tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6730129722267287202024-03-26T23:38:20.341-07:00What If - MiscUncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-12743697221653220962023-11-10T02:44:00.001-08:002023-11-10T10:00:09.033-08:00The Beatles - Now and Then<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrCPUNC4UfVD5KCybV4jRuxEWXbifPbj3AcRKfzx_eRIAUFCFFFpefD8UUELAMhelOOSG31azRo9pTlfAhRTrzxAqqg2qooxQZgUY_nyJdowgGLYFfUZkQ8kZLsOGvhRpJb2Z80OkJHI9Q0ajjVRWSR46BJwMtUf6IAEeCz2PRXW6gYv-iFMkWcgpgLTq/s453/Beatles%20-%20Now%20and%20Then.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="453" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfrCPUNC4UfVD5KCybV4jRuxEWXbifPbj3AcRKfzx_eRIAUFCFFFpefD8UUELAMhelOOSG31azRo9pTlfAhRTrzxAqqg2qooxQZgUY_nyJdowgGLYFfUZkQ8kZLsOGvhRpJb2Z80OkJHI9Q0ajjVRWSR46BJwMtUf6IAEeCz2PRXW6gYv-iFMkWcgpgLTq/s320/Beatles%20-%20Now%20and%20Then.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">[With so few projects in the works I would have preferred to hold this post off until next month but I felt it was time sensitive enough to post as soon as it was ready.]</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Back when I first started my <a href="http://beatles-whatif.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Beatles-What If</a> blog I had a comp that was inspired by <a href="http://www.riprense.com/reFABricated.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this article</a>. This is actually what got me rolling on the whole alt-Beatles timeline thing. But I was never happy with my results and the comp went through a few different iterations. I used several John demos to flesh the album out including Now and Then but the poor quality of that demo and other elements kept the project from being anywhere near satisfactory. When I reorganized the site in 2010 my Now and Then album was replaced with the Anthology highlights disc and the Lennon & McCartney album.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Now with the release of the finished version of Now and Then I felt compelled to revisit the project. The quality that the current technology allowed them to achieve is astounding. I still think the song itself is the weakest of the three songs they worked on but it is listenable and enjoyable and it does grow on you the more you hear it. and it does feature all four Beatles so I'm not complaining. Even the weakest of songs by the Beatles is better than some of the best by others. So I reopened the project and reconsidered some choices and swapped the Now and Then demo with the finished track and ended up with a tight 35 minute album with one bonus track that I felt was worthy of sharing. Enjoy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">01 Flaming Pie</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">02 Real Love</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">03 Dehra Dhun</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">04 Grow Old With Me</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">05 Thinking of Linking</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">06 King Of Broken Hearts</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">07 All Those Years Ago</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">08 Beautiful Night</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">09 Free As A Bird</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">10 Now And Then</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">11 Ain't She Sweet</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Bonus Track</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">12 Stand By Me</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I used several suggestions from the original article but rejected more than I kept. Only <b>Flaming Pie</b> features only one Beatle but Paul plays everything on it and the lyrics are Beatle related. I also prefaced it with the soundbite of John telling the flaming pie Beatles name origin. All the others have at least two or more fabs and most come from around 1980.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Real love</b> and <b>Free as a Bird</b> are the anthology versions. <b>Grow Old With Me</b> is a John demo and was included on the tape delivered by Yoko but was rejected by the three due to it's subject matter. It was later enhanced with an orchestral score by George Martin and appeared on the John Lennon Anthology box set.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">George's <b>Derha Dhun</b> is an All Things Must Pass outtake which I prefaced with a bit from the Anthology ukulele jam and might have Ringo on drums (sounds like him and he seemed to remember it during the jam). Also from George is <b>All Those Years Ago</b> which has Ringo on Drums and Paul on background vocals along with Linda and Denny Laine .</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Thinking of Linking</b> comes from the acoustic Anthology jam. I edited parts of the two takes into one solid take. <b>Ain't She Sweet </b>is from the garden ukulele jam that I edited in John's vocal from a solo session outtake of the same song to create another track with all four Beatles. In the last iteration of this album I created two medleys from the ukulele jam and the acoustic jam but they never really worked.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>King of Broken Hearts</b> is a Ringo tune with a fine slide solo from George. <b>Beautiful Night</b> is a Paul song with Ringo drumming.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I took the suggestion from the article and segued Beautiful Night into Free as a Bird by way of syncing the snare hits before the false ending on BN with the opening snare hits on FAAB but unlike the article I did not return to BN before the false ending on FAAB.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Stand By Me</b> comes from a 1974 session that happened while John was producing Harry Nilson's Pussycat album. After the session ended Paul showed up and a jam session occured with John, Harry, Stevie Wonder, Paul (on drums) and others. Sadly Ringo, who's kit Paul was playing, went home for the evening. The session itself did not produce much worth listening to more than a few times, This snippet was the peak moment.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The cover photo was found online to which I added the cloud background.<br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-13794944554674783782023-11-02T07:34:00.001-07:002023-11-03T04:13:56.879-07:00The Theme From...<div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGwCVn7xtCOqAq9ntgcK5GW6YQPIggEu389Fis0p2IaLFubD_IrTNXg1Ae_EWiOKtfdjuNrp1a6AvhiWyiWfXIZLjHXorb4CQ03d0FHsEsuV7pGpX4BvtF7m-NJxlIi_Ej9nweNqTAcHID4eptRFubs7cjtS9aTY5E1j_9C5EXOAeHfsEs6DbsFsfZ7BQZ/s849/cover2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="847" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGwCVn7xtCOqAq9ntgcK5GW6YQPIggEu389Fis0p2IaLFubD_IrTNXg1Ae_EWiOKtfdjuNrp1a6AvhiWyiWfXIZLjHXorb4CQ03d0FHsEsuV7pGpX4BvtF7m-NJxlIi_Ej9nweNqTAcHID4eptRFubs7cjtS9aTY5E1j_9C5EXOAeHfsEs6DbsFsfZ7BQZ/s320/cover2.jpg" width="319" /></a></div>Here's something a bit different. This is a collection of TV theme songs but not just any theme song. The wife and I were binge watching the old Judd Hirsch series Taxi and I fell in love with the theme song and was inspired to collect as many jazzy/funky/MOR theme songs as I could fit on a CD.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">My main criteria was that the song must be an instrumental. No snappy tune where the lyrics explained the show's premise. I broke that instrumental rule only twice but for good reasons.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Because TV themes tend to be no more than a minute to a minute and a half this is one of my longer track listings. I searched for the full versions of as many tunes as I could and bent the rules slightly for a couple of interludes but my main goal was to make it fun to listen to. I hope I achieved that goal. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Tracklist</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">01 Bob Newhart (Home to Emily)</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">02 Sanford And Son</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">03 Taxi (Angela)<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">04 The Office</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">05 MASH (Suicide is Painless)<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">06 Peter Gunn</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">07 Barney Miller</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">08 Night Court</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">09 Arrested Development</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">10 Room 222</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">11 Peanuts</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">12 Jeopardy [Think Music]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">13 Hawaii Five-0</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">14 Mission_Impossible</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">15 Portlandia (Feel It All Around - Washed Out)<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">16 I Dream Of Jeannie</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">17 Pink Panther</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">18 Rockford Files</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">19 Newhart</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">20 Curb Your Enthusiasm</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">21 Batman</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">22 Hill Street Blues</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">23 Trailer Park Boys</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">24 Wings</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">25 Northern Exposure</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">26 Breaking Bad</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">27 Countdown [Think Music]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">28 SWAT</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">29 Andy Griffith Show</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">30 thirtysomethig</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">31 Bewitched</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">32 Twin Peaks</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">33 The Munsters</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">34 The Man From UNCLE</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">35 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Journey of the Sorcerer - The Eagles)</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">Bonus<br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">36 Weeds (Little Boxes)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">While most of these tracks are named after the show they are associated with some existed before being chosen as a theme song. I put the actual name in parenthesis when applicable. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The few songs that have vocals on them are tracks 15, 21 and 36. The full version of the Portlandia theme has some vocals but they are almost unintelligible. The Batman theme uses the vocals almost as another instrument and just repeats the name Batman over and over. The song Little Boxes by Malvina Reynolds opened the show Weeds and I looked forward to hearing it every time I went to watch the show.The song predates the show, first recorded by Pete Seeger in 1963, so the lyrics are unrelated to the show's premise. Over the course of the series they used different versions of the song but this one stuck in my head. Think of it as a bonus song.<br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-48265468465768589642023-10-01T05:30:00.017-07:002023-10-07T06:28:02.283-07:00The Weepies - Butternut Ridge - 2004<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPqyn9JmrviczWClybqWjWyIXp988cY2wx4d2HebJCm04E0j9z4M14lujhe9w6OeWKQYNSSFQ1LDvgkLetwZTA7F3ntqJOaW7Y-74aXXLJz_XFsE1VGf8qgSo_cUXJ6vRgcbczhe8qCJNRE8M98nALuUNKxlE_k4oTKloomnAzu3Rs6LmYypBlTnpibSk/s849/cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="847" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPqyn9JmrviczWClybqWjWyIXp988cY2wx4d2HebJCm04E0j9z4M14lujhe9w6OeWKQYNSSFQ1LDvgkLetwZTA7F3ntqJOaW7Y-74aXXLJz_XFsE1VGf8qgSo_cUXJ6vRgcbczhe8qCJNRE8M98nALuUNKxlE_k4oTKloomnAzu3Rs6LmYypBlTnpibSk/s320/cover.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">[I've listened to this a few times now since posting and decided to make some changes (something I rarely do). I removed to audience to turn it into a studio album and while I was at it I redid the cover to my liking. If you downloaded the original I recommend re-downloading.]</span></i><br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weepies" target="_blank">The Weepies</a> were a husband and wife duo consisting of Deb Talan and Steve Tannen. Their music has been described as "subtly intoxicating folk-pop". Light melodies with an acoustic base and wonderful harmonies. They met as mutual admirers of each others music which led to each contributing to to the other's next solo album both of which featured a version of Deb's song Rocks and Water. They immediately began writing together and self released the first Weepies album Happiness soon after the release of their solo albums. They married in 2007.<br /> <br />I discovered The Weepies around the time of their Hideaway album in 2008 while at a Barnes & Noble where I heard it playing in the music department. I fell in love with them right there and purchased the album. I bought their other CDs as I found them. Later I found some live shows posted on the Internet Archives. I downloaded five of the eight posted and gave them all a good listen then filed them away.<br /> <br />Yesterday (as I write this) I was organizing my library and came across those live shows and gave them another listen. They were mostly as I remembered them, very good to excellent audience recordings but one show stood out for a couple of reasons. First it was a soundboard of an intimate club show from 2004 between the release of their first and second albums and second they played a bunch of songs from their pre-Weepies solo albums. So I extracted those songs and found I had a nice little album and I decided to share it with you. Enjoy.