Led Zeppelin Knebworth 1979 (Both Shows)

After a 2 year layoff Led Zeppelin emerged with a new record, In Through the Out Door.  The 2 years had not been kind to Zeppeling which included the death of the son of Robert Plant, Page's heroin addiction, and a general consensus that time was passing them by.  Still hugely popular, they were fresh off of 2 warm up gigs, which were generally well received by fans and press, in Copenhagen.  That said, Knebworth was a whole nother animal with crowds expected well above 100,000 at each of the shows.  In reality, there almost 200,000 at the first one on 8/9 and well over 100,000 at the 8/11 performance.

These 2 soundboards still constitute a great historical document of one of the biggest bands in rock history. 

Aug. 4 Setlist

 1.The Song Remains the Same 
2.Celebration Day 
3.Black Dog 
4.Nobody's Fault But Mine 
5.Over the Hills and Far Away 
6.Misty Mountain Hop 
7.Since I've Been Loving You 
8.No Quarter 
9.Ten Years Gone 
10.Hot Dog 
11.The Rain Song 
12.White Summer/Black Mountain Side 
13.Kashmir 
14.Trampled Under Foot 
15.Sick Again 
16.Achilles Last Stand 
17.In the Evening 
18.Stairway to Heaven 
Encore:
19.Rock and Roll 
Encore 2:
20.Whole Lotta Love 
Encore 3:
21.Heartbreaker 

Aug 11 Setlist

1.The Song Remains the Same 
2.Celebration Day 
3.Black Dog 
4.Nobody's Fault But Mine 
5.Over the Hills and Far Away 
6.Misty Mountain Hop 
7.Since I've Been Loving You 
8.No Quarter 
9.Hot Dog 
10.The Rain Song 
11.White Summer/Black Mountain Side 
12.Kashmir 
13.Trampled Under Foot 
14.Sick Again 
15.Achilles Last Stand 
16.Guitar Solo 
17.In the Evening 
18.Stairway to Heaven 
Encore:
19.Rock and Roll 
Encore 2:
20.Whole Lotta Love 
21.Communication Breakdown 


Download notes:

1.  the show can be gotten from here
2.  The Zip file is almost 400mb in size
3.  The zip file contains 6 discs with meta data

FREE Sunderland and Croydon 1970

 Most FREE fans would agree that 1970 was the band's pinnacle because after a flurry of releases they released their opus Fire and Water which included their mega-hit All Right Now.  While touring relentlessly would cost them dearly their performances were drawing larger crowds and a devoted legion of fans.  1970 ended with the band splitting primarily because of guitarist Paul Kossoff's heroin addiction and road exhaustion.  Before the year was over they made appearances at the now famous 1970 Isle of Wight festival along side such groups The Who, The Doors, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Santana, and The Miles Davis Group.

Island Records were very supportive of the band and remain that way to this day.  Many of the shows from the 1970 were recorded and have been released in shortened versions on such releases as the Live album.  This download is a collection of all of the unreleased tracks from that album and constitute the bulk of what Island has in their vaults from the Sunderland and Croydon shows.  I hope you enjoy the show

FREE-Radiohuset Stockholm, Swe 12/12/70

FREE were always about the blues.  Every note, every lyric, dripped the passion that all four members felt about their craft.  Most people know the members of FREE for what they did AFTER they left this amazing band.  Paul Rodgers left free with drummer Simon Kirke to form Bad Company.  The guitar genius, and troubled soul, Paul Kossoff left to form Backstreet Crawler.  Bassist Andy Frasier sort of vanished.  Rock started to drift into extreme excess on all levels starting about 1970 with signs of impeding disaster with the deaths of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, and Janis Joplin.  It would only be a few years later that heroin would take the life of Paul Kossoff. 

