Alex Chilton Tribute - Memphis, TN 2010 (FM)

One of many tributes for LX

Various Artists

Levitt Shell

Memphis, TN

May 15, 2010

 

DOWNLOAD UPDATED ARTWORK HERE

L-R: Jody Stephens, Jon Auer, Amy Speace, Ken Stringfellow at LX tribute May 15, 2010
remarkable photos by Breathless Conni 
 *cheers to Conni for permission to use these here*

satellite radio broadcast (sound quality Ex-)

BUNCH O' THANKS to the taper and sharer 

SAMPLE: "Ballad of El Goodo (2010)"

complete hi-res artwork HERE
BIG THANKS TO RHETT for the updated artwork

01 Introduction

02 Back of a Car** (Jon Auer)

03 I Am The Cosmos (Jon)

04 Way Out West (Jody Stephens)

05 Mod Lang (Van Duren)

06 Daisy Glaze (Ken Stringfellow)

07 Jesus Christ (Mike Mills)

08 For You
    (Jody w/Jimmy Stephens on bass)

09 Give Me Another Chance
    (Amy Speace, Jon & Ken)

10 Lady Sweet
    (Jon w/Rick Steff on accordion)

11 I'm In Love With A Girl (Sondre Lerche)

12 Introduction

13 The Ballad of El Goodo (Sondre)

14 Thirteen (Jon)

Mike Mills, one of many who sang

15 Feel (Ken)

16 Thank You Friends (Mike)

17 Nighttime (Susan Marshall Powell)

18 Try Again (Amy, Jon & Ken)

19 O My Soul (Brendan Benson)

20 September Gurls (Brendan)
  

ENCORES:

21 Take Care (Ken & Jon)

22 A Whole New Thing ("anyone and everyone")

**NOTE: this set lacks "In the Street," "Don't Lie to Me" & "When My Baby's Beside Me", all of which were released on vinyl and digital download by Ardent Music.  (They would follow Track 2 if they appeared here.)  Go buy these tracks to assemble the complete show!
  
ROB SEZ: I know, I know — you've seen stuff like this here before. But this one has amazing sound from a satellite radio broadcast. Plus, many of the performances are heart-felt and intense, occurring just weeks after Alex's death on March 17.
 

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TT: 1:23:59 

uploader's note:

Many thanks to my friend Chris up at Blissland Studios for making this recording, and its excellent edit possible.

Musicians (core band):
Jon Auer - guitar, vocals
Ken Stringfellow - bass, vocals
Jody Stephens - drums, vocals

Chris Stamey & Co. are still staging 

Big Star Third Live performances.

More info HERE.

    

Don Dixon - Bottom Line, NYC 1989 (sbd)

DD & friends

The Bottom Line

New York, NY

July 18, 1989

featuring The Uptown Horns

soundboard recording (quality Ex-)

NOTE: the first track is not indicative of what the rest of the show is like; ENJOY!

Don looks like this when he sings so he can make that soulful sound...

01 EEE

02 Cat Out of the Bag

03 Bad Reputation (dB’s cover / P. Holsapple tune)

04 The Dark End of the Street

DD & Marti Jones: still making
great music today

05 Sweet Surrender

06 Roots of Truth

07 Calling Out for Love (at Crying Time)

08 Oh Cheap Chatter

09 Girls L.T.D.

10 The Real One (Marti lead vocal)

11 Helen

12 Love Gets Strange

13 Silent Scream

14 I Can Hear the River

15 band intros

16 Gimme Little Sign

17 Praying Mantis - Louie Louie

TT: 1:11:55

More info about who wrote the songs, etc., can be found in the music file comment tags.

BIG THANKS to lilpanda for sharing this one. He’s often trying to turn people on to Don’s music, which is a cool thing to do...

Don & Marti: way back when. Making music on the porch in N.C...
photo by Harvey Wang  SEE WHAT DD & MJ are up to at their FB page

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Musicians:

Don Dixon – vocals, bass

Jamie Hoover – guitar, vocals

Marti Jones – guitar, vocals

Jim Brock – drums, percussion

Denny Fongheiser – drums, percussion

The Uptown Horns:

Bob Funk - trombone

Paul Litterall – trumpet & flugelhorn
Arno Hecht – tenor sax
Crispin Cioe – alto & baritone sax

Learn more about the music of

Don Dixon (& Marti) at Don's web site
Don's latest musical project is BVD (Brooke Vitale Dixon), 
a power rock trio that just issued a self-titled album.
  

Wussy – Best Radio Sessions 2009-'14

KDHX-FM, St. Louis, MO

and KEXP-FM, Seattle, WA

pre-FM sources via Soundcloud and other web streams (sound quality VG+ to Ex-)

Wussy at KEXP in Seattle, WA, June 2014. I think Lisa likes the bike...
most excellent photos by BHarvey

ROB SEZ: I don't usually write about new or relatively unknown artists. But occasionally a band's music will catch my ear, and I feel compelled to help spread the word. Wussy is one of those groups. Check the sample to hear why Robert Christgau raves that Wussy has been "the best band in America" ever since they released their debut in 2005.

