Going On Vacation

Well the wife, kids and I are off to Maui for two fun filled glorious weeks. I will be back in the new year with more new posts. Take care and talk amongst yourselves.

Christmas Greetings and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!

Best wishes for a rockin' new year!

Boston - House of Blues - 1994

Here's The Infamous Show where Brad Delp lost his voice, (Since then, Brad Lost his Life, BUT will remain one of the most recognizable and Loved Rock Singers, EVER!) and Fran Cosmo sang the entire show!

It takes place at the House Of Blues in Cambridge, Mass. 1994...

Anyway, it's a fine AUD recording, very listenable & enjoyable! And you'll notice they do 3 Christmas Songs: "Merry Christmas Baby" - a blues-y romp & a lot of fun! "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" - a stellar song with excellent guitar... Trust me, you've never heard it played like this before...and "Happy Xmas(War Is Over)" - Lennon's Christmas anthem for peace sounds pretty good Boston-ized!

A Freezin' Hot 192 kbps mp3!

Part 1

http://rapidshare.com/files/76889507/Boston-HOB94-CD1.zip.html

Part 2

http://rapidshare.com/files/76922237/Boston-HOB94-CD2.zip.html

Play it loud and enjoy!

Thanks to Rocket.

Denis Leary - Merry F#%$in' Christmas - 2004

"Merry F#%$in' Christmas" is a mix of new, previously released, and previously unreleased material.The title track "Merry F#%$in' Christmas" is, as you can probably guess, a very happy sounding Christmas song with not-so-happy lyrics. And it works, with Leary's own angrily sarcastic-toned singing style. Both a studio and a live version are included. There are also two studio tracks from the "Lock N' Load" album.This leaves three tracks of live stand-up material and three bizarre studio recordings. The stand-up stuff ("Fat Guy on the Plane", "Jack Goes to School", and "Dogsledding") are all great. The three other studio tracks, "WWWW", "Coffin Rap", and "The Theme from Jesus & The Gang" sound like the bizarre songs you'd hear in between tracks on "Lock 'N Load". Not surprisingly, "WWWW" was taken from the "Lock 'N Load" sessions.

Tracks:

01.Merry F#%$in' Christmas [Studio]

02.Fat Guy on the Plane [Live]

03.Deaf Mute Cocktail Party

04.WWWW

05.Jack Goes to School

06.Insane Cowboy (In Africa)

07.Coffin Rap

08.The Theme from Jesus & the Gang

09.Dogsledding [Live]

10.Merry F#%$in' Christmas [Live]

If you're familiar with Denis Leary, you know what to expect. Irreverence, strong language, strong opinions, and a "who-cares-what-you-think" attitude. Denis takes on the holiday season here, and no religion is spared. He skewers every faith in his own inimitable style.

The new offering from Denis Leary is a great stocking stuffer. The title song is a Christmas CLASSIC! The CD is only about twenty minutes long but is an interesting mix of music, stand up, bits and oddities. The stand up material is funny and makes me wish Leary would do another stand up special. It includes the song Jesus and theGang (which I believe is sung by producer/cowriter Chris Phillips) from the Comedy Central spoof Contest Searchlight. My favorite bits are WWWW, a spot on parody of lite FM radio and Coffin' Rap, a cough with a beat. There are a couple of bits from Lock and Load that are out there to say the least. The CD closes with a live version of Merry F'n Christmas, the Ultimate Christmas song.

Denis Leary's latest CD "Merry F***in' Christmas," is a hilarious comedy e.p. There are two versions of the title song, one in the studio, one live on stage. It's one of the greatest Christmas songs written. It also features two stand-up bits from Denis that were on two "Comics Come Home" specials and a bit from a Comedy Central "Just For Laughs" special.The rest of the Cd is filler. Two tracks, "Insane Cowboy (In Africa")" and "Deaf Mute Cocktail Party" appeared on his last CD "Lock N' Load," which I've skipped over now on two CDs. It also contains a sort-of funny bit titled "WWWW" parodying radio stations, a bizarre kids show song - "The Theme from Jesus and the Gang," and the annoying "Coffin Rap" - which is Leary coughing a hip-hop beat.

There are ten tracks here, but Denis Leary's Merry F#%$in' Christmas is really a between-albums, get-it-out-for-the-holiday-shopping-season EP. Combining a jaunty melody with sour, foul, and hilarious lyrics, the title track is the reason to pick this up. The caustic tune is funny and fast -- it'll take a couple listens to catch it all -- and you get two versions, one in the studio and one from the Comics Come Home special. The non-holiday filler is generally good, half of it being from Leary's Comedy Central appearances while the rest is sourced from sessions for 1997's Lock 'n Load album, including two unreleased outtakes. It may only run 20 minutes, but it's priced right and contains a couple treasures for fans.

http://rapidshare.com/files/6690097/mfxmasdl.zip

Hillbilly Holiday!

Woo Hoo! One of my all time favs! All the usual (and unusual) suspects are here hootin' and hollerin' up a storm.

Rhino records did a great service to country fans when they released this collection of rare country Christmas songs that had been unobtainable. Since then some tracks, including those by Brenda Lee and Buck Owens, have been released on CD's by the individual artists, but most have not. Now that this collection is out of print, those tracks that have not been re-issued elsewhere are again hard to find.

Brenda Lee's I'm gonna lasso Santa Claus is a socially-aware song about how Santa discriminates against the poor. Two Buck Owens tracks are featured - his classic Santa looked a lot like Daddy and Christmas time's a-coming - this latter being an original song, not to be confused with the Bill Monroe song of the same title that opens this collection. Bill's song has become a standard on bluegrass Christmas albums.

This collection contains many rarities from (mostly) the fifties and sixties by George Jones (My mom and Santa Claus), Tex Ritter (Christmas carols by the old corral), Ernest Tubb (not his classic Blue Christmas, which is easy to find, but I'll be walking the floor this Christmas), Hank Snow (Reindeer boogie, revived by Trisha Yearwood on her excellent Christmas album, Sweetest gift), Faron Young (I'm gonna tell Santa Claus on you), Loretta Lynn (To heck with ole Santa Claus) and Christmas boogie (Davis sisters).

If you are into country music of the fifties and sixties and you enjoy original Christmas music, it doesn't get better than this. Only Pretty paper (Willie Nelson) and It came upon the might clear (Louvin brothers) are versions of songs that are well known - in Willie's case, the original version. I'm thankful that I bought this when it first came out. I wish you the best of luck finding a copy - or persuading Rhino to re-release it.


