Cat's Cradle - Chapel Hill, NC 1981 UPGRADE

The dB's

Cat's Cradle

Chapel Hill, NC

Oct. 24, 1981

SOUNDBOARD UPGRADE (NOTE: 24 tracks sbd.; 6 tracks at end are from the audience recording). Original post with photos & more info is HERE

IF YOU MISSED THIS CLASSIC SHOW the first time around, you'll want to snatch it now. Even if you already snagged it and liked it, you'll definitely want this upgrade. ENJOY! 

ABUNDANT THANKS to the taper, glenn s for the original share, and to dB’s Fan for sharing his soundboard recording.

photo by CarolinaTim via Flickr

DISC 1

01 (I Thought) You Wanted to Know

02 Bad Reputation

03 Dynamite        

04 Soul Kiss

05 Big Brown Eyes

06 I Feel Good (Today)

07 pH Factor

08 Ups and Downs

09 Storm Warning

10 The Fight

11 Excitement

12 Black and White

13 Big Time

14 Judy

DISC 2

01 Tomorrow Never Knows

02 The Summer Sun

03 I Walked With a Zombie (Roky Erikson cover)

04 Ask for Jill

05 Nothing Is Wrong

06 In Spain

07 We Were Happy There

08 Happenstance

09 Neverland

     **soundboard recording ends here; continues with audience recording**

10 Sweet Home Alabama (tease, Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)

11 If and When

12 Time Has Come Today (Chamber Bros. cover)

13 On the Brink (Sneakers song)

14 Valleydale jingle

15 96 Tears (end cut - ? & The Mysterians cover)

 

16 Death Garage (sbd. track from Oct. 23; was not played Oct. 24)

photo by Chapel Hill magazine

QUESTION: anyone have photos to share of the old
Cat's Cradle location in Chapel Hill? All I can find
are ones from the Carrboro site on Main Street...

The dB’s:

Gene Holder – bass guitar

Peter Holsapple – guitar, vocals, keyboard

Will Rigby – drums, backing vocals

Chris Stamey – guitar, vocals

Disc 1 (MP3@320)

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Disc 2 (MP3@320)

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Tee Hedz - Central Park, NYC 1980

Tawking Hedz

Wollman Rink

Central Park

New York, NY

Aug. 27, 1980

Tee Hedz live: the gang’s all pictured here, except Adrian Belew

soundboard recording (sound quality Ex-; slight hum audible between songs; original recording by Frank Galagher; transfer by HDV)

THIS ONE’S LOSSLESS

Repercussion: This blog is devoted mainly to two groups active primarily in the 1980s — groups at times lumped in with the so-called “New Wave”. So, at some point, I wanted to post something by this group. Otherwise, there’s no connection between our heroes from Winston-Salem, NC and the Tee Hedz from NYC.

01 Warning Sign (beginning cut, fades in)*

02 Stay Hungry
03 Cities
04 band intros
05 I Zimbra
06 Once In A Lifetime
07 Houses In Motion
08 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
09 Crosseyed and Painless (fades in)**
10 Take Me to the River
11 The Great Curve

     *first song in the set, Psycho Killer, is not included here

     **Life During Wartime from this show was officially released, so is omitted here (would have been the track before “Take Me to the River”)

ROB SEZ: I’ve tried to make it hard for the Internet music police to find this post. I’ve misspelled the name of the band and its original members and haven’t added any tags. When Hans De V began sharing his amazing T Hedz tape collection about a year ago, the powers-that-be were all over his posts, and they disappeared quickly. I don’t want to jeopardize my humble little blog by calling attention to posts like this.

LOSSLESS WAV FILES

tape insert by Hans De V

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

BONUS: audience recording of the same show — includes band intro & the songs missing from above soundboard version.

