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!

The High Numbers

The "MOD 64" blog has "The Who Remembers The High Numbers", studio and live recordings from 1964:

MOD 64 - REMEMBER THE HIGH NUMBERS

Your Crazy Mash-up

Here's a fun track that's been making the rounds lately - its a mash-up of ELTON JOHN's "Your Song" and GNARLS BARKLEY's "Crazy":

YOUR CRAZY MASHUP

Low Tide and Fair Hits

CHOCOREVE has "Low Tide And Fair Hits", THE ROLLING STONES live in Berlin, May 3, 1976.

The page is here:

CHOCOREVE - ROLLING STONES - BERLIN '76

Magazine of the Week #44

Its hard to believe its been 25 years.

The December 1981 issue of IRA ROBBINS' great TROUSER PRESS magazine featured a BILL WYMAN cover story by BILL FLANAGAN.





Here are some excerpts from the interview with Bill:

"I don't think I write the kind of songs the Rolling Stones could record."

"I don't think they really want that injection of material," Wyman says with the demeanor of someone who knows what he's dealing with. "I think they're quite happy to have the whole bag instead of a piece of it. And I think it works for the band that way. It's been a slight frustration over the years. It was to Mick Taylor when he couldn't join in. It was to me for a while. That's why I did the solo albums and got that out of my system; now I don't worry about it."
















He talks a bit about the early Stones tours:

"Every day there was madness. Police women being carried to the hospital, police dogs going insane and being shot. They used to put police dogs at each end of the stage; they'd go nuts from the noise and screaming, and have to be shot. Every single day over a period of six months - every day a riot."



Elsewhere in the magazine, there are articles on PSYCHEDLIC FURS, THE GO-GO'S, KILLING JOKE, and RICK SPRINGFIELD.









WAYNE KING's review of the "Tattoo You" LP wraps up with this:

"Tattoo You, as an accurate chronicle of this group's perpetual alienation, isn't a bad album. But if you believe rock can be about integration - about people fitting together instead of pulling apart - then its just another Rolling Stones record."

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Star Star American Style

Here's one more reposting - the "cleaned-up" version of "Star Star" from the U.S. vinyl "Goats Head Soup" LP:

STAR STAR (U.S. VINYL)

For more info, my original post on this, including the printed lyrics to "Starbucker", is here:

STARBUCKER - CULPA DIRECT

Don't Space Out

Here's a reposting of the B-side of the 12-inch vinyl version of PETER TOSH's "Don't Look Back". Its a great spacey dub mix, called "Don't Look Back (Don't Space Out"), featuring, of course, MICK JAGGER:

DON'T LOOK BACK (DON'T SPACE OUT)

Elephant's Memory

In 1972 JOHN LENNON and YOKO ONO got together with the New York band ELEPHANT'S MEMORY. Together they recorded the "Sometime In New York City" LP, performed on John and Yoko's week-long stint co-hosting "The Mike Douglas Show", and played the two "One To One" benefit concerts at Madison Square Garden which would eventually become the "Live In New York City" LP and video.

Also in 1972, John and Yoko produced Elephant's Memory's self-titled Apple LP, which still has not been released on CD. But no problem, its available now over at XXXROCKRULA.

Here's the page:

XXXROCKRULA - ELEPHANT'S MEMORY

Magazine of the Week #43

"He's a good egg, isn't he?" - Patti Hansen

Trying to get back on track here, here's the "Magazine of the Week" that should have been posted last week.







The October 1983 issue of THE RECORD (published by ROLLING STONE magazine) featured an exclusive KEITH RICHARDS interview for its cover story, "Flowers and Thorns: Reflections of a Rolling Stone" by DAVID McGEE.



Keith talks about the early Stones years, his relationship with MICK JAGGER, songwriting, KEITH MOON, and how MTV doesn't show enough black artists.








Here's a little of what Keith had to say:

On The Beatles: "I think the only reason The Beatles didn't get back together again was the fear of the anticlimax. I have no doubt really that if it was left up to those four guys themselves, they might have just taken a vacation for a year or two then carried on again. Sometimes people take the most drastic steps when they're totally unnecessary. Witness Mick Taylor. Not that he didn't want to play with the Stones, just that he wanted to do other things. But in the Stones there's enough free time to do anything you want to do. In actual fact, Mick Taylor did virtually nothing. And the same situation really applies to the Beatles. There was no need for them to break up. They could've taken a couple of years off, resolved their problems and still carried on. It would have been an intriguing thing, and probably better for music all around, if they'd stuck it out."


Also in this issue, articles on EURYTHMICS, JAMES BROWN, EDDY GRANT, CARLENE CARTER, and a look at the recording of NEIL YOUNG's "Everybody's Rockin'" LP.







