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THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: ON THE TRAIL OF THE BUFFALO

February 9, 2010 – 4:17 am

When the Buffalo Springfield splintered, they gave seed to bands like CSNY, Poco and solo careers to Stills & Young.

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VARIOUS
Bluebird Roots [no label, 1CD]
Alternate mixes, demos and live sourced from vinyl. VG+ to Ex SBD stereo/mono.

This is from a very early bootleg vinyl release on the “Trademark of Quality” label. It suffers from many of the quality problems common to early 1970s bootleg LPs: noisy surfaces (in this case from color vinyl), low cutting level, and hissy, thin-sounding source tapes. But the musical content is superb.

The album cover was a plain yellow cover with the title “Springfield Roots”, but there was also a paper insert under the cellophane which had the title as “Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird Roots”. I have made one change to the contents. Since the mono mix of Buffalo Springfield’s Baby Don’t Scold Me (featured on the original Trademark of Quality LP) was later released on CD officially, I have inserted the unavailable-on-CD stereo mix of the song, taken from my late 1966 stereo first pressing of the group’s ATCO debut album. In January 1967, the album was reissued, omitting Baby Don’t Scold Me and adding the group’s hit, For What It’s Worth.

The Poco selections are early demos which predate the EPIC label recordings. Interestingly, My Kind of Love was a re-make of a (then) unreleased 1966 Buffalo Springfield song, though, naturally, the Poco version has a stronger country music flavor. - Philip Cohen

NOTE: With the exception of Baby Don’t Scold Me, none has been officially released. Baby Don’t Scold Me in its stereo mix has never been issued on CD and the vinyl is long out-of-print.

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Track 01. Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield (13.2MB)
(Unreleased mono mix of the long version. This has added overdubbed guitar, probably by Neil Young, which is not included in the stereo mix.)
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Track 02. Baby Don’t Scold Me - Buffalo Springfield (4.3MB)
(Stereo Mix. Never released on CD.)
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Track 03. Hard Times -  Poco (demo) (5.1MB)
Track 04. My Kind of Love - Poco (demo) (3.6MB)
Track 05. 49 Bye Byes - Stephen Stills (3.6MB)
(demo, probably with Stills on all instruments.)
Track 06. So Begins the Task Do For The Others - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Live) (5.7MB)
Track 07. Bluebird Revisited - Stephen Stills (Live) (5.4MB)
Track 08. Down By The River - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Live) (19.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)

The 2001 Buffalo Springfield 4 disc boxset is out-of-print. But the single disc Retrospective is still in print. Assembled after the band split, it offers a nice introduction to the band’s first three albums. Click on the link to order the Buffalo Springfield album.

For a recent Poco compilation, Hip-O Records has The Ultimate Collection. Click on the link to order the album.

So Far by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young was an early compilation and remains an excellent overview of their popular years at the start of the ’70s. Click on the link to order the album.

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THE WHO - SUPERBOWL HALFTIME SHOW 2010

February 8, 2010 – 9:17 am

THE WHO
Superbowl Halftime Show 2010
Live at the Sun Life Stadium, Miami, FL, February 7, 2010. Very good digital broadcast.

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend played a nearly 12-minute set that included these Who classics: Pinball Wizard; Baba O’Reilly; Teenage Wasteland; Who Are You?; See Me, Feel Me and Won’t Get Fooled Again.

For those who aren’t old enough to know better, it’s the CSI themes come alive!

Thanks to univonc for sharing the track on the Dime site.

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Track 01. The Who Medley (17.0MB)
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WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMED

February 8, 2010 – 4:04 am

This just appeared. An audience recording of the Buffalo Springfield at Whittier High School in ‘68.

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BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
The TRUE Whittier High School* Tape [no label, 1CD]
Live at Whittier High School Auditorium, California, January 20, 1968. Good audience stereo.

This tape came about when students of the class of ‘68 at Whittier High had a reunion in 2008, 40 years later. Apparently, one of them had brought his Sony TC-200 stereo tape recorder and plunked it on the stage back in ‘68 while the Buffalo Springfield were playing. Read all about it here
http://www.radiofreeolga.com/RadioFreeOlga/Springfield.html

The lineage of this recording:
Sony mics > TC-200 stereo reel-to-reel (master is lost) > Revox B77 reel-to-reel > Tascam DA38 (pitch correction, EQ’ing, etc.) > CD > AIFF > xACT v1.62 > FLAC (no SBEs)

The tape has since surfaced after the class reunion and puts in doubt decades-old claims that the Stampede bootleg had portions of the Whittier performance.

