Alex Chilton - Maxwell's 1987 (rare!)

Alex Chilton Trio 

Maxwell's

Hoboken, N.J.

Nov. 20, 1987

audience recording (sound quality: VG++; McKenzie master tape source; great-sounding club show with minimal crowd noise)
  

01 intro
02 Disco Lady
03 Take It Off
04 In the Street
05 Thing for You
06 Come By Here
07 Volaré
08 Dalai Lama
09 Make a Little Love
10 The Christmas Song
11 Little GTO
12 Goldfinger (fades in due 
      to tape flip) 
13 B-A-B-Y
14 No Sex
15 Rockin’ Daddy
16 Sick and Tired
17 September Gurls
18 banter, tuning, song requests
19 Girl from Ipanema
20 Duke of Earl

ROB SEZ: I am pleased beyond words to offer a rare & rockin' Alex Chilton Trio show in great sound quality, thanks to Tom at The McKenzie Tapes. If you check out the site, you’ll discover that The McKenzie Tapes is an amazing treasure trove of live recordings from the mid-1980s and early 1990s, mostly in & around NYC. To my knowledge, this is the first online sharing of this show in lossless quality. I did very little to modify the recording as received, except to track it, apply a couple of fade-ins and fade-outs, and edit out a few minutes’ worth of onstage tuning and dead air. Enjoy, and please leave a comment to let Tom & David McKenzie know how much you appreciate their work!
  

FLAC

MP3@320 

NEW ALEX CHILTON EP

"My Rival"

The (truly) final  studio collaboration between Alex and Big Star founder Chris Bell. Five tracks, all previously unreleased.

Issued late 2019 by Omnivore Recordings on vinyl & digital download 

Big Star (Alex Chilton) - Live Across 30 Years

Big Star (Sister Lovers)
WLYX-FM radio
Memphis, TN
January 1975

FM recording (sound quality VG-)

01 Femme Fatale
02 Oh Dana
03 Take Me Home & Make Me Like It
      (fades out) 
04 Jesus Christ
05 Death Cab for Cutie
06 Kizza Me
07 I Will Always Love You
08 The Letter

Alex Chilton — guitar & vocals
Jody Stephens — percussion
Pat Rainer, Randy Romano, Beth Hudson,
& other unnamed hangers-on — backing vocals & yapping

ROB SEZ: If you're drawn to the chaotic / shambolic vibe of late-period Big Star, you'll probably be amused by this train wreck of a live performance. Otherwise, I recommend sticking with the ones below...

Alex Chilton
Singer-Songwriter Marathon
Tivoli
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Jan. 10, 1992

audience recording (sound quality VG+; transfer from master tape source)

01 stage entrance
02 Like a Sick Dog
03 I Will Turn Your Money Green  
04 Blind Man
05 Guantanamerika [tape flip]
06 Nighttime (abandoned) 
07 Single Again 
08 No Sex
09 Let's Get Lost
10 Only the Lonely

Recorded by Gentlen, transferred by scdegraaf, edited by Fredtaperin . Thanks to all of 'em!

various artists

Brett, Django, Skylar: singing Big Star

KCSN-FM studio
Northridge, CA
September 25, 2014

FM recording (sound quality Ex-) 

01 (interview part 1)
02 September Gurls
03 (interview part 2)
04 Take Care
05 (interview part 3)
06 Thirteen
07 (interview part 4)
08 Give Me Another Chance

Musicians: 
Django Haskins
Susanna Hoffs (of The Bangles)
Skylar Gudasz
Brett Harris

MP3@320

ROB SEZ: This combo post kicks off coverage of Big Star Third Live, highlighting the recent release of the DVD / CD of Big Star Third Live's grand finale. Look for more here soon. If you don't already have it, GO GET IT! Amazon U.S. Amazon UK

Alex Chilton - Grinnell College 1987

Grinnell College

Grinnell, Iowa

Oct. 23, 1987

  

unknown source — but it sounds great (= soundboard quality: Ex-)

  

LX Chilton: the man, the myth and (sometimes) the musical magic

MOTHER-LOVIN’ THANKS to the taper, pwig2001 & northjersey for sharing

ROB SEZ: When he's on, it's a beautiful thing. He was on this night, as you'll hear. ENJOY!

DISC 1

01 Tee Ni Nee Ni Noo

02 In the Street

03 Rock Hard

04 Stuff

05 B-A-B-Y

06 Make a Little Love

07 Dalai Lama

08 Goldfinger

09 I'm A Replacement  

     (brief, unfinished)

10 Bangkok

11 Thank You John

12 Lost My Job

13 Disco Lady

14 Take It Off

15 Thing for You

16 Little GTO

17 Volare

18 Money Talks

19 Rockin' Daddy

DISC 2

01 The Letter

02 When My Baby's 
     Beside Me

03 No Sex (end cut)

04 Come By Here

05 The Look of Love

06 Sick and Tired

07 September Gurls

MP3@320

There's way more LX and Big Star music here at the blog; just use the artists/groups links, at right

Alex Chilton & Teenage Fanclub - Glasgow 1996

13th Note

Glasgow, Scotland

April 8, 1996

  
FM broadcast ("Beat Patrol", BBC Scotland; sound quality: VG [multi-generation tape converted to wma files, then to MP3])
  

TFC's Norman Blake & LX Chilton - not really The Odd Couple!

REPERCUSSION: Of all the latter-day groups heavily inspired by Big Star, The Posies and Scottish alt-pop group Teenage Fanclub seem to have won the most respect from the late LX Chilton. Together, LX & Teenage Fanclub recorded a vinyl-only single in 1993 (with "Mine Exclusively" on the A-side and "Patti Girl" on the flip — both rather obscure cover tunes). That same year and in 1996, LX made some live appearances with TFC, one of which was this show in the group's hometown.

More Teenage Fanclub goodies to come in forthcoming posts. ENJOY!   

01 radio intro (early set) 

02 September Gurls

03 I Never Found a Girl (To Love Me Like You Do) Eddie Floyd cover 

04 My Heart Stood Still  Rodgers & Hart tune

05 Patti Girl  Dick Campbell tune (Gary & The Hornets cover)

06 Any Way the Wind Blows  Frank Zappa cover 

07 Walk Right Back  Everly Bros. cover 

08 Free Again  LX Chilton tune      

09 Telstar  Joe Meek / The Ventures cover (tape glitch, 10-sec hiccup at 2:11) 

10 Have I the Right?  Joe Meek / The Ventures cover

11 The Dark End of the Street  Chips Moman / Dan Penn tune

12 What Do You Know About Love?        

13 All Your Lovin' (I Miss Lovin')  Otis Rush cover

14 Life's a Gas  Teenage Fanclub tune

15 Waltz Across Texas  Ernest Tubb cover

16 Wooly Bully        

17 Hey! Little Child        

18 radio outro (early set)

   
19 intro (late set) + My Baby Just Cares for Me  Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn tune

20 Good Night My Love 

21 radio outro (late set)        

   
early set = 1-18; late set = 19-21 (incomplete -- 5 trax from this set saw commercial release on Various Artists - Shoeshine Chartbusters in 1997, so are excluded here)
  

MP3@320 

LX & TEENAGE FANCLUB (early set):

LX Chilton – vocals, guitar

Norman Blake – guitar

Gerard Love - bass

Raymond McGinley - guitar

Paul Quinn - drums

LATE SET:

LX Chilton – vocals, guitar

Alex Hutchinson – bass
Francis MacDonald - drums