dB's - Cat's Cradle - Chapel Hill, NC 1981 (sbd)

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The dB's

Cat's Cradle

Chapel Hill, NC

Oct. 24, 1981

  
soundboard recording (NOTE: 24 tracks sbd.; 6 tracks at end are from the audience recording)
   

ABUNDANT THANKS to the taper, glenn s for the original share, and to dB’s Fan for sharing his soundboard recording.
       

photo by CarolinaTim via Flickr

DISC 1

01 (I Thought) You Wanted to Know

02 Bad Reputation

03 Dynamite        

04 Soul Kiss

05 Big Brown Eyes

06 I Feel Good (Today)

07 pH Factor

08 Ups and Downs

09 Storm Warning

10 The Fight

11 Excitement

12 Black and White

13 Big Time

14 Judy

DISC 2

01 Tomorrow Never Knows

02 The Summer Sun

03 I Walked With a Zombie (Roky Erikson cover)

04 Ask for Jill

05 Nothing Is Wrong

06 In Spain

07 We Were Happy There

08 Happenstance

09 Neverland

     **soundboard recording ends here; continues with audience recording**

10 Sweet Home Alabama (tease, Lynyrd Skynyrd cover)

11 If and When

12 Time Has Come Today (Chamber Bros. cover)

13 On the Brink (Sneakers song)

14 Valleydale jingle

15 96 Tears (end cut - ? & The Mysterians cover)

    

16 Death Garage (sbd. track from Oct. 23; was not played Oct. 24)   

photo by Chapel Hill magazine

WAV lossless files
       
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The dB’s:

Gene Holder – bass guitar

Peter Holsapple – guitar, vocals, keyboard

Will Rigby – drums, backing vocals

Chris Stamey – guitar, vocals  

     

Halloween Show, Irving Plaza, NYC 1978

The dB’s

Club 57, Irving Plaza

New York, NY

Oct. 27, 1978

 

Peter Holsapple’s first live performance with The dB’s

The dB’s performed as part of a four-act

“Halloween at Club 57” show, headlined by The Fleshtones.

audience recording (sound quality GD+; much more listenable than it would’ve been otherwise, thanks to Zippy’s efforts!) 

Were they trying to scare everyone away?!?

MEGA THANKS to dB's Fan for making this historic show available.  

Highlight: The earliest-known dB’s live show to be recorded anywhere, anytime. Fair warning: The sound quality on this one is not up to the blog's usual standards. Its historic interest merits this post, but not everyone will want to bother. That being said, Zippy did a great job making it listenable — and, starting with track 2, the sound quality improves significantly.   
  

NOT NEARLY AS BAD AS THAT: A few years ago, Peter described this very gig to Magnet magazine: "Our first show together as a four-piece was in Irving Plaza with the Fleshtones and the Zantees. Frankly, we just sucked. We were so bad, we woodshedded for a couple of months after that." Give it another listen, Peter!      

SAMPLE: "The World Keeps Goin Round (NYC 1978)"

01 She's Green, I'm Blue

02 Bad Reputation

03 Tell Me Twice

04 Everytime Anytime

05 Nothing Is Wrong

06 What I Dig

07 The World Keeps Goin' Round

08 What's the Matter With Me?

09 What About That Cat

10 Let's Live for Today

11 Tossin' and Turnin'

12 encore break

13 The Summer Sun

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The dB’s

Peter Holsapple – guitar, vocals & keyboards

Will Rigby – drums & vocals

Gene Holder – bass

Chris Stamey – guitar & vocals

  

The Golden Palominos - Toronto 1987 + bonus

El Mocambo

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

April 1987 (from the "Blast of Silence" tour)

Repercussion: Lots of links between The dB's and The Golden Palominos: Peter H wrote "Diamond," one of the group's best songs (2 versions are featured here). Chris played bass on several of the group's albums and here, on the tracks from the Boston show. Longtime dB's friend Peter Blegvad wrote several GPs songs and sings some of them in these two shows. Another longtime dB's friend, Syd Straw, is the lead singer for many of these.

(Toronto show: audio rip from pro-shot video, sound quality VG+; Boston show: audience rec., sound quality VG-)

Syd Straw and cohorts in The Golden Palominos at the El Mocambo

SAMPLE: "(Kind of) True [Toronto 1987]"

01 Intro + Diamond

02 Angels Voices

03 Work Was New

04 The Push and The Shove

05 Merry Go Round

06 Something Nothing

07 Buenos Aires

08 Quiet Her

09 Rockin' My Soul

10 (Kind of) True

11 Risk of Love

12 When You Love Somebody

13 The Ocean (Led Zeppelin cover)

 

14 The Last Man*

15 Something Else (Is Working Harder)*

16 Without a Trace*

17 Diamond*

*Last 4 are from March 17, 1987, Boston, MA show (audience rec.)

*Chris Stamey on bass & vocals in place of Matthew Sweet

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Alt. Link

Drummer Anton Fier is the founder of The Golden Palominos

LINEUP:

Peter Blegvad: guitar & vocals

Anton Fier: drums

Jody Harris: guitar

Lisa Herman: keyboards & vocals

*Chris Stamey: bass & vocals
Syd Straw: vocals

Matthew Sweet: bass & vocals

Bernie Worrell: organ

 Learn more about The Golden Palominos at AllMusic