<br /><u><br />Tracklist</u><br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">01 Rocks and Water<br />02 How Will He Find Me<br />03 The World Spins Madly On<br />04 Sing Me to Sleep<br />05 Tell Your Story Walking<br />06 Big Strong Girl<br />07 Cherry Trees<br />08 San Francisco<br />09 Love Come Knocking<br />10 Don't Pay No Mind<br />11 Comfort<br />12 Strange Place Now<br /></div><br /><u>Reality Notes</u><br /><br />This show is just Deb and Steve, no backing band so the interplay between to two really shines. The recording is nearly perfect so I did not feel the need to do any post production work. The only flaw I found is that the applause after the song Comfort is cut short. I could have patched some from elsewhere but with everything else so perfect I decided I could live with it as is, so I hope you can too. The original full show is still up and can be found here along with the others.<br /><br />In 2006 The Weepies released their Live Sessions EP. A six song EP of tunes from this same pre-Weepies era. Only three songs are duplicated here. I do not have that album so I don't know if they have other musicians behind them.<br /><br />I found a cover I liked online and used that as a template to make my own. The original download came with an OK bootlegish cover but someone made a better one that was much nicer and already used the photo I intended to use (this photo was also used as part of the cover for the Live Sessions EP).<br />Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-15713998279179557722023-09-15T02:24:00.002-07:002023-09-15T02:24:59.440-07:00Remco Hendriks - Remco's Groove Lab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vqv2gfdVnGVG_vIwizlXI3AsH48L82bEt7wDcmj86qzIX_CKUeE9bPSiTdS59cCzV_IF46E2KjooFtv9Udg1i1Evo12g9P-LL3Tf9EkmNSWC0Iej-6eOVD8OtP5p6KRVlSM2gZFneERlGKn0HjEPzBL1FL5lvcOi0_z4OAsDK3Extgzxr_2gbzUMe5eF/s852/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="845" data-original-width="852" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vqv2gfdVnGVG_vIwizlXI3AsH48L82bEt7wDcmj86qzIX_CKUeE9bPSiTdS59cCzV_IF46E2KjooFtv9Udg1i1Evo12g9P-LL3Tf9EkmNSWC0Iej-6eOVD8OtP5p6KRVlSM2gZFneERlGKn0HjEPzBL1FL5lvcOi0_z4OAsDK3Extgzxr_2gbzUMe5eF/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Two Posts in one month! I'm on a roll. When I published my last post, noting it was YouTube month I remembered Dutch bassist Remco Hendriks and my desire to put together and album's worth of tracks from his YouTube channel. There is a lot there so I focused on one playlist that features a live drummer, his videos are either solo or have a drum backing track, (some live and some canned?). I've mentioned before my preference for songs with vocals over instrumentals but sometimes exceptions must be made and Remco is worthy of that exception. Besides YouTube you can find Remco on iTunes, Spotify and elsewhere (links below) so go show him some love.<div style="text-align: left;"><br />Remco describes his channel thusly "<i>On this channel you can find one-take performances recorded on video. No edits, no talk, just good ol' funky music. All bass and all original compositions, hope you'll enjoy!</i>". Watching him play is just as much fun as listening to him, maybe more. As a bassist myself, he and I share some things in common in style and technique but like Micheal Hedges for acoustic guitar, Remco takes things to a whole other level (I still can't slap with conviction). I should be so lucky to be able to do half the things he does. Enjoy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist </u><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">01 Funk with Chords</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">02 Experimental Fretless Funk Rock </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">03 Fingerstyle Funk</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">04 Fretless Funk</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">05 Funk Rock Fingerpicking</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">06 Freaky Funk Rock</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">07 OC-2 Octaver Dirty Bass</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">08 Thumb & Fingerstyle Funk Rock</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">09 Chill Funk</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">10 Funk Rock in 7/8</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">11 Shuffle Feel Funk</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">12 Fretless with Harmonics</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">13 6/8 Funk Slap</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">14 Dirty Fretless Rock Bass</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">15 Dirty Fretless Rock Bass #2</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">16 Experimental Funk Rock Slap Bass</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">17 Heavy Groove</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">18 Fretless Funk Jam<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I have been a subscriber of Remco's channel for some time now and I still haven't watched every video there. There are so many! Cutting the playlist down to a CD's worth wasn't easy. I started with the longest tracks and worked my way down from there. I kept them in the order they appear in the playlist.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The cover is a screenshot from one of the videos, cropped and slightly altered with added text and an image from one of his albums. Track titles were derived from the video titles which are more descriptions of style and technique with some redundant wording edited out.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Links</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@RemcosGrooveLab" target="_blank">youtube.com/@RemcosGrooveLab</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__container"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__title yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__title--title-small-font yt-core-attributed-string--ellipsis-truncate" dir="auto" role="text">Facebook; </span><a href="http://facebook.com/Gr00veLab"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link--link-small-font yt-core-attributed-string--ellipsis-truncate yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" dir="auto"><span>facebook.com/Gr00veLab</span></span></a></div><div class="yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__container"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link--link-small-font yt-core-attributed-string--ellipsis-truncate yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" dir="auto">Spotify: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/4Rej4Q5WWdG3vQHwfNSfwB" target="_blank">open.spotify.com/artist/4Rej4Q5WWdG3vQHwfNSfwB</a></span></div><div class="yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__container"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link--link-small-font yt-core-attributed-string--ellipsis-truncate yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" dir="auto">Apple Music: <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/artist/remco-hendriks/1240178630" target="_blank">music.apple.com/us/artist/remco-hendriks/1240178630</a></span></div><div class="yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__container"><span class="yt-core-attributed-string yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link yt-channel-external-link-view-model-wiz__link--link-small-font yt-core-attributed-string--ellipsis-truncate yt-core-attributed-string--link-inherit-color" dir="auto">Bandcamp: <a href="https://remcohendriks.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">remcohendriks.bandcamp.com/</a><br /></span></div></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-81561526466593346872023-09-08T03:31:00.002-07:002023-09-08T05:13:47.981-07:00Larkin Poe - Stripped<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBKU6wKtU3xeqZrdxLGRAWg8q58k2rsIbJ3tbugoHeR1nbB795TGR16by37aL1YZdY4TQpLV_0LCIHysgXxIWhxVwNV5z5gQxHPg5UoMSi-Xd5JzwFJgMWrmi6sukIUGMJWMeqnH7CYNsLYYv5JDaywhXPd8LtWvGqwC6r5aZNp4Emh4gxbEXZOrX8lp5O/s851/LPcover.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="847" data-original-width="851" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBKU6wKtU3xeqZrdxLGRAWg8q58k2rsIbJ3tbugoHeR1nbB795TGR16by37aL1YZdY4TQpLV_0LCIHysgXxIWhxVwNV5z5gQxHPg5UoMSi-Xd5JzwFJgMWrmi6sukIUGMJWMeqnH7CYNsLYYv5JDaywhXPd8LtWvGqwC6r5aZNp4Emh4gxbEXZOrX8lp5O/s320/LPcover.png" width="320" /></a></div>September on this blog has been YouTube month. I don't have enough projects to fill the month but I do have this. I discovered Larkin Poe through fellow blogger Paul who runs the <a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Albums That Should Exist</a> blog. At the time of this post he has put up <a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/search/label/Larkin%20Poe" target="_blank">18 separate albums</a> from this duo. The bulk of those are pandemic era home concerts and collections of covers from the bands Tip o' the Hat series (8 volumes so far) all sourced from their YouTube channel (thus making it appropriate for September). </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">The band is made up of sisters Rebecca (lead guitar) and Megan Lovell (slide guitar) with a small backup band consisting of a bassist and drummer. But I really fell in love with Paul's collections of performances that feature just Rebecca and Megan. Paul calls these acoustic performances but the pedantic in me has issue with that because Megan's slide is always amplified and Rebecca is sometimes playing electric guitar as well but that's a minor quibble, the important thing is the music and both are A class musicians that help renew my faith in the idea that guitar based music is not dead.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've had Paul's first comp of this band, which he titled "Acoustic 2014-2017", and have had it on my iPod and other mobile devices pretty much since he first posted it but lately that hasn't been enough. I based this compilation on that first album Paul posted, removed the covers and expanded it with songs from other collections Paul posted. He did such a fine job gathering and editing these albums I decided not to reinvent the wheel and use his work and my source, thanks Paul hope you don't mind. The albums I used are listed below. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">01 Holy Ghost Fire</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">02 Back Down South</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">03 Don't</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">04 She's a Self Made Man</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">05 Bleach Blonde Bottle Blues</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">06 You Can Close Your Eyes</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">07 Blue Ridge Mountains</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">08 Look Away</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">09 Tears of Blue to Gold</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">10 Blunt</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">11 Cast 'Em Out</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">12 Elephant</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">13 Trouble in Mind</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">14 Keep Diggin'</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">15 Stubborn Love</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">16 Easy Street</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">17 Take What You Want</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">18 Come On in My Kitchen</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">These girls love to play covers - and they do a fine job of it - but one of the things that the pandemic era of YouTube home concerts gave us is a glut of cover versions by so many artists that frankly I'm a bit burnt out by them so this comp is focused on the band's original material (as it should be, they're fine songwriters as well as musicians). There are still a couple covers, Come On in My Kitchen seems to be a band favorite and is featured on two of their albums making it one of their own and You Can Close Your Eyes is just too good to pass up. Being kind of an obscure song to me helps it to fit in. I tried to make sure that the rest were all originals or at least made appearances on their official albums.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">There was some overlap in the source albums that duplicated a few songs so I chose the best sounding ones. The cover is a pic I found on a Google search and added the text and border. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">YouTube channel</div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@LarkinPoe" target="_blank">@LarkinPoe</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Sources</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/05/larkin-poe-porch-pickin-episode-3.html" target="_blank">Porch Pickin', Episode 3, Nashville, TN, 2-13-2021</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/11/larkin-poe-home-concert-nashville-tn-11.html" target="_blank">Home Concert, Nashville, TN, 11-21-2020</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/06/larkin-poe-home-concert-nashville-tn-6.html" target="_blank">Home Concert, Nashville, TN, 6-13-2020</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2020/05/larkin-poe-home-concert-nashville-tn-5.html" target="_blank">Home Concert, Nashville, TN, 5-22-2020</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/05/larkin-poe-acoustic-2014-2017.html" target="_blank">Acoustic, 2014-2017</a><br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-3496083948948120272023-08-24T15:29:00.003-07:002023-08-25T07:27:19.039-07:00Melancholia Vol 20<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQK81_9Xh246Vh1lCenlJ1dPTP5lqnUVrRvzqVVkMB-DCoMlQhGa65nMF2nY8__uQMWl9kbcd3CktbG2Htey5WVa-Sd4feE_qPfsunlbM53hp80kISAKqHIFPTXbeDaQr8KFEu8sa-9xUsZB9fCOoayqtRY4wV5VDAaSNKo3lmoRxq-WN6eL-m8jJ7d3tz/s852/cover%201.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="852" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQK81_9Xh246Vh1lCenlJ1dPTP5lqnUVrRvzqVVkMB-DCoMlQhGa65nMF2nY8__uQMWl9kbcd3CktbG2Htey5WVa-Sd4feE_qPfsunlbM53hp80kISAKqHIFPTXbeDaQr8KFEu8sa-9xUsZB9fCOoayqtRY4wV5VDAaSNKo3lmoRxq-WN6eL-m8jJ7d3tz/s320/cover%201.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">Hey there. Been a while. Many reasons for being away, life and health mostly and a hard drive crash that forced me to rebuild the library from several partial and/or out of date backups but life goes on and I'm back with a brand new volume of Melancholia goodness.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">This is a non-themed edition and like the other non-themed editions before it, it contains some of my favorite songs that come from recent discoveries/purchases and a few long time favorites that have not found a place on past editions. Some of these discoveries come from suggestions from friends or posts from my fellow fantasy album bloggers others just seemed to present themselves out of nowhere.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I've been test driving this for a bit now and I think I'm happy with the results.
