This Was Pop - 2002-2007 - Go Home Productions (Mark Vidler)

My favorite music form these days is something called a "mashup." Basically it is taking three or more songs and mixing the recording together, speed correcting editing and sprinkling in a extra dose of beats, psyched out guitar, sitar, spoken rumblings and anything else that can be thrown into the stew. Often the mashup artist will select two songs of such alternative genres that the end result is something that needs to be heard to be believed!

Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions has truly defined himself as one of the finest mashup producers in the world with the high-level of production that goes into each and every single one of his mash ups. Visit his website at http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/ and go crazy. Join his mail list and he send you all the updates needed to go into a download frenzy.

This collection which includes many of his biggest "hits" is really only meant as a small taste of his productions and is by no means a definitive collection.

Go Home Productions
"This Was Pop (2002-2007)"
A 5 year bootleg retrospective

01 Making Plans For Vinyl
02 The Weather Episode
03 Work It Out With A Foxy Lady
04 Turn Out The Light Slave
05 Backstab Me One More Time
06 Ray Of Gob
07 Shannon Stone
08 Karma In The Life
09 Jacko Under Pressure
10 Paperback Believer
11 Abba & The Bunnymen
12 Rapture Riders
13 Essex Doves
14 Wrapped Detective
15 Girl Wants (To Say Goodbye To) Rock & Roll
16 Rock In Black
17 Velvet Sugar
18 Bus Stop Runner
19 Time Outside
20 Nightbeatle

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Go Home Productions "Supreme Evil' video on Youtube:
A few weeks ago Go Home Productions decided to put together a video for the ELO vs Supremes vs Michael Jackson bootleg 'Supreme Evil'.There's quite a few GHP tracks on Youtube if you do a quick search. Have fun.

Rewind - Johnny Rivers - 1967

Baby I Need Your Lovin'
Rosecrans Boulevard
Carpet Man
Tunesmith
Sweet Smiling Children
Do What You Gotta' Do
Tracks Of My Tears
For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
The Eleventh Song
It'll Never Happen Again
Sidewalk Song / 27th Street

The one album that has eluded me for years! This one I inexplicably missed throughout both my time during the vinyl and cd ages. I offer no rational explanation for ignoring what was without a doubt one of JR's finest releases...ever! At long last I am glad to be able to offer this final piece here on my blog site.

With a big, clean production, and quality L.A. session musicians, Rewind is a great collection of blue-eyed soul and rock. The album's two Motown covers, "Baby I Need Your Loving" and "Tracks of My Tears," are more similar to tributes than attempts to outshine the originals. Other standouts include "Tunesmith" and "do What You Gotta Do." The most interesting track would have to be "Sidewalk Song/27th Street," which is pretty mediocre as a song, but are the bizarre sound clips possibly attacking commercialism? No one really knows.

Along with "Changes" and "Realization," these three stellar albums together make an awesome tripartite of California rock and blue eyed soul.

Produced by Lou Adler, arranged by Jimmy Webb, featuring Joe Osborne on bass, Larry Knechtel on piano, and Hal Blaine on drums, "Rewind" is a solid, tight recording, with excellent production and inventive arrangements provided by songwriter Jim Webb.

I am grateful to my good friend whiteray for helping me add the final piece to the puzzle.

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Road - Johnny Rivers - 1974

Lights On The Highway
Wait A Minute
Geronimo's Cadillac
I Like Your Music
Sitting In Limbo
Six Days On The Road
See You Then
A Good Love Is Like A Good Song
Artists And Poets
Breath

Between 1966 and 1971, Johnny Rivers issued an extraordinary string of albums, starting with Changes and ending with Home Grown. Scroll down and you will read my thoughts and those great releases. To my mind, 1974’s Road fits into that sequence, even though there were a few intervening albums that were of a different mindset and sense. This album escaped me at the time and I only recently received this release from whiteray whom all thanks must go to.
Complete your collection and get it now.