1. Christmas Time's A-Coming - Bill Monroe
2. Christmas Carols by the Old Corral - Tex Ritter
3. I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus - Brenda Lee
4. I'll Be Walking the Floor This Christmas - Ernest Tubb & The Texas Troubadors
5. Reindeer Boogie - Hank Snow
6. Gonna Wrap My Heart in Ribbons - Hank Thompson
7. Po' Folks Christmas - Bill Anderson
8. Santa Looked a Lot Like Daddy - Buck Owens
9. Pretty Paper - Willie Nelson
10. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - The Louvin Brothers
11. My Mom and Santa Claus - George Jones
12. One of You (In Every Size) - Marty Robbins
13. To Heck With Ole Santa Claus - Loretta Lynn
14. Daddy's Drinking up Our Christmas - Commander Cody
15. I'm Gonna Tell Santa Claus on You - Faron Young
16. They Shined up Rudolph's Nose - Johnny Horton
17. Christmas Boogie - The Davis Sisters
18. Christmas Time's A-Coming - Buck Owens

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Have Yourself a Tractors Christmas - 1995

Here's a unique Christmas CD...
The Tractors mix country and western together and
create a strangely infectous "Boogie Woogie" sound!
Chuggin' straight on like a choo-choo train! Tractors shuffle through classics and some great originals too! Do yourself a great big favor and get with the Tractors yuletide sing songs!
Thanks to Rocket.

http://rapidshare.com/files/75213361/Tractors-Christmas.zip.html

Merry Christmas To You, And Your Tractor, Too!

Christmas With The Three Stooges

Recorded WAY past their prime in the early '60's. This Christmas with The Three Stooges is Curly-less and even Shemp-less. This rare EP was put out on disc by Rhino in the early 1980s. It features Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe DeRita butchering familiar yule tunes with alternate lyrics and intentional off-key singing. Truth was that the Stooges were accomplished singers; but as with Lucille Ball and her singing and dancing, it's funnier if the performance is bad. If one can find this 12" EP or cassette at a reasonable price, it's worth adding to your wacky Christmas music collection.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UO6Z06Q7

Christmas Wax

Here is a slendid volume of Christmas Wax. A dusty mix of Christmas music from the island of misfit songs. I hope you enjoy it. Deliciously demented and guaranteed to clear a room.

1 :: CHECK THE COOL WAX :: KING AD-ROCK

2 :: HOLIDAY ON ICE “A RIDE WITH SANTA” :: WALT JACKOBS

3 :: SLEIGH RIDE :: LENNY DEE

4 :: SANTA CLAUS IS COMIN’ TO TOWN :: THE THREE SUNS

5 :: NUTTY JINGLE BELLS :: AL HIRT

6 :: CHRISTMAS ALL OVER THE WORLD :: JIM NABORS

7 :: ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS :: LIBERACE

8 :: ROCKIN’ AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE :: MIRROR IMAGE

9 :: WINTER WONDERLAND :: THE GOLDDIGGERS

10 :: THE CHRISTMAS SONG :: SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL ‘66

11 :: SNOW :: CLAUDINE LONGET

12 :: WHAT CHILD IS THIS? :: THE BORDER BRASS

13 :: WHAT SANTA WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS :: WALT JACOBS

14 :: THE REINDEER BOOGIE :: HANK SNOW

15 :: A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS :: BUCK OWENS & SUSAN RAYE

16 :: SANTA’S BIG PARADE :: THE LOUVIN BROHERS

17 :: I’M GONNA TELL SANTA CLAUS ON YOU :: FARON YOUNG

18 :: OLE TEX KRINGLE :: TEX RITTER

19 :: WHITE CHRISTMAS :: HANK THOMPSON

20 :: TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS DAY :: BUCK OWENS & SUSAN RAYE

21 :: SANTA AND THE KIDS :: CHARLIE PRIDE

22 :: HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS :: BIG TINY LITTLE

23 :: RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER :: FRED WARING AND THE PENNSYLVANIANS

24 :: LET’S TRIM THE CHRISTMAS TREE :: LINE MATERIAL

25 :: HO, HO IT’S CHRISTMAS :: The CAROLEERS

26 :: SANTA CLAUS’ PARTY :: LES BAXTER OCHESTRA & CHORUS

27 :: MERRY, MERRY CHRISTMAS :: CAPTAIN KANGAROO

28 :: MISTER SANTA :: LENNY DEE

29 :: SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN :: THE CAROLEERS

30 :: CHRISTMAS CHIMES ARE CALLING SANTA :: RANKIN/BASS

31 :: CAROL OF THE BELLS :: HANNA BARBERA ORGANS & CHIMES

32 :: SILENT NIGHT :: KOREAN ARTIST

32 :: HOLIDAY ON ICE “A RIDE WITH SANTA” (FINALE) :: WALT JACOBS

33 :: CHRISTMAS LULLABY :: CARY GRANT

http://rapidshare.com/files/9065196/PART_1a.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/9062244/PART_1b.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/9055750/PART_2.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/9035562/Christmas_Wax_ART.zip.html

Play at own risk!

Thanks to the great people at Brainwerks.

Led Zeppelin - December 10th, 2007 - Live At London's 02 Arena!

This I just got in and grab it while you can before the net nazis shut it down. Yes it is an AUD recording and while I much prefer Soundboards, this will have to suffice for now.

Since this show is what it is I assume most can live without perfection for awhile. I'm sure better sources will turn up but this is listenable and will give you a great feel for the show.

CD1:

01 Intro

02 Good Times Bad Times

03 Ramble On

04 Black Dog

05 In My Time Of Dying

06 For Your Life

07 Trampled Under Foot

08 Nobody's Fault But Mine

09 No Quarter

CD2:

01 Since I've Been Loving You

02 Dazed And Confused

03 Stairway To Heaven

04 The Song Remains The Same

05 Misty Mountain Hop

06 Kashmir

07 crowd

08 Whole Lotta Love

09 crowd

10 Rock And Roll

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The Temptations Live - 1966

The Roostertail's Upper Deck, Detroit, Michigan, October 3, 1966.

Released March 6, 1967.

I originally purchased the album when I was 16 years old, and never forgot the excitement, the passion and the skill of these vocalists who defined the quality of popular music in the 1960s and beyond. After seeing the Temptations' movie recently, based on the book written by Otis Williams, I rushed to purchase "Temptations Live" the CD. I assure you that the excellence of the Temptations' music is only enhanced by their live performance. The medleys led by Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin (Kudos to Ruffin's rendition of "What Now My Love"/"Yesterday" -- joined by basso profundo Melvin Franklin, who sings in French!) and the uptempo versions of their landmark songs ("My Girl," "My Baby," "I Want a Love I Can See," "Get Ready" and others) compel you to sing along and dance. You can only imagine the exquisite moves that the Temptations executed for the audience. Special mention to the always fabulous David Ruffin, whose powerful and throaty baritone is charismatic, and to the underappreciated Paul Williams, who took you to church with "Don't Look Back". Thirty-five years after I first purchased the record, "Temptations Live" the CD is now jammin' in my car stereo. Thanks to Motown and Soul Man Red for bringing back the music and the memories! "Temptations Live" is an outstanding album and anyone who wants to understand what Motown was all about - class, style and above all quality music enhanced with the excitement of a live performance, should grab this recording. I only wish it was accompanied by a video, so we could fully enjoy the brilliance of this classic and classy quintet. Temptations Forever!

