Brian Wilson - Live In Denmark - 2005

Brian Wilson is one of a very few number of artists, that I feel comfortable about being referred to as, a musical legend or the like.

It's not just the fact that he overcame his personal health difficulties, that kept him out of the music scene for so long, that gives him the right to such accolades. For me it is the music. Pure and simple, just that - the music.

His contribution to the Beach Boys legacy in recent years, and the stunning recreation of so many classics live, along with some newer material, has been the proverbial 'breath of fresh air' popular music so often begs for.

This is Brian Wilson at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark in 2005. The annual Roskilde festival has a number of synergies with the UK's Glastonbury festival amongst others, their web site is well worth a visit, I wonder if getting tickets is just as difficult?

Therefore it is no suprise that he played Glastonbury just a few days earlier, as part of the Smile tour from that year.

Recorded from an FM stereo broadcast of the show, this is a high quality production of Brian Wilson at the Roskilde Festival on the 3rd July 2005, performing on the Orange Stage to an audience of around 60,000 concert goers.

Set list:

1.Do it again.
2.Don't worry baby.
3.Then I kissed her.
4.In My room.
5.Surfer girl.
6.Do you wanna dance.
7.Sloop John B.
8.God only knows.
9.Sail on Sailor.
10.California girls.
11.Our Prayer / Heroes and Villains.
12.Good vibrations.
13.I get around.
14.Help me Rhonda.
15.Barbara Ann.
16.Surfin U.S.A.

Reloaded 11/June/2015 - link in comments.

Bootleg Originals Part Five - Led Zeppelin - Blueberry Hill

When I was a mere young lad in my teens, this Led Zeppelin bootleg was often talked of, in 'hushed undertones', however neither my friends or I ever owned a copy.

For a while it became something of a status symbol to have heard it, or even know of someone, that had a copy.

In reality as far as bootlegs go this really is something special.

Cutting and pasting shamelessly from Wikipedia, (where this boot has it's own entry!) here is a rough history of the bootleg.

Live On Blueberry Hill (also known as Blueberry Hill) is an audience recording.

It is well known for being one of the first ever Led Zeppelin bootlegs, and indeed one of the first ever rock and roll bootlegs ever released.

It was initially released on the Blimp label. The sleeve notes described it as "One hundred and six minutes and fifty three seconds of pure alive rock." The album was subsequently pressed on the Trade Mark of Quality label and shipped to England.

Live On Blueberry Hill derived its name from the fact that at this concert Led Zeppelin performed Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill" as a final encore.

The bootleg also features one of the few known live performances of "Out on the Tiles", a track from the group's third album.

From the 1980s the bootleg became available on CD as a 2-disc set, often under the alternative titles Blueberry Hill and The Final Statements.

I have to say as audience recordings from the early 1970's go the quality is very good. However what makes this so special apart from the historical element, is the whole upbeat mood of the show. You can just tell the band are enjoying the concert along with the audience.

Recorded Live at Los Angeles Forum, Los Angeles, California, USA, on the 4th September 1970.

Setlist:

CD1

1. Immigrant Song
2. Heartbreaker
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Bring It On Home
5. That's The Way
6. Bron Yr Aur
7. Since Ive Been Loving You
8. Organ Solo
9. Thankyou

CD2

1. What Is and What Should Never Be
2. Moby Dick
3. Whole Lotta Love (Medley - Boogie Woogie - Some Other Guy - I've Gotta Girl - I'm Moving On - Think It Over - The Lemon Song)
4. Communication Breakdown ( including: Good Times Bad Times, For What It's Worth, I Saw Her Standing There)
5. Out On The Tiles
6. Blueberry Hill

Comments:

This is the best quality version of the recording I have ever heard (hence larger files), highly listenable, all you have to do is ''Rock and Roll" ! The above picture is close to the original vinyl album bootleg cover, I hope to have more of the original artwork to post at some point soon.

Hootie and the Blowfish - Acoustic

Hootie and the Blowfish originally formed at the University of South Carolina back in 1985, the line up being, Darius Rucker, Dean Felber, Jim "Sonny" Sonefeld and Mark Bryan.

This is an acoustic gig, with some extras, that having listened to earlier today, sounds really good. I am not that familiar with their music, however having enjoyed this, I will be checking out some more!

The concert was recorded on 'home turf' at the Horeshoe, University of South Carolina, and consists of:

Set List:

1. Time
2. Sad caper
3. Running From An Angel
4. She Crawls Away
5. The Earth Stayed Cold At Dawn
6. Gravity Of The Situation
7. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You
8. Let Her Cry
9. So Strange
10. Hold My Hand

Plus recorded at GLR (BBC Radio) London on the 1st May 1996 (acoustic session).

11. Sad Caper
12. The Earth Stayed Cold At Dawn

Finally Live at The Ed Sullivan Theatre NYC on the 23rd May 1996

13. Old Man and Me

Sound quality is very good throughout, so please enjoy!

Official Hootie and the Blowfish material HERE.

Reloaded - 21/May/2015 - download link in comments.

Thanks to Chris again, for sourcing this.

Kate Bush - Butterfly Kisses

I have always liked Kate Bush. She epitomises every thing that is good about a creative artist & musician. I could go on and on, I guess you know all this. She has been, and remains one of the best female artist's in popular, and contemporary music. This is a compilation of live TV appearance soundtracks, 70's & 80's charity contributions, and limited live material that has been circulated under the title ' Butterfly Kisses'. I am not sure if this was originally one of those cynical 'rip off' Cd's traded as an official release, or just a collection of fans material (hopefully it is the latter).

Track listing:

01 - Wuthering Heights (3:00) BBC TV, Top of the Pops - 16 Feb 1978.
02 - The Man with the Child in His Eyes (2:51)
03 - Them Heavy People (2:48) TV (New York), Saturday Night Live - 09 Dec 1978.
04 - Under the Ivy (2:13 Studio, Abbey Road, March 1986.
05 - Breathing (3:07)
06 - Do Bears? (3:49) BBC TV, Comic Relief - 04 April 1986.
07 - Running Up That Hill (4:58)
Amnesty International Concert - 28 March 1987.
08 - The Long and Winding Road (1:42)
09 - She's Leaving Home (1:32)
Japan 1978 - No further details.
10 - Moving (2:41) Budoken Tokyo - June 1978.
11 - Room for the Life (3:54)
12 - Strange Phenomena (3:12)
13 - Violin (2:54)
14 - In the Warm Room (3:35)
15 - Kite (4:25)
16 - Wuthering Heights (4:23) Germany May 1979 - No concert details.

Audio quality: Very good.

Reloaded 11/June/2015 - link in comments.