Author: Mat Brewster

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The Rolling Stones – Licks 7: Black Licks (2002-2003)

The Rolling Stones
Licks 7 – Black Licks
Compilation of various tracks taken from Licks Tour (2002/2003)

1 Staples Center, LA 2003
Bill Clinton’s Intro Speech

2 Soundboard, Montreal 2003
Monkey Man

3 Los Angeles 2003
Gimme Shelter
Guest – Remi Kabaka

4 New York 2003
Let It Bleed
Guitar – Hubert Sumlin

5 Soundboard Las Vegas 2002
Dead Flowers

6 Los Angeles 2003
Can’t You Hear Me Knowking?
Guest – Remi Kabaka

7 Oakland 2002
Sweet Virginia
Guest – Frankie Gavin

8 Soundboard Chicago 2