Dave Gregory (former XTC) – Remoulds I and II

Phase-Corrected Version, Repost

DG covers classic songs from the 1960s & '70s

soundboard recordings (quality: Ex-)
 

Dave recorded these for himself and friends.
Now you can hear his labors of love.

ROB SEZ: Dave Gregory is best known as the long-time lead guitarist for XTC. Since his departure from that group in 1999, he’s kept himself busy doing production and session work in the UK, and playing occasional gigs. Gregory has been recording music at home since 1973. In 1997 and '98, he put together a collection of covers entitled Remoulds. As you’ll hear, they are his own re-creations of classic 1960s and 70s pop and rock songs, with some original instrumentals included in the second collection. Gregory describes the tracks on Remoulds as "home-baked forgeries," created for his own amusement.

THANK YOU Hans de Vente for sharing, and thank you Failsafe for phase correcting & remastering Remoulds I
 

Dave plays live, 2013   
Simon Hogg photo

REMOULDS I

01. Those Were the Days (Cream)
02. 36-24-36 (The Shadows)
03. Scarlet O'Hara (Jet Harris)
04. The Cruel Sea (The Dakotas)
05. Pretty Flamingo (Manfred Mann)
06. I Feel Free (Cream)
07. Tin Soldier (Small Faces)
08. Wait Until Tomorrow (Jimi Hendrix)
09. Fresh Garbage (Spirit)
10. MacArthur Park (Jimmy Webb)
11. Diamond Hard Blue Apples 
      of the Moon (The Nice)
12. And How Am I to Know (Ars Nova)
13. Classical Gas (Mason Williams)
14. All Along the Watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
15. Jigsaw Puzzle Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
16. Happy Freuds (The Nice)
17. Sabre Dance (Love Sculpture)
18. Our Prayer (Beach Boys)
19. Because (The Beatles)
20. Little Bit of Love (Free)
21. Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Group)

Dave, 'Dukes of the S' session

22. Love Comes to Everyone (George Harrison)

REMOULDS II

01. I'm Not Like Everybody Else (The Kinks)
02. Say You Don't Mind (Denny Laine)
03. Gypsy Eyes (Jimi Hendrix)
04. I Am the Walrus (The Beatles)
05. S.W.L.A.B.R. (Cream)
06. Blue Orpheus (Todd Rundgren)
07. Pictures of Lily (The Who)
08. My White Bicycle (Tomorrow)
09. Our Love Was (The Who)
10. Little Girl (Syndicate of Sound)
11. I See You (The Byrds)
12. Forget All About It (NazZ)
13. Love Story (Jethro Tull)
14. Rubber Balloons*
15. Mr. Gregory Goes Uptown*
16. Morsall Mood #2*
17. Carry the Torch*
18. Call It Witchcraft*
19. Gloria Monday*
20. I Write to the Trees*

All smiles (bottom right) with XTC

21. Starfish Tango*
22. Third Stone from the Sun  
        (Jimi Hendrix)

 

*Dave Gregory original instrumental compositions 

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SOURCES: Although they’ve never seen an official release, Gregory distributed CD-R copies to acquaintances starting in the late 1990s (some versions have 1 or 2 tracks not included here). I’m indebted to Hans de Vente for sharing his. If you compare these to the listing at Dave’s own web site, you’ll see there are many additional songs in the second set I’m posting — presumably because they are more recent recordings and, perhaps, because Dave just hasn’t gotten around to updating that page…

READ A REVIEW of Dave Gregory’s Remoulds I at Bill Kopp’s Musoscribe. 

Learn more about Dave Gregory

& his music at his web site
  

Midlake - Austin, TX 2010 (VG++ aud)

Antone's

Austin, TX

June 4, 2010

audience recording (sound quality: VG++; excellent recording made with raised mics)

01 intro

MIDLAKE: mesmerizing the crowd in 2010

02 Winter Dies

03 Children of the Grounds

04 Young Bride

05 Van Occupanther

06 The Horn

07 Rulers, Ruling All Things 

08 Fortune 

09 Jam

10 Roscoe

11 Bandits 

12 Acts of Man

13 Core of Nature

14 band intros

15 Head Home 

16 encore

17 Branches

ROB SEZ:

Midlake's most recent LP:
For the Sake of Bethel Woods

 I'm late to the party with Midlake. But now that I've heard 'em, I can't quit 'em. Imagine if Richard Thompson-era Fairport Convention* and The Band had a baby, and that baby boy (band) was born in Texas. The musical product of such a union would probably sound something like Midlake: melodic folk-rock with a modestly British sensibility, nature-focused song lyrics, and great musicianship. Why the heck didn't I hear about 'em earlier? I had a tough time finding an ROIO to share with you. But once I stumbled upon Lee Hart's superb recording of this home state show in 2010 — in front of an adoring crowd, I didn't have to look any further. If you have any other Midlake recordings of similar quality to share, please get in touch.

