Links of the Week
http://www.thebig8.net/index.html -
Are you old enough to remember CKLW?

http://www.burlives.com/personal.htm
A few thangs or things to think about
from the late, great Mr. Burl Ives.

Boot of the Week

Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians
06-14-89 The Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
FM (99.1 WHFS in Baltimore)

I Often Dream Of Trains
Superman
Bass
Swirling
Freeze
My Wife and My Dead Wife
Tropical Flesh Mandala
I'm Only You
Raining Twilight Coast
Viens of The Queen
Madonna of The Wasps
Ted Woody and Junior
Flesh Number 1
Goodnight I Say
Message For You
Balloon Man
Kingdom of Love
Raymond Chandler Evening
Listen To The Higsons

Boot-Scootin'
Year-End Retrospective

Devo - Old Waldorf, San Francisco, CA
10-NOV-78

Satisfaction
Uncontrollable Urge
Mongoloid
Jocko Homo
Smart Patrol
Mr. DNA

The Slits - Dingwall's, London
13-MAY-77

Instant Hit
Vaseline
So Tough
New Town
Love & Romance
Shoplifting
Number One enemy

Ramones, CBGB's, New York 10-77

Loudmouth
Beat on the Brat
Blitzkrieg Bop
Teenage Lobotomy
Rockaway Beach
Commando
Cretin Hop

The Doors -
live at The Matrix, San Francisco, CA - 7-MARCH-1967
When The Music's Over -


The Pop Group w/Mark Stewart
London, 15-JUNE-1980

Shake the Foundations
Thief of Fire
There Are No Spectators
How Much Longer?
We Are All Prostitutes

Frank Zappa 65th Birthday Special

Berlin - Deutschlandhalle 15-FEB-78 (Excerpts)

A Pound for a Brown
I Have Been In You
Flakes
King Kong
Yo Mama
Black Page 2
Jones Crusher
Little House I Used to Live In
Disco Boy
Dinah Moe Humm (Ave Maria)
Camarillo Brillo

Royal Albert Hall, London, 3-JUNE-69 (Excerpts)

Uncle Meat
drum duet
Some Ballet Music
The String Quartet
Improvisation

Osaka, Japan, 3-FEB-1976 (Excerpts)

Intro
Stink Foot
Filthy Habits
How Could I be Such a Fool
Black Napkins
Advance Romance
The Illinois Enema Bandit
Tryin' to Grow a Chin
The Torture Never Stops
Ship Ahoy

The following selections are from Rykodisc CD’s
unless otherwise noted.

Brown Shoes Dont Make It - Absolutely Free
Cheepnis - YCDTOSA
PSA - Do It Now Foundation (c. 1968)
Ship Arriving too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (title track)
Montana - Overnite Sensation
From We're Only In It For the Money (1967, restored version)

Bow Tie Daddy
Harry You're a Beast
What's the Ugliest Part of your Body?
Absolutely Free
Flower Punk

John Belushi Intro, Dancin’ Fool - Saturday Night Live, 10-21-78

Would You Go All The Way - Chunga's Revenge
Cheap Thrills - Reuben & The Jets (LP Mix)(Verve)
I Don't Wanna Get Drafted - Mystery Disc

Part 2

From Joe's Corsage (www.zappa.com)

I'm So Happy I Could Cry
Go Cry on Somebody Else's Shoulder
How Could I Be Such a Fool?
recorded in early 1966

Honey, Dontcha Want A Man Like Me? - Lather
Love of my Life - Reuben & The Jets (LP Mix)(Verve)
God Bles America live at the Whisky - Uncle Meat
Dead Girls of London - L. Shankar and FZ (Van Morrison on vocals)(unofficial)
Frog Song - Joes Domage (www.zappa.com) >
Just Might Be A One-Shot Deal - Waka/Jawaka
Waka/Jawaka - Waka/Jawaka
Interview on Australian radio, 1990 (Excerpt)
When the Lie's So Big - Broadway the Hard Way
Murder By Numbers (with Sting) - Broadway the Hard Way

14-NOV-77 Denver CO KFML Interview (incl Show spot)
Included here is The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary
(Alt version with alt ending, test pressing?).
Tape rolls on for a while after the song has ended.