1. Introduction - (with Scott Regen)
2. Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) / The Girl's Alright With Me / I'll Be In Trouble / I Want A Love I Can See
3. What Love Has Joined Together
4. My Girl
5. Yesterday / What Now My Love
6. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
7. Group Introduction
8. I Wish You Love
9. Ain't Too Proud To Beg
10. Ol' Man River
11. Get Ready
12. Fading Away
13. My Baby
14. You'll Lose A Precious Love
15. Baby Baby I Need You
16. Don't Look Back

http://rapidshare.com/files/75626638/921_-The_Temptations_-_Live__.rar

Gettin' Ready - The Temptations 1966

'Gettin' Ready' is one of my favorite Temptation lp's!
The marvelous title track alone, with Eddie Kendricks gliding into the stratosphere, made this an instant winner. There were several fine songs that weren't hits, such as "Not Now, I'll Tell You Later" and "I've Been Good To You," and there sure wasn't anything wrong with powerhouse cuts like "Ain't Too Proud To Beg." The Temptations would score four straight number one hits in the mid-'60s, each one an unforgettable classic. No soul collection should not be without this wonderful set of songs.

01 Say You
02 Little Miss Sweetness
03 Ain't Too Proud to Beg
04 Get Ready
05 Lonely, Lonely Man Am I
06 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
07 I've Been Good to You
08 It's a Lonely World Without Your Love
09 Fading Away
10 Who You Gonna Run To
11 You're Not an Ordinary Girl
12 Not Now, I'll Tell You Later

Get it here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/45308020/Motown_-_The_Temptations_-_Gettin__Ready.rar.htm

Martha and The Vandellas Live! September 1967

This is one of the best live albums any Motown artist has recorded and all three girls, as well as the orchestra, conducted by David T. Walker, are in fine form! You will especially enjoy Betty Kelly's impromptu solo during the "Dancing In The Street Medley" but all of the tracks are superb!

An interesting side-note: the fact that Martha chose to sing a medley of "Do Right Woman" & "Respect" as a tribute to Aretha Franklin (who was in the audience) caused some bad blood between them, because Aretha felt no one but her should touch her songs (Did she forget all the Ben E. King songs she covered around this time, as well as the songs she did by other artists?) but she needs to get over it - there is only one Aretha, and, much as I love Gladys Knight, Martha did a better job with "Do Right Woman" than Gladys did on her live Motown LP ("All In A Knight's Work.")

If you are looking for the Stevie Wonder version of "for Once In My Life," you won't find it here: only Stevie performed the song with that arrangement. Of the other versions, Martha's is second only to the late Paul Williams of the Temptations' rendition of it found on their Live At The Copa and TCB albums.

Although, the cover is similar to classic "Temptations Live!" album from this period, Motown used the same technique with their "Recorded Live On Stage" series and no one said anything. Anyway, this is the group at its best ( unlike The O'Jays or The Marvelettes live albums, which were recorded too early in their careers and, though many people say the fast pace of Diana Ross & The Supremes live in concert didn't work for them, it definitely works here! A great buy and a great album. And Martha has only gone on to sound better and better with time.

To hear what she sounds like today live, please pick up the DVD "Dancing In The Street," which features the last live performance Martha did with Mary Wells and David Ruffin & Eddie Kendricks, which was recorded at the perfect time (before Mary, David or Eddie lost their voices!)

Released as GLPS-925 - Martha & the Vandellas Live! in September 1967...

*Introduction/I'm Ready For Love
*Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone
*For Once In My Life
*Love Is Like A Heat Wave
*Nowhere To Run
*My Baby Loves Me
*I Found A Love
*Jimmy Mack
*You've Been In Love Too Long
*Love (Makes Me Do Foolish Things)
*Do Right Woman/Respect
*Medley: Dancing In The Street-I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)-Sweet Soul Music-Uptight (Everything's Alright)

A beautiful vinyl rip in two parts from my own cherished copy. Enjoy the Motown Sound.
Thanks Soul Man Red.

http://rapidshare.com/files/73861645/01_Side_1.mp3
http://rapidshare.com/files/73856156/02_Side_2.mp3

What shall we do on a boring Sunday? We listen to a good concert...Led Zeppelin - St. Louis Missouri - 02-16-1975

Size: 384 MB
Bitrate: 320mp3
Found in OuterSpace
Artwork Included

Newly released, outstanding quality, complete SBD of a good performance.
Led Zeppelin's 1975 North American Tour was the tenth concert tour of North America by the English rock band. The tour was divided into two legs, with performances commencing on January 18 and concluding on March 27, 1975, and preceded with two warm-up shows performed in Brussels, Belgium, and Rotterdam, Netherlands, respectively.

Disc1 :
Rock And Roll
Sick Again
Over The Hills And Far Away
In My Time Of Dying
The Song Remains The Same
The Rain Song

Disc 2 :
No Quarter
Trampled Underfoot
Moby Dick

Disc 3 :
Dazed And Confused
Stairway To Heaven
Whole Lotta Love
Black Dog
Heartbreaker(Inc, Shame, Shame, Shame)

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Play loud. Thanks Chris.

Berlin Blitz - The Sweet - 1975

It's.. It's.. The BERLIN BLITZ!

Here's another of those 1976 Give Us A Wink Tour SBDs...This one was released, through the Sweet International Fan Club, I think(?)

Can't really remember - BUT I'm sure someone will fill us in...
Anyway, you'll want this one IF you're a SWEET Fan... It sounds much better than most of the other '76 Boots from the "Give Us a Wink" Tour.
Standard setlist OR in my Wife's Translation - "It's Got the Same Songs as That Other one you Got!"

Yes, Dear but there's different sound qualities, and the audience's were different, and...
She quit listenin' at the "Yes" and didn't even hear the "Dear." The fact that she was right was ALL she needed to hear!

Anyway, download below @ 192 mp3 and Don't tell the Wife...

http://rapidshare.com/files/72034658/SWEET.zip.html

Play loud and enjoy the same songs!!

Seconds of Pleasure - Rockpile - 1980

Arguably one of the last classic rock albums of the "Golden Era" (1955-1980),
this was a reissue worth waiting for in spades!

The one official recording by Rockpile, Nick Lowe, Dave Edmunds, Billy Bremmer and Terry Williams, this 1980 release has been in my fave albums pile ever since it came out. Had this foursome not been bar and band mates for each other before "Seconds Of Pleasure," this platter would have been trumped as a supergroup. Edmunds and Williams had already been well established as far back as the sixties with hits, Lowe would be in the history books if only that he released Stiff Records' first single. That Lowe's albums ("Pure Pop For Now People," "Labour of Lust") and as well as Edmunds' solos ("Repeat When Necessary," "Trax On Wax 4") not already given them stature among the cognoscenti, their contributions to the sound of the period as individual producers would.

After all, between the two of them, they should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for their production library. Edmunds for Stray Cats, kd lang, Fabulous Thunderbirds and (fer crying out loud) Foghat; Lowe for Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, Pretenders, and John Hiatt all but sealing their rep as a pair of men that made a decade sound the way it did. Yet for all that star power, when it came time to record a proper album as a group, Rockpile made it sound like no sweat.

