Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore - 1971


If you ever really liked hard rock, I mean REALLY LIKED it, you have to get this LP. Twin guitars, pounding bass, thundering drums, great, up-tempo songs, fantastic singing and showmanship....yep. I like all that, too. A couple of the songs filled up a whole side on the double LP this originally resided on. "Rolling Stone" is not the Bob Dylan song, but a rambling, story telling epic about a boy, his girlfriend, and her young at heart mother. The last 3 minutes, however, explode into a hell-for-leather speeded up adrenaline rush of musical intensity. I would listen to the first 13 minutes or so, just anticipating the take-off. Not playing air-guitar on the last part is impossible. "Hallelujah I Love Her So" is a great cover, all the band members sing verses on it. "I Don't Need No Doctor" is the gem on this album, however. Great riff, great finish. Steve Mariott was one of the greatest natural showmen in Rock history. I saw the band, minus Peter Frampton plus Clem Clempson, in Little Rock in the 70's. Steve had completely taken over front-man duites. He never spoke a word, he sang everything to us instead. Played the poo out of that guitar as well. A great live band at the top of their powers. Get it.
1. Four Day Creep (3:45)
2. I'm Ready (8:30)
3. Stone Cold Fever (6:20)
4. I Walk On Gilded Splinters (23:28)
5. Rolling Stone (16:10)
6. Hallelujah (I Love Her So) (5:11)
7. I Don't Need No Doctor (9:14)
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Badfinger - Complete Ass 1973



The most essential Badfinger bootleg there is, as it covers in depth one of their best albums. A reference mix (considered for release in the early 1990s) is included to start off the album. This is far superiour to the one realease in Europe at about the same time.The outakes and demos tracks on this release are something to behold, with Timeless (for me) being the standout, closely followed by the 1972 solo Mike Gibbins tracks.Tracking down an original copy of this is recommended as it contains a limited edition box, bootlet, and some informative limer notes (including those from the 1993 remix).


Disc 1
1. Apple Of My Eye
2. Get Away
3. Icicles
4. The Winner
5. Blind Owl
6. Constitution
7. When I Say
8. Cowboy
9. I Can Love You
10. Timeless
11. Miss Misunderstood
12. Blind Owl
13. Piano Red
14. Miss Misunderstood
15. Cowboy
16. Get Up Off Your Knees
17. This Time
18. For So Long
19. Cowboy
Disc 2
1. Timeless
2. Coppertone Blues
3. Rock & Roll
4. Dreaming
5. Piano Red
6. Do You Mind
7. Regular
8. Blind Owl
9. I Can Love You
10. When I Say
11. Piano Red
12. When I Say
13. Timeless
14. Regular
15. Regular
16. Do You Mind
17. Do You Mind
18. Do You Mind
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Monday, July 30, 2007

