Sly and the Family Stone - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert 1973 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Sly and the Family Stone
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Originally aired: Monday September 10, 1973
TV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

01 Life
02 Stand!
03 If You Want Me To Stay
04 Don Kirshner Theme
05 Thank You (Fallettinme Be Mice Elf Again)
05 Don Kirshner Theme
07 Dance To The Music
08 Hey Music Lover

Sly Stone: vocals, organ, guitar, bass guitar, piano, harmonica
Freddie Stone: vocals, guitar
Cynthia Robinson: trumpet, vocal ad libs
Jerry Martini: saxophone
Rose Stone: vocals, piano, electric piano
Pat Rizzo: saxophone
Rustee Allen: bass
Andy Newmark: drums

Little Sister:
Vet Stone (Vaetta Stewart), Mary McCreary, and Elva Mouton: background vocals

Recorded while Sly & The Family were promoting the Fresh album, the band was just 2 years away from breaking up. Sly and the rest of the band had been heavy users of cocaine and PCP for years and it was taking it's toll. Live gigs were on the decline due to the fact that members wouldn't show up for gigs. They would pass out during gigs, and Sly had a habit of just leaving in the middle of shows. After a really bad show at Radio City Music Hall, which sold only one eighth of the tickets forcing the band to scrounge up the funds to return home, they called it quits.

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Lou Reed, Larry Graham, & Ambrosia - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Dress Rehearsals xx-xx-1980 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Lou Reed, Larry Graham, & Ambrosia
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Dress Rehearsals
xx-xx-1980
Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art
Screen Shots Included

Lineage: Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor v4.5.5 > Goldwave v 6.28 (editing) > Traders Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps

01 - Lou Reed - Tuning
02 - Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony (1st Take)
03 - Lou Reed - Standing On Ceremony (2nd Take)
04 - Lou Reed - So Alone (false start)
05 - Lou Reed - So Alone
06 - Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side (false start)
07 - Lou Reed - Walk On The Wild Side
08 - Larry Graham - Can You Handle That/The Jam (false start)
09 - Larry Graham - Can You Handle That/The Jam
10 - Larry Graham - When We Get Married (false start)
11 - Larry Graham - When We Get Married
12 - Larry Graham - When We Get Married (reprise)
13 - Larry Graham - One In A Million You (tuning & false start)
14 - Larry Graham - One In A Million You
15 - Larry Graham - Larry's Bass Jam
16 - Ambrosia - Tuning
17 - Ambrosia - Rock And A Hard Place (1st take)
18 - Ambrosia - No Big Deal (false start)
19 - Ambrosia - No Big Deal
20 - Ambrosia - Tuning
21 - Ambrosia - You're The Only Woman (1st take)
22 - Ambrosia - Tuning
23 - Ambrosia - You're The Only Woman (2nd take)
24 - Ambrosia - Tuning
25 - Ambrosia - Shape I'm In
26 - Ambrosia - Tuning
27 - Ambrosia - Biggest Part Of Me
28 - Ambrosia - Kamikaze (false start)
29 - Ambrosia - Kamikaze
30 - Ambrosia - Tuning
31 - Ambrosia - Rock And A Hard Place (2nd take)
32 - Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Ending

total playing time: 1hr 56mn 26sc

tracks 01-07 Lou Reed
tracks 08-15 Larry Graham
tracks 16-32 Ambrosia

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to adjust the volume and re-edit some track marks. No EQ or noise reduction was used. I seperated all the tunings and false starts from each track so that you could listen to just the songs if you so wish. I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps because the DVD had lossy audio.

This DVD is said to be dress rehearsals for Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, and seems so with there being no real audience. It is known that some bands were filmed with no audience present and then the audience was edited in later. This was confirmed by Kansas, who were on Kirshner Records. The band released their Rock Concert performance with their Sail On Box Set and talked about the filming in the intro to the DVD footage. So this could actually be a show taping. At the end of the last track the director thanks Ambrosia then tells the crew to prep the stage for John Cougar as the audio fades. They retake a few songs because of technical difficulties, if it was a dress rehearsal they wouldn't need a retake of  Your The Only Woman because of a faulty drum mic. So I really think this is an actual taping that the audience will be dubbed in. Either way it's a pretty cool glimpse behind the scenes of Don Kishner's Rock Concert.

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