“Obscenity is a Legal Term” - from Rykodisc promo CD, “Kill Ugly Radio”
Interview, Dr. Demento (excerpt)
Jelly Roll Gum Drop - Reuben & The Jets (LP Mix)(Verve)

See Also:

www.zappa.com
http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/
http://home.swipnet.se/fzshows/
www.zappateers.com

Playlist for December 14, 2005

REMEMBER:
Frank Zappa Brithday Special
Next Week, 7AM to at least 10 AM!

Link of the Week
http://elvispelvis.com/enter_fuller_up.htm

17-May-1975
Can
University Of Essex, Colchester, England

See also: http://www.spoonrecords.com/

Chain Reaction 23.00 *
Bel Air 8.24 *
Bel Air (cont) 9.46 *
Dizzy Dizzy 11.15
Pinch > Mother Sky 12.51 (beg of 2nd Set)
One More Night 8.45
Half Past One > 8.19
Vitamin C 5.35
Meadow Sweet > The Gypsy > 17.10
Full Moon On The Highway 25.00
Up The Floyd 3.19


Audience Recording

* from the bootleg 'Future Days And Past Nights'

Cramps – San Francisco, On Broadway 6.Nov.81

See also: http://www.thecramps.com/
http://www.carrollsweb.com/rockndog/cramps.htm

Time 57:58
Quality: EX

01 Five Years Ahead Of My Time
02 Hungry
03 Goo Goo Muck
04 She Said
05 You set my soul on fire
06 Domino
07 What’s Behind The Mask?
08 Zombie Dance
09 Primitive
10 Green Door
11 Some New Kind Of Kick
12 Strychnine
13 The Crusher
14 Beatiful Gardens
15 Hanky Panky
16 Drug Train
17 Fever
18 Save It

Twink - The Broken Record (exzcerpts) (http://www.negativland.com/nmol/seeland.html#twinkbroken)

King Crimson - Thrak (excerpts) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Crimson)

Playlist for December 7, 2005

Link of the Week:
http://elvispelvis.com/enter_fuller_up.htm

Boot of the Week

Number 1:

The Beach Boys
SMiLE - a STEREO reconstruction
(or "Not another damn SMiLE mix??!!??")
by Purple Chick

see also: http://www.cokemachineglow.com/reviews/beachboys_smileysmile1967.html

SBD > ? (many varied sources, I'm sure) >
'original' CDR > EAC > FLAC > you

1: Our Prayer/Gee
2: Heroes And Villians
3: Roll Plymouth Rock
4: Barnyard
5: Old Master Painter/You Are My Sunshine
6: Cabin Essence
7: Wonderful
8: Song For Children
9: Child Is Father Of The Man
10: Surf's Up
11: I'm In Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop
12: Vega-Tables
13: On A Holiday
14: Wind Chimes
15: Mrs. O'Leary's Cow
16: In Blue Hawaii
17: Good Vibrations

Very Unnecessary Bonus Tracks:

18: Vega-Tables (vocals only)
19: Our Prayer/Gee (mono)
20: Heroes And Villians (mono)
21: Roll Plymouth Rock (mono)
22: Child Is Father Of The Man (mono)
23: Surf's Up (alternate)
24: I'm In Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop (mono)
25: Vega-Tables (mono)
26: In Blue Hawaii (with mono sections)
27: Good Vibrations (stereo - original lyrics)

Brian Wilson's 2004 arrangement of SMiLE as performed
by the Beach Boys back in the day. In
glorious STEREO, just like it says on the cover.
We decided to do it the way we imagined which
necessitated edits, manipulation, speed tempo
and pitch correction, etc. Despite killing
all the sacred cows it sounds mighty fine to us.

