Download Led Zeppelin, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 21, 1970

     I bought a slide, an old Coricidin bottle like Duane Allman used. But when I tried to get into Elmore James and Muddy Waters, I ended up with a bunch of CDs I never listened to more than once or twice. Being a white kid growing up in a patch house on the outskirts of Morgantown, West Virginia, the blues may as well have been N.W.A. or Public Enemy. I thought Jeff'd steered me wrong.

     So I started hitting record stores like Charlie Watts hit Mick Jagger after that 5am wake-up call. I knew my personal thread through the music went deeper, and I was more than just an orphan who'd been passed around like a bottle of Boone's. Music made me all too keenly aware that I could be more than my guidance counselors ever expected me to be. I had my own roots and didn't have to buy into somebody else's past or culture to feel complete. I didn't know nothing about my mom or dad, but I knew I was conceived to Led Zeppelin III and I knew when I finally kicked it, I'd kick with a guitar in my hands.

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Led Zeppelin
"Mudslide" (Pre-bootleg source) [The Diagrams Of Led Zeppelin Vol.44]
Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, BC, Canada March 21, 1970

Perhaps the earliest Led Zeppelin bootleg to be produced was the forty minute soundboard fragment from the first show of their fifth tour of north America: a very cool listen.
 
01 Heartbreaker
02 Organ Improv./Thank You
03 What Is & What Should Never Be
04 Communication Breakdown/Ramble On
05 We're Gonna Groove
06 Since I've Been Loving You
07 Whole Lotta Love (middle cut)

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Nickel Creek, Merlefest Watson Stage, Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, NC, April 27th, 2002

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

     "Where can I drop you off?"
     "Mountaineer Doughnuts is fine."
     "Okay. I made a mixtape for you."
     "You serious? It'd been years since anybody made me a mixtape, and this weekend I get two."
     "Well, a CD. Just some stuff you may have never heard. Sara Watkins, Yonder Mountain String Band, Uncle Earl." She handed it to me with an apologetic smile.
     "Thanks a lot. I'll listen to it today." I got my stuff from the back seat.
     "Yeah, right." Katy tooted as she drove away.
I stood on the corner waiting for whatever would happen next. Walnut Street looked a lot different today than it did Friday night on my drunken stroll up High. The sidewalk felt a little slippy, so I shuffled my feet, my Tele acting like a counterweight to all of the material Jamie had loaded me down with.
     I thought about heading straight to Dani's, but remembered she said she'd be up at the library. Pauly's message that he'd be on the road for a few days reminded me I had the apartment to myself. My stomach growled.      The easiest thing would be to take it into the diner to see mom. But she'd know I hadn't been talking to Pauly and ask a lot of questions and tell me how sin makes us a prisoner of Satan and all that. Seemed like a lot of trouble for a cheeseburger.

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Nickel Creek got so close to bridging that gap between traditional and pop. So close to being the band that delivered bluegrass into the 21st century. So close to being a Radiohead for the folks who preferred to get their music from Nashville rather than LA.

Still an amazing band, even if only in recording. Amazing melodies. Prodigious musicians.

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Nickel Creek
Saturday April 27th, 2002
Merlefest Watson Stage 11:00p.m.-11:55p.m.
Wilkes Community College
Wilkesboro, NC

XM Broadcast>Fostex D5 analog in>SPDIF>Sony DTC-75ES DAT master
DAT master on Fostex D5>Marantz CDR-630 CD-RW>EAC>Cool Edit Pro>
CDWAV>mkwACT>SHN

1. ?
2. Reasons Why
3. The Lighthouse's Tale
4. Ferdinand the Bull
5. "Introductions"
6. Locking Doors
7. Seven Wonders
8. In the House of Tom Bombadil
9. Goodnight, the Lord's Coming
10. "She rips, he rips, they all rip"
11. This Side
12. You Don't Have to Move That Mountain
13. Ode to a Butterfly (w/Lithium)
14. The Fox (w/Subterranean Homesick Blues)

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK The Clash, Lochem Festival, Holland 1982-05-20

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    As I made my way up High I pulled out my phone and started to compose a text.
    I kept my phone in my hand while I walked.
    The apartment was dark and cold. I could see my breath. My bed remained unmade. I laid down and tried to call Katy. She didn't answer. I got undressed and tossed all of my clothes into a pile on the floor. I went into the bathroom and started the hot water for a shower. Steam rushed into the hallway, into the kitchen.
    Water scalded me. I turned the cold water up a hair. I hung my head and waited. No music remained in me. "The Sad Ballad of Preston Black" had taken it out of me. In two weeks I'd lived a whole other life. Maybe I should've enlisted back when Stu did. Maybe it should've been me instead of him. I wished it was. Then I could've proven to everybody I was decent. I'd tried for so long to just be decent. Maybe I should've set my goals a little higher than just decent.

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If you are not, or have never listened to The Clash, now's the time to fix this. Beside influencing bands like Blink-182, The Offspring, Green Day, U2, The Cure, R.E.M. and Rancid directly, they have influenced hundreds of other bands indirectly by bringing together reggae, ska, hip hop and other forms of electric music. There's a reason they've been called 'the only band that matters.' Seriously. Google it. I'll wait.