*Not Fairport Convention, you say? OK, try Fotheringay or Pentangle.

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Marshall Crenshaw - Philadelphia, PA 1990 (sbd)

Chestnut Cabaret

Philadelphia, PA

Jan. 30, 1990 

   

soundboard recording (quality: Ex-; this sounds great!)

 

01 Valerie (Richard Thompson cover)

02 You Should've Been There

03 Mary Anne

04 Steel Strings (Peter Case cover)

05 band intros

06 Like a Vague Memory

07 Someplace Where Love Can't Find Me 

      (John Hiatt cover)

08 There She Goes Again

09 On the Run

10 Love's Made a Fool of You

      (Bobby Fuller cover)

11 This Is Easy

12 Calling Out for Love (at Crying Time)*

13 Let Her Dance

14 She Hates to Go Home

15 Whenever You're On My Mind

16 Twine Time - instrumental

      (Alvin Cash & The Crawlers cover)

17 (You're My) Favorite Waste of Time

18 Cynical Girl

19 Rockin' Around In NYC

20 Heartbreak Time

      (G. Burtnik lead vocal)

MC's new archival release

21 Someday, Someway

22 I Can See for Miles (The Who cover)

23 Somebody Crying

  

*track 12: middle cut — fades out, then back in 

Musicians:

Marshall Crenshaw: guitar, vocals

Glen Burtnik: guitar, keyboards

Graham Maby: bass, backing vocals

Kenny Aronoff: drums

ROB SEZ: I can't think of a better way to wrap up this run of Marshall Crenshaw offerings fron the 1980s than with this rocking, fab-sounding live set from the first month of the new decade. I have a sentimental preference for MC's original rhythm section, including brother Robert on drums, but I can't find any fault here: Kenny Aronoff on drums and Graham Maby on bass. I've got plenty of other MC recordings in my archive from the '90s onward, but they'll have to wait. I want to get on with sharing a pair of newly-unearthed dB's shows plus lesser-known artists that you need to hear. Keep an eye out for re-releases of more classic MC recordings, now that he's reclaimed rights to his earlier catalog. His stellar debut was just re-released on Yep Roc in a remastered & expanded edition. HUGE THANKS to julsay for sharing the original lossless files, which had a few issues related to track splitting and too much variability in volume. I didn't mess with the basic sound, just re-split the tracks, added fade-ins and -outs where needed, and adjusted the levels to make it a smoother listening experience. Please enjoy.  

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Marshall Crenshaw - Ritz NYC 1987 (FM)

The Ritz
New York, N.Y.
Aug. 1, 1987

WNEW-FM broadcast

FM capture (sound quality: VG+; a solid FM capture, one generation removed from the master; it was a little "clattery" sounding for my taste, so I adjusted the EQ a bit)

01 A Hundred Dollars

02 Steel Strings (Peter Case cover)

03 Love's Made a Fool of You

     (Buddy Holly cover)

04 Try

05 This Is Easy

06 band intros > Someday, Someway 

07 Wild Abandon

08 Calling Out for Love at Crying Time

09 Crying, Waiting, Hoping

     (Buddy Holly cover)

10 Rockin' Around In NYC

11 I'll Do Anything

12 On the Run (live debut)

13 Whenever You're On My Mind

14 Tonight (MC5 cover)

15 There She Goes Again

16 Talk to Your Daughter (J.B. Lenoir cover)

17 Cynical Girl

In 1987, MC was touring behind this album,
the Don Dixon produced Mary Jean & 9 Others

18 Somebody Crying

19 Mary Jean

20 This Street

21 Go Boy Go

22 Mary Anne

23 Annie Had a Baby

24 (You're My) Favorite Waste of Time 

Musicians:

