early 1960s. The ensuing British Invasion was the nail in the coffin. Seeing the writing on the wall, Kalb gave up acoustic blues and switched to rock and roll, as did many other aspiring American musicians during this period.

Danny Kalb's first rock and roll band was formed in the spring of 1965, playing under various names at first, until finally settling on the Blues Project moniker as an allusion to Kalb's first foray on record. After a brief hiatus in the summer months of 1965 during which Kalb was visiting Europe, the band reformed in September 1965 and were almost immediately a top draw in Greenwich Village. By this time, the band included Danny Kalb on guitar, Steve Katz (having recently departed the Even Dozen Jug Band) also on guitar, Andy Kulberg on bass and flute, Roy Blumenfeld on drums and Tommy Flanders on vocals.

The band's first big break came only a few weeks later when they auditioned for Columbia Records, and failed. The audition was a success, nevertheless, as it garnered them an organist in session musician Al Kooper. Kooper had begun his career as a session guitarist, but that summer, he began playing organ when he sneaked into the "Like a Rolling Stone" recording session on Bob Dylan's seminal album Highway 61 Revisited. In order to improve his musicianship on the new instrument, Kooper joined the Blues Project and began gigging with them almost immediately.

Soon thereafter, the Blues Project gained a record contract from Verve Records, and began recording their first album live at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village over the course of a week in November 1965. While the band was known for their lengthy interpretations of blues and traditional rock and roll songs (making them, along with the Grateful Dead, rock's first "jam band"), their first album saw them rein in these tendencies because of record company wariness as well as the time restrictions of the vinyl record.

Entitled simply Live At the Cafe Au Go-Go, the album was finished with another week of live recordings at the cafe in January 1966. By that time, vocalist Tommy Flanders had left the band and was not replaced. As a result, Flanders appears on only a few of the songs on this album.

The album was a moderate success and the band toured America to promote it. While in San Francisco in April 1966, during the height of the city's Haight-Ashbury culture, the Blues Project played at the Fillmore Auditorium to rave reviews. Seemingly New York's answer to the Grateful Dead, even members of the Grateful Dead who saw them play were impressed with their improvisational abilities. (SOURCE: "Rock Family Trees" TV show.)

Returning to New York, the band recorded their second album and first studio album in the fall of 1966, and it was released in November. Arguably better than their first album, Projections was certainly more ambitious than their first album, boasting an eclectic set of songs that ran the gamut from blues, R&B, jazz, psychedelia, and folk-rock. The centerpiece of the album was an 11-and-a-half minute version of "Two Trains Running", which, along with other songs on the album, showed off their improvisational tendencies. One such song was the instrumental, "Flute Thing", written by Kooper and featuring Kulberg.

Soon after the album was completed, though, the band began to fall apart. Al Kooper quit the band in the spring of 1967, and the band without him completed a third album, Live At Town Hall. Despite the name, only one song was recorded live at Town Hall, while the rest was made up of live recordings from other venues, or of studio outtakes with overdubbed applause to feign a live sound.

The Blues Project's last hurrah was at the Monterey International Pop Festival held in Monterey, California, in June 1967. By this time, however, half the original line-up was gone and most of their early magic was, too. Al Kooper had formed his own band and played at the festival as well, but no sort of reunion was in the offing. Guitarist Steve Katz left soon thereafter, followed by founder Danny Kalb. A fourth album, 1968's Planned Obsolescene, featured only drummer Roy Blumenfeld and bassist Andy Kulberg from the original lineup. Upon the album's completion, the Blues Project called it quits.

In 1968, Al Kooper and Steve Katz joined forces once again to fulfill a desire of Al Kooper's to form a rock band with a horn section. The resulting band was Blood, Sweat & Tears. While Kooper led the band on its first album, Child Is Father to the Man, he did not stick around for any subsequent releases. Katz, on the other hand, remained with the band into the 1970s.

The Blues Project, with a modified lineup, reformed briefly in the early 1970s, releasing three further albums: 1971's Lazarus, 1972's The Blues Project, and 1973's The Original Blues Project Reunion In Central Park (which featured Al Kooper but not Tommy Flanders). These albums did little to excite the public, however. Since then, the group's activity has been confined to a few sporadic reunion concerts.

