BZ RIP

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Very sad news - apparently Bootleg Zone is no more.

This is the message currently on their home page:

"Sorry folks, this site is closed permanently.

Many thanks to all of you for your support during all those years !

-tilleul

PS: don't bother sending mails, all my previous email addresses are either deleted or never checked.

Keep on rocking !"

The end of an era.

2007 Magazine of the Week #8

The March 1979 issue of GROOVES, featuring more than 20 pages on THE WHO.

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We get some news on what The Who have been up to:

"At present, The Who are working on a film based on Quadrophenia. Called The Kids Are Alright (the title taken from a song on their first album), its dedicated to the kids The Who were and the same kids in each generation who are changing society or just rebelling. As musical director for the movie, Pete will compose about 4 new songs for the soundtrack, while Roger will act in the film along with unknown actors. The film will include interviews with the individual Who members as well as footage of Who concerts throughout their 15-year history."

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.In "New Wave News" we get this interesting bit of info:

"The DAVE EDMUNDS / NICK LOWE fall tour came to a grinding halt following the on-stage breakdown of VAN MORRISON in New York. It was a pretty exciting event, however, when at their appearance at the late show ROLLING STONES guitarist KEITH RICHARD got up to jam. Lowe had been quoted as saying it was "embarassing" because Keith was pretty "out of it". Still, the audience loved it as Lowe called out chord changes during Edmunds' well-known opener, "Down Down Down"."

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Lots and lots of great photos in this magazine. Also a big pull-out poster with pics of ROGER DALTREY, CHEAP TRICK, STEVIE NICKS, HALL AND OATES, and STYX, and 18 pages on ALICE COOPER.

All the world is birthday cake.....

To celebrate what would have been GEORGE HARRISON's 64th birthday, here are some cool cover versions of his songs.

Happy birthday George!

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SOUR MILK SEA - JACKIE LOMAX

BLUE JAY WAY - BUD SHANK w/ CHET BAKER

SAVOY TRUFFLE - ELLA FITZGERALD

IF I NEEDED SOMEONE - THE HOLLIES

TRY SOME, BUY SOME - RONNIE SPECTOR

TE NECESITO (I NEED YOU) - LOS MUSTANG

SOMETHING - SONNY & CHER

MY SWEET LORD - PAUL MAURIAT

And head over to THE BEATLE SOURCE for more birthday treats.......

More Funny Pages

Here's a cute one I came across today - its by PHIL SELBY.

















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THE RUT - SELBY COMIC

And here's a page with all of the ROLLING STONES-related comic strips I posted last year:

CULPA DIRECT - THE FUNNY PAGES

ChocoReed

If I was giving out "Blog of the Month" Awards, this month the award would go to CHOCOREVE, hands down. They've posted a bunch of different VELVET UNDERGROUND bootlegs just in the past week or two.

Check out this page and scroll down for lots of cool VU (and you might even find some ROLLING STONES!):

CHOCOREVE.BLOGSPOT.COM

And speaking of Velvets' boots, HEAR ROCK CITY also has one - called "The Psychopath's Rolling Stones". Its here:

VELVET UNDERGROUND - THE PSYCHOPATH'S ROLLING STONES

UPDATE: There must be something going around. Someone just pointed out that KWAYA NA KISSER has a live NICO show from Ronnie Scott's in London, April 8th, 1985. Its here:

Nico: Live at Ronnie Scott's, London, April 8, 1985

2007 Magazine of the Week #7

Better late than never, here's what should have been last week's Magazine of the Week.










Its the February/March 1977 issue of TROUSER PRESS, "America's Only British Rock Magazine". According to the writing at the top of the cover, it arrived in-store exactly 30 years ago today.

The cover story is on DAVID BOWIE, "The Man Who Fell From Grace", by JOHN WALKER.

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There's an excellent interview with JOHN ENTWISTLE. Here are some excerpts:

TP: You are working on a cartoon book. How is it progressing?

JE: Well, according to the Inland Revenue, I am supposed to be drawing it on this tour, you see, so its going very well. I'm drawing [looks up, rolls eyes] an awful lot.

TP: Will it be released in this country as well as England?

JE: Oh yeah, I should imagine roughly the same time as the next WHO album. We will try to get it out then.

TP: What are the contents?

JE: It starts off with some imaginary ancestors of the band's members. Each ancestor has a little bit of the character of one of the group. I have about four ancestors for each one of us. Completely imaginary, of course. They have nothing to do with our real ancestors. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. Then it goes into the history of The Who, written from my point of view; from when I first started playing going all the way through to when I met the rest of the band.