And in their list of the "Top 100 Albums", we find THE POLICE's "Synchronicity" at #1, followed by MICHAEL JACKSON's "Thriller", and the "Flashdance" soundtrack.

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Happy Halloween

"Down in the graveyard
Where we have our tryst
The air smells sweet
The air smells sick....."

Here's a Halloween-appropriate song from THE ROLLING STONES. Its a live version of their scary "Dancing With Mr. D", from September 13, 1973, in Newcastle, featuring BILLY PRESTON.

Happy Halloween!

DANCING WITH MR. D - 9/13/73

"Lord have mercy - fire and brimstone!
I was dancin' with Mrs. D....."

Wyman's 70th

Born WILLIAM PERKS on October 24, 1936, BILL WYMAN celebrated his 70th birthday last week. I was unable to connect to the internet at the time, so I'll have to settle for a belated birthday post. Sorry Bill!




Anyway, here's an early Wyman tune, recorded by THE ROLLING STONES on November 8, 1964, but never officially released. Its a fun little song called "Goodbye Girl":

GOODBYE GIRL - THE ROLLING STONES


















And here's something that I posted a while back - from 1981, the very cool 7-minute 12-inch remix of Bill's international hit "(Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star".

(SI SI) JE SUIS UN ROCK STAR - LONG VERSION

And to go along with that, here are the two versions of "Si Si" from Bill's underrated "Green Ice" soundtrack LP:

SI SI ("GREEN ICE" SOUNDTRACK)

SI SI - REPRISE ("GREEN ICE" SOUNDTRACK)


















Also posted before, here's a live BILL WYMAN AND THE RHYTHM KINGS show from April 25, 2000 in Germany. Its a 15MB wma file. Click here to see my original post, including the track list (they even do The Stones' song "Melody").

RHYTHM KINGS 4/25/00


And here's a re-posting of a rare video of Bill (with The Rhythm Kings) singing CHUCK BERRY's "You Never Can Tell" from 2005. Click here for my original posting, with some more info.

YOU NEVER CAN TELL - WYMAN VIDEO

Happy birthday Bill!

Connection

"Connection
I just can't make no
Connection
But all I want to do
Is to get back to you."

So after nine days of not being able to connect to the internet (don't get me started!), I'm finally back online. And I've got some catching up to do.

Stay tuned.

20th Anniversary Collector's Kit, part 1

In 1983, THE ROLLING STONES OFFICIAL FAN CLUB issued "The Rolling Stones 20th Anniversary Collector's Kit", an LP-sized package filled with cool Stones stuff.

The front cover featured a large Hot Licks with a front flap that opened about a third of the way from the top, die-cut along the bottom of the teeth:














The back cover had a picture of the kit's contents pasted on:















Included were these five color 8x10s:





























More from the kit to come.....

Magazine of the Week #42

This week we feature another magazine with an October 1978 cover date: it's HIT PARADER, from its golden age when LISA ROBINSON was at the helm.

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The cover story is the MICK JAGGER Hit Parader Interview, by Robinson of course. The interview took place before the release of the "Some Girls" LP.


















They discuss BIANCA:
Mick: "Well, I guess it's time for a change. I think, a change for Bianca. It's probably very good for her not to be with me."

And they discuss Mick's playing guitar on the new LP:
Mick: "I had a lot of fun playing guitar. The rest of the band was very cute about it to me and Keith gave me a guitar as a Christmas present. He had it specially made for me, it was nice."

Plenty of other cool stuff in this issue too. We get a "Patti Smith Update", where we learn that Patti was upset by the disco music being played at a post-gig party on Sunset Strip, and insisted that they play THE ROLLING STONES. When she threatened to leave, someone had to make a quick run to Tower Records for some Stones LPs, and "the evening was saved".


Also articles on TOM WAITS, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, LITTLE FEAT, "The Last Waltz", KRAFTWERK, KANSAS, EAGLES, and WINGS. Album reviews include Wings' "London Town", THE KINKS' "Misfits", and the LP of DAVID BOWIE narrating PROKOFIEV's "Peter and the Wolf".




Plus "Words To The Latest Hit Songs", including ELTON JOHN's "Ego", and ERIC CLAPTON's "Wonderful Tonight".

And there are ads for "ELVIS PRESLEY Memorial Posters", "Elvis Presley Jewelry", and a magazine called "Hit Parader Presents The Immortal Elvis".

Happy Birthday Chuck

Yes, today is CHUCK BERRY's 80th birthday.










And to celebrate, we go back to the early '60s at the BBC, where Chuck's songs got covered quite a bit by both THE BEATLES and THE ROLLING STONES. Here's a half-dozen from each, all recorded live at the Beeb in 1963 and 1964, back when Chuck was a grizzled old rocker in his late 30s.