It’s a pretty dynamic show with lots of guitar soloing. Good Time Boy has either Young or Stills soloing a la Hendrix. And that’s clearly Neil Young’s guitarworks on Mr Soul. We also get the long version of Stills’ Bluebird with the extended jams.

It sounds like everyone was having fun yet this is the version of the band without original member Bruce Palmer, replaced on bass by Jim Messina. The Long Beach show on May 5 was the last time the Buffalo Springfield played live. Thanks to “peanut” for setting this one free at Hunger City.
- The Little Chicken

CAUTION: This is not very good quality. The taper had his recorder on stage and it appears to pick up clearly one of the three guitarists. We’ll take a guess, it’s Stephen Still’s. The rest of the band, including the vocals, are in the background. Nonetheless, there are no dropouts or artifacts and is an interesting listen. Shared for fans.

*Whittier High is the alma mater of Richard Nixon, who graduated in 1930.

This is what acorn99 posted on the internet:

It may be of interest for you to know that this tape has been in circulation for many years - but identified as from the Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco, December 21 - 23, 1967. If there was any evidence to substantiate that venue and date it is lost in the sands of time. Given the lineage presented… it seems almost certain that this is actually from Whittier High. Adding to the general confusion the tape that was circulating as Whittier High (tracks found on Stampede and California Daze) is in fact from the Teen & Twenty Club, Huntington Beach, August 11, 1967 - easily identified because Neil Young is not present.

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Track 01. On The Way Home (Richie Furay sings) (3.3MB)
Track 02. Good Time Boy (Dewey Martin sings?) (5.5MB)
Track 03. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing (Richie Furay sings) (6.1MB)
Track 04. Mr. Soul (Neil Young sings) (4.5MB)
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Track 05. A Child’s Claim To Fame (Richie Furay sings) (4.8MB)
Track 06. For What It’s Worth (Stephen Stills sings) (5.1MB)
Track 07. Bluebird (Stephen Stills sings) (12.8MB)
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The opening song was apparently Rock & Roll Woman (not recorded).

Lineup:
Stephen Stills - lead guitar, vocals
Neil Young - lead guitar, vocals
Richie Furay - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jim Messina - bass
Dewey Martin - drums, vocals

The Whittier concert has long been associated with the bootleg called Stampede. Apparently nothing on Stampede is from the Whittier show. Even the date listed, 1967, is wrong.

The 2001 Buffalo Springfield 4 disc boxset is out-of-print. But the single disc Retrospective is still in print. Assembled after the band split, it offers a nice introduction to the band’s first three albums. Click on the link to order the Buffalo Springfield album.

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FRANK ZAPPA - AMSTERDAM 1968

February 7, 2010 – 4:10 am

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FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS
Amsterdam 1968 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 20, 1968. Good to very good audience recording?

Listening to and watching Frank Zappa live (for those fortunate enough) is only half the story to Zappa’s mastery. How he structures or puts together his songs is equally important. It’s already tough enough to juggle with the usual four-piece but in Zappa’s lineups, the band is more like an orchestra and how he cuts up the music for the players is a fascinating study.

In March 1968, Zappa released We’re Only In It For The Money, an album that’s commonly seen as the peak of the group’s late 1960s work. But when he went on tour in Europe later that year, he didn’t really push the album. Instead of presenting any of the satirical slant of the album, Zappa and the Mothers were only too glad to have what can be said to be a really extended jam session [but what groove!], with many fans praising Zappa’s guitar playing.

But for Zappa, who was already working with tape edits for his records, it was a question of how to reproduce the complexity of the record on stage. Neil Slaven, in Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa, reported what Zappa said: “I was interested in the juxtaposition of various musical textures - pieces of recordings from different times - one from now, one from a few years ago. At the same time, I got interested in the editing technique. All the albums were heavily edited to make abrupt changes, then we were faced with the problem of duplicating that on stage. So I devised the hand signals that would allow things to change, and so we rehearsed in such a way that it was a question of… keep your eyes open for a signal every once in a while… so that when it comes, it will sound just like an edit on stage.”