Credits
Al Kooper
Steve Katz
Roy Blumenfeld
Andy Kulberg
Danny Kalb

CD1
01. Intros
02. Louisiana Blues
03. Steve's Song
04. I Can't Kept From Crying
05. Caress Me Baby
06. Flute Thing 1
07. Wake Me Shake Me
08. The Way My Baby Walks
09. Love Will Endure
10. Jelly Jelly

CD2
01. Cheryl's Going Home
02. You Can' Catch Me
03. Talk
04. Shake That Thing
05. Talk
06. Catch The Wind
07. You Can't Judge A Book
08. Talk
09. Unknown
10. Hoochie Coochie Man
11. If You Don't Come Back

Great live album with incredible sound quality for a record of 1966 !!!
Enjoy !!!

samedi 10 mai 2014

Steppenwolf - Fillmore West - San Francisco - California - August 27th 1968 - Soundboard - Wave


This performance captures Steppenwolf at a pivotal time, early in their career, as the band was experiencing their first tastes of commercial success from the single off their debut album: the blazing biker anthem "Born To Be Wild." They had recorded but not yet released their second album (which contained the single "Magic Carpet Ride"), and were beginning to perform the more adventurous and experimental material to be included on that album, in addition to staples from their debut LP.This is an excellent performance that grabs you and doesn't let go. 




01. Your Wall's Too High 
02. Hoochie Coochie Man 
05. Born To Be Wild 
06. Desperation 
07. The Ostrich 
08. Tighten Up Your Wig 
09. Disappointment Number (Unknown) 
10. Lost And Found By Trial And Error 
11. Hodge Podge, Strained Through A Leslie 
12. Resurrection 
13. Baby Please Don't Go 
14. The Pusher

John Kay - Vocals, Guitar, Harp 
Michael Monarch - Guitar 
Goldy McJohn - Keyboards 
Rushton Moreve (aka John Russell Morgan) - Bass, Vocals 
Jerry Edmonton - Drums, Vocals 

samedi 19 avril 2014

Jeff Beck - This Blows - Live Detroit & Milwaukee - 1975-05-09 & 1975-05-10 (Flac)


Great concerts by Jeff Beck in 1975 with a soundboard quality .

Disc one :  May 9, 1975 - Masonic Temple - Detroit

01 Constipated Duck
02 She's A Woman
03 Freeway Jam
04 Definitely Maybe
05 Supersticious
06 Cause We've Ended As Lovers
07 Power
08 Got The Feeling
09 Diamond Dust
10 You Know What I Mean

Disc two : May 10, 1975 - Auditorium Theatre - Milwaukee

01 Constipated Duck
02 She's A Woman
03 Freeway Jam
04 Definitely Maybe
05 Supersticious
06 Cause We've Ended As Lovers
07 Air Blower
08 Got The Feeling
09 Diamond Dust
10 Power (Guest: John McLaughlin)


Jeff beck - Guitar
Wilbur Bascomb - Bass
Max Middleton - Keyboards
Bernard Purdie - Drums

Here

vendredi 18 avril 2014

Little Joe Featuring John Cipollina & Paul Butterfield - Full Moon Saloon - SF - July 24th 1986 (Flac)



Fantastic concert by Little Joe with special guests John Cipollina & Paul Butterfield .Enjoy !!!
This show is well known as the Butter jam, but actually are Little Joe with John and Paul guesting.
This is also the complete show, since a partial version of it is often circulated.

