Black Sabbath - Long Beach Arena: Long Beach, CA September 7, 1975 (VgAud) - Mike Millard Master Tapes Volume 36

Black Sabbath
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
September 7, 1975
Mike Millard Master Cassettes via JEMS
The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes Volume 36
1644 Edition
Flac 16bit/44,1khz & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

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

Transfer: Mike Millard Master Cassettes (TDK KR90) > Nakamichi RX-505 (azimuth adjustment; Dolby On) > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 capture > iZotope RX6 > iZotope Ozone 6 > Audacity > TLH > FLAC

01 Killing Yourself To Live
02 Hole In The Sky
03 Snowblind
04 Symptom Of The Universe
05 War Pigs
06 Megalomania
07 Sabbra Cadabra Jam >
08 Sometimes I'm Happy Jam
09 Supernaut
10 Iron Man >
11 Orchid >
12 Rock 'N' Roll Doctor Jam
13 Black Sabbath
14 Spiral Architect
15 Embryo >
16 Children Of The Grave
17 Paranoid

Known Faults: Imperceptible cut in “Black Sabbath”

Ozzy Osbourne – vocals, harmonica
Tony Iommi – guitar
Geezer Butler – bass
Bill Ward – drums

This recording from Mike Millard had gone largely uncirculated due to the fact that Mike himself gave the recording a poor rating. From what people say he was his own worst critic (aren't we all). The recording is anything but poor, the audience is a little rowdy, which is why I give it a Very Good Audience rating rather than an Excellent Audience Recording rating.

This is a great show from this tour, which was cut short by the way, an accident with Ozzy on a motorcycle, I mean the guy didn't learn his lesson either given his quad runner accident in the early 2000s. This show was actually recorded as a favor to Mike Millard's concert going friend/recording partner Jim. Mike actually decided to record the opening act Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost, a Southern Rock band fronted by Black Oak Arkansas backup singer Ruby Starr. Which is also available on the blog (click here).

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Jon Hassell - Fabrik Hamburg, Germany May 15, 1985 (FM) - Emperor Nobody Remaster

Jon Hassell
Fabrik - Emperor Nobody Remaster
Hamburg, Germany
May 15, 1985
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Sunday Morning Jazz
Repost & Flac Upgrade!!

Lineage: Possibly a Master or 1st Gen. Off-Air FM Reel, Remastered by Emperor Nobody > DIME seed FLACs from (originally) KINEBEE & (then retracked by) FBAUER, who are both awesome > WAV > Sound Forge 11 remasterizzations > FLAC 8

01 Power Spot 21:39
02 The Elephant and the Orchid 21:04
03 Wing Melodies 14:21
04 Air 20:43

Total Playing Time: 1hr 17mn 47sc

Jon Hassell - trumpet, percussion, electronics
J.A. Deane - acoustic and electronic percussion, alto flute
Jean-Philippe Rykiel - electronic keyboards, facsimile bass, percussion, strings
Michael Brook - guitar, electronic treatments
 
For Your Sunday Morning Jazz this is a re-post and Flac upgrade of an earlier post. I originally shared an MP3 copy that I downloaded from BigO (the home of Sunday Jazz). This is a copy of the Flac set that BigO used to make their MP3s from. This show is one of my favorites. I'm very open about the fact that I partake in my state's legal medical and recreational marijuana laws. So I like to get a doobie, a glass of wine and some music like Jon Hassel, Nils Petter Molvær, Pink Floyd and relax between my speakers.

This show is beautifully sculpted making an awesome listening experience even without mind altering substances. Enjoy my friends!

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Van Morrison ~ Warfield Theatre San Francisco, Ca January 25, 1980 (FM) - drmuzk Reworked Edition

Van Morrison
Warfield Theatre
San Francisco, Ca
January 25, 1980 (Friday)
FM Broadcast Recording - drmuzk Reworked Edition
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: FM (Board Broadcast) > Cassette > Creative > Cool-Edit Pro > Flac Level 6

01 Kingdom Hall 4:10
02 Bright Side Of The Road 3:19
03 Troubadours 5:56
04 Help Me 5:54
05 Street Theory 5:03
06 Wavelength 9:48
07 Tupelo Honey (fades) 0:24
08 Shakin' All Over 3:44
09 Foggy Mountain Top/T For Texas 3:57
10 Moondance 3:49
11 I've Been Working (including band intros) 4:18
12 Gloria 3:41
13 Spirit 8:46
14 Haunts Of Ancient Peace (Instrumental) 7:29

Total Playing Time: 1hr 10mn 18sc

Van Morrison -  guitars, keys, harmonica, alto saxaphone & vocals
Herbie Armstrong - rythm guitar
Mick Cox - lead guitar
David Hayes - bass
Peter Van Hooke - drums
Pee Wee Ellis - tenor saxaphone & backing vocals
Mark Isham - trumpet
Katie Kissoon - backing vocals

Some Notes From The Uploader:
Completely reworked from a Mid - 80's Cassette. Normalized, deglitched and retracked by drmuzk March 2007. (There is more included in the info file).