One of the things I enjoy most about this series is queuing up the
whole thing and putting it on shuffle. It's like my own private
personalized radio station. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">01 Tedeschi Trucks Band - Midnight in Harlem [Revelator]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">02 Robert Plant - Angel Dance [Band Of Joy]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">03 Cher - Just Like Jesse James [Heart Of Stone]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">04 North Mississippi Allstars - Up and Rolling [Up and Rolling]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">05 Railroad Earth - Seven Story Mountain [The Black Bear Sessions]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">06 Sade - The Sweetest Taboo [The Best of Sade]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">07 Alexi Murdoch - All My Days [Time Without Consequence]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">08 Marcus King - Young Mans Dream [El Dorado]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">09 Allman Brothers Band - Soulshine [Where It All Begins]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">10 Reina del Cid - Giving Up [The Cooling]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">11 The Magpie Salute - High Water [High Water I]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">12 Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang! [Hit Collection]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">13 Neal Casal - Maybe California [Leaving Traces_ Songs 1994-2004]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">14 Bonepony - The Crush [Travelers Companion]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">15 Temperance Movement - Pride [Temperance Movement]</div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">16 Warren Haynes - New Years Eve [Ashes & Dust]</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I was gathering my pool of songs for this collection I did a check to make sure I wasn't duplicating any songs from previous volumes, I discovered I used a song twice on previous volumes. Eric Clapton's <b>Please Be With Me</b> is found on volumes 5 and 11. For now I deleted the instance on volume 11, you can do the same. I may find a replacement eventually but it's not a long song so the comp still feels full. One of the things I enjoy most about this series is queuing up the whole thing and putting it on shuffle. It's like my own private personalized radio station.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The cover features a nice pinup by Alberto Vargas. Along with the music lost with the hard drive crash I had all my personal documents and pictures. Among those documents are all the Word files of album covers I have done over the years including the file with all the Melancholia covers. This means I had to recreate the template but I couldn't find the font I used so I just cropped a previous finished cover to complete this one. Still trying to identify that font.<br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-20452373626089088552023-01-20T05:18:00.003-08:002023-01-20T05:30:56.671-08:00Marc Bolan - All at Once - 1966<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk44U-WN0oGopebR1ULpdWDXVkZhjt_LhoeRZQGQxNxJiMOb8hJj-iqa8_luYIFhKbxx4rrQcGQf8s_QwnzIvNWhhBlXjD19Lq9jITONnFIpNoAIuhkQiBn-hvMZgcIcsJm0ZBq9cD7gvuFLfHuZ8fo2C9Qb5a4Vp5ti20lh7BGlFfX3rLXyELJ2rskA/s794/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="793" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk44U-WN0oGopebR1ULpdWDXVkZhjt_LhoeRZQGQxNxJiMOb8hJj-iqa8_luYIFhKbxx4rrQcGQf8s_QwnzIvNWhhBlXjD19Lq9jITONnFIpNoAIuhkQiBn-hvMZgcIcsJm0ZBq9cD7gvuFLfHuZ8fo2C9Qb5a4Vp5ti20lh7BGlFfX3rLXyELJ2rskA/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Here's a project I've been slowly working on for a while now. I have a few others waiting for the final polish and write up before posting but those are almost novelty themed various artist collections. This construction finally completes the Marc Bolan collection and covers the years from 1964 to 1967 just before joining <a href="https://whatif-misc.blogspot.com/2018/02/johns-children-in-perfumed-garden-1967.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John's Children</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The tracks here can be split into two parts, before and after signing with manager <b>Simon Napier-Bell</b> in 1966. Marc's earliest efforts were the products of managers and producers doing their "best" to fulfill Marc's dream of being a star. That dream wouldn't come true for a few years yet going through several name changes while developing his writing and vocal style. The first few songs are covers but from track three on are all originals. None of his early single did much on the charts.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">During Marc's time with Napier-Bell they recorded one single and many demos. most of these eventually were released on the album <b>The Beginning of Doves</b>. After Marc's passing Napier-Bell took some of those demos and augmented them with studio musician and released the album <b>Love and Death</b> with some songs not found on the Dove album. I deferred to the Doves album for purity reasons and filled the gaps with the unique songs from Love and Death. The result is a nice album of 38 minutes of early Marc Bolan. Enjoy.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Track List</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">01 All At Once</div><div style="text-align: left;">02 The Road I'm On (Gloria)</div><div style="text-align: left;">03 Blowin' In The Wind</div><div style="text-align: left;">04 The Wizard</div><div style="text-align: left;">05 Beyond The Risin Sun</div><div style="text-align: left;">06 The Third Degree</div><div style="text-align: left;">07 San Francisco Poet</div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Hippy Gumbo</div><div style="text-align: left;">09 Misfit</div><div style="text-align: left;">10 Jasper C. Debussy</div><div style="text-align: left;">11 You Scare Me To Death</div><div style="text-align: left;">12 I'm Weird</div><div style="text-align: left;">13 Charlie<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">14 Black And White Incident</div><div style="text-align: left;">15 Observations</div><div style="text-align: left;">16 You Got The Power</div><div style="text-align: left;">17 Jasmine Forty-nine</div><div style="text-align: left;">18 Cat Black</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Track one was recorded in 1964 but went unreleased until 2008. Tracks two and three were released under the name Toby Tyler. Tracks four through seven were singles released on Decca records as Marc Bolan via the name Marc Bowland in 1965. Tracks eight and nine were produced by Napier-Bell for track records in 1966. The remaining tracks all come from the Doves album with the exception of tracks eleven and twelve which come from the posthumous Love and Death album. Tracks 14-18 also appear on the Love and Death album and given the post production treatment but I went with the stripped down demos instead.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Doves album also contained some of the earliest Tyrannosaurus Rex recordings. I included these on the Chinese <a href="https://whatif-misc.blogspot.com/search/label/Tyrannosaurus%20Rex" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Christmas Music</a> comp posted a while back. There are a few early songs that were recently released that I do not have and are hard to find. If I do come across them I'll add them to this and post and update. This should be the last of the Marc Bolan collection but if I have enough of them I may put together a short comp of his spoken word poetry, maybe.<br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-38948310831015663042022-08-13T06:19:00.019-07:002023-03-17T10:12:46.662-07:00The Beatles - Get Back TV Special 1969<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwiuHyitV19EU_CARx7j-E0ZLjI96rbBQAR9jTpId4CWxDwbG4Nt_1PbJ1eBVRCmO0-Rrhycx6mgxsCQXsS02XqBjdRqFDcVFWzvrraCWyPdr2w1DWPngeAarek2-DL5sI2J4cEbdg4klgE8WB9vnTLwhAnPoeQvjsnHfhwmQAe6VCg68CP5SAEQB_tg/s900/GetBackCover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="618" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwiuHyitV19EU_CARx7j-E0ZLjI96rbBQAR9jTpId4CWxDwbG4Nt_1PbJ1eBVRCmO0-Rrhycx6mgxsCQXsS02XqBjdRqFDcVFWzvrraCWyPdr2w1DWPngeAarek2-DL5sI2J4cEbdg4klgE8WB9vnTLwhAnPoeQvjsnHfhwmQAe6VCg68CP5SAEQB_tg/w275-h400/GetBackCover.jpg" width="275" /></a></div>I've got something very different for you today. I have a few projects simmering on the stove so to speak and will put those up eventually but I've been working on this one for a bit and I feel it is ready to share and get some feedback consider this version one. What makes this different is that it is a video I edited rather than an audio construction. I have been watching <a href="http://fanedit.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">fanedits</a> of films for some time now and recently decided to try my hand at the process. I've done some simple editing in the past, mostly limited to joining two or more videos together and maybe some trimming on the beginnings and endings. This was my first foray deeper into some of the more complex parts of the craft.</div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">So what do I have for you and how does it relate to this blog? Nothing less than the possible answer to the question "What if the Get Back project resulted in a TV special instead of a film?". The concept of the project changed and evolved from inception to completion. Ideas ranged from comeback concerts and films to TV specials and albums. What we got was a film that showed the band bickering and arguing before coming together to make music and an accompanying LP that featured post-production decisions made by Phil Spector that betrayed the bands original intentions of a live in-the-studio recording.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">What I did was take the original Let It Be movie - sourced from a VHS ripped from my own copy - and removed all the behind the scenes discussions and rehearsals leaving just the music. The source was already in standard 4:3 TV format so all I had to do was trim, remove, rearrange and add some opening titles. I hope you enjoy it.<br /><br /></div><iframe allow="autoplay" height="360" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HtuANEqUkfGnmtTBuiW5Pv2Krq7jqAUI/preview" width="550"></iframe>
<div style="text-align: left;"><br />00:00 Intro<br />01:15 Get Back<br />04:24 Don't Let Me Down<br />07:46 The Long And Winding Road<br />11:20 For You Blue<br />14:15 I've Got A Feeling<br />18:05 Two Of Us<br />21:35 One After 909<br />24:39 I Me Mine<br />26:23 Dig A Pony<br />30:10 Dig It<br />32:12 Let It Be<br />36:13 Get Back (Reprise)<br /><br />I felt using the VHS source would give it a more authentic "as seen on TV" feel. I kept the original audio, my skills are not yet to the level where I can replace and sync the whole soundtrack. It would be interesting to see if this could be recreated using the Peter Jackson version. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">As you can see I passed on Across The Universe. Like I Me Mine the film only shows them rehearsing the song but unlike I Me Mine there was no real take that could be called even decent. </div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I have a link on the downloads page or you can watch it here. I would be overjoyed if somebody chose to mirror this and upload to YouTube/Vimeo or anywhere else. I tried creating a new YouTube channel just for this but the video was denied due to copyrights. Just say you got it from a friend of a friend. A new and final version three is done and uploaded and the link has been updated. Just a couple transition tweaks and the addition of a time appropriate BBC ID and end credits.</div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-47468981653138040882022-03-25T01:48:00.001-07:002022-08-13T06:49:27.249-07:00Marcus King - Young Man's Dream<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5hqYAZ5A-sNyTTcxMHorw0oAtVBPR52vj3N0Mh7u8S_kTONytI85KR2d3aRk54eWMvvXaFf1Mdk28nwda2sd38A6KZesudU1y5OLBL0UK3zLlImYPGC4vXx1XAiHvoEyNE2H6vBZv6Vpjez9LCvcGnbiNpaLnj9wBWjAh0_eLBQrReDYN3abTZMf-w/s754/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="754" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5hqYAZ5A-sNyTTcxMHorw0oAtVBPR52vj3N0Mh7u8S_kTONytI85KR2d3aRk54eWMvvXaFf1Mdk28nwda2sd38A6KZesudU1y5OLBL0UK3zLlImYPGC4vXx1XAiHvoEyNE2H6vBZv6Vpjez9LCvcGnbiNpaLnj9wBWjAh0_eLBQrReDYN3abTZMf-w/s320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a>It's been a while since I posted a non-various artists collection. </p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwi-_7bt39_2AhUXl3IEHcIjA0wQFnoECBsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmarcuskingband.com%2F&usg=AOvVaw0sf4Ik51W95lYYj_Oe0p1P" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marcus King</a> is another one of those guitar guys that started out performing at a young age. Like Derek Trucks before him he was a veteran by the time he was Twenty. My brother has been bugging me to listen to this guy for a while now and I would play a video here and there. I was always impressed and could see the attraction but I never took the dive to really give him a chance. This comp is an attempt to rectify that.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">YouTube recently recommended the WGBH Live in Studio acoustic session so I gave it a listen. Only a minute in and already I was not disappointed. I like the sound of The Marcus King Band, full on blues based rock, my favorite kind but stripped down to just man and guitar allowed me to get a bigger view of this young man's old soul. So I gathered all the solo performance videos I could and condensed that down to a CD's worth of music for in the car. And now I'm sharing it with you. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">01 Love Song (Live at JITVHQ in Los Angeles, CA 2020)</div><div style="text-align: left;">02 Man You Didn't Know (Live From The Big House)</div><div style="text-align: left;">03 8am (Live in Studio WGBH)</div><div style="text-align: left;">04 Sorry About Your Love (The Blues Kitchen Presents)</div><div style="text-align: left;">05 Beautiful Stranger (Paste Studio NYC - The Manhattan Center)</div><div style="text-align: left;">06 Where I'm Heading (LaMosiqacom Oneshotsession)</div><div style="text-align: left;">07 Sweet Mariona (Paste Studio NYC - The Manhattan Center)</div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Young Man's Dream (at Easy Eye Sound)</div><div style="text-align: left;">09 Remember (Live in Studio WGBH Acoustic Session)</div><div style="text-align: left;">10 One Day She's Here (Paste Studio NYC - The Manhattan Center)</div><div style="text-align: left;">11 No Pain (Acoustic w/ Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound)</div><div style="text-align: left;">12 Midnight Rider (Live From The Big House)</div><div style="text-align: left;">13 Jealous Man</div><div style="text-align: left;">14 Goodbye Carolina (Live in Studio WGBH)</div><div style="text-align: left;">15 Wildflowers & Wine (Paste Studio NYC - The Manhattan Center)</div><div style="text-align: left;">16 I Won't Be Here</div><div style="text-align: left;">17 Slip Back (in bed - MyMusicRx #Bedstock 2017)</div><div style="text-align: left;">18 Autumn Rains (Live in Studio WGBH)</div><div style="text-align: left;">19 The Well (Paste Studio NYC - The Manhattan Center)</div><div style="text-align: left;">20 Dyin' (Live From The Big House)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Everything in this comp was ripped from videos found on YouTube. Just do a search for "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Marcus+King+acoustic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marcus King acoustic</a>" and they will pop up. Two of these videos, WGBH and Paste Studios, are multi-song performances the rest are single song videos. I edited out any interviews, applause and bumper music leaving only the music.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The cover is a photo I found on a Google image search which I cropped to a square and added the border using my favorite photo editor/viewer Irfanview. Still looking or a new program to make covers with. I might just end up installing an older version of MS Word that doesn't require a MS account.<br /></div><p></p>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-46898037870313379972022-02-25T08:51:00.002-08:002022-03-25T09:05:43.698-07:00Pearhead Jukebox<div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFnvkPoCcdRu1wfSWPfPiRKe3JTlHAu8pLpf4TeoFgpk-5BM-7lzAqYMFDmays3O66J0_KbW_gk0epQzisuDWYpNf6fFRj4TA1WXsfRVNYQNoBOnJStJ83KEbyVfzo62X1H3pZq1fgGCuhqj3WrO9nUXx52GmsH3V_ly-55OFgR05_3Bkd8Pe-9KsInw=s1000" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFnvkPoCcdRu1wfSWPfPiRKe3JTlHAu8pLpf4TeoFgpk-5BM-7lzAqYMFDmays3O66J0_KbW_gk0epQzisuDWYpNf6fFRj4TA1WXsfRVNYQNoBOnJStJ83KEbyVfzo62X1H3pZq1fgGCuhqj3WrO9nUXx52GmsH3V_ly-55OFgR05_3Bkd8Pe-9KsInw=s320" width="320" /></a></div>Hey there. It's been a while hasn't it? I'm still here and I do check in everyday to check/respond to comments and to see what others are doing. I haven't made any new constructions in a while but I do have a few half finished ones waiting for me to wrap up. This is not one of those. I threw this together quickly in the last 24 hours. The reason for the post and the construction was to pay tribute to my friend, band mate, collaborator and the primary reason for my band Pearhead's existence who passed away the last week. Kenny Parisot, You are sorely missed. This is a collection of songs that we regularly covered live and/or recorded under our alter ego Mighty Man. None of these are our versions and not every one is the original version. To shake things up and make the listen more interesting I used live versions or alternate cover versions. