The Roy Orbison Tribute - Universal Amphitheatre: Los Angeles, CA February 24, 1990 (ExAud) - Mike Millard Master via GEMS Vol 251

The Roy Orbison Tribute
Universal Amphitheatre
Los Angeles, CA
February 24, 1990
Mike Millard Master Tapes via JEMS
The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes Volume 251
Excellent Audience Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Featuring: NRBQ, Booker T. Jones, Levon Helm, Joe Ely, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Ricky Skaggs, k.d. lang, Tina Weymouth, Larry Gatlin, Stray Cats, John Hiatt, Was(Not Was), B.B. King, Al Kooper, Iggy Pop, Chris Isaak, Dwight Yoakam, Emmylou Harris, Michael McDonald, John Fogerty, Roger McGuinn David Crosby Chris Hillman as The Byrds with Bob Dylan & More

Recording Gear: AKG 451E Microphones (CK-1 cardioid capsules) > Nakamichi 550 Cassette Recorder

JEMS Transfer: Mike Millard Master Cassettes > Nakamichi Cassette Deck 1 azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 3.1 capture > iZotope RX > iZotope RX8 Advanced and Ozone 10 > xACT 2.50 > FLAC

01 Introduction (Whoopi Goldberg)
02 Chicken Hearted (NRBQ)
03 In The Real World (Booker T. Jones)
04 Mean Woman Blues (Levon Helm)
05 Blue Bayou (Harry Dean Stanton)
06 Working For The Man (Joe Ely)
07 I'm In The Mood (John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt)
08 Down The Line (Johnny Cash on tape)
09 Pretty Paper (Gary Busey)
10 Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) (Ricky Skaggs)
11 Running Scared (Benny Mardones)
12 Crying (K.D. Lang)
13 Oh, Pretty Woman (K.D. Lang, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, Cindy Bullens with Wendy Melvin, Lisa Coleman, Tina Weymouth, Debbie Peterson and Carla Azar)
14 Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) (Shrunken Heads [Tom Tom Club, Jerry Harrison, Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin])
15 Send Me An Angel (Cindy Bullens)
16 Love Hurts (Larry Gatlin & Patrick Swayze)
17 Rock House (Stray Cats)
18 You Got It (John Hiatt with Don Was)
19 Uptown (Foster & Lloyd)
20 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King with Al Kooper & Don Was)
21 It's Over (Was [Not Was])
22 Home (Iggy Pop)
23 Leah (Chris Isaak)
24 Claudette (Dwight Yoakam)
25 She's A Mystery To Me (Syd Straw)
26 That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (Emmylou Harris & Michael McDonald)
27 Ooby Dooby (John Fogerty)
28 Candy Man (Bonnie Raitt with Chris Isaak)
29 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) Take 1 (The Byrds)
30 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) Take 2 (The Byrds)
31 Eight Miles High (The Byrds)
32 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds & Bob Dylan)
33 He Was a Friend of Mine (The Byrds)
34 Only the Lonely (all performers)

Backing band includes T-Bone Burnett and members of Was (Not Was)

Known Faults: Several passages of pre-recorded introductions and commercially released music are removed.

I can not tell you how much every single one of you needs this show in your collection! Look at the list of performers above! Wow! All to pay tribute to Roy Orbison and raise money for the homeless in America. The sound is really good on this one, everything seems to come through pretty good. As with a lot of audience recordings the louder you play it, the more you hear! That's said a lot about audience recordings but when they are recorded right it's true.

To have Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Chris Hillman reunite as The Byrds with special guest Bob Dylan is worth the download. B.B. King jamming "The Thrill Is Gone" with Al Kooper! Bonus! John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt together on "I'm In The Mood". I could go on but I should not have to....

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Was (Not Was) - Break The Wall ~ Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland July 2, 1992 (FM)

Was (Not Was)
Break The Wall - (Speedball ~ SBC029)
Montreux Jazz Festival
Montreux, Switzerland
July 2, 1992
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Small Front Cover Included

01 - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (no rap)
02 - Carry Me Back To Old Morroco
03 - 11 MPH
04 - Somewhere in America
05 - Robot Girl
06 - Where Did Your Heart Go
07 - The Wind Cries Mary
08 - I Blew Up the US
09 - Knocked Down Made Small (VERY  fast)
10 - How the Heart Behaves
11 - Walk The Dinosaur

Was (Not Was) are another of my favorite groups. Formed by some musicians from the Punk Rock and Garage Rock eras of Detroit Music. They make great music with tongues firmly planted in cheek. You wouldn't place them in an R & B/Funk band from their history but man they are great at what they do.

They run a great studio in Detroit that I was lucky enough to mix the debut album from my band Psychosis at. It had an automated board which at the time was a little rare and expensive. We recorded the thing at Grand Funk Railroad's old studio The Swamp. The mixing board was manual so we opted to go else where to mix. Originally we went to a different studio to mix (which still receives no credit from us!). The engineer was great but his boss bounced us after we were there 3 days. We took him with us. We had to move so Ted Nugent could mix "Fred Bear".

So we end up at Was (Not Was)'s studio. When we had worked there a day our engineer said that Ted wanted to move to where we were again. The studio had all it's rooms booked including Bob Seger working on some demos. Our engineer says studio management told Ted they were fully booked. We know it wasn't because we were there and they liked us. They had some big names in the Michigan scene there...to bump us would not look good even though we were unkown, but hey it's a good story right?

Not sure but I most likely downloaded this from either Voodoo Wagon or Floppy Boot Stomp...both awesome sites you should visit.

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Was (Not Was) - Woburn Abbey, Woburn, Bedfordshire, England 06-20-1992 (FM)

Was (Not Was)
Woburn Abbey
Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, U.K.
Saturday June 20, 1992
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Lineage: FM > Cassette > Audacity - track split & convert to FLAC Level 8 > TTD

01 Intro Music
02 Hello Dad... I'm In Jail/Hello Operator
03 Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Temptations)
04 Robot Girl
05 Where Did Your Heart Go
06 Carry Me Back To Old Morocco
07 I Blew Up The United States
08 Knocked Down, Made Small (Treated Like A Rubber Ball)
09 Out Come The Freaks
10 How The Heart Behaves
11 11 Miles An Hour
12 Guitar solo/Wheel Me Out/Are You OK >
13 Walk The Dinosaur
14 Band Intros
15 The Wind Cries Mary (Jimi Hendrix)
16 I Can't Turn You Loose (Otis Redding)

total playing time: 1hr 2mn 4sc

Rest In Peace co-lead vocalist Hillard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson who died from a heart attack May 5, 2020, he was 74.

It's so hard to really explain Detroit's Was(Not Was) to the uninitiated. When I try to, I'll say take some great Funk, Soul, and R & B rhythms and harmonies. That rich soulful singing perfected by the likes of David Ruffin. Add to that a little electronica (bits). Lyrics so tongue in cheek Frank Zappa would be proud, delivered completely serious. All of that filtered through a crystal clear Don Was production. That's as close as I can get then I pop in a CD. That's truly the only way. But since it's free just download this one for one kick ass version of The Temptations Smash "Pappa Was A Rollin' Stone". Oh yeah I almost forgot they had a hit MTV video and single with "Walk The Dinosaur".

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