Roscoe's Gang - Philadelphia 1995 + Yayhoos bonus show

2 separate shows; 2 separate downloads 

Roscoe's Gang

Khyber Pass Pub

Philadelphia, PA

August 5, 1995

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

by request

ROB SEZ: Eric “Roscoe” Ambel is a friend of The dB’s, and a multi-talented singer, songwriter, band leader & producer. He’s best known as a leader of The Del Lords (recently re-formed) and early member of The Bottle Rockets. He also led the lesser-known Roscoe’s Gang and was a member of the would-be Americana supergroup The Yayhoos. Our own Will Rigby plays drums for the Roscoe’s Gang set. Enjoy!

YOU BETCHA THANKS to The King of Rock for taping and realomind for sharing

Sample: "Song for the Walls (Philly 1995)"


01. Power Lounger Theme

02. Song For the Walls

03. Miles From the Machine

04. Girl That I Ain't Got

05. Way Outside

06. Three Feet Under

07. Judas Kiss

08. Rain Won’t Stop

09. Don't Think Twice, It's Alright

10. Total Destruction to Your Mind

MP3@320

Roscoe’s Gang:

Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - vocals, guitar

Andy York - bass, vocals

Will Rigby – drums

Another Roscoe’s Gang live set is HERE. 

Learn more about Eric Ambel’s music HERE (Eric’s Bandcamp page is HERE)

The Yayhoos

Roskilde Festival, Denmark
June 27, 1996
FM broadcast

FM capture (sound quality VG++)

It's not 'Yahoos'; they're YAYhoos. There's a difference, ya know...

EXTRA BIG THANKS to the taper, original sharer and to lolita for the re-up

SAMPLE: "Julie & Lucky (Roskilde 1996)"

01.  Li’l Bit

02.  Dixie Beauxderant

03.  Song For the Walls

04.  Cumberland River

05.  I Love You Period

06.  Julie and Lucky

07.  Beer Drinkin' Woman

08.  Younger Face

09.  Judas Kiss

10.  Woke Up Jake

11.  Beer Run

12.  Battleship Chains

13.  Keep Your Hands to Yourself

14.  Way Outside

15.  Hush

MP3@320

The Yayhoos:

Dan Baird - guitar, vocals

Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - guitar, vocals

Terry Anderson - drums, guitar & vocals

Keith Christopher - bass, vocals

Learn more about The Yayhoos HERE

 

Marti Jones & Don Dixon - San Francisco 1991

Slim’s

San Francisco, CA

Feb. 26, 1991

soundboard recording (quality Ex--; low-generation tape source; there is, at times, some vocal distortion, and the percussion is occasionally louder than the vocals; otherwise a delightful recording)

Marti Jones & Don Dixon:
A cute couple, yes; but also great music makers 
photo by fizzgigVA via Flickr

 

ALL PRAISE to the taper and especially to lilpanda for sharing

REPERCUSSION: Connections between The dB's, Mitch Easter and Don Dixon? Where to start?? Don was one of the N.C. musicians / producers who paved the way for younger guys like Chris, Peter & Mitch. Don & Mitch co-produced R.E.M.'s first two albums. When Don produced Marti Jones' first albums, he recruited Mitch to play guitar and persuaded Marti to record The dB's / Peter Holsapple classic "Lonely Is as Lonely Does." Dixon and Jones married, and are together today, still making music and playing live from time to time.

01 Talk to Me*

02 Heart In a Box*

03 We're Doing Alright

04 banter 1

05 Silent Screen*

06 banter 2

07 The Man Who Would Be King

08 banter 3

09 Different Danger^

10 Borrowed Time*

11 Love Gets Strange
      (Don Dixon / John Hiatt)

12 banter 4

13 Crusher

14 Follow You All Over the World

15 Any Kind of Lie*^

16 I Can Hear the River*

17 Tourist Town*^

18 Sweet Surrender*

19 You Can't Take Love for Granted (Graham Parker cover)

20 Back of the Line*^

21 Praying Mantis* / When a Man Loves a Woman

*written by Don Dixon

^written by Marti Jones

You can delete the "banter" tracks (4, 6, 8 & 12) and still have a seamless show. Names of other song composers can be found in the comment tag for each song file.

MP3@320

Musicians:

Jim Brock - percussion

Don Dixon - guitar, vocals

Marti Jones - vocals, guitar
 
 

Learn more about the music of Don Dixon and Marti Jones at Don's web site, Don & Marti's FB page, or AllMusic (Don, Marti).

