A Day In The Decade

Yes I know, everyone's tired of hearing "you've got to see this cool old video". But seriously, this one is a must-see. Its a 15-minute tribute to THE BEATLES from Rolling Stone Magazine's 10th Anniversary TV special in 1977.

Amazing.

Here's the page at THE DAWN PATROL:

I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND OVER MY EYES

Thanks Dawn!

Magazine of the Week #52

And so we come to the end of the 2006 edition of "Magazine of the Week" - 52 different magazines featuring one or more members of THE ROLLING STONES on the cover. But don't worry - we're not done with The Stones yet!





Anyway, since we started the year with an issue of CREEM magazine (see here), I thought I'd also end the year with one. This is the December 1978 issue with a KEITH RICHARD (no "S") cover story by ROY CARR, who wrote the classic "The Rolling Stones: An Illustrated Record".


















Roy and Keith talk about the new "Some Girls" LP. Here are some excerpts:

KEITH: The real difference for us was cutting "Some Girls" without having any other musicians present - any other musicians that we did use were only called in later to contribute specific extras. For a change, this album was purely our own affair.

Sure, we over-dubbed a couple of things later, but the actual record and the overall feel depended entirely on the five of us. And that kinda made us work even harder at it. There was more incentive.

ROY: Does that mean that when you've added BILLY PRESTON and brass to the basic line-up, subconsciously you've unloaded some of the pressures?

KEITH: Yeah. Half of it just could be that, and also someone like Billy Preston is such a genius - so used to working in the studio and so quick with it - that if he's in the studio when you're cutting a track - as opposed to overdubbing his part much later - you find that on the playback you're often following Billy's lead before we, as a band, have had sufficient time to work specific things out for ourselves.


And Roy asks about Keith's recent "cure":

ROY: .....What cure did you undergo?

KEITH: The same one as Eric [Clapton].....

ROY: Acupuncture?

KEITH: Electro-acupuncture.....its so simple its not true. But as to whether or not they'll ever let people know about it is another thing!


ROY: How does it work?

KEITH: What can I tell you about it.....? To begin with, I can't tell you how it works because they don't even know for sure. All they know is that it does work. Its a little metal box with leads that clip on to your ears, and in two or three days.....which is the worst period for kickin' junk.....in those 72 hours it leaves your system.

ROY: Is that all?

KEITH: More or less. Actually, you should be incredibly sick, but for some reason you're not. Why? I dunno, 'cause all it is is a very simple electronic nine-volt battery-run operation.

ROY: So what happens after those crucial 72 hours?

KEITH: Well then, its all up to you.

There's a whole lot of other cool stuff in this issue, too - such as a short article about TAMARA RAND, "psychic to the stars". Apparently, BOB DYLAN "never makes a move without her advice", and "she helped him overcome his fear of death". And Dylan is referred to in the article as an "aging folkster".....! Yes, 28 years ago, he was an "aging folkster"!!!


















The "Confessions of a Film Fox" feature gives us the gossip. We learn that LIZA MINELLI "has resumed her romance with MIKHAIL BARYSHNAKOV while juggling DAVID BOWIE on the side", and "RONNIE WOOD is gung ho on marrying sweetie JO HOWARD, especially since Jo Jo is preggers. Does it matter that Ron has yet to obtain a divorce from wife CHRISSIE, or is he thinking of converting to the Mormon way of life?".


















There's a review of one of NEIL YOUNG's "Rust Never Sleeps" shows, articles on AEROSMITH, TED NUGENT, and CHEAP TRICK, and a "Photo Tribute" for the recently deceased KEITH MOON . Record Reviews include THE RAMONES' "Road To Ruin", LINDA RONSTADT's "Living In The USA", and the four KISS solo albums.




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Berlin in Brooklyn

Like another gift from Santa, BIG O has posted MP3s of the LOU REED show from December 14, 2006. Its one of the complete performances of his 1973 LP "Berlin" that he recently did at St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York. Features the return of STEVE HUNTER, who played guitar on the original BOB EZRIN-produced LP.

Here's the page:

BIG O - LOU REED LIVE 12/14/06

And here's hoping Lou releases a DVD from these shows!

Meet The Smithereens!

"The Jersey Beat meets the Mersey Beat"

I've always liked THE SMITHEREENS, especially the stuff they did back in the '80s. As you've probably heard, on January 16th, to mark the 43rd anniversary of the "Meet The Beatles!" LP, they're releasing their tribute CD, "Meet The Smithereens!", featuring their versions of all the songs from that classic BEATLES LP.

This may be old news to some of you, but they now have a website up where you can listen to three of the songs from the forthcoming CD - "I Want To Hold Your Hand", "I Saw Her Standing There", and "All My Loving".

Check it out, it sounds pretty good:

"MEET THE SMITHEREENS!" PREVIEW

Beatlegs Christmas Podcast

Speaking of Christmas Podcasts, Christmas would not be complete without JOHN WINN's already-classic Beatlegs Podcast #21. Its a wonderful 25-minute compilation of all sorts of Beatle and Beatle-related Christmas recordings. Trust me, even if you have all the Beatles "Christmas Messages", you still need this.

Here are the contents:

Episode #21, December 16th, 2005:
- Another Beatles Christmas Message (outtakes, 10-26-64)
- Jingle Bells/Freedom ("Nice Time", 11-15-01)
- "Saturday Club" (12-17-63)
- Good King Wenceslas (choral mix)
- White Christmas (The Beatmas)
- Christmas Messages for Pirate Radio (12-6-66)
- unused Third Christmas Record session, Marquee Studio (10-19-65)
- Nelson Wilbury greeting (12-88)
- Wonderful Christmastime (Apollo Theatre, Glasgow, 12-17-79)
- All The Best To You From Here (extended mix)
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Hammersmith Odeon, 12-64)
- Silent Night (The Spotnicks, Jimmy Nicol on drums)
- Merry Christmas/Magic Christian (speed-corrected)
- Ding Dong, Ding Dong (rough mix)
- "Televiezer Magazine" (12-15-69)
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) ("Lennon Legend" DVD mix)

Get the podcast here, you can listen or download as an MP3:

BEATLEGS PODCAST #21

And many thanks to John for all the hard work he's been putting into these great podcasts!