Sound quality VG

HQ MP3 (VBR avg. 280 kbps)

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David Burne - vocals, guitar
Gerry Harrison - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tina Weymuth - bass, keyboards
Cris Franz - drums
Adrian Belew - guitar, vocals, percussion
Bernie Worrell - keyboards, vocals, percussion
Busta 'Cherry' Jones - bass
Steve Scales - percussion, vocals
Nona Hendryx - vocals, percussion
Dollette McDonald - vocals, percussion

(core band members’ names are misspelled intentionally...)

Continental Drifters - Bremen 1996

Bremen, Germany

Jan. 24, 1996

DSR satellite radio

radio broadcast (sound quality Ex-)

BIG THANKS to the recorder and sharer (wish I could be more specific than that)

BY REQUEST — It pays to give me your feedback, folks!

photo by Jutta Brandt Knust

Repercussion: Peter joined the Continental Drifters in the early 1990s after The dB's were kaput, and he stayed with the group until it disbanded circa 2003. While they were active, the Drifters recorded several of Peter's songs, so if you enjoy his singing and songwriting, those discs are definitely worth seeking out. Their music is excellent! (Here’s another Drifters show I posted a while back.)
 
01 A Song for You (Gram Parsons cover)

02 Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway

03 Mezzanine

04 Desperate Love

05 Invisible Boyfriend

06 Mixed Messages

07 [zoo song]

08 The Rain Song

09 Darlin’ Darlin’

10 Some of Shelly’s Blues

11 New York

12 Soul Deep (Box Tops cover)

13 Get Over It

14 Who We Are, Where We Live

15 Highway of the Saints  

        (Pat McLaughlin cover)

16 Tighter and Tighter

17 Dedicated to the One I Love  

         (Mamas & The Papas cover)

18 Anything (bonus, live 1998)

MP3@320
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Continental Drifters:

Peter Holsapple - keyboards,accordion, mandolin, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar, vocals

Susan Cowsill - acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, shaker, vocals

Robert Maché - mandolin, acoustic & electric guitar, vocals

Vicki Peterson - acoustic & electric guitar, vocals

Carlo Nuccio – drums, vocals

Mark Walton - electric bass

Russ Broussard - drums, vocals (on 1998 bonus track)

Go listen to & buy music by Continental Drifters!  
Here they are at AllMusic 

Chris' "Lovesick Blues" solo album - OUT NOW!

CHRIS STAMEY SOLO ALBUM OUT TODAY!

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR: GO BUY IT!!
iTunes (bonus tracks version)  CD (Yep Roc)  LP (Yep Roc)
CD (Amazon)   LP (Amazon)
 

ALBUM RELEASE DAY, new video, another live date.  
As I listen to the iTunes download of Lovesick Blues (!), here's some scoop on what's next as Chris and his label sell the music world on his great new album: 

NEW VIDEO FOR THE SONG 'LOVESICK BLUES'

SHORTER, EDITED VERSION

FULL VERSION

Meanwhile, another live performance date has been added (in addition to the ones I've already listed on the News Page): Philadelphia, PA (World Cafe Live Upstairs), 3025 Walnut Street, Sunday, Feb. 17. More details are HERE. 

More news about Lovesick Blues can be found on the News Page. 

Like This REVISITED

The dB’s

Demos & Live

1982-1985

Darn right: artwork included in download!

01 Love Is for Lovers (live)*
02 She Got Soul #1 (demo)^

03 Spitting In the Wind (live)+

04 Lonely Is as Lonely Does (demo)^

05 Not Cool (demo)^

06 Amplifier (live)+

07 A Spy In the House of Love (live)+ [brief dropout at 4:31]

08 Rendezvous (live)+

09 New Gun In Town (live)#

10 On the Battlefront (demo)^

11 White Train #2 (demo)^

 

12 Darby Hall (demo)^

13 Elvis, What Happened? (demo)^

14 Love Is for Lovers (demo)^

SOURCES:

*The Blue Note, Columbia, MO 1984-07-16 aud

^Demo 1982-83 (tracks 02 and 11 have extra numbers in the titles because there was more than one version of the same song in the full demos set)

+Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill, NC 1985-03-26 FM

^#Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL 1984-12-05 FM

MP3@320

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IF YOU ENJOY THIS ONE, be sure to check out my earlier post of The dB's debut album, Stands for deciBels REVISITED. It's HERE. 