John Cipollina
Greg Elmore
Greg Douglass
Bobby Vega
with special guest 
Paul Butterfield

Disc One
1. Hideaway
2. Mona
3. All Worth The Price You Pay 
4. Why Do You Act Like That ?
5. Mystery Train
6. Mannish Boy
Disc Two
1. Drums & Bass
2. Steppin' Out
3. Drums
4. Down In The Bottom
5. Ride In Your Automobile
6. Driftin' Blues
7. He Got All the Money

samedi 12 avril 2014

New Potato Caboose Featuring John Cipollina - Shriver Hall, Baltimore, Maryland - June 27th 1987

01. On the Road Again > JC intro 5:06
02. Third World Blues (or Throw Rug Blues?) 5:43
03. Feelin' Alright 7:18
04. Mona > 11:25
05. Drums > 1:51
06. Space Jam > 2:19
07. Take It Easy (or The Mansion?) 5:48
08. Psychedelia 5:13
09. Fat Man in the Bathtub > 5:22
10. Morning dew 9:05
Total 59:16


Rich Della Fera - vocals, guitar
Doug Pritchett - vocals, acoustic guitar
Don Laux - vocals, guitar
Mike Mahoney - vocals, bass
John Redling - vocals, keyboards
John Trupp - drums
John McConnell - percussions

This is a true and unusual rarity, NPC with John Cipollina,with really interesting versions of Mona, Morning Dew & Little Feat's Fat man in the bathtub. enjoy it !
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mercredi 5 mars 2014

Guitar Army Benefit For Detroit-Area Vietnam Veterans Harpo'S, Detroit, MI - April 1985 Broadcast On WLLZ, Detroit (Flac)


SETLIST:
DISC 1
SCOTT MORGAN (RATIONALS, SRC ETC) & GARY RASMUSSEN (UP, SRC)
01. Intro/Respect
02. Guitar Army
03. Baby Won't Ya
SCOTT ASHETON (OF THE STOOGES) & SPAZ SEVILLE
04. 1969
05. I Wanna Be Your Dog
DAVE GILBERT & DENNIS ROBBINS (OF THE ROCKETS)
06. Roadhouse Blues
07. Lucille
CHARLIE ALLEN MARTIN (OF BOB SEGER SYSTEM)
08. 2+2=?
ROB TYNER (OF THE MC5)
09. Looking At You
10. Motor City's Burning
11. Kick Out The Jams

DISC 2
01. A Few Words From John Sinclair 
DICK WAGNER & DONNY HARTMAN (OF THE FROST)
02. Stagger Lee
03. Donny's Blues
04. The Girl Can't Help It-Motor City Showdown
05. Rock And Roll Music
MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS (Featuring JIM McCARTY)
06. Rock And Roll
07. Oh Well
08. When You Were Mine
09. Devil With The Blue Dress--Good Golly Miss Molly
MARK FARNER (OF GRAND FUNK RAILROAD)
10. Bad Time
11. Some Kinda Wonderful (with Morgan)
12. Gimme Shelter (with Morgan)

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samedi 18 janvier 2014

Randy California (Kaptain Kopter & The Fabulous Twirly Birds) - KPFK Radio, Los Angeles 1972 - Flac


This post is dedicated to the memory of my friend Patrice "Cipcal" who left this world October 5th 2013 and  was one of the greatest fan of Randy California & John Cipollina . No doubt he has joined them on the banks of the "Time Coast"....

Tracklist
01. I Don't Want Nobody 
02. Devil (some minor FM interference distortion for some seconds)
03. Shotgun
04. Melting Into The Furniture
05. Walking The Dog
06. Happy
07. You Just Don't Care (1 mini drop at the end)
08. High Heeled Sneakers
09. Downer

Credits
Randy California : Guitar, Vocals
Ed Cassidy : Drums
Larry "Fuzzy" Knight : Bass Guitar

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vendredi 10 janvier 2014

Pink Floyd - BBC Archives 1970-1971 - The Paris Cinema Sessions (Flac)


Great music in perfect quality with rare tracks like "The Embryo" and Pink Floyd playing the blues . 
Enjoy !!!

Tracklist

July 16, 1970
1-1 The Embryo 11:08
1-2 Fat Old Sun 5:31
1-3 Green Is The Colour 3:27
1-4 Careful With That Axe, Eugene  8:28
1-5 If 5:06
1-6 Atom Heart Mother  25:05

September 30, 1971
2-1 Fat Old Sun  15:27
2-2 One Of These Days  7:31
2-3 The Embryo  10:06
2-4 Echoes  26:32
2-5 Blues  4:58


Part 01
Part 02