So this is supposed to be a different source than a soundboard bootleg titled Across the Bridge Where Angels Dwell, which I haven't heard so I don't know about that. I do know it's a great show from Van The Man! I don't have a huge amount of Van Morrison boots nor have I seen him perform live. I will say I haven't heard a bad Van Morrison show just bad recordings. Also as a casual Van Morrison listener I have only a few of his albums. You know, the popular stuff you heard on the FM back in the day. That being the case I always have a nice pleasant surprise when I listen to different eras of Van on bootleg. He is an amazing talent who I seem to be listening to more and more.

There is a little jump in the volume during "Help Me" and "Tupelo Honey" is only a snip-it that fades out. These are the only blemishes to this recording. It also has one more song than Across the Bridge Where Angels Dwell, "Wavelength". Across The Bridge also is missing "Tupelo Honey" but since it's only a snip-it I won't count that as a bonus (LOL!). This show is an awesome listen and a great addition to any collection!

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Megadeth - Hellfest 2024 ~ Hellfest Grounds: Val de Moine, Clisson, France, June 27, 2024 (Webstream) DVD Audio Rip

Megadeth
Hellfest 2024
Hellfest Grounds
Val de Moine, Clisson, France
June 27, 2024
arte HDTV Webcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps 16bit/48khz
No Cover Art

Rosebud's Pick

Lineage: Video Stream > JDownloader > MPEG-4 > Nero 2015 > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper > MP3 320kbps

01 - The Sick, The Dying...And The Dead! 5:05
02 - Rattlehead 4:06
03 - Kick The Chair 4:25
04 - Skin O' My Teeth 3:48
05 - Tornado Of Souls 5:40
06 - A Tout Le Monde 4:45
07 - We'll Be Back 5:05
08 - Mechanix 4:51
09 - Symphony Of Destruction 4:20
10 - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying? 6:35
11 - Holy Wars...The Punishment Due 8:57

Total Playing Time: 57mn 40sc

Dave Mustaine – guitars, lead vocals
Teemu Mäntysaari – guitars, backing vocals
James LoMenzo – bass, backing vocals
Dirk Verbeuren – drums

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to edit some track marks. No EQ or Noise Reduction was used. No remastering or remixing was done. The DVD had lossy audio so I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper.

More from my growing collection of Hellfest 2024 bootleg DVDs. This time a Rosebud Approved Pick...Megadeth!! Rosebud is a bigger Megadeth fan than I am which is saying a lot. I was a fan from the 1st album Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good. Just like with Metallica their 1st album is a Thrash Metal Classic. The music on both hangs right on that edge of going of the rails at any moment. When both sophomore albums were released there was actually a big change not discussed anymore. It was huge back then with Metal Forces having the headline "Why Did Metallica Change?" Some said both Ride The Lightning and Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying are more perfect examples of Speed Metal not Thrash. Hear me out and don't tear into me either....The playing, recording and production of those 2 albums is so tight you know that they had the music tightly under control. A lot of bands followed the example like Destruction's Infernal Overkill and Voivod's Killing Technology. Others doubled down on the Thrash such as Slayer's best, Reign In Blood.

Now Dave Mustaine seems is having a bit of a rough night vocally sometimes but everyone plays really tight. The set even includes 2 songs from Killing Is My Business, "Rattlehead" and "Mechanix" so I'm happy (lol) Enjoy my friends!

