Yo La Tengo with Alex Chilton - Hoboken, NJ 2007

15th Anniversary Repost

 

Maxwell’s, Hoboken, N.J.
December 8, 2007
Hanukkah, night 5

  

soundboard-audience matrix (sound quality: VG++ to Ex-)  

DISC 1

01 Barnaby, Hardly Working
02 Shaker
03 Stockholm Syndrome
04 Tears Are In Your Eyes
05 Season of the Shark
06 Don’t Say a Word (Hot Chicken #2) 
07 Song for Mahlia
08 talking
09 The River of Water
10 talking
11 Sometime In the Morning (King/Goffin) 
12 talking
13 E.T.I. (Blue Oyster Cult)

  

?!NO KIDDING?! Alex Chilton — night 5 of Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah celebration in 2007
photo by Jacob Blickenstaff 

Gotta extinguish the menorah...

DISC 2

01 Mr. Tough
02 Big Day Coming
03 Watch Out for Me, Ronnie
04 The Story of Yo La Tengo
05 encore break – talking

    *(encore)* with Alex Chilton on guitar & vocals 

06 I’ve Had It (Bell-Notes)
07 The Oogum Boogum Song (B. Wood)
08 Let Me Get Close to You (King/Goffin)
09 Femme Fatale (Velvet Underground)
10 Baby Strange (T-Rex)
11 Hey Little Child (Alex Chilton)
12 Government Center (Modern Lovers)

ROB SEZ: 15-year anniversary repost. Gotta love the surprise 7-song encore set by Mr. Alex Chilton. Whether or not you observe Hanukkah — or any other religious holiday this time of year, I do hope you'll enjoy this one. Although there's no sample to audition, you can trust me: it sounds great. The sharer says, "Thanks to Yo La Tengo, sound guy Mark Luecke, the great folks at Maxwell’s, and thir13en!"

IRA SEZ: Here's what Yo La Tengo lead dude Ira Kaplan said in his Hanukkah diary:

   

Alex Chilton was willing to come back for a second night of special guesthood, and we were thrilled to have him. We reprised “Femme Fatale,” “Let Me Get Close to You” and “Hey! Little Child” from Friday night, and worked up Brenton Wood’s “Oogum Boogum,” (as heard on Alex’s Set cd), an old Cossacks favorite, the Modern Lovers’ “Government Center,” longtime staple of Big Star’s repertoire T.Rex’s “Baby Strange,” and went back to Alex’s Like Flies on Sherbert record for the Bell Notes’ “I’ve Had It.” We even taught him a few words of Hebrew.

  
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Replacements (with Alex Chilton) - Minneapolis, MN 1985

Uptown Bar
Minneapolis, MN 
Jan. 10, 1985
   
audience recording (VG; best available source for this show)

**Alex Chilton sings on several encores**

01 intro

02 Nowhere Is My Home

03 noodling

04 Hear You Been to College / 
     Color Me Impressed 

05 noodling

06 I'm In Love With A Girl (Big Star cover)

07 noodling

08 I Can't Hardly Wait

09 noodling

10 I Will Dare

11 noodling

12 Favorite Thing

13 Polly Wolly Doodle / 
     Waltzing Matilda

14 September Gurls (Big Star cover)

15 Time Is Tight (aborted) (Booker T cover)

16 Baby Strange (T-Rex cover)

17 noodling

18 Black Diamond (Kiss cover)

19 Lookin' for Ya

20 When the Lights Are Out

21 noodling

22 Heart of Stone (Rolling Stones cover) 

23 Left In The Dark (The Vertibrats cover)

24 Answering Machine

25 noodling

26 Left of the Dial

27 banter "Alex Chilton to the Stage, please"

28 Gary's Got a Boner

29 tuning

30 Go

31 If I Only Had a Brain

32 Kansas City Star (Roger Miller cover)

33 noodling

34 Yeah Yeah (The Revillos cover)

35 noodling

36 Takin' Care of Business (BTO cover)

*37 Help Me Rhonda (Beach Boys cover) > 
      Little GTO (Jan & Dean cover)

*38 Can't Get Enough of Your Love (aborted)

*39 Can't Get Enough of Your Love (Bad Company cover) 

*40 I'll Be There

41 Hitchin' a Ride (Vanity Fare cover)

*featuring Mr. Alex Chilton

ROB SEZ: It's been too long since I've posted anything featuring the late, great Alex Chilton. A Replacements show with LX on several encores is a natural combo. 'Mats fans cannot forget the indelible "Alex Chilton", one of the band's signature songs. There are a couple of versions of this show floating around. This one is complete, and features the best sound quality available. HUGE THANKS to the Teddy Ballgame Archive and whoever shared this version of it.

