The Black Crowes - Live In London

If you are not a fan of The Black Crowes - Get Off of my blog !!!

Well actually your welcome to stay, have a look around if you like, but expect some Black Crowes along the way!

A pristine recording awaits, recorded at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on the 19th March 2006.

An excellent venue for a rock'n'roll gig, not to big, so it gets hot, and you can get up close to the band..

This is the full concert.

REPLACEMENT LINK IN DOWNLOADS BELOW OR CLICK ON THE PICTURE (21ST OCTOBER 2009).

A little feed back is always appreciated, especially as I am sitting on some more Black Crowes treasure.

You can buy The Black Crowes albums HERE.

You can visit the official Black Crowes site HERE (it's excellent if you have not been there before get there now!).

Jeff Buckley - Liquid Room Tokyo 1995

This is Jeff Buckley live in japan in 1995.

The audio quality on this concert is superb for an audience recording.

The concert took place on January 30th 1995, and as far as I know was just one of two gigs he undertook in Japan.

The full concert listing is as follows:

1. Dream Brother 2. Grace 3. So Real 4. Last Goodbye 5. What Will You Say 6. Lilac Wine 7. Mojo Pin 8. Eternal Life 9. Improvisation / Lover, You Should've Come Over (10. Vancouver) (11. Kanga-roo) 12. Hallelujah / I Know It's Over (Smiths cover).

I am afraid that my copy of the gig does not include Vancouver and Kanga-roo.

This was a wonderful concert. My life flies by. It is now over ten years since the tragic loss of Jeff Buckley, I still often wonder what may have followed if only...

This is the last full concert bootleg of Jeff Buckley for a while on Beehive Candy, however more are planned to follow. I am in the process of going through 'one offs', studio rarities and so forth, and as time permits will upload these shortly (some more real gems to share).

REPLACEMENT DOWNLOAD LINK IN COMMENTS BELOW OR CLICK ON THE PICTURE ABOVE (2ND SEPTEMBER 2009).

Official material HERE, in the Beehive Candy Store.

Finally I am after any standard of recording of Jeff Buckley's gig at CBGB's, NYC, December 18, 1993. If you can help - thank you...

Jeff Buckley - Glastonbury - 1995

Jeff Buckley played the Glastonbury Festival on the 24th June 1995.

Songs performed are listed below.

1. Dream Brother 2. Lover, You Should've Come Over 3. So Real 4. Last Goodbye 5. What Will You Say 6. Mojo Pin 7. Eternal Life 8. Kick Out The Jams 9. Grace.

Unfortunately my copy of this concert excludes the final song (Grace), however that said this was a fantastic gig, I just wish I could have been there !

The link to the concert is below (again a zip file)

Jeff Buckley - Glastonbury 24th June 1995.

The Beehive Candy Store Jeff Buckley page is HERE.

Jeff Buckley - Live at The Knitting Factory 1997

Reloaded 20/May/2015 - This was clearly Beehive Candy in our minimalist era, music is superb though so enjoy!

Five days prior to playing at Arlene's Grocery, Jeff Buckley performed a solo gig at The Knitting Factory in New York City.

Set List:

1. Lover, You Should've Come Over
2. Jewel Box
3. Morning Theft
4. Grace(with Gary Lucas)
5. The Sky Is A Landfill
6. Everybody Here Wants You
7. Yard Of Blonde Girls.

The Beehive Candy Store has a page dedicated to Jeff Buckley HERE.

You can find out more about The Knitting Factory HERE.

Reloaded - 20/May/2015 - download link in comments.

Jeff Buckley - Arlene's Grocery - 1997

Jeff Buckley was born in California's Orange County in 1966.

He died in a tragic drowning accident on May 29th 1997.

He left one near perfect album, several live concerts recorded and released in full or part prior to, and/or after his death, and the material that may have lead eventually to a second 'proper' album.

If you are a fan this leaves a void, that can never be filled.

Sadly for an artist as talented as Jeff, the 'unofficial' recordings remain sadly few and far between. In away this is a good thing, as a badly recorded concert, would be such an injustice, to someone who was capable of such incredibly moving music, and never had the chance to expand definitively beyond his debut album.