The Beatles 1968 - Purple Chick


Beyond its stylish minimalism, the essentially blank cover of The Beatles, better known as the White Album, served a symbolic purpose. The band could find no honest way to visually represent itself as a coherent unit. Each of the three main songwriters was pursuing his own vision, with the other members, however reluctantly, serving as backup musicians. Once a whole far greater than the sum of its parts, the Beatles were now a tense alliance of daunting individual talents. The Beatles became a double album in part because John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison all insisted that their favorite songs be included. "I remember having three studios operating at the same time," Harrison said of the sessions. "Paul was doing some overdubs in one, John was in another and I was recording some horns or something in a third." Ringo Starr grew so frustrated that he quit the band for a time. The others festooned his drum set in flowers to celebrate his return. What didn't suffer in this atmosphere was the music. From the plangent yearning of Lennon's "Julia" to the exuberance of McCartney's "Back in the U.S.S.R." and the prayerfulness of Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (featuring a solo by Eric Clapton), the White Album is an exhilarating sprawl -- some of the Beatles' most daring and delicate work. "I think it was a very good album," said McCartney. "It stood up, but it wasn't a pleasant one to make."
Back in the days when stereo recordings were first made, The Beatles would release two versions of each album, one in monaural and the other in stereo. Remember these days when a stereo album cost one dollar more than the monaural? With the "White Album," it would be the last time The Beatles released both versions. At the time, The Beatles took great care and delight in making the two versions as different as possible from each other. Just about all the songs on the stereo and mono versions have variations that make them different. One case, more extreme than most is where the stereo version is twenty seconds longer than its mono counterpart.
Now Purple Chick presents the White Album in all its mono splendor showcasing the good, the great and the genius. Enjoy!
Disc 1
BITRATE: 320 Kbps
TRACK LIST:
01 - Hey Jude (Mono)
02 - Revolution (Mono)
03 - Back In The Ussr (Mono)
04 - Dear Prudence (Mono)
05 - Glass Onion (Mono)06 - Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da (Mono)
07 - Wild Honey Pie (Mono)
08 - The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (Mono)
09 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Mono)
10 - Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Mono)
11 - Martha My Dear (Mono)
12 - I'm So Tired (Mono)
13 - Blackbird (Mono)
14 - Piggies (Mono)
15 - Rocky Raccoon (Mono)
16 - Don't Pass Me By (Mono)
17 - Why Don't We Do It In The Road (Mono)
18 - I Will (Mono)
19 - Julia (Mono)
20 - Not Guilty (Mono)
21 - What's The New Mary Jane (Anthology)
22 - Sour Milk Sea (Mono Outfake)
Part 1
Part 2
Disc 2
BITRATE: 320 Kbps
TRACK LIST:
01 - Birthday (Mono)
02 - Yer Blues (Mono)
03 - Mother Nature's Son (Mono)
04 - Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (Mono)
05 - Sexy Sadie (Mono)
06 - Helter Skelter (Mono)
07 - Long Long Long (Mono)
08 - Revolution 1 (Mono)
09 - Honey Pie (Mono)
10 - Savoy Truffle (Mono)
11 - Cry Baby Cry (Mono)
12 - Revolution 9 (Mono)
13 - Good Night (Mono)
14 - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Take 1 (Mono)
15 - Don't Pass Me By (Mono Original Speed)
Part 1
Part 2
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Friday, July 27, 2007

All That Glitters is Gold - Led Zeppelin 1971



ZEPPELIN RULEZ!!!!!!!
01. (01) Black Dog (outtake)
02. (02) Four Sticks (instrumental)
03. (03) Four Sticks (alternate take)
04. (04) Black Dog (rehearsal take 1)
05. (05) Black Dog (rehearsal take 2)
06. (06) No Quarter (demo)
07. (07) Stairway To Heaven (acoustic demo 1)
08. (08) Stairway To Heaven (acoustic demo 2)
09. (09) Guitar Improvisations
10. (10) Stairway To Heaven (acoustic vocal demo)
11. (11) Stairway To Heaven (rehearsal take 1)
12. (12) The Battle of Evermore (alternate take)
13. (13) Rain Song (original acoustic demo)
14. (14) Ten Years Gone (acoustic demo)
15. (15) Ten Years Gone (electric demo)
16. (16) When The Levee Breaks (alternate take 1)
17. (17) When The Levee Breaks (alternate take 2)
18. (01) Friends (rehearsal part 1)
19. (02) Friends (rehearsal part 2)
20. (03) Friends (rehearsal part 3)
21. (04) Friends (rehearsal part 4)
22. (05) Friends (rehearsal part 5)
23. (06) Four Sticks
24. (07) Friends (vocal take 1)
25. (08) Friends (vocal take 2)
26. (09) Four Sticks (take 1 & 2)
27. (10) Four Sticks (take 2 continue)
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Led Zeppelin News


