Happy Halloween! Kiss - The Lost Alive II Album - 1977!

Kiss - The Lost Alive II
1977-04-04, Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Silver Master Lost Alive II
Exc Soundboard @ 320 Kbps

Every KISS fan knows that Alive! and Alive II weren't 100% live, there was a lot of studio dubbing involved. But this album, The Lost Alive II, is truly KISS live. It was intended to be the official Alive II album but for some reason was shelved and a year later the well-known studio-polished Alive II album was released. This recording also has a different set-list than the official Alive II album. Here you get live recordings of Take Me and Do You Love Me? as well as Cold Gin and Rock N Roll All Nite, which were on the first Alive! album. Perhaps the coolest inclusions are the four demo versions of side 4. They're very close to the finals but some of the solos and background vocals are different. Enjoy and PLAY LOUD!

01 - Detroit Rock City
02 - Take Me
03 - Ladies Room
05 - Makin' Love
06 - I Want You
07 - God Of Thunder
08 - Cold Gin
09 - Beth
10 - Shout It Out Loud
11 - Rock N Roll All Nite
12 - Larger Than Life
13 - Rocket Ride
14 - All American Man
15 - Anyway You Want It
16 - Rockin' in The USA

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Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush - Live - 1978.

Mahogany Rush wasn't as huge a name in 1970s hard rock/heavy metal as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath or Deep Purple, but the power trio commanded a loyal, good-sized following and provided its share of five-star albums. One of them is this live album, which was recorded during a U.S. tour in late 1977 and came out on vinyl the following year. Mahogany knew how to burn on stage, and this excellent LP really captures the vitality of its 1970s concerts. No one who is seriously into hard rock and metal should be deprived of hearing singer/guitarist Frank Marino let loose on live versions of "Dragonfly," "Electric Reflections of War" and "The Answer." The band is equally captivating on sweaty performances of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze," Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode" and Muddy Waters' "I'm A King Bee." Some fans were disappointed because Live is a single LP instead of a two-LP set-many of the gems that Mahogany performed on stage in 1977 were omitted. The band cites space limitations as the reason, although one suspects that licensing restrictions had something to do with what was and wasn't included. But while Live may not be the perfect document of Mahogany Rush on stage in the 1970s, it is consistently rewarding and is enthusiastically recommended to hard rockers and metalheads.

On a Personal Note:
The year is 1978, and it is ten minutes before I have to be in senior year high school home room. I am out in the school
parking lot in my '68 Chev Nova, listening to music. I'm listening to Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush Live. My best friend Rob is next to me in his Plymouth Fury, blasting out the same cassette. Across the parking lot, Billy L. is also playing this
cassette at top volume. In my high school class, in my social circle, this was THE album to own. We had all gone to see Aerosmith that year and Mahogany Rush opened for them and blew them, and us, away. Aerosmith seemed so stale and formulaic after we had seen Mahogany Rush almost tear the roof off the auditorium. They were just amazing, so exciting and fast and loud and hard, savage, and cool. So then about ten of us went out the next day and bought this cassette and listened to it constantly. The music here is just awesome, starting with a blistering The Answer (which has a guitar solo that should make any guitarist weep and finishing with an astonishing version of Purple Haze. I got to see Mahogany Rush a few more times in concert and they were always great. They always embarassed the headliners. I saw them open for Nazareth and after Mahogany Rush, Nazareth basically put me to sleep. After seeing Marino stalk the stage, Nazareth just seemed so tame and timid. So, when I
listen to this CD, it just always brings back so many memories of being young, sitting or standing in a hot, crowded auditorium with my friends, watching Marino work out on his guitar as Jim Ayoub played his drums as hard and fast as he could. Purple laser lights pierce the clouds of smoke that envelope us, and we didn't even know at the time that we were having the time of our lives. Now I'm a middle aged workaholic father of two and experiences like that are probably behind me for good. But, I can still listen to this CD and snatch a little of that feeling
back again.

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Dimestore Medicine - Bob Dylan - 1965-1966 Demos and Outs.