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">01 You Can't Always Get What You Want - The Rolling Stones *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album Totally Stripped. This was our standard show opener.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">02 Ain't Hurtin' Nobody - John Prine *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings. Both Kenny and I are big Prine fans and we did several of his songs.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">03 Long Tall Texan - Lyle Lovett</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album The Road To Ensenada. We based our version on a Lyle Lovett live rendition but this is pretty close to how we do it as well.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">04 (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album The Dock of the Bay. Another standard song from our setlist.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">05 Deep Elem Blues - Blackberry Smoke</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the TRI Studios session with Bob Weir. A dead standard of an old song which we played often. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">06 Eurotrash Girl - Cracker *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>A live unplugged version recorded 11/01/2005 at Knickerbockers Bar. Downloaded from The Internet Archives. One of the more contempory songs from our setlists. We played and recorded this before most of the band ever heard the original.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">07 For What It's Worth - Crosby, Stills & Nash</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>A live rendition from the album Allies. Closer to how we did it at least this is the version I had in my head when we played it.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Jersey Girl - Bruce Springsteen *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album Live 1975-1985. Originally written by Tom Waits, Bruce added a verse. Kenny changed it to Mexican Girl in honor of his wife.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">09 Pale Blue Eyes [closet mix] - The Velvet Underground *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album The Velvet Underground</span> </div><div style="text-align: left;">10 She Belongs to Me - Bob Dylan</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>A live solo acoustic version <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">11 Angel From Montgomery (Live) - Bonnie Raitt & John Prine *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>A live version of a duet with Bonnie Raitt who is more closely associated with the song and it's composer John Prine <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">12 Tower of song - Leonard Cohen</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the album I'm Your Man <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">13 When I Paint My Masterpiece - Grateful Dead *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Written by Dylan, first recorded by The Band but often played by the Grateful Dead. This is my favorite version taped off The Gratelful Dead Hour.<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">14 Whipping Post - Allman Brothers Band</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From the debut self titled album. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">15 Into the Mystic - Swell Season *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>From a live recording. Closer to our version than the Van Morrison original. <br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;">16 Goodnight, Irene - Lucius *<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Written by Lead Belly. This is a recent rendition that is pretty close to ours </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">* We recorded our versions of these songs under the name Mighty Man. You can listen to them <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/mightymanmke/songs" target="_blank">here</a>. (You can listen to Pearhead songs <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/pearheadmke/songs" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Kenny was a master story teller and wrote some amazing songs. I posted a collection of demos and stripped down version of his songs <a href="https://whatif-misc.blogspot.com/2018/11/kenny-parisot-tell-wind.html" target="_blank">here</a> a while back. We tried to keep our covers interesting and often avoided the expected, tried and true songs that everybody else was doing. This is only some of the songs we would do regularly and some we attempted once in a while. The Mighty Man album started as a side project between just me and Kenny when the band seemed to be in a lull. During this period it was often just Kenny and I in the studio so we started to record covers to keep busy and entertain ourselves. The band eventually returned and demanded to be included.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The cover was constructed in Paint.net. I have made all my covers in Microsoft Word until recently when I lost access to my MS account and my copy stopped working. Since then I have been trying different programs looking for a replacement. I did find Paint.net frustrating and gave up once I had this but I am not completely happy with it. If I can make a better one I will replace it.<br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-42440029584688917122021-07-09T04:10:00.000-07:002021-07-09T04:10:07.733-07:00Melancholia Vol 7<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8q3KVzmAy5SK8NLmoW9X66KQUe7RF4xjLP3GSKqXuyhf6Qe1takNAAp6XUnJcjKl4ZT8IZNkN5bShSVyoJnOlbAFrXZ4rz-Zi2YlA2oEUr4nho50hNLac6eCHa__947ek564YlIJA1ZxI/s852/cover07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="849" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8q3KVzmAy5SK8NLmoW9X66KQUe7RF4xjLP3GSKqXuyhf6Qe1takNAAp6XUnJcjKl4ZT8IZNkN5bShSVyoJnOlbAFrXZ4rz-Zi2YlA2oEUr4nho50hNLac6eCHa__947ek564YlIJA1ZxI/s320/cover07.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;">I have a few projects in that I am still playing with but nothing that's really ready to share but I have managed to complete the last missing volume of the Melancholia series.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">This volume turned out to be sort of a catch-all edition that gathers a lot of songs that didn't seem to fit on the other discs but were played enough to warrant inclusion this collection. While there is no obvious theme there does seem to be an underlying country tinge.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This series is now up to 19 volumes with almost half of those being themed collection, This will probably be the last non-themed edition and maybe the last all together. Readers have most likely noticed the lack of activity here and that will continue to be the norm at least for a while. The last year has killed a lot of enthusiasm in me for many things, this hobby being one of them. I do have a few projects slowly cooking but I'm not going to make any promises as to when they might be done so hang in there.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">[Side note: I have been updating some covers here, mostly for this series but one or two others. I have not updated the archives and have no plans to. So if you want the new ones just click on them then right click and save the image.]<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Tracklist</div><div style="text-align: left;">01 Railroad Earth - Way of the Buffalo</div><div style="text-align: left;">02 Bruce Springsteen - Devils & Dust</div><div style="text-align: left;">03 Ricky Skaggs - Walls Of Time</div><div style="text-align: left;">04 Pat Benatar - We Belong</div><div style="text-align: left;">05 Los Lonely Boys - Heaven</div><div style="text-align: left;">06 Loretta Lynn - Portland, Oregon</div><div style="text-align: left;">07 John Hiatt - Take It Down</div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Modern English - I Melt With You</div><div style="text-align: left;">09 Goo Goo Dolls - Name</div><div style="text-align: left;">10 The Wonders - She Knows It</div><div style="text-align: left;">11 Switchfoot - Twenty-four</div><div style="text-align: left;">12 John Prine - Everything Is Cool</div><div style="text-align: left;">13 Extreme - Hole Hearted</div><div style="text-align: left;">14 REM - Everybody Hurts</div><div style="text-align: left;">15 Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments</div><div style="text-align: left;">16 Dwight Yoakam - 1,000 Miles</div><div style="text-align: left;">17 Sugarland - Stand Back Up</div><div style="text-align: left;">18 Prince - Wow</div><div style="text-align: left;">19 Waylon Jennings - Can't You See<br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-23603446641608158292020-11-20T04:31:00.001-08:002021-04-21T08:08:47.196-07:00Melancholia Vol 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74FHcDWA5AQ2QYe7XL7z77LUWhBYuclwOeYD1vDTe-lDT6qWTJerq2QvLiHe1S13DRkJ-Q4BSwtZ1pPc4UXEaBsfhDsSHZPqUEUmdaN5lnUNS7oPBDzj2CLlTxLV75uqKdMnlzE_3xBn7/s851/cover10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="851" data-original-width="851" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj74FHcDWA5AQ2QYe7XL7z77LUWhBYuclwOeYD1vDTe-lDT6qWTJerq2QvLiHe1S13DRkJ-Q4BSwtZ1pPc4UXEaBsfhDsSHZPqUEUmdaN5lnUNS7oPBDzj2CLlTxLV75uqKdMnlzE_3xBn7/s320/cover10.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">I have had some fun compiling the many themed Melancholia editions but the original concept for the series was to bring many of my favorite songs together in one collection regardless of genre. The focus is more on a certain vibe and pace which has carried on through the series which means even the special themed editions have this vibe that I chase.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The first five volumes and a few of the themed editions were compiled before I started purchasing CDs. Those and a few others were put together before computer power and storage space were sufficient enough for the existence of a local digital library. With the advent of recordable CDs, the CDR became the new cassette. Nowadays, with so much music just a few taps or clicks away, the playlist has became the new CDR. Which means that later editions evolved more than being put together with what I had on hand in a single sitting. If I didn't like how a song felt in the mix, it was easy to swap it our for another song.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">This is most true for these last two editions. They have changed and morphed over the years due to some songs being moved to later themed editions or replaced by songs that were a better fit. Volume seven is still being tweaked but I think I can call this volume done. You could almost call this a themed edition. It does have a slight heavier feel than other editions but there are a few surprises and that vibe is still there. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /> 01 Velvet Revolver - Fall To Pieces</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 02 Deep Purple - Don't Hold Your Breath</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 03 Collective Soul - Shine</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 04 The Verve Pipe - Colorful</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 05 Smashing Pumpkins - Suffer</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 06 Thin Lizzy - Showdown</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 07 Black Crowes - Soul Singing</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 08 Blackberry Smoke - No Way Back To Eden</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 09 Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 10 Brother Cane - And Fools Shine On</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 11 Cheap Trick - Downed</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 12 Jane Wiedlin - Our Lips Are Sealed</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 13 Francis Dunnery - Too Much Saturn</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 14 Queen - Drowse</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 15 The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 16 Steel Dragon - We All Die Young</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 17 Journey - Daydream</div><div style="text-align: left;"> 18 Willy Porter - Flying</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-58996662425741327342020-10-22T07:46:00.000-07:002020-10-23T04:58:20.428-07:00Bob Weir - Chillin' With Bobby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKY6TTunm__hLWc84R30S9-ZPIxSMEJ0Xd20_4N4G0M7jCMC5oIAjH_Mt45HuxmURos24zvMyPPohyphenhyphenpfJ2elyE16gqjQv4Gsbt9SAO4cUOz01kUdNGFcvy8Y74zQq-h9uV5_oY4IEh2k1v/s852/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="852" data-original-width="850" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKY6TTunm__hLWc84R30S9-ZPIxSMEJ0Xd20_4N4G0M7jCMC5oIAjH_Mt45HuxmURos24zvMyPPohyphenhyphenpfJ2elyE16gqjQv4Gsbt9SAO4cUOz01kUdNGFcvy8Y74zQq-h9uV5_oY4IEh2k1v/w319-h320/cover.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;">Bob Weir is by far the most visible band member to carry on the torch that the Grateful Dead held high for so many years. Aside from the many post-Dead offshoots such as Dead & Co., The Dead and the Further Festivals and his many solo fronted bands like Ratdog, Bobby has hosted many artists in the extended Grateful Dead family and friends at Tri Studios (Tamalpais Research Institute).</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Tri Studios is a state of the art performance venue. It also seems to be Bob Weir's home away from home when not on the road. Over the years of its existence Bobby has performed many times as a solo act, in special, one-off configurations with others or just sitting in with the band of the night. A nice handful of these performances are available on YouTube, most from 2013. I've gone through those shows and extracted Bobby's solo and small group performances with a focus on minimal, acoustic based tunes and gathered them into a two CD set that mimics a Grateful Dead show.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Disc One</u></div><div style="text-align: left;">01 Cassidy</div><div style="text-align: left;">02 Hell In A Bucket</div><div style="text-align: left;">03 Maggie's Farm</div><div style="text-align: left;">04 Stealin'>Deal</div><div style="text-align: left;">05 Most of the Time</div><div style="text-align: left;">06 Peggy-O</div><div style="text-align: left;">07 China Cat>I Know You Rider>Shakey Ground</div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl</div><div style="text-align: left;">09 Loose Lucy</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Disc Two</u></div><div style="text-align: left;">01 Sugar Magnolia</div><div style="text-align: left;">02 Cosmic Charlie</div><div style="text-align: left;">03 US Blues</div><div style="text-align: left;">04 Looks Like Rain</div><div style="text-align: left;">05 West L.A. Fadeaway</div><div style="text-align: left;">06 Easy To Slip</div><div style="text-align: left;">07 Black Throated Wind</div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Dark Star</div><div style="text-align: left;">09 El Paso</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Bonus Tracks </u><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Catfish John</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">When I Paint My Masterpiece</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My goal here was simply to collect relaxed, acoustic based performances where Bob is either the lead vocalist or at least a co-vocalist. There are a few duets here but mostly it's just Bob singing. Instrumentation is sparse if not solo. No more than a few other musicians on a song. The musician line-up is different from song to song. I refrained from listing the other players but you can get an idea of who's there by checking out the sorce list below.</div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">I tried to keep the song choice interesting with some songs rarely played and maybe a few first timers. The classic/obvious choices are all unique due the the laid back, stripped down feel. Even songs like Dark Star or China Cat>I Know You Rider feel fresh and new. And the sound quality is incredible.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">Cassidy was the driving force behind the compilation. It is one of my favorite Dead tunes and at the top of my list of Bobby songs but live renditions rarely match the feel and power of the studio version. This rendition not only matches the original for me but in some ways surpasses it. I've been looking for a vehicle for the track since I first heard it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">If you plan on burning this to CDs each set will fit on a disc. The bonus tracks will not. They were good enough to keep but not quite enough to be slipped into the main sets. If you play this from your computer or other device it makes a nice faux concert with each disc a set and the bonus tracks as the encore. I kept the bonus tracks because they were both nice renditions and Catfish John was seldom heard in my listening of Dead shows. Both not finding a spot in the main sets due to time constraints but too good to throw away.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">For the cover I manipulated slightly a nice recent photo of Bob and added the text and logos. For the sources below I linked to the original videos. There is a lot of good music there. This could have been a three disc set but not everything would have been as revealing as the final set list. