Bangles - NYC + New Haven, CT 1984

The Ritz
New York, NY
Sept. 28, 1984

FM capture (sound quality VG+; transfer from master tape of delayed live broadcast over WLIR-FM, Garden City, Long Island, NY)
 

Bangs became Bangles: before Prince 'discovered' the band

01 Silent Treatment
02 The Real World
03 Restless
04 Mary Street
05 Live
06 All About You
07 James
08 Where Were You When 
     I Needed You?
09 I'm In Line
10 He's Got a Secret
11 Going Down to Liverpool
12 Tell Me
13 Want You
14 Hero Takes a Fall
15 I'm Not Talking (fades in)
16 Going Home
17 7 & 7 Is
18 Dover Beach

 
TT: 55:17 mins.

 
THANKS A BUNCH to beatbop for recording and transferring, and to all who’ve shared the NYC recording. More thanks to Alex Butterfield for the New Haven set.

Toad’s Place

New Haven, CT

Oct. 1, 1984

FM capture (sound quality VG to VG+; vocals a tad distant)

01 Silent Treatment

02 The Real World

03 Restless

04 Mary Street

05 Live (brief dropout)

Susanna Hoffs: short hair or long, she became the "it" girl 

06 All About You

07 James

08 Where Were You When I
     Needed You? 

09 I'm In Line

10 He's Got a Secret

11 Going Down to Liverpool

12 Tell Me

13 Want You

14 Hero Takes a Fall

15 I'm Not Talking

16 I'm Going Home

17 How Is the Air Up There? 

18 7 & 7 Is
19 If I Had the Time

TT: 60 mins.

MP3@320

     New Bangles archival release from Omnivore

16 rare & previously-unreleased tracks. 
INFO / ORDER HERE

 

ROB SEZ: Always did have a soft spot for the Bangles, especially their first recordings. After they started having hits, the sound became slicker and they lost some of their appeal. But like many guys (and, I assume, some girls), Susanna Hoffs and at least one other Bangle still held a compelling allure.
 
The Bangles:
Susanna Hoffs - guitar, vocal
Debbi Peterson - drums, vocal 
Vicki Peterson - guitar, vocal
Michael Steel - bass, vocal

Soft Boys - Live 1980 + 2002

Club Eighties
New York, NY
Sept. 5, 1980

audience recording (sound quality VG; a well-recorded, well-preserved artifact, with some imperfections — as expected from a tape of this vintage)

SAMPLE: "Queen of Eyes" (Live WFMU 2002)    



01 Kingdom of Love
02 Queen of Eyes
03 Strange
04 I Wanna Destroy You
05 Leppo and the Jooves
06 Only the Stones Remain
07 There's Nobody Like You
08 Insanely Jealous
09 Out of the Picture
10 Train Round the Bend (VU cover)   
11 Positive Vibrations
12 Zip Zip (James A. Smith tune) 
13 Gigolo Aunt (Syd Barrett cover) 
14 Dancing on Your Thumb
15 I Wanna Destroy You
16 Run Run Run (VU cover)
17 Kingdom of Love
18 Underwater Moonlight
19 Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd cover) 
 
TT: 71:30 mins.

ROB SEZ: Before Robyn Hitchcock (solo act); before RH & The Egyptians; before Kimberley Rew's Katrina & The Waves, there were the SOFT BOYS in the late 1970s to early 1980s. They were really good! ALL PRAISES go to the taper and sharers, especially caravelle for re-sharing the 1980 show a few years ago. Artwork for the 1980 set by Mick. Thanks also to hingyfan and chip_christian for sharing the 2002 set, recorded on the band's Nextdoorland tour. (Note about the artwork: the fan who first shared this thought the correct month for the 1980 show was August, but Hitchcock fans did some research, and turns out it took place Sept. 1980.)

Live Session
WFMU Studios
Jersey City, N.J.
Oct. 25, 2002 (broadcast Oct. 29)

FM recording (sound quality Ex-) 

Recommended for the well-dressed fan

01 I Love Lucy        
02 Pulse of My Heart        
03 Mr. Kennedy        
04 Unprotected Love        
05 My Mind Is Connected        
06 Each of Her Silver Wands        
07 Narcissus        
08 Hear My Brane 
09 talk 1      
10 The Man With the Lightbulb Head
11 Queen of Eyes        
12 When I Was a Kid        
13 If You Know Time
14 talk 2  

MP3@320
  
FLAC (1980 show only)      
 
The Soft Boys:
Robyn Hitchcock - vocal, guitar
Kimberley Rew - guitar, backing vocal
Matthew Seligman - bass
Morris Windsor - drums, backing vocal

Learn more about the Soft Boys' music at 
Trouser Press and AllMusic

Winterpills - Northampton, MA 2010 + bonus

The Academy of Music
Northampton, MA
Jan. 23, 2010

soundboard recording (quality VG++; levels get properly adjusted by track 2)

Tracks 11-16 = The Listening Room, Aug. 29, 2003 (audience recording, VG-)

BIG, FAT THANKS to Mick for compiling these sets and creating the artwork, and to Don for sharing.

MP3@256 (final 6 tracks = 160 kbps)
 

ASH Tuesday post #51

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

Peter Case - Live 1987, 1989 (FM + sbd)

Peter Case & Friends 

KCRW’s ‘Snap’

Santa Monica, CA

March 20, 1987

FM capture (sound quality VG to VG+)

PETER CASE: lost in the music again (photo by magicmanjp)

01 I Shook His Hand

02 Pair of Brown Eyes

03 Working for the Enemy 

04 The Power of Love

05 My Trusted Friend

06 Walk In the Woods

07 Echo Wars

08 Fixin' to Die Blues

09 More Than Curious

10 Three Days Straight

11 (chat & tuning)

12 History of Jazz (Fast Freddie vocal)

13 (chat 2, Peter takes a break)

14 Icewater

15 Small Town Spree

16 Horse and Crow

17 Steel Strings

18 Satellite Beach

19 (chat 3)

20 Put Down the Gun

21 (chat 4)

22 Matchbox

ROB SEZ: This is Peter Case around the time of his solo debut album with a buncha musician friends, including Steve Soles, Victoria Williams, and Fast Freddie. Live in session on “Snap” with the late, great Deirdre O’Donahue. Below is a few years later, recorded in Peter’s hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., near the end of the 1989 tour. It’s an incomplete set, but a very sweet-sounding soundboard recording. The other two musicians on the second set may be Michael Bannister on drums and Duke McVinnie on bass.

SHO’ NUFF THANKS to kneesfudd for sharing the '87 set and to mjk5510 for sharing the ’89 set.

Nietzsche's

Buffalo, NY

October 4, 1989

soundboard recording (sound quality VG++) 

01 Cool Water

02 Walkin' Bum

03 Entella Hotel

04 Travellin' Light

05 Power, Lust and Money

06 The Power of Love

07 Ice Water

08 Walk In the Woods

09 Eye On the Road

10 Poor Old Tom

11 Steel Strings

12 Pair of Brown Eyes

13 Old Blue Car (end cut, fades out)

MP3@320

Peter Case's solo debut album has just been re-released on CD

Omnivore Recordings did their usual amazing job, adding 7 bonus tracks.

Check it out HERE 

Learn more about the music of Peter Case at his official web site and Wikipedia