Magazine of the Week #51

Here we are with another great LISA ROBINSON-era issue of HIT PARADER, this one cover-dated December 1977.








For the cover story, Lisa has an exclusive MICK JAGGER interview. Here are some excerpts.

They talk about the new live LP, "Love You Live":

Lisa: Why did you do a live album?

Mick: Because we had to.....we promised we would. And here it is! It was part of our contract.

Lisa: You've put so much work into this album, haven't you?

Mick: Ummm, yeah.....enough. A lot.

Lisa: You get so involved with all of it, and it seems to take so long.

Mick: Well, Keith Harwood died, so it took longer. And it got slower, and slower.....and more boring.....

Lisa: You have to listen to so many tapes of all those concerts??

Mick: We had a lot of tapes, but we wanted to put a live album out ages ago and couldn't, because Allen Klein wouldn't let us. Or whoever it was.....but we had a lot of tapes. We listened to a lot of them.....

Lisa: What about all the overdubs that really are done on live albums that people don't know about?

Mick: Well, the overdubs are less than we did on the last one.....The overdubbing that's done under the Geneva Convention of Overdubbing Live Albums of 1967.....


















And they talk a bit about Keith's current problems:

Lisa: What about the band? And what was this stuff that you said about getting another guitarist if Keith's problems weren't worked out?

Mick: I didn't say that. What I said was, the guy asked me if Keith got a life sentence, would you go on the road with anybody else, and I said yes of course I would.

Lisa: You would?

Mick: Well if Keith gets a LIFE SENTENCE.....I mean if he got a life sentence.....

Lisa: Well, as long as you didn't get a life sentence, there would be a Rolling Stones.....?

Mick: Well, its a hypothetical situation.....but if Keith got a LIFE SENTENCE, and I could never see him again except through PRISON BARS, I guess I would have to play with someone else, what else could I do? I could stop playing, but it seems a silly thing to do, I don't want to stop playing. But I don't think Keith will end up behind bars, so its a hypothetical question. But that's what the cat said to me, if he gets a life sentence would you go on.....so that's what I said in REPLY.

Lisa also has an interview with LOU REED, and Lou has this to say about his "Metal Machine Music" LP:

Lou: .....its like ANDY's Campbell's Soup Can - the idea was enough. "Metal Machine Music" is going for $30.00 each now and it really did what it was supposed to do. It drew the line with RCA. In other words, me - the poet of gold, was being flushed down the toilet.


















There's an article on LED ZEPPELIN (also by Robinson), and stuff on BLONDIE, BRYAN FERRY, and CARLY SIMON.

In "Rock&Roll Hotline", we learn that HEATHER MCCARTNEY is "a big punk rock fan", and that while CBS Records has not (as yet) signed WINGS, they will release a SUZY AND THE REDSTRIPES (Linda McCartney, of course) LP on Epic Records. Still waiting for that one!

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The Banfords' Christmas Podcast

Last week I posted a new Christmas song from THE BANFORDS. By popular demand, here they are again with some more holiday fun.

This is a podcast that they put together last year, featuring original Christmas songs from their out-of-print 2001 release "The Christmas Album". The podcast is 18 minutes long, and includes 5 full-length songs, plus an "Intro" and a "Finale". Its some pretty cool stuff, with great lyrics - dark, sad, and yet somehow joyous. And with three different lead vocalists there's a nice variety to the songs.

Here's the podcast as an MP3, about 16MB:

THE BANFORDS CHRISTMAS PODCAST

Its a single file, but here's the tracklist:

INTRO
SANTA CLAUS SAYS
AND THERE'S A MIRACLE
MAN OF SNOW
CHRISTMAS (CHRISTMAS TIME)
HEAVENLY PEACE
FINALE

"...now we're diaphanous, crepuscular, mellifluous....."

One year ago today

Yes, today is the one-year anniversary of this blog.

In a way, its hard to believe I've been at it for a whole year now. A lot of music blogs have come and gone this year, and when I started, I wasn't even sure I'd last a month, and here I am, more than 400 posts later.

Its been a great year, and I've really enjoyed being here. I've "met" some of the nicest and most interesting people, from around the world, that I could ever hope to meet. And I've been sent some wonderful emails, audio, video, and photos. So I'd like to say that I'm glad to have this opportunity, and I'm glad that folks have been enjoying "Culpa Direct". And I thank you all.

And here's a quick flashback, a re-posting of the first track I posted, one year ago today, MICK JAGGER singing "Too Many Cooks":

TOO MANY COOKS

And to complete the picture, here's a link to that first post:

CULPA'S FIRST POST - 12/19/05

And stay tuned, there's plenty more to come......

Happy birthday Keith and Bobby

So I was a little disappointed yesterday when I realized that I would not have a chance to post anything for KEITH RICHARDS' birthday. But now today I figure, no big deal - he's probably still up celebrating, so I'll just post something now!

Anyway, born December 18, 1943, yesterday was Keith's 63rd birthday.

Here are both sides of Keith's 1978 solo single, never released on an official CD. There's his version of CHUCK BERRY's "Run Rudolph Run", perfect for this time of year, and also his take on JIMMY CLIFF's "The Harder They Come".

RUN RUDOLPH RUN - KEITH RICHARDS

THE HARDER THEY COME - KEITH RICHARDS

And of course, lets not forget that legenday sax-man BOBBY KEYS was also born on December 18, 1943.


















