Tee Hedz - Central Park, NYC 1980

Tawking Hedz

Wollman Rink

Central Park

New York, NY

Aug. 27, 1980
 

Tee Hedz live: the gang’s all pictured here, except Adrian Belew

soundboard recording (sound quality Ex-; slight hum audible between songs; original recording by Frank Galagher; transfer by HDV)

THIS ONE’S LOSSLESS

REPERCUSSION: This blog is devoted mainly to two groups active primarily in the 1980s — groups at times lumped in with the so-called “New Wave”. So, at some point, I wanted to post something by this group. Otherwise, there’s no connection between our heroes from Winston-Salem, NC and the Tee Hedz from NYC.

SAMPLE: "Take Me to the River (Central Park 1980)"

01 Warning Sign (beginning cut, fades in)*

02 Stay Hungry
03 Cities
04 band intros 
05 I Zimbra
06 Once In A Lifetime
07 Houses In Motion
08 Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
09 Crosseyed and Painless (fades in)** 
10 Take Me to the River
11 The Great Curve
 

     *first song in the set, Psycho Killer, is not included here

     **Life During Wartime from this show was officially released, so is omitted here (would have been the track before “Take Me to the River”)
 

ROB SEZ: I’ve tried to make it hard for the Internet music police to find this post. I’ve misspelled the name of the band and its original members. When Hans De V began sharing his amazing Tee Hedz tape collection a while back, the powers-that-be were all over his posts, and they disappeared quickly. I don’t want to jeopardize my humble little blog by calling attention to posts like this.

LOSSLESS WAV FILES

tape insert by Hans De V

(file says "Part 1", 
but it's the whole thing)

BONUS: audience recording of the same show — includes band intro & the songs missing from above soundboard version.

Sound quality VG

HQ MP3 (VBR avg. 280 kbps)

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David Burne - vocals, guitar
Gerry Harrison - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Tina Weymuth - bass, keyboards
Cris Franz - drums
Adrian Belew - guitar, vocals, percussion
Bernie Worrell - keyboards, vocals, percussion
Busta 'Cherry' Jones - bass 
Steve Scales - percussion, vocals
Nona Hendryx - vocals, percussion
Dollette McDonald - vocals, percussion

 

(core band members’ names are misspelled intentionally...)
  

Continental Drifters - Bremen 1996

Bremen, Germany

Jan. 24, 1996

DSR satellite radio

   radio broadcast (sound quality Ex-)

BIG THANKS to the recorder and sharer (wish I could be more specific than that)

BY REQUEST
 

photo by Jutta Brandt Knust

REPERCUSSION: Peter joined the Continental Drifters in the early 1990s after The dB's were kaput, and he stayed with the group until it disbanded circa 2003. While they were active, the Drifters recorded several of Peter's songs, so if you enjoy his singing and songwriting, those discs are definitely worth seeking out. Their music is excellent! (Here’s another Drifters show I posted a while back.) 

SAMPLE: "Soul Deep (Bremen 1996)"

01 A Song for You (Gram Parsons cover)

02 Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway

03 Mezzanine

04 Desperate Love

05 Invisible Boyfriend

06 Mixed Messages

07 [zoo song]

08 The Rain Song

09 Darlin’ Darlin’

10 Some of Shelly’s Blues

11 New York

12 Soul Deep (Box Tops cover)

13 Get Over It

14 Who We Are, Where We Live

15 Highway of the Saints  

        (Pat McLaughlin cover)

16 Tighter and Tighter

17 Dedicated to the One I Love  

         (Mamas & The Papas cover)

18 Anything (bonus, live 1998)

MP3@320 
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Continental Drifters:

Peter Holsapple - keyboards,accordion, mandolin, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar, vocals

Susan Cowsill - acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, shaker, vocals

Robert Maché - mandolin, acoustic & electric guitar, vocals

Vicki Peterson - acoustic & electric guitar, vocals

Carlo Nuccio – drums, vocals

Mark Walton - electric bass

Russ Broussard - drums, vocals (on #18, bonus track)

Go listen to & buy music by Continental Drifters!   Here they are at AllMusic 
  

Chris' "Lovesick Blues" solo album - OUT NOW!

