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THE BEACH BOYS
Texas 2012 [no label, 2CD]
Live at Verizon Theater, Grand Prairie, TX; April 26, 2012. Very good audience recording.

Fifty years of Beach Boys… Beach Boys fans from South-east Asia might want to make a beeline for Hong Kong for the band’s concert on August 25. And for many others, they will have to rely on fan recordings like this, so a big thank you to whotapes, who shared the show at The Traders’ Den. This is what whotapes noted:

I went mostly because who knows if you will ever get these hit makers perform together again and especially because of Brian Wilson being there. Just a fun all-round show. There was a 20-minute intermission so each set will fit nicely on a single CD. The show started almost without warning. I was not completely ready so you do hear a bit of rustling as I position my mics at the start. But it is finished before the real music starts.

And this is what Mike Powell of Rolling Stone commented on the group’s opening show at Tuscon, Arizona on April 24:

It’s not until a band like the Beach Boys runs through their hits back-to-back in rapid succession that you realize just how many hits they’ve had. Over the course of nearly two and a half hours, they played an astonishing 42 songs, many of them medley-style, with nearly no banter in between. Amid the most familiar stuff – “California Girls,” “Surfin’ Safari,” “Good Vibrations” – were a healthy number of deep cuts and covers, including “Why Do Fools Fall in Love” and Phil Spector’s “Then He Kissed Me,” which Jardine probably wisely rephrased as “Then I Kissed Her.”

There were also two uncanny video appearances by Carl and Dennis Wilson, both of whom died years ago. (Dennis “sang” “Forever,” while Carl took on “God Only Knows,” a song Brian wrote for him on 1966’s Pet Sounds.) And about halfway through the second set, something new showed up: A reflective midtempo ballad called “That’s Why God Made the Radio” – a moment that, like so much of the band’s best music, elevated the adolescent to the divine.

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SP Core Mics> Battery box with Bass Rolloff at 16Hz>
Zoom H4n 16 bit 44.1htz >HDD>Goldwave to split the file >
traders little helper flac level 7
Recorded from section 105

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Disc 1 (1st Set)
Track 101. Do It Again (6.3MB)
Track 102. Catch A Wave (3.6MB)
Track 103. Don’t Back Down (3.2MB)
Track 104. Surfin’ Safari (4.1MB)
Track 105. Surfer Girl (4.9MB)
Track 106. The Little Girl I Once Knew (5.1MB)
Track 107. Wendy (4.3MB)
Track 108. Then I Kissed Her (3.9MB)
Track 109. Your So Good To Me (4.3MB)
Track 110. Why Do Fools Fall in Love (4.1MB)
Track 111. When I Grow Up (3.8MB)
Track 112. Cottonfields (7.5MB)
Track 113. Be True to Your School (5.8MB)
Track 114. Disney Girls (7.MB)
Track 115. Please Let Me Wonder (4.9MB)
Track 116. Don’t Worry Baby (5.0MB)
Track 117. Little Honda (4.7MB)
Track 118. Little Deuce Coupe (2.8MB)
Track 119. 409 (2.9MB)
Track 120. Shut Down (2.7MB)
Track 121. I Get Around (4.3MB)

Disc 2 (2nd Set)
Track 201. Sloop John B
Track 202. Wouldn’t It Be Nice
Track 203. California Dreamin’
Track 204. Forever
Track 205. Sail on, Sailor
Track 206. Heroes and Villains
Track 207. In My Room
Track 208. All This Is That
Track 209. God Only Knows
Track 210. That’s Why God Made the Radio
Track 211. California Girls
Track 212. Dance, Dance, Dance
Track 213. All Summer Long
Track 214. Help Me, Rhonda
Track 215. Rock and Roll Music
Track 216. Do You Wanna Dance?
Track 217. Barbara Ann
Track 218. Surfin’ USA
Track 219. Kokomo
Track 220. Good Vibrations
Track 221. Fun, Fun, Fun

Beach Boys:
Brian Wilson
Al Jardine
Bruce Johnston
David Marks
Mike Love

Backing band:
John Cowsill
Scott Totten
Scott Bennett
Nelson Bragg
Mike D’Amico
Jeffrey Foskett
Probyn Gregory
Paul Mertens
Darian Sahanaja
Nick Walusko

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LINDA RONSTADT with COUNTRY GAZETTE
‘Tis A Gift [Bucky Beaver, 1CD]
Live at McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 1974 1972. Ex- SBD? very narrow stereo.

Some fans have listed this show as from 1974 but considering the songs played, the likely year is 1972 before Linda Ronstadt turned to country pop and soft rock. [As readers have commented below, the show is from 1974.]  In between the giggles and the chatter, Ronstadt mentions a previous tour with Neil Young inside larger hockey rinks and also makes a sound to simulate the hard rock of Led Zeppelin, at the time growing in strength. Country stars must have felt nervous with the second British invasion already blowing into the US.