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Broken English - Marianne Faithful - 1979

Marianne Faithfull's "Broken English" was released in 1979 to a musical world suffering from a disco hangover while riding a punk tidal wave. Marianne, herself, was an under-rated pop songstress who had successes in the sixties. But, the seventies were not kind to her, personally and professionally, and what music she did produce tended to be heard by only the most die-hard of fans. As such, few really expected much from Marianne Faithfull, musically. But, boy did she deliver the goods with "Broken English". Critically acclaimed as a classic and a true "masterpiece", "Broken English" took the musical world by storm. Based in part on the glowing reviews of the time and my innate curious nature, I did what I never do - I went out and bought the record without ever hearing a single note of music from it. Regrets? I should say not!!!

Twenty years later, "Broken English" is still one of my all-time favorites and I play it often (but with the lights on!). I could never tire of it as it is a timeless piece of music that is as fresh and vital today as it was when it was released twenty years ago.

What sets this record apart is the masterful blending of excellent songs, excellent musical support, excellent production and last, but certainly not least, the raw, unique and soulful voice of Marianne Faithfull. Her voice is an art form in and of itself. From the opening chords of the wonderful title song "Broken English" to the final refrains of the naughty but supurb "Why'D Ya Do It", this record takes you on a wild ride that leaves you breathless and wanting for more. Though there is not a bad song on the record, my personal favorites, aside from the two already mentioned, include the haunting "Witches Song", "Guilt", "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", and her wonderful version of John Lennon's "Working Class Hero". One listen and I was hooked, a true fan for life of the music and artistry of Marianne Faithfull. Considering buying "Broken English"? Do as I did - buy it without even listening to a single note from it. It is sure to make you a fan for life too! Did she rest on her laurels with "Broken English"? No! Check her other music as well as she continued to put out some really excellent music to the present day. Then, go back and check out her older pop music and you will see why I say she was under-rated. That she was voted 25th by her peers on the list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, as produced by VH1, is no fluke. Marianne Faithfull is certainly one of the greatest musical stylists ever and "Broken English" is certainly her "masterpiece".

Stand Back - April Wine - 1975

Canadian band delivered April Wine delivered a number of solid albums throughout the seventies and this one was definitely one of the very best! "Stand Back" made up a large part of the soundtrack to my high school days in the wild wooley mid seventies.

After a string of inconsistent albums dotted with promising tracks, April Wine got it together in the album format on 1975's Stand Back. This album found the group hitting a workable balance between pop songcraft and hard rock guitar power and effectively distilling it into a series of tight songs that rock out as they deliver pop hooks a-plenty. It starts on an up note thanks to "Oowatanite," an effectively arranged rocker featuring a fire-alarm sound effect. It became a hit in the band's native Canada and quickly became a permanent fixture in the band's live set list. Other potent tracks on Stand Back include "Cum Hear the Band," a languid but guitar-laden track about the joys of seeing a band live with an effective sing-along hook in its chorus, and "Victim of Love," a steamy rocker that puts forth its tale of unrequited love with plenty of scorching guitar work. Stand Back also played up Myles Goodwyn's penchant for the power ballad on "I Wouldn't Want to Lose Your Love" and "Tonite Is a Wonderful Time to Fall in Love," two memorable songs that effectively underscored their delicate ballad melodies with layers of restrained but powerful electric guitar. This effective combination of slickness and muscle made the songs big hits at home and paved the way for later international hits like "Just Between You and Me." Elsewhere, the band experiments with blending other genres into their pop/rock sound with mixed results: "Slow Poke" is a lascivious novelty tune that runs on a little too long for its own good and the funk-rock attempt "Baby Done Got Some Soul" is as awkward as its title suggests. Despite these occasional lapses, Stand Back remains a solid and likable album that frequently tosses out unexpected surprises (the lovely Beach Boys-style vocal harmony breaks that suddenly pop up in the otherwise hard-rocking "Highway Hard Run"). All in all, Stand Back is one of April Wine's finest achievements in album form and a sure bet for anyone who enjoys 1970s arena rock at its sharpest

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Turn on the light show and play loud!