Here he is with Keith, with their 1981 recording of "Over The Rainbow":

OVER THE RAINBOW - KEITH RICHARDS WITH BOBBY KEYS

Happy birthday Keith and Bobby!!!

PS: I just wanted to mention - with all the many blogs and boards these days, I often see some of the same stuff popping up in different places, and I've seen the Keith tracks that I've posted here all posted elsewhere recently. I'm certainly not in the habit of downloading things from other sites and immediately posting them here. I don't remember exactly where I got them from, but these tracks are pretty basic Keith "rarities" and I've had them on my computer for quite a while, and had intended to post them for Keith's birthday for weeks now. I'm sure if you look around you can find them at some other sites, and probably at higher bit-rates. I'm just here doin' what I like to do and postin' what I like to post.

Magazine of the Week #50

For our Magazine of the Week #50, we have the December 1983 issue of MUSICIAN, featuring (separate) interviews with MICK JAGGER and KEITH RICHARDS by VIC GARBARINI.

As usual with Musician Magazine interviews, there's some great stuff here.



Mick talks about the new LP, "Undercover", and Garbarini asks about BRIAN JONES going "over the top". Mick says this:

"He couldn't really hold things together, that's certainly true. (long pause) I wonder what he would have thought of this record? (smiles thoughtfully) It's funny, I thought about that the other day while we were mixing, whether he'd like it or not. Brian was.....enthusuastic, insightful, intelligent, and a good musician with a very nice side to him. But I don't think he was really cut out to be famous. He hated to be misquoted in the papers, for instance, and all those things you have to get used to if you want to be famous, which he did. When he became famous, he realized he didn't like it, but by then it was really too late."


















Asked about the "Their Satanic Majesties Request" LP, Mick responds:

".....A COMEDY RECORD!!! (cackles loudly) It's not heavy at all, its really just lightweight comedy. Somebody put it on the other day, and I thought it was hilarious. Didn't do well, though."

".....What surprised me was the comedic feeling and all the jokes and things we'd never dream of doing now. There were comedic links and French speaking pieces that I took off the new album."

The interview with Keith is a bit longer and more substantial. Garbarini gets him talking about MICK TAYLOR:

".....he never really wrote things, in spite of what he said. It's basically imagination. We all know by now that Mick hasn't done anything since he left The Stones that he couldn't have done in his spare time with the band. He just said he wanted to do his own thing. Mick Taylor is an admirable gentleman and a beautiful guitar player, but I don't really think he knew what he was good at and what he wasn't."

".....he was very reluctant to take any direction.....from the production end of it. JIMMY MILLER used to go through reams of frustration, saying, "Tell the guy not to play there!" Meanwhile Mick is over there and he's just going to do what he's going to do. And so he did it."

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Garbarini also gets Keith to listen to some current popular songs. Here's what Keith had to say about THE POLICE's "Wrapped Around Your Finger":

"Take it off.....elevator music. I know its The Police, but its a blind spot for me. Sounds like CHRISTOPHER CROSS. I like The Police but that track sounds like what they play in my dentist's office."

Elsewhere in the issue is an interview with ROBERT PLANT, and articles on TOM WAITS, GODLEY & CREME, and more.

Record Reviews include DYLAN's "Infidels" ("Get ready. He's back."), LAURIE ANDERSON's "Mister Heartbreak", and LINDA RONSTADT's "What's New".

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Lennon links

Just to let folks know, as of right now, the links still seem to be good on all nine volumes of "Between The Lines", the collection of JOHN LENNON's 1975-1980 home recordings.

Get 'em if ya need 'em:

Between The Lines, part 1
Between The Lines, part 2
Between The Lines, part 3
Between The Lines, part 4
Between The Lines, part 5
Between The Lines, part 6
Between The Lines, part 7
Between The Lines, part 8
Between The Lines, part 9

This Season

Every year around this time, Philly's "Favorite Urban Folksters" THE BANFORDS produce a DIY-type original Christmas CD-single that they mail out to their "fan club". This year's CD is just in, and I'm priveleged to be authorized to present one of the songs here.

The song is called "This Season", a catchy little seasonal waltz. Listen for "good-nights" to YOKO, JOHN, SEAN, and others.

If you like what you hear, let me know, and I'll be glad to post a few more of their original Christmas tunes.

THIS SEASON - THE BANFORDS

Live Lou

RBALLY has a great old LOU REED show posted. Its from Alice Tully Hall in New York, January 27, 1973:

RBALLY - LOU REED 1/27/73

To put the show in perspective, the DAVID BOWIE/MICK RONSON-produced "Transformer" LP came out in November 1972. On December 26, he played for a live radio broadcast that would eventually become the "American Poet" CD. The BOB EZRIN-produced "Berlin" LP (which he's performing in New York this week) would come out in July '73. And the live show that would become the classic "Rock 'n Roll Animal" and "Lou Reed Live" LPs was in December 1973. It was quite a period for Lou.

The show is a lot of fun, and I think this is the first time I've heard a live version of "Wagon Wheel". Thanks, rbally!

Magazine of the Week #49

This week we take a look at another magazine from 1981, the December '81 issue of INTERNATIONAL MUSICIAN AND RECORDING WORLD.

The issue features a cover story on THE ROLLING STONES by CHRIS WELCH.




As The Stones rehearsed in Massachusettes for their 1981 tour, Welch was "priveleged to hear them in their inner sanctum, a converted loft in the back of an old barn...".















Woody tells Welch:

"I got invited to go on tour with BOB DYLAN this year. He came over to my house in L.A. and asked me. But I couldn't because the Stones were starting rehearsals. We did a couple of weeks in New York before we came here. He's a funny guy, Bob. But I can loosen him up and confront him with all the subjects that are normally taboo."


