"Seconds Of Pleasure" took all things great about basic bar band rock and made it sound fresh. It was almost as if they came at you with the credo that anything that they couldn't make sound as simplistic as a Chuck Berry riff or Everly Brothers' harmony wasn't worth the tape it took. To that end, the band cribbed from the best, covering a pair of classics (Berry's "Oh What A Thrill" and Joe Tex's "If Sugar was as Sweet as You"), then surrounding them with originals that were every bit as perfect ("Teacher Teacher" and "When I Write The Book"). They were even so hot a band that Billy Bremmer got the lead vocal on what should have been a classic single, the bouncy "Heart."

Albums this effortless sounding are rare jewels. If you're an aficionado of this style of buoyant rock n roll / Brit Pub rock, "Seconds Of Pleasure" is absolutely indispensable. The addition of the original album's bonus EP, "Nick and Dave Sing The Everly Brothers," two unreleased live cuts and "Crawling From The Wreckage" from the "Concerts of Kampuchea" make this platter even better.

"Seconds of Pleasure" now translates into hours of pure listening pleasure! Gitit!

Teacher Teacher
If Sugar Was As Sweet As You
Heart
Now And Always
A Knife And A Fork
Play That Fast Thing(One More Time)
Wrong Again(Let's Face It)
Pet You And Hold You
Oh What A Thrill
When I Write The Book
Fool Too Long
You Ain't Nothin' But Fine
Take A Message To Mary
Crying In The Rain
Poor Jenny
When Will I Be Loved
Back To School Days(live)
They Called It Rock(live)
Crawling From The Wreckage(live)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SWVY9Q7F



And here's "Girls Talk," different album ("Repeat When Necessary"), same great band.

The Garden Tapes - Led Zeppelin - 1973

Good morning boys and girls. Well, I just got myself the new remastered and expanded version of Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same", ran home with it, popped it in the stereo full of anticipation. It was the biggest deception since I got the real story about Santa!

As soon as it started I knew we were in for trouble...Rock & Roll started...It was the film version, not the old soundtrack album version, but we soldiered on thru it, No Quarter is again the film version (butchered to death, guitar solo sliced and diced...that wonderful crescendo gone!..full 2 minutes shorter!!!) ditto for Dazed And Confused...And people what happened to the whistle in Stairway To Heaven... I grew up with this album... that whistle is part of my youth!!! And by the way... what the fraq is that flanger on Moby Dick?

Plus points... Over The Hills And Far Away, Heartbreaker and The Ocean...That's ear candy, and then again why did they stick The Ocean at the end of disc one instead of leaving it where it belongs as an encore... I guess this new remastered edition will be great if you are new to Led Zeppelin, and by all means it sounds great!, but if you grew up with the original vinyl version and you can air guitar that No Quarter solo note by note, no let me rephrase that... If you can air guitar that whole original album note by note (and even worse if you are an anal retentive collector of Zeppelin live recordings like I am) then the new remastered and expanded The Song Remains The Same will be a painful affair. One last piece of advise... do not throw that old version away!

Now that I'm done beeing an grumpy old man, here are for you the 3 nites at the Gardes... And if you want to do some interesting reading regarding how these 3 nites ended up as the original soundtrack of The Song Remains The Same, go here: http://www.thegardentapes.co.uk/

Led Zeppelin
1973-07-27
Madison Square Garden
New York
NY

Volume 1 - Discs 1 and 2

01. The Rain Song
02. Dazed And Confused
03. Stairway To Heaven
04. Moby Dick
05. Heartbreaker
06. Whole Lotta Love (medley)
07. The Ocean

Led Zeppelin1973-07-28
Madison Square Garden
New York
NY

Volume 2 - Discs 1, 2 and 3.

01. Rock And Roll
02. Celebration Day
03. Black Dog
04. Over The Hills And Far Away
05. Misty Mountain Hop
06. Since I've Been Loving You
07. No Quarter
08. The Song Remains the Same
09. The Rain Song
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. Moby Dick
13. Heartbreaker
14. Whole Lotta Love (medley)
15. The Ocean

Led Zeppelin
1973-07-29
Madison Square Garden
New York
NY

Volume 3 - Discs 1, 2 and 3.

01. Rock And Roll
02. Celebration Day
03. Black Dog
04. Over The Hills And Far Away
05. Misty Mountain Hop
06. Since I've Been Loving You
07. No Quarter
08. The Song Remains the Same
09. The Rain Song
10. Dazed And Confused
11. Stairway To Heaven
12. Moby Dick
13. Heartbreaker
14. Whole Lotta Love (medley)
15. The Ocean
16. Thank You

Thanks to the Zen Archer!

http://rapidshare.com/files/71673234/INFO.txt

"London Live Torpedo!" - Pretty Things - 1974

This version of The Pretty Things from 1974 Includes the guitarist who toured with Marc Bolan & T. Rex, too! He didn't record any Studio Tracks with either band - I Think (?).

Jack Green (born 12 March 1951, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish musician.Green played with T. Rex between 1973 and 1974, then with The Pretty Things between 1974 and 1976. He launched a solo career with the album, Humanesque in 1980, followed by Reverse Logic in 1981, Mystique in 1983 and Latest Game in 1986.

Green is now living in Ryde, Isle of Wight, where he teaches guitar, and has his own small film production company.

This is Classic Rock with a touch of 60s Garage Rock thrown in!
A very different band than the one that recorded the S.F. Sorrow Record...
This is them performing for the BBC in London...
It's called London Live Torpedo, because they were touring in support of their "Silk Torpedo" LP at the time...which I altered the artwork to create these new covers!
Again thanx to Rocket. Get it now at 192 mp3.

http://rapidshare.com/files/70938939/Pretty_Things_-_London_Live_Torpedo.zip.html

Live in Action - Starz

"Didn't Wanna See No JohnWayne/Kung Fu Movie, Anyway!"

One of my Favorite Bands from the 70s - STARZ! Classic Hard Rock at its Best!
This is a Live Compilation Put together by Metal Blade Records years ago, and is Now Seriously Out-Of-Print...

Too many Great Songs to Talk About...
"Cherry Baby" has got to be one of the Most Perfect Pop Songs Ever!
IF you liked the Raspberries, you'll probably get into Starz, too!
They're a little heavier sounding, but they mix pop & hard rock very well!

"Cool One" is a Hilarious song about a hot & heavy date at the movies...(She reached over and squeezed on my rocks, I lost it all in the Popcorn Box...)
"Subway Terror" is a mean & grimy look at the possible dangers of subway rides...
"Pull The Plug" is a timely & controversial look at ending Life Support...
Anyway, It's Great Rockin' Music with Interesting Lyrics - NOT Your Average Band!
Get It Below @ 192 kbps mp3.

http://rapidshare.com/files/70252787/Starz-LiveInAction.zip.html

Play it loud and rock and roll!
Thanx to the Rocket!

