Sneakers + Little Diesel - Reunion shows Sept. & Oct. 2016

Motorco

Durham, N.C.

Oct. 20, 2016

audience recording (quality VG; audio ripped from video; some phase shifting can be heard from time to time; recordings from Hopscotch Fest = VG- quality) 
     

Little Diesel, again: Will Rigby in the back & Bob Northcott way out front

SAMPLE: "Heart Full of Soul" (Sneakers cover The Yardbirds - live 2016)

thanks to Laura & Jefferson Hart for the photos

01 Some Kind of Fool

02 Ruby

03 Nonsequitur of Silence

04 Decline and Fall

05 S'il Vous Plaît

06 Let's Live for Today

07 Condition Red

08 Heart Full of Soul

09 Flamingo

10 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

11 Hollywood Swinging (etc.) 

12 S’il Vous Plaît*
13 Let’s Live for Today*

NOTES

01-08 & 12-13 = Sneakers

09 & 10 = Little Diesel

11 = Little Diesel + members of Sneakers

* Last two tracks are from Sneakers' set (opening for Television) at Hopscotch Music Fest, Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh, N.C. on Sept. 8, 2016

ROB SEZ: Yup, it's happened again: the old North Carolina music mafia has gone and done its nostalgia-indulging thing, and here's an audio souvenir from the proceedings. In recent months, there were more reunion shows by the 1970's-era Chapel Hill band Sneakers and the even older (!) Winston-Salem garage/bedroom combo Little Diesel. Chris Stamey & Mitch Easter were the ringleaders of Sneakers, while Bob Northcott fronted Little Diesel (with Peter Holsapple and Will Rigby in the band). Muchas gracias to Larry T. for the Motorco videos, from which I ripped the audio, and Daniel J. for the two tracks from this year's Hopscotch Fest (photo below).

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Sneakers + Little Diesel - Live Oct. 20, Durham, N.C.

Now THIS is what I call a double bill worth seeing:

    
Sneakers + Little Diesel

Live Show

Thursday, Oct. 20
8:00 p.m.

Motorco

Durham, N.C.

Little Diesel - return! The boys in the band, tearing it up at a recent reunion gig

Sneakers, founded by Chris Stamey, was one of the first bands in which he and Mitch Easter were both active. Little Diesel was the first combo that included both Peter Holsapple and Will Rigby.

Get more info about the show HERE

Little Diesel - Winston-Salem, N.C. 2016

Stand Against HB2 / EqualityNC benefit concert

Millennium Center

Winston-Salem, N.C.
June 26, 2016

REUNION PERFORMANCE!

audience recording (sound quality GD++ to VG-)

Little Diesel: the way they were in 1973
Will Rigby on drums, Peter H. on guitar (back to camera)

01 Rebel Rebel

02 The American Ruse (MC5 cover) 

03 Wishing Well (Free cover)

04 Anytime at All

05 Flamingo*

06 Kissy Boys*

*Tracks 5 & 6 are Little Diesel originals, the last one being a “single” from the band’s only album

TT: 21 mins.

This is the band’s full set; LD shared the bill with many other artists.

LITTLE DIESEL:

Bob Northcott – vocals

Will's original lyrics for "Kissy Boys"

Will Rigby – drums
Tom Eshelman – guitar
Peter Holsapple – guitar
Phil Thomas – bass

MEGA THANKS for sharing to k. .v (who used a Tascam DR-08 --- Studio One for mastering) 

REPERCUSSION: A significant slab of musical history for dB’s fans. This is a reunion performance (after 40+ years!) by one of the first bands Peter Holsapple and Will Rigby formed as teenagers in Winston-Salem. Chris Stamey “produced” the band’s one and only “album” — No Lie — in his bedroom. Fittingly, the band sounds about the same in 2016 as it did in the mid 1970s….

Little Diesel: as full-grown men in 2016

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