R. E. M. + X. T. C. - One Night in Athens, GA 1981-04-24 (NEW SOUNDBOARD source)

B & L Warehouse
Athens, GA
April 24, 1981

soundboard & audience recordings (M1 soundboard source for R. E. M. set)

R. E. M. - opening set

soundboard recording (M1 - transferred from analog safety copy)

01 Radio Free Europe (fades in) 

02 Burning Down

03 Dangerous Times

04 All the Right Friends

05 Shaking Through

06 Body Count

07 Pretty Persuasion

08 (Don't Go Back to) Rockville

09 Hey Hey Nadine

10 That Beat*

11 Sitting Still

12 9-9

13 Windout

14 Gardening at Night (fades out)

 

      *live debut — as best I can tell

X T C - headline set

  

excellent audience recording (low generation source, exact lineage unknown)

01 Respectable Street

02 Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me) 

03 No Language In Our Lungs

04 Ball & Chain

05 Paper & Iron

06 Love at First Sight

07 Roads Girdle the Globe

08 Scissor Man

09 Towers of London

10 Burning with Optimism's Flames 

11 Living Through Another Cuba

12 Generals & Majors

13 This Is Pop

14 Making Plans for Nigel

15 Helicopter

16 Outside World

17 Statue of Liberty

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ROB SEZ:  Something brand new here, along with something pulled from the archive. What's new is the soundboard recording for the R. E. M. set. My human source is someone close to the band and actively involved in music in Athens in the 1980s. It's been digitally transferred from a first-generation analog copy of the master reel, recorded by the sound guy that night. This version is as close to perfect as you can get, absent the master.

According to Remtimeline, the only other known recording for the R. E. M. set is a so-so sounding audience capture that's been in general circulation since 2011. By contrast, this pristine first-generation soundboard recording represents a very significant upgrade, which I'm happy to put into general circulation. When I received the source files, they only needed tracking and fading. No eq, no compression, no jiggery pokery. The sound guy didn't hit record until a minute into set opener Radio Free Europe, and his tape apparently ran out about a minute into closing song Gardening at Night.

HUGE THANKS to my R. E. M. source, who shall remain nameless.

The X T C set comes from an excellent, low-generation audience recording, for which I am indebted to the kind souls at the now-defunct XTC4U and XTCWeeds.

There's a bonus goodie for X T C fans baked into the download. 

READ a 2018 remembrance of this show by Vanessa Briscoe Hay (of Pylon / Pylon Reenactment Society fame) at Flagpole, with quotes from Mike Mills.

PLEASE ENJOY. Still more to come.

R. E. M. - 1981-07-23 Tyrone's, Athens, GA (sbd M1) - NEW SOURCE - UPGRADE

Tyrone's O.C.
Athens, GA
July 23, 1981

soundboard (first-generation copy from master reel)

Dream Remaster (thanks, Colin)

A joint venture of this blog and Colin's Dream Remaster site

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Well, this is a nice way to return, I think.

My source for this recording is someone close to the band and actively involved in music in Athens in the 1980s. It's been digitally transferred from a first-generation analog copy of the master reel, recorded by the sound guy that night. This version is as close to perfect as you can get, absent the master. Colin's excellent remaster brings out the full dynamics of the performance. He received from me a couple of raw, unedited files and created this lovely musical artifact. Big-time kudos to him.

According to Remtimeline, the only other source for this performance is the bootleg "That Beat In Time," first released on CD in 1991. The bootleg is mis-dated, claiming that it came from a performance earlier in 1981, one that did not actually take place on the purported date. Not only is the lineage for the bootleg unknown, it also substitutes a different version of the song "That Beat" (from the band's performance at Tyrone's on 23 Sept. 1981) for the blistering, longer one featured here. This version of "That Beat" segues directly into "Ska"—also missing from the bootleg. This set represents the first time the 23 July versions of "That Beat" and "Ska" have been placed into general circulation. Will leave the final judgment up to your ears, but to mine, this sounds like a nice upgrade compared to the bootleg version.

Although Remtimeline notes several other songs played on 23 July 1981, our source recording suggests the songs absent here were not recorded from the board that night.