But, in 1970 FREE were riding high on the release of the one album that has endured to this day, Fire and Water with the their biggest hit All Right Now is still considered a masterpiece.  Part of the tour for the record included quite a few radio shows including this one in Sweden.  I hope you'll enjoy the show.   Please download from this location here

The Rolling Stones New Jersey 1981

The world tour that spanned the globe for a 2 year period, spanning 1981 and 1982, was very notable for The Stones on many levels.  Firstly, instead of using a patchwork of promoters the band selected Bill Graham Presents to promote the tour and the voice of the late impresario himself is heard every night introducing the band.... 'Thank you for waiting New Jersey, would you welcome, please.... The Rolling Stones....' and off they went.  Secondly, no band had ever taken on a corporate sponsor to defer the huge cost of carting around the massive amount of equipment that constitutes a Stones tour....  Jovan, the cosmetics maker, was selected and their logos were affixed and included in much of the promotion material that went out such as tickets, posters, etc.

Sadly, this would be the final tour for Ian Stewart.  He'd been with the band as the 6th stone, manager, and keyboard player from their early days at the Crawdaddy Club.  By the time the band toured again in 1989 he would die of cancer.

During this tour there would be many guest appearances by the likes of Tina Turner (she appeared in these Jersey shows) and Mick Taylor who played for an entire show in Kansas City.  The band had made the decision that the late film director Has Ashby would be filming every night as there were plans for releasing a full length concert film later titled Let's Spend the Night Together and tracks would be assembled for vinyl release called 'Still Life (An American Concert) which drew material from various nights of the tour.... The second vinyl disc, in an Australia only release, was taken entirely from the Sun Devil Stadium show in Phoenix.

For collectors like myself this means there are soundboard recordings for every night of the tour.  I have 17 and in many cases they are multi-night runs in New Jersey, Kansas City, Chicago, and Seattle.

I've always been a huge Stones fan and this release is my way of celebrating 50 years!

All 3 shows are in a single file... be patient on the download here


Eric

The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down... the 1974 Tour Anthology

I can't say I remember a whole lot about 1974 ...  Nixon was gone.  Ford inherited an unpopular war raging in Laos and Cambodia.  The nation was in recession and people felt, what some people might describe, a hangover from the '60s.  Music was what had been for some time....  deeply divided along socio and economic lines.  Somewhere in there, Bob Dylan continued to be an inspiration and was making some of the finest music of his career during his collaboration with Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Richard Manuel who were simply known as The Band.  For them, it had been quite a journey from humble beginnings in the US and Canada and as a backup band, known then as Hawks for outlaw singer Ronnie Hawkins.  Woodstock, NY became a haven for Dylan, joined by most of the members of the band following Dylan's now famous motorcycle accident, where over a period of time they laid down what for what became known as The Basement tapes.  The Band would go on to record 2 incredibly important records, The Band and Songs from the Big Pink (a former whorehouse), and become an important fixture in American roots music.  By 1974 Dylan and The Band were again joined and recorded the somewhat luke warmly received Planet Waves before launching a huge tour.

What I am presenting for your pleasure what became known in trading circles as the 1974 Tour Anthology.  A collection of the best recordings of every available song played by them from various locations.

Disc 1

1. Stage Announcements [Bill Graham] (Ann Arbor, 2/2)
2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (Uniondale, 1/29)
3. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (Uniondale, 1/28)
4. Tough Mama (Chicago, 1/4)
5. It Ain't Me, Babe (Fort Worth, 1/25)
6. One Too Many Mornings (Largo, 1/16)
7. I Don't Believe You (Montreal, 1/11)
8. LeopardSkin PillBox Hat (Philadelphia, 1/6E)
9. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (New York City, 1/30)
10. Ballad Of A Thin Man (Toronto, 1/10)
11. Mr. Tambourine Man (Los Angeles, 2/14E)
12. Something There Is About You (Fort Worth, 1/25)
13. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Uniondale, 1/28)
14. As I Went Out One Morning (Toronto, 1/10)
15. Forever Young (Boston, 1/14A)
16. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, (Toronto, 1/9)
17. Like A Rolling Stone (Uniondale, 1/29)
18. Most Likely You Go Your Way (Montreal, 1/11)
19. Taper And Friend (Largo, 1/16)