01 Little Paper Birds

02 Pulverized

03 Waiting Room

04 Asteroids

05 Magnolia

06 Airborne

07 Teenage Wasteland

08 Bug

09 Rainbows & 
        Butterflies

10 Beautiful

11 Pizza King

12 Waiting Room

13 Pulverized

14 Little Miami

BUY Attica! (2014) directly from
the band — and give 'em a big tip!

15 To the Lightning (early mix)

16 Teenage Wasteland (for Cinci Mag) 

TRACK INFO:

1 = KDHX Live Session Aug. 7, 2009

2 & 3 = KDHX Live Session June 7, 2012
4 – 6 = KEXP Live Session June 15, 2012
7 – 11 = KEXP Live Session June 20, 2014
12 – 14 = SxSW live set (KEXP rec.) March 14, 2012
15 = Wussy Soundcloud post (pre-Attica!)
16 = live session for Cincinnati Magazine, rec. Feb. 13, 2014

TT: 1:06:50 

photo by Jay Brown

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Wussy:

Chuck Cleaver – guitar, vocals

Lisa Walker – guitar, vocals
Mark Messerly – bass
Joe Klug – drums

John Erhardt – pedal steel, etc.

WUSSY wants you to have this free collection of random tracks via Bandcamp. Isn't that nice?

NYC Taper has several live shows by Wussy.
Blogger Wick has a bunch of live shows as well.

Learn more about the music of Wussy

at the band's web site or FB page

  

Univ. of Fla., Tampa, FL 1984 + Demos 1982-'83

The dB’s

University of South Florida

Tampa, FL

Sept. 28, 1984

TOURISM ON TOUR: The dB's at Niagra Falls

(opening for R. E. M.)

audience recording (sound quality VG; iffy sound from the tape source, but I did some tweaking in Audacity, and it’s now quite listenable — might even be mistaken for a lower-quality soundboard recording; try the sample)

01 Neverland (cuts in)

Halfway up the ladder: The dB's in 1984
photo by Laura Levine

02 Love Is for Lovers

03 She Got Soul

04 Bad Reputation

05 A Spy In the House of Love

06 Not Cool

07 Amplifier

08 Suspicious Minds

09 Rendezvous

10 New Gun In Town

Demos 1982-‘83

11 She Got Soul #2

12 Spitting In the Wind

13 Rendezvous

14 White Train #1

15 Molly Says

16 Repercussion

17 The Death of Rock

18 This Crazy Town

19 Martha Helen Wood*

TT: 1:06:08

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*Track 19 is a demo for a song written and  sung by Gene Holder's wife, Myra. A finished version of the song appeared years later on Myra's solo album, Four Mile Road (produced by Mr. Chris Stamey + 1 track by Mitch). 

NOTE: Many of the demos in the set as I received them are not included in the above. Categories of demos not included here: 
1) Ones I already shared in the ‘Like This’ Revisited post; 
2) Demos the same (or nearly the same) as those on the Ride the Wild Tom-Tom official release; 
3) Demos with Chris on lead vocals (per an earlier request from him).

 

The dB’s (1984 live show line-up):

Rick Wagner - bass

Gene Holder - guitar

Will Rigby - drums

Peter Holsapple – guitar, vocals

Let's Active - Reunion Show Videos

Let's  Active Reunion Show

Aug. 9, 2014
Cat's Cradle
Carrboro, N.C.

 Every Word Means No

THANK YOU to Larry Tucker for posting this
and these additional videos from the show!

Fell

THANKS to Rob M., who posted this 
and many others from the show.

Original Let's  Active members Mitch Easter and Sara Romweber (drums) were joined by Suzi Ziegler on bass. Suzi was a member of the late, great Game Theory, a band for whom Mitch produced many albums. 
I think they sound fab — especially Sara, who plays with her brother in the Dex Romweber Duo (which toured with Jack White not long ago). 

Read David Menconi's preview story from
The (Raleigh, N.C.) News & Observer

T-Bone Burnett - Hamburg, GR 1983 + bonus

Rockpalast

Markthalle

Hamburg, Germany

Dec. 9, 1983

T-BONE BURNETT: producer extraordinaire and solo artist

audio rip from video (sound quality VG; very listenable show from the tour after T-Bone released his Proof Through the Night album)

REPERCUSSION: Although I don't believe T-Bone has ever collaborated with members of The dB's, he has worked with Don Dixon and Mitch Easter on occasion.

SAMPLE: "Pressure" (Hamburg 1983)

01 My Life and the Women Who Lived It

02 The Interview (song)

03 song intro

04 Fatally Beautiful / Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend

05 Pressure

06 When the Night Falls

07 Power of Love

08 Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk

09 A Ridiculous Man

10 The Sixties (intro cut)

11 Hefner and Disney

12 Hula Hoop

13 Trap Door

14 Not Fade Away

15 Richard Thompson intro

16 Shut It Tight

17 The Pilgrim Chapter 33

18 Boomerang

19 You Are My Sunshine

20 Poetry

TT: 1:15:59

17 – 20 = bonus tracks from solo acoustic set, McCabe’s, Santa Monica, CA (date unknown; audience recording, sound quality VG-)

A SINCERE THANK-YOU to beeswingrm for sharing the Rockpalast set

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Learn more about the music of T-Bone Burnett 
at his web site and/or AllMusic