Keith talks about making Stones albums:

"People think that on an album every track has been newly made and freshly minted. None of our albums have been made like that for years. Not since Exile on Main Street have we done an album where some of the tracks haven't been cut years before. When does life begin? At conception or birth - a release date or when you did it? We sit in our tool shed chuckling to ourselves watching the reviewers discuss our latest record and talking about all the changes, when we know its a load of old scrapings, culled from millions of sessions over half a dozen years. But its fun to watch."

Also in this issue, EDDIE VAN HALEN, DANNY ADLER, GARY U.S. BONDS, and more.

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December 8th

Today is December 8th, which, of course, is the anniversary of JOHN LENNON's death, a sad day indeed. But I have to say that since the incident occurred in the last hour of the day (at least here in Eastern Standard Time), that I've always considered the 8th to be just another day. It was the 9th that was the really sad day.

Anyway, today's The Anniversary, so here are a few things I downloaded last year around this time. Its various recordings of New York radio stations from that night and early morning, including New York radio personalities like LARRY KING and DON IMUS. The first three tracks together are just under 70 minutes, and make a nice CD. The 4th track is about 6 minutes long. I don't have details, the titles here are from the tags that were on the MP3s.

Warning: side effects may include depression.....

01 - 880 WCBS
02 - 660 WNBC
03 - NBC's THE SOURCE
04 - NEW YORK RADIO

Thanks to the original uploaders.

Between The Lines, part 9

Finishing off this excellent collection, Disc 9 of "Between The Lines" features JOHN LENNON's final home recordings. Interesting, those last few: "Gone From This Place" ("I won't be satisfied till I'm gone from this place..."), "Dear John" ("the race is over, you've won..."), and "You Saved My Soul".

BOOTLEG ZONE has track info and artwork here:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 9

MP3s are here:

01 THE WORST IS OVER
02 THE WORST IS OVER
03 HELP ME TO HELP MYSELF
04 MY LIFE
05 MY LIFE
06 MY LIFE
07 SERVE YOURSELF
08 CLEANUP TIME
09 CLEANUP TIME
10 STARTING OVER
11 STARTING OVER
12 STARTING OVER
13 GONE FROM THIS PLACE
14 GONE FROM THIS PLACE
15 GONE FROM THIS PLACE
16 DEAR JOHN
17 YOU SAVED MY SOUL

Between The Lines, part 8

So what I've been doing is posting the 9-CD set "Between The Lines", the incredible collection of JOHN LENNON's home recordings from 1975 through 1980. The tracks are presented from the best available sources and in as close to chronological order as possible. This was just finished and circulated earlier this year, so its up-to-date and should remain the definitive collection of this material for years.

Disc 8 features more than an hour of recordings from July 1980, while John was in Bermuda. BOOTLEG ZONE has track info and CD artwork here:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 8

And here are the MP3s:

01 I'M LOSING YOU
02 I'M LOSING YOU
03 I'M LOSING YOU
04 I'M STEPPING OUT
05 I DON'T WANNA FACE IT
06 I'M STEPPING OUT
07 DON'T BE AFRAID
08 THE HAPPY RISHIKESH SONG
09 REAL LOVE
10 REAL LOVE
11 GROW OLD WITH ME
12 REAL LOVE
13 WOMAN
14 WOMAN
15 WOMAN
16 WOMAN
17 NOBODY TOLD ME
18 NOBODY TOLD ME
19 WOMAN
20 WOMAN
21 (FORGIVE ME) MY LITTLE FLOWER PRINCESS

Between The Lines, part 7

June 1980 - John sails to Bermuda and his creative juices really start to flow, writing songs and recording demos. He'd stay until the last week in July, and be back in the studio in the first week of August to start making his comeback LP "Double Fantasy".

Disc 7 of "Between The Lines" features more than an hour's worth of John's June Bermuda recordings.

For track details and artwork, go here:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 7

And here are the MP3s:

01 DEAR YOKO
02 DEAR YOKO
03 BORROWED TIME
04 I'M STEPPING OUT
05 I'M STEPPING OUT
06 I'M STEPPING OUT
07 BEAUTIFUL BOY
08 BEAUTIFUL BOY
09 BEAUTIFUL BOY
10 BORROWED TIME
11 DEAR YOKO
12 I DON'T WANNA FACE IT
13 GIRLS AND BOYS
14 WATCHING THE WHEELS
15 SERVE YOURSELF
16 NOBODY TOLD ME
17 MEMORIES

Between The Lines, part 6

Disc 6 of "Between The Lines" features more JOHN LENNON home recordings from 1980.

BOOTLEG ZONE has detailed track info, and artwork, here:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 6

And the MP3s are here:

01 WATCHING THE WHEELS
02 STRANGER'S ROOM
03 JOHN HENRY (THE STEEL DRIVING MAN)
04 JOHN HENRY (THE STEEL DRIVING MAN)
05 JOHN HENRY (THE STEEL DRIVING MAN)
06 WATCHING THE WHEELS
07 CORRINA, CORRINA
08 STRANGER'S ROOM
09 STRANGER'S ROOM
10 MY LIFE
11 MY LIFE
12 MY LIFE
13 MY LIFE
14 SERVE YOURSELF
15 SERVE YOURSELF
16 MEMORIES
17 CATHY'S CLOWN
18 YOU SEND ME
19 MEMORIES
20 ("WELCOME TO COLD SPRING HARBOR")
21 DEAR YOKO
22 (DIALOGUE AT CANNON HILL)
23 ELECTRIC GUITAR / DRUM MACHINE BLUES INSTRUMENTAL

To be continued.....

Between The Lines, part 5

Disc 5 of the "Between The Lines". Includes "Life Begins At 40", which John would give to Ringo, "Girls and Boys", which would become "Real Love", and a bit of work on "Watching The Wheels".