Mothership, a two-CD compilation of 24 remastered tracks culled from all eight Led Zeppelin studio albums is scheduled to be released on November 13th 2007 on the Atlantic/Rhino records label. The tracklist was handpicked by surviving Zep members Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones and will boast such signatures as Whole Lotta Love, Stairway to Heaven, Kashmir, Dazed and Confused and Rock and Roll. Mothership will be offered in multiple media configurations:
* Standard Package – 2-CD set.
* Deluxe Edition – 2-CD/ 1-DVD featuring a 90-minute, premiere-version of the "Led Zeppelin" DVD.
* Collector's Edition – 2-CD/1-DVD ultra-deluxe, collectible limited edition.
* Vinyl Edition – 4 LPs, high-end, audiophile quality vinyl with collectible memorabilia.
"Mothership" Track Listing:
Disc One:
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 Two:
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
And that's not all. Also scheduled to drop 11/13/07, on the Warner Home Video label, will be a new DVD version of the concert film The Song Remains the Same, in 5.1 surround sound and expanded to include all 14 songs that were performed during the 1973 Madison Square Garden shows in NYC. Among the extras are performances of Misty Mountain Hop, Over The Hills and Far Away, Celebration Day, and The Ocean; a 1976 BBC interview of Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and a Cameron Crowe radio show. TSRTS will also be offered in multiple media configurations:
* Deluxe Edition DVD.
* Deluxe Edition HD DVD and Blu-ray.
* Limited Collector's Edition – A 2-disc set which will include a collectible vintage T-shirt with original album artwork design, Soundtrack CD, lobby cards, reproductions of original premiere invites, tour schedule, and more.
"We have revisited 'The Song Remains The Same'," says Jimmy Page, "and can now offer the complete set as played at Madison Square Garden. This differs substantially from the original soundtrack released in 1976, and highlights the technical prowess of Kevin Shirley, who worked with us on 'How The West Was Won'. When it comes to 'The Song Remains The Same', the expansion of the DVD and soundtrack are as good as it gets on the Led Zeppelin wish list."
"The Song Remains The Same" track listing:
Disc One:
01. Rock And Roll
02. Celebration Day
03. Black Dog (including Bring It On Home)
*04. Over The Hills
*05. Misty Mountain Hop
*06. Since I've Been Loving You
*07. No Quarter
08. The Song Remains The Same
09. Rain Song
*10. The Ocean
Disc Two:
01. Dazed And Confused
02. Stairway To Heaven
03. Moby Dick
04. Heartbreaker
*05. Whole Lotta Love
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The Doors Live in Detroit at Cobo Hall - 1970


Short but sweet: I don't want to ruin it for you... this is the ONE... there is no other DOORS CD like this one. Now if you're a casual fan a hits collection is what you want, but if you've "felt" the Doors in your bones you need this. The stereo mix is superb, it's on par with any of the studio albums. Morrison has his rock n' roll GOD hat on and keeps the poetry reading to a minimum. The band slams away like an acid-rock version of Impulse! era Coltrane. The liner notes claim that this show was the longest Doors gig ever, the encore was over an hour long... every second is on these two CDs. Breathtaking. This is not the Rock n' Roll hall of fame 'touch me' bubblegummy Doors, this is the evil, MC-5, Stooges, Hendrix, acid-bent dirge Doors. This is the kind of thing you get and loan to that one friend you have that truly "gets it" and you say "man, you're not gonna believe this..." Really, truly, honest injun... if you dig the Doors you really gotta get this. Package, liner notes, sound, it's all 5 star material. Even if you're not a Doors fan, say you're simply a fan of experimental or psychedelic music, and you happen to be reading this... get this, there are some extended organ-guitar battles that will blow your mind wide open.
CD1
01 - Tuning
02 - Roadhouse Vamp
03 - Hello To The Cities
04 - Dead Cats, Dead Rats
05 - Break On Through (To The Other Side)
06 - Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
07 - Back Door Man
08 - Five To One
09 - Roadhouse Blues
10 - You Make Me Real
11 - Ship Of Fools
12 - When The Music's Over
13 - People Get Ready
14 - Mystery Train
15 - Away In India
16 - Crossroads
CD2
01 - Tuning
02 - Carol
03 - Light My Fire
04 - Been Down So Long
05 - Love Hides
06 - Mean Mustard Blues
07 - Carol (Reprise)
08 - Close To You
09 - I'm A King Bee
10 - Rock Me Baby/Heartbreak Hotel
11 - The End
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The Rolling Stones - Itchy Fingers 1969





























Collected together on this CD are studio outtakes from "Let it Bleed" and "Sticky Fingers" LP sessions 1969/70.The CD cover is taken from Spanish edition of "Sticky Fingers" LP from 1971.