This show is a wonderful display of the richness of traditional country music, drawing from gospel to folk and the tunes of Bill Monroe and Hank Williams. Ronstadt graces them with her full bodied voice and energy. Country Gazette were purveyors of fine bluegrass and coined the term “new grass” when they amplified the music. The picking is still mighty fine.
- Professor Red

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Track 01. Rocky Top (Boudleax and Felice Bryant) (6.7MB)
Track 02. Crazy Arms (Ralph Mooney and Chuck Seals) (6.1MB)
Track 03. Once More (Dusty Owens) (7.7MB)
Track 04. Wicked Path Of Sin (Bill Monroe) (7.8MB)
Track 05. I Can’t Help It (Hank Williams) (5.2MB)
Track 06. Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms (Bill Monroe) (6.6MB)
Track 07. The Poor Old Slave (traditional) (3.6MB)
Track 08. Angel Band (Traditional, The Stanley Brothers) (6.8MB)
Track 09. Orange Blossom Special (Ervin Rouse) - instrumental (6.2MB)

Tracks 1-5 Linda Ronstadt on lead vocals
Tracks 6-9 Linda duets with Country Gazette

Country Gazette likely lineup:
Byron Berline - fiddle
Roger Bush - bass
Alan Munde - banjo, guitar
plus guests
Skip Conover (dobro)
Bob Kimmel (Stone Poneys), background vocals on Tracks 8 and 9

In the ’90s, BGO in the UK released Country Gazette’s first two albums on CD for the first time. The two-fer included Traitor In Our Midst and Don’t Give Up Your Day Job. Both were recorded in 1972 and 1973. The second album included several covers: Stephen Stills “The fallen eagle”, Graham Nash’s “Teach your children”, Lester Flatt’s and Earl Scruggs’ “Down the road”, Elton John’s “Honky Cat” and Don McLeans “Winterwood”. You can still buy it here.

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BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND
The Complete Basement Tapes: From The Reels [no label, CD 7 and 8 of 11]
Recorded at “Big Pink”, West Saugerties, New York, 1967. This 11-CD set was released in 2001.

Philip Cohen notes:

This is the most complete Basement Tapes collection in circulation. This is not for audiophiles. It is for completists who want everything; warts and all.

Disc 7: These are the publishers’ acetates that circulated amongst musicians in the 1960s. “The Mighty Quinn” and these takes of “Too Much of Nothing” &and “Tears of Rage” are unreleased material, but as for all the other tracks on Disc 7, these are the same basic takes as heard on the official “The Basement Tapes” set, but they are different mixes with the original ragged introductions (the official releases fade up to conceal this), and without the overdubs heard on the official release. Some of the tracks, particularly towards the end of the disc do run a bit slow.

Disc 8: Tracks 4, 6, 7 ,9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 are genuine unreleased material. The other tracks are the undoctored, unedited versions of performances that later appeared (remix/overdubbed) on the official “The Basement Tapes” set.

Note: A longtime music fan, Philip Cohen was a contributor to the now-defunct ICE Magazine and compiled the boxsets for The Yardbirds, The Small Faces, Humble Pie and Nice.

Notes from rec.music.dylan, August 2001:

In the time since this ‘fan project’ was completed, there have been a couple of other ‘Basement’ releases, one a 5 CDR set, nice quality, but lacking many tracks (…almost nothing from reel 1) emerged, and more recently the 4CD ‘Tree with Roots’ emerged. These have been carefully compared as well, and where appropriate, tracks were upgraded to the original 10CD set. Recently, someone else seems to have gotten hold of this set and and thinks that there were some other missing tracks (I’m not particularly convinced that reel 11 contains any new Basement tracks at all…) and added these tracks to reel #11.
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Disc 7 - Reel 7
Track 0701. Million Dollar Bash (3.9MB)
Track 0702. Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (3.5MB)
Track 0703. Please Mrs. Henry (4.2MB)
Track 0704. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (3.4MB)
Track 0705. Lo And Behold! (4.7MB)
Track 0706. Tiny Montgomery (4.6MB)
Track 0707. This Wheel’s On Fire (5.9MB)
Track 0708. You Ain’t Going Nowhere (4.4MB)
Track 0709. I Shall Be Released (6.2MB)
Track 0710. Too Much Of Nothing (4.5MB)
Track 0711. Tears Of Rage (6.7MB)
Track 0712. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) (3.4MB)
Track 0713. Open The Door, Homer (4.7MB)
Track 0714. Nothing Was Delivered (6.5MB)