Here's the BOOTLEG ZONE page with the artwork:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 5

And here are the MP3s:

01 INDIA, INDIA
02 HELP ME TO HELP MYSELF
03 LIFE BEGINS AT 40
04 ACROSS THE RIVER
05 INSTRUMENTAL
06 INSTRUMENTAL
07 GIRLS AND BOYS
08 GIRLS AND BOYS
09 GIRLS AND BOYS
10 GIRLS AND BOYS
11 WATCHING THE WHEELS
12 WATCHING THE WHEELS
13 WATCHING THE WHEELS
14 WATCHING THE WHEELS
15 WATCHING THE WHEELS
16 WATCHING THE WHEELS
17 WATCHING THE WHEELS
18 WATCHING THE WHEELS
19 WATCHING THE WHEELS
20 WATCHING THE WHEELS
21 WATCHING THE WHEELS
22 WATCHING THE WHEELS
23 WATCHING THE WHEELS
24 WATCHING THE WHEELS

The Grey Album

Since JAY-Z and THE BEATLES both currently have CDs in the Top 5, I thought it would be appropriate to feature "The Grey Album", the already-legendary Beatles/Jay-Z mash-up. Way back in 2004, DANGER MOUSE (now half of GNARLS BARKLEY) put together this great CD using vocal tracks from Jay-Z's "Black Album" along with samples from The Beatles' "White Album". It seems like it was all so long ago.....

For more info on "The Grey Album", go here:

WIKIPEDIA - THE GREY ALBUM

Here are the MP3s:

01 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
02 WHAT MORE CAN I SAY
03 ENCORE
04 DECEMBER 4TH
05 99 PROBLEMS
06 DIRT OFF YOUR SHOULDER
07 MOMENT OF CLARITY
08 CHANGE CLOTHES
09 ALLURE
10 JUSTIFY MY THUG
11 INTERLUDE
12 MY 1ST SONG

Between The Lines, part 4

Okay, I guess its time to get back to "Between The Lines", the 9-CD set of all the available home recordings made by JOHN LENNON from 1975 through 1980. Fascinating stuff.

Here's Disc 4, which features recordings from October 1979 to early 1980.

As with Disc 3, the BOOTLEG ZONE page does not have detailed track info, but the artwork is here:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 4

MP3s are here:

01 AUDIO DIARY 2
02 NOT FOR LOVE NOR MONEY
03 DIALOGUE
04 DIALOGUE
05 SEAN'S "IN THE SKY"
06 SEAN'S "LOUD"
07 SEAN'S "SERVE YOURSELF / BE-BOP-A-LULA"
08 SHE RUNS THEM 'ROUND IN CIRCLES / BEAUTIFUL BOY
09 BEAUTIFUL BOY (INSTRUMENTAL)
10 IMPROVISATION
11 ROCK ISLAND LINE
12 MANY RIVERS TO CROSS / MY GIRL
13 BEAUTIFUL BOY
14 HOWLING AT THE MOON
15 BEAUTIFUL BOY / HOWLING AT THE MOON / ACROSS THE RIVER

Magazine of the Week #48

This week's magazine is the November 30, 1981 issue of CIRCUS.


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The cover story, "The Rolling Stones on tour" by PHILIP BASHE, gives us a quick rundown of The Stones' American tours with a handful of photos, and a two-page color centerfold with photos of the Stones in concert through the years.


















On the "CIRCUS Best Selling Albums" chart, "Tatoo You" is a new entry that went straight to #1.


















In LISA ROBINSON's section, "Front Pages", MICK JAGGER talks a bit about performing:

"Some people want you just to play music, but I think that's a small proportion. I think the vast majority of people want to see a show and hear music. I think they want you to act as daft as possible."

And in "Longplayers", JOHN SWENSON begins his review of "Tattoo You" with this:

"What is heavily rumored to be the Rolling Stones' final album will probably disappoint most fans on initial listening....."













Also in this issue are articles on THE POLICE, BENNY MARDONES, PRETENDERS, and RICK SPRINGFIELD.

31 years ago today

November 28, 1975 -

Friday night, Thanksgiving weekend, EMMYLOU HARRIS AND THE HOT BAND played at "The Boarding House" in San Francisco.








In the early 1970s, Emmylou had been singing and recording with GRAM PARSONS. After his posthumous second LP in 1974, Emmylou signed with Reprise Records and released "Pieces of the Sky" in 1975.

This is an excellent recording of a great show, from a KSAN radio broadcast. They do several songs from Gram's LPs, and NICOLETTE LARSON helps out on "Jambalaya". It's a single hour-long wma file, about 17MB:

EMMYLOU HARRIS - 11/28/75

Here's the set list:

01 Cash On The Barrel Head
02 That's All It Took
03 Feelin' Single - Seein' Double
04 Coat Of Many Colors
05 Amarillo
06 Together Again
07 Return Of The Grievous Angel
08 Bluebird Wine > Hot Band Introduction
09 Tonight The Bottle Let Me Down
10 Boulder To Birmingham
11 Cry One More Time
12 Ooh Las Vegas
13 Shop Around

Encore:
14 Hickory Wind
15 Jambalaya

"The Hot Band", was indeed, very hot, and featured JAMES BURTON, RODNEY CROWELL, HANK DEVITO, EMORY GORDY, GLEN HARDIN, and JOHN WARE.

More Lennon.....

Speaking of JOHN LENNON, there's some nice stuff up at THE SOURCE. As always!

THE SOURCE - AUDIO

Between The Lines, part 3

Moving right along, Disc 3 of the amazing "Between The Lines" presents JOHN LENNON's home recordings from (according to the back cover) September 1979, including the infamous "Audio Diary". Unfortunately, BOOTLEG ZONE's entry for this disc does not include track details.