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Rod Stewart & The Faces - The Inglewood Forum: Inglewood, California, March 5, 1975 (VgAud) - Mike Millard 1st Gen Cassette

Rod Stewart & The Faces
Mike Millard first generation cassette via JEMS
The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes Vol. 13
The Inglewood Forum
Inglewood, California
March 5, 1975
Very Good Audience Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Recording Gear: AKG 451E microphones (CK-1 cardioid capsules) > Nakamichi 550 cassette recorder

JEMS 2019 TRANSFER: first-generation cassettes made by Mike Millard for Jim R > Nakamichi CR-7A azimuth-adjusted transfer > Sound Devices USBPre 2 > Audacity 2.0 (24/96) capture > iZotope RX MBIT+ resample 16/44.1 > iZotope RX and Ozone mastering > Peak Pro 6 (volume smoothing / edit / index) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 It’s All Over Now
02 Take a Look at that Guy
03 (I Know) I’m Losing You
04 Bring It On Home To Me / You Send Me
05 Sweet Little Rock & Roller
06 I’d Rather Go Blind
07 Too Bad
08 Every Picture Tells a Story
09 Angel
10 Stay With Me
11 Gasoline Alley
12 I Can Feel the Fire
13 You Wear It Well
14 Maggie May
15 Twistin’ the Night Away
16 We’ll Meet Again


Rod Stewart – lead vocals
Ronnie Wood – guitar, backing vocals
Tetsu Yamauchi – bass
Kenney Jones – drums, percussion
Ian McLagan – keyboards, backing vocals
Jesse Ed Davis – rhythm guitar

Mike Millard is known to most bootleg collectors, the new collectors will know him in time as we do. As one of the greatest Audience Recording Tapers ever. He has recorded countless shows all of which are sought out by bootleg collectors. This great recording comes from one of the greatest live acts of their day Rod Stewart & The Faces. Their Drunk At The Pub brand of Rock was perfect for the live stage. Lead singer Rod Stewart had blossomed into quite the charismatic frontman. A big difference to his hide behind the amplifier days of The Jeff Beck Group. He also learned to control his singing so as not to lose voice all the time (he was plagued by this in The Jeff Beck Group). Ronnie Wood's time in The Faces was the perfect pre-audition for his future as a Rolling Stone (it got his foot in the door not to say it was handed to him). As for the rest of the group, this team of musicians were able to write and record enough music for 2 careers to blossom. The Faces as a band & Rod Stewart as a solo artist. So this combination...great song writing and a high energy we are just You on stage attitude, audiences everywhere were hooked. Enjoy my friends!

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Opeth - Hultsfred Festival: Hultsfred Folkets Park, Hultsfred, Sweden June 12, 2003 (FM)

Opeth
Hultsfred Festival
Hultsfred Folkets Park
Hultsfred, Sweden
June 12, 2003
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 7 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: Analog Cable FM Broadcast > Radio/TV Cable > Pinnacle PCTV PRO TV/Radio card > CD > Flac Level 7

01 - Drapery Falls 10:57
02 - Deliverance 13:01
03 - Advent 14:24
04 - A Fair Judgement 10:54
05 - Demon Of The Fall 6:35

Total Playing Time: 55mn 51sc

Opeth 2003:
Mikael Åkerfeldt – lead vocals, guitars
Martin Mendez – bass
Peter Lindgren – guitars
Martin Lopez - drums

Touring Member:
Per Wiberg – keyboards, mellotron, backing vocals

Our second Hard And Heavy Hump Day post is a re-post and Flac upgrade of an older Opeth post. This 5 song performance shows every reason that Opeth is one of my all time favorite bands. Opeth has been a constantly shifting musical force from the beginning of their recording career. Constantly changing with each LP, their particular brand of Progressive Metal includes elements of Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Folk Music and more. The songs are usually over the 10 minute mark but never feel overly long. Once on tour opening for Glenn Danzig, Opeth was given 20 minutes a night. There just happens to be on their 2nd album Morningrise a song that is 20 minutes long. That song, "Black Rose Immortal" was played every night of that tour (but never again). I kick myself in the backside every time I think about not going to that freaking show!!

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Pat Travers Band - Los Angeles Sports Arena: Los Angeles, CA July 26, 1981 (FM) - Titus Remaster

Pat Travers Band
Los Angeles Sports Arena
Los Angeles, California, USA
July 26th 1981
FM Broadcast Recording - Titus Remaster
Flac 16bit/48khz & MP3 320kbps/48khz
Cover Art Included

01 - Intro/New Age Music
02 - Crash and Burn
03 - Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)
04 - Blues/Snortin' Whiskey/Outro

Pat Travers - guitar, lead vocals
Peter "Mars" Cowling - bass guitar
Sandy Gennaro - drums

For our first Hard And Heavy Hump Day Post we have a short but absolutely sweet Pat Travers radio broadcast. This one is from Pat's 1981 tour to promote Radioactive, his follow up to the successful Crash And Burn. You get only 4 songs but each one is considered a Pat Travers Classic. My favorite of the 4 is the stomping "Snortin' Whiskey". My absolute favorite Pat Travers song "Stevie" unfortunately not on this recording.