They also discuss John's solo albums, and John had this to say about his 1975 solo tour:

"Well, it cost me quite a bit; I lost about $70,000. But it was worthwhile to me. It gave me a sense of self-confidence. I had to make the announcements, play the lead, and sing. I learned a lot about my voice and its capabilities. So if I had to do it over, I probably would. There were problems in the way of a slight conflict between myself and my lead gutarist [Robert Johnson]. I hate the guy; I'll never play with him again. But all in all I learned a lot. To head off your next question, there are no immediate plans for another tour, but it's on my mind."

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There's an article on "The British New Wave", plus "America Underground", and a bunch of record reviews, including STEVE HILLAGE, DENNY LAINE, and BLONDIE.

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John Lennon Remembered

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STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER: JOHN LENNON REMEMBERED

By Vic Garbarini and Brian Cullman with Barbara Graustark. Introduction by Dave Marsh.

Shortly after Lennon's death there was a spate of quick and cheap paperbacks and magazines published to cash in. This Bantam Books Extra is actually copyright 1980, so it must have come out quickly indeed. This one is interesting if only for the fact that it contains 40 pages of John's exclusive interview with Newsweek magazine from 1980.

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Return of the Grievous Blogger

"Far out.......sorry you had to wait....."

After an unintentional week off from blogging I'm back and rarin' to go. Coming up are last week's Magazine Of The Week, this week's Magazine, another ROLLING STONES vinyl bootleg, some more JOHN LENNON stuff, and of course something for GEORGE HARRISON's birthday.

And while I'm at it, Happy Belated Birthday to YOKO ONO, whose 74th was last Sunday, February 18th. Here's "Why Not", from her 1970 LP, "Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band". Its a pretty interesting track, with just John Lennon on guitar, RINGO STARR on drums, KLAUS VOORMAN on bass, and Yoko warbling a bit:

WHY NOT - YOKO ONO

See ya soon!

Hear Rock Covers

The HEAR ROCK CITY blog has been posting some very cool stuff the past week or so, including a collection of GRATEFUL DEAD and related bands doing covers of ROLLING STONES songs.

Here's the page:

HEAR ROCK CITY - OUT OF OUR DEAD HEADS

Lots of other goodies there, too.......

JFK Stadium '78

On June 17, 1978 THE ROLLING STONES played at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Its not necessarily known as one of the better shows of the '78 tour, but I was there, so I have some fond memories of the (rainy) day (and night before - "sleeping out" at the stadium in the hope of getting close to the stage at the general admission show).

I haven't seen this show posted anywhere else yet, so here it is. This is a rip from the old vinyl boot "JFK Stadium '78", a double-LP on the Phoenix label. Its not broken down into individual tracks, its just one MP3 for each of the four LP sides.

JFK STADIUM '78 - SIDE 1
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/374739/JFK_78_Culpa_side_1.mp3 Let It Rock
All Down The Line
Honky Tonk Women
Star Star
When The Whip Comes Down

JFK STADIUM '78 - SIDE 2
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/374764/JFK_78_Culpa_side_2.mp3
Miss You
Just My Imagination
Respectable
Beast Of Burden

JFK STADIUM '78 - SIDE 3
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/374790/JFK_78_Culpa_side_3.mp3
Far Away Eyes
Love In Vain
Shattered
Satisfaction

JFK STADIUM '78 - SIDE 4
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/374817/JFK_78_Culpa_side_4.mp3
Sweet Little Sixteen
Tumbling Dice
Happy
Brown Sugar
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Notice that my ticket stub only says "ONES", or at best "TONES", instead of "ROLLING STONES". They weren't very careful when tearing tickets back then!

And here's a link to my post from last year with a newspaper ad for the show:
http://culpadirect.blogspot.com/2006/05/jfk-78.html

2007 Magazine of the Week #6

Here's another one from the Golden Age of Rock Mags -

the February 1976 issue of CREEM.

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There's the BOB DYLAN cover story by JIM JEROME (with photos by BOB GRUEN).

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Bob says:
"Music is just what I do. If I'm workin' I'm happy. I don't even know if its music, to tell you the truth. But I work on multi-levels. Music is music, I don't think of country music, pop, and rock and roll. I just think of music. I'm not going to be stuck in a pattern of anything."

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There's a story on THE WHO by ROY CARR. KEITH MOON talks about getting back together for the LP and tour:

"Obviously, it came as a great relief to me to start working with the band yet again. I'd become so bored, that I'd been spending all my time making life-size models of the Queen out of nose-pickings. It had been well over a year since we'd finished the Tommy movie and truthfully, the prospects of the 'Oo coming together again seemed less likely."