Disc 8 - Reel 8
Track 0801. This Wheel’s On Fire (5.9MB)
Track 0802. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (4.0MB)
Track 0803. I Shall Be Released (6.0MB)
Track 0804. Too Much Of Nothing (4.3MB)
Track 0805. Open The Door Homer (4.4MB)
Track 0806. Open The Door Homer (1.5MB)
Track 0807. Open The Door Homer (5.2MB)
Track 0808. Nothing Was Delivered (7.0MB)
Track 0809. Nothing Was Delivered (5.9MB)
Track 0810. Tears Of Rage (6.5MB)
Track 0811. Tears Of Rage (3.9MB)
Track 0812. Tears Of Rage (6.7MB)
Track 0813. Quinn The Eskimo (3.4MB)
Track 0814. Quinn The Eskimo (3.6MB)
Track 0815. Million Dollar Bash (3.8MB)
Track 0816. Yeah Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (3.3MB)
Track 0817. Please Ms. Henry (3.8MB)
Track 0818. Crash On The Levee (3.2MB)
Track 0819. Lo And Behold (4.2MB)
Track 0820. Tiny Montgomery (4.1MB)

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BOOKER T & THE MGs
San Francisco 1991 [no label, 1CD]
Live at Slims, San Francisco, CA; April 20, 1991. Very good to excellent soundboard.

Bass guitarist Donald “Duck” Dunn, of Booker T and the MGs, died in Tokyo on May 13, 2012. He was 70. A BBC report said that was Dunn was in Japan for a series of concerts, and had played two shows on Saturday night. His friend and fellow musician Steve Cropper, who was on the same tour, said Dunn had died in his sleep. “Today I lost my best friend,” Cropper wrote on his Facebook page. “The world has lost the best guy and bass player to ever live”. The MGs were the house band for Stax Records, and Dunn can be heard on songs such as Otis Redding’s Respect and Sam and Dave’s Hold On, I’m Comin’.

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Track 01. Intro (159k)
Track 02. Green Onions (7.7MB)
Track 03. Melting Pot (16.0MB)
Track 04. Band Introductions (1.7MB)
Track 05. Sarasota Sunset Untitled (8.6MB)
Track 06. Soul Limbo (8.4MB)
Track 07. Summertime (8.7MB)
Track 08. Hip-Hug-Her (4.5MB)
Track 09. Groovin’ (6.2MB)
Track 10. Cruisin’ The New Song (5.8MB)
Track 11. Born Under A Bad Sign (cut off) (6.2MB)
Track 12. Hang ‘Em High (8.8MB)
Track 13. Time Is Tight (16.7MB)
Track 14. crowd - encore break (633k)
Track 15. Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay (7.8MB)
Track 16. Double Or Nothin’ (5.5MB)
Track 17. crowd (457k)

Lineup:
Booker T Jones - organ
Steve Cropper - guitar
Donald “Duck” Dunn - bass
Anton Figg - drums

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DAVE GRUSIN
Grusin Does Bernstein [no label, 2CD]
Live at Monterey Jazz Festival, Monterey, CA, Sept 19, 1997. Ex FM stereo.

The decade before the world saw the economy tumble and the Naughties brought on storm clouds were happier times. The Monterey Jazz Festival sprung back to life in 1997 to celebrate its 40th anniversary. One of the most delightful moments at the festival was Dave Grusin’s premiere of the release of his album “Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story”.

“It’s funny how this all came together, Monterey’s 40th, the ‘West Side Story’ 40th, almost in a symbiotic fashion,” was how Grusin remarked of the concert then. He had restarted a new record label with N2K and West Side Story was a major release for them. Grusin and Larry Rosen had previously established the GRP (Grusin-Rosen Productions) Record Company but had sold it off for a nice profit.

Grusin was enthusiastic about this show. “Since there were basically two 40th anniversaries, it made a lot of sense to combine them. And we’re going to have a hot band at Monterey - guys from both New York and LA, including Eric Marienthal, Bill Evans, Tom Scott, Jeff Clayton and Arturo Sandoval, with Patti Austin and Jonathan Butler doing the vocals.”

From his continuous onstage patter, you can tell Grusin was proud to have fathered this project. The performances are all solid, veering close to the original recording which is the way showtunes are appreciated. Not a beat out of step.

The show opened with West Side Story’s Something’s Coming. If only he had a crystal ball then, because now we’re all stuck in the Middle East. Meanwhile, enjoy this beautiful show. “I feel pretty, I feel pretty….”
- Professor Red

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Disc 1
Track 101. Introduction (917k)
Track 102. Prologue (12.0MB)
Track 103. Grusin’s announcements and Something’s Coming (13.9MB)
Track 104. Grusin’s announcements (5.2MB)
Track 105. The Jet Song [solos by Ronnie Cuber and George Young] (12.9MB)
Track 106. Grusin introduces Jonathan Butler and Maria (10.5MB)
Track 107. Grusin introduces the band and Cool (17.1MB)
Track 108. Grusin introduces Patti Austin (2.2MB)
Track 109. Tonight (6.9MB)

Disc 2
Track 201. Grusin’s announcements and I Feel Pretty Pt 1 (8.0MB)
Track 202. I Feel Pretty [continued] (4.9MB)
Track 203. Grusin’s announcements (1.9MB)
Track 204. One Hand, One Heart (7.8MB)
Track 205. Radio announcer and Grusin’s announcements (2.9MB)
Track 206. Somewhere (7.9MB)
Track 207. Grusin’s announcements and America (16.6MB)
Track 208. Grusin’s announcements (1.1MB)

