Rain Parade - Madison, WI 1984 & London 1985

Bunky’s

Madison, WI

Nov. 8, 1984

NOTE: 2 separate shows, 2 separate downloads

If you like these and ask nicely, I might post some more later…

audience recording (sound quality VG; a club show, so of course you can hear audience chatter, but not ruinously so)

Rain  Parade: contemplating what they've done to your mind...

SPECIAL THANKS to gomonkeygo at The New Disease, where I first snagged these...

 

01 You Are My Friend

02 One and a Half Hours Ago

03 Prisoners
04 On the Way Down 

05 Kaleidoscope 

06 Blue

07 Don't Feel Bad

08 Sad Eyes Kill

09 No Easy Way Down 

10 This Can't Be Today

11 Broken Horse

12 Crashing Dream 

13 Ain't That Nothin’ (Television cover)

MP3@320

Riverside Studios

Hammersmith

London, UK

May 19, 1985

soundboard recording (quality Ex--; quite nice sound)

01 You Are My Friend

02 This Can't Be Today

03 Blue

04 Prisoners

05 Broken Horse

06 Kaleidoscope

07 Saturday's Asylum

08 Don't Feel Bad

09 What She's Done to Your Mind

10 No Easy Way Down

11 Night Shade

12 When You Dance (Neil Young cover)

MP3@320

Rain  Parade:

Will Glenn - keyboards
Mark Marcum – drums

Matt Piucci - guitar, vocals
Steven Roback - bass, vocals
John Thoman – guitar, vocals

Learn more about the music of Rain  Parade at Wikipedia or AllMusic … and read this great, extensive interview with Matt Piucci and other leaders of the “Paisley Underground”

   

Joe Jackson Band - Live at The Beeb 1980

Live at The Beeb

Dec. 1979 & Oct. 1980

• first set:     Portsmouth, UK, Dec. 14, 1979

• second set: Hammersmith Palais, London, Oct. 27, 1980

BBC broadcasts (sound quality Ex--) The first set kinda spoils you for the second. Tracks 1-8 have the better sound, but both performances are great.

The Joe  Jackson Band formed in the late 1970s, recorded 3 albums, toured a lot, and broke up. In 2002, they reunited and recorded a new album, released in 2003. Not bad!

ROB SEZ: If you poke around the blog a bit, you'll see I have a fondness for alt-pop from the UK (classic & classy stuff only, of course!). So here's another one I like a lot, at least Joe's early days.

01 Look Sharp

02 Friday

03 Geraldine and John

04 Kinda Kute

05 The Harder They Come (Jimmy Cliff cover)

06 Pretty Boys

Joe Jackson: reading it in the Sunday Papers...

07 Don't Wanna Be Like That

08 I'm the Man

   
09 Intro

10 I'm the Man

11 Biology

12 Beat Crazy

13 Look Sharp

14 Crime Don't Pay

15 Pretty Boys

16 On Your Radio

17 Friday

18 Is She Really Going Out With Him?

19 Don't Wanna Be Like That

20 Got the Time

#1-8 = Guildhall, Portsmouth, UK Dec. 14, 1979
#9-20 = Hammersmith Palais, London, Oct. 27, 1980
TT: 1 hour, 21 mins.

MP3@320

Joe  Jackson Band:

Joe  Jackson – vocals, keyboard

Graham Maby – bass, vocals

Gary Sanford – guitar, vocals

Dave Houghton – drums, vocals

Want more shows like this? Have a look here, here, here and here.

Learn more about the music of Joe  Jackson at his official site or this great fan site

 

Let's Active - Washington, D.C. 1985 (FM)

9:30 Club

Washington, DC

Feb. 9, 1985

FM capture via web stream (sound quality VG+)

MANIFOLD THANKS to fantom for pointing me to jat13's post of this show on the Internet and to jat13 for sharing.

The 9:30 Club exterior (old F Street locale) in Washington, DC
photo by Charles Crockett

Interior, The 9:30 Club today. photo by LaVan Anderson

01 Back of a Car (Big Star cover)

02 Room with a View

03 Ornamental

04 Leader of Men

05 Prey

06 Crows on a Phone Line

07 Ring True

08 Edge of the World

09 Co-Star

10 Easy Does

11 Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers cover)

12 Flags for Everything

13 Every Word Means No

14 Shakin' Street (MC5 cover)

15 Waters Part

16 Blue Line

17 I Won't Let It 'Appen Agen (Slade cover)

TT: 1 hour, 1 min., 54 secs.

MP3@320
Alt. Link 

Letch Actively:
Mick Ersatz – guitars, vocals

Faye Hunter – bass, vocals

Jay Peck – drums

Tim Lee – keyboards, guitar

 

100,000 hits! Congrats to the blog and its readers

100,000 hits and counting

You could say 100,000 is just a number. Yet it's a number that means something to me. It means there's enough interest in what the blog is about to keep the readership alive, even after The dB's public profile has dropped this many months after the new album and tour.