CHRIS STAMEY SOLO ALBUM OUT TODAY!

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR: GO BUY IT!!
iTunes (bonus tracks version)  CD (Yep Roc)  LP (Yep Roc)
CD (Amazon)   LP (Amazon)
 

ALBUM RELEASE DAY, new video, another live date.  
As I listen to the iTunes download of Lovesick Blues (!), here's some scoop on what's next as Chris and his label sell the music world on his great new album: 

NEW VIDEO FOR THE SONG 'LOVESICK BLUES'

SHORTER, EDITED VERSION

FULL VERSION

Meanwhile, another live performance date has been added (in addition to the ones I've already listed on the News Page): Philadelphia, PA (World Cafe Live Upstairs), 3025 Walnut Street, Sunday, Feb. 17. More details are HERE. 

More news about Lovesick Blues can be found on the News Page. 

The Long Ryders - Philadelphia 1987

Chestnut Cabaret

Philadelphia, PA

May 5, 1987

audience recording (sound quality VG+; transfer from 1^st-generation copy of master tape)

BY REQUEST — When I asked for comments about future posts, “Long Ryders” was one of the requests — so here ya go!

SINCERE THANKS to the Punk-Rock Cop for taping the show, and to happyfeet66 for sharing.
 

The Long Ryders: "Americana" & "alt-country" before the terms were even invented
photos courtesy sidgriffin.com

SAMPLE: "I Want You Bad (Philly 1987)"

01 Prairie Fire

02 Lights of Downtown

03 Man of Misery

04 A Stitch In Time

05 State of My Union

06 Harriet Tubman's Going to Carry Me Home

07 Capturing the Flag

08 Long Story Short

09 Baby’s In Toyland

10 I Want You Bad (NRBQ cover)

11 Spectacular Fall (fades in)

12 I Had a Dream

13 band intros --> Greenville Trestle High (James & Joan Jett cover)

14 You Just Can’t Ride the Boxcars Anymore

15 Gunslinger Man

16 Looking for Lewis & Clark

17 Hair of the Dog (Green on Red cover)

18 Smash It Up (The Damned cover)

19 10-5-60 (big medley) 
  

 
MP3@320

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The Long Ryders:

Sid Griffin – vocals, steel guitar, harmonica

Stephen McCarthy – guitar, keyboards, vocals

Greg Sowders – drums

Tom Stevens – bass, vocals

Learn more about The Long Ryders’ music at AllMusic and/or Sid Griffin’s site
 

Star, Big - Cambridge, MA 1974 + bonus

Performance Center 
Cambridge, MA 
March 31, 1974

early show (opening for Badfinger)

audience recording, in mono (sound quality VG++; recorded and transferred by Steve Hopkins)

ROB SEZ: When this recording surfaced last year, B.S./LX fans swooned at the thought of a previously-unheard live show from 1974 … and deservedly so, because this is a solid performance and impressive sound quality for a mono audience recording 30+ years old (the performance is even more impressive when you hear what happened to the band's instruments and equipment just before they went on). 

THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN The dB's, LX Chilton and B.S. are explored HERE

Enjoy!
 

Andy, Jody, LX: Back of a Car, indeed!

01. In The Street 
02. Baby Strange (T. Rex cover) 

03. Mod Lang

04. Candy Says (Velvet Underground cover) 

05. Till the End of the Day (Kinks cover)

06. O My Soul 
07. Motel Blues (L. Wainwright III cover)

08. Thirteen 

09. Way Out West

10. September Gurls

11. Come On Now (Kinks cover)
 

artwork included in download

MP3@320

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B.S. and LX Chilton rarities (1974-1980)

NONE of these has been commercially or officially released

ROB SEZ: There just aren’t many rarities out there that weren’t included in the amazing Keep An Eye On the Sky 4-CD B.S. box set. If you’re a fan, go find the money (or just add it to your credit card debt) and plump for this puppy. I’ve included the only two listenable tracks from the otherwise utterly shambolic WLYX Memphis 1975 radio session (just found out that Jody Stephens was so disgusted with the session that he quit Big Star afterwards). The rest are quite enjoyable studio outtakes.  