Lineup:
Dave Grusin - conductor, piano
Greg Gisbert, Wayne Bergeron, Byron Stripling, Charlie Davis, Arturo Sandoval - trumpets
Dave Taylor - bass, trombone
Jim Pugh, Keith O’Quinn - trombones
John Clark, Bob Carlisle - french horn
Patti Austin, Jonathan Butler - vocals
Bill Evans - tenor and soprano sax
Eric Marienthal - alto sax, flute
Ernie Watts - tenor sax
George Young - piccolo, flute
Jeff Clayton - oboe
Jack Nimitz - clarinet, bass sax
Tom Scott - alto sax
Ronnie Cuber - baritone sax
Lee Ritenour - guitar
Dave Carpenter - bass
Larry Williams - keyboards
Dave Weckl - drums
Alex Acuna - perc

This is the album released in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the Leonard Bernstein musical that premiered at New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, Sept 26, 1957. “Dave Grusin Presents West Side Story” arrived as a CD and DVD with a 5.1 surround mix. The CD featured the same musicians but had singers Gloria Estefan, Jonathan Butler and Jon Secada. While the DVD is hard-to-find, you can buy the CD here.

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JANIS JOPLIN
San Francisco 1963 [no label, 1CD]
Live at the California Coffee Gallery, San Francisco, CA; 1963. “Excellent SBD recording for the era.”

These tracks just surfaced and it’s thanks to kneesfudd for sharing them on Dime.

“Center Of The Universe”, Mr JohnK himself, has issued the ultimatum. Share before everyone who gives a damn is dead or can’t hear anymore.

kneesfudd also noted the following:

Warts: ALMOST NONE. I missed some dropouts and there are some non-removable ones. Occasional very tiny clicks in left channel.
Lower generation, better quality, clearer and less distorted than what circulates on “Blow All My Blues Away” and as “1962-08-10″.
Circulates as late 1962, early 1963 and 1962-08-10, but this version is simply labeled “1963″.
For a finer listening experience turn up the bass!

Thanks to the original taper & traders!.. This one was a lot of work. The reel had clearly been played quite a bit before it was digitised, but fortunately the signal on one side or the other was mostly intact and the highs were/are there. Anyway, the multitude of dropouts (that I noticed) were almost ALL seamlessly patched. This is one for the listening archives for sure. Was the TDK SA-XG 90 the heaviest cassette ever made? Sure feels like it. It’s about three times the weight of a Maxell XLII-90. A great early set from one of the voices of the last century. Cool it came from a SUPER HEAVY cassette.

Recording Information:
unknown mono reel-to-reel recorder > master mono reel-to-reel > DAT x1or2 generations > 1st(*) analog generation TDK SA-XG 90 cassette, Dolby off. (* call it what you will).

Playback 2012-05-01:
1st(*) generation TDK SA-XG 90 cassette on Nakamichi BX-300 cassette deck, Dolby B on, azimuth & pitch adjusted, heads cleaned & demagnatized > Tascam CD-RW900SL pro CD recorder > CD-RW > computer, EAC secure > wavs > Audacity (normalisation to remove DC offset, fades &/or glitches, dropouts, volume adjustments, no EQ) > CD Wave (track splits) > Trader’s Little Helper > yer ears. This one set a new mastering record for hours of work as it had a COMPLETE 2nd overhaul - hence the re-seed delay. However it is a better gem now & worth the wait. First uploaded week of 2012-05-11.

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Track 01. Leaving’ This Morning (KC Blues) (3.2MB)
Track 02. Daddy, Daddy, Daddy (4.9MB)
Track 03. Careless Love (6.0MB)
Track 04. Bourgeois Blues (4.5MB)
Track 05. Black Mountain Blues (5.1MB)
Track 06. Gospel Ship (2.8MB)
Track 07. Stealin’ (3.2MB)
Total Time: 18:46

Line-up (unconfirmed - my tape had musician information added later from another source):
Janis Joplin - vocals
Larry Hanks - acoustic guitar, vocals
Billy Roberts - acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals, harmonica
OR possibly: Roger Perkins - acoustic guitar and vocals instead of Roberts

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LED ZEPPELIN
Led Zeppelin II Sampler - Eeklair Multitrack Mixes [no label, 1CD]
Excellent soundboard.

In January 2012, Empress Valley put out a four-CD set, The Making Of Led Zeppelin II. There are four songs - Whole Lotta Love, Heartbreaker, Ramble On, and What Is And What Should Never Be - one on each disc. And each disc has eight isolated tracks - from the multitrack master - featuring vocals, guitars, drums, bass and percussion.

It is likely Eeklair took a set of the multitracks and remixed them into this sampler.

