Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Blackwell Dubs
A+ an ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE.
source sdb>casseteex2>?>flac
Tracks tested using Traders Little Helper and passed (OP.. NOT RUSSIAN)
Aerosmith
1973-03-20
Boston, MA
Paul’s Mall
Source: Soundboard
Lineage: Reel(m) > DAT > DAT > Prodiff 96 digital > WAV > FLAC
Quality: 10
Comments:
Notes:
Set 1:
A man walks into a darkened house. He closes the curtains before turning the lights on. If he is a burglar he is a strange one, for he doesn’t take anything. He just looks around. He seems especially interested in some old letters, and flower cards that say simply “Love Always.”
He is Lee Warren (Eric Portman) and he lives in this house with his wife Vivien (Greta Gynt). He’s been away in America for many months on business. Those love letters are not from him, but from Vivien’s lover Richard Fenton (Dennis Price)
Lee devises the perfect way to murder Fenton and make it look like suicide. Even better he tricks Fenton into writing a letter that makes it sound like he’s killed himself over Vivien’s unwillingness to divorce Lee.
He almost gets away with it, too. Trouble is, Vivien had already broken it off with Fenton before Lee had even come home. There was only a brief affair and Fenton would not have killed himself over her. In fact, Vivien already has a new lover, Jimmy Martin (Maxwell Reed). Lee devises a new plan, with a little work, he can make it appear that Jimmy murdered Fenton and it was he that made it look like a suicide.
As this is a movie made in 1947 and is a film noir you can probably guess how well this works out for him.
This is a very British noir. It has little of that biting, cynical dialogue that comes with so many American noirs. The exchanges here are more polite, but still cutting. At one point Lee notes that he rather likes Fenton and under different circumstances, they might become friends. Later, Lee has a second change of heart and sabotages his own perfect murder because of his own feelings.
It has that detached British feel to the filmmaking as well. Like the camera is just an observer and we are an audience watching these strange events occur without ever needing to feel anything about them.
That’s not to say that this isn’t good. I mean it isn’t great, but it is an enjoyable watch. Greta Gynt is especially fun as a sort-of femme fatale who uses men to suit her needs and has no other use for them. Consider it middle-shelf noir.
xxxx.xx.xx – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vo. 33-34
1994.xx.xx – Space Madness Sessions
1994.02.04 – Raleigh, NC
1999-2001 – Bedhead, Vol. 1
2001-2003 – Bedhead, Vol. 3
2000.10.20 – New York, NY
2000.11.01 – Minneapolis, MN
2000.11.02 – St. Paul, MN
2000.11.03 – St. Peter, MN
2000.11.06 – Malmo, Sweden
2000.11.14 – Leicester, England
2000.11.17 – London, England
2000.11.19 – Sheffield, England
2002.02.05 – Utrecht, The Netherlands
2002.04.02 – Nashville, TN – w/Elton John
2002.12.08 – Paris, France
2005.06.03 – Clifton Park, NY
2005.06.16 – Austin, TX – w/Phil Lesh
2005.07.25 – Melbourne, Australia
2011.09.01 – London, England
2011.09.15 – Denver, CO
2011.12.02 – Santa Monica, CA
2011.12.04 – Baltimore, MD
2011.12.05 – New York, NY
Ratdog
Phil Lesh & Friends
July 9, 2001
Zoo Amphitheatre
Oklahoma City, OK
Ragdog Set
1 Blackbird @
2 FOTD @*
3 Masterpiece @* (band joins)
4 UJB ->
5 Playin ->
6 Oct. Queen ->
7 Deep End ->
8 Even So ->
9 Estimated ->
10 Other One Jam #->
11 Bass/Drums
DISC TWO
1 Ashes & Glass ->
2 Terrapin ->
3 Playin’ reprise ->
4 UJB
@ – acoustic Bob & Rob
@* – Bob, Rob and Mark
“Wheel”, “Playin” and “Supplication” teases during “Other One Jam” (Bad as F**K!!)
Phil Lesh Set
Set 1
Disc 1
Set 2
Disk 3
Jerry Garcia & Buddy Cage
December 09, 1971
The date of this show is in dispute. Consensus seems to be that t took place December 9, 1971 in St. Louis.
Jerry Base has more details.
The Grateful Dead played gig later that day. You can find that show here.
Picked up something I haven’t seen elsewhere.