The Clash didn't invent passion and weren't the first to turn their guitars up to 11. They were sincere and real and always gave 110%. You can hear that in the show below. They never phoned it in. That's why I love them, I think. I can listen knowing they never played a 'B' show.

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The Clash - 1982-05-20 - Lochem, Holland

(Soundboard)

01. London Calling
02. Safe European Home
03. The Guns of Brixton
04. Train In Vain
05. Clash City Rockers
06. Know Your Rights
07. The Magnificent Seven
08. Ghetto Defendent
09. Should I Stay or Should I Go?
10. Police and Thieves
11. Brand New Cadillac
12. Bankrobber
13. Complete Control
14. Career Opportunities
15. Clampdown

Link for download is here below the setlist.

THE MUSIC AND JASON JACK MILLER Bob Marley, Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA, December 2, 1979

It's a big joke that every white kid gets a copy of Bob Marley LEGEND at freshman orientation, but for me it was REBEL MUSIC and it was my junior year in high school. Must have been all those skip days to Morgantown with Harold and Jim. Following the smell of patchouli into COOL RIDGE on High Street. I can't remember swimming in Meadow Run or jumping off the bridge into the Yough without hearing REBEL MUSIC in my mind.

In the golden months between Cheat Season and July, Mike Duff and I would sit around playing Redemption Song in his old Chevy van. Something about Bob Marley and summer and rivers.

Then one day WAR cocked me right between the eyes. 'This cat is serious,' I remember thinking, and it embarrassed me that I'd been so superficial with regard to his music.

It took me a few more years to figure out KAYA, and THREE LITTLE BIRDS and POSITIVE VIBRATION was his way of saying your glass isn't always half-empty and it isn't always half-full. Sometimes you just got to drink what's in it.

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I found an AMAZING show on Sugarmegs.com. Amazingly clear. Download it here and give LEGEND to your little brother.

Bob Marley & The Wailers
December 2, 1979
Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
Santa Cruz, CA

Excellent sound quality pre-broadcast soundboard recordings from best circulating copies.

CD#1: Early show main set 67:28
01 crowd noise & Bob's talk before 1st song 0:29
02 > Rastaman Vibration 5:14
03 Wake Up and Live 5:19
04 Them Belly Full 3:25
05 Concrete Jungle 5:10
06 I Shot The Sheriff 4:28
07 Running Away 3:25
08 > Crazy Baldhead 4:19
09 Ambush In The Night 3:57
10 The Heathen 5:06
11 War 4:50
12 > No More Trouble 1:57
13 Ride Natty Ride 4:25
14 Africa Unite 4:25
15 One Drop 4:11
16 JamminÕ 6:33
17 thank yous & crowd noise before encores 0:08

CD#2: Early show encores 17:19
01 Is This Love? 3:28
02 Natty Dread 3:43
03 Exodus 4:26
04 > Get Up Stand Up 5:40

CD#3: Late show main set 65:21
01 crowd noise & intro before 1st song 0:23 [from alternate cassette source]
02 Rastaman Vibration 5:17
03 Wake Up and Live 5:06
04 I Shot The Sheriff 4:36
05 Them Belly Full 3:35
06 Concrete Jungle 5:42
07 Ambush In The Night 3:51
08 Running Away 3:13
09 > Crazy Baldheads 4:04
10 Heathen 4:28
11 Ride Natty Ride 4:16
12 War 4:15
13 > No More Trouble 1:46
14 Africa Unite 4:17
15 One Drop 3:59
16 Jammin' 6:24

CD#4: Late show encores 25:55
01 No Woman No Cry
02 Natty Dread
03 Is This Love?
04 > Exodus
05 > Get Up Stand Up

These shows were recorded and at least one show was broadcast live by KUSP-FM, who still own the master reels but are not giving them out. These are copies made in 1980 from those masters for one of the sound crew who mixed the show. They loaned him the reels and a Revox A77 so more than one copy was made at the time and these transfers are the best sounding of them.

I guess this wasn't the only live broadcast from their tour, but I remember that KUSP said that they convinced Bob Marley to let these shows be broadcast by telling Bob that KUSP was within range of Soledad Prison and that the prisoners would be allowed to listen to them, so he agreed.

These recordings have circulated widely, but usually as just one show and either from the FM broadcast or from multi-generation copies of these tapes.

Early show lineage: 7.5 ips 1/2 track reel master > Dolby B cassette recorded on Sony TCD5 transferred with Nakamichi Dragon > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools > AIFF > Toast Titanium > CD.

Late show lineage: 7.5 ips 1/2 track reel master > 3.75 ips 1/4 track Dolby B reel recorded & transferred with Tandberg 9241XD > Macintosh with DigiDesign AudioMedia III card > Pro Tools > AIFF > Toast Titanium > CD. This late show reel had a few dropouts, but they are barely noticeable and probably only when listening with headphones.

CD extraction with Toast Titanium > xACT (Flac files created with sector boundaries verified). md5 filw created with checkSUM+.