The Pat Travers Band is another of those Hard Rock bands that is common ground between Classic 1970s Hard Rockers and the Heavy Metal Heads of the 1980s. Every Metal Head I know has a copy of 2 Pat Travers albums in their collection, Live Go For What You Know and Crash And Burn. As a matter of fact Kirk Hammett of Metallica cites Pat Travers as a major influence. In the 1980s Detroit bar scene almost every Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band at one time or another included "Snortin' Whiskey" in their set.

This will be a quick download so there is no excuse for not downloading (except if your not a fan, everyone is free to their own opinion of course).

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Downloaded from The Luxor Dream at https://theluxordream3.blogspot.com

Titus, who runs The Luxor Dream, posts a nice variety of music on his blog so check it out!
 

McCoy Tyner Quintet - Jazzfest Berlin ~ Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany November 7, 1981 (Satellite)

McCoy Tyner Quintet
Jazzfest Berlin
Philharmonie
Berlin, Germany
November 7, 1981
Digital FM Broadcast Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Lineage: dvb-s > techno trend tt-premium s2-6400 twin hd > hdd > nero wave editor > flac >

DIME > you
(mpeg1 layer 2/320 kbps) [radio station - rbb kulturradio]
spectral analysis goes to 20kHz
digital capture of a digital Kulturradio FM rebroadcast

01 Gudrun Endress Announcement
02 La Habana Sol
03 McCoy Tyner Announcement
04 Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit
05 McCoy Tyner Announcement
06 It's You or No One
07 The Seeker

Total Time: 1hr 4mn 28sc

McCoy Tyner - piano
John Blake Jr. - violin
Joe Ford - alto & soprano saxophones
Avery Sharpe - bass
Ronnie Burrage - drums

For Your Sunday Morning Jazz Pleasure!

McCoy Tyner is a Jazz Legend and if you only want one bootleg from his Quintet this is the one. It's a very clear recording that has no flaws that should be noted (in my opinion). The band is in great form, tight and well rehearsed. You can just sit back and listen to a fabulous flawless performance.

My Sunday Morning Jazz posts started out because of BigO. They started posting Jazz shows on Sunday morning calling it Jazz On Sunday I think. So yeah like anybody will do with someone else's good idea, I stole it. I really enjoyed downloading their Jazz On Sunday posts. It was a great way to sit and enjoy my coffee in the morning. At the time I started Sunday was my only day off work. I couldn't sleep in on Sunday like Rosebud could so I would make coffee and sit in the living room or weather permitting my back porch and listen to the newest Jazz show I had. Even though I have been retired for a five years I still get up at 5AM.

So don't hold the stolen idea against me especially now that BiO is no more...Let's just say I'm carrying forward the tradition. Enjoy my Friends!!!

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Shining (Norway) - Hellfest 2024 ~ Hellfest Grounds: Val de Moine, Clisson, France June 27, 2024 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Shining (Norway)
Hellfest 2024
Hellfest Grounds
Val de Moine, Clisson, France
June 27, 2024
arte HDTV Webcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Lineage: Video Stream > JDownloader > MPEG-4 > Nero 2015 > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper > MP3 320kbps

Complete Performance Of The Blackjazz Album

01 - The Madness And The Damage Done 5:46
02 - Fisheye 8:23
03 - Exit Sun Part 1 & 2 9:20
04 - Healter Skelter 6:14
05 - The Madness And The Damage Done Part 2 3:40
06 - Blackjazz Deathtrance 11:52
07 - Omen 8:33
08 - 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson) 8:12

Total Playing Time: 1hr 2mn 3sc

Jørgen Munkeby – lead vocals, guitar, saxophone
Ole Vistnes - bass guitar
Simen Sandnes – drums

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to edit some track marks. I also tried to even the volume some as it fluctuated quite a bit. No EQ or Noise Reduction was used. No remastering or remixing was done. The DVD had lossy audio so I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper.

Okay how to explain the Norwegian band Shining to the uninitiated. First off they are not the Black Metal band Shining from Sweden. They are a band that really likes to experiment with many different musical genres in on song. The band combines elements of Industrial Metal, Extreme Metal, Drone, Noise, and Free Jazz plus more. If you are studying music in school this is a definite must listen (lol). The vocals are delivered in screams and growls like Industrial and Extreme Metal music. The guitars are loud and heavily distorted the drums pounding. The rhythms and time signatures are all over the spectrum, don't look for a 4/4 count (lol). When band leader Jørgen Munkeby drops his guitar & grabs his saxophone all bets are off. The music seems to hang right on the point of going off the rails. If you like the Improvisations of King Crimson, the Mwandishi era of Herbie Hancock, The Nels Cline Singers, and Industrial Metal, combine that with Boris and I still haven't explained it right...you have to check it out for yourself...but to me it was no surprise that their Blackjazz album has a cover of "21st Century Schizoid Man".