Here's the page with the artwork:

BOOTLEG ZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 3

And the MP3s, at 192kbs:

01 AUDIO DIARY
02 SERVE YOURSELF
03 SERVE YOURSELF
04 THAT'S THE WAY THE WORLD IS
05 DON'T BE CRAZY
06 DON'T BE CRAZY
07 BABY MAKE LOVE TO YOU
08 BABY MAKE LOVE TO YOU / GIRLS AND BOYS
09 GIRLS AND BOYS
10 REAL LIFE
11 REAL LIFE
12 REAL LIFE
13 REAL LIFE
14 REAL LIFE
15 REAL LIFE
16 REAL LIFE
17 SERVE YOURSELF
18 SERVE YOURSELF
19 GIRLS AND BOYS
20 GIRLS AND BOYS

Between The Lines, part 2

Disc 2 of "Between The Lines" features JOHN LENNON's home recordings from late 1977, through '78, and into 1979.

Here's the page from BOOTLEGZONE with track info and artwork:

BOOTLEGZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 2

And here are the MP3s:

01 ONE OF THE BOYS
02 ONE OF THE BOYS
03 MIRROR MIRROR (ON THE WALL)
04 MIRROR MIRROR (ON THE WALL)
05 MIRROR MIRROR (ON THE WALL)
06 SEA DITTIES
07 MAURICE DUPONT (ACT I)
08 MAURICE DUPONT (ACT II)
09 MAURICE DUPONT (ACT III)
10 TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS / SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
11 ROCK ISLAND LINE
12 BROWN EYED HANDSOME MAN / GET BACK
13 BEYOND THE SEA / BLUE MOON / YOUNG LOVE
14 SATIRE 1
15 SATIRE 2
16 SATIRE 3 / MAGGIE MAE
17 FALLING IN LOVE AGAIN
18 I'M A MAN
19 'TWAS A NIGHT LIKE ETHEL MERMAN
20 (DIALOGUE FOR A SILENT TV)
21 THE GREAT WOK
22 I DON'T WANNA FACE IT
23 I DON'T WANNA FACE IT
24 I WATCH YOUR FACE
25 IT'S REAL

Stay tuned for more.....

Between The Lines, part 1

"Between The Lines" is the 9-CD collection of JOHN LENNON's home recordings from 1975 through 1980, presenting every available recording in chronological order from the best available sources. What more need I say?

The first disc features recordings from 1975-1977.

Here's a page with detailed info and artwork:

BOOTLEGZONE - BETWEEN THE LINES VOLUME 1

And here are the recordings (192 kbs).

01 TENNESSEE
02 TENNESSEE
03 TENNESSEE
04 EVERYBODY
05 SALLY AND BILLY
06 SALLY AND BILLY
07 MUCHO MUNGO
08 COOKIN' (IN THE KITCHEN OF LOVE)
09 COOKIN' (IN THE KITCHEN OF LOVE)
10 COOKIN' (IN THE KITCHEN OF LOVE)
11 SHE'S A FRIEND OF DOROTHY'S
12 SHE'S A FRIEND OF DOROTHY'S
13 I DON'T WANT TO LOSE YOU
14 FREE AS A BIRD
15 FREE AS A BIRD
16 ("TURNED OUT NICE AGAIN")
17 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO.....
18 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO.....

More to come.....

UPDATE 11/25/06: Track 8 has been fixed.

Mea culpa

Its come to my attention that a certain live CD which I thought was a bootleg and recently posted a link to a download of is actually an official release. Sorry about that. I'm certainly not here to advocate downloading commercially available CDs, so please, don't download it - go out and buy it. It comes with a DVD, anyway, so you wouldn't want to miss out on that.......

Magazine of the Week #47

This week we take a look at the November 1974 issue of CRAWDADDY. The cover illustration is by BILL NELSON.


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It features a nice 8-page cover story on THE ROLLING STONES by PAUL WILLIAMS, which really is a lot of fun.

A few excerpts:

"Between The Buttons is one of the major Stones albums because it just won't stop appealing on the musical and structural level. It is an enormously powerful (and complex) realization of the emotions of a moment. Perhaps a personal rather than historical moment, but the beauty of the Stones is that the two become virtually indistinguishable."

"A very different, but equally magnificent moment - perhaps the most sophisticated the Stones ever achieved (which seems odd, because it was so early) - is recorded in The Rolling Stones Now, their third album. Here the Stones sing (and play) Solomon Burke, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf. Not only are their performances brilliant, putting almost all subsequent white blues bands to shame, but the album as a whole offers the listener a special world, a world of endless (this is one of the few albums you can play over and over again, until it literally wears out) subtle and rich delights. It is the world of the Stones' experience of American R&B, probably.....the most profound emotional experience of their collective lives."

As for the then-recent Stones albums, "Exile On Main Street" and "Goats Head Soup", Williams writes:

"The Stones are still good, no question about it, but they've lost their musical preeminence, dimmed their courage and imagination, or allowed it to become dimmed. They don't have much to say. They've lost their immediacy."

And with the new single "Its Only Rock 'n Roll", they "are master musicians who've outlived their myth. They are their own descendants, the inheritors of their former mystique the way McCartney and Lennon are characterized still as ex-Beatles. For now, we are pointing to a very specific period when we speak of the Stones' greatness. But we are pointing at a kind of greatness no other rock musicians could even claim to have approached. And for the rest of their long lives, the generation who grew up with the Stones, who will eventually rule the country, etc, etc, will be shaped and guided by the music that touched them in their formative years."


















We also get 7 pages on JACK NITZSCHE, "Expecting To Fly: From Spector to the Stones to the Springfield to The Exorcist to a solo album he won't, or can't, sell". A great article (by DAVID TALBOT and BARBARA ZHEUTLIN), it includes the illustration (by DAVID PRESTONE) shown above.

