Big Star - London 2008-08-28 (aud VG+)

LOSSLESS REPOST

 

Shepherd’s Bush Empire

London, England

August 28, 2008

   
audience recording (sound quality VG; crowd noise is present, but this is a very good quality recording, from the master)

TREMENDOUS THANKS to Pike1957 for recording, sharing and recently re-seeding this by request

Notes: There's an alternate recording of this show with inferior sound, so this may be an upgrade for some of you. The setlist features several songs from 2005's In Space, Big  Star's final album of new material.

  

01 - intro

02 - In the Street
03 - Don't Lie To Me
04 - When My Baby's Beside Me
05 - I Am the Cosmos
06 - Ballad of El Goodo
07 - Back of a Car
08 - Way Out West
09 - Till the End of the Day (Kinks cover)
10 - Pomp & Circumstance #4 (from Elgar's 'Enigma Variations')
11 - Daisy Glaze
12 - Thirteen
13 - Baby Strange
14 - For You
15 - Feel
  
16 - September Gurls
17 - Thank You Friends
18 - Slut (Todd Rundgren cover)
19 - Hung Up With Summer
20 - February's Quiet
21 - Lady Sweet
22 - Patti Girl
23 - band intros
24 - Mine Exclusively
25 - Wouldn't It Be Nice (Beach Boys cover)

  

TT: 1:31:06

 

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Big  Star:

Jody Stephens – drums, vocals

Alex Chilton – vocals, rhythm guitar

Jon Auer – lead guitar, vocals

Ken Stringfellow – bass, vocals

Alex Chilton - Acme Under, NYC 1998

LOSSLESS REPOST - now in flac

 

Acme Underground
New York, NY
May 1, 1998

audience recording (sound quality VG+; transfer from DAT master; just the right amount of crowd noise so you get the ambiance)

 

Children by the millions scream for him.

ROB SEZ: Alex is ON here, enjoying himself, and sounding jazzed to be playing in his old stomping grounds. If you own just one LX solo boot, this is the one to have. ENJOY!

 

MEGA THANKS to NYLifer for taping and sharing, Freddie Katz for live sound mixing, and to Craig62 for re-sharing.

Disc 1 (first set)

01 audience chatter

02 Maybelline

03 (false start)

04 I Don't Know Why I Love You, But I Do

05 (chat)

06 Alligator Man

07 B-A-B-Y

08 Margie

09 Got a Lot of Living to Do

10 Il Rebelle

11 Little GTO

12 Purple Haze

13 (false start)

14 When My Baby's Beside Me

15 I Will Turn Your Money Green

16 (chat)

17 (false start)

18 Witchcraft

19 What's Your Sign Girl

20 Take It Off

21 Thank You John

22 Bangkok

Disc 2 (second set)

01 Lipstick Traces

02 Don't Believe That You 
     Love Me No More (Hush Your Mouth)

03 Don't Stop

04 Hide and Seek

05 Sick and Tired

06 I've Never Found 

     a Girl

07 (chat)

08 In the Street

09 (chat)

10 Thing For You

11 (chat)

12 Soul Deep

13 My Baby Just 

     Cares For Me

14 The Oogum 

     Boogum Song

15 (audience)

16 There Will Never 

     Be Another You 

17 Single Again

18 Lies 

19 (chat)

20 Devil Girl

21 New Girl In School

22 (chat)

23 You've Got a Booger 
     Bear Under There

24 I Wish You Would

25 (band intro)

26 Goodnight My Love

27 (crowd)

28 The Hucklebuck

29 (crowd)

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Musicians:

Alex Chilton - vocals, guitar

Ron Easley - bass

Richard Dworkin - drums

Plenty more where this came from; use the Artists/Groups links at right.
  

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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