This is what Eeklair noted:

Well, I’m throwing my hat into the ring. I think I would make a good steward of the Led Zeppelin Multitracks because…

bear in mind, the effects used such as delay and reverb are modern sounding. NO HISS REDUCTION was applied to these results…

Hope you like it Jimmy, it’s for you.

Eeklair also added:

I only have the four tunes, it’s up to whomsoever leaked the multitracks to deliver us anything more… It’s a labour of love, and I’m only too enthused to mix the stuff… Maybe soon Jimmy will unleash the rest of the album…

Thanks to Eeklair for the efforts and for sharing the tracks on Demonoid.

This is what music fan tmtomh commented at Demonoid:

Thanks for this - you clearly put a lot of hard work into it. Whole Lotta Love and WIAWSNB sound great - the full ending in WLL is really terrific. The album edit version of Heartbreaker, though, sounds just a little dull and rolled off, and both versions of Heartbreaker seem to have strange volume fluctuations around 0:45. Did you run into any particular challenges or difficulty when working with this track?

Another fan, iliketorock, posted:

Could you turn the BASS UP about 12db? I want break the windows out… Just finished the whole thing, Heartbreaker and no Living Loving Maid…WOW. RUN AWAY RUN AWAY.

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Track 01. Heartbreaker (Album Edit) (Eeklair 2012 Remix) (6.8MB)
Track 02. Ramble On (Eeklair 2012 Remix) (7.7MB)
Track 03. Whole Lotta Love (Eeklair 2012 Remix) (9.6MB)
Track 04. What Is And What Should Never Be (Eeklair 2012 Remix) (8.2MB)
Track 05. Heartbreaker (Producer’s Cut) (Eeklair 2012 Remix) (7.4MB)

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ELVIS COSTELLO AND FRIENDS
Featuring Jerry Garcia, James Burton, Nick Lowe, Bob Weir and more
Mill Valley 1989 [no label, 3CD]
Live at The Sweetwater, Mill Valley, CA; April 24, 1989. Very good to excellent soundboard.

Thanks to grner1 for the great effort and for sharing these tracks on Dime.

This is what grner1 noted:

Village Music was a little record store in Mill Valley, California and its owner, John Goddard, threw a lot of great anniversary parties at the tiny nearby club, The Sweetwater. This show is full of cool one-of-a-kind performances. This is the soundboard audio from a very decent quality two-camera shoot. This is likely to be an upgrade over everything that has previously circulated from this show. The first half is sourced from the VHS Hi-Fi “dubbing master” audio and the second half is from a DAT master. The DAT tape of the first half of the show is missing but the audio quality is similar on the VHS Hi-Fi. I attempted to list the lineups for each song after watching the video closely but since there are so many changes there may be some minor errors.

This is longer (none of the other circulating versions contains the opening Nick Lowe solo set and the video is also missing a lot of Elvis Costello’s solo set). This audio is also at the correct pitch, while the previous one is more than a semitone too fast and much thinner-sounding.

Lineage: Two TDK HD-XPro T-120 VHS tapes. There are a few video breaks for approximately 20 seconds each which were replaced with color bars. The audio is seamless with the first half from the VHS Hi-Fi soundtrack and the rest from a DAT master. A few seconds have been spliced in from an alternate downloaded soundboard source. Since all the breaks start between songs, very little of the music is missing as the video masters change tapes.

Transfer: Sony WV-DR7 > Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter (DV Hardware Codec Converter) > Final Cut Pro > Pro Tools (minor “nip and tuck” edits and normalization. No noise reduction or equalization).

Audio versions of this show have also circulated as being from the 29th, but that is incorrect (there was a Grateful Dead show on the 29th).

Also, here’s an excerpt from an interview with Elvis Costello and Jerry Garcia about the Sweetwater show, taken from Musician magazine, March 1991, posted at gratefulbreed.blogspot.com:

Elvis Costello: Certainly a candidate for the world’s greatest record store is Village Music, in Mill Valley. Every year John Goddard has a party for his friends and customers, and he always has a really good bill of people. So on the twenty-first anniversary, I did a show with Nick Lowe, and he invited James Burton and Jerry Scheff, who’d played with me on the road. I did my little set, Nick did his set and then it was a free-for-all; Charles Brown did a piece, and people were getting summoned to the stage. I was standing in the corridor when I suddenly heard, “Jerry Garcia to the stage!” And, emboldened by several margaritas, I decided to join him.

Jerry Garcia: Not only that, but it was one of those situations where I had the choice of playing either Elvis’ guitar, which is low and it’s stiff, and the strings are quite wide as well, and all this confusing script, or of playing Burton’s guitar, which is strung with spider webs. I mean it’s the absolutely lightest you can string a guitar and still get a sound out of it. I’d take Burton’s and play a note on it and it goes “spack.” So I opted to play Elvis’ guitar as the lesser of two evils. [*laughter*] And I vowed I would never go to another one of those shows without my own.