01 Another Time, Another Place, and You (studio instrum.)        

         Star, Big, circa 1974

02 Femme Fatale (live)        

         Star, Big, WLYX, Memphis, TN 1975

03 Jesus Christ (live)        

         Star, Big, WLYX, Memphis, TN 1975

04 Surfer Girl (studio)        

LX Chilton, Sun Studios, 1980 outtake, "Like Flies on Sherbert" sessions

05 Lovely Day (studio; this version does not appear on the KaEOtS box)        

         LX Chilton, Sun Studios, 1975 studio session

MP3@320

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BY REQUEST: complete WLYX 1975 radio performance (such as it is!!):

MP3@192 kbps

  

The Individuals - West Haven, CT 1982

Brothers III

West Haven, CT

April 23, 1982

audience recording (sound quality VG+; transfer from master tape; as usual, the house sound needs a little time to get adjusted; there’s some crowd noise, but not much for what must've been a club show…)
  

complete artwork included in DL

Repercussion: In the early 1980s, Gene Holder produced the debut EP and subsequent LP by The Individuals (with the latter engineered by Mitch Easter at Mitch’s Drive-In Studio). Later, Gene cut back his involvements with The dB’s (and eventually departed) in order to join The Wygals, which was formed with two members of The Individuals after the latter disbanded. Not long after The Individuals broke up, Glenn Morrow became an early-in-the-game business partner at Bar/None Records — the same label that released The dB’s Falling Off the Sky in 2012. Clear enough for you??

BIG THANKS to Alex Butterfield and the uploader for sharing. (This recording is Alex Butterfield Archive No. ABA-026-2) 

SAMPLE: "Dancing With My 80 Wives (West Haven 1982)"

01 • MY THREE SONS

02 • JOHNNY'S IN THE MINES

03 • I CAN'T GET STARTED

04 • WHITE

05 • JACKIE SAID, "SO..."

06 • SWIMMING IN THE STREET

07 • MONKEY

08 • OKAY CHORALE

09 • DANCING WITH MY EIGHTY WIVES

10 • LEAP OF FAITH

11 • WALK BY YOUR HOUSE

12 • HOOKS AND LADDERS

13 • THE ARGUMENT

14 • OUR WORLD

15 • YOUNG AND DANCING

16 • THINKING ALOUD

17 • DANCING WITH MY EIGHTY WIVES

18 • THIS IS MY HOUSE

19 • MOUNTAINS OF LOVE

20 • PILEDRIVE

21 • CAN'T PLAY ANOTHER SONG

22 • KUNG FU FIGHTING

TT: 79:12

The Individuals:

Glenn Morrow – guitar, vocals

Doug Wygal - drums

Janet Wygal – bass, vocals

Jon Klages – guitar

MP3@320

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The Individuals (above) sorta kinda

morphed into The Wygals (below)

that’s Gene Holder, back left

 Learn more about The Individuals and 

The Wygals at AllMusic
   

I NEED YOUR VOTE, dear readers!

I'm going to be broadening the focus of the blog this year, so:

Which of the following artists/groups would you most like to see here at The dB's Repercussion blog?? Any you want to suggest that aren't here?  

PLEASE USE THE COMMENTS SECTION & let me know...
 
(By the way, I'm really not interested in posting stuff by widely-known artists like R.E.M. — 
even if they otherwise would fit.)

SPEAK UP — now's the time to chime in!

Ryan Adams
Richard Barone
Big Star
The Blue Nile (& Paul Buchanan)
The Bongos
Alex Chilton
Lloyd Cole
Marshall Crenshaw
Crowded House (& Neil Finn)
The Feelies
Game Theory
Guadalcanal Diary (& Murray Attaway)
Robyn Hitchcock (&/or The Soft Boys, Egyptians)
The Hollies
Freedy Johnston
The Long Ryders
Bob Mould
The Move
NRBQ
Graham Parker
Sam Phillips
The Plimsouls (just posted one of their shows)
Rockpile
Teenage Fanclub
Velvet Crush
The Windbreakers
World Party
Yo La Tengo