Slim Slo Slider / Homegrown - Johnny Rivers - 1970 / 1971

My final frenzy into the career of Johnny Rivers includes two latter day releases that encapsulate the California singer - songwriter persona beautifully. These two albums together make such an excellent pair, that this actually could very well be a double album. Each disc compliments the other so much that, having owned this for many years, I can't imagine owning one without the other. If (like me) you prefer J.R.'s later work like Rewind and Realization, this is a must-have. It includes some of his most beautiful covers ever - superbly sung & produced - as well as his own classic "Permanent Change." My favorites are "Brass Buttons", "Apple Tree" (both by Gram Parsons), "Enemies & Friends", "Wrote a Song for Everyone" (GREAT version), "Muddy River", "Moving to the Country" and, of course, "Into the Mystic". Sure, it's nice to have the original artists' versions - but I miss the days when an incredible, soulful singer like J.R. could work his magic and make these terrific songs his own.

First up is Slim Slo Slider, a 1970 release that continued Rivers’ string of solid albums that peaked with 1968’s Realization (which I consider one of the great forgotten albums of the rock era). Recording a mix of his own material and songs from some of the great writers and performers of the era, Rivers laid down an aural canvas of life in California – and to some degree in the entire U.S. – as the 1960s turned into the 1970s. From Changes in 1966 through Rewind (1967), Realization (1968) and Slim Slo Slider (1970) and culminating in 1971’s Home Grown, Rivers kept up an astounding level of quality, and each of those albums is worth seeking out. (He continued to record, of course, but his succeeding albums were not quite as powerful.)

Even if you are not a big J.R. fan but love "singer/songwriter" songs - here you'll find songs by Jackson Browne, James Taylor, John Fogerty, Van Morrison, Gram Parsons & more. I wish J.R. had made twenty more albums like these two!

Slim Slo Slider - 1970

1. Slim Slo Slider (Prologue)
2. Wrote a Song for Everyone
3. Muddy River
4. Rainy Night in Georgia
5. Brass Buttons
6. Glory Train
7. Jesus Is a Soul Man
8. Apple Tree
9. Into the Mystic
10. Ressurrection
11. Enemies and Friends
12. Slim Slo Slider

Homegrown - 1971

1. Moving to the Country
2. My New Life
3. Our Lady of the Well
4. Look at the Sun
5. Rock Me on the Water
6. Song for Michael
7. Permanent Change
8. People Get Ready
9. So Far Away
10. Fire and Rain
11. Think His Name

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Realization - Johnny Rivers - 1968

Not a concept album, but a song cycle depicting life in southern California in the late '60s, Realization is a fine cycle to catch a ride on. It's also a serious surprise -- when psychedelia reared its head in 1967, the results were frequently disastrous for those performers who'd been specializing in straight-ahead rock & roll, and few had rocked harder or more straight-ahead than Johnny Rivers. Instead of jumping on a bandwagon that had nothing to do with where he was musically, he hijacked the sounds of psychedelic rock -- much as the Temptations did at Motown -- and took it where he was going. Acting as his own producer for the first time, Rivers opened up a slightly gentler side to his work that's equally valid and a lot more interesting, if not quite as exciting as his rock & roll classics. After a few sonic digressions as a lead-in, "Hey Joe" gets going, carrying listeners into Rivers' gorgeous rendition of James Hendricks' "Look to Your Soul." His own achingly beautiful "The Way We Live" follows, and then comes Hendricks' "Summer Rain," which turned into Rivers' last big hit of the 1960s. And then he has the temerity to take "A Whiter Shade of Pale" and make it prettier and harder -- but less spacy -- than the Procol Harum original; from there he plunges into blue-eyed soul on "Brother, Where Are You." The surprises continue right through to the rather delicate, introspective reading of "Positively Fourth Street" at the close, Rivers succeeding in evoking a vast array of thoughts and emotions. For his trouble, helped by the two hits, he was rewarded with a Top Five charting album, and one that has continued to find new admirers across the decades.