Track list:

01.Gimme Shelter

02.Honky Tonk Woman

03.Country Honk

04.I'm Going Down

05.I Don't Know Why

06.Jivin' Sister Fanny

07.I Don't Know The Reason Why

08.You Gotta Move

09.I Got The Blues

10.Wild Horses (Version 1)

11.Wild Horses (Version 2)

12.Wild Horses (Version 3)

13.Brown Sugar (Version 1)

14.Brown Sugar (Version 2)

15.Brown Sugar (Version 3)

16.All Down The Line (Version 1)

17.All Down The Line (Version 2)

18.Cocksucker Blues (Version 1)

19.Cocksucker Blues (Version 2)

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Thursday, July 26, 2007

Revolver - The Beatles 1966 (Purple Chick)

"Revolver" is the Beatles at the top of their game including, if not especially, Lennon. The crunch of the guitars on 'She Said She Said' surpass anything that had been recorded to date, the harmonies on both the guitars and the vocals of 'And Your Bird Can Sing' still give me chills. 'I'm Only Sleeping' was also a sonic breakthrough as well as a very catchy song. 'Good Day Sunshine' is a song that you can't help but feel good after hearing. 'Taxman' was Harrison's best song to date. 'I Want To Tell You' was ahead of its time. Note that it not only was the opener in Harrison's 1989 Japan tour, but also the band's first song in the "Concert For George." Yes, Paul opted for a lot of George Martin's work on "Eleanor Rigby" and "Got To Get You Into My Life," but this is not a bad thing - it was pushing the barrier of what they had done so far. Harrison also opted for outside help on "Love You To," which in my opinion is one of the weaker moments on the album, but still serves to remind the listener of the era in which it was actually recorded. "Here There and Everywhere" is a beatiful ballad with breathtaking harmonies and melody. Then there is "Yellow Submarine," which isn't a favorite of mine, but is a favorite of many and fits the musical theme and flow of the record. "Tommorow Never Knows" is a perfect closer to this collection, though not one of Lennon's better songs (after all, the entire song is one long C chord...). Whenever asked what my favorite Beatles album is, "Revolver" is my answer. It is not only essential to any Beatles collection, it is required listening to anyone diving into 60s era music...and beyond.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Pure Pop Bliss