ROB SEZ: Instead of just posting the fairly common Demos 1982-83 set, I decided to use a selection of them plus some live tracks to create a “Like This REVISITED” comp. The dB’s third album is a triumph, especially given several big challenges — not the least of which was Chris leaving the band just as The dB’s were finally getting their first U.S. record deal.

In case you’re not familiar with them, the demos date from that transitional time after the release of Repercussion, just before Chris left the group, and before the Peter-led dB’s signed with Bearsville Records in 1984. The source is probably a multi-generation cassette dub, so the sound quality is a tad muddy at times and there’s a bit of hiss on some tracks. I did my best to clean them up. NOTE: don't be put off by the less-than-perfect sound quality of Track 1 -- the remaining tracks sound considerably better.

The live tracks are standouts from 3 shows during the “Like This” tour: Columbia, MO, July 16, 1984 (The Blue Note); Chapel Hill, NC, March 16, 1985 (Cat’s Cradle); and Chicago, IL, Dec. 5, 1984 (Cabaret Metro). The first is a VG+ quality audience recording and the latter two are FM broadcasts. As usual, I used lossless sources for all the above. BIG THANKS to all the tapers and sharers, especially TheBynumite for his FM capture of the Cat’s Cradle show!

The “bonus tracks” for this collection are: the demo of “Darby Hall” (which was a bonus track on the original CD release), the demo of “Elvis, What Happened?” (Peter must've had a serious Elvis fetish before the scales fell from his eyes…), and a couldn’t-resist-it repeat of the album’s first song, in demo form.

For extra enjoyment, read Peter’s essay about writing “Love Is for Lovers” and hear an excerpt from the original demo of “Do You Believe This?” at a New York Times blog here:

http://measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/anatomy-of-a-flop/

Like This, the original album,

appears to be out of print

THIS IS TOO GOOD AN ALBUM 

TO GO OUT OF PRINT!!

Are you listening, benevolent record label people??

The Long Ryders - Philadelphia 1987

Chestnut Cabaret

Philadelphia, PA

May 5, 1987

audience recording (sound quality VG+; transfer from 1^st-generation copy of master tape)

BY REQUEST — It pays to give me your feedback, folks. When I asked for comments about future posts, “Long Ryders” was one of the requests — so here ya go!

SINCERE THANKS to the Punk-Rock Cop for taping the show, and to happyfeet66 for sharing.

The Long Ryders: "Americana" & "alt-country" before the terms were even invented
photos courtesy sidgriffin.com

01 Prairie Fire

02 Lights of Downtown

03 Man of Misery

04 A Stitch In Time

05 State of My Union

06 Harriet Tubman's Going to Carry Me Home

07 Capturing the Flag

08 Long Story Short

09 Baby’s In Toyland

10 I Want You Bad (NRBQ cover)

11 Spectacular Fall (fades in)

12 I Had a Dream

13 band intros --> Greenville Trestle High (James & Joan Jett cover)

14 You Just Can’t Ride the Boxcars Anymore

15 Gunslinger Man

16 Looking for Lewis & Clark

17 Hair of the Dog (Green on Red cover)

18 Smash It Up (The Damned cover)

19 10-5-60 (big medley)

MP3@320

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The Long Ryders:

Sid Griffin – vocals, steel guitar, harmonica

Stephen McCarthy – guitar, keyboards, vocals

Greg Sowders – drums

Tom Stevens – bass, vocals

Learn more about The Long Ryders’ music at AllMusic and/or Sid Griffin’s site