The bootlegs that I have of Jeff Buckley are few in number. I know of around fifteen, that are supposed to be of good quality, the live radio material seem to be those most widely circulated.

This is my favorite. The copy I have was called 'The Grace Of J'.

At midnight on February 9, 1997, Jeff Buckley debuted his new drummer, Parker Kindred, in a show at Arlene Grocery on New York's Lower East Side. He also played a couple of solo gigs in New York during the first months of 1997: a gig at the Daydream Cafe (featuring band members Mick Grondahl and Michael Tighe as "special guests") and a solo performance February 4 as part of the Knitting Factory's 10-Year Birthday Party.

Set List:

Nightmares by the Sea
Witches' Rave
So Real
Haven't You Heard
Lover, You Should've Come Over
Morning Theft
Vancouver
Snail
The Sky Is a Landfill
Mojo Pin
Grace
Last Goodbye

Find out more about Arlene's Grocery HERE.

Audio quality: Suggests the soundboard was used, even if audience 'chatter' is apparent on a couple of occasions. The conversation between Jeff Buckley and the audience is in really good humour, his impersonation of Tom Waits is priceless.

Reloaded 21/June/2015 link in comments.

Steely Dan - The Rainbow Finsbury Park London 1974

Steely Dan - precise, cool, bluesy, jazzy, mature, thoughtful, clever, serious, catchy, timeless, flawless, and hopefully you get my drift.

Steely Dan were one of the bands that taught a younger me, that there was much more to music than three chord rock anthems, or in them day's who looked the part. When I bought Pretzel Logic, it became my favorite album of the time. I obtained a copy of a 1994 concert a while back, and was impressed with how good they sounded.

I went to see them in London in 1974, I even remember the hassle our driver had finding somewhere to park, and the subsequent frantic search for a bar, before the gig. Arriving at the venue, the foyer was a sea of faded denim, and hair, so many long haired blokes, it seemed the hippies were back, from memory it seemed a rather male audience. So when I obtained a boot of the show recently I have to say I was over the moon. I was almost nervous when I began to play it, hoping it was at least listenable, and looking for signs that this really was the gig I had attended thirty plus years ago.

The memories flooded back, this was definitely the show (all I need now is for someone to tell me, if it really was Kiki Dee supporting them? as that remains a vaguer recollection). The quality of the boot is astounding, definitely from the sound desk, and mastered, with some care.

Set List:

CD 1:
01 - Intro Bodhisattva
02 - The Boston Rag
03 - Do It Again
04 - Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me)
05 - King Of The World
06 - Rikki Don't Lose That Number
07 - Pretzel Logic
08 - Band Introductions

CD 2:
01 - My Old School
02 - Dirty Work
03 - Instrumental (Your Gold Teeth Ii)
04 - Reelin' In The Years
05 - Crowd And Tuning
06 - Show Biz Kids
07 - Crowd And Tuning
08 - This All Too Mobile Home

Band:

Donald Fagen - piano, vocals
Walter Becker - bass
Jeff Baxter - guitar
Denny Dias - guitar
Jim Hodder - drums
Jeff Porcaro - drums
Royce Jones - percussion, vocals
Michael McDonald - electric piano, vocals

Quality: Soundboard & mastered.

Reloaded 22/June/2015 link in comments.

A Trip With The Beatles - Part Three

The 'Get Back' or 'Twickenham sessions', took place in 1969.

Paul McCartney, wanted to get The Beatles playing together again as opposed to just recording. It was an opportunity to help the band gel together again, have some fun, and maybe lead to some new live performances.

It was also a chance for band members to share new material, some of which would surface later on solo albums.

In the end the now legendary roof top performance, was all that was to happen, as public performance's go.

The actual sessions were filmed, and each film reel was accompanied by a mono soundtrack.

The soundtrack has surfaced in different forms down the years. Recently I acquired the full soundtrack set, from a generation of copies quite close to the originals (so the sound quality is very good).

These copies are not broken down into individual songs, rather they are inclusive of what was included on the film reel in use. I will when time permits try and edit these down to songs, to help, I do at least have a full song listing from a boot series circulated some time ago.

One of the best known bootlegs from these performances, that has done the rounds for some time is 'The Corn Of Apple', or 'The Core of Apple'. Lost in translation, the 'Corn' typing error seems to be the more widely circulated version, indeed the cover of my copy has 'corn' rather than 'core'...