A two-minute extract (?) of Dog Breath is found on Electric Aunt Jemima of Zappa’s long-out-of-print Beat The Boots II boxset. Here is the complete 31-minute version. Another track from the Amsterdam show on Electric Aunt Jemina is Pound for a Brown (On the Bus) but that’s not on the CD.

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Track 01. Jam (incl Smoke Gets In Your Eyes) [7:26] (10.2MB)
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Track 02. Help I’m A Rock/Transylvania Boogie/Drum Duet [20:23] (28.6MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 03. Jam [10:46] (14.7MB)
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Track 04. Dog Breath [31:49] (44.7MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 05. The String Quartet [1:58] (2.7MB)
Track 06. Gas Mask [1:47] (2.4MB)
Track 07. Orange County Lumber Truck Medley (cut off) [0:34] (804k)

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THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: NEIL YOUNG - ATTACK OF THE BONUS TRACKS

February 4, 2010 – 12:07 pm

Long may you run and Young wasn’t joking.

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NEIL YOUNG
Attack Of The Bonus Tracks [no label, 3CD]
Outtakes, demos, live recordings from 1965 to 1989. Quality varies from good to excellent stereo.

This 3-CD set brings together the bonus tracks only from six obsolete American CD-R bootlegs. The discs were expanded editions of “Time Fades Away”, “On The Beach”, “American Stars & Bars”, “Hawks & Doves”,”Re-Ac-Tor” and “Eldorado”.

“Eldorado” was already available officially (albeit only in Japan), “On The Beach”, “American Stars & Bars”,”Hawks & Doves” & Re-Ac-Tor” were later released officially, and there are now superior bootlegs of “Time Fades Away”. The sound quality of most of these tracks is not especially good, but it is always at least listenable. This is the one-stop destination to get all of these tracks without searching for six otherwise now worthless discs. - Philip Cohen

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Myself, I’ve not come across the 2CD expanded editions Cohen mentions although I have seen bootleg pairings of Time Fades Away and the soundtrack to Where The Buffalo Roams and On The Beach with American Stars ‘n Bars. Neither had the bonus tracks to be found here.

The nice ones are on CD2 and 3. The outtakes from the Old Ways album, that rare acetate with Bobby Charles, You’ll Always Live Inside Me. Never heard of this till now. It comes from Charles’ unreleased second album recorded for Bearsville in 1977. Young sings harmony.

Cohen has also generously included his own rarity of If You Got Love taken from a Netherlands test pressing of Trans (?). This song first appeared as one of the tracks for 1982’s Trans album but disappeared just as casually. Young has explained he thought If You Got Love was “wimpy”. The song got as far as first pressings of the Trans cover art where it was listed as track 2 of side 1.

CD3 opens with three more demos from the Trans session in 1982. Then fast forward to 1986 and you get outtakes of Weight Of The World, Hanging On A Limb and the beautiful/sad and still unreleased I Wonder Why.

This compilation also offers one of Young’s best demos, an acoustic version of Powderfinger. The released electric version always distracted with its energetic solos. While strumming his guitar, Young sings the song’s final verse as a moving anti-war statement.

Shelter me from the powder
and the finger
Cover me with the thought
that pulled the trigger
Think of me
as one you’d never figured
Would fade away so young
With so much left undone

This song was probably for all the rural country boys who were drafted or volunteered to enter the uniformed service because the “powers-that-be” felt that was the best for them. Thanks for sharing Phil.

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Disc One:
Elektra Demos 1965:
1. Sugar Mountain (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
2. Nowadays Clancy Can’t Even Sing (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
3. Run Around Babe (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
4. Don’t Pity Me Babe (A.K.A. “Ballad of Peggy Grover”)(Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
Track 105. Ain’t Got The Blues (3.6MB)
6. The Rent is Always Due (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)
7. When It Falls, It Falls on You (A.K.A. “Extra Extra”) (Omitted. Available on “Archives Vol.1″)

Track 108. The Needle & The Damage Done (from Johnny Cash T.V. show Feb.17, 1971) (3.0MB)

Live at The Boston Tea Party March 1, 1970:
Track 109. Cinnamon Girl (4.8MB)
Track 110. Cowgirl in The Sand (16.1MB - visit the html page to download the track)

Outtakes & Demos 1974:
Track 111. Pocahontas (4.5MB)
Track 112. Star of Bethlehem (3.6MB)
Track 113. Love is a Rose (3.1MB)
Track 114. Campaigner (4.7MB)