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Sources</u><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtHnFW2Advg&t=2220s" target="_blank">2013-01-23 Weir Here with David Schools</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVYW-IleB20" target="_blank">Cassidy - Bob Weir, Jonathan Wilson, Jason Crosby</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzn8w9Zkxm8" target="_blank">Looks Like Rain (Bob Weir) - TRI Studios - 5132011</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxvlGhc2aVM&t=1928s" target="_blank">WEIR HERE #14 3-27-13 with Leslie Mendelson</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZDwl9JPMTY" target="_blank">weir here 7-3-13 with Fog and Moonalice</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_N_hDRsKok&t=165s" target="_blank">weir here over there</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5MZvB6a1U" target="_blank">Weir Here with Jackie Greene Tri Studios 12-5-2012</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfPGwJZ9-1g" target="_blank">Weir here with phil 3-13-13</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQw5XK8OiSc&t=2873s" target="_blank">Weir Here with Warren Haynes 7-31-13</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le7HFXhFgiA" target="_blank">Weir Here 8-7-13 scare the children</a><br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-20118069904401731232020-09-25T04:24:00.001-07:002020-09-25T04:30:08.694-07:00Kent Nishimura - Arranged By...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7rCdkg65vQwxMF4c-D7fuLFkPT0YoqcSXUuYSjE0r6Q0itX8Aiyxbir6NAFThOC7D6MOCJPf05bVLOZgrDsSF7T_i_faMXkW1_igdQbc0g0yTuWHLOQAunsIetvWFj1Nx6c6THWY8myYr/s850/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="849" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7rCdkg65vQwxMF4c-D7fuLFkPT0YoqcSXUuYSjE0r6Q0itX8Aiyxbir6NAFThOC7D6MOCJPf05bVLOZgrDsSF7T_i_faMXkW1_igdQbc0g0yTuWHLOQAunsIetvWFj1Nx6c6THWY8myYr/w320-h320/cover.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p>There are a lot of good and great guitarists on YouTube and beyond. Some are technically great, some seem overflowing with feeling and soul in spite of technical limitations. But the really great are those that seem to transcend the instrument to the point where flesh, wood and steel become one. Even rarer are those that achieve that oneness at an early age. Kent Nishimura is one of those rare types.</p><p>What struck me most about Kent was not his age but the completeness of his arrangements. Everything you expect to hear is there. Melodies, solos, bass lines and percussion. His dexterity and feel for a song is mesmerizing.<br /></p><p>I really don't know much more about Kent. His videos have been popping up on my feed for a while but I only recently gave him a listen so he's still very new to me. All I know is what is on his website. He started playing when he received his first guitar at five years old, He released his first album at 12 years old and has released two more since. He is primarily focused on covers but has composed a few originals. This comp collects 24 tracks from his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/KentNishimuraFingerstyle-Funk-Soul-Music" target="_blank">YouTube channel</a> that I found most satisfying. There's a lot more on his channel so check him out. Enjoy.</p><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Tracklist</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">01 Smooth Jazz Chillout Solo Acoustic Guitar #1 (Short Version)</div><div style="text-align: left;">02 It's Too Late - Carole King</div><div style="text-align: left;">03 Purple Rain - Prince</div><div style="text-align: left;">04 Don't Know Why - Norah Jones</div><div style="text-align: left;">05 Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder</div><div style="text-align: left;">06 Africa - Toto</div><div style="text-align: left;">07 Ain't No Sunshine - Bill Withers</div><div style="text-align: left;">08 Rylynn - Andy Mckee</div><div style="text-align: left;">09 Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears</div><div style="text-align: left;">10 Careless Whisper - George Michael</div><div style="text-align: left;">11 Hit The Road Jack - Ray Charles</div><div style="text-align: left;">12 Living Inside Your Love - Earl Klugh</div><div style="text-align: left;">13 Human Nature - Michael Jackson</div><div style="text-align: left;">14 Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd</div><div style="text-align: left;">15 Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head - B.J. Thomas</div><div style="text-align: left;">16 Lean On Me - Bill Withers</div><div style="text-align: left;">17 What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong</div><div style="text-align: left;">18 The Hustle - Van McCoy</div><div style="text-align: left;">19 You Are The Sunshine Of My Life - Stevie Wonder</div><div style="text-align: left;">20 We Are The Champions - Queen</div><div style="text-align: left;">21 Sweet Love - Anita Baker</div><div style="text-align: left;">22 Lupin III [Jazz] - Yuji Ohno</div><div style="text-align: left;">23 Drive My Car - The Beatles</div><div style="text-align: left;">24 Thriller (Ending) - Michael Jackson</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><u>Reality Notes</u></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">To be totally upfront and honest I am not a big fan of instrumental music and instrumental covers of popular music is more often a miss than a hit for me. As I may have mentioned in other posts, I prefer songs. I need voices and words. The exceptions are often those that can transcend mere music making and transport you somewhere else. I'm a fan of fingerstyle guitar in general and like Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke in particular but they occasionally sing which helps to move things along. I also enjoy some classical things, big fan of Bach, not so much Mozart or Beethoven. I love Ravi Shankar and can get lost in traditional Japanese koto music. But for the most part instrumental music is a background filler for me. In spite of that, this will not be my last instrumental post. I am enthusiastically adding Kent to that short list of instrumentalists I enjoy but I'm not expecting this to be in regular listening rotation. But if you are a fan of this style of music you will love this.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">With the exception of track one these are all covers. Kent has a few originals but mostly interprets songs from other artists. Drive My Car is from Kent's first video he posted and is quite young at the time of recording but his skills even then are impressive. Kent covers a lot of genres so in choosing the tracklist I went with my own tastes. I highly recommend going to his channel to watch him play <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q93VZdVDYPE" target="_blank">Purple Rain</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJD77tJ1BEw" target="_blank">Brick In The Wall</a>. Both renditions are amazingly complete and must be seen to be believed. There is little to no overlap between the songs on his channel and his official albums so if you are a fan this will sit right alongside those.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I wanted to set a mood with the cover so I avoided using a picture of the artist and instead went with a landscape of meadows and trees. Enjoy.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/KentNishimuraFingerstyle-Funk-Soul-Music/about" target="_blank">YouTube</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.kentnishimura.online/" target="_blank">Website</a><br /></div>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-68893434599474948632020-09-11T04:27:00.000-07:002020-09-11T04:28:16.236-07:00Allison Young - Pillow Talk<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMjXgKzFfLmvQDZXWgng5JrJV2W3qajuV5JzNHa6RrrXMJtqo3X8eUOc4yq3gMTVDNujWNNRayczKboZ5ZfloXGkVHXT9BtGKv-qEEjg9PCpeIuf336tEnGL1E2G7nnLvO9yvCtR1T9Jax/s850/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="850" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMjXgKzFfLmvQDZXWgng5JrJV2W3qajuV5JzNHa6RrrXMJtqo3X8eUOc4yq3gMTVDNujWNNRayczKboZ5ZfloXGkVHXT9BtGKv-qEEjg9PCpeIuf336tEnGL1E2G7nnLvO9yvCtR1T9Jax/w328-h326/cover.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><p>2020's YouTube month continues with the enchanting Allison Young.<br /></p><p>Allison is a singer/songwriter from Nashville, the country music capitol of the world and though she touches on country she covers a lot more ground. She's a fine multi-instrumentalist but first and foremost she has one of the most beautiful, natural voices I've heard in a long while.</p><p>Allison naturally cultivates the vintage look to great effect which fits her musical style perfectly. She covers a wide range of genres with the bulk of them old standards but most songs seem to come out soft and a bit sultry. I've gone through as much as I could find from her and gathered a CD's worth of covers for you to enjoy.</p><p><u>Tracklist</u></p><p>01 I Wanna Be Loved By You<br />02 Everyday<br />03 I Fall To Pieces<br />04 Autumn in New York<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Feat. Josh Turner</span><br />05 Pillowtalk<br />06 I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Feat. Post Modern Jukeboxs</span><br />07 We’ll Meet Again<br />08 Un F The World<br />09 Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)<br />10 I Can’t Help Falling In Love<br />11 In Spite of Ourselves<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Feat. John Paterini</span><br />12 Be My Baby<br />13 If I Didn't Care<br />14 I'll Be Here In The Morning<br />15 You Really Got A Hold On Me<br />16 Creep<br />17 Mr. Blue Sky<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Feat. Post Modern Jukebox</span><br />18 Hidden In The Sand<br />19 Black Coffee<br />20 The Bug Collector<br />21 Romulus<br />22 Gonna Hurry<br />23 Our Love Is Here To Stay<br />24 Smile<br />25 Fever<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Feat. Josh Turner</span><br /></p><p><u>Reality Notes</u></p><p>The bulk of the songs are solo performances with some of those featuring Allison performing all of the instruments and vocals. Three tracks are duets, one with friend John Paterini and two with Josh Turner. Two songs features Allison with Postmodern Jukebox, a group that specializes in doing modern songs in a "loungey"/jazzy style often with guest vocalists like Allison.</p><p>Allison has some original music as well. She performs a few of her own songs on her YouTube page. I was prepared to use them if I needed more material to flesh out the album but fortunately I found plenty of covers. Be sure to check out her videos. They are well produced and entertaining, always a pleasant viewing. <br /></p><p>For the cover I utilized a pic from a photo session that produced the cover of her EP of originals that can be found on her Bandcamp page. Be sure to check that out.<br /></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/allisonyoungmusic/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyVttxb4-zHo62CB4lwvMXg" target="_blank">YouTube </a><br /><a href="https://allisonyoung.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/200000028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Josh Turner</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCORIeT1hk6tYBuntEXsguLg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Postmodern Jukebox</a></p>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-53399547924779196952020-09-04T04:24:00.000-07:002020-09-04T04:24:57.791-07:00Jess Greenberg - YouTube<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7skoMAAE9keVycCHEfgBGJjIrsSCvx8tpAL2_XoPAj0v9r1DsYjR9IFM8LSRyVSOv4R2KdMgpcsb3hLHFX7w1IX7YaYgrlSU6unI6AlM2CK6wavI5M4gLb0-BFNLhZNCOp6HXUDGBUb9X/s849/cover.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="848" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7skoMAAE9keVycCHEfgBGJjIrsSCvx8tpAL2_XoPAj0v9r1DsYjR9IFM8LSRyVSOv4R2KdMgpcsb3hLHFX7w1IX7YaYgrlSU6unI6AlM2CK6wavI5M4gLb0-BFNLhZNCOp6HXUDGBUb9X/w327-h328/cover.jpg" width="327" /></a></div><p>In 2018 I declared September YouTube month where each week I
presented an artist that I discovered and/or follow primarily on
YouTube. In 2019 I failed to follow up on that theme but in 2020 I have a
couple more for you.</p><p>During YouTube month of 2018 I received a request for a Jess Greenberg comp. At the time I had about 50 of her videos downloaded but for some reason they resisted all attempts to extract the audio. I would try every now and then and finally I managed through VLC and after some time going through each track I have narrowed the list down to fit on one CD.</p><p>Jess posts in small bursts it seems. The most recent is three months old at the time of this post but the previous video is three years old. Her first video was posted nine years ago, as you watch them in chronological order you can watch her mature.</p><p><u>Tracklist</u></p><p>01 Beast of Burden - The Rolling Stones<br />02 Stop this train - John Mayer<br />03 Big Love - Fleetwood Mac<br />04 Crazy in Love - Beyonce Knowles<br />05 Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix<br />06 We Found Love - Rihanna<br />07 Fly me to the moon - Bart Howard<br />08 Dark Side - Kelly Clarkson<br />09 Kiss me - Sixpence None the Richer<br />10 Wanted dead or alive - Bon Jovi<br />11 Underdog - Kasabian<br />12 Why'd you only call me when you're high - Arctic Monkeys<br />13 Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney<br />14 Domino - Jessie J<br />15 Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown<br />16 Everlong - Foo Fighters<br />17 Fever - Eddie Cooley & Otis Blackwell<br />18 You've got to show me love - Robin S<br />19 Get Lucky - Daft Punk<br />20 When you were young - The Killers<br />21 Gold on the Ceiling - The Black Keys<br />22 I don't trust myself (with loving you) - John Mayer<br />23 Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana<br />24 Titanium - David Guetta<br />25 Wherever You Will Go - The Calling<br />26 I Got You (I Feel Good) vs Scuttle Buttin' - James Brown-Stevie Ray<br /></p><p><u>Reality Notes</u></p><p>Jess has posted almost 80 videos over the years so if you like these check out her channel for more. As far as I can tell Jess has not posted any original music but is focused on covers. Jess has a wonderful voice and excellent guitar chops and is certainly impressive but overall her videos often didn't affect me in the same way <a href="https://whatif-misc.blogspot.com/search/label/Reina%20del%20Cid" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reina Del Cid</a> or the artist that is featured in my next post. I would like to hear her in a more fully produced performance where her voice can shine a bit more and use her guitar skills in a more controlled environment.</p><p>The bulk of Jess' videos were recorded the same way. It looks like she used a laptop or PC webcam using the built in mic in her bedroom. So, while the sound is not perfect, it is clear and consistent which gives the comp a cohesive feel to it. She covers a wide range of styles and genres, some worked for me more than others but everyone's taste is different so again, if you like these you might like the rest so check them out.<br /></p><p>Now, about that cover. Sometime during her second year of posting she started wearing the low-cut tops. I'm sure that had something to do with the increase in play counts her videos receive but be sure that the music is the main focus. In fact, one of the reasons for doing this comp was so I could enjoy the performance without the distraction of the wardrobe. The cover here is a cropped screenshot of one of her videos (I believe from the Beast of Burden video, I can tell by the chord she's playing) to which I added the text.<br /></p><p><a href="www.JessGreenbergMusic.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/JessGreenberg1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jessgreenberg1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-65851187783950072622020-05-29T04:27:00.000-07:002020-05-29T04:27:24.273-07:00Syd Barrett and the Pink Floyd Sound - 1967<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I've been distracted with other things in these crazy times we're in so I have been leaning on others in the community for ideas. This one came from a fellow member of an </i><i><i>private </i>alt-music history forum who simply asked me to do "something with Syd Barrett". </i><br />
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1967 saw the debut album by Syd Barrett. Supported by his backing band of Nick Mason, Richard Wright and Roger Waters, known as The Pink Floyd Sound, it contained 13 songs that could only have come from the mind of Syd.<br />
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This would be Syd's only album for three years though his backing band would push on releasing a three song EP recorded during the same sessions with Syd contributing guitar and a full LP the following year kicking off a career that would span several decades.<br />
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Syd's mental state would quickly deteriorate most likely due to his heavy consumption of psychedelics. The two parties split amicably in 1968 during the recording of the band's first full length album (now known simply as Pink Floyd). Syd did his best at helping his friends out appearing on several tracks but in the end they recruited an old classmate of Syd's, David Gilmour, to take over the guitar chores. That line up would last for most of that band's history.<br />
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Syd's relationship with his backing band was a strained affair to begin with. Even though they shared a flat and behaved as a single unit, it was always clear that Syd was the star and the others were support. When they split Syd was left without a band. It took the Floyd a few albums to find their own voice but when they finally broke through they became a mainstay of rock radio and the touring circuit for the remainder of their career.<br />
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Syd took a couple years off to rest and recover before returning to the studio releasing two albums in 1970 but the drugs again took their toll and Syd once more faded into the background preferring to hang out with fellow underground musicians Pretty Things drummer Twink, Deviants frontman Mick Farren and Steve Took from Tyrannosaurus Rex. His brief career left a lasting impression and influenced many younger artists.<br />
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<u>Tracklist</u><br />
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<u>Side One</u><br />