Remaster notes from Colin:

HUGE thanks to Rob for sending this to me, much appreciated. This needed some restoration then gentle remastering. Apparently, this particular recording has NEVER CIRCULATED, at least not beyond an inner circle of R.E.M. fans in & around Athens. My basic artwork included. Enjoy...

"Look To The Days, How Long Can This Last" Dream Remastered March 2025.

Stay tuned. There's more where this came from...

Daniel Romano's Outfit - Roskilde 2022 (VG aud)

Daniel Romano's Outfit

Roskilde Festival, Denmark

June 29, 2022

   

audience recording (sound quality: VG++ I would've given this a slightly higher rating, but the vocals are a tad distant in the first several songs. Otherwise, this would've earned a rating of Ex-)

THIS is what the fuss is all about:

Daniel Romano's Outfit live in 2022

01 stage entrance

Daniel Romano's Outfit: in Minneapolis, 2022
below: Daniel at the mic in Berlin, 2022

02 Anyone's Arms

03 Toulouse

04 Tragic Head

05 Animals Above Our Town

06 The Motions

07 Hunger Is a Dream 

     You Die In 

08 Nocturne Child

09 Strange Faces + Loving Cup

10 Lone Ranger*

11 Queen of Spades*

12 Where May I Take My Rest + A Flower That Wouldn't 

     Bloom (Ancient Shapes song)

13 Walking Around 

     Holding Hands

14 Roya

15 Blue Heron

16 When I Learned Your Name 

17 Generation (F**ked Up cover)

     *Tracks 10 & 11: Julianna Riolino, song composer & lead vocal

ROB SEZ: Is Daniel Romano a musical phenomenon or what?! Canada's multi-modal wunderkind has been recording and issuing albums at a dizzying pace for years, at various times inhabiting musical styles from country to new wave to folk to 1970s AOR to post-punk to blazing rock 'n' roll. (If your punk is not yet "post," be sure to check out Daniel in his Ancient Shapes incarnation.) For his more recent LPs and tours, he's taken inspiration from the mid-1970s Dylan (perched somewhere between Rolling Thunder Revue era Bob and Before the Flood era Bob & The Band). Does he pull it off? I say yes, but humbly suggest you should decide for yourself. Check the video sample, then hit the download button. The sound quality on this recording is great, putting you in the front of the house for a thunderous live show. All thanks & praise to spurrs for another excellent capture. If you like this ROIO, you need to go buy DR's 2020 live release Okay Wow (cover above, right) or Fully Plugged In. If you're curious about DR's latest studio LP, it's called La Luna (cover at right). Some people are calling it a masterpiece...

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The Sadies - Jersey City, N.J. 2018 (sbd)

WFMU Live Concert

Monty Hall

Jersey City, N.J.

June 29, 2018

soundboard recording from HD video rip (quality: Ex-)

   

R.I.P. Dallas Good (guitarist / vocalist)

01 The First Five Minutes

02 Cheat

03 So Much Blood

04 Another Year Again

05 Cut Corners

06 Rat Creek

07 Leave Me Alone

08 Tell Her What I Said

09 God Bless the Infidels

10 Uncle Larry's Breakdown 

11 Riverview Fog

12 Through Strange Eyes

13 The Story's Often Told

14 Ten More Songs

15 Anna Leigh

16 Sunset to Dawn

17 The Introduction + Wearin' 

     That Loved On Look (E. Presley)

18 band intros + Pretty Polly (trad.)

19 Another Season Again

20 Story 19

21 Ridge Runner Reel

Watch the entire pro-shot concert HERE

22 Tiger Tiger

23 pre-encore applause, banter

24 Lay Down Your Arms

25 Mother of Earth (Gun Club cover) 

26 instrumental [title unknown]

27 The Trial

28 Strange Birds

29 Sixteen Mile Creek

30 A House Is Not a Motel

     (Arthur Lee & Love cover)

31 Tell Her Lies & Feed Her Candy

     (Charlie Walker cover)

32 pre-encore applause

33 Wasn't Born to Follow (The Byrds cover)

34 Old Moss Back (Jim Oertling cover)

 