REPLACEMENT DOWNLOAD LINK OF FULL ALBUM IN COMMENTS BELOW OR CLICK ON THE PICTURE (5TH JANUARY 2010).

Those days playing in Hamburg, certainly paid off, they are up there with Elvis Presley's Wooden Heart. Mind you Elvis did his army conscription in Germany.

Perhaps it should me mandatory for all 'boy' bands to play live in Germany for a couple of years before hitting the big time in the UK, if you follow my drift.

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A Trip With The Beatles - Part Two

In part one of this series, I used the first CD from the mythology boot series. Mythology is such a large collection, that it would be easy just to source from that.

It seems rather pointless to just keep dipping into this, especially as you can purchase the official Anthology series, especially if various outtakes, or work in progress versions are your bag.

So I will try and expand out on The Beatles rarities trail. The Beatles took a conscious decision to stop performing live, and most live recordings from the USA tours that I have heard feature the screaming audience rather than the band.

As a consequence the rehearsals for albums in the studio, have thrown up some real gems, as often the band would play 'live' without the audience. One of the best set of sessions are the 'Twickenham' or 'Get Back' sessions. This is a story in it's own right, and will be featured another time, it deserves the attention.

In 1968 The Beatles were both at Trident and EMI studios in London. Some excellent (performance and recording quality) material from sessions played, are on the bootleg 'Lord of Madness'. I have uploaded tracks 1 & 3, for your enjoyment.

The Beatles - Hey Jude - Lord of Madness.mp3

The Beatles - I'm So Tired - Lord of Madness.mp3

I have added the first Beatles dedicated page in The Beehive Candy Store, with as usual some absolute bargains to consider. Click HERE to visit.

A Trip With The Beatles - Part One

My first recollection of The Beatles, was watching them perform on the BBC probably in October 1963 at the London Palladium (no I do not have a fantastic memory, its a calculated guess, they were on the bill, and it was the sort of programme my parents would have had on).

Yes I was very young !!!

Keeping it simple, I have always liked the Beatles, if ever there was an example of popular music that stands the test of time, its them.

In this occasional series, I hope to share some of their rarities, and in doing so probably only just scratch the surface.

There are so many Beatles boots around it's a job to know where to start. In recent years however digital technology has allowed the ardent fan, not only to circulate the material more easily, but to clean up the sound quality, and in some cases, do such a fantastic job, it can rival 'officially' released material.

I am going to ignore any chronological order, to support the fact my collection is growing as I type.

However let's start close after success had come their way.

From Mythology - Volume One - CD One - comes track one. Not to be mistaken with The Anthology series released by the Beatles, and shown on TV at the same time, Mythology is a bootleg series, that dug a little deeper.

On the downside rather than share the material, those behind Mythology were trying to make a profit without royalties. However in more recent times, the collection has surfaced free on the web.

The Beatles - A Taste of Honey.mp3 - BBC Radio - Light Service - 25-10-1962

Or check out this, recorded again for BBC radio's 'Light Programme' as it was back then ( a whole two hours of pop music per week! - this was 1963, who arrived in 1964 ???).

The Beatles - Love Me Do.mp3 - Recorded January 22nd 1963 - Playhouse Theatre London

So who arrived in 1964 ?

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Genesis - Turn The Cash On Again

I have always liked Genesis. They are so easy to knock, ex public schoolboys who made good, through progressive rock, circa early 1970's.

Concept albums, followed by intelligent musical pieces, with complicated chord and time changes.

Add to that Phil Collins solo music that gradually descended to the depths of bland for bland's sake.

The fashion and dance sense of .... You remember why punk happened don't you ?

Like I say I have always liked Genesis, with a few exceptions. So I wish them well on this years tour, and look forward to the superb digital remixes of their material to follow.

For those of us, that missed out on tickets (that were already expensive), and who are currently falling over with laughter, at the prices some mugs are paying on EBay, or the modern day ticket touts on the web - 'who have managed to source exclusive tickets' are charging, here's a couple of excellent live songs.

Both from the 1978 tour, and of the highest quality (soundboard - stereo boots no less). If you are going to one of this years concerts, and they don't play one of these, demand your money back !