BIG-TIME THANKS to all who read and support the blog. More great music and other interesting stuff will appear here every Friday.

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Tele vision - New York City, December 1977

CBGB

New York, NY

December 28, 1976

audience recording (sound quality VG-; can’t really say the sound is great, but it certainly qualifies as "good." And this has the best sound quality of the shows I’ve heard from 1975-77. Note: this is a recently-shared, speed-corrected edition of this recording, so you might want to give it a try even if you have a previous version)

SINCERE APPRECIATION to SR, daniel, jokingman and stranger009 

TV men: Billy Ficca, Richard Lloyd, Tom Verlaine and Fred Smith photo by Roberta Bayley

REPERCUSSION: It’s probably not a stretch to say Chris Stamey’s life was changed when he went to New York City in 1977 to begin attending NYU and saw Tele vision and others in “the burgeoning CBGB’s rock scene.” Later that year, he connected with Tele vision guitarist Richard Lloyd and, with him, recorded the single “(I Thought) You Wanted to Know.” On the flip side was “If and When,” the first release ever credited to “Chris Stamey and The dB’s.” The following show gives you an idea of what Chris heard all those years ago…

SAMPLE: "Fire Engine (CBGB Dec. 1976)"

The young Chris Stamey, c. 1978
(photo by Stephanie Chernikowski) 

01 See No Evil
02 Poor Circulation
03 Prove It
04 Little Johnny Jewel
05 I Don't Care
06 Friction
07 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door
08 Satisfaction
09 Fire Engine
10 Venus
11 Elevation
12 O Mi Amore
13 Adventure
14 Kingdom Come
15 Careful*
16 Friction*
17 Marquee Moon* 

   *last 3 from CBGB, Dec. 29, 1976 show (Handmade Records boot “Last Time”)

MP3@320
Alt. Link 

Tele vision:

Tom Verlaine - guitar, vocals

Richard Lloyd - guitar

Fred Smith - bass

Billy Ficca - drums

Learn more about the music of Tele vision at AllMusic and/or THIS fab fan site

Parson Red Heads - Live Sessions 2008-2013

Live Sessions Collected

(various locations on the West coast)

2008-2013

REPERCUSSION:  Chris Stamey co-produced, mixed and played various instruments on The Parson Red Heads’ 2011 breakthrough album Yearling. Mitch Easter engineered and played guitar (and 12-string bass) on a couple of the tracks (see Blurt magazine’s story about the album and its recent re-release as a deluxe edition). The band also participated with Chris, Mitch and others in a Big Star Third live performance at last year’s SXSW festival in Austin, TX.

  

01 To the Sky (OPB, 2013)

02 Lost Again (OPB, 2013)

03 Beginning (Portland, 2011)

04 Burning Up the Sky (Daytrotter, 2012)

05 Got It All (Luxury Wafers, 2008)

06 Time Is Running Out (Luxury Wafers, 2008)

07 Peace In the Valley (OPB, 2009)

08 Punctual As Usual (OPB, 2009)

09 Long Way Back (Live Wire, 2012)

10 Surfer Girl (OPB, 2013, acapella + talking)

11 Small Change (OPB, 2013)

12 Times (OPB, 2013)

13 From Hank to Hendrix (OPB, 2009)

14 Mossback (MBE, 2008)

15 Got It All (MBE, 2008)

16 When You Love Somebody (Groupee, 2009)

17 Time Is Running Out (Groupee, 2009)

TT: 78 mins. 09 secs.

SOURCES: 
1, 2, 10-12 = Oregon Public Broadcasting live session 2013-09-25

3 = benefit show, Alberta Rose Theater, Portland, OR 2011-04-04

4 = Daytrotter session, 2012-01-24

5 & 6 = Luxury Wafers session, Chessvolt Studio, 2008

7, 8 & 13 = Oregon Public Broadcasting live session 2009-11-12

9 = Live Wire Radio, Portland, OR (Show #177) 2012

14 & 15 = Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW-FM, Santa Monica, CA 2008-01-11

16 & 17 = Groupee session, Feb. 2009

MP3@256

(new link - 2017)

The Parson Red Heads:

Sam Fowles – guitar, vocals
Evan Way – guitar, vocals
Brette Marie Way – drums, vocals
Charlie Hester – bass, vocals

The Parson Red Heads' brand new album is Orb Weaver

Meanwhile, all their independent releases are available in lossless digital downloads at the band's Bandcamp site
  
Learn more about the music of The Parson Red Heads at the band's web site, FB page or AllMusic