"and I Know You Wanna Dance." Johnny Rivers - 1966.

One of the most underrated rockers of the 1960s, Johnny Rivers was a guy who served up the big beat strong and simple — on most of his best records, he set up at the Whisky A Go-Go in L.A. with a crack rhythm section and rolled tape as he let rip on a set of classic R&B tunes and pop hits, with his sturdy but passionate voice and no-nonsense guitar work doing the talking. And I Know You Wanna Dance was Rivers' fourth live album, and if it sometimes sounds like the work of a bar band, in this context that's a compliment — Rivers was a guy who played to rock the party, and if he's playing what the audience wants to hear on this disc, he also did it very well indeed, and his covers of "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," "Every Day I Have to Cry," "Respect," and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" are potent blue-eyed soul with lots of feeling and no unnecessary fuss. Rivers could also dig deeper into the blues bag when he felt like it, and while "The Snake" and "Foolkiller" are uptempo rockers, their tough roots shine through bright and clear. Rivers' sharp, efficient lead guitar is on point throughout the album, and his bandmembers — including Mickey Jones on drums and Larry Knechtel on keys — are tight and tasty without getting in the way. Johnny Rivers may not have been the hippest guy on the charts, but he played real-deal rock & roll the way it was meant to sound, and And I Know You Wanna Dance is a lot more fun to listen to than a lot of other albums with much higher hipster cred.
Dig this cool vinyl rip and sway to the sweet sounds. Play loud.

01-The Snake
02-I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
03-You Must Believe
04-Uptight (Everything's Alright)
05-Respect
06-In The Midnight Hour
07-Secret Agent Man (From the CBS TV Show 'Secret Agent')
08-Every Day I Have To Cry
09-You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
10-Foolkiller
11-Run For Your Life
12-You Dig

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Mothership - Led Zeppelin - 2007

Mothership-- a collection of 24 of Led Zeppelin's "greatest hits," remastered and selected by the band's three remaining members (Page, as well as Robert Plant and John Paul Jones)-- might be conceptually flawed, but it's hard to argue against songs as indisputably great as these. Mothership is not the first time Page has participated in the distillation of his own work: In 1990, a decade after John Bonham downed his last shot of vodka, Page curated an eponymous boxset (known, in fan parlance, as Crop Circles) which saw their eight-album discography distilled to four perfect CDs. And in 2002, Atlantic released Early Days and Latter Days: Volumes 1 and 2 (each previously available as a single purchase, in 1999 and 2000, respectively), a Page-condoned collection of 23 tracks which awesomely featured all four members of Led Zeppelin on the cover, dressed in giant American space suits and perched casually in front of an illustrated moonscape. Early Days and Latter Days has a tracklist similar to Mothership (the latter adds "D'yer Mak'er", "Over the Hills and Far Away", "Heartbreaker", and "Ramble On", but loses "Ten Years Gone", "What Is and What Should Never Be", and "The Battle of Evermore") so, clearly, the idea of Led Zeppelin's greatest hits is contentious even for the band itself.

Fans will probably argue over Led Zeppelin's selections-- omitting "What Is and What Should Never Be" feels unforgivable-- and it seems obvious that Page, Plant, and Jones were striving hard to represent every last phase of their career: Some work from the band's crucial 1969-1975 era is sacrificed for late-career tokens like the comparably-mediocre "In The Evening" (itself a curious selection, given the relative popularity of In Through the Out Door's "Fool in the Rain", which was the band's last release to make the pop single charts). Still, content-critiquing aside, the remastering on Mothership is no small achievement, and it sounds revelatory on even the shittiest stereos. Check Bonham's pitter-pattering in the verses of "Ramble On", or the still-intact fuzz at the top of "Immigrant Song", or the tiny percussive "fwwpts" on "D'yer Mak'er", or the restored outro to "Over the Hills and Far Away". Twist your volume knob heavenward and embrace Plant's inescapable geekiness, yelping about Gollum and Mordor; chug booze and air-drum with John Bonham: Led Zeppelin sound as tremendous in 2007 as they did in 1972.Mothership offers no bonus content or previously unreleased material. It serves, mainly, as an introduction for those (presumably out of classic rock radio range) still unfamiliar with the band. Longtime fans will find little of use here, although anyone who spends a couple hours with Mothership will find themselves duly reminded that Led Zeppelin are quite possibly the finest rock band of all time.

DISC 1:
01. Good Times Bad Times
02. Communication Breakdown
03. Dazed And Confused
04. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
05. Whole Lotta Love
06. Ramble On
07. Heartbreaker
08. Immigrant Song
09. Since I've Been Loving You
10. Rock And Roll
11. Black Dog
12. When The Levee Breaks
13. Stairway To Heaven

DISC 2:
01. Song Remains The Same
02. Over The Hills And Far Away
03. D'Yer Maker
04. No Quarter
05. Trampled Under Foot
06. Houses Of The Holy
07. Kashmir
08. Nobody's Fault But Mine
09. Achilles Last Stand
10. In The Evening
11. All My Love

http://www.2shared.com/file/2444350/22351793/Led_Zeppelin_-_Mothership__2007_.html

And check this out!

Cloud Nine - The Temptations - 1969

A masterpiece in psychedelic soul from The Temptations -- perhaps the most perfectly realized album from their years working with Norman Whitfield! The set's awash in that bottom-heavy, rumbling funk mode that Whitfield brought to the group at the end of the 60s -- served up in bold tracks that push the group's vocals to a whole new level, and which bring in a more righteous sound than anyone might have expected previously from Motown! The centerpiece here is the amazing "Runaway Child" -- a really extended number that has all the political soul of a Curtis Mayfield tune -- and other titles include "Cloud Nine", "Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me", "Love Is A Hurtin Thing", "I Gotta Find A Way", "I Need Your Lovin", and "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". An all time classic from one of the best black groups ever!

Tracks
A1 Cloud Nine

A2 I Heard it Through the Grapevine

A3 Runaway Child, Running Wild

B1 Love Is a Hurtin' Thing

B2 Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)

B3 Why Did She Have to Leave Me (Why Did She Have to Go)

B4 I Need Your Lovin'

B5 Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me

B6 I Gotta Find a Way (To Get You Back)

B7 Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love

Reviews:

#1


In Febuary of 1969 the Temptations released Cloud Nine and many people thought what happened to the old Tempts. Well after seeing Sly Stone & the Family Stone having so much success Norman Whitfield in his third album at the helm of the producers chair fo the Tempts decided it was time for change. The first half on the original vinyl version consist of only 3 song which basically carries the whole album. The title track is one of the funkiest songs ever laid to wax with it's wah-wah guitars and the Tempts voices flowing through the sons, but the best song here is the 9 plus minute version of "Runaway Child Running Wild". The song will by far blow you away with new lead singer Dennis Edwards dynamic vocal performance. The rythm arrangement of this song is brilliant and Funk Brothers really get down and dirty on this one. Definitely the funkiest song of the 60's. Side two on the original vinyl is back to business as usual with the Tempts apparently not ready to completly give total control to Whitfields newly refined production style. Overall great album for the first 3 songs on the album which also consist of putting a different twist on a cover version of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" which was also done by Gladys Knight & the Pips and Marvin Gaye respectively. Although the second side is mostly ballads there's still stong vocal performances by Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams, with most of the leads going to Dennis. A must have for soul music lovers and Temptations fans alike.