Dimestore Medicine
Year of Release: Unkown
Label: Wild Card
Catalog Number: 65

"Collection of 1965/66 studio outtakes. Also contains Don't Look Back performances and Les Crane show including full 15+ minute interview (it's a riot). Great to have it all in once place though. ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL! "
" Xlnt package from the folks who brought us the Genuine Basement/Bootleg/Live series. Much of it is familar but it's all top notch, quite a few sound quality upgrades, especially Phantom Engineer and I Wanna Be Your Partner. A real must have, especially for electric '65-66 nuts lik emyself."

Tracklisting:
Disc One
01: Phantom Engineer (1)
02: Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence (1)
03: I Wanna Be Your Lover (2)
04: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (3)
05: If You Gotta Go, Go Now (4)
06: I Don't Want To Be Your Partner (2)
07: She's Your Lover Now (5)
08: Visions Of Johanna (6)
09: Desolation Row (7)
10: From A Buick 6 (3)
11: Jet Pilot (2)
12: Number One (3)
13: Lunatic Princess Revisited (1)
14: Midnight Train
15: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? (7)
16: Visions Of Johanna (6)
17: Tombstone Blues (3)
18: Queen Jane Approximately (3)
19: Like A Rolling Stone (1)

Disc Two
01: Subterranean Homesick Blues (4)
02: You Don't Have To Do That (4)
03: I'll Keep It With Mine (4)
04: It's All Over Now Baby Blue (4)
05: Love Minus Zero/No Limit (4)
06: She Belongs To Me (4)
07: To Ramona (4/30/65, Sheffield) (8)
08: The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (5/10/65, London) (8)
09: Love Minus Zero/No Limit (5/6/65, Newcastle) (8)
10: It Ain't Me, Babe (5/10/65, London) (8)
11: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (5/10/65, RAH, London) (8)
12: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (9)
13: It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (9)

Sources:
(1) Highway 61 sessions - NY, June 15/16 1965
(2) First Hawks session - NY, October 20, 1965
(3) Highway 61 sessions - NY, July 30, 1965
(4) BIABH sessions - NY, January 15, 1965
(5) Blonde On Blonde sessions - January 21, 1966
(6) Second Hawks session, NY - November 30, 1965
(7) Highway 61 sessions - NY, August 2, 1965
(8) Don't Look Back; UK tour, 1965
(9) Les Crane TV show, NY - February 17, 1965

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Pampered Menial - Pavlov's Dog - 1975.

Pampered Menial was the first album from Pavlov's Dog, a band produced by Murray Krugman and Sandy Pearlman, the duo behind Blue Oyster Cult. The seven men in this group are revealed in the gatefold holding "Horace," a dog, while three engravings from 1849 by artist Robert Vernon make up the front, back and inside cover. Those paintings are striking, and though the music, mostly written by vocalist David Surkamp, tries hard, it just isn't as captivating as the package which surrounds it. Surkamp sounds like a chick singer, something that wasn't quite in vogue yet — Journey and the Mickey Thomas Starship wouldn't happen for another four years, not until 1979, and even Thomas' hit with the Elvin Bishop Group was a year away, male vocalists were singing in lower registers at this point. With song titles like "Theme From Subway Sue" and "Of Once And Future Kings" the identity that a Blue Oyster Cult maintained was missing here. "Subway Sue" sounding very much like the 80s version of Mott, the band after Ian Hunter took his leave. If you thought Mott's high pitched vocals were out of place and annoying, check out Surkamp's strange warbling. The band itself isn't half bad. "Episode's mellotron, courtesy of Doug Rayburn and Siegfried Carver's violin, provide more than adequate sounds. Carver's sole composition, "Preludin," comes off as one of the best tracks, perhaps because it is an instrumental version of progressive rock that Triumvirat and early Journey were exploring, But when David Surkamp's vocals kick in again on the next tune, like Pavlov's experiments, it makes the listener want to break things, including this record. "Julia" is a mediocre lyric and ok melody, just destroyed by the vocalist who composed it. If this were an instrumental group, the music would be much easier to take. The band provides elegant rock, majestic drums by Mike Safron, additional keyboards by David Hamilton augmenting Rayburn's mellotron and flute, and solid 70s production from Krugman and Pearlman. Lead guitarist Steve Scorfina co-writes a beautiful piece with vocalist Surkamp in "Late November," but its perfection is marred by the whining sounds of the frontman. It is really sad, as there seems to be much potential here, drummer Michael Safron's "Song Dance" another highly creative number. A & R man Mark Spector had some kind of ears, what he was thinking here is anyone's guess. The solid riffs, the wonderful blend of sounds, all destroyed by David Surkamp's forced vocals which sound like some experiment by Pavlov gone awry. The Mott band from Shouting & Pointing infamy should have been put on a stage with Pavlov's Dog to see which act could clear the room first. "Fast Gun" is another solid progressive tune, but without the polish of a Brad Delp or Steve Perry, it just didn't stand a chance. Columbia Records should re-issue an instrumental version of this disc via their Legacy series, the music deserves it.