  

Don Dixon & Marti Jones cover The dB's!

pro-shot video:

Don Dixon & The Jump Rabbits

"AMPLIFIER"

hi-def video filmed at Snug Harbor, Charlotte, NC on Oct. 24 2009

shot and edited by Jay Thomas, produced by Elizabeth Malcolm

(best-quality YouTube version is HERE)
 

WHO'S PLAYING on the SONG & in the VIDEO:
Don Dixon - vocals, bass, gum chewing
Jamie Hoover - guitars, backing vocals
Jim Brock - drums (& all manner of other percussion)


Marti Jones covers The dB's "Neverland"

Live in St. Louis, 1986

Pretty sure this features The Woods & Tim Lee backing Marti
A studio recording of this song by Marti is on her solo LP Unsophisticated Time 
 
Don also covered The dB's "Bad Reputation"
(by Peter Holsapple) on his album EEE
have a listen:

(The lovely and talented singer-painter Marti Jones is on backing vocals) 
IT WAS RELEASED AS A PROMO-ONLY SINGLE IN 1989

 

Here's Don telling Will Harris of Popdose why he chose to cover "Bad Reputation":

DD: Well, you know, I’ve always loved Peter’s songs. On EEE, I do a couple of songs by other people. I always tried to record at least one song by a friend of mine on every record. It’s kind of a tradition for me. The covers weren’t always songs by friends, but typically they were. I did a song of Mitch’s, too. And I’d always liked “Bad Reputation.” I felt like it had the right sentiments, as far as I’m concerned, for silly, angsty child-rock, and it was a song that Peter had done with the dB’s on Stands for Decibels. I’d become familiar with it while searching his catalog, looking for things for Marti, because Marti had recorded a couple of songs of his. And, plus, I’ve known Peter since he was in the 8th grade, and I like him. 
(Read the rest of this excellent interview HERE).
  

Rain Parade - In & Around NYC 1983 + bonus

‘In & Around the Big Apple’

New York City & Hoboken, NJ

December 1983

audience recordings (sound quality VG; club shows — see info on sources below)

Rain Parade: a handy bunch of guys

THANK YOU KINDLY to the tapers, sharers and Hermesacat for pointing me to one of these

01 Whatever They Say

02 I Look Around

03 This Can't Be Today

04 No Easy Way Down

05 Saturday's Asylum

06 Talking In My Sleep

07 One Hour 1/2 Ago

08 Revolution (Beatles cover)

09 Any Other Way

10 What She's Done to Your Mind

11 It's Gonna Work Out

12 All My Friends

13 Sad Eyes Kill (B.O.B. flexi version)

14 What She's Done to Your Mind 
     (single version)

15 This Can't Be Today (live, Club 688)

SOURCES

1-8 = CBGB, NYC 1983-12-10; liberated Pontiac Records boot Out of Time (digital transfer from Welcome to Paisleyland vinyl LP boot to silver, factory-pressed CD)

9-12 = Maxwell’s, Hoboken, NJ 1983-12-02; master audience recording (more crowd noise than NYC show)

13 = Bucketful of Brains flexi disc; from Out of Time boot

14 = original 7-inch single; video-sourced vinyl rip

15 = audience recording; Club 688, Atlanta, GA 1985

The band reunited in 2012 and recorded THIS live album

[coupla more vintage RP live shows at THIS earlier post] 

MP3@320

Rain Parade:

Steve Roback - vocals, bass

David Roback – vocals, guitar

Matt Piucci - vocals, guitar

Will Glenn - keyboards, violin

Eddie Kalwa - drums

Learn more about the music of Rain  Parade 
at Wikipedia or AllMusic
 

Autumn Defense - Schuba's 2004 + Best Video Rips

Schuba’s

Chicago, IL

Nov. 24, 2004

2 SEPARATE SETS; 2 SEPARATE DOWNLOADS

Writing for AllMusic, Lisa M. Smith says The Autumn Defense "chase the sun westward to the California coast, gathering inspiration from classic L.A. pop and well-crafted melody in the '60s and '70s traditions. Between gentle harmonies and instrumental texturing, the associations are tempting: a trace of the Beach Boys or a Wilson brother? The Byrds, the Bee Gees, Bread, the Zombies, piano pop? [AD founder John] Stirratt himself quotes the seminal Forever Changes (Love) as one shaping influence to their sound."

soundboard recording (sound quality Ex--; mix is a bit "bright," but treble adjustment should do the trick...)

AUTUMN DEFENSE: Pat Sansone & John Stirratt.
Both are members of Wilco, and
 Stirratt was a member of Uncle Tupelo.
 