This single sbd CD features Jerry Garcia & Buddy Cage jamming and
noodling with a few Marmaduke vocals and a Weir vocal (Seasons).
Someone (Marmaduke) picks up a bass halfway through)
Very interesting artifact, not from the vault. Session runs until reel
runs out (47:30)
Here’s what I have on this:
Jam Session Info
Here’s the note from James that came with the show:
Now, to the other goody I sent you. Here’s the story on that. A friend of
mine who does sound and production work here in St. Louis was taking slide
guitar lessons and went through the archive of open reel tapes they had
there and found the one in question. He asked to borrow it and took it home
and did a 24 bit digital transfer from the mono 7″ open reel. This hasn’t
been heard by many more people than Brad, myself and a few others in 30
years!!! I was pretty damn excited about the discovery and glad that I was
only the second person that had heard it counting Brad after he mastered the
tape. As far as I know at this point it’s Jerry Garcia, Buddy Cage and other
members of NRPS. Other than that that’s all I know right now. The Grateful
Dead’s archives don’t even have this tape. Pretty fun stuff to listen too
even though it’s a lot of noodling and such. I kinda like it myself.
Everything was plugged straight into the open reel deck. So the source would be:
7″ mono open reel > 24 bit transfer > resample > CD-R
My attempt at a setlist:
shns from RowJimmy Kelly on 8/30/01
Track 1 is Workin’ Man Blues
Track 3 is Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)
Track 6 is How High the Moon
Track 10 is Take Me Back to Tulsa
I’m generally not a fan of the way Christmas Season keeps getting bumped farther and farther up the calendar. I don’t need to see giant, inflatable Santa Clauses the day after Halloween, thank you very much. I don’t want to hear Christmas Carols at the grocery store on the first of November. Don’t tell me about Black Friday deals six weeks before Thanksgiving. Let me enjoy Autumn for a little while before I have to start thinking about presents, and visiting my in-laws, and decorating the bloody Christmas tree.
There is an exception to my bah-humbug-iness.
I’m totally down with big boxed sets of Blu-rays getting released as early as possible. That gives me plenty of time to add things to my list.
Frank Capra was one of the great directors of classic cinema. He directed the greatest of all Christmas movies, It’s a Wonderful Life, and also It Happened One Night, You Can’t Take It With You, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Arsenic and Old Lace, and many others.
This set includes 21 of his films that cover a great chunk of his career from his earliest silent movies to some of his great classics. It comes in a very nice-looking case and is loaded with extras.
The films include:
So This Is Love / The Way of the Strong / That Certain Thing / Submarine 4K SDR / The Younger Generation 4K SDR / Flight / Ladies of Leisure / Rain or Shine – 2 cuts / Dirigible 4K SDR / The Miracle Woman / Platinum Blonde 4K / American Madness / The Bitter Tea of General Yen / Forbidden / Lady for a Day / It Happened One Night 4K / Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 4K / Lost Horizon 4K / You Can’t Take It With You 4K / Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 4K / + Frank Capra: Mr America docu / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
This is definitely going on my Christmas wishlist and it is now this week’s pick.
Also out this week that looks interesting:
The Terminator (40th Anniversary, 4K UHD): I still remember my Dad renting this film back in the late 1980s. I had no idea what it was, had never heard of the film, and if I’m being honest I was probably too young to have been allowed to watch it. But I absolutely loved it. Still do. As far as I can tell the few extras that are included in this disc have been ported over from previous releases.
Godzilla Minus One (4K UHD): Forget all those silly American Godzilla flicks, this is the real deal. Just an all-around terrific Godzilla film.
A Simple Plan (Limited Edition 4K UHD): Sam Raimi’s thriller about a struggling couple who stumble upon a crashed plane with a load of cash in it got loads of critical acclaim when it came out, but I didn’t care that much for it. I think it is time for a revisit. Arrow Video has this release and they’ve loaded it with extras.
Speak No Evil: American remake of a Danish thriller about an idyllic weekend holiday that goes terribly wrong. Stars James McAvoy, McKenzie Davis, and Scoot McNairy.
Funny Girl (4K UHD): Criterion presents this musical from director William Wyler about a poor Jewish girl (Barbara Streisand) who rises to fame and fortune.
CC40: To celebrate their 40th anniversary the Criterion Collection has put together this boxed set of 40 films. There doesn’t seem to be anything special about the films they chose. They have all been released by Criterion before and as far as I can tell they don’t come with any additional extras. It would be a good starter pack for someone who doesn’t already own a lot of these films (and has a lot of money), but otherwise, I can’t see any reason to buy this.