01 Astronomy Domine<br />
02 Lucifer Sam<br />
03 Apples And Oranges<br />
04 The Gnome<br />
05 Flaming<br />
06 Scarecrow<br />
07 See Emily Play<br />
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<u>Side Two </u><br />
01 Scream Thy Last Scream<br />
02 Chapter 24<br />
03 Bike<br />
04 Matilda Mother<br />
05 Vegetable Man<br />
06 Jugband Blues<br />
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<u>Bonus Non-LP Single </u><br />
Arnold Layne<br />
Candy And A Currant Bun<br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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There are plenty of alternate Pink Floyd histories and discographies floating around the internet. Most follow the premise of Syd staying with the band for a few more albums. While I always find them a good read, the compilations never really satisfy me. I love Syd and went through a heavy obsession for a brief time but always saw Syd and Floyd as separate entities despite their entwined history together. This comp is my way of further defining that separation.<br />
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For this album I took the first Floyd album and removed the two band written instrumentals <b>Pow R. Toc H.</b> and <b>Intersteller Overdrive</b> and the Waters penned <b>Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk</b> and replaced them with outtakes and singles. The three songs I removed become the EP released by Floyd at around the same time as this album. Yea, this is still Pink Floyd but it is a much different Floyd than that which they would evolve into once Syd was out and Gilmour was in. The "Floyd as backing band" makes much more sense to me.<br />
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I used all mono sources and included the Arnold Layne single and B side as bonus tracks. There are a couple of songs here where Syd is not the lead singer or he is the co-lead singer (<b>Matilda Mother</b>, <b>Scream Thy Last Scream</b>). I kept those anyway because he wrote them. Let's just say he is using artistic expression by having someone else sing to achieve a different sound than what he would have done or think of it as giving his backing band a chance to shine a bit.<br />
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For the cover I took a black and white photo of Syd and added liquid projection art over the top and added the text. I kept the original title. Most debut albums are self titled but Syd must have been attached to that phrase to name the album that. The title comes from chapter seven of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-18429984299421104962020-05-01T04:27:00.000-07:002020-05-01T04:27:22.862-07:00Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street 1971<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I've been using this down time to work on other projects around the house and in the studio so I haven't had much time to give to this blog. A while back AEC over at <a href="https://albumsbackfromthedead.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Albums Back from the Dead</a> posted a <a href="https://albumsbackfromthedead.blogspot.com/2020/03/crosby-stills-nash-young-sync.html" target="_blank">CSNY album</a> that imagined what a follow up to <b>DeJa Vu</b> might have sounded like using tracks from the solo albums released at the time. I chimed in with my take but had no plans of posting it here but with the lack of projects in my vault and to keep you guys busy while in quarantine and because it turned out so nice, I thought, why not?</i><br />
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After the release of <b>Deja Vu</b> in 1970 Crosby, Stills Nash and Young went on tour. Some of the shows were recorded and in April, 1971 they released a live album titled <b>4 Way Street</b>. After the tour the band fell apart and all members commenced recording solo records. Those albums were released between September 1970 and May 1971.<br />
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In spite of the supposed bad blood that broke the band apart there was still some interplay between the members. Stephen provided some vocals on Neil's album. Neil played on David's and Graham's and Crosby-Nash laid down backing vocals on Stephen's and each others albums. So what if they came together and recorded another CSNY album proper? Enjoy.<br />
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<u>Tracklist</u><br />
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<u>Side 1</u><br />
01 Love the One You're With<br />
02 Better Days<br />
03 Laughing<br />
04 After The Goldrush<br />
05 We Are Not Helpless<u><br /><br />Side 2</u><br />
01 Music is Love<br />
02 Do for the Others<br />
03 Military Madness<br />
04 Southern Man<br />
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<u>Side 3</u><br />
01 Chicago (We Can Change The World)<br />
02 Sit Yourself Down<br />
03 Don't Let It Bring You Down<br />
04 Traction in the Rain<br />
05 Simple Man<br />
06 Orleans<br />
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<u>Side 4</u><br />
01 Only Love Can Break Your Heart<br />
02 Church (Part of Someone)<br />
03 I Used to Be a King<br />
04 Cowboy Movie<br />
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<i>Running time: 79:44</i><br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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In the comments of AEC's post, myself and <a href="http://the-reconstructor.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The_Reconstructor</a> chimed in with our opinions. I took clues from each of them and ran with it. I loosened my criteria a bit and used the previous album for precedence. With a few exceptions, that album was largely recorded separately, coming together mostly to do harmonies.<br />
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While songs that included two or more members were given priority, some of David's tracks were cut due to not actually having lyrics. Lots of vocals but the voices were used as instruments rather than tell a story. We still have an example of that style here in the track <b>Orleans</b> but at least he's singing words even if they are in another language. I used the tracklist from the live album for more clues, any song on there that had not appeared on a previous album was in the running. I also chose to allow solo acoustic numbers. Stephen setting the precedent with <b>4+20</b> on <b>Deja Vu</b>.<br />
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I ended up with 19 songs that fit on a single CD. On vinyl that would make a double album. I sequenced the tracks to split nicely onto four sides but also flow between them. Everyone gets at least one song per side and never two in a row.<br />
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I used the tracks as they are with the exception of three. Two Neil songs come from the <b>4 Way Street</b> live album. I removed the audience before and after each of those as well as Neil's rap before <b>Don't Let It Bring You Down</b>. The live version of <b>Southern Man</b> was an obvious choice over the studio version. Not only is it the only track here to feature all four members, it's a full eight minutes longer with some great guitar interplay between Stephen and Neil making it a perfect side closer.<br />
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The last edit I made was to join Graham's <b>Chicago</b> with the reprise <b>We Can Change The World </b>to create a single track. I did this by ducking the opening chatter of the reprise under the last chords of Chicago to form a natural transition between them. Turned out nice.<br />
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The results fit in nicely within the overall discography and replaces the live album. Each member was prolific enough that the solo albums could still happen. Though arguably we took the cream of the crop from each. Originally I had sides one and two flipped. I thought that it would be clever to have each member open a side in the order of their names but the flow didn't feel right and <b>Love The One You're With</b> is an obvious album opener. <br />
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For the cover, I simplified the original.<br />
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<u>Sources</u><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">David Crosby - If Only I Could Remember My Name</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Graham Nash - Songs For Beginers</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Neil Young - After The Gold Rush</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">CSN&Y - 4 Way Street</span></i>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-10332788321071989582020-04-17T04:15:00.000-07:002020-04-18T14:28:26.506-07:00John Prine - 1970<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In these strange times stuck at home I have been trying to spend as little time on the computer as possible. I am able to work from home so I feel fortunate in that but I have to use the computer to work so I check a few things in the morning with my tea and breakfast then not much else outside work. I haven't been out in days and my band hasn't rehearsed in weeks but I have been working on a new solo album, writing and recording in my basement studio. When it's done I'll share it with you guys.<br />
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This past week we lost a music icon to this crazy virus we are fighting. John had survived two bouts of cancer one heart surgery and numerous other health issues before being taken from us. He was 78. I'm sad but I'm sure he and Steve Goodman are looking down on us laughing and having a great time drinking, smoking and trading songs.<br />
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I've been a fan of John Prine for a long, long time and he was a big influence on me and my band mate Kenny. We play several of his songs and recorded a couple under our cover band moniker Mighty Man. I was very sad to hear of his passing. John had one of those quirky sense of humors, sometimes dark and slightly tongue in cheek but always in the spirit of fun. He wrote amazing songs and could spin a yarn with the best of them. Many of my favorite lyrics are John Prine lyrics. <br />
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Sally used to play with her hula hoops</div>
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Now she tells her problems to therapy groups </div>
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Grandpa's on the front lawn starin' at a rake</div>
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Wonderin' if his marriage was a terrible mistake</div>
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I'm sitting on the front steps drinking Orange Crush</div>
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Wonderin' if it's possible for me to still blush</div>
(<i>The Sins Of Memphisto</i>) </blockquote>
To celebrate his life I present this bootleg of John recorded sometime before the release of his first album. According to the notes that accompany this collection this is the oldest known recordings of John though I have another bootleg that according to the label predates this by a few months. This is a compilation of what sounds like a demo tape and a live set.<br />
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01 Hello In There<br />
02 Souvenirs<br />
03 Sam Stone<br />
04 Paradise<br />
05 Blue Umbrella<br />
06 My Woman<br />
07 Illegal Smile<br />
08 Flashback Blues<br />
09 The Frying Pan<br />
10 Sour Grapes<br />
11 A Star, A Jewel And A Hoax (unreleased)<br />
12 Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore<br />
13 The Great Compromise<br />
14 Angel From Montgomery<br />
15 A Good Time<br />
16 Hey, Good Lookin' > Jambalaya<br />
17 Quiet Man<br />
18 Spanish Pipedream<br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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Not much more I can say about this. Quality is great for the studio portion (tracks 1-11) and lessens only slightly for the live part (tracks 12-18). The live portion was an FM broadcast but this does sound a generation or two down the line. There are a few flaws during the live portion as well but they're minor. The concert is supposedly from The 5th Peg in Chicago in August of 1970. If anyone has any further info about this they can add or correct please do. I did not try to fix anything wishing to preserve this as it is for posterity. I did tidy up the fronts and backs of the tracks as this sounded like a needle drop vinyl rip. I could hear turntable rumble during the quiet parts between songs. Beyond that this is how I found it. Enjoy.<br />
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The cover was embedded in the original files so I decided to keep it rather than make my own. I aslo included the sparse text file of notes that came with the original archive.<br />
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Thank you John for all the smiles you gave me through the years.<br />
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And then I’m gonna get a cocktail, vodka and ginger ale,<br />
Yeah, I’m gonna smoke a cigarette that’s nine miles long,<br />
I’m gonna kiss that pretty girl on the Tilt-A-Whirl,<br />
‘cause this old man is goin’ to town<br />
(<i>When I Get To Heaven</i>)</blockquote>
Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-19344275821613205102020-03-13T03:20:00.001-07:002020-03-13T03:20:27.888-07:00SUPERCOMET - Final Approach<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Over the years I have had the pleasure of knowing and sometimes working with some amazing musicians. Benjamin Kammin featured in the last post is one of those. Here is another.<br />
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Supercomet is Eric Olson. Better known as the guitarist in the blues band The Spectaculars. This is a side project he recorded in the early 2000s. It is more in the style of Pink Floyd with a touch of Black Crowes with solid songwriting and introspective lyrics. There is some amazing production here for being a home recorded project. Eric is one of those natural musicians with an ear for just the right sounds and the ability to achieve them with seemingly minimal effort.<br />
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I purchased my first mixing board from Eric when he upgraded his recording equipment before recording this album.<br />
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<u>Tracklist</u><br />
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01 Days<br />
02 Ascension<br />
03 Laurie<br />
04 Shades of Grey<br />
05 Nuts<br />
06 ECG Day<br />
07 Words<br />
08 Malaise<br />
09 We Know<br />
10 Power (Bonus Track)<br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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Eric comes from a musical family. Growing up in northern Wisconsin his father (my wife's uncle) grew tired of playing in regional country bands and taught his kids how to play so that he could play the music he liked. Eric took up the the guitar and his brother Mike the drums. Both are impressive multi-instrumentalists as well. I assume that is Mike on the drums here but both have the ability to switch roles with ease so without a "who did what" list I can't be sure. For all I know Eric might be playing everything.<br />
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I never had a physical copy of this album so I had to grab the songs from his <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/supercomet" target="_blank">ReverbNation</a> page. I had to do some minor editing to smooth out some of the track transitions but other than that, this is how I found them.<br />
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The last track is an alternate version of a song from the recent album by the latest incarnation of their blues band <a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/thespectaculars9" target="_blank">The Spectaculars</a>. I've always liked this song and I have a couple different versions but this one is my favorite. There have been a few different line-ups of the band over the years but the core has always been the father and sons trio. The current version is the first to have an album released and available for purchase (Let's Hear Us, Now!). Find it if you can. I have a live tape that I ripped from a video I took of a previous line-up. I posted that on my <a href="http://sybilrecords.blogspot.com/2010/02/spectaculars-live-at-maloneys-1994.html" target="_blank">Sybil Records</a> blog a long time ago and just updated the download links there.<br />
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In their early days they had a side band with an augmented line-up called Think Floyd. A Pink Floyd tribute band that did shows around the northern Wisconsin circuit. The first time I saw them perform was at a music festival as Think Floyd followed by a club show as The Spectaculars in my hometown of Appleton, Wisconsin. A great day and one of the first "dates" with my future wife.<br />
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The original cover was a non-text version of the cover used here. I added the band name and title.<br />
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<a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/supercomet" target="_blank">ReverbNation</a><br />
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The Spectaculars<br />
<a href="https://www.reverbnation.com/thespectaculars9" target="_blank">ReverbNation</a><br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thespectaculars/" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5PG_XW65vauX-9gQ2T4pWw" target="_blank">YouTube </a><br />
<a href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/lets-hear-us-now/1486651155" target="_blank">Apple Music </a>Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-48579781288884041542020-03-06T03:40:00.000-08:002020-03-06T03:40:01.999-08:00Ben Kammin - seventunes&threesongs (2001)<br />