First up, The Beatles:

I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU
SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN
TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS
ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN
CAROL
JOHNNY B. GOODE

And here's The Rolling Stones:

COME ON
MEMPHIS TENNESSEE
DON'T LIE TO ME
BYE BYE JOHNNY
BEAUTIFUL DELILAH
AROUND AND AROUND




Happy birthday Chuck!

I'm A Pink Bee

Here's a great early PINK FLOYD track that someone sent me, that I'd never heard before. Its their 1965 recording of "King Bee". Very nice. Many thanks!

KING BEE - THE PINK FLOYD

Even More Live Stones Covers

For some reason I'm not able to upload any images at this time, so here's yet another post with a couple of Stones covers and no pics.

This time its good ol' TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY with two pretty lively live tracks:

UNDER MY THUMB - TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY

JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - TERENCE TRENT D'ARBY

The Source, of course

One of the best sites out there, THE BEATLE SOURCE, is featuring "An October Tribute To John". They've got some excellent stuff, THE DIRTY MAC sessions, the "Cold Turkey" demos, acetates from the "Plastic Ono Band" and "Imagine" LPs, the Fillmore concert with FRANK ZAPPA, and more.

Of course I shouldn't have to be telling you this, because you should already be checking "The Source" regularly.....

BEATLE SOURCE - AN OCTOBER TRIBUTE TO JOHN

And you should also already know that they have lots of other cool stuff there too:

BEATLE SOURCE - MAIN

BEATLE SOURCE - AUDIO

In The Park

LAGRIMA PSICODELICA has posted MP3s of the audio from "The Stones In The Park", the film of THE ROLLING STONES' July 5, 1969 concert in London's Hyde Park. It was MICK TAYLOR's live debut as a Stone, just days after the death of BRIAN JONES. The MP3s include all the little interview bits from the film, as well as the musical performances.

MICK: "I don't believe in Western bereavement - you know, I can't suddenly drape a long black veil and walk the hills, but it still is very upsetting..."

Here's the page:

LAGRIMA IN THE PARK

Flamin' Covers

The TWILIGHTZONE! blog has a pretty cool FLAMIN' GROOVIES post featuring some bootleg stuff and tracks from an old EP that are "unavailable on album".

Lots of covers, including "Paint It Black" (produced by DAVE EDMUNDS), "Jumpin' Jack Flash", "Sweet Little Rock 'n Roller", and "Little Queenie".

Here's the page:

TWILIGHTZONE! - FLAMIN' GROOVIES

Cover Power

What do THE ROLLING STONES, VELVET UNDERGROUND, and DAVID BOWIE have in common?

Well, for one thing they all had songs of theirs covered by CAT POWER at her May 14, 1999 show at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. That would be The Stones' "Satisfaction", VU's "I Found A Reason" and "The Ocean", and Bowie's "Wild Is The Wind".

And RBALLY has MP3s of the show, but be careful - its some seriously sad music - not for the easily depressed!

Here's the page:

RBALLY - CAT POWER LIVE

(And "The Ocean" is listed as "Unknown Song").

Magazine of the Week #41

US Magazine featured a MICK JAGGER cover story by ROBERT HILBURN on its October 3, 1978 issue.


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Of course, with "Us", there's always some hot gossip, and here Hilburn gives us the lowdown on Jagger's women, including BIANCA ("filing for divorce"), JERRY HALL ("whom he has been seeing steadily since last winter"), and LINDA RONSTADT ("still good friends").


















And there's this interesting paragraph:

"The gossips had a field day with the recent paternity suit launched against Jagger by MARSHA HUNT, an English actress now living in L.A. According to Hunt, Jagger has been paying $17 a week in child support since he allegedly fathered her daughter eight years ago in London. Annoyed at the attention the suit has drawn, Jagger - who has never acknowledged paternity - has kept mum on the subject..."

Recent LPs in the "Don't Miss" column include "Some Girls", "Who Are You", and DYLAN's "Street Legal".

Also in this issue, an article on CARLENE CARTER - "Country's third generation", ADRIENNE BARBEAU, MIKE WALLACE at 60, TAMMY WYNETTE, PETER SELLERS, TONI TENILLE, and two pages on how Bingo is "picking up steam as America's grass-roots game of chance".

It's Johnny's Birthday

Today, of course, would have been JOHN LENNON's 66th birthday. I'm sure there's lots of Lennon material being posted around the blogs today, so here are just a few odd but birthday-appropriate items.