The encores from both shows can be burned onto one disk if you prefer to burn it that way to save a disc.

ENJOY!

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK: Strawberry Fields Forever THE COMPLETE HISTORY

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    "Here's a quiet one for you all. But mostly, this one's for Stu."
    I had notebooks full of songs and hadn't memorized a single lyric, title, or chord. Even though I'd be singing a lie, I leaned into the mic, closed my eyes and drew in all the breath I'd ever need. I whispered the first line to "Strawberry Fields Forever."
    A few people clapped.
    I ignored them. This song was too beautiful for this crowd, for this room. And as I sang, the true meaning of the song began to unfold like a map of the universe. I used to think Lennon meant that the people with their eyes closed just had to expand their consciousness or whatever, a metaphorical eye-opening. Start seeing with their hearts. But while I stood there, strumming somebody else's chords and thinking that Stu's departure meant the end to my time making music, I realized that my eyes had been closed.
    And it wasn't that I couldn't understand the things I saw. The truth was I was only capable of seeing misunderstanding. I'll be doing covers forever.
    Stu came out of the bathroom and stopped. I found his face and shut out everybody else's. I knew it was a dream, and he knew that I knew. But the words I sang were words I needed to hear. Maybe more than Stu needed to hear them. But if Stu and everybody else thought I sang to Stu I figured it was okay to go on letting them think that.
    Nothing is real I kept telling myself. Because we never built anything real. Like maybe I should've been trying to make something of myself instead of worrying about what Pauly wanted. People clapped though. For the first time tonight somebody did something on this stage worth acknowledging. Stu pointed at me then saluted. If only he knew that I'd have done anything to keep him from putting that uniform back on.

Little Mike Rega told me that one of Sir George Martin's biggest regrets was releasing "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" on a 45 instead of including them on SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND. Mike went on to say if he could ask Martin one question, it would be where he would've put the songs on the track list.

"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see..." I could write a thesis on what I think Lennon meant, or what the song means to me, and in a way I suppose I did. Being afraid of living with eyes closed is the same as living with eyes closed.


Download the Complete History of Strawberry Fields here.

From http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/asxcards/Beatles_A_complete_history_of_Strawberry_Fields.html

Beatles - It’s Not Too Bad, Peg Boy 1997

Taken from original CD, extracted by NeroMix, converted to flac by Nero Mix

A complete history of Strawberry Fields Forever, from demo to (nearly) final version. Two tracks have been removed as they exist in similar form on commercial release.

Santa Isabel Demos:
1. Warm-up
2. Take 1
3. Take 2
4. Take 3
5. Take 4
6. Takes 5 and 6
7. Rehearsal

Kenwood Demos
8. Electric Guitar Overdub Rehearsal
9. Electric Guitar Overdubs onto Instrumental Demo
10. Demo Playback with chat
11. Vocal Overdub onto Demo
12. Demo Playback
13. Electric Guitar Demo 1
14. Electric Guitar Composing Sequence
15. Electric Guitar Demo 8
16. Mellotron/Vocal overdubs onto Composing Sequence

EMI Sessions
17. Take 1 (Removed from torrent – re-mixed version available on “Anthology”)
18. Take 2
19. Takes 3 and 4
20. Takes 5 and 6
21. Take 7 (Tape Reduction Take 6)
22. Take 7 (RM3)
23. Take 25
24. Tale 26
25. RS5 (Removed from torrent – remix of commercial version of song)

Full info can be found at http://www.bootlegzone.com/album.php?name=pb1008§ion=1

FLOGGING MOLLY, Lupo's, Providence RI, USA 2011-02-22

Just in time for a little holiday enjoyment--Flogging Molly, Lupo's, Providence RI, USA 2011-02-22.

If you're a fan then this is a no-brainer. If you're not, you should be, especially today. They have a phenomenal sound and this show is a nice gateway drug. it's best enjoyed with a bit of Jameson. If you like this you need to pick up their live release, LIVE AT THE GREEK THEATER.

Download here: http://www.archive.org/serve/FloggingMolly2011-02-22LuposProvidenceRI/FloggingMolly2011-02-22LuposProvidenceRI.wma

Setlist:

Church Audio B-99A stereo omnidirectional (pro-binaural) mics > Church Audio ST-20A preamp > Iriver H340 (rockboxed) > Audacity 1.2.6 (fade in/out + cut) > Trader's Little Helper (FLAC level 6) > you

105'41


01-Intro
02-Speed Of Darkness
03-The Likes Of You Again
04-Swagger
05-Requiem For A Dying Song
06-Selfish Man
07-The Worst Day Since Yesterday
08-Saints And Sinners
09-(No More) Paddy's Lament
10-Drunken Lullabies
11-The Wanderlust
12-So Sail On
13-Factory Girls
14-Black Friday Rule
15-Don't Shut 'Em Down
16-Rebels Of The Sacred Heart
17-Devil's Dance Floor
18-Band Introduction
19-If I Ever Leave This World Alive
20-Salty Dog
21-What's Left Of The Flag
22-Float
23-Tobacco Island
24-Seven Deadly Sins

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