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Foghat - The Inglewood Forum: Inglewood, California, USA March 5, 1975 (ExAud) - Millard Master

Foghat
Mike Millard Master Tapes via JEMS
The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes Volume 218
The Inglewood Forum
Inglewood, California, USA
March 5, 1975
Excellent Audience Recording - Master Tape
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

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

Transfer: Mike Millard Master Cassettes > Yamaha KX-W592 Cassette Deck > Sony R-500 DAT > Analog Master DAT Clone > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 3.1 capture > iZotope RX > iZotope RX9 Advanced and Ozone 9 > FLAC

01 Wild Cherry
02 Home In My Hand
03 My Babe
04 Honey Hush
05 Leavin' Again (Again!)
06 I Just Want to Make Love to You
07 Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie

Dave Peverett – lead vocals; rhythm & harmony lead guitar
Rod Price – lead, slide & harmony lead guitar
Nick Jameson – bass; backing vocals
Roger Earl – drums; percussion

Known Faults: "Wild Cherry" joined in progress, tape flip in "I Just Want To Make Love To You"

I almost did a happy dance when I obtained this recording, seriously! I am a huge Foghat fan. I have worn out untold numbers of 8-track tapes, cassettes & vinyl copies of all Foghat releases since seeing them on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert.

A point of agreement between Me, my close Metal Head Friends & my close non-Metal Head Friends (I do have those lol!!) are copies of Foghat Live, Fool For The City, Night Shift and Stone Blue. When I played a Foghat Mix-Disc I made for my son Spider he says to me "These guys are one of the old school bands that made you guys want to play faster aren't they..listen to the double bass drums Dad! That's awesome shit" end quote. I replied "It now seems like a natural step from Foghat to Anvil but a lot of my friends didn't see it that way back in the early days of the Heavy Metal scene".

Anyway this is yet another great Mike Millard Master Recording. A little less audience noise in this one compared to the Joe Walsh recording. Enjoy Friends!!

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Joe Walsh - The Inglewood Forum Inglewood, CA 07-18-1981 (VgAud) - Mike Millard First-Generation Tape

Joe Walsh
Mike Millard First-Generation Tapes via JEMS
The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes Volume 132
The Inglewood Forum
Inglewood, California, USA
July 18, 1981
Very Good Audience Recording - 1st Generation Cassette
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

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

Transfer: Mike Millard First-Generation Cassettes > Nakamichi RX-505 azimuth-adjusted playback > Sound Devices USBPre2 > Audacity 2.1 capture > iZotope RX  > iZotope RX8 Advanced and Ozone 8 > MBIT+ resample to 16/44.1 > Audacity > TLH > FLAC

01 Meadows
02 Over And Over
03 In The City
04 A Life Of Illusion
05 Lady On The Rock
06 The Bomber
07 Dreams
08 Theme From Boat Weirdos
09 Funk #49
10 Turn To Stone
11 You Never Know
12 Life's Been Good
13 Rocky Mountain Way
14 All Night Long
15 Get Back

Joe Walsh guitar, lead vocals
George Perry bass
Russ Kunkel drums
Mike Murphy keyboards
Joe Vitale backing vocals, everything else

Another great Mike Millard recording for your listening pleasure. This time from my favorite member of The Eagles (sorry I was a Joe Walsh fan before I was an Eagles fan). My first time hearing Joe Walsh was when a girl brought the 45 single for "Rocky Mountain Way" to school. We were in elementary school and we could bring in records to play during class free time and for recess if we stayed inside. I remember I bought my own copy soon after. My first time hearing The Eagles was when I was still in elementary school and heard "New Kid In Town" on the radio during the bus ride home. I know Joe Walsh was in the band a short time compared to the rest of the band, my favorite of the Joe Walsh-less era is of course Glenn Frey, what a great songwriter!

This Millard recording is as great as all the rest. The audience is a little chatty but not too bad. The listening experience is not affected by audience so. enjoy!!!