Tracks
Side One:

Hey Joe
Look To Your Soul
The Way We Live
Summer Rain
Whiter Shade of Pale

Tracks
Side Two:

Brother
Where Are You
Something Strange
What’s The Difference
Going Back To Big Sur
Positively 4th Street

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Changes - Johnny Rivers - 1967

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. Johnny Rivers took a dramatic step during the late '60s, embracing adult standards and recording several Jimmy Webb compositions. These were solemn, literate tales of woe, anguish and turmoil requiring lyric interpretation and careful vocal pacing. They were also heavily produced numbers with string sections and background vocalists. The change didn't hurt Rivers' career; indeed, it won him new critical attention as a serious ballad stylist and landed him some hits. This single-disc collection covers 23 songs from two LPs, Changes and Rewind. Besides the big hit covers "Tracks of My Tears" and "Baby, I Need Your Loving," there is arguably his greatest ballad, "Poor Side of Town." While not everything worked, this material showed another side of Johnny Rivers and expanded his popularity.

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
Taste Of Honey
Day's Of Wine And Roses
California Dreamin'
Do You Want To Dance?
Cast Your Fate To The Wind
Poor Side Of Town
If I Were A Carpenter
Softly As I Leave You
Shadow Of Your Smile
Strangers In The Night
Getting Ready For Tomorrow

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...And I Know You Wanna Dance / Whiskey a Go Go Revisited - Johnny Rivers - 1966 / 1967

1. The Snake (3:04)
2. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (3:04)
3. You Must Believe (3:20)
4. Uptight (Everything's Alright) (3:06)
5. Respect (1:46)
6. In the Midnight Hour (2:32)
7. Secret Agent Man (From the CBS TV Show "Secret Agent") (3:06)
8. Every Day I Have to Cry (2:42) Composed by Arthur Alexander
9. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (5:59)
10. Foolkiller (3:23)
11. Run for Your Life (2:29)
12. You Dig (6:27)
13. C.C. Rider/Got My Mojo Working (5:04)
14. Sunny (2:27) Composed by Bobby Hebb
15. It's Too Late (3:45) Composed by Bobby Goldsboro
16. A Hard Day's Night (2:59)
17. When a Man Loves a Woman (4:00)
18. John Lee Hooker (15:55)

This posting pairs up two of the later LPs in the "Live Whiskey"series, 1966's And I Know You Wanna Dance and 1967's Whisky a Go-Go Revisited. Both albums play to Rivers' strengths as a tough, no-nonsense guitar player and passionate blue-eyed soul singer who knew how to rock the house and get the crowd up on its feet, though the 12 months that separated the two sets proved significant. And I Know You Wanna Dance is dominated by covers of RB hits of the day, ranging from Arthur Alexander's "Every Day I Have to Cry" to Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)," with Rivers and his band (including session greats Mickey Jones and Larry Knetchel) locked in tight on the tunes. The first half of Whisky a Go-Go Revisited follows a similar form, but side two was devoted to a 15-minute jam on "John Lee Hooker," and the stretched-out length of the performance and the call-and-response interplay between Rivers and Knetchel suggests they were aware of what was going on in the rock ballrooms in San Francisco, and if it wasn't quite Johnny's thing, it was certainly having its influence (and would also make its presence felt on his next few studio albums, though the guy never developed much of a taste for the trippy stuff). Fine listening, and good rockin' fun from an artist deserving of greater respect.

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Live At The Whiskey a Go Go / Here We a Go Go Again! - Johnny Rivers - 1964.

I first heard the latter of this compilation (Here We A-Go-Go Again)at a friends place back in 1969. His mom had the record and everytime I'd visit, she would let me blare the stereo as long as I'd have Johnny Rivers playing. Some years later I bought both albums for my own and still listen to them today although "Here We A-Go-GO Again" gets the nod. Johnnys crisp guitar and harmonica playing along with Jerry Rubins drums and Joe Osbournes bass gave this trio a great sound. Great songs like Chuck Berrys "Maybelline" and Roger Millers "Dang Me" were spun out on Johnnys southern style of Rockabilly Blues. "High Heal Sneakers" has a great bottom line rhythym with Johnnys almost inert vocal style.

The album is mostly all cover tunes but I really appreciated the way Rivers kept the tempo for the audience who on more than one occasion included themselves in on the show. It's a real simple concept with a small venue armed with talented musicians playing to a very receptive crowd. I still play these songs and although not a considered a classic by any means, it still remains one of my favorites.