  
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Alex Chilton, Chris Stamey, Tav Falco - Austin, TX 1979 (aud)

Rome Inn
Austin, TX
March 22 + 23, 1979   

audience recording (sound quality range: VG- to VG; probably from a multi-generation tape source; a decent-sounding recording that I EQ'd to make more listenable)

NIGHT 1: Thursday, March 22 (with Chris Stamey)
  
01 Little Whores Boogie

Tav Falco & Alex Chilton, Memphis, 1980

(photo by BuZ blur via Flickr)

02 Hanky Panky (The Raindrops) 
03 Come On Now (The Kinks)
04 Dateless Night (Panther Burns)
05 Sheila (Tommy Roe)
06 Throw Your Mask Away
07 Oh, Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)
08 I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down 
     (Ann Peebles)
09 Wild Wild Women (Johnny Carroll)
10 Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) 
     [Dick Holler]
11 Ubangi Stomp (Warren Smith)
12 Rock Therapy (Milton Subotsky)
13 Baby Let's Play House (Arthur Gunter)
14 Girl After Girl (Troy Shondell)
15 Mona (Bo Diddley)
16 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Tiny Bradshaw)
17 I'm All Right (Bo Diddley)
18 Red River Rock (Johnny and the Hurricanes)
19 Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix Experience)

Chris Stamey (left) & LX at CBGB in 1977

20 (unknown instrumental)
21 Oh, Pretty Woman (Orbison)
22 Stay (Maurice Williams & 
     The Zodiacs) 
23 California Sun (Joe Jones)
24 Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
25 Cocaine (J.J. Cale)
26 I Want You, I Need You, I Love You 
     (Elvis Presley)
27 Oh, Pretty Woman
28 Let's Dance (Chris Montez)
29 Riding Through the Reich 
     (Hedy West)
30 Oh, Pretty Woman

NIGHT 2: Friday, March 23 (without Chris)
  

Tav and LX: probably plotting more musical mayhem

01 Dateless Nite (Panther Burns)
02 Groovy Kind of Love 
     (The Mindbenders)
03 Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love) 
     [Dick Holler]
04 Johnny Too Bad (The Slickers)
05 Hook or Crook
06 California Sun (Joe Jones)
07 I'll Never Find Another You 
     (The Seeker) 
08 You Won't Do That to Me
09 Down South Boogie (Golden Rules)
10 Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)
11 Hanky Panky (The Raindrops)
12 Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
13 Come on Now (The Kinks)
14 On the Road Again
15 Baron of Love, Part II
16 'Til the End of the Day (The Kinks)
16b (tuning, horsing around)
17 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 
     (Rolling Stones)
18 Bertha Lou (Clint Miller)
19 Tramp (Lowell Fulson)
20 Chances Are
21 Rock Hard
22 Bangkok
23 The Rubber Room (Porter Wagoner)  
24 Girl After Girl (Troy Shondell)
25 My Rival
26 Blind Man

  

Musicians:

Alex Chilton - vocals, guitar

Chris Stamey - bass (1st night only)

Tav Falco - guitar, vocals

Ross Johnson - drums
  
ROB SEZ:  Apparently, I've been holding out on you Alex & Chris fans. "Apparently" because I only recently discovered I actually HAD this, which is one of the earliest known recordings of Tav Falco and Alex sharing a stage. As received, I thought the original files needed some help, so I added light compression, modest eq, and one pass of noise reduction. Worry not: it's still a raw, loony, and sprawling mess of a performance. Several years ago, I wrote about this fantastically odd musical moment that brought Alex & Chris together for one night in Texas (it's HERE; just scroll down to 1979 to read about it. If you want to find out why Chris played the first night but not the second, just follow the link.) This share is sourced from the "Live Down South" Vols. 1 & 2 bootleg. After initial uncertainty regarding the venue, an anonymous reader chimed in with a link to the gig poster that removes all doubt: The Rome Inn is where these performances went down.  PLEASE ENJOY!

  
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Alex Chilton - One Weekend in 1986 (rare!)

Alex Chilton Trio 
CBGB
New York, N.Y.
April 4, 1986
  
audience recording (sound quality: VG+; McKenzie source)
  

01 stage entrance, mix adjustment

02 Sick and Tired

03 No Sex

04 Bangkok

05 In the Street

06 Honkin' Down 
     the Highway 

07 Ubangi Stomp

08 Tee Ni Nee Ni Nu

09 B-A-B-Y

10 Rock Hard

11 Gavotte

12 Nobody's Fool

13 Let Me Get Close to You

14 Underclass

15 Lost My Job

16 tuning, band intros

17 Shake It

18 audience, return to stage

19 When My Baby's Beside Me

20 No More the Moon Shines on Lorena

Alex with Ron Easley (left) on bass at Maxwell's
photo courtesy of Jeff C. @ the fab Shake Some Action!

ROB SEZ: Here's another set of rare Alex Chilton recordings for your listening pleasure, courtesy of Tom at The McKenzie Tapes (an amazing treasure trove of live recordings from the mid-1980s and early 1990s, in & around NYC.). Imagine you were in the NYC area 34 years ago and went to hear Alex Chilton one night, and after crossing the river, heard him again the next night. To my knowledge, this is the first online sharing of these shows in lossless quality. Jeff at Shake Some Action! noted this recording could be from the late John R., a McKenzie Tapes contributor.