There have been many, many other attempts
at reconstructing SMiLE. This one is by far the best I've
heard. It all flows together beautifully, the
arrangements and cuts are probably as good
as we're going to get. Also, unlike any other version, it's
almost completely in stereo. I think only
"On A Holiday" is mostly mono, by necessity.
Good Vibrations really packs a punch.


Number 2:

John Lennon -
Interviewed LIVE on WHRW
June 1972 by Bob Yass
Tape courtesy of Ron Drumm
Digital re-tweezement by Doctor B.

see also: http://www.john-lennon.com/theassassinationofjl.htm

Rock Set

Ladytron - Sugar - Thinking XXX (Emperor Norton/Ryko)
Cubanate - The Horsetrader - Interference (Wax Trax)
R.Stevie Moore - Positively 4th Street - Aesthetic (www.rsteviemoore.com)
The Flashcubes - Carl (You Da Man) - This is Rock & Roll Radio vol 1 (jamrecordings dot com)
River City Rebels - 53rd and 3rd - Playing to Live (Victory)
The Rolling Stones - Growing Up Wrong - 12 X 5 (Abkco)

Space Mix Deluxe

CTEPHIN - Black - Colors
Radio India - (excerpt) - The Eternal Dream of Sound (www.sublimefrequencies.com)
K Leimer - Heart Of Stillness - Neo Realist at Risk(www.palaceoflights.com)
Sun Ra - His Band from Outer Space - Nothing Is (www.espdisk.com)
...and found audio elements...

Playlist for November 30, 2005

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Playlist for November 23, 2005

Link of the Week:
http://www.sweetthunder.org/tapes/index.html
Here 'tis - More "found" recordings than
you can shake an Ipod at!

Boots of the Week

Link Wray
Middle East Downstairs
Cambridge, Mass.
May 22, 1998

see also: http://www.linkwraylegend.com

The Sopwith Camel
Studio outtakes, 1966 or 67

see also: http://www.sopwithcamel.com

No track listings or studio information available
for either of these recordings. Sorry!

Moog Cookbook - Black Hole Sun - first album (Restless)
The Soft Boys - The Face of Death - Raw Cuts (Overground)
John's Children (with Marc Bolan) - Desdemona - The Complete John's Children (Burning Airlines)
Rocket From the Tombs - Aint It Fun - live on WFMU June 2003
The MC5 - The American Ruse - Back In The USA (Atlantic)

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Still You Turn Me On - Brain Salad Surgery (Victory)
Jimmy Castor Bunch - It's Just Begun - It's Just Begun (RCA)
Brian Eno & John Cale - One Word - Wrong Way Up (Opal)
Tower of Power - Get Yo Feet Back On The Ground - Tower of Power (Warner Bros)
Unknown artist - Shame on you Mister Bush - DIYmedia.net
Towa Tei - I Want To Relax Please - Futurelistening (Elektra)
Frank Zappa - The Illinois Enema Bandit - YCDTOSA Vol 6 (Ryko)

Gilli Smyth - excerpt from the album Mother (Charly)
The Fugs - Virgin Forest (excerpts) - The Fugs (2nd album - www.espdisk.com)
Firesign Theatre - Thanksgiving or Pass The Indian Please - Dear Friends Radio Program 1970
Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds - Heliocentric Worlds Vol 3 (www.espdisk.com)
Silver Apples - Fantasies - Contact (Kapp-MCA)
DJ Me DJ You - Vital Target Area - Simplemachinerock (Emperor Norton)

Steinski & The Mass Media - The Motorcade Sped On (Tommy Boy)

Playlist for November 16, 2005

Link of the Week:
http://www.scdlink.com/shop/shopdisplayproducts.asp?id=31&cat=Covert
Big Brother is watching you!
Find out what he uses!