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LESTER BANGS has a long article on LOU REED. Of course they talk quite a bit about Lou's "Metal Machine Music" LP.


Lou says:

"Just sit down and you can hear Beethoven right in the opening part of it. Its down there in, like, you know, about the fifteenth harmonic. But its not the only one there, there's about 17 more going at the same time. It just depends which one you catch. And when I say Beethoven, you know, there are other people in there. Vivaldi.....I used pretty obvious ones....."

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Lester also reviews PATTI SMITH's "Horses", and there's a review of TELEVISION's "Little Johnny Jewel (Parts 1 & 2)" Limited Edition 45 rpm.

LISA ROBINSON's "Eleganza" feature takes a look at the fashion aspects of Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Revue", and she also has an article on ROXY MUSIC.

And in "The Christgau Consumer Guide", critic ROBERT CHRISTGAU gives PINK FLOYD's "Wish You Were Here" an A Minus, and "The WHO By Numbers" a B Plus.

Lou America Remix

I don't know how I missed this one - apparently its been around for a while, but I'd never heard of it until just now. Its LOU REED's "Blue America Remix" of "Walk On The Wild Side", featuring a new verse about the Iraq War. Yikes!

Here's the page at FIREDOGLAKE with the MP3:

FIREDOGLAKE - FROM LOU TO YOU

Gimme Streetlab

Be sure to check out the "Streetlab Remix" of "Gimme Shelter", over at Streetlab.net. Interesting stuff. You can stream it or download the MP3.

Here's the page, which also includes some other remixes:

STREETLAB.NET

A half dozen more live Stones covers

So far it looks like 2007 is shaping up to be The Year of the Live Stones Covers. I recently took a quick look around over at LIVE MUSIC ARCHIVE and found a bunch of them, just from the past month.

For instance:

1/5/07 - DIG THE PARTICULARS in Seattle, WA:
PAINT IT BLACK

1/13/07 - DAVID GANS with SHOCKENAW MOUNTAIN BOYS in Newton, NJ:
WILD HORSES

1/21/07 - RADIATORS in Westport, CT:
PLAY WITH FIRE

1/31/07 - NEW RIDERS OF THE PURPLE SAGE in Edwards, CO, with two Stones covers:
DEAD FLOWERS
LET IT BLEED

2/1/07 - YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND in Austin, TX:
NO EXPECTATIONS

And if you like what I posted here, head on over and check out the full shows. Gotta love that Live Music Archive!!!

Re-post: Between The Lines 1-9

Here it is, my re-posting of the complete 9-CD set of JOHN LENNON's 1975-1980 home recordings.

And please remember, I don't claim to be posting lossless archival quality stuff here - its all just MP3s. These are at 192 kbps, so they sound great (in my opinion) but still, some folks are real purists about this kind of thing. I just think its great to be able to get all this stuff, and I'm glad to be able to share it here.

So here ya go:

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 1:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/306765/BTL_1.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 2:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/310226/BTL_2.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 3:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/310384/BTL_3.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 4:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/320266/BTL_4.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 5:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/320392/BTL_5.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 6:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/338162/BTL_6.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 7:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/338303/BTL_7.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 8:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/346453/BTL_8.rar

BETWEEN THE LINES DISC 9:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php/349605/BTL_9.rar

2007 Magazine of the Week #5

Since we've already looked at two magazines this year with ROGER DALTREY on the cover, here's one with PETE TOWNSHEND -

- its the November 25, 1975 issue of CIRCUS ("Now Bi-Weekly").





Lots of good stuff in this issue, including news about JEFF BECK, ERIC CLAPTON, DAVID BOWIE, ELTON JOHN, and more.
















In the article on THE WHO, we read Daltrey's version of his fight with Pete during the "Quadrophenia" sessions:

"It was a bit of a shame because it was a non-argument and the last thing I wanted to do in the world was to have a fist-fight with Pete Townshend.....Unfortunately, he hit me first with a guitar. I really felt terrible about it afterwards. What can you say? Pete should never try to be a fighter."

"But when he was being held back by two roadies and he's spitting at me, calling me a dirty little c*nt and hitting me with his guitar I became quite angry. And I was forced to lay one on him. But it was only one."



In the Top 20 LPs, LED ZEPPELIN's "Physical Graffitti" is at #1. There are two ROLLING STONES LPs, "Made In The Shade" (at #15) and "Its Only Rock'n Roll" (at #20), and three Bowie albums - "Young Americans", "David Live", and "Diamond Dogs".

And there's this classic photo of the legendary WAYNE COUNTY.




And Elton for Pioneer -

"Pioneer makes fantastic components."


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