I’M TRYING TO AVOID a mental inventory of how many versions of Pet Sounds I own. I certainly wasn’t counting when I snatched this limited double stereo/mono edition out of the racks and clutched it to my chest with the rat-like grin of the borderline insane. Mine’s number 00516—what’s yours? The mono disc is translucent amber, the stereo crystalline emerald, like stained glass windows in the church of pop. Brian Wilson heard the voice of God, and this album is his reply. Unfortunately, opening up so completely is not without risk, and his line to the divine was later repeatedly hacked by goblins urging him to kill himself. Pet Sounds remains his finest moment, and in the view of many, the pinnacle of pop music. I’d go further. It’s the best music ever made, period.Of course, there are times when I strike a patriarchal pose at the mantel-piece and make that claim for (INSERT COOL-AS-CHEESE ALBUM HERE) but finally, I know in the deepest recesses of my hard old heart that Pet Sounds is, and will always remain, in an untouchable dimension of sheer holy gorgeousness. Resistance is futile. Even the minor criticisms leveled against it (that “Sloop John B” has no place here, that “Let’s Go Away for Awhile” needs vocals) seem to miss the point, like questioning the manicure on the Venus de Milo.The mono disc here is a newly remastered (2006) version by Mark Linett, and the difference between this and the recent Sessions mono CD is startling. Maybe some of the change is in the medium (the new vinyl sounds closer to the original 1966 vinyl than it does to the CD), but the last digital attempt now seems like a fluorescent tube compared to the massed candlelight of the analog. With a deeper and clearer sound than the original mono vinyl, this version is the new reference standard. The stereo version is the same mix as the Sessions box, the miracle mix they said couldn’t be done. As Wilson carved it in mono back in the day, the very suggestion of a stereo mix made grown men wail, yea, as the hyena, and rent their garments. And Mark Linett did carry two tablets down from the mountain, and spake, saying “Lo! I bring left and right channels!” And it was good. A lush, widescreen revelation that makes your headphones sound like cathedrals and polishes every gleaming facet of this polychromatic, humangelic surge from the proto-teen heart. It just depends on the sound you prefer. The CD is bright, hard, and clear as surgical alcohol; the vinyl is warm and rich, and sounds like real people singing and real instruments playing. The quality of the vinyl is unimpeachable, as noisy as goosedown tickling the pope’s silk shorts. Will someone tell me again what CDs are for?If one word could be chosen to encapsulate what Pet Sounds is about, it’s longing. From the longing for adulthood of “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”, through the homesickness of “Sloop John B” (perfect in context), to the yearning for lost innocence in “Caroline No”, every lyric and every chord expresses a pure, heartbreaking sense of longing that resonates in all of us. The famous barking dogs and wailing locomotive that close the album couldn’t say it better—this astonishing little clip of audio verité is the signature of genius.America was chewing gum and looking the other way when Pet Sounds was released. Public indifference must have contributed to the confusion of Smile, and a career noted for its inability to face up to maturity, either personal or artistic. This retreat into a fake innocence, with its near-fatal reliance on the “emotional gangsters” (his term) who bloated him up and sucked him dry, effectively relegated him to outsider status. The charming naiveité (sic) of much of his later work, so cooed over by indulgently protective Brianistas, is the creepy sound of a grown man sincerely faking adolescent emotions. The attempt to regain what was lost when Caroline cut her hair may be tragic in essence —you can’t go home again—but it’s disturbing in effect, as the sense of longing that illuminates Pet Sounds has been warped into something sinister. If surf music was Wilson’s Old Testament, Pet Sounds is the New, and Smile the apocrypha. Unfortunately there is no second coming. Although movingly fulfilling his past promise with the as-good-as-it-could-get 2005 version of Smile, it’s been for many years charitable to the point of negligence to expect Wilson to come “back” in any real sense. Maybe that old genius-is-pain trope is right after all, but getting voices in the head seems a harsh price to pay for putting music in our soul. Be thankful.I have only two wishes for this otherwise perfect piece of work. I wish the original cover design—an in-house paste-up by someone who’d evidently never heard the music, and maybe never even heard of Brian Wilson—had been replaced decades ago with something more appropriate. For me, the San Diego zoo (?!) photograph has always eluded the iconic status some claim for it. I mean, Wilson is strange enough, but I’d hate to peek into the head of the guy who thought goat ass was the ticket to the teen demographic. And I wish—Lordy, how I wish—that Wilson’s original true-speed version of “Caroline, No” had long ago been accepted as the scriptural version. Then we’d have world peace.

This 8-CD (!) set focuses on the"Pet Sounds" album - kind of a "Pet Sounds Sessions Deluxe".
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Monday, July 23, 2007

I Hope We Passed The Audition



Starting the series off with a bang - the 1962 Decca Records audition and Tony Sheridan recordings. The sound is pristine on this one - so much so that you can clearly hear the edit on September in the Rain.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

Summer Days and Summer Nights - in stereo!


This fantastic LP and one of my all time favorite Beach Boys albums in real stereo! Enjoy the songs and fantastic sounds. 12 songs in total.
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Batman - Original TV Soundtrack




Here is the 1966 Soundtrack to the Batman television show starring my main-man Adam West. If Shatner should rule the world, Adam West should be his right-hand-man. We need this show on DVD, or at least on TV again. I can't find it anywhere. This is a great album with awesome sound bytes.






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Led Zeppelin - Physical Rarities

A great selection of demos, rehearsals and outtakes from various sessions across the years. Includes the legendary "Jennings Farm Blues." An essential release.




Part 1 http://rapidshare.com/files/25921467/Led_Zeppelin_-_Physical_Rarities_-_a.zip

Part 2 http://rapidshare.com/files/25925215/Led_Zeppelin_-_Physical_Rarities_-_b.zip
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The Complete Festus


Here is Gunsmoke's Festus Sings 'n Talks 'bout Dodge City 'n Stuff. Believe me it's a lot funnier than you'd think it would be.

KEN KURTIS :: GUNSMOKE'S FESTUS TALKS ABOUT DODGE CITY
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