Slap the Monster: Radiance Films continues its fantastic schedule of releasing relatively obscure Italian films. This one follows a newspaper as it tries to derail a murder investigation in order to support a fascist political candidate.
Japan Organized Crime Boss: Another Radiance Film release. This one concerns an elderly Yakuza soldier who just got out of prison. He wants to lead a straight life from now on but his former compatriots keep dragging him back into the life. You can read my full review here.
Jackson Browne
20 July 2022
Filene Center at Wolf Trap
Vienna, VA
Set 1
Somebody’s Baby
The Barricades of Heaven
The Long Way Around
Downhill From Everywhere
Fountain of Sorrow
Rock Me on the Water
In the Shape of a Heart
Before the Deluge
I Am a Patriot
Set 2
You Love the Thunder
The Dreamer
Until Justice Is Real
For a Dancer
These Days
Redneck Friend
Doctor My Eyes
Late for the Sky
The Pretender
Running on Empty
Disc 3 – encore 1 –
Take It Easy
Our Lady of the Well
encore 2 –
The Load-Out
Stay
LC master
Jackson Browne
22 august 2016
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Morrison, CO, USA
Disc 1 – Set 1
Rock Me on the Water
Just Say Yeah
Fountain of Sorrow
The Long Way Around
Call It a Loan
I’m Alive
For Everyman
Walls and Doors
For a Dancer
Doctor My Eyes
Disc 2 – Set 2
The Birds of St. Marks
Your Bright Baby Blues
Which Side
These Days
Somebody’s Baby
Boulevard
Redneck Friend
The Barricades of Heaven
Late for the Sky
In the Shape of a Heart
The Pretender
Running on Empty
Disc 3 – encore
Take It Easy
Our Lady of the Well
I Am a Patriot
L.C. master
CD RIP > Audacity 1.3
Cd wave > Traders Little Helper level 8
In August of 1966 Charles Whitman, after stabbing his wife and mother to death, climbed a clock tower at the University of Texas at Austin and shot over 30 people with a rifle.
Two years later Peter Bogdanovich directed his first movie. Famed producer Roger Corman told Bogdanovich he could make any movie he liked under two conditions. First Boris Karloff owed him two days worth of work so the film would have to utilize that. Second, he had to use clips from Corman’s own film with Karloff, The Terror (1963). Other than that he could do what he wanted (within the budget constraints of course.)
Targets blends a slightly autobiographical tale of Karloff as an aging horror actor who finds real life’s horrors to be more than he can take, and a Charles Whitman-esque “average man” who goes on a shooting spree. The way that these two separate stories merge is quite fascinating.
Karloff is Byron Orlok an elderly actor who starred in the type of horror movies Karloff used to star in. But he finds he no longer has an audience. Those old films seem dated and cheesy to modern audiences. Real life with its relentless real violence is much scarier than those old movies. He announces he’s going to retire, much to the chagrin of Sammy Michaels (Peter Bogdanovich) a director who has just written a part specifically for Orlok.
During these scenes, we watch Orlok watch scenes from The Terror, and later we’ll see him watch himself in The Criminal Code (1933). It is quite a treat to watch Karloff watching himself on screen.
Orlok is unrelenting in his decision to retire but does agree to make an appearance at a drive-in theater where one of his films will be shown.
Meanwhile, Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) is a seemingly normal young man. He has a pretty wife and a perfectly average set of parents with whom they live in a nice little house. He likes to go hunting with his father. He likes guns.
The film gives us hints that not all is well with the Thompsons. Nothing dramatic, but his interactions with his wife are bland. His conversations with his parents are empty. We watch them sit around the television laughing blankly at some broad comedy.
Then he kills his wife and mother, loads up a bag full of weapons, sits atop an oil storage tank, and begins taking potshots at cars on a nearby highway. When the cops arrive he escapes, making his way to a drive-thru playing some old film starring Byron Orlok.
Bogdanovich shoots all of this with a low-key style. He wisely doesn’t make any overt statements about movies and violence, allowing the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
It is a fascinating film and one that amazes me that it ever got made. There aren’t a lot of people who could take that mandate from Roger Corman and make something at all watchable, that Bogdanovich turned it into something great is a minor miracle.
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