Tracklisting:
1. Julia
2. Late november
3. Song dance
4. Fast gun
5. Natchez trace
6. Theme from subway Sue
7. Episode
8. Preludin
9. Of once and future kings

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In The Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan - 1971.

I guess if there was one album to totally represent the quintessential Canterbury progressive rock album of all times one would have to look to "In The Land Of Grey & Pink". David Sinclair's wandering keyboard solo's dominate this album with it's wild collection of prog, jazz and psychy elements. Of course the most talked about CARAVAN track "Nine Feet Underground" (22 Mins) epic track adorns the second side of this masterpiece. Once again GENESIS' producer David Hitchcock was brought in to engineer this album with CARAVAN (so too was "Waterloo Lily"). What I still find amazing is that at the time of release (1971) this album did not ever reach any mentionable UK or USA chart position, unlike neighboring albums like TULL's "Aqualung" (4), SOFT MACHINE's "3rd" (18) or CRIMSON's "Larks Tongues In Aspect" (20). The funny thing is that I personally rate "In The Land Of Grey And Pink" in the same lustrous light as those other great albums. In fact I read somewhere that only last year this album finally reached gold status! Without a question the first few CARAVAN albums are killer prog rock and need to be in your collection.

Studio Album, released in 1971

Songs / Tracks Listing
1. Golf girl (5:05)
2. Winter wine (7:46)
3. Love to love you (and tonight pigs will fly) (3:06)
4. In the land of grey and pink (4:51)
5. Nine feet underground: (22:40)
- Nigel blows a tune
- Love's a friend
- Make it 76
- Dance of the seven paper hankies
- Hold grandad by the nose
- Honest I did!
- Disassociation
- 100% proof

Total Time: 43:28

Bonus tracks on remaster (2001):
6. I Don't Know Its Name (6:12)
7. Aristocracy (3:42)
8. It's Likely To Have A Name Next Week (7:48)
9. Group Girl (5:04)
10. Disassociation / 100% Proof (8:35)

Line-up / Musicians
- Richard Sinclair / bass guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals
- Pye Hastings / electric. guitars, acoustic guitar, vocals
- David Sinclair / organ, piano, mellotron, harmony vocals
- Richard Coughlan / drums, percussion
- Jimmy Hastings / flute, tenor saxophone, piccolo
- David Grinsted / cannon, bell, wind

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We Say Goodbye...Again!

The hardest part of any friendship is when it's time to say goodbye. As much as we might like things to stay the same, change is an inevitable part of life. The universe may seem huge and the rift between friends on opposite sides of the world may seem a great distance. There are many tools available with which we can communicate, but even without these tools there is a secret that only real friends know, and it is this. All the mountains and valleys in the world cannot separate friends whose hearts are as one.

You and I will meet again,
When we're least expecting it,
One day in some far off place,
I will recognize your face,
I won't say goodbye my friend,
For you and I will meet again”