And here's a little snippet:

"Nitzsche visits the Stones during their royal '72 tour of the States. The Stones, the undisputed kings and queens of rock 'n roll: they define what rock music is today. Nitzsche tells them bluntly that their music has gone stale - they are repeating their past sound and are destined to become the Chuck Berry of the '80s, faded but not forgotten."
















Lots of other stuff in this issue, including MUDDY WATERS, LITTLE FEAT, STUDS TERKEL, ETTA JAMES, and a review of ROBERT ALTMAN's new film "California Split".

And for more info on Crawdaddy, here's their website:

CRAWDADDY - THE MAGAZINE FOR MUSIC LOVERS

Ain't Too Proud To Bleg

Speaking of LEON RUSSELL.....

2006 has certainly been The Year Of The Music Blog. I never could have imagined that so much great music would be shared like this. All the different live shows, outtakes, and rare and obscure stuff that have turned up this past year is just mind-boggling.

But there's one classic LP that has never been released on CD that I think has been conspicuous by its absence - Leon Russell's 1976 release "The Wedding Album". I never did get a copy of this when it was available on vinyl, and with all the blogs and 'boards these days, I was sure I would run into it somewhere, at some point, in some format, but as yet, no luck.

So since I've become completely spoiled with all these music downloads, I have to ask - does anyone out there have a copy? I'd love to post the MP3s here. Please let me know - you can either post a comment to this posting, or email me at culpadirect@yahoo.com.

Thanks in advance!

36 years ago today

November 21, 1970:

Eight months after the legendary "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" shows with JOE COCKER, LEON RUSSELL was back at the Fillmore East in New York City. This time he was sharing the bill with ELTON JOHN. (Four nights earlier, Elton had played the show that would be released as a live LP called "11-17-70").

Anyway, here's Leon's show from 11-21-70, over an hour long, as a single 32MB wma file:

LEON RUSSELL - 11/21/70

1. Girl From The North Country
2. A Song For You
3. Get Out Of My Life Woman
4. Slippin’ and Slidin’
5. Hummingbird
6. Blues Power>Shoot Out On The Plantation
7. Dixie Lullabye
8. Sweet Little Angel (vocal by Don Preston)
9. I Put A Spell On You
10. Pisces Apple Lady
11. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
12. Prince Of Peace
13. Give Peace A Chance>
14. Masters Of War>
15. Give Peace A Chance
16. Delta Lady
17. Roll Away The Stone
18. Great Balls Of Fire

UPDATE: To give credit where credit is due, the photo of Leon, above, which actually is from the Fillmore show, was taken by photographer ED WOLPOV. To see some more of Ed's great photos, you can check out this page:

http://www.geocities.com/bsmall2/Photos/EdWolpov.htm

Real Live Zinhof

Here's a cool one - ZINHOF has "Real Live Roadrunning", a live MARK KNOPFLER and EMMYLOU HARRIS show from earlier this year in Los Angeles. Excellent quality. Its mostly stuff from their "All The Roadrunning" CD, but there are some other things too, including "Boulder To Birmingham". Very nice!

ZINHOF - REAL LIVE ROADRUNNING

Goto VU

Japanese indie musician SHINOBU GOTO has some VELVET UNDERGROUND covers that are posted over at BIG O.

Here's the page with his version of "Sister Ray":

http://bigozine3.com/rarities/?p=60

And "Murder Mystery" and "Candy Says", which he recorded last month with ARIOMI MORIMOTO, are here:

http://www.bigozine2.com/archive/ARrarities06/ARsgsterling.html

Magazine of the Week #46

Now here's a real classic - the November 1977 issue of GUITAR PLAYER, featuring a cover story interview with KEITH RICHARD (no "s") by SCOTT E. KUTINA.



In the 1970s, serious interviews with Keith were pretty rare.

Here Keith talks about all sorts of music-related stuff - guitars, amps, strings, open tunings, songs, his musical interaction with the other band members - absolutely fascinating.






Here are some excerpts:

"I started to use open tunings on Beggars Banquet. During that long recording lay-off after Between The Buttons, I got rather bored with what I was playing on guitar - maybe because we weren't working, and it was part of that frustration of stopping after all those years, and suddenly having nothing to do. So my playing sort of stopped, along with me. Then I started looking into some Twenties and Thirties blues records. Slowly I began to realize that a lot of them were in very strange tunings. These guys would pick up a guitar, and a lot of times it would be tuned a certain way, and that's how they'd learn to play it. It might be some amazing sort of a mode, some strange thing. And that's why for years you could have been trying to figure out how some guy does this lick, and then you realize that he has this one string that is supposed to be up high, and he has it tuned down an octave lower. Anyway I eventually got into open-D tuning [D, A, D, F#, A, D, low to high], which I used on Beggars Banquet. "Street Fighting Man" is all that, and "Jumpin' Jack Flash". "Child of the Moon" was one of the early open tuning numbers on the electric guitars, because "Street Fighting Man" was all acoustic guitars. There's no electric guitar parts at all."

Even that high end lead part?

"That was a cassette player with no limiter. Just distortion. Just two acoustics, played right into the mike, and hit very hard. There's a sitar in the back, too. That would give the effect of the high notes on the guitar. And Charlie was playing his little 1930s drummer's practice kit. It was all sort of built into a little attache case, so some drummer who was going to his gig on the train could sort of open it up - with two little things about the size of small tambourines without the bells on them, and the skin was stretched over that. And he'd set up this little cymbal, and this little hi-hat would unfold. Charlie sat right in front of the microphone with it. I mean, this drum sounds massive. When you're recording, the size of things has got nothing to do with it. Its how you record them. Everything there was totally acoustic. The only electric instrument on there is the bass guitar, which I overdubbed afterwards."

An excellent interview, it just goes on and on like that.

There's also an article on MISSISSIPPI FRED MCDOWELL, with some sheet music for a couple of his songs, including "You Got To Move".


