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[This is a slightly edited repost of a post from my original <a href="http://sybilrecords.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sybil Records</a> blog. The links there were down and I have not posted anything there in quite some time. I've been wanting to reshare this album for a while now so a recent message from a reader asking if the album is still available was the nudge I needed to finally put it back up. I have updated all the links there if you want to check it out. It's a bit messy but I hope to clean it up soon.]<br />
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I've been wanting to post this album for a long while but because I had nothing to do with this project I needed to get the OK from the artist. Ben Kammin is a fingerstyle guitarist in the style of Michael Hedges and Leo Kottke. I first ran into Ben many years ago when he was playing at a Barnes & Noble bookstore. I ran into him a few more times before striking up a conversation with him. There was a lot of common ground between us as musical influences go and I really wanted to work with him in some way. It took a few years but I finally got him into my basement studio to do some demos. These are not them but you can find those <a href="https://whatif-misc.blogspot.com/2018/09/benjamin-kammin-6-rabbits-2-dogs-1-cat.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<u>Tracklist</u><br />
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01 Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring -J.S. Bach (Arr. David Qualey)<br />
02 Amazing Grace -Traditional (Arr. Randy Scruggs)<br />
03 Solitude -Ben Kammin (Chorus By William Blake)<br />
04 The Happy Couple -Michael Hedges<br />
05 Too Much Saturn -Francis Dunnery (Arr. Ben Kammin)<br />
06 Dreamsketcher -Billy Mclaughlin<br />
07 Ojo -Leo Kottke<br />
08 Let Them In -Anonymous (Melody based On an arr. By David Wilcox)<br />
09 Song For Robbie -Peppino D'agostino<br />
10 First To Go -Leo Kottke<br />
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<u>Reality Notes </u><br />
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What we have here is Ben's first CD. Recorded and released in 2001 it predates our demo sessions. This CD is sold out and long out of print with no plans at this time to reissue. I wanted to share this for many reasons but mainly to give more people access to this album. More often than not I have had to listen to Ben tell inquiring fans about the unavailability of this CD. So with Ben's approval I am putting this up here for all to download and enjoy.<br />
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If I could have one complaint about this album it's that Ben does not
sing enough. As a guitar player first I'm sure that's where he wanted
the focus to be but he has such a nice voice as well. <br />
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For more information about Ben go to his <a href="http://www.benjaminkammin.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. He doesn't perform very often these days but he is far from inactive.</div>
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Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-36581422706802112262020-02-14T05:42:00.001-08:002020-09-03T14:48:05.346-07:00Bing Crosby - Dancing and Reminiscing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And then there is Bing. Like The Osmonds, I've been a fan of Bing from an early age. I remember sitting in front of the TV in the days before cable watching the Hope-Crosby Road pictures. I also remember at that young age walking home from school through the open field behind our house during a snow shower trying to sing like Bing.<br />
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My Grandmother gave me this album on cassette when I was in my early 20s and I played it a lot. This is not the old time radio Bing. This is the late 50s Dixieland/big band jazz Bing with his voice in top form and his delivery relaxed and his sense of humor in full view. Gal pal Rosemary Clooney is featured on three songs.<br />
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I eventually combined this tape with a few other tapes by Bing that I had with every song on this tape and my faves from the others mixed in. I gave this tape to a friend to enjoy, I still had the songs plus others on one tape so I was happy. When recordable CDs appeared I longed to recreate this tape but my friend lost the original in a house move so I didn't have the tracklist. Once I was on the internet I tried for a long time to find info on this album and I finally found what I was looking for. I had the albums these songs are from so now I could finally hear this in its original form. Comfort food for the soul.<br />
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<u>Side One</u><br />
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01 Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella<br />
02 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter<br />
03 I Can't Get Started*<br />
04 Exactly Like You<br />
05 Down Among the Sheltering Palms<br />
06 You Came A Long Way From St Louis*<br />
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<u>Side Two</u><br />
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01 Some Sunny Day<br />
02 Whispering<br />
03 Brazil*<br />
04 Mack the Knife<br />
05 Dream a Little Dream of Me<br />
06 Last Night on the Backporch<br />
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* with Rosemary Clooney<br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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I had been searching and searching for info on this album for as long as I have had access to the internet and it had eluded my google-fu for all that time. A few weeks ago I had a realization as to its source and within a few clicks, there it was. I had assumed that it was a Time-Life release so that is where I concentrated my efforts. I had forgotten the name of the album so I couldn't search by that. I had a memory flashback when I recalled that My grandparents were subscribers to Reader's Digest and sure enough I found it among those.<br />
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I used to think that this was a radio show broadcast or something similar but later found that this is a compilation of two albums that were released close together in the late 50s, namely <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_with_a_Beat" target="_blank"><b>Bing With A Beat</b></a> (1957) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fancy_Meeting_You_Here" target="_blank"><b>Fancy Meeting You Here</b></a> (1958) which was a duet album with Rosemary Clooney. The bulk of the songs came from the former with three songs from the latter. The two albums have a similar production style so the songs blend well with each other. Both albums are great on their own but if you're unfamiliar with the original Croz and are looking for a place to start, this gets my highest recommendation.<br />
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Not many people are aware of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Crosby#Entrepreneurship" target="_blank">Bing's contributions to the recording industry</a>. Like George Martin and The Beatles that followed, Bing was at the forefront of pushing recording technology forward. He was there in the early days releasing his first album with <span class="fontstyle0">Paul Whiteman and his orchestra</span> in 1927. His first record under his name was released in 1937 which was a compilation of previously released singles. In 1940 he released his first album of all new material. His last album was released in 1977 shortly after his passing. Between 1937 and 1966 he released at least one album per year, usually three or more, and only missed releasing product in the years '67, '69, '73 and '74. He was a busy man. Between albums he made movies, did radio shows and TV specials.<br />
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Der Bingle passed in 1977 right around the same time we lost Elvis and Marc Bolan. <br />
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The cover is the original cover. I could have made a new one but it would have turned out much the same.Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-6229794418522710242020-01-31T03:24:00.002-08:002023-09-01T17:36:13.774-07:00The Osmonds - The No Schmaltz Box 1970 - 1974<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm going out on a limb and exposing myself a bit here. The Osmonds are one of my super secret guilty pleasures. I first heard them when I was 9 years old listening to the Phase III album when it came out so keep that in mind. Because of my age I was the target demographic for the light and poppy bubble gum hits which I carried in my memories into adulthood.<br />
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But there was so much more to the boys than top 40 AM radio hits. They covered a lot of ground from their earliest days singing barbershop quartet songs on the Andy Williams show. They also did country, R&B, pop, adult contemporary, religious themes, Broadway and disco over the course of their long career. But deep down the boys wanted to rock.<br />
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Most of the lighter fare was under the orders of Papa Osmond who guided their early output. I've never been a fan heavily orchestrated middle of the road type stuff. Like Paul McCartney's response to George Martin when he first suggested string arrangements for Yesterday, I want "none of that Mantovani rubbish". So what I've done here is make a three disc box set of just the good stuff, no schmaltz (well, some on disc three but only if the song is worth it), no sister Marie and no little Jimmy. One disc on the side of Rock and Roll, One of the more R&B/soulful grooves and one of the best of the Top 40 teeny bopper hits. Of course there is some stylistic cross pollination between the sets.<br />
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<u>Disc one - Ballin' the Jack</u><br />
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01 Hold Her Tight [Crazy Horses]<br />
02 My Drum [Phase III]<br />
03 Having A Party [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
04 Down By The Lazy River [Phase III]<br />
05 Life is Hard Enough Without Goodbyes [Crazy Horses]<br />
06 Business [Phase III]<br />
07 Utah [Crazy Horses]<br />
08 Traffic In My Mind [The Plan]<br />
09 Ballin' The Jack [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
10 One Way Ticket To Anywhere [The Plan]<br />
11 Hey,Mr Taxi [Crazy Horses]<br />
12 Sun, Sun, Sun [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
13 The Girl I Love [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
14 The Last Days [The Plan]<br />
15 Crazy Horses [Crazy Horses]<br />
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<u>Disc Two - Don't Panic</u><br />
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01 Goin' Home [The Plan]<br />
02 Mirror, Mirror [The Plan]<br />
03 Lonesome They Call Me, Lonesome I Am [Osmonds]<br />
04 A Taste Of Rhythm And Blues [Phase III]<br />
05 Movie Man [The Plan]<br />
06 Send A Little Love [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
07 We All Fall Down [Crazy Horses]<br />
08 Gabrielle [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
09 Find 'Em, Fool 'Em And Forget _Em [Osmonds]<br />
10 I Can't Get Next To You [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
11 Motown Special [Osmonds]<br />
12 It's Alright [The Plan]<br />
13 Flirtin' [Osmonds]<br />
14 Fever [Love Me For A Reason]<br />
15 Don't Panic [Phase III]<br />
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<u>Disc Three - Sweet and Innocent</u><br />
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01 One Bad Apple [Osmonds]<br />
02 Puppy Love [Portrait of Donny]*<br />
03 The Proud One [Non-LP Single]<br />
04 Yo-Yo [Phase III]<br />
05 Sweet And Innocent [The Donny Osmond Album]*<br />
06 Double Lovin' [Homemade]<br />
07 He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother [Osmonds]<br />
08 Go Away Little Girl [To You with Love, Donny]*<br />
09 The Twelfth Of Never [Alone Together]*<br />
10 Girl [Crazy Horses]<br />
11 Hey Girl [Portrait of Donny]*<br />
12 And You Love Me [Crazy Horses]<br />
13 Lonely Boy [Too Young]*<br />
14 Chilly Winds[Homemade]<br />
15 In The Rest Of My Life [Phase III]<br />
16 Are You Lonesome Tonight [A Time For Us]*<br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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You can say what you want about the Jacksons vs the Osmonds but when it comes to their peak periods in the early 70s, I love them both. I'll give the Jacksons the edge on footwork and songs (when you have the Motown machine behind you how can you not have the songs) but damn these boys can sing. Impeccable harmonies throughout. And it certainly doesn't hurt that they utilized some of the best studio musicians in the biz for the bulk of their backing tracks. There is some top notch playing going on. Both camps were fine musicians on their own and could play with the best of them. I didn't find enough info to assess the ratio of outsourced songs to those written by the Jacksons but the Osmonds did write a large portion of their songs from at least Phase III onward. I guess the biggest difference between the two is you don't have to hide your love of the Jackson 5. The Osmonds will always be a guilty pleasure unless you were a 11 to 15 year old girl at the time.<br />
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Not much more I can say about this. Just make sure you close the drapes and use headphones if you feel the need to dance and keep it private. I made a separate cover for each disc that kind of reflects their contents. You can delete the third disc if the teen idol pop stuff isn't to your liking but the other two are required listening. All the songs on the first two discs come from their first six Osmond albums. The songs on the third disc marked with * are Donny Osmond solo singles.Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-52040439979983495452020-01-17T03:25:00.000-08:002020-03-10T05:34:20.151-07:00Grateful Dead - Acoustic Dead 1971<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>"And you thought you were going to hear rock & roll..." JG 1970/02/07</i></div>
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Every time I think I'm done with the Dead something else punches me in the face demanding to be constructed. <br />
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In 1971 the Dead released a live album named <b>Grateful Dead</b>, AKA <b>Skull and Roses</b>. That album was compiled from a string of shows in April of 1971 but in 1969/70 they performed a series of acoustic sets, some planned and some impromptu. This live set is culled from those unplugged performances. A precursor to 1980's <b>Reckoning</b> which I feel they could have released in 1971 had these shows been recorded properly.<br />
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To be up front and clear, this is not a compendium of every song they played during the acoustic sets. Nor is it the best version of each song I chose to include (more on that below) or even the best songs they did. I did this to please myself first and foremost and I am happy with the results. This has been my pet project for a while vowing to myself to not share it until it was as perfect as I could make it. It goes without saying that if the band had planned ahead with the intention of releasing an album like this they would have recorded at least a few shows on 16 track tape and possibly even sweetened those up with new vocals.<br />
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Because this is suppose to be a vinyl release I sequenced and edited each side to have a continuous live flow. When two songs did not flow into each other well I used clips of audience noise from an audience tape to create the missing flow. In most cases it worked fantastic, in others you can hear the transition from one source to another but the applause feels like it belongs to one or the other song in the transition.<br />
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I used setlists to help with sequencing, putting songs where they would typically appear in an actual show. Though I used them to suggest rather than dictate. I tried to sequence each side to be independent yet contribute to the whole. I tried to create a balance between slow and somber songs and the more upbeat tunes. This comp has gone through several complete rebuilds and many subsequent overhauls and tweaks until I was happy with the tracklist and version selection.<br />
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<u>Side One</u><br />
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01 Don't Ease Me In (Trad.)<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>- 1970-05-14 Meramec Community College - Kirkwood, MO</b><br />Right from the start when I first heard this take I knew it had to be the opener. If only for Pig on the harp. An amazing take. This song was often the acoustic set opener but this is one of only a few times Pigpen played harp on it. One of the few songs they played consistently from the very beginnings of the band up to the end. I used the Bill Graham intro from 1970-09-20 where he introduces the band as the Acoustic Dead.</i></span>
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02 The Rub (Hopkins)<br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">- 70-05-15 Fillmore East, New York NY, [Early Show]</span></i></b><br />
<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">From Pigpen on harp to Pigpen on vocals and harp. This comp was almost subtitled "Hey Pig!" Pig would normally sit on the side during these sets but Jerry or Bobby would call him out to the stage with that phrase. I had initially planned to keep as many of those in but they ended up getting cut for time. An old Lightnin' Hopkns song actually titled Ain't It Crazy but the Dead always referred to it as The Rub.</span></i><br />