Demos & Outtakes 1975-76:
Track 115. Will to Love (9.9MB)
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Track 116. Captain Kennedy (3.9MB)
Track 117. Look Out For My Love (5.3MB)
Track 118. Too Far Gone (3.6MB)
Track 119. River of Pride (4.6MB)

Disc Two:
Track 201. Like a Hurricane (Live at Hammersmith Odeon,London Mar 31,1976) (12.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)

Outtakes 1977:
Track 202. Human Highway (4.2MB)
Track 203. Already One (6.3MB)

Acetate with Bobby Charles:
Track 204. You’ll Always Live Inside Me (4.4MB)

Outtakes 1977-78:
Track 205. Powderfinger (4.6MB)
Track 206. Hold Back The Tears (6.8MB)
Track 207. Sedan Delivery (7.4MB)

Unreleased “Farm Aid” E.P.:
Track 208. Interstate (7.4MB)
Track 209. Grey Riders (7.7MB)
Track 210. Nothing is Perfect (7.0MB)

Outtakes From “Old Ways” 1984-85:
Track 211. Old Ways (4.8MB)
Track 212. Depression Blues (5.4MB)
Track 213. California Sunset (3.8MB)
Track 214. My Boy (4.0MB)
Track 215. Are There Any More Real Cowboys? (3.9MB)
Track 216. Silver and Gold (4.4MB)

Added exclusive bonus track:
Track 217. If You Got Love (studio version from CBS international Netherlands test pressing) (4.6MB)

Disc Three:
Demos 1982:
Track 301. Raining in Paradise (6.4MB)
Track 302. If You Got Love (4.6MB)
Track 303. Mr. Soul (6.9MB)

Live at The Mike Bloomfield Tribute, The Ritz,New York City
March 2,1981:
Track 304. Baby What You Want Me to Do (8.5MB)
Track 305. Sweet Little Rock n ‘Roller/Nadine (12.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)

Live at Wembley Stadium, England April 16,1990:
Track 306. Rockin’ in The Free World (5.9MB)
Track 307. Mother Earth (6.1MB)

Demos & Outtakes 1986:
Track 308. Weight of The World (8.1MB)
Track 309. Hanging on a Limb (6.4MB)
Track 310. I Wonder Why (5.9MB)

San Francisco Earthquake Benefit, Live From The Cow Palace
Nov 26,1989:
Track 311. Hey Hey, My My (5.1MB)
Track 312. Rockin’ in The Free World (7.2MB)
Track 313. Heart of Gold (4.5MB)
Track 314. Crime in The City (10.3MB - visit the html page to download the track)

For a quick overview of Neil Young’s career, we much prefer newbies start with Decade, originally a triple-LP but now a double CD. All the songs fit on two CDs. Released in 1977, the songs cover the period from 1966 to 1976, a decade. Arguably his best years. Click on the link to order the album.

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SHORT LIFE - IAN CURTIS

February 3, 2010 – 4:03 am

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JOY DIVISION
Hulme 1979 [no label, 1CD]
Live at The Factory, Hulme, Manchester, UK, September 28, 1979. Good to very good soundboard.

When it comes to short lives, Joy Division’s Ian Curtis certainly ranks alongside other artists who died young. Joy Divison existed between 1976 and 1980, and during this time, Curtis’s lyrics helped to define JD as one of the most important groups of its time, apart from shining the spotlight on Manchester. With Joy Division, doom and gloom has never sounded this good.

This lossless set was initially shared at thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot with the following notes:

This is the legendary gig where Hooky thumped an audience member with his bass and stormed off the stage - unfortunately, this moment is not captured on this recording.

This gig features the original set of lyrics Ian Curtis wrote for “Colony” and, as a whole, is stellar sounding. Note that for whatever reason the mixing itself changes from wide stereo to mostly mono (but with effects spread across the stereo soundstage) about halfway through the tape, perhaps the mixing desk guy was having problems with the mix? Who knows but it isn’t really noticeable except in headphones, and even then doesn’t detract from the gig whatsoever.