Disc 2

1. Times They Are A-Changin' (New York City, 1/31)
2. Blowin' In The Wind (Montreal, 1/12)
3. Don't Think Twice, (Uniondale, 1/28)
4. Visions Of Johanna (Denver, 2/6A)
5. It's All Over Now Baby Blue (Uniondale, 1/29)
6. Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (St. Louis, 2/4A)
7. She Belongs To Me (Los Angeles, 2/14E)
8. Love Minus Zero (Toronto, 1/10)
9. Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll (Seattle, 2/9A)
10. Mr. Tambourine Man (Philadelphia, 1/6E)
11. Nobody 'Cept You (Philadelphia, 1/6E)
12. Wedding Song (Largo, 1/15)
13. Just Like A Woman (Fort Worth, 1/25)
14. Gates Of Eden (Montreal, 1/11)
15. Fourth Time Around (Memphis, 1/23)
16. Girl From The North Country (Philadelphia, 1/7)
17. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) (New York City, 1/30)

Disc 3

1. Stage Fright (Fort Worth, 1/25)
2. Holy Cow (Chicago, 1/3)
3. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Uniondale, 1/29)
4. When You Awake (Ann Arbor, 2/2)
5. King Harvest (Uniondale, 1/28)
6. Goin' Back To Memphis (Memphis, 1/23)
7. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever (Largo, 1/15)
8. Share Your Love [w/Dylan harmonica] (Chicago, 1/3)
9. Long Black Veil (Philadelphia, 1/6E)
10. This Wheel's On Fire (Uniondale, 1/28)
11. The Weight (Fort Worth, 1/25) * Soundboard Bonus Tracks *
12. Most Likely You Got Your Way (Los Angeles, 2/14E)
13. It Ain't Me Babe (Los Angeles, 2/14E) [Asylum mono mix]
14. Ballad Of Hollis Brown (New York City, 1/31A) [Before The Flood rough mix]
15. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) [Dylan] (Los Angeles, 2/14E)
16. Highway 61 Revisited (Seattle, 2/9E) [Before The Flood rough mix]
17. Forever Young (Los Angeles, 2/14E)
18. Blowin' In The Wind (Los Angeles, 2/14E)

Sometime in the late '90s i developed an obsession collecting Dylan shows as the result of my discovery of the now defunct trading site, dylantree.com.  If there was a Dylan show you wanted, this was the place to go.  This is an incredible set and my tribute to the late Levon Helm, Richard Manuel and Rick Danko and the indomitable spirit of The Band.  You can find it here.

Sorry for the delay......

Work has completely consumed my life over the past few months..... So, its time to get back on track with some new releases.... stay tuned for more details.....

The Ramones @ CBGB's: 3-31-77

ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR!

With those words, Dee Dee Ramone starts every one of the 19 songs in this set from the band's early days. The count-off is as much a signature of the seminal punk band as their bowl cuts, leather jackets, ripped jeans and sneakers.

I saw The Ramones four or five times in my late teens and early 20s (the mid- to late-80's). While each show was similar in terms of set list, crowd and energy, the experience never got old. The amount of energy released in the mosh pit was enough to send a rocket to Russia.

As a freshman in high school, I took guitar lessons, learning songs by Led Zeppelin, Ozzy Osbourne, the Rolling Stones and other classic rockers on my Fender Strat copy. I never got very good, so when I discovered punk rock and bands like The Ramones in my junior year of high school, I was ecstatic. Here were songs I could actually play!

Despite how easy Ramones songs are, I got a kick out of seeing guitarist Johnny Ramone messing up the intro to the band's cover of "California Sun." That's part of what made the boys from Queens so lovable: they were cartoon superheroes come to life, not all that well drawn, flawed, ugly, prone to mistakes -- just like the rest of us.

Anyway, enjoy the show!