WFMU says: Since their formation in 1994, Toronto's Sadies have developed, even perfected, a style of music that is uniquely their own. Possessing a deep fondness and reverence for the best of country, bluegrass and blues (CBGB!), they are equally informed and influenced by everything from 60s garage and psychedelic rock (Pebbles, Nuggets, et al) to surf instrumentals and punk rock. The Sadies have consistently pushed themselves forward into new areas while refining their approach to what they do - creating a constantly evolving catalogue of work and picking up legions of new converts with each successive tour. Their concerts, legendary since their earliest days have only gotten better over the years. Though the three-hour marathons of yore may happen less frequently, The Sadies have always prided themselves on a well-paced live show, starting off strong and gradually building things up to fever pitch then bringing it back home (often with a nice surprise or two along the way), before sending everyone home with a smile on their face. The live experience has it all, blistering instrumentals, country rave-ups, super-human guitar interplay and mind blowing psychedelic expeditions that can end up anywhere.

   

ROB SEZ: BIG-TIME THANKS to WFMU for arranging the show, recording, and sharing. Check out The Sadies most recent long-player: Colder Streams (AllMusic rating = 4.5 stars out of 5; cover art above). And: what a shame about Dallas Good. He's gone WAY too soon...

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Dave Gregory (former XTC) – Remoulds I and II

Phase-Corrected Version, Repost

DG covers classic songs from the 1960s & '70s

soundboard recordings (quality: Ex-)
 

Dave recorded these for himself and friends.
Now you can hear his labors of love.

ROB SEZ: Dave Gregory is best known as the long-time lead guitarist for XTC. Since his departure from that group in 1999, he’s kept himself busy doing production and session work in the UK, and playing occasional gigs. Gregory has been recording music at home since 1973. In 1997 and '98, he put together a collection of covers entitled Remoulds. As you’ll hear, they are his own re-creations of classic 1960s and 70s pop and rock songs, with some original instrumentals included in the second collection. Gregory describes the tracks on Remoulds as "home-baked forgeries," created for his own amusement.

THANK YOU Hans de Vente for sharing, and thank you Failsafe for phase correcting & remastering Remoulds I
 

Dave plays live, 2013   
Simon Hogg photo

REMOULDS I

01. Those Were the Days (Cream)
02. 36-24-36 (The Shadows)
03. Scarlet O'Hara (Jet Harris)
04. The Cruel Sea (The Dakotas)
05. Pretty Flamingo (Manfred Mann)
06. I Feel Free (Cream)
07. Tin Soldier (Small Faces)
08. Wait Until Tomorrow (Jimi Hendrix)
09. Fresh Garbage (Spirit)
10. MacArthur Park (Jimmy Webb)
11. Diamond Hard Blue Apples 
      of the Moon (The Nice)
12. And How Am I to Know (Ars Nova)
13. Classical Gas (Mason Williams)
14. All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
15. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
16. Happy Freuds (The Nice)
17. Sabre Dance (Love Sculpture)
18. Our Prayer (Beach Boys)
19. Because (The Beatles)
20. Little Bit of Love (Free)
21. Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Group)

Dave, 'Dukes of the S' session

22. Love Comes to Everyone (George Harrison)

REMOULDS II

01. I'm Not Like Everybody Else (The Kinks)
02. Say You Don't Mind (Denny Laine)
03. Gypsy Eyes (Jimi Hendrix)
04. I Am the Walrus (The Beatles)
05. S.W.L.A.B.R. (Cream)
06. Blue Orpheus (Todd Rundgren)
07. Pictures of Lily (The Who)
08. My White Bicycle (Tomorrow)
09. Our Love Was (The Who)
10. Little Girl (Syndicate of Sound)
11. I See You (The Byrds)
12. Forget All About It (NazZ)
13. Love Story (Jethro Tull)
14. Rubber Balloons*
15. Mr. Gregory Goes Uptown*
16. Morsall Mood #2*
17. Carry the Torch*
18. Call It Witchcraft*
19. Gloria Monday*
20. I Write to the Trees*

All smiles (bottom right) with XTC

21. Starfish Tango*
22. Third Stone from the Sun  
        (Jimi Hendrix)

 

*Dave Gregory original instrumental compositions 

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SOURCES: Although they’ve never seen an official release, Gregory distributed CD-R copies to acquaintances starting in the late 1990s (some versions have 1 or 2 tracks not included here). I’m indebted to Hans de Vente for sharing his. If you compare these to the listing at Dave’s own web site, you’ll see there are many additional songs in the second set I’m posting — presumably because they are more recent recordings and, perhaps, because Dave just hasn’t gotten around to updating that page…

READ A REVIEW of Dave Gregory’s Remoulds I at Bill Kopp’s Musoscribe. 