Presented warts and all (several slight dropouts here and there, likely due to tape age and/or poor quality tape used in 1979 in the mixing desk). Please note that track 1, the soundcheck track, is not a mixing desk recording, but the gig itself is. Don’t let Track 1 fool you…

Ian Curtis hanged himself on May 18, 1980 - he was only 23. There have been a number of books, articles and even a movie trying to make sense of his life and art and still, one can only imagine what Curtis was going through when he wrote these lines:

Afraid to walk, afraid to look behind
Afraid to talk, afraid I’ll fall in line…
Can you hear me, can you spare the time?
- Colony

Thanks to the folk/s at thepowerofindependenttrucking.blogspot; and to tunic who shared the tracks at the Dime site.

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Track 01. Twenty Four Hours (detail, soundcheck) (2.2MB)
Track 02. Atmosphere (fades in) (3.3MB)
Track 03. Wilderness (4.1MB)
Track 04. Shadowplay (5.5MB)
Track 05. Insight (5.9MB)
Track 06. Colony (5.9MB)
Track 07. Twenty Four Hours (fades out, incomplete) (1.2MB)

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SHORT LIFE - ERIC DOLPHY

February 2, 2010 – 4:06 am

Eric Dolphy’s first recording is listed as in 1948 when he was just 20. He was 36 when he died.

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ERIC DOLPHY
Last Recordings [Westwind, 1CD]
Live at Le Chat Qui Pêche, Paris, France, June 11, 1964. Ex SBD stereo. Released March 1, 1993.

Of the four tracks on this final Dolphy concert, only one, the 19-minute Springtime appears to have never been recorded for release. It starts off promisingly with Dolphy ululating on the clarinet. Visions of free jazz appear but soon the composition begins its middle-eastern tempo. It’s the empty desert at midnight and Dolphy’s clarinet wails uncomfortably but his trumpeter and saxophonist continue to stay with tradition giving Springtime its BeBop style.

Had Dolphy more time, perhaps he could have explained his new ideas. Both Donald Byrd and Nathan Davis actually make this music accessible and easy to listen to. They fill in the melody that Dolphy disregarded. The language of discomfort never connects because the pair are busy making everything sound harmonious. They were not alone in misunderstanding Dolphy.

Wikipedia has this comment from John Coltrane: “Although Coltrane’s quintets with Dolphy (including the Village Vanguard and Africa/Brass sessions) are now legendary, they provoked Down Beat magazine to brand Coltrane and Dolphy’s music as ‘anti-jazz’. Coltrane later said of this criticism: ‘they made it appear that we didn’t even know the first thing about music (…) it hurt me to see [Dolphy] get hurt in this thing’.”

The rest of the show contains Dolphy’s earlier compositions from 1960, all very traditional. These “last sessions” have been released several times before in Europe unofficially. They became widespread when CD bootlegs arrived. Thanks to Halowdance for sharing this version on Dime. Halowdance also had this to say:

“There are apparently many hours of recordings with these people from Paris, according to Nathan Davis. Reichardt (p. 66) notes: “Graham Lock in an article on Nathan Davis (The Wire, No. 22, December 1985): ‘These tapes still exist and are in the possession of Jacques Diéval, the French pianist who produced these sessions. Nathan told me that Donald Byrd had persuaded firstly Blue Note, then Columbia, to try and obtain the tapes, but on each occasion Diéval had apparently refused to release the Dolphy tapes unless the record company agreed to issue several of his own tapes too. What a stinker!’”

Eric Dolphy like Coltrane was ahead of his time. Unfortunately, Dolphy had even less time to get his ideas heard much less understood. Two weeks after this recording, Dolphy was dead on June 29. How fortunate then that we can listen to this recording.
- Professor Red

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Track 01. Springtime [19:20] (bcl) [a click can be heard at the 8:29m mark] (27.0MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 02. 2.45 [10:05] (as) (15.4MB)
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Track 03. GW [6:10](as) (8.3MB)
Track 04. Serene [7:58] (bcl) (10.5MB)
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All compositions by Eric Dolphy. Tks 2 and 3 first appeared on Outward Bound (April 1960). Tk 4 first appeared on Out There (August 1960). As far as we can tell, Springtime was never a studio recording.

Personnel:
Eric Dolphy (as, bcl)
Donald Byrd (tr)
Nathan Davis (ts)
Jack Diéval (pno)
Jacques Hess (bass)
Franco Manzecchi (dr)
Jacky Bambou (congas on 2, 3)

From 1960 to 1961, Eric Dolphy recorded both as leader and sideman for Prestige Rocords. Here are all those tracks on this nine CD boxset The Complete Prestige Recordings of Eric Dolphy. Buy on the link to order the set.