We'll start things off with GEORGE HARRISON from 1970 with "It's Johnny's Birthday", recorded for John's 30th birthday and sourced from the long out-of-print original UK pressing of the "All Things Must Pass" CD:

IT"S JOHNNY'S BIRTHDAY

Then we have what's known as "Let's Have A Party". Recorded on October 9, 1971, John and Yoko and a roomful of friends including RINGO STARR, PHIL SPECTOR, and others celebrate John's 31st birthday with a birthday party sing-a-long. Its a single 43-minute file, about 12MB. Songs include "What'd I Say", "Yellow Submarine", "Goodnight Irene", "Tandoori Chicken", "Maybe Baby", "Crippled Inside", "Give Peace A Chance", "Happy Birthday", and a whole lot more:

LETS HAVE A PARTY (43-MINUTE AUDIO)

And there's also a video from the party, basically a 2-minute 40-second home movie with an accompanying audio track excerpted from the longer audio tape:

LETS HAVE A PARTY - (2-MINUTE - 40-SECOND VIDEO)

And we finish off with PAUL MCCARTNEY leading a live-in-concert "Happy Birthday" sing-a-long from October 9, 2005 for what would have been John's 65th birthday:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - PAUL MCCARTNEY

Happy birthday John!

The next best thing

This is another track from THE BEATLES' bootleg "Anthology More". It's an "outfake" of "Free As A Bird", which uses extractions from the commercial version together with John's original demo. An absolutely beautiful bootleg "remix", complete with a new Beatlesque trick-ending:

FREE AS A BIRD - OUTFAKE

Magical Mystery Mixes

I downloaded these "Magical Mystery Mix" tracks from a BEATLES bootleg discussion group a couple of years ago. They're "analog audio extractions" of a few songs from JOHN LENNON's 1970 Plastic Ono Band LP, which let us hear the songs (or parts of) in a whole new way. Very interesting stuff.

HOLD ON (MAGICAL MYSTERY MIX)

I FOUND OUT (MAGICAL MYSTERY MIX)

WELL WELL WELL (MAGICAL MYSTERY MIX)

For some "Magical Mystery Mix" podcasts, click here.

Magical Misery Tour

Here's a track that seems to get posted quite a bit around the blogs. Its "Magical Misery Tour", from a 1972 National Lampoon LP. Its a hilarious JOHN LENNON parody, using John's own words from the infamous JANN WENNER "Lennon Remembers" interview for the lyrics.

Here are some details, from MARK'S VERY LARGE NATIONAL LAMPOON SITE:

Magical Misery Tour (Bootleg Record), Performed by Tony Hendra (as John Lennon), Melissa Manchester (as Yoko Ono); piano: Melissa Manchester; drums: Jim Payne; bass: John "Cooker" LoPresti; composed by Christopher Cerf; arranged by Christopher Guest.

And here's the track:

MAGICAL MISERY TOUR

Bootleg #5069

Here's another interesting and somewhat obscure JOHN LENNON track. As far as I can tell, its the only available recording from the rehearsals with ELTON JOHN prior to Lennon's 3-song performance with Elton at Elton's Thanksgiving 1974 show at Madison Square Garden.



Lennon, of course, would come up on stage to play "Whatever Gets You Through The Night" (his current hit), "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" (Elton's new single), and "I Saw Her Standing There".

This is a rehearsal of "I Saw Her Standing There", introduced by Lennon as "bootleg number five-thousand-sixty-nine". The actual MSG performance of the three songs (and the rest of Elton's great show) is available on Elton's expanded "Here and There" CD.

I SAW HER STANDING THERE - REHEARSAL

John Lennon Poetry Slam

Here's a fun track from THE BEATLES' bootleg "Anthology More". Its "John Lennon Poetry Slam" - a 3-minute 50-second compilation of bits of John reading from his books "In His Own Write" and "A Spaniard In The Works" for various TV and radio shows back in 1964 and 1965.

Gotta like that "National Health Cow"!

JOHN LENNON POETRY SLAM

Bad To Me

I haven't had a whole lot of time lately, and it looks like another busy week, so I'll just start off our JOHN LENNON birthday celebration a little early.

Here's a great track that has never been officially released. Its a demo of John's song "Bad To Me" from a DICK JAMES acetate from 1963. The song was given to BILLY J KRAMER AND THE DAKOTAS, who had a bit of a hit with it in England:

BAD TO ME - LENNON DEMO

Stay tuned, there's more Lennon to come.....

Magazine of the Week #40

This week we take a quick look at the October 2, 1989 issue of FORBES.


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The issue gives us the rundown on "The Top 40: The World's Highest Paid Entertainers", with a cover story on THE ROLLING STONES by PETER NEWCOMB.

The Stones are big money now, as the story tells us:

"On the heels of recording their new album, STEEL WHEELS, the Stones have landed the fattest touring contract ever. Toronto-based promoter MICHAEL COHL, through his Concert Productions International, has guaranteed them $70 million, plus a piece of the profits, for the rights to promote the Stones' 1989 tour, their first in seven years."

With merchandising, pay-per-view TV, and sponsorships, we're told, "a $90 million gross for the Stones this year seems achievable."

And a quote from Keith:

"All this vast amount of money is generated by sitting down with this little wooden instrument. ....It's not like selling baked beans."