Reviews

#2

Best known for their silky soul vocals and smooth-stepping routines, the Temptations were firmly entrenched as the undisputed kings of Barry Gordy's Motown stable when cutting-edge producer Norman Whitfield walked into the studio and announced that it was time to shake things up. The resulting freakout became the first half of the stellar Cloud Nine, an album that would become one of the defining early funk sets, with songs that not only took Motown in a new direction, but helped to shape a genre as well. On one side and across three jams, Whitfield and the Temptations would give '70s-era funk musicians a broad palette from which to draw inspiration. The title track, with its funky soul bordering on psychedelic frenzy, was an audacious album opener, and surely gave older fans a moment's pause. Only two more songs rounded out side one: an incredibly fresh take on "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," which jazzed up the vocals, brought compelling percussion to the fore, and relegated the piano well into the wings, and "Run Away Child, Running Wild," an extravagant nine-minute groove where the sonics easily surpassed the vocals. After shaking up the record-buying public with these three masterpieces, the Temptations brought things back to form for side two. Here, their gorgeous vocals dominated slick arrangements across seven tracks which included "Hey Girl" and the masterful "I Need Your Lovin'." Funk continued to percolate — albeit subtly — but compared to side one, it was Temptations business as usual. It was this return to the classic sound, however, which ultimately gave Cloud Nine its odd dynamic. The dichotomy of form between old and new between sides doesn't allow for a continuous gel. But the brash experimentation away from traditional Motown on the three seminal tracks which open the disc shattered the doorway between past and present as surely as the decade itself imploded and smooth soul gave way to blistering funk.

Q (10/99, p.161) - Included in Q Magazine's Best Motown Records Of All Time - "...socially concerned, aggressive and bordering on psychedelic. CLOUD NINE was deemed 'too progressive'....The result still sounds fresh and immediate 30-odd years on."

CLOUD NINE is a document of American soul music in transition.
Thank you to Nikos!!

http://rapidshare.com/files/67692597/Temptations_-_1969_-_cloud_nine.rar

Myrmidons of Melodrama - The Shangri-Las 1963-1966

Along with the Shirelles and the Ronettes, the Shangri-Las were among the greatest girl groups; if judged solely on the basis of attitude, they were the greatest of them all. They combined an innocent adolescent charm with more than a hint of darkness, singing about dead bikers, teenage runaways, and doomed love affairs as well as ebullient high-school crushes. These could be delivered with either infectious, handclapping harmonies or melodramatic, almost operatic recitatives that were contrived but utterly effective. Tying it all together in the studio was George 'Shadow' Morton, a mad genius of a producer who may have been second in eccentric imagination only to Phil Spector in the mid-'60s.
The quality of Morton's work with the Shangri-Las on Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller's Red Bird label (with assistance from Jeff Barry and Artie Butler) was remarkable considering that he had virtually no prior experience in the music business. With his 'Remember (Walkin' in the Sand)' the Shangri-Las made the Top Five in late 1964. The group's material, so over-the-top emotionally that it sometimes bordered on camp, was lightened by the first-class production, which embroidered the tracks with punchy brass, weeping strings, and plenty of imaginative sound effects. Nowhere was this more apparent than on 'Leader of the Pack,' with its periodic motorcycle roars and crescendo of crashing glass. The death-rock classic became the Shangri-Las' signature tune, reaching number one.
This is the tracklisting for the 2006 compilation which has since gone out of print. Sob.















Remember (Walkin' In The Sand) [stereo] (1964 US#5)
It's Easier To Cry
Leader Of The Pack [stereo] (1964 US#1)
What Is Love
Give Him A Great Big Kiss [stereo] (1965 US#18)
Out In The Streets (1965 US#53)
The Boy
Give Us Your Blessings
Heaven Only Knows [stereo]
Right Now And Not Later (1965 US#99)
The Train From Kansas City [stereo]
Never Again
I'm Blue
What's A Girl Supposed To Do
The Dum Dum Ditty
You Cheated, You Lied
I Can Never Go Home Anymore [stereo] (1965 US#6)
Bull Dog
Long Live Our Love (1966 US#33)
Sophisticated Boom Boom
He Cried (1966 US#65)
Dressed In Black
Past, Present And Future (1966 US#59)
Love You More Than Yesterday
Paradise
Give Him A Great Big Kiss (alt. version) [stereo]
Simon Says
Simon Speaks
Radio spot #1 Revlon: How pretty can you get?
Radio spot #2 Revlon: Natural wonder
Radio spot #3 Good taste tip: Gift receiving
Radio spot #4 Good taste tip: Dating courtesy
http://rapidshare.com/files/53623004/0709SHANGRILAS.zip

The Golden Couple - 1967

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrel - United (1967)

United was the first of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell's three LPs, and quite possibly the best of the lot. Harvey Fuqua and Johnny Bristol handled the productions and gave the photogenic duo a slightly harder edge than subsequent productions by Valerie Simpson and Nicholas Ashford. Three blockbusters "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "If I Could Build My World Around You," and "Your Precious Love" propelled the album to #29 on the pop charts, the highest rating of any of the duo's LPs. Plus, you had treats like "Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl," a remake of Loe and Joe's little-known release on Fuqua's Harvey Records in 1962. "Two Can Have a Party" grooves from start to finish and could have been the fourth hit, but Motown thought otherwise. I like the duo's rendition of "Hold Me Oh My Darling," a song Tammi first recorded on her solo album; the stuttering chorus and bass backing voice makes it unique. You won't find two better ballads than "Give a Little Love" or the often-recorded "If This World Were Mine"; written by Marvin Gaye, the starry-eyed proclamation has become an R&B standard, and rightfully so.

01 Ain't No Mountain High Enough

02 You Got What It Takes

03 If I Could Build My World Around You

04 Somethin' Stupid

05 Your Precious Love

06 Hold Me Oh My Darling

07 Two Can Have a Party

08 Little Ole Boy, Little Ole Girl

09 If This World Were Mine

10 Sad Wedding

11 Give a Little Love

12 Oh How I'd Miss You

http://rapidshare.com/files/49818836/Motown_-_Marvin_Gaye___Tammi_Terrell_-_United.rar.html

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - 1968

Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - You're All I Need (1968)

You're All I Need equals the debut of Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell in every way except chart position and newness. It reached #60 Pop. a good showing but 31 rungs lower than United, their debut. It includes arguably their finest recording, "You're All I Need to Get By," a testament to their singing skills and the writing/producing talents of Nicholas Ashford & Valerie Simpson and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" is no slouch either. The urgent "Keep on Lovin' Me Honey" is the lesser of three single releases, but a quality cut just the same, thanks in part to the twang in Tammi's voice on the uptempo pleader. Johnny (Bristol) and Jackie (Beaver's) "Baby Dontcha Worry" gets an update; Johnny & Jackie first recorded the chugger on Harvey Fuqua's Tri Phi label in 1962. As on all three releases, Marvin and Tammi perform one of Tammi's solo cuts; in this case, "Come On and See Me" takes a back seat to the original. "Memory Chest," an overlooked number, is one of their most charming ballads.