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King Woman - Audio Tree Live Chicago, Illinois, USA June 2, 2016 (Webstream) DVD Audio Rip

King Woman
Audio Tree Live
Chicago, Illinois, USA
June 2, 2016
Audio Tree Live Webcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Lineage: Video Stream > JDownloader > MPEG-4 > Nero 2015 > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave 16bit/44,1khz > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps

01 - Intro
02 - Utopia
03 - Interview 1
04 - Burn
05 - Interview 2
06 - Shame
07 - Interview 3
08 - Candescent Soul
09 - Show Wrap Up

Kristina Esfandiari – Vocals
Colin Gallagher – Guitar
Peter Arensdorf – Bass
Joey Raygoza – Drums

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to edit track marks, lower the music volume a little, raise the interview volume and add fade ins and outs. The DVD had lossy audio so the waves were encoded to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper.

How do I describe King Woman to you and make you curious enough to want to check them out. I could quote you the little blurb on the CD...King Woman is an experimental musical vehicle for the Performance Artist Kristina Esfandiari featuring elements of Doom Metal and Shoegaze with raw vocal emotion...For fans of Jarbo era Swans, EARTH, Big Brave, SunnO))) and Boris...I mean that gets us in the ballpark (since I like all them it was an easy sell).

I could also describe it to you like I tried to with Spider & Rosebud. "There are long drawn out throbbing guitar & bass riffs, powerful drums all while Kristina Esfandiari bares here soul in a mournful croon. The music always builds in power as the performance progresses akin Post Rock/Metal as Kristina's vocals increase in emotion akin to Old School Gospel/Soul Singers." In the end it's better to just let you check the music out for yourself. I have picked up all 3 of the bands available releases and their 2017 release Created In The Image Of Suffering is my latest CD obsession.

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Blue Cheer - The Lone Star Café: New York City, New York, USA May 30, 1984 (FM) - Digitaly Remastered

Blue Cheer
Lone Star Café, New York 1984 - (Timeline – TLNCD3078)
The Lone Star Café
New York City, New York, USA
May 30, 1984
WOHA-FM Broadcast Recording - Digitally Remastered
MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

01 Rock Me Baby
02 The Girl Next Door*
03 Just A Little Bit
04 Blues Cadillac
05 Boney Maroney
06 Nightmares*
07 Ride With Me*
08 Second Time Around

*Songs From The 1984 Reunion Album The Beast Is Back

Dickie Peterson (R.I.P.) bass, vocals
Paul Whaley (R.I.P.) drums
Tony Rainier guitar

Dickie Peterson died October 12, 2009 from liver cancer caused by prostate cancer that had metastasized, he was 63.

Paul Whaley died from heart failure January 28, 2019, he was 72.

Blue Cheer gets brought into the conversation about the Roots Of Heavy Metal about as much as The MC5 does, frequently but not quite enough. They both also get thrown into the mix when discussing Proto-Punk and Proto-Grunge. Dickie Peterson must be looking down from Heavy Metal Heaven with a big grin. Can you imagine Dickie Peterson and Paul Whaley jamming with The MC5 and Motörhead in Heavy Metal Heaven? Maybe that's why clouds turn black....

This show came to me in flac form but was tested as 100% MP3 based so I only shared it in MP3 320kbps...sorry.

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Styx - Long Beach Arena: Long Beach, CA January 27, 1978 (ExAud) - Mike Millard Master

Styx
Mike Millard Master Tapes via JEMS
The Lost and Found Mike the MICrophone Tapes Volume 78
Long Beach Arena
Long Beach, CA
January 27, 1978
Excellent Audience Recording
Flac & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

Rosebud's Pick

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

Transfer: Mike Millard Master Cassettes > Yamaha KX-W592 Cassette Deck > Sony R-500 DAT > Analog Master DAT Clone > Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 > Sound Forge Audio Studio 13.0 capture > Adobe Audition > iZotope RX8 > iZotope Ozone 8 > Audacity > TLH > FLAC

01 The Grand Illusion
02 Lorelei
03 Mademoiselle
04 Fooling Yourself
05 Suite Madame Blue
06 Crystal Ball
07 Light Up
08 Lady
09 Man In The Wilderness
10 Come Sail Away
11 Midnight Ride
12 Miss America
13 Born For Adventure

Dennis DeYoung – keyboards, lead and backing vocals
James "J.Y." Young – guitars, backing and lead vocals
Tommy Shaw – guitars, lead and backing vocals, occasional mandolin and banjo
Chuck Panozzo – bass, occasional backing vocals
John Panozzo – drums, percussion, occasional backing vocals

The notes from JEMS about this great Mike Millard recording are included in the download.

By now a lot of you who frequent The New JDP know who Mike Millard is and how good his audience recordings are. If it has the Mallard name on it you know a very enjoyable listening experience is inside! This Styx show is no exception to that rule. It sounds awesome! The instruments and vocals are clear and the audience noise is never in the way of the music. Styx fans grab this full length Grand Illusion Show for your collection.