01 'Autumn Defense #3' (poem)

02 Some Kind of Fool

03 The Sun In California

04 Silence

05 Written In the Snow

06 The Answer

07 Why I'm Like This

08 Tuesday Morning

09 The World (Will Soon Turn Our Way)

10 Everybody's Been Burned  
     (D. Crosby/Byrds cover)

11 Circles

12 Pretty Ballerina (Left Banke cover)

MP3@320

This and other recordings by The Autumn Defense are available

in lossless quality at the fab Owl & Bear Wilco Archive

The Autumn Defense

Best Video Rips

various sessions, 2010-2012

video-sourced soundboard recordings

sound quality Ex- (if you like a little grit with your pretty melodies, you might prefer Autumn Defense live to their studio recordings)

01 Feel You Now (live)

02 Back of My Mind (live)

03 The Sun in California (live)

04 Allow Me (live)

05 Sentimental Lady (live)

06 Huntington Fair (live)

07 The Swallows of London Town (live)

08 Spend Your Life (live)

09 Written In the Snow (live)

10 The Answer (live)

11 Everyday (live)

SOURCES

1-5 = Eddie's Attic, Atlanta, GA 2010-11-17 (hi-fi sound mix by Shalom Aberle)
6 = Black Sheep Studios, Chicago, IL 2010-11-05
7 = unknown live session
8-11 = Sugar Hill Studios session, Fall 2012

MP3@320

Autumn Defense's latest album, Fifth 
drops Jan. 28 on Yep Roc

   

 Learn more about the music of The Autumn Defense at the band's web site and/or AllMusic

Yo La Tengo & Friends - Cat's Cradle 2004

Cat’s Cradle

Carrboro, NC

Oct. 10, 2004

audience recording (sound quality VG++; sounds like it was recorded with raised mics; excellent sound, and the crowd noise not obtrusive)

 

This show came shortly after the recording of Chris’ collaborative album with Yo La Tengo called A Question of Temperature / V.O.T.E.  It's a Rock the Vote type gig on YLT’s “Swing State” tour to promote participation in the upcoming national election, and Chris sings and plays on three songs.

Chris, guesting at a Yo La Tengo Hanukkah show, 2007
photos by slowshutter.org

Repercussion: There’s a lot I could write about Chris’ musical connections to Yo La Tengo, but it’s probably best to let him speak for himself. Here’s what he said in a Q & A with Magnet’s Jud Cost in Feb. 2013:

Q: How was it working with Yo La Tengo on your previous solo release? Always loved those guys. Ever play with them live?
 

A: I was actually in Yo La Tengo off and on, as extra guitarist, for a while. And I’ve played with them lots, even in the last decade. They are both kind and fearless, and somehow they have never banned me and my cello from their stage although you’d think… Ira and Georgia have participated, most recently, in the European concerts of the Sister Lovers material, as well. The record with them was somewhat of a busman’s holiday, to be honest; we just set up and played our first instincts, hoping for a few songs for an EP and ending up with “the world’s longest EP” if you look at it one way. It wasn’t one of those kinds of albums where you stop to reflect, it was more gung ho and damn the torpedoes. 
  
READ THE REST OF THE Q & A HERE

DISC 1

101 - Sudden Organ

102 - Beautiful World (Devo)

103 - Decora

104 - Don't Have to Be So Sad

105 - Behind That Locked Door (George Harrison)

106 - Noisy Night^ (Portastatic; half-second hiccup at 0:55)

107 - Gold In Sound+ (David Kilgour)

108 - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Bob Dylan)

109 - Oh Yeah* (Chris Stamey)

110 - Tears Are In Your Eyes

111 - I Hate Hate (Razzy Bailey)

112 - Little Eyes

113 - Seemingly Stranded+ (David Kilgour)

114 - St. Elmo's Fire^ (Brian Eno)

115 - Moby Octopad

TT for Disc One: 1 hr.,15 mins., 51 secs.

DISC 2

201 - Big Day Coming  fast version

202 - Compared to What* (Eugene McDaniels)

203 - You Can Have It All  drum version

204 - I'm Your Puppet (James & Bobby Purify)

205 - Stockholm Syndrome

206 - Late Century Dream^ (Superchunk)

207 – Shivering+ (David Kilgour)

208 - The Summer

209 - Autumn Sweater

210 - Tom Courtenay

211 - I Heard You Looking

212 - Somebody's In Love (Sun Ra)

213 - encore intro

214 - What I Dig* (Sneakers)

215 - Sugarcube

216 - Speeding Motorcycle

TT for Disc Two: 1 hr.,15 mins., 53 secs.

Yo La Tengo: seeing the light, again

MP3@320

Yo La Tengo:

Georgia Hubley – drums, vocals

Ira Kaplan – guitars, vocal

James McNew – bass

Special Guests:

+David Kilgour (The Clean)

^Mac McCaughan (Superchunk, Portastatic)

*Chris Stamey (The dB's, etc.)

Notes: As a live act, YLT seem to dig an extreme loud-to-soft dynamic range, and it’s rather obvious here. I compensated for this pretty successfully, but you may still want to adjust the volume once or twice while enjoying the show. Originally, it was much longer. I edited out a guest a cappella/comedy group and some speech making to get it down to the length of 2 discs, for those who’d like to burn it.

Learn more about the music of Yo La Tengo at Wikipedia, the group's own site and/or at AllMusic