01 Ain't Nothing But The Real Thing
02 Keep On Lovin' Me Honey
03 You're All I Need To Get By
04 Baby Don't Cha Worry
05 You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin'
06 Give In, You Just Can't Win
07 When Love Comes Knocking At My Heart
08 Come On And See Me
09 I Can't Help But Love You
10 That's How It Is (Since You've Been Gone)
11 I'll Never Stop Loving You Baby
12 Memory Chest

http://rapidshare.com/files/49804453/Motown_-_Marvin_Gaye___Tammi_Terrell_-_You_re_All_I_Need.rar

Tribute to Tammi - Rare and Unreleased.

Tammi Terrell was born Thomasina Montgomery in Philadelphia on April 29, 1945, after winning a number of local talent contests, by the age of 13 she was regularly opening club dates for acts including Gary "U.S." Bonds and Patti LaBelle And the Blue Belles.

In 1961 she was discovered by producer Luther Dixon and signed to Specter/Wand Records at the age of 15 and was credited as Tammy Montgomery, she made her debut with "If You See Bill". After James Brown caught a live act, she was signed to his Try Me label, issuing "I Cried" in 1963 also touring with his live revue; "If I Would Marry You" appeared on Checker a year later, during which time she also studied Pre-Med at the University of Pennsylvania.While performing with Jerry Butler in Detroit in 1965, Tammi was spotted by Harvey Fuqua and was introduced to Berry Gordy Jr. making her label debut with "I Can't Believe You Love Me" and other songs followed with "This Old Heart of Mine" and "Come On and See Me". In 1967 Tammi Terrel was paired with Marvin Gaye who previously recorded with Mary Wells and Kim Weston. His chemistry with Tammi was immediate, and in 1967 they enterted the pop charts with the magnificent songs "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", and "Your Precious Love." Later in 1967, Tammi Terrell begin to have severe migraine headaches and she collapsed in Gaye's arms while in concert at Virginia's Hampton-Sydney University, she was rushed to the hospital and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

Although the tumor forced Tammi to retire from performing live, she continued to record with Marvin Gaye and her own album "Irresistible" in 1968. In 1969, Tammi’s health was begining to decline and she was unable to finish with the third duet album, Valerie Simpson sang on most of the recordings on the "Easy" album. In all, Tammi endured eight operations, ultimately resulting in loss of memory and partial paralysis, she passed away on March 16, 1970. Her burial service attracted thousands of mourners and many of her Motown Colleagues attended.

01 I Cried

02 Can't Stop Now, Love Is Calling

03 Baby Don't You Worry

04 It's Mine

05 Just Too Much To Hope For

06 Slow Down

07 He's The One I Love

08 I Got To Find A Way

09 Memory Chest

10 Voice Of Experience

11 There Are Things

12 Ain't No Mountain High Enough

13 Come On And See Me

14 My Heart

15 That's What Boy's Are Made For

16 If You See Bill

17 Lone Lonely Town

18 More, More, More

19 This Old Heart Of Mine

20 All I Do Is Think About You

21 Big John

22 Give In You Just Can't 0Win

23 I Cant Go On Without You

24 I Can't Believe You Love Me

25 This Time Tomorrow

26 If I Would Marry You

27 Make The Night A Little Longer

28 Two Can Have A Party

29 What A Good Man He Is

30 Sinner's Devotion

31 Hold Me Oh My Darling

32 If You Don't Think

33 Tears At The End Of A Love Affair

http://rapidshare.com/files/49832497/Tammi_Terrell_-_Tribute_To_Tammi.rar

It's Only Goat's Head Soup But We Like It...The Rolling Stones - Outakes and Alternate Mixes.

Premise: when I bought Rolling Stones records and tapes in the 1980s, as an adolescent, I only rarely happened to stumble upon Bootlegs. Most of their quality was poor, and it was very expensive to procure even a few of them. Now I see many things have changed. I have been able to download more than 20 Bootlegs in a few days (mid Dec. 2006) and I must say some of them are impressive.

Few will disagree on that the faithful core of RS music was 1968-1974, the period in which they had dismissed the nearly ridiculous habit of early sixties music style (I do find early RS more outdated and less original than early Beatles) and they hadn't yet run out of the qualitative, blues and crossover freshenss of that time, lost later in more commercial (pop-dance) contaminations which spoiled at least some songs in the next years LPs...

There are GREAT unofficial recordings available for the period 1969-74, and with this I mean that both the music quality and the recording quality is at standard if not better levels than on contemporary CDs. There are very good LIVES (the famous "Brussels Affair"/"The Lost Brussels", Oct. 17, 1973 is probably the best, if we also want to consider recording quality), but I mean to focus on Studio Outtakes here...

Try to procure (easy in mp3) these recordings: "Itchy Fingers", "Sticky Fingers. The Alternate Album", "Tricky Fingers and Slicky Ringers", with some different versions of great songs like Brown Sugar, Wild Horses... (some mono and badly recorded, other perfect, different mixes with different solos, without lead guitars or wit h lead gtr instead of voice...).

"Main Street Revisited" has also some jewels, and rec. is very good with enlarged sound dynamic range, while "It's Only Rock n Roll Outtakes", "Acetates" (1970.1974) and the splendid "It's Only Goat's Head Soup..." have unreleased tracks, different mixes, longer versions of 1972-1974 songs. The latter is a monumental album, sounds much better than the original G.H.S. and has the following tracks

IT's ONLY GOAT'S HEAD SOUP ... BUT WE LIKE IT

01.It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (rough mix)

02.Ain't Too Proud To Beg (alternate mix)

03.Winter (alt. mix)

04.Silver Train (alt. mix)

05.Drift Away (unreleased song)

06.Time Waits For No One (long version)

07.Criss-Cross Man )unreleased song)

08.Through The Lonely Nights (1974 b-side only)

09.Living In The Heart Of Love (unreleased song)

10.Too Many Cooks (unreleased Mick Jagger solo-single)

11.Angie (rough mix without reverb & 2nd keyboard overdub)

12.Dance Little Sister (alt. mix)

13.Till The Next Goodbye (alt. mix)

14.If You Can't Rock Me (alt. mix)

15.Fingerprint File (alt.longer mix)

This 'bootleg' comprehends studio sessions of both It's Only Rock n Roll and Goat's Head Soup. I don't know who made these mixes but after a few listens they sound great (no overdub. or repetitions), and in many cases the songs frankly quite overshadow the official versions!

http://rapidshare.com/files/66267298/nnmm_copy_trs1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/66267470/nnmm_copy_trs2.rar

Necrophilia - The Rolling Stones - 1972

How this title was even granted a catalog number - AB4224 - is a mystery. Much like the legendary unreleased 1966 Stones LP Could You Walk On Water?, this set was to have featured 17 previously-unreleased tracks including alternate takes of Heart of Stone, Out of Time and Pay Your Dues, which was the original version of Street Fighting Man. Story has it that Andrew Loog Oldham and Allen Klein had a major disagreement on the track selection - more specifically on the extremely vulgar Andrew's Blues. It would have been unprecedented at the time for such a song to be released to the public, but not as far-fetched an idea if you consider that Lonesome Schoolboy Blues [aka: C**ksucker Blues] was included for a limited time in an official 1984 German albums boxed set. This title would be replaced by the friendlier More Hot Rocks but fans fear not, as nine (9) of these selections later appeared in the 1975 LP Metamorphosis. Not surprisingly, Andrew's Blues has since become a popular bootleg track.