Elvis: It was a whole Three Stooges routine - “Here, you take my guitar,” “No, I’ll take your guitar.” I think I had Burton’s old Telecaster for half a song, and James had my old Martin acoustic which wasn’t cranked up so he couldn’t solo - and Jerry’s struggling with my guitar. But once everybody got settled we managed to struggle through a couple of Hank Williams songs. Like any sort of jam thing it inevitably came to degenerate towards lots of blues. But we managed a few songs with changes.

Jerry: A pretty high level of jam-sessionry really, considering what it was. Really fun. And Elvis’ solo set was phenomenal, I thought. That’s one of those things that I can’t do at all, just playing the guitar and singing. You’re so solid with that, you don’t miss a band. I always feel like I’m missing a band.

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Disc 1 (Nick Lowe solo)
Track 101. intro [1] (1.3MB)
Track 102. Without Love [1] (3.8MB)
Track 103. talk [1] (1.7MB)
Track 104. Refrigerator White [1] (4.4MB)
Track 105. Geisha Girl [1] (4.4MB)
Track 106. Rocky Road [1] (7.5MB)
Track 107. (I Wanna Build A) Jumbo Ark [2] (6.2MB)
Track 108. Bo Bo Ska Diddle Daddle [1] (4.2MB)
Track 109. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock and Roll) [1] (5.0MB)
Track 110. thanks and applause (660k)

Disc 2 (Elvis Costello and Friends” Part 1 of 2)
Elvis Costello solo:
Track 201. intro to set (660k)
Track 202. Accidents Will Happen [3] (4.3MB)
Track 203. Brilliant Mistake [3] (5.7MB)
Track 204. Deep Dark Truthful Mirror [3] (6.9MB)
Track 205. talk (2.2MB)
Track 206. Mystery Dance [3] (2.9MB)
Track 207. talk [Elvis introduces Jerry Scheff on bass and Austin deLone on keyboards] (1.7MB)
Track 208. Poisoned Rose [4] (8.0MB)
Track 209. God’s Comic [3] (16.7MB)
Track 210. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes [3] (4.5MB)
Track 211. New Lace Sleeves [3] (5.7MB)
Track 212. Peds Paws And Claws [3] (4.8MB)
Track 213. Radio Sweetheart [3] (5.6MB)
Track 214. Jackie Wilson Said [3] (4.0MB)
Track 215. talk (660k)
Track 216. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding [with Nick Lowe] [5] (5.6MB)
Track 217. talk [Elvis welcomes Jerry Scheff, Scott Mathews, Austin deLone and James Burton to the stage] (1.7MB)
Track 218. The Big Light [6] (5.5MB)
Track 219. Pouring Water On A Drowning Man [6] (8.2MB)
Track 220. Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line [6] (5.4MB)
Track 221. Leave My Kitten Alone [6] (5.1MB)
Track 222. talk [Elvis welcomes Kim Wilson and Charles Brown to the stage] (6.8MB)

Disc 3 (Elvis Costello and Friends” Part 2 of 2)
Track 301. I Stepped In Quicksand [7] (9.7MB)
Track 302. Driftin’ Blues [8] (9.0MB)
Track 303. Charles Brown talks (961k)
Track 304. I Wanna Be With You [9] (5.8MB)
Track 305. talk [Austin deLone thanks Charles Brown and welcomes Kim Wilson, Nick Lowe and James Burton back to the stage plus also Sean Hopper on keyboards] (2.9MB)
Track 306. One’s Too Many (And A Hundred Ain’t Enough) [10] (7.2MB)
Track 307. Real Gone Lover [11] (9.5MB)
Track 308. talk [Austin deLone thanks Kim Wilson and welcomes Jerry Garcia and Pete Sears to the stage] (6.0MB)
Track 309. You Win Again [12] (5.6MB)
Track 310. The Bottle Let Me Down [13] (4.5MB)
Track 311. Why Don’t You Love Me? [13] (3.3MB)
Track 312. talk [Sammy Hagar, Commander Cody, Mitch Woods and Annie Sampson are welcomed to the stage] (2.7MB)
Track 313. Riot In Cellblock #9 [14] (6.9MB)
Track 314. talk [Austin deLone introduces Sammy Hagar to sing the next song and Jeff Burton is welcomed to the stage] (797k)
Track 315. Going Down [15] (11.6MB)
Track 316. talk [Austin deLone thanks Sammy Hagar and welcomes Bob Weir to the stage] (2.6MB)
Track 317. C.C. Rider [16] (7.4MB)
Track 318. Turn On Your Lovelight [17] (11.9MB)
Track 319. talk [Austin deLone thanks Bob Weir, Jeff Burton and Pete Sears and welcomes James Burton, Jerry Scheff and Elvis Costello back to the stage and thanks John Goddard for throwing the party] (2.3MB)
Track 320. Let The Good Times Roll [18] (5.4MB)
Track 321. Loveable [19] (4.3MB)
Track 322. talk [final thanks and applause] (2.5MB)