Maxwell's
Hoboken, N.J. 
April 5, 1986
  
audience recording (sound quality: VG; McKenzie source)

  

01 stage entrance, tuning
02 Margie (Eddie Cantor)
03 I’m Gonna Make You Mine (Lou Christie)  
04 Boogie Shoes (KC & The Sunshine Band)
05 B-A-B-Y (Carla Thomas)
06 Thank You John (Willie Tee)
07 Sick and Tired (Chris Kenner)
08 September Gurls
09 Shake It
10 Tina the Go-Go Queen (Sir Mack Rice)
11 Stuff
12 Honkin’ Down the Highway (Beach Boys)
13 Save Your Love for Me (Buddy Johnson)
14 Youngblood (The Coasters)
15 Battle of Earl K Long (Ernie Barton)
16 The Letter (Box Tops)
17 Fields of Clover (Box Tops)
18 Nobody’s Fool (Dan Penn)
19 Past, Present, and Future (Shangri-Las)
20 No Sex
21 Te Ni Nee Ni Nu (Slim Harpo)
22 Lonely Weekends (Charlie Rich)
23 Solar System (Beach Boys)
24 The World We Knew 1st attempt (Frank Sinatra) 
25 The World We Knew 2nd attempt
26 Underclass
27 return to stage, tuning, banter
28 Bangkok
   
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Big Star Third - Live in London 2012 with Ray Davies

LOSSLESS REPOST

  
Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre

London, UK

May 28, 2012

    
audience recording (VG++; very clear house sound, transferred from master tape)

  

Ray Davies takes the mic while Chris plays & directs, London, May 2012
photo by nick hider via Flickr

REPERCUSSION: Chris Stamey played bass and collaborated in other ways with Alex Chilton in the late 1970s. From 2010 to 2018, Chris organized and led live performances of Big Star’s Third. Mitch Easter was one of the players in the core ensemble. [Go to the page at this blog to discover the many connections between Alex, Chris and The dB's].
  
MASSIVE THANKS to Pike1957 for recording, mastering and sharing this historic show. Pike1957 says, "This recording captures a fully-orchestrated performance of Big Star's legendary third album (aka Sister Lovers) and other gems from the band’s timeless catalogue, featuring Charles Cleaver, Mitch Easter (Let’s Active), Jody Stephens (Big Star), Chris Stamey (The dB’s), and Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, Big Star). Special guests: Jon Auer (The Posies, Big Star), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), John Bramwell (I Am Kloot), Sharon Van Etten, Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris, Django Haskins (The Old Ceremony), Robyn Hitchcock, Ira Kaplan (Yo La Tengo), Sondre Lerche, Mike Mills (R.E.M.), Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), and others."

  
SETLIST (lead vocalists for each song noted in parens): 
  
Part I

01 - intro

02 - Nature Boy (John Bramwell)

03 - announcement

04 - Kizza Me (Mitch Easter)

05 - O Dana (Ira Kaplan)

06 - For You (Jody Stephens)

07 - Nightime (Alexis Taylor)

08 - Jesus Christ (Mike Mills)

09 - Big Black Car (Jon Auer)

10 - Take Care (Ira Kaplan)

11 - Stroke It Noel (Norman Blake)

12 - Femme Fatale (Sondre Lerche)

13 - Downs (Robyn Hitchcock) [Mike Mills on basketball!]

14 - Dream Lover (Sharon Van Etten)

15 - announcement

16 - Blue Moon (Jody Stephens)

17 - Holocaust (Django Haskins)

18 - You Can't Have Me (Sharon Van Etten)

19 - Kanga Roo (Brett Harris)

21 - Thank You Friends (Jody, Jon, Ken Stringfellow & others)

Part II

22 - intro

23 - I'm In Love With a Girl (Sondre Lerche)

24 - Thirteen (Skylar Gudasz, Brett Harris & more)

25 - Give Me Another Chance (Norman Blake)

26 - I Am the Cosmos [Chris Bell cover] (Jon Auer)

27 - There Was a Light (Ken Stringfellow)

28 - You And Your Sister (Brett Harris)

29 - Daisy Glaze (Ken Stringfellow)

30 - The EMI Song (Smile With Me) (Ira Kaplan)

31 - The Ballad of El Goodo (Sondre Lerche)

32 - September Gurls (Mike Mills)

33 - Ray Davies intro

34 - Til the End of the Day [Kinks cover] (Ray Davies)

35 - Ray Davies chat

36 - The Letter (Ray Davies)

37 - audience

encore:

38 - Back of a Car (Jon Auer)

  
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Part I

Part 2

That's Mitch Easter, second from left
photo by The Guardian

The Guardian published an excellent, in-depth preview of the show, quoting Chris, Mitch and many others involved in the project. Recommended, and it's HERE. Also a great Q&A with Chris about Alex Chilton from Uncut is HERE at the Big Star Third site.    

Enjoy 3 pro-shot videos by Creato Destructo from a  Big Star Third Live performance in 2010 Kanga Roo
  

Holocaust

Big Black Car (link to Vimeo)