Learn more about Dave Gregory

& his music at his web site
  

Midlake - Austin, TX 2010 (VG++ aud)

Antone's

Austin, TX

June 4, 2010

audience recording (sound quality: VG++; excellent recording made with raised mics)

01 intro

MIDLAKE: mesmerizing the crowd in 2010

02 Winter Dies

03 Children of the Grounds

04 Young Bride

05 Van Occupanther

06 The Horn

07 Rulers, Ruling All Things 

08 Fortune 

09 Jam

10 Roscoe

11 Bandits 

12 Acts of Man

13 Core of Nature

14 band intros

15 Head Home 

16 encore

17 Branches

ROB SEZ:

Midlake's most recent LP:
For the Sake of Bethel Woods

 I'm late to the party with Midlake. But now that I've heard 'em, I can't quit 'em. Imagine if Richard Thompson-era Fairport Convention* and The Band had a baby, and that baby boy (band) was born in Texas. The musical product of such a union would probably sound something like Midlake: melodic folk-rock with a modestly British sensibility, nature-focused song lyrics, and great musicianship. Why the heck didn't I hear about 'em earlier? I had a tough time finding an ROIO to share with you. But once I stumbled upon Lee Hart's superb recording of this home state show in 2010 — in front of an adoring crowd, I didn't have to look any further. If you have any other Midlake recordings of similar quality to share, please get in touch.

*Not Fairport Convention, you say? OK, try Fotheringay or Pentangle.

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Marshall Crenshaw - Philadelphia, PA 1990 (sbd)

Chestnut Cabaret

Philadelphia, PA

Jan. 30, 1990 

   

soundboard recording (quality: Ex-; this sounds great!)

 

01 Valerie (Richard Thompson cover)

02 You Should've Been There

03 Mary Anne

04 Steel Strings (Peter Case cover)

05 band intros

06 Like a Vague Memory

07 Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me 

      (John Hiatt cover)

08 There She Goes Again

09 On the Run

10 Love's Made a Fool of You

      (Bobby Fuller cover)

11 This Is Easy

12 Calling Out for Love (at Crying Time)*

13 Let Her Dance

14 She Hates to Go Home

15 Whenever You're On My Mind

16 Twine Time - instrumental

      (Alvin Cash & The Crawlers cover)

17 (You're My) Favorite Waste of Time

18 Cynical Girl

19 Rockin' Around In NYC

20 Heartbreak Time

      (G. Burtnik lead vocal)

MC's new archival release

21 Someday, Someway

22 I Can See for Miles (The Who cover)

23 Somebody Crying

  

*track 12: middle cut — fades out, then back in 

Musicians:

Marshall Crenshaw: guitar, vocals

Glen Burtnik: guitar, keyboards

Graham Maby: bass, backing vocals

Kenny Aronoff: drums

ROB SEZ: I can't think of a better way to wrap up this run of Marshall Crenshaw offerings fron the 1980s than with this rocking, fab-sounding live set from the first month of the new decade. I have a sentimental preference for MC's original rhythm section, including brother Robert on drums, but I can't find any fault here: Kenny Aronoff on drums and Graham Maby on bass. I've got plenty of other MC recordings in my archive from the '90s onward, but they'll have to wait. I want to get on with sharing a pair of newly-unearthed dB's shows plus lesser-known artists that you need to hear. Keep an eye out for re-releases of more classic MC recordings, now that he's reclaimed rights to his earlier catalog. His stellar debut was just re-released on Yep Roc in a remastered & expanded edition. HUGE THANKS to julsay for sharing the original lossless files, which had a few issues related to track splitting and too much variability in volume. I didn't mess with the basic sound, just re-split the tracks, added fade-ins and -outs where needed, and adjusted the levels to make it a smoother listening experience. Please enjoy.  

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