Genesis - 3rd June 1978 - Palais Des Sports - Dijon France - The Cinema Show.mp3.

Genesis - 3rd June 1978 - Palais Des Sports - Dijon France - Ripples.mp3

As far as I understand this is from the first generation bootleg (from here on in on this blog lets call em boots), and the sound desk on the tour was really advanced for the time. Whatever the sound quality is superb.

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Now I must try and move on from the prog rock trend, that has sadly emerged so early in this blogs short life.

Pink Floyd - Animal Moments

When 'Animals' was first released, I was disappointed, I expected another ' Dark Side of the Moon'.
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Over time however, I have to say that Animals has become a Pink Floyd favorite of mine. Sadly the live material of this album has been pretty poor in quality down the years.
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Not surprising really, the American leg of the tour to promote this album was not a happy affair, which must have been clear at a number of concerts, and audience recordings from that time were generally pretty poor.

I doubt the sound engineers were keen to risk the wrath of Roger Waters, however apparently there is an excellent sound desk recording somewhere, and here is a public grovel, for a copy if anyone can shed light on this.

Having laboured the quality point, I have two good copies of Animals live namely, 'With Bright Knives' and 'Animal Instincts'.

Cutting to the chase a pretty decent version of Sheep is available via the following link.

Pink Floyd - Sheep - Live.mp3

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Pink Floyd - Dreams Factory

I have to start somewhere.

The first Pink Floyd concert I attended, was in 1975. I am pleased to say I was too young to have really seen them much earlier.

That said, by the time Dark Side of the Moon came out, I was already a fan.

Radio Caroline introduced me to Pink Floyd, and for that reason alone, I remain an anorak of Sky's 0199 Channel to this day.

However way before I was going to gigs, fans were flocking to see Pink Floyd, and some were recording what they heard.

Pink Floyd are up there with the most bootlegged of artists, maybe not as much as the likes of Led Zeppelin, but I would guess pretty much a top ten contender.

What really makes a difference, is the quality of recordings made. None usually touch the live albums released with the artists approval. Pink Floyd however, by their very nature, seem to have had as much emphasis on quality, as quantity, when it comes to 'unofficial' recordings.

Lets not get carried away here, there are some really awful Pink Floyd bootlegs around, I know I have some.

What really matters from my point of view, is not how many there are, but what are the good ones, the excellent ones, and those that sound engineers have copied from concert sound desks, and still remain under lock and key.

My personal answer to all of this is "I don't know". What I do know is that I am trying to write a blog piece, and have some samples to share.

So lets start at the first Pink Floyd bootleg I have that meets a basic criteria.

It is listenable, has some unique attributes, and gives me a chance to kick off this whole Beehive Candy thing without wishing I had not bothered later.

Enter 1972's Dreams Factory. Probably a mix of concert recordings from that era, and nothing that special in it's own right. Except that the recordings are of Pink Floyd playing with passion, and with the guitar prevailing in a really positive and good way.

So download Echoes, and hear it in a new light, one recorded a long time ago. When the band were up for a bit of rock'n'roll.

Pink Floyd - Echoes - Dream Factory - 1972.mp3

It has been referred to as the guitar version, whatever you think if you are at all interested in hearing the original and do not have a copy check here - Pink Floyd.

Like I said, I have to start somewhere, and as far as Pink Floyd are concerned, I make no apologies in whats to follow, if you like them, come back again.

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Yet another MP3 blog ?

THAT'S HOW THIS - THE FIRST POST ON BEEHIVE CANDY ORIGINALLY STARTED.

Having looked back today in the first quarter of 2009, (as I check out reported missing files, that need re-uploading), I realise some of the first objectives remain pretty much the case right now.

The first entry went on...

Feedback will prove invaluable.

So I hope to provide regular themes, along with a mixed bag of musical bits'n'bobs, from yesterday, and a fresh selection of new discoveries.

If there are gaps between updates, it's because I want to enjoy developing this, not feel obliged to keep on adding new postings.

HOW TIME REALLY DOES SEEM TO FLY BY!

LETS HOPE THE BEEHIVE VAULTS CAN CONTINUE TO BE SHARED FOR A WHILE MORE.

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