1. Memphis
2. It Wouldn't Happen With Me
3. Oh, Lonesome Me
4. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
5. Whiskey A-Go-Go
6. Walking the Dog
7. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
8. You Can Have Her (I Don't Want Her)
9. Multiplication
10. Bamba/Twist & Shout
11. Maybellene
12. Dang Me
13. Hello Josephine
14. Hi-Heel Sneakers
15. Can't Buy Me Love
16. I've Got a Woman
17. Baby, What You Want Me to Do
18. Midnight Special
19. Roll over Beethoven
20. Walk Myself on Home
21. Johnny B. Goode
22. Whole Lotta Shakin' Going On

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Enjoy. And play loud!

I Left My Heart in Pittsburgh - Heart - 1978

I have always believed there are two distinct sides to the band Heart. One is the folky kinda tunes that require intense acoustic guitar workouts and the other side are the Led Zeppelin wannabes that Heart often aspires to in concert.

What I like about this set is that both sides of Heart are showcased here on a most excellent sounding live show!

Look at that Setlist!
Not a bad song played here, AND the sound quality is Excellent!
You Want A Fine 70s Era HEART Show - Go For It!

Just a killer concert - all the way through!
I could take You through song by song...
BUT, You know these songs...
AND, I'd just say, "Great Song. Played Excellently!"
This IS Headphone-Wearin'-Leave'Me-The-Hell-Alone-Can't-Ya-See-I'm-Listenin'-Here MUSIC!

Grab it and listen to both sides of Heart!

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Play it loud and Enjoy.

Roger The Engineer (Great UK album) - The Yardbirds 1966

Anyone who knows me understands what a great admiration I have for the music of The Yardbirds and the incredible legacy they left behind. In their heyday they only released a small handful of albums and then one stellar comeback album in 2005 (Birdland - RUN and check it out!)

The Yardbirds are an English rock band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page. A blues-based band whose sound evolved into experimental pop rock, they had a string of hits including “For Your Love”, “Over, Under, Sideways, Down” and “Heart Full Of Soul”. They were a crucial link between British R&B and psychedelia.

The Yardbirds were pioneers in almost every guitar innovation of the '60s: fuzz tone, feedback, distortion, improved amplification, and were one of the first to put an emphasis on complex lead guitar parts and experimentation.

The bulk of the band's conceptual ideas, as well as their songwriting, came from the quartet of singer Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja, and bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith, all of whom co-wrote the Yardbird's original hits and constituted the core of the group.

Roger the Engineer (original title: Yardbirds, US, German, and French title: Over Under Sideways Down) is an album by The Yardbirds, released in 1966. It was produced by bassist Paul Samwell-Smith and Simon Napier-Bell. It was the only Yardbirds album with all originally-written material. Although the record was officially titled The Yardbirds, it has since been referred to, first colloquially, then semi-officially, as Roger the Engineer, a title stemming from the drawing on its front cover, a cartoon of the record's audio engineer Roger Cameron by band member Chris Dreja. Due to the influence of Jeff Beck's experimentation with guitar distortion, the album is considered a precursor to heavy metal.

The original American versions of this album (issued with a completely different album cover and entitled "Over Under Sideways Down") omitted the songs "The Nazz Are Blue" and "Rack My Mind" and are mixed differently to the British editions. Regardless, record collectors have sought out both the mono (LN 24210) and stereo (BN 26210) versions since several tracks are featured with slight differences in the mixes (see US album listing below). Epic's 1983 reissue (simply entitled The Yardbirds) featured the original UK album cover, the two missing tracks, duplication of the British mixing, and two additional tracks, the 1966 single "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" b/w "Psycho Daisies", both featuring Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page.

Grab this mono/stereo release while you can and celebrate the music of The Yardbirds!

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Happy New Year 2008

Hello Everyone. Our vacation at Kaanapali Beach in Maui was absolutely fantastic! Words cannot adequately describe the beauty and splendor of this beautiful island.

Anyways we are fit, tanned and looking forward to checking out some great music in the new year.