And there are articles on PHIL LESH, JOHN SEBASTIAN, and "THE WHO'S SOUND SYSTEM: How it grew from 200 to 75,000 watts".

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Ulf's Wood

The great ULF'S LIST has audio from RONNIE WOOD's December 8, 2001 gig in Dublin, featuring SLASH.

Lots of cool stuff there, including "Hey Negrita", "Miss You", "Mystifies Me", "Stay With Me", and more.

Here's the page:

ULF'S LIST

And here's a page with more info on the show:

IORR - RONNIE WOOD LIVE 2001

Thanks Ulf!

A few links

Here are some cool links from the past few days - a couple of recent shows, and an old boot. They're all working as of this posting:

CHOCOREVE has THE ROLLING STONES in Oakland, CA, November 6, 2006:

CHOCOREVE - ROLLING STONES

GAMBRINUS MP3 has "PATTI SMITH - The Last Show", that is, the last show ever at CBGB, October 15, 2006:

GAMBRINUS MP3 - PATTI SMITH

And ROKANROLL has "Trouble In Mind", a JANIS JOPLIN bootleg:

ROKANROLL - JANIS JOPLIN

Veterans Day

Magazine of the Week #45

"Is Jagger too jaded? Is Richards too ripped? Has the moss finally gathered? After 20 years of sex, drugs, love, hate, life and death, the Stones prove they can still roll."

Here's another one from 25 years ago - the November 10, 1981 issue of US magazine. Its MICK JAGGER and JERRY HALL on the cover, with a story on THE ROLLING STONES by MICHAEL CABLE.

Here are some excerpts:

".....1969 was a critical year for the group. They became a frivolous, flamboyant circus act after that, as if they had finally faced the devil that year and been scared out of taking themselves seriously. Following the 1972 album Exile On Main Street, critics saw a rapid decline from hot rock to tepid schlock. More censure was heard from the Stones' own generation than from the older one. John Lennon called Jagger a joke. Later, David Bowie described Jagger as less a sex symbol than a mother image."

We read about Keith's heroin addiction:

"It was waking up finding 15 Mounties around my bed that finally shocked me out of it," he says, referring to his 1977 Canadian arrest. "That was my flash of white light. It had got to the point where there was no real choice left. It was either go down the hole for a vast number of years or pull myself out of it. I realized I was destroying the band and destroying my kids."

We hear from Mick:

"I won't get married again," he responds to the general subject of women. "I'm a bit of a Catholic when it comes to that - I believe you only get one chance."





Mick also talks about his personal security:

"You have to be careful," says Jagger, "but you can't spend your life being paranoid. On stage, you can watch the first 30 rows for the nutter with a handgun. But if somebody's out there with a high-powered rifle, there's not much you can do about it."

And a little more from Keith:

"Everybody assumes we keep playing for the money," he says. "but we didn't start this thing for bread and we're not continuing for bread. In fact, the money is the drag. Spending all your time with tax lawyers is exceedingly boring. In fact, come to think of it, it was them who drove me to junk!"

ALO @ EIL

EIL.COM has an exclusive interview with ANDREW LOOG OLDHAM in their latest (November 7th) email newsletter. You can sign up for the weekly newsletter at their main page:

EIL.COM

Here's an excerpt from the interview:

JOHN DEVLIN: I know that you were a big part in helping the Rolling Stones become so big, and it was you who put Mick and Keith together to write music.Why didn't you go to Brian Jones and put him in the mix? He was one of the leaders... neither Mick, Keith or Brian at the time could write music. I never understood why you didn't go to Brian and Mick? Plus HOW much of their music did you really help write in the early days?

ANDREW: John, You looked at the likely lads... the ones who were not confused by the game and that was Mick and Keith. In fact, I did try and get the songs out of Brian he professed to have in him. I put him in a hotel room with Gene Pitney, who was no slouch in the song-writing department ["Hello, Mary Lou" and "He's a Rebel" etc] and the results were C sides. You cannot write down to pop music, it smells out the fake. And in that department Brian was a fake... he wanted the rewards of pop , but viewed himself a purist, and Mick and Keith's early efforts junk, though he did not mind jumping around on stage and TV to them. A convoluted, talented, very talented, tortured annoying human being. As for the " HOW much" of your question I did not write any of their music save change the title and edit some verses on what became " as tears go by" and write a couple of songs with Keith. Very best, ALO

Marq DeSouza

Canadian singer-songwriter-guitarist MARQ DESOUZA, who you may remember from SOLARBABY, has a very cool new self-titled CD out. I'm glad to feature two great tracks from the CD here, "Daddy Doom" and "Glimpse of Her":

DADDY DOOM - MARQ DESOUZA

GLIMPSE OF HER - MARQ DESOUZA

Anyway, check them out, and if you like what you hear, head on over to CD Baby and get yourself the whole CD. Its good stuff, that I'm sure would appeal to a lot of the ROLLING STONES fans out there. (And I've always been a fan of male/female duets, and there's a great one here, called "All You Had To Say Was Hi"):

www.cdbaby.com/marqdesouza


















And speaking of The Stones (as I sometimes do!), Marq also has a wonderful DIY-type CD of Dylan and Stones covers, called "Like A Rolling Stones". Not commercially available, these four-tracked home recordings don't have the same production as the self-titled CD, but I know there are a lot of folks out there who enjoy all sorts of Stones covers, and these are a lot of fun. So here are a couple of them:

LET IT BLEED (MARQ DESOUZA - LIKE A ROLLING STONES)

SWAY (MARQ DESOUZA - LIKE A ROLLING STONES)

For more info on Marq (and music and videos!) check these pages:

http://www.marqdesouza.com/

www.myspace.com/marqdesouza

And if you're in the Vancouver area, he has a couple of solo acoustic gigs coming up, November 17 at Trees, and November 23 at Limerick Junction. Tell him Culpa sent you!