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Radio Show Syndication on Vinyl LPs

morganw — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:25:59 -0800

In 1975 and again in 1984-1992 Dr. Demento was distributed on LP vinyl records. There was a history of distributing shows on transcription discs, but this and other shows are now found all over the internet along with other forms of "bootlegs" thanks to digital recording and LP record players co-existing. One of Lou Reed's May 1978 shows at the Bottom Line was released but another was only distributed on the Retro Rock radio show by the Clayton Webster Corp. Retro Rock also distributed shows featuring Billy Joel, Black Sabbath and The Yardbirds. Where did they go? Steve Bunyard's Clayton Webster at times owned WARQ, was sold to Olympia Broadcasting, was bought back and went bankrupt. Spin Magazine had a Spin Radio Concert show on which Hüsker Dü appeared. The King Biscuit Flower Hour was distributed on LP from 1980 to 1987 featuring Talking Heads, Patti Smith and Men at Work. Other shows were Off The Record, Superstar Concert, and something called Live Tracks. Besides buying the original LPs (or reel-to-reel tapes for the masochistic) or finding recordings, King Biscuit has also digitized and remastered their archive for free streaming & in some cases downloading. (previously)

John Wesley Harding Meets Lord Tennyson - Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight August 31st, 1969

y2karl — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:27:45 -0800

At the Isle of Wight Festival, Dylan was the only monster on the bill capable of attracting a monster of an audience. In refusing to play the Woodstock Festival and in then letting himself be talked into playing the Isle of Wight, Dylan in effect was telling England's counterculture: ''C'mon. Let's hold our own Woodstock.'' And so, on the Isle of Wight, a dot of land that certainly wasn't the easiest place in the world to get to, Dylan almost single-handedly proved an enticing enough attraction to collect an audience sometimes estimated to be as few as a 125,000 and sometimes as many as 250,000.

My Dylan Papers: Part 2 The Isle of Wight

Another scrap from the late Al Aronowitz, the self-styled Blacklisted Journalist, and former Dylan courtier, recalling the only full concert Dylan gave solo or with the Band between 1967 and 1973 and sung in his Nashville Skyline voice, to boot, no less. And now you can have it all to yourself.... So, I decided to put the real meat of the post within for obvious reasons. There is now available online the entire concert in mp3 format, big fat files at that, free and suited to burning to CD or Ipod, I would assume. Free. I have Coralized it all below out of a perhaps misplaced sense of decorum. And here, Coralized is the entire concert: [or not... Heck! I went to all that work while waiting to post again to Coralize every mp3 file and all for naught. They won't download from here... Ah, well, it worked from this end.] ~~And~~ Well, here, un-Coralized, is John Wesley Harding Meets Lord Tennyson, the page from whence all these delights come. Which is but one item on the left hand side bar of the home page of Big O World Wide, a magazine from Singapore of which I had never heard until tonight. Where someone has a monster collection of Recordings Of Indeterminate Origin indeed. And several are still up and open. The mind reels, the intellect stands abashed. Well, it's all there and then more... Look around. For instance, among many things, I saw Tombstone, an unreleased post Rock-of-Ages, post Robbie Robertson, post Richard Manuel, 1980s studio Band album done with Jules Shear for instance, still available upon request, or the whole Lou Reed/Zeitkratzer live Metal Machine Music concert in 2002, no longer available at all as there will be a commercial recording soon. So, the Big O Audio Archives is a site on which to keep an eye. Ah, and now, I see that Punkfloyd has previously posted concerning the Stones from Big O only two days before This Christmas past, so this is not entirely new here... Well, I sure don't understand how they can afford to put all this stuff up. So hence the no trapeze without a .nyud.net attitude... And, for further Dylanesque revelations, see-- Bob Dylan, Isle of Wight Festival, 08-31-69 Electric atmosphere The Mystery Dream of Nashville Skyline That voice reappeared on Self-Portrait and then, having taken up smoking again, disappeared from his public singing--I have heard anecdotes that, alone, at home or backstage, he could sing in that voice still years later. One wonders how much of it he has left. Not much I suspect. Years of touring and screaming and not taking care of his vocal chords have left him with barely any voice at all. Or so it has sounded the last few times I have heard him in concert. It is painful and sad to hear him now and one almost needs subtitles to even tell which song he is singing sometimes, at least until he hits the chorus. As for the Bootleg, I had it on vinyl by 1970 and it is interesting, if only for historical reasons. I had issues with the whole Nashville Skline voice. Ah, but I was so much older then... And for sure, the best songs have been put out by Columbia--including Minstrel Boy and the Mighty Quinn. But I do remember liking his take on The Wild Mountain Thyme and imagine my surprise when another take appeared on Bob Dylan 1965 Revisited, the new Pennebaker movie of outtakes on a second DVD that comes with the deluxe 40th aniiversary box set of Don't Look Back, that comes with book and a flip book of of the Subterranean Homesick Blues cue card outtake. That is a film well worth seeing. Dylan sings Wild Mountain Thyme in a hotel room with Joan Baez and, as it turns out, it was a number they had done their tour of England only two weeks before the tour of Don't Look Back. And it's the same arrangement that Baez uses on Farewell, Angelina. As for the Columbia recordings of the concert, Dylan was not so enthused with the results and called off a planned tour for later that year, or so some have asserted. Sitll, it has its moments. And here are some videos:
Bob Dylan & the Band - Highway 61 Revisited Bob Dylan & the Band - I Threw It All Away Bob Dylan & the Band - One Too Many Mornings Bob Dylan & the Band - I Pity The Poor Immigrant John Lennon and Ringo Starr in the crowd Well, I do try to set a lavish buffet sometimes...