As the sound on the Rolling Stones' legitimate CDs has been upgraded since 2001, so the bootleggers have followed along. No, this disc isn't an SACD hybrid, but it does offer some of the cleanest and loudest masters ever heard on the outtakes and unauthorized releases programmed onto it, with an audio quality of which any legitimate CD producer could be proud. This is a cleverly designed and very nicely mastered variation on Hot Rocks and More Hot Rocks, based on what was the supposed originally intended follow-up to Hot Rocks, which was to have been called Necrophilia and using original artwork (and was, instead, utilized as the basis for More Hot Rocks). How close this came to release is a matter of speculation; could anyone in 1972 have thought that "Andrew's Blues" was releasable? And the results are actually closer to what became the Metamorphosis album four years or so later. The orchestra-accompanied "Out of Time" opens the compilation, followed by "Don't Lie to Me" and a wonderfully lean, stripped-down, undubbed "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow," on which every jagged note of Keith Richards' guitar can be heard -- the song sounds much more of a piece with Aftermath and Between the Buttons (between which it fell) than it ever did before -- and an instrumental mixing acoustic guitar and orchestra entitled "Hear It." The rest of what was supposed to be side one finishes with the Jagger/Richards "Something Just Stuck in Your Mind"; a Nanker Phelge blues composition entitled "Aftermath;" the homoerotic Jagger/Richards song "I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys" (which now seems like it could have been slotted into the score of Sidney J. Furie's film The Leather Boys); and "Andrew's Blues" in one of its cleanest and loudest masterings. What purports to have been side two of the original LP opens with the working version of "Street Fighting Man," credited here as "Pay Your Dues" (but usually referred to as "Did Everybody Pay His Dues"). Following outtakes of "Good Times" and "Heart of Stone," we get the over-dramatic "Each and Every Day of the Year" and "Walking Through the Sleepy City," coming out of the Stones' arty 1965-1966 period. The tougher "Try a Little Harder," a much leaner and harder version of "Blue Turns to Grey," and the country-ish "We're Wastin' Time" then close out the CD.

01 Out of Time.mp3

02 Don't Lie to Me.mp3

03 Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby [Standing in the Shadow].mp3

04 Think.mp3

05 Hear It [Instrumental].mp3

06 Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind.mp3

07 Aftermath [Instrumental].mp3

08 I'd Much Rather Be with the Boys.mp3

09 Andrew's Blues.mp3

10 Pay Your Dues.mp3

11 Let the Good Times Roll.mp3

12 Heart of Stone.mp3

13 Each & Every Day of the Year.mp3

14 [Walkin' Thru the] Sleepy City.mp3

15 Try a Little Harder.mp3

16 Blue Turns to Grey.mp3

17 We're Wastin' Time.mp3

http://rapidshare.com/files/66021490/derherbstkommt41.rar

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Johnny Rivers - Changes (Imperial LP- 12334) 1966

Johnny Rivers' eighth album offers about as much diversity of music as any of the best of his early LPs, with a difference -- it was the first album where he abandoned the basic guitar-bass-drums arrangement that had characterized his prior albums. His core trio sound was still there, augmented with tasteful horns and understated string orchestra on certain songs, and virtually displaced by some intriguing solo instruments elsewhere. The album's sound was anticipated by the single "Poor Side of Town," which featured a hybrid production, Rivers' band joined by overdubbed strings and chorus. The album opener, "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" (in its very first recording) shows him managing to sound like a full-fledged rocker despite the presence of violins (playing parts that would later be inflated on "MacArthur Park," written by the same composer) and flute. "A Taste of Honey" gets a treatment that manages to intersect Calypso and rock. "California Dreamin'" gets an arrangement that recalls that of the Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby," while "Do You Want to Dance" was the template for the Mamas and the Papas' exquisitely harmonized version, cut under the same producer. "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" gets perhaps the most soulful and distinctive treatment in its history, complete with its seldom heard lyrics. And Rivers' performance of "If I Were a Carpenter," against a breezily paced background, is beautifully sung, in a performance that anticipates some of the soulful agony that Steve Marriott brought to the same song in concert with the Small Faces. Even Rivers' pop covers, "Strangers in the Night," "The Shadow of Your Smile," "Softly As I Leave You," and "The Days of Wine and Roses," are successful in showing off his singing in a different vein, and the softer, finer nuances that his voice could express. Produced by Lou Adler, whose reputation as a recording director par excellence rested on records like this, and arranged by Marty Paitch, this was one of the best-sounding rock albums of 1967 and rode the charts longer than any other Johnny Rivers LP. It's essential listening for Rivers fans as well as '60s rock enthusiasts.
Track Listing
By the Time I Get To Phoenix,
A Taste Of Honey
Days Of Wine and Roses
California Dreamin’
Do You Wanna Dance?
Cast Your Fate To the Wind
Poor Side Of Town
If I Were a Carpenter
Softly As I Leave You
The Shadow Of Your Smile
Strangers In The Night
Gettin’ Ready For Tomorrow
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Here's Johnny Rivers performing live on Ed Sullivan.

Bob Seger - Early Singles

Ripped from my friend Dean's vinyl copies. His collection is ridiculous! 12,000 lps, 20,000 45s. He has an original stereo copy of the Del Shannon-Runaway lp, a Ventures LP that had a pressing of 6 sent only to friends and other absurdities! Try getting these singles anywhere else. For some weird reason, Bob won't release his early stuff. Its a crime!!!!

And how about that drum kit!

Bo Diddley
East Side Story
Persecution Smith
Heavy Music 1
Ramblin Gamblin Man
2+2=?
Lucifer
Highway Chile
Lookin Back
Chain Smokin
Heavy Music 2
Sock it to me Santa
Florida Time
East Side Sound
Very Few
Vagrant Winter
Ballad of the Yellow Beret
Death Row
Noah
Mongrel
Tales of Lucy Blue
Ivory

http://rapidshare.com/files/3466288/BS-ES.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/3468044/BS-ES.part2.rar

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