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Amorphis - Wacken Open Air 2023: Louder Stage, Hauptstrasse, Wacken, Germany, August 3, 2023 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Amorphis
Wacken Open Air 2023
Louder Stage
Hauptstrasse, Wacken, Germany
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Magenta Musik HDTV Webcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Lineage: Video Stream > JDownloader > MPEG-4 > Nero 2015 > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper > MP3 320kbps

01 - (Intro) Northwards
02 - Bad Blood >
03 - The Four Wise Ones
04 - The Moon
05 - (Thousand Lakes Intro) Into Hiding
06 - Black Winter Day
07 - Silver Bride
08 - Sky Is Mine
09 - Wrong Direction
10 - Amongst Stars (featuring Anneke van Giersbergen)
11 - Seven Roads Come Together
12 - On The Dark Waters
13 - My Kantele
14 - House Of Sleep
15 - The Bee (My Name Is Night Outro)

Tomi Joutsen – lead vocals
Tomi Koivusaari – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Esa Holopainen – lead guitar
Olli-Pekka Laine – bass, backing vocals
Jan Rechberger – drums
Santeri Kallio – keyboards

Taped Vocal Appearance:
Anneke van Giersbergen "Amongst Stars"

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to edit some track marks. No EQ or Noise Reduction was used. No remastering or remixing was done. The DVD had lossy audio so I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper.

Amorphis is one of my favorite bands. I own every release and have loved every twist and turn their music has made in their Progressive Heavy Metal journey. I've been a fan since Amorphis released the debut EP Privilege Of Evil. Starting off as a very raw Death Metal band, Amorphis set out on a musical course that would see them evolving with every release. With their first full length Amorphis added elements of  Finish Folk Music, Progressive Rock, Doom Metal and Psychedelia to their sound. The album also featured lyrics based on the Finnish Epic The Kalevala. This lyrical style would continue through out there career.

At one point the band dropped the Death Metal elements and went full on Prog-Metal (with some great saxophone on the LP Am Universum). At another they adopted an Alternative Metal sound. After Lead Vocalist Pasi Koskinen left the band and new vocalist Tomi Joutsen took over the Death Metal elements returned. The bands sound now is an amalgam of every style they used in the past and more. This show is a perfect place to start if you never heard Amorphis. The bands name is perfect they always are shifting which has earned them a very loyal fan base. Enjoy!!

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The Call - Salle de Penfeld: Brest, France October 28, 1983 (SBD) - 1st Generation Cassette

The Call
Salle de Penfeld
Brest, France
October 28, 1983
Soundboard Recording - 1st Generation Cassette
Flac Level 8 & MP3 320kbps
No Cover Art

Lineage: Soundboard > Unknown Deck Cassette Master > 1st Generation Cassette > Aiwa XK-009 EXCELIA > iMac (line in) > Audacity (24bit/96khz) > izotope RX3 (EQed, normalised, 16/44, downsampled, tracks split) > xACT (Flac Level 8/SBE fix)

01 - Peter Gabriel intro
02 - Delivered
03 - Tremble
04 - War Weary World
05 - All About You
06 - Turn A Blind Eye
07 - Violent Times
08 - Scene Beyond Dreams
09 - Back From The Front
10 - The Walls Came Down
Encore:
11 - Notified (cut)

Michael Been – guitar, vocals
Scott Musick – drums, percussion, vocals
Tom Ferrier – guitar, vocals
Greg Freeman – bass
Jim Goodwin – keyboards

I first heard The Call's "The Walls Came Down" on MTV. The video actually featured The Band's Garth Hudson who played keyboards on the studio track. Hudson was also seen on MTV stating that The Call's music had a modern sound with the political awareness of the 1960s and 1970s. For me it was the passion in the vocal delivery. Peter Gabriel was a fan of the band and personally asked them to open his 1982-1983 Tour. That's where this recording comes from. There is a back story as to how the owner of this tape came into it's possession and is included in the show's info text.

I have not seen any other shows from this awesome band from the 1980s so grab this one. Their music is also some what lost since their albums did not receive CD re-release. In 2024 a compilation called The Lost Tapes was released featuring unreleased tracks. After that the albums Reconciled, and Into The Woods have been released in remastered form. Unfortunately the Modern Romans album, which got them noticed, still needs a proper re-release. This after lead singer/guitarist Michael Been died while working a tour for his son's band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. It was Pukkelpop 2010, Michael Been suffered a fatal heart attack, he was 60.