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03 I Know You Rider (Trad.)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-06-05 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This song would normally follow Don't Ease but I felt it slowed things down too soon so I bumped it back one. A great rendition that almost takes it into Morning Dew territory. During electric sets they eventually pair this song with China Cat Sunflower that would become a standard until the end.</i></span><br />
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04 Friend of the Devil (Garcia/Hunter/Dawson)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-05-15 Fillmore East, New York NY, [Late show]</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A nice early rendition. Jerry is still not sure of some of the lyrics but the song is there. I often chose early renditions of songs rather than later ones that sounded too much like the record. There was a show (9/20/70 ?) that had both David Nelson and David Grisman sitting in and they were able to recreate most of American Beauty very closely. Nice, but is it interesting?</i></span><br />
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05 Beat It On Down The Line (Fuller)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-05-02 Harpur College, Binghamton, New York</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I don't know why but I really enjoy this song in all its incarnations. In this acoustic setting it still flies and has a nice charm about it.</i></span><br />
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<u>Side Two</u><br />
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01 The Master's Bouquet (Baumgardner)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1969-12-26, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>At the beginning of the acoustic sets they weren't sure what to play so they dug up a lot of old folk songs, spirituals, country and blues numbers, many they used to play in their pre-Dead days. This is an old Hank Williams song.</i></span><br />
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02 Sawmill (Whatley/Tillis)<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>- 1970-01-31 The Warehouse, New Orleans LA</i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I added this one at the last minute. Originally I had Seasons in this slot but I felt I needed something a little more lively. Jerry plays electric guitar for this one. This show started electric then ended acoustic, the reverse of how they normally happened. This is also the only time the Dead played this live acoustically.</i></span><br />
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03 Truckin' (Hunter/Garcia/Weir/Lesh)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-09-20 Fillmore East, New York, NY</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>From the show with David Grisman sitting in. I've been led to believe that that is David on piano. A nice rendition somewhat close to the record if not slightly laid back.</i></span><br />
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04 Little Sadie (Trad.)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-02-28 Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>A nice little folk song about a man who takes the life of some poor woman, runs from the law, is captured by the law and gets what 's coming to him. Death and murder songs seemed plentiful throughout the run of acoustic sets starting with Dupree and Dire Wolf. I had to pass on some great songs simply because all of the darkness was bringing the mood down.</i></span><br />
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05 A Voice From On High (Monroe/Mauldin)+<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-05-15 Fillmore East, New York NY, [Late show]</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The first track to feature David Nelson from NRPS on mandolin and harmonies. An old bluegrass tune by Bill Monroe.</i></span><br />
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<u>Side Three</u><br />
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01 Black Peter (Hunter/Garcia)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-02-14 Fillmore East, New York, NY [Late Show]</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Another song about death and bad luck. From Workingman's Dead a nice somber yet moving performance.</i></span><br />
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02 Silver Threads and Golden Needles (Reynolds/Rhodes)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-06-07 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>An old country standard first recorded by Wanda Jackson in 1956. The Dead played this often from '66 on but this is one of the last times it was played.</i></span><br />
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03 Cold Jordon (Rich)+<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-06-07 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>An old gospel number popular with bluegrass groups like The Stanely Brothers. More commonly titled "Jordan" the Dead added the "Cold" to the title and spelled Jordan wrong. NRPS members sit in to add mandolin and harmonies.</i></span><br />
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04 Cumberland Blues (Hunter/Garcia/Lesh)+<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-09-20 Fillmore East, New York, NY</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>David Nelson moves to guitar while Jerry plugs in.</i></span><br />
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<u>Side Four</u><br />
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01 Dupree's Diamond Blues (Hunter/Garcia) <br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1969-04-05 Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco CA</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This was soon paired with Mountains during the early sets of '69 and continued through November even after they stopped playing Mountains. Once the 1970 sets started they played this during the electric sets.</i></span><br />
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02 Mountains of the Moon (Hunter/Garcia) <br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1969-01-18 Playboy After Dark</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>This is another song that was on the must have list from the very beginning. This is my one cheater song. While it is live it is live in a TV studio. This was part of a Playboy After Dark episode. I wanted this version over all the others because it features Tom Constanten on the harpsichord. For a TV broadcast this was very noisy no mater which copy I used. I cleaned it up as best I could.</i></span><br />
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03 Katie Mae (Hopkins)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-02-14 Fillmore East, New York, NY [Late Show]</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Another Pigpen spot. This time he plays the guitar to accompany himself for a true solo spot. During all of the acoustic sets, if Pigpen sang, he usually sang this one. He would sometimes do more but this was his goto song for these sets.</i></span><br />
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04 Wake Up Little Susie (Bryant/Bryant) <br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-02-14 Fillmore East, New York, NY [Late Show]</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>I rejected this song at first, it seemed a bit hokey maybe but I put it in after removing another song in this slot, Long Black Limousine, when I realized the set was already overloaded with death and murder songs. This helps lighten the mood a bit.</i></span><br />
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05 Uncle John's Band (Hunter/Garcia)<br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>- 1970-02-11 Fillmore East, New York, NY</i></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>By the end of the acoustic sets in 1970 this song was more often than not the closing number. I got lucky and the audience tape I used for applause links ended with this song. They were playing it with full harmonies by then and I was able to use the end harmonies from the aud tape to supplement the end of this take to smooth out the transition to the end applause.</i></span><br />
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+ <i>Features David Nelson and/or John Dawson from New Riders of the Purple Sage</i><br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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This post is one of my longer ones and it could easily be longer. There is so much to say about this that it could fill a small booklet. Because of the size and scope of this project it is possible that I may have mislabeled a song source or two though I did my best to keep everything straight. Feel free to correct me if I did. I’m a freshman Dead scholar at best. If you want a more detailed description of the acoustic sets <a href="http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2009/08/deads-acoustic-sets-1969-1970.html" target="_blank">this</a> is a great place to start.<br />
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A brief history of the 1969/70 acoustic sets starts in early 1969 when they started performing <b>Mountains of the Moon</b>. The song would appear randomly during the shows and was quickly paired with unplugged versions of <b>Dupree's Diamond Blues</b>, always played before Mountains, and <b>Dire Wolf </b>which also appeared during a few of these spots. By the end of the year Mountains had disappeared and after '69 Dupree was played electric and the acoustic sets briefly stopped.<br />
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But in late December the sets returned and came back big with longer sets and more songs and continued on through the next year. The first couple happened out of necessity due to equipment troubles or late musicians. By the end of the run they were longer and a bit more planned on with a typical show opening with an acoustic set then a short break then an electric set sometimes with a NRPS set between them. The length of the sets varied from show to show and not every show featured an acoustic set in the same spot, if at all.<br />
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At the start the sets were mostly just Jerry and Bobby but by the end the full band was involved with the drummers alternating from show to show. Pigpen always had a spot, usually Katie Mae but sometimes he would switch things up and throw a different blues number in the mix. They even did <b>Operator</b> four times but unfortunately those shows only circulate as audience tapes which prevented their use here.<br />
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There is a string of shows that featured the New Riders of the Purple Sage playing after the acoustic set. New Riders at this time still had Jerry and Mickey in the lineup. Often David Nelson and John (Marmaduke) Dawson would join them during the acoustic set, usually for a sacred number or a deep country cover. David Nelson would often switch from mandolin to acoustic guitar for Cumberland Blues while Jerry switched to electric. Jerry also played electric on this version of Sawmill. <br />
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When I started this project I had a few simple goals. One, no tracks that would duplicate songs from <b>Reckoning</b> or the two roughly contemporary live sets <b>Live/Dead</b> and <b>Skull and Roses</b>. I was fine with songs also appearing on <b>Dead Set</b> which was released about the same time as Reckoning as those would be electric and 10 years later. Two, the final run time must be between 75 and 80 minutes, long enough to justify a double vinyl album but still fit on one CD. And three was to not overload with too many new songs from the recent 1970 albums <b>Workingman's Dead</b> and <b>American Beauty</b>. Overall I knew my biggest challenge was to create a balance between clean recordings and good and interesting performances. Even after removing the duplicate songs from Reckoning and the other live albums and what appears here, there is still at least another single album's worth of songs leftover for a volume 2. I could have easily made a three disc set but then it wouldn't fit on a single CD.<br />
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There was another live album that most fans tend to forget about (I did). <b>History of the Grateful Dead Vol. 1, Bears Choice</b> was a single disc live album released in 1973, it contained some of these songs, one side acoustic and one side electric taken from Feb. 13 and 14 1970. I had chosen the same version of Katie Mae but it had some tape artifacts in it. The version of Black Peter I originally used had some flaws as well. The version of Wake Up Little Susie I originally chose was from a different show but this one was marginally better so I used these cleaner versions from the album though they weren't that much cleaner. I'm going to pretend that Bear's Choice never happened or it had different song choices. That album was assembled for Warner Bros to fulfill their contract, owing one more album to the label. So let's just say that this album filled that slot instead but released two years earlier.<br />
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It wasn't easy but I think I achieved that balance between good, interesting performances and sound quality but I still had to make a few compromises. When I started digging I found that this was not a good time for soundboards. Due to legal troubles, Owsley was absent for much of the tours outside of California leaving us with a lot of shoddy recordings and missing shows. The mixes were often unbalanced with the bass, drums and keyboards (if present) slightly buried but they’re there if you listen close. While it is fortunate that there was enough good sounding shows to choose from, the best shows were not always captured well if at all. The last three sets in November exist as audience tapes only. While I passed on using those for quality reasons there are a couple aud tapes that almost sound as good as the soundboards (<a href="https://archive.org/details/gd1970-11-08.aud.lee.pcrp.26975.shnf" target="_blank">here's a nice one from 11/08</a> I used applause clips from this one to help smooth out the song transitions). So, while the final results here may not be as pristine and perfect as I'd hoped, I'm very happy with how it did turn out and feel lucky to be able to pass it along to you.<br />
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The cover was constructed from several elements but the main center image comes from a floor mosaic by Gianlorenzo Bernini in the Cornaro Chapel Rome, Santa Maria della Vittoria. John Hilgart over at <a href="http://saveyourface.posthaven.com/" target="_blank">Save Your Face</a> recently used the image for a <a href="https://saveyourface.posthaven.com/grateful-dead-october-85" target="_blank">post</a> and I fell in love with it and extracted the center image for this cover. I had originally planned to name this after the working title of Aoxomoxoa with the cover to the left but when I changed the image the title didn't work for me anymore so I changed it to simply Acoustic Dead. There were vinyl bootlegs with the same name featuring one of the many acoustic sets from 1970 so it all felt proper to me. And before anyone points out the the working title of Aoxomoxoa was Earthquake Country not County I felt county rolled off the tongue and fit the image better.Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-673012972226728720.post-68080272675955278152020-01-10T05:08:00.000-08:002020-01-10T05:08:44.795-08:00Bob Weir Band [Grateful Dead] - Acoustic 1978<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Another rare acoustic set for The Dead. This time from 1978. The Dead were in the middle of a three night run in Chicago when they did this impromptu performance earlier in the day. Billed as the Bob Weir Band but really the band minus Keith, Donna and Bill.<br />
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The show was a benefit for the college's Hunger Week and saw the band dig out some old favorites and a couple of new ones and one original and that was a Bobby song from his recent solo album, Heaven Help The Fool.<br />
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I love acoustic music in general but acoustic Dead always seems like something special. Enjoy.<br />
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<u>Side One</u><br />
01 Whinin' Boy Blues<br />
02 Tom Dooley<br />
03 This Time Forever<br />
04 Deep Elem Blues<br />
05 KC Moan<br />
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<u>Side Two</u><br />
01 Knockin' on Heaven's Door<br />
02 Big Boy Pete<br />
03 Jack-A-Roe<br />
04 Dark Hollow<br />
05 Oh Boy<br />
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<u>Reality Notes</u><br />
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Not too much more I can say about this one. It's a fun listen and unlike other shows I've edited This one was pretty tight with very few long bits between songs. The recording is a clean and decent soundboard which required no touching up. The song choices are mostly old folk and blues songs with one original. Many are making their first and last appearances.<br />
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I wanted the cover to have a bootleg feel. This is pre-CD era and their label Arista was still pushing them to deliver slick production product so this would never see an official release making it perfect bootleg material. Even before doing my usual trimming of between song chatter this was barely over 45 minutes long and would split nicely between songs five and six on a vinyl disc. For this reason I did not try to smooth out every edit. I imagine the bootlegger had rudimentary tape editing skills and just chopped what he could to make it fit on the disc.Uncle Danhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04927566350937239341noreply@blogger.com2