The remainder of the June 11, 1964 sessions have been unofficially released on European labels. In 1995, Westwind released it as Naima. This grey label has managed to get their titles listed at Amazon.com where you can buy Naima which includes the Coltrane cover and a cover of Jaki Byard’s Ode To Charlie Parker.

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THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: IRON BUTTERFLY - LOS ANGELES 1967

February 1, 2010 – 4:13 am

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IRON BUTTERFLY
Los Angeles 1967 [Head, 1CD]
Live at The Galaxy Club, Los Angeles, CA, 1967. Good to very good soundboard.

Let’s go back to the vinyl days of the ’60s. While it might not have been unusual to see only one track on one side of the LP for classical or jazz recordings, in the pop/rock world of three-minute singles, Iron Butterfly’s 17-minute In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, which occupied Side Two of the record, was pretty unusual.

That it had catchy riffs, a very memorable opening, and became a hit record only made it a standout album. Together with Deep Purple and Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly were one of the popular bands whose records were played at the many balls (these were pre-disco days) held in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur then. If memory serves, even Universiti Malaya’s Dewan Tunku Chancellor was a popular venue - can’t imagine that happening today! After In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Iron Butterfly riffs can even be heard in some Hong Kong kung fu movies - one which comes to mind is a sequence featuring action hero Meng Fei falling down a flight of stairs (after being stabbed/hacked) to an Iron Butterfly organ riff.

But what’s Iron Butterfly like before they had that big hit? Considered a heavy metal band, they were more than mere metal. As this gig showed, they played psychedelia and even had parts that sounded decidedly punk! Music collector Philip Cohen, who shared the lossless tracks with us, takes up the story:

This 1967 stereo soundboard tape is the only known live tape of the early Iron Butterfly line-up heard on their debut album, “Heavy”. The lineup is Doug Ingle (keyboards, vocals), Ron Bushy (drums), Jerry Penrod (bass), Danny Weis (lead guitar) and Daryl DeLoach (guitar, vocals). This lineup disbanded immediately after the sessions for “Heavy”, and it is only because Doug Ingle and Ron Bushy moved quickly to find new members that ATCO was willing to release “Heavy”. It was a good move for ATCO, because the revised line-up’s first album “In A Gadda Da Vida” became one of the biggest selling albums in ATCO’s history.

Thanks Phil for the tracks.

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Track 01. Real Fright (3.6MB)
Track 02. Possession (7.5MB)
Track 03. Filled With Fear (6.5MB)
Track 04. Try (4.7MB)
Track 05. It’s Up To You (4.0MB)
Track 06. Gloomy Day To Remember (3.7MB)
Track 07. Temptation (9.0MB)
Track 08. Have You Heard? (5.4MB)
Track 09. Gentle As It May Seem (5.4MB)
Track 10. Lonely Boy (7.8MB)
Track 11. Iron Butterfly Theme (9.5MB)
Track 12. You Can’t Win (6.3MB)

Lineup:
Doug Ingle - keyboards, vocals
Ron Bushy - drums
Jerry Penrod - bass
Danny Weis - lead guitar
Daryl DeLoach - guitar, vocals

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THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: JIMMY PAGE - CLEVELAND 1988

January 31, 2010 – 4:21 am

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JIMMY PAGE
Cleveland 1988 [No Pig Records, 1CD]
Live at the Cleveland Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio, October 19, 1988. Very good Pre-FM radio? Venue has also been listed as Public Hall.

When Jimmy Page was recording The Outrider album in 1987, his house was broken into and demo tapes of the recording were reported stolen. Word has it that the break-in left Page in a funk and Outrider (originally proposed as a double-album) suffered as a result.

The Outrider isn’t one of Page’s crowning moments and when Charles M Young interviewed Page for Musician magazine, the cover carried the headline, “Has Jimmy Page Still Got It?” The music writer answered the question in the affirmative (only at the end) after watching a reunited Led Zeppelin play at the Atlantic Records 40th birthday bash: “When Plant, who looked and sounded in pinnacle form reached he final ‘And she’s buy-y-ying…’, Page had a glow on his face that said he had already ascended the stairway, that he could have played three hours more, that he could tour again and sound like Jimmy Page.”