Notes:
[1] Nick Lowe solo (vocals, acoustic guitar).
[2] Nick Lowe solo (vocals, bass).
[3] Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar).
[4] Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass), Austin deLone (piano).
[5] Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), Nick Lowe (vocals, acoustic guitar).
[6] Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), James Burton (lead guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[7] Charles Brown (vocals and piano), Kim Wilson (harp), Danny Caron (guitar), Steven Strauss (bass), Scott Mathews (drums).
[8] Charles Brown (vocals and piano), Kim Wilson (harp), Danny Caron (guitar plus a bit of backing vocals), Steven Strauss (bass plus a bit of backing vocals), Scott Mathews (drums).
[9] Charles Brown solo (vocals, piano).
[10] Kim Wilson (vocals, harp), Nick Lowe (bass, backing vocals), James Burton (guitar), Sean Hopper (electric piano), Austin Delone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[11] Kim Wilson (vocals, harp), James Burton (guitar), Nick Lowe (bass), Sean Hopper (electric piano), Austin Delone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[12] Elvis Costello (vocals and electric guitar for first part of song and then acoustic guitar), Jerry Garcia (guitar), James Burton (starts on acoustic guitar after approx. 1 minute of song, then switches to electric guitar for 2nd half of song), Pete Sears (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[13] Elvis Costello (vocals and acoustic guitar), Jerry Garcia (guitar), James Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Austin deLone (electric piano), Sean Hopper (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[14] Commander Cody (lead vocals), Elvis Costello (acoustic guitar and backing vocals), Sammy Hagar (backing vocals), Annie Sampson (backing vocals), Jerry Garcia (guitar), James Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Mitch Woods (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[15] Sammy Hagar (vocals), Annie Sampson (vocals), Jerry Garcia (guitar), Jeff Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Mitch Woods (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[16] Bob Weir (vocals, guitar), Jeff Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[17] Bob Weir (vocals, guitar), Elvis Costello (acoustic guitar, backing vocals), Austin deLone (piano, backing vocals), Jeff Burton (guitar), Pete Sears (bass), Scott Mathews (drums).
[18] Elvis Costello (lead vocals, acoustic guitar), Cait O’Riordan (backing vocals), James Burton (lead guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass), Austin deLone (piano), Scott Mathews (drums).
[19] Elvis Costello (vocals, acoustic guitar), Austin deLone (piano, backing vocals), James Burton (lead guitar), Jerry Scheff (bass), Scott Mathews (drums).

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SAMMY HAGAR
Red Rocker [Power Gate 072, 2CD]
Live at Harvey’s Outdoor Amphitheater, Lake Tahoe, NV; August 13, 2005. Includes a Montrose reunion. Excellent soundboard.

The late guitarist Ronnie Montrose might have created a buzz when he played on Van Morrison’s Tupelo Honey but fans will always associate him with Sammy Hagar. The vocalist was in the original Montrose band when it was formed in 1973 and he left in February 1975.

The highlight of this show is the reunion between Hagar and Montrose, and there is no let up in Hagar’s vocals. Here is a power-packed show that hard rock fans could have easily overlooked.

Ronnie Montrose died of prostate cancer in March 2012; and Sammy Hagar did play together with Montrose in Sacramento in 2003. Listening to the friendly banter at this Lake Tahoe show, it is not difficult to see why Hagar wrote these words in memory of Montrose:

[I would like Montrose to be remembered] as one of the pioneers of American heavy/hard rock. And certainly, one of the great hard rock guitar players. But he was more than that - he was really versatile. But if you’re going to remember him for anything, put on that first Montrose record. The only positive I can grab onto is the fact that the music will live on. It’s a shame to lose Ronnie and I’m so sorry for his loved ones. Rest in peace.

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Disc 1
Track 101. Intro (2.2MB)
Track 102. Shaka Doobie (5.5MB)
Track 103. One Way To Rock (8.3MB)
Track 104. Sympathy For The Human (5.4MB)
Track 105. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 (8.7MB)
Track 106. Serious Juju (7.8MB)
Track 107. When The Hammer Falls (7.1MB)
Track 108. Let Sally Drive (9.1MB)
Track 109. Top Of The World (6.2MB)
Track 110. Runaround (7.6MB)
Track 111. I’ll Fall In Love Again (5.3MB)
Track 112. Three Lock Box (8.3MB)
Track 113. MC (8.3MB)
Track 114. The Way We Live (7.6MB)
Track 115. Let Me Take You There (9.8MB)
Track 116. Right Now (9.6MB)

Disc 2
Track 201. Fast Times At Ridgemont High (6.4MB)
Track 202. The Girl Gets Around (4.5MB)
Track 203. I Can’t Drive 55 (7.3MB)
Track 204. Mas Tequila (10.5MB)
Track 205. Heavy Metal (9.8MB)