Marshall Crenshaw - guitar, lead vocals

Graham Maby - bass

Robert Crenshaw - drums, backing vocals

ROB SEZ:  By the mid 1980s, Marshall Crenshaw's commercial fortunes began to take a downturn. His 1987 album Mary Jean & 9 Others was the first not to trouble the top 200 U.S. album charts after its predecessor had peaked at #113. MC fans like me could feel Warner Brothers, his label, getting cold feet. In fact, they dropped him after the next album he recorded, 1989's Good Evening. Meanwhile, MC and his brother Robert kept touring, now with the great Graham Maby replacing (the equally great) Chris Donato on bass. As he says on this recording, MC loved playing The Ritz, and you can hear it in this energized performance, with plenty of great cover songs. HUGE THANKS to whomever shared this originally. Another bonus mystery share from 1987 lurks in the shadows...

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Marshall Crenshaw - Utica, N.Y. 1985 (sbd)

Mohawk Valley Country Club

Utica, N.Y.

March 2, 1985

soundboard recording (quality: Ex-; sounds great!)

MC: musical man of mystery

01  For Her Love (fades in)

02  Our Town

03  Little Sister

04  There She Goes Again

05  (We're Gonna) Shake Up Their Minds 

06  Soldier of Love

07  One More Reason

08  I'm Alive

09  Reet Petite

10  Mary Anne

11  Monday Morning Rock

12  Whenever You're On My Mind

13  Big Hunk of Love

14  Little Wild One*

15  Cynical Girl

16  She Can't Dance

17  Someday Someway (cuts out)

18  Girls

19  Endless Sleep

20  Brown-Eyed Handsome Man

   

*the brief cut in track 14 was also on the master recording

ROB SEZ: Once I started posting MC shows starting with 1982, I decided to just keep going forward chronologically. Most self-respecting MC fans probably have this already because it circulated pretty widely over the years. I think I first acquired it from the late, great Quality Bootz site. The sound quality on this one can't be beat, and is most likely from a master tape or, at most, 1st-generation copy. The early part of the performance is a bit lackluster compared to the rest of what I've posted, but that's probably because it's one of the band's first shows of 1985, and there are players new to the touring lineup, like the great Graham Maby. Fortunately, the show picks up steam about a third of the way through, so it's worth staying with it — or just skipping straight to track 8. (The bonus mystery share won't be hard to find.)

  

REPERCUSSION: 

Chris Stamey mixed this LP

Marshall Crenshaw & The dB's go way back to the earliest days of their music. They shared a record label for about a minute: Alan Betrock's Shake Records, which released the first bonafide dB's single in 1980 (after the "Chris Stamey and The dB's" self-released CAR single) and MC's first single in 1980, just before he signed to Warner Brothers. With both MC and The dB's based in the NYC area in the 1980s, they no doubt crossed paths with each other more than a few times. Fast forward to 2016, when Crenshaw uncovered multi-track tapes of a live show he decided to release on vinyl. He asked none other than his "great friend" Chris Stamey to mix the tracks, which became the 2017 vinyl release Thank You, Rock Fans. Here's what MC said about Chris when it was released: "He was one of the mainstays of the scene that we were part of, felt whatever energy we were able to put into a live room back then, understood where we were coming from, etc. I'm glad that this new live album has his fingerprints on it." One more dB's-related connection: Mitch Easter and Don Dixon have both produced music for MC over the years.

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Marshall Crenshaw - Ritz, NYC 1984 (sbd)

The Ritz

New York, N.Y.

Dec. 19, 1984

  

soundboard recording (quality: VG++; probably deserves a higher rating, but I can't ignore the faint sound of a short in one channel — don't listen with headphones!)

Marshall Crenshaw: 1984 or '85

01 For Her Love

02 Our Town

03 Little Sister (Elvis Presley cover) [cuts out]

04 There She Goes Again (cuts in)

05 (We're Gonna) Shake Up Their Minds 

06 Soldier of Love (Arthur Alexander cover)

07 One More Reason

08 I'm Alive (The Hollies cover)

09 Reet Petite (Jackie Wilson cover)

10 Mary Anne

11 Monday Morning Rock

12 Whenever You're on My Mind

13 A Big Hunk o' Love (Elvis Presley cover)

14 Lesson Number One

15 She Can't Dance

16 Someday, Someway

17 Feliz Navidad (José Feliciano cover)

18 Brand New Lover

19 Someday We're Gonna Love Again 

     (The Searchers cover)