Flac

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Kamasi Washington - Regent Theater: Los Angeles, California, USA May 4, 2015 (FM) - TomP Remaster

Kamasi Washington
Regent Theater
Los Angeles, California, USA
Recorded: May 4, 2015
BBC Jazz on 3 Broadcast: September 7, 2015
BBC Jazz on 3 Rebroadcast: November 9, 2015
Merger Of Both Master Recordings
FM Broadcast Recording
Flac Level 6 & MP3 320kbps
Cover Art Included

TomP Remaster

Edit details (Nero 8):
Removed most of the announcer
Increased music level +2dB above announcements
Increased overall volume +4dB
Added flac tags (Tag & Rename)
Flac 6 + SBE / decode check (TLH)

CD One

01 KW Announcement :27
02 Askim 17:49
03 Miss Understanding 16:32
04 Seven Prayers 8:25

CD Two

05 Changing of the Guard 18:01
06 The Magnificent 7 22:04
07 FM Announcement :12

Total Playing Time: 1hr 23mn 31sc

Kamasi Washington - saxophones
Ryan Porter - trombone
Dontae Winslow - trumpet
Cameron Graves - piano
Brandon Coleman - keyboards & electronics
Miles Mosley - bass
Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner - bass
Tony Austin - drums
Ronald Bruner - drums
Leon Mobley - percussion
Patrice Quinn - vocals

String and Choir Conductor - Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Paul Cartwright - violin
Tylana Renga - violin
Jim Simone - violin
Molly Rogers - viola
Andrea Witt - viola
Ginger Murphy - cello
Artyom Manukyan - cello

Vocalists:
Charles Jones
Dawn Norsleet
Mashica Winslow
Nia Andrews
Steven Wayne
Taylor Graves
Thalma de Freitas

If you haven't heard Kamasi Washington's The Epic this is your chance to get a small peek at what a lot of us were talking so much about. The Epic is a sprawling 3 CD musical piece lasting almost 3 hours. It's a modern Jazz epic with choirs and an orchestra. This shorter performance is actually one of the piece's first live performances. This is the first of two Kamasi Washington shows I will be posting (which are all I have at the time this posting). I hope these shows will inspire you as they did me to check out Mr. Washington's studio albums for yourself.

Flac

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Overkill - Rock Al Parque ~ Plaza Stage: Bogota, Colombia November 11, 2023 (SBD) DVD Audio Rip

Overkill
Rock Al Parque
Parque Simón Bolívar
Plaza Stage
Bogota, Colombia
November 11, 2023
HDTV Broadcast/Soundboard Recording
DVD Audio Rip
MP3 320kbps
DVD Cover Art Included

Lineage: TV Broadcast > Unknown Process > Bootleg DVD > DVD Audio Extractor > Stereo Wave 16bit/44,1khz > Goldwave v6.80 (editing) > Trader's Little Helper (align sector boundaries) > MP3 320kbps

01 - Scorched
02 - Bring Me the Night
03 - Electric Rattlesnake
04 - Hello From the Gutter
05 - Coma
06 - The Surgeon
07 - Ironbound
08 - Elimination
09 - Horrorscope
10 - Rotten to the Core
11 - Fuck You

Total Time: 58mn 03sc

Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth – lead vocals
Carlo "D.D." Verni – bass, backing vocals
Dave Linsk – lead guitar, backing vocals
Derek Tailer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Jason Bittner – drums

justdave's notes:
I ripped the waves with DVD Audio Extractor. I then used Goldwave to re-edit some track marks and lower the volume to eliminate quite a bit of clipping. The DVD had lossy AC3 audio so I encoded the waves to MP3 320kbps using Trader's Little Helper. All sector boundaries aligned.

Overkill remains one of my all time favorite bands. When the 1990s made Heavy Metal go back to the underground many bands changed their style drastically to stay on top (I'm looking at you Metallica & Megadeth) Overkill doubled down on the Hardcore element that gave New York City Thrash bands there unique sound. Critics called it Groove Metal but Overkill's so called Post-Thrash will still rip your face off.

In 1998 singer Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth actually had to have part of his face lifted off. He had an aggressive nasal cancer. Doctors removed part of Blitz's face so they could remove the front of his skull, scrape the cancer off the inside of his sinuses, remove a huge tumor and put the whole thing back together again. This actually lowered Blitz's vocal range since the resonating chambers of his sinuses change size and shape. Four years later Blitz suffered a stroke on stage in Germany. He jokes about it only made him stronger and helped him forget some of his younger bad decisions.

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