Honeydogs - 'The Current' live sessions 2011-2016

‘The Current’ live sessions 2011-2016

Minnesota Public Radio

St. Paul, MN

The Honeydogs: definitely NOT your average pop band. Hear ye! 

webstream recordings (sound quality VG++ to Ex-)

01 Always a Long Time

02 Broke It, Buy It

03 Aubben

04 What Comes After

05 Devices

06 Vermillion Billows

     (Shouldn't Take It So Hard) 

07 Sandstorm

08 interview

09 I'm Looking Through You

10 Dig a Pony

11 Dear Prudence

NOTES:

01-04 = “The Current” live session Feb. 29, 2012

05-08 = “The Current” live session May 16, 2016

09-11 = “The Current” live session Dec. 2, 2011

(all of the above recorded at MPR Studios, St. Paul, MN)

Sound Bites Concert

McNally Smith College 

St. Paul, MN

Feb. 16, 2012

soundboard recording

     (quality Ex-) 

01 Particles or Waves

02 Aubben

03 Always a Long Time

04 Test Tube Kid

05 Rumor Has It

06 Broke It, Buy It

07 What Comes After

08 Stonewall

09 I Miss You

10 Levers, Pulleys and Pumps

11 Fighting Weight

ROB SEZ: Want to fall in love with the music of a band you've (probably) never heard of? Then I strongly urge you to check out The Honeydogs. Adam Levy & Co. make catchy-but-smart pop, with lyrics you can respect in the morning. One of my ultimate tests of a great band is whether they can pull off Beatles covers and not embarrass themselves — which is exactly what Honeydogs pull off (times 3) in one of the live sessions from "The Current". (By the way, Haper compiled some of these goodies and others a few years ago at his Popfair blog; collect 'em all). Here's a little YouTube test drive for your enjoyment:

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ASH Tuesday post #44.

Learn more about the music of The Honeydogs at Wikipedia, AllMusic and the band's official site. 

20/20 – Early Demos + Live @ Madame Wong’s ’78

home demos

1978-1979

various dates & locations

home recordings (sound quality range GD+ to VG+; sound quality varies due to variations across six sets of recordings)

    

01 Giving It All Away (demo)

02 Brainwashed (demo)

03 Going Up With My Girl (demo)

04 Backyard Guys (demo)

05 I Am a Picture (demo)

06 Leaving Your World Behind 

     (demo) 

07 I Fall Out (demo)

08 Let's Go (demo)

09 Out of This Time (demo)

10 World of Fools (demo)

11 I Need Somebody (demo)

12 Drive (demo)

13 Screaming (demo)

14 She's an Obsession (demo)

15 Don't Stop Me Now (demo)

16 That Girl Was Yesterday (demo) 

17 This Time (demo)

18 Hold My Head (demo)

19 TV Girls (demo)

20 Yellow Pills (demo)

21 Cheri (demo)

22 Remember the Lightning (demo)

23 Remember the Lightning (demo 2)

24 Jet Lag (demo)

25 Jet Lag (demo 2)

26 Action Now (demo)

27 Tonight We Fly (demo) 

28 Tell Me Why (demo)

29 Let's Go (demo 2)

30 Backyard Guys (demo 2)

31 Out of This Time (demo 2)

32 TV Girls (demo 2)

Madame Wong’s
Chinatown
Los Angeles, CA
1978

audience recording (sound quality VG-; not exactly “great”, but certainly not bad for 1978; some distortion in the vocals, but overall this is very listenable)

01 I Need Somebody

02 Backyard Guys

03 Remember the Lightning 

04 This Time

05 Out of the Time

06 Going Up With My Girl

07 Brainwashed

08 Giving It All

20/20 - the original trio

09 Saturday's Child*

10 Slow Down*

11 Anytime at All*

20/20:

Steve Allen - guitar, vocals

Ron Flynt - bass, vocals

Mike Gallo - drums

*Phil Seymour joins the band for encore songs 

This is 20/20's complete set. The exact date might be Nov. 5, 1978, a show at which 20/20 shared the bill with The Last. The original sharer said: “Band as three-piece before being signed to Portrait Records. This is when the band was an unfiltered, terrific unit.”

MEGA THANKS to h1w1p & PowerPopTart for sharing.

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ASH Tuesday post #43.

Tricky Problem with Music Samples

In case anyone out there is wondering:
 

Google is degrading the ability of all Google sites (including Blogger) to interact with any and all Flash-related code. Unfortunately, this includes the gadget I've been using to add samples to a lot of the posts on the blog.

For now, my Chrome browser seems to go back & forth: one day the sample player appears & plays music; then after a day or two, it disappears.

I checked Safari, and the gadget seems to work fine there. Firefox? I couldn't even get the thing to work at all on my Mac. Not sure about any other browsers.

This is not the first time I've had probs with Blogger and getting a music player to work. I'll see what I can do to fix it, but it's very tedious to re-load and re-boot all the samples for every post. If it comes to that, I might just have to quit fooling with samples altogether.
We'll see... 

Psychedlic Furs - Roslyn, NY 1981 & 1982

My Father's Place

Roslyn, N.Y.

WLIR-FM broadcast 

July 4, 1981

FM capture (sound quality VG+; 

probably 2nd-generation tape source)

01 Into You Like a Train

02 Soap Commercial

03 She Is Mine

04 Mr. Jones

05 So Run Down

06 Dumb Waiters*

07 Pretty in Pink

08 It Goes On

09 Sister Europe

10 Imitation of Christ

11 All of This and Nothing

12 India

13 Pulse

14 We Love You

*In track 06, there's a brief tape glitch at 0:33

TT: 55 mins.

Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs: all photos (except first) are from 
a live show in Leicester, UK in 1982 — by thomasoldfield via Flickr

Psychedelic Furs:

Richard Butler - vocals  

Tim Butler - bass 

Duncan Kilburn - sax 

Vince Ely - drums

Roger Morris - guitars

John Ashton - guitars

This recording is is LDB Vintage Series #044; MEGA THANKS to the taper & metro cubo for sharing!

My Father's Place

Roslyn, N.Y.

WLIR-FM broadcast 

October 24, 1982

FM capture (sound quality VG++; master tape source from re-broadcast)

01 President Gas

02 Merry-Go-Round

03 Angels (Only You & I)

04 No Easy Street

05 Run and Run

06 Love My Way

07 Danger

08 Goodbye

09 Pretty In Pink

10 Sister Europe

11 Sleep Comes Down*

12 Into You Like a Train

13 Forever Now 

14 India

*In track 11, there's a quick fade in & out at 1:19 due to the tape flip

TT: 66 mins.

Psychedelic Furs:

Richard Butler - vocals

John Ashton - guitar

Gary Windo - sax

Tim Butler - bass

Vince Ely - drums

This was the Psychedelic Furs’ first tour after Duncan Kilburn & Roger Morris left the band. The group was touring behind their third album, Forever Now.

The Stonecutter Collection, Vol. 110; SINCERE THANKS to the taper & sharer. 

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Learn more about the music of Psychedelic Furs at the band's official site, FB page and Wikipedia. The band will tour the U.S. in July & August 2016...