New archival live release! INFO

ROB SEZ:  A rare 1984 performance, in lovely soundboard splendor. (Although 2 generations removed from the master tape, this recording still sounds pretty amazing to me.) As far as I can tell, Crenshaw only performed 4 times in 1984 (heard here, MC's explanation for his lengthy absence is typically sardonic). As usual, MC, his brother Robert on drums, and Chris Donato are in very fine form, and fully a third of the songs here are covers, including a couple I have not heard elsewhere. Trainspotters will want to know this is not the complete performance, because the recording as I received it lacked a few of the songs listed here. This recording has a faint short in one channel that you probably won't hear unless you use heaphones or earbuds — so don't do that! 

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Marshall Crenshaw - Early Demos + 'Downtown' Demos

Early Demos (c. 1979-1981)

various recording dates & locations

home recordings (sound quality VG-; source was a not-great-sounding, multi-gen. tape;  lilpanda cleaned up the tracks & they’re enjoyable now)

01 Never Gonna Happen Again

02 We Belong Together

03 This Is the Love

04 She's Not Mine Anymore [1] 

05 Somebody Like You

06 Now I've Got You

07 She Can't Dance

08 Not for Me

09 Brand New Lover

10 Communication

11 I'll Do Anything

12 Rockin' Around In NYC (alt. demo)

13 Soldier of Love

14 For Her Love

15 Something's Gonna Happen

     (alt. demo)

16 Mary Anne

17 The Usual Thing

18 There She Goes Again

19 Cynical Girl

20 She's Not Mine Anymore [2]

NOTE: none of these appears on the official 9-Volt Years collection (but some are alt. versions of demos that did appear on the same)

BIG THANKS to lilpanda, atlasstar, and angelo. 

'Downtown'-Era Demos

c. 1984

unknown source

home recordings (sound quality VG+; probably first-generation tape source) 

01 My Desiree

02 Terrifying Love

03 She Hates to Go Home

04 That Girl Belongs to Yesterday 

      (unfinished lyrics)

05 Shake It Till We Break It 

     (unfinished lyrics)

06 Baby Doll (unfinished lyrics)

07 Instrumental 1

08 Instrumental 2

09 Instrumental 3

10 Feliz Navidad

11 All I Ever Wanted (K. MacColl demo)*

12 Santa Baby (unknown female vocalist)

     *Imagine my surprise — as a fan of both M.C. and Kirsty MacColl — to discover

      that track 11 is M.C. playing to a K.M. vocal demo...

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Learn more about the music of Marshall Crenshaw at his official site and/or AllMusic

Marshall Crenshaw - Live 1983 in CT & PA (FM + preFM)

Agora Ballroom

Hartford, CT

July 18, 1983

  

FM recording (sound quality: VG++; great!) 

01 Monday Morning Rock

02 Brand New Lover

03 I’ll Do Anything

04 Here I Am (Come & Take Me)

05 Whenever You’re On My Mind 

06 I’ve Been Good to You

07 One Day With You

08 Mary Anne

09 Rockin’ Around In NYC

10 Try

11 Move It

12 Cynical Girl

13 Someday Someway

14 The Usual Thing

Ripley's Music Hall

Philadelphia, PA

Dec. 2, 1983

  

preFM recording (sound quality: Ex-; partial set broadcast on "King Biscuit Flower Hour")

  

01 Monday Morning Rock

02 Little Sister

03 Our Town 

04 Try 

05 Whenever You're On My Mind 

06 Cynical Girl

07 There She Goes Again

08 Someday Someway

09 Blues Is King

  

ROB SEZ:  1983 was a good year to be Marshall Crenshaw. His second LP Field Day was released to strong reviews (and some carping about Steve Lillywhite's production), and it rose to no. 52 in the album charts. The classic band lineup of MC on vocals & guitar plus his brother Robert on drums and Chris Donato on bass clearly had their act together, and the songs and choice covers were superlative. Here are the best recordings I have from 1983, in terms of performance and sound quality. Although there's some overlap between the two sets, the Philly recording features 4 songs not performed in Hartford, including the sterling "Our Town." Big-time thanks to the original tapers and sharers. (True MC fans won't want to miss the bonus set that's hidden almost in plain sight.)

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