Page would later tell Uncut magazine: “Outrider’s all right. It’s demo-like compared with those overproduced albums that came out at the time. It didn’t do very well - doesn’t matter - but I did tour. I was playing music on that tour going right back to The Yardbirds. Jason [Bonham] was the drummer on that tour.”

So there is Writes Of Winter and tucked in between the heavyweights of the Cleveland set is the balladish Emerald Eyes (also from Outrider); but it is probably when Page slashes and burns his way through the Led Zep tunes that’s when he’s making the audience very happy. A highlight is the Midnight Moonlight/White Summer track where Page not only alternates the mood of his solo but lays out some rather intricate lines.

Another pleasant surprise is vocalist John Miles. This is what Page said in 1988: “Vocally he’s extremely versatile and proficient… In the live situation it will be good because he can play keyboards as well. It will give us a lot of different textures… Lately he’s been singing with Tina Turner.” [Apparently Miles is still working with Tina Turner today, most likely as musical director.]

Thanks to Philip Cohen for sharing the tracks. Those who are interested can try and hunt down the 2-CD audience recording of the complete show.

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Track 01. Who’s To Blame/Prelude [Death Wish II] (15.4MB)
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Track 02. Over The Hills And Far Away [Led Zep] (11.7MB)
Track 03. Writes Of Winter [Outrider] and Tear Down The Walls [The Firm] (20.4MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 04. Emerald Eyes [Outrider] (9.2MB)
Track 05. Midnight Moonlight (with White Summer) [The Firm] (25.2MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 06. In My Time Of Dying [Led Zep] (25.0MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 07. Custard Pie [Led Zep] (8.7MB)
Track 08. Train Kept A’ Rollin’ [Yardbirds] (8.5MB)

Lineup:
Jimmy Page - guitar
John Miles - vocals
Durban Laverde - bass
Jason Bonham - drums

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PINK FLOYD - EMPIRE POOL 1977

January 29, 2010 – 12:05 pm

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PINK FLOYD
Animals On Empire [The Godfatherecords 439/440, 2CD]
Live at the Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex, UK, March 18, 1977. Good to very good audience recording.

Although Pink Floyd played only nine dates in the UK during the Animals tour in 1977, only one show, Knobs, an audience recording of the March 15 show, is listed on the Pink Floyd ROIO Database site.

So this release would be a welcomed addition for collectors and fans.

This is what collectorsmusicreviews.com wrote:

Two tape sources are in circulation but the label use the better of the two. (The other source is incomplete and sounds much worse). It is [a] complete audience recording that is very clear and close to the stage. The beginning of “Dogs” is somewhat muffled due to the taper checking the tape in the recorder but it is nothing serious and Godfather did an impressive work to minimize it. In general Godfather improved the fidelity and produced a very enjoyable and overall excellent Pink Floyd title.

The London shows were very important on this tour because, as Pink Floyd manager told Melody Maker, “After all other concerts are just concerts, but this is their home ground. When they play in London it’s got to be right.” The band played in Wembley in November 1974 and hated the venue so much they vowed never to play it again. Originally they wanted to play in either Earls Court or Olympia but neither venue was available so they settled for Wembley again.

Before the first London show they were harassed by the Greater London Council (GLC) who had safety concerns regarding the giant pig and the light show. The results of these pressures on the band amounted to what one letter to Melody Maker complained about the mechanical performance. This is true for the first song of the night “Sheep” which plods along, but things warm up soon after.

Thanks to hokafloyd who shared the lossless tracks on the internet.

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Disc 1:
Track 101. Sheep 11:11 (15.3MB)
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Track 102. Pigs On The Wing Pt. 1 1:30 (2.0MB)
Track 103.Dogs 19:06 19:05 (26.8MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 104. Pigs On The Wing Pt. 2 2:20 (3.2MB)
Track 105. Pigs 16:07 (22.6MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Total Time: 50:13

Disc 2:
Track 201. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 1-5 13:42 (19.2MB - vist the html page to download the track)
Track 202. Welcome To The Machine 8:28 (11.6MB)
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Track 203. Have A Cigar 6:00 (8.2MB)
Track 204. Wish You Were Here 6:37 (9.1MB)
Track 205. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 6-9 18:37 (26.2MB - visit the html page to download the track)
Track 206. Us And Them 7:53 (10.8MB)
Total Time: 61:17

Lineup:
David Gilmour
Nick Mason
Roger Waters
Richard Wright

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