Double the songs for half the space!

flatluigi — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:19:18 -0800

Mashups are a genre of music in which one or more songs by other artists are mixed together into a (hopefully) better whole.

Proof that Led Zeppelin fans are geekier than Rush fans

melorama — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:28:52 -0800

Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same motion picture soundtrack, reverse engineered. To commemorate Monday's remixed 5.1 Surround double-disc DVD/HD-DVD/BluRay/CD reissue of Led Zeppelin's 1976 film, The Song Remains the Same, we present you with The Garden Tapes, a Zapruder-esque analysis of every song from the soundtrack and film recordings.

Live bootleg MP3 blog

jonson — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:51:11 -0800

The Ultimate Bootleg Experience is an ecclectic mp3 blog dedicated to live boots with a good number of posts up, and the links in the archives seem to stay live for quite a while.

Live Bootlegs of Radiohead, Wilco & More

jonson — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:38:33 -0800

The "Bootlegs" section over at The Rawking Refuses To Stop has a ton of great stuff, from a stripped down live acoustic Jeff Tweedy & Jay Bennet set (right before YHF was released) to a mock-up version of the unreleased new Radiohead album using the best available live tracks from the most recent tour to a rare Paul McCartney, John Lennon & Stevie Wonder jam session to all sorts of smaller gems.

Live MP3s. Free. Good quality, too.

dobbs — Tue, 09 May 2006 16:08:07 -0800

A nice mixed bag of live mp3s.

Merry Christmash!

Robot Johnny — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:34:18 -0800

Santastic: Holiday boots for your stockings. Mash-ups of decades of Christmas records just in time for the holidays. The quality varies throughout, but it makes for some fun manic listening if you've grown tired of the same perennial chestnuts. Merry Christmash to all, and to all a boot night.

Get Your Bootleg On

turbodog — Wed, 27 Oct 2004 12:02:00 -0800

Get Your Bootleg On has lotsa bootlegs. This kind, not this kind. Inspired by this.

lbergstr — Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:13:02 -0800

Boom Selection is a music blog, focused on bootlegs. Not old Grateful Dead concerts, but DIY remixes and combinations, with tracks that pit Eminem against Britney, or Grandmaster Flash against Boards of Canada. Crazy stuff. bsx is a helpful filter that whittles it all down to must-listen boots and mixes.