Boots of the Week

Santana
May 13, 1968 [date uncertain]
Avalon Ballroom
San Francisco, CA

The sound quality is very good FM from low gen. off-air reel.

1st set 47:04
01 Waiting 8:21
02 Treat 10:22
03 Evil Ways 8:45
04 Shades of Time 3:40
05 > Savor 5:03
06 > Jingo 10:19
07 announcer & crowd noise 0:41

2nd set 40:29
01 announcer intro & crowd noise 0:10
02 Persuasion 3:47
03 Soul Sacrifice 3:31
04 > drums 11:36
05 > Soul Sacrifice 20:44
06 talk: "Don't Go No Further..." & crowd noise 0:38

Carlos Santana: Guitar, Percussion, Vocals
Marcus Malone: Percussion
David Brown: Bass
Gregg Rolie: Keyboards, Vocals
Bob "Doc" Livingston: Drums

Probable lineage: 1st or 2nd gen. copy of off-air reel master.
KMPX-FM

The date is uncertain because of the announcer comments at the end of the first set about 5 nights coming up of benefit shows with 5 bands a night. There is a poster for Santana playing at the Avalon from May 17-19, which would be the last 3 nights of that "5 day benefit" if the date of the 13th was correct but only 2 bands and no benefit are listed on the poster for the May 17-19 run. Some people think that this is from that May 17-19 run at the Avalon, but that comment about the benefit still messes things up, because there are Avalon posters with the typical 2 bands and no mention of any benefits all the way up to the end of November 1968. After Chet Helms "Family Dog" stopped booking shows at the Avalon another promoter, "Soundproof", put on more shows at The Avalon starting in January 1969. Jerry Abram's Headlights are mentioned also by the announcer, and they did do both the '68 Family Dog Avalon shows and the '69 Soundproof shows.

Based upon all of this information, I would put the probable date as being close to the end of Chet Helms run at the Avalon. The posters for weekly Friday thru Sunday shows stopped at the end of November, 1968. Soundproof took over in January '69, so I would speculate that this show here is really from December, 1968. That would be when benefits to keep Chet Helms going at The Avalon would have been probable. The announcer doesn't say that the benefit shows would be for any other cause, and the regular scheduled weekend shows apparently had ended, so there might have been time for a 5 day Wednesday thru Sunday benefit before the Family Dog completely stopped doing shows at the Avalon...

So I am listing this as 5-13-68 [date uncertain - might actually be from December, 1968]

But I'm sure you will enjoy this no matter what!

The Housemartins
Glastonbury Fetival - June 1986
From BBC Radio 1 broadcast 30th Nov 1986.

01 Think For A Minute
02 Heaven Help Us All
03 Over There
04 Sheep
05 We're Not Deep
06 Anxious
07 Me & The Farmer
08 Happy Hour
09 I'll Be Your Shelter (Just Like A Shelter)

DJ Me DJ You - Take Your Medication - Simplemachinesrock (Emperor Norton)
Grand Master Flash - White Lines - (v.a.) SOUL (Rhino)
DJ Pantshead - Don't Believe The Sensorair - www.evolution-control.com
R Stevie Moore-Yukio Yung - Norway - The Yung & Moore Show (www.rsteviemoore.com)
R Stevie Moore - She Dont Know What to Do With Herself - Phonography (www.rsteviemoore.com)
The Raincoats - Life on the Line - The Raincoats (DGC)
The Beatles - Please Mr postman - With The Beatles (Capitol)
Timbuk 3 - Legalize Our Love - A Hundred Lovers (High Street Records)
DJ Spooky - Bill LAswell vs Vadic - Rhythm Science (Sub Rosa)
Tangerine Dream - Fly and Collision of Comas Sola - Alpha Centauri (Sanctuary)
Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine - Wish You Were Here (Capitol)
unknown artist - rap track - from found cassette