Montrose Reunion
Track 206. Space Station # 5 (cuts in) (5.3MB)
Track 207. Rock Candy (11.6MB)
Track 208. Rock The Nation (9.5MB)
Track 209. Connection (6.9MB)
Track 210. Bad Motor Scooter (12.1MB)
Track 211. Make It Last (14.4MB)

Lineup:
Sammy Hagar - vocals, guitar
Vic Johnson - guitar
Mona - bass
David Lauser - drums

Montrose:
Sammy Hagar - vocals
Ronnie Montrose - guitar
Bill Church - bass
Denny Carmassi - drums

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BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND
The Complete Basement Tapes: From The Reels [no label, CD 5 and 6 of 11]
Recorded at “Big Pink”, West Saugerties, New York, 1967. This 11-CD set was released in 2001.

Philip Cohen notes:

This is the most complete Basement Tapes collection in circulation. This is not for audiophiles. It is for completists who want everything; warts and all.

Note: A longtime music fan, Philip Cohen was a contributor to the now-defunct ICE Magazine and compiled the boxsets for The Yardbirds, The Small Faces, Humble Pie and Nice.

Notes from rec.music.dylan, August 2001:

In the time since this ‘fan project’ was completed, there have been a couple of other ‘Basement’ releases, one a 5 CDR set, nice quality, but lacking many tracks (…almost nothing from reel 1) emerged, and more recently the 4CD ‘Tree with Roots’ emerged. These have been carefully compared as well, and where appropriate, tracks were upgraded to the original 10CD set. Recently, someone else seems to have gotten hold of this set and and thinks that there were some other missing tracks (I’m not particularly convinced that reel 11 contains any new Basement tracks at all…) and added these tracks to reel #11.
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Disc 5 - Reel Five:
Track 0501. Odds And Ends (2.8MB)
Track 0502. Nothing Was Delivered (871k)
Track 0503. Million Dollar Bash (4.0MB)
Track 0504. Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (3.3MB)
Track 0505. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (3.3MB)
Track 0506. Lo And Behold! (4.3MB)
Track 0507. Harmonica Instrumental (590k)
Track 0508. You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere (4.2MB)
Track 0509. The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo) (3.4MB)
Track 0510. Nothing Was Delivered (6.6MB)
Track 0511. Open The Door, Homer (3.7MB)
Track 0512. Million Dollar Bash (3.9MB)
Track 0513. Yea! Heavy And A Bottle Of Bread (3.6MB)
Track 0514. Too Much Of Nothing (4.4MB)
Track 0515. I Shall Be Released (4.3MB)
Track 0516. I’m Not There (1956) (8.0MB)
Track 0517. Please, Mrs. Henry (4.1MB)
Track 0518. Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood) (3.2MB)
Track 0519. Lo And Behold! (4.4MB)
Track 0520. Odds And Ends (2.8MB)
Track 0521. Get Your Rocks Off (6.0MB)
Track 0522. Clothes Line Saga (5.4MB)
Track 0523. Apple Suckling Tree (4.2MB)
Track 0524. Goin’ To Acapulco (8.7MB)
Track 0525. Gonna Get You Now (2.4MB)
Track 0526. Instrumental (5.6MB)
Track 0527. Silent Weekend (4.6MB)
Track 0528. Gonna Get You Now (2.3MB)

Disc 6 - Reel Six:
Track 0601. Wildwood Flower (3.4MB)
Track 0602. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (5.6MB)
Track 0603. She’ll Be Coming ‘Round The Mountain (2.6MB)
Track 0604. Instrumental (3.2MB)
Track 0605. Flight Of THe Bumblebee (3.3MB)
Track 0606. Confidential To Me (2.6MB)
Track 0607. Yazoo Street Scandal (6.5MB)
Track 0608. You Say You Love Me (4.3MB)
Track 0609. You Say You Love Me (3.4MB)
Track 0610. Instrumental (1.3MB)
Track 0611. Instrumental (1.1MB)
Track 0612. Sonny Boy (With Tiny Tim) (5.8MB)
Track 0613. All You Have To Do Is Dream (6.4MB)
Track 0614. All You Have To Do Is Dream (5.3MB)
Track 0615. All You Have To Do Is Dream (Instrumental) (593k)
Track 0616. Piano Solo (3.5MB)
Track 0617. Orange Juice Blues (Instrumental) (5.2MB)
Track 0618. Ferdinand The Impostor (3.2MB)
Track 0619. Instrumental (8.9MB)
Track 0620. Be My Baby (With Tiny Tim) (9.9MB)
Track 0621. I Got You Babe (With Tiny Tim) (4.6MB)
Track 0622. Memphis, Tennessee (With Tiny Tim) (3.1MB)
Track 0623. Ferdindand The Impostor (6.4MB)
Track 0624. If I Lose (3.8MB)
Track 0625. Instrumental (5.2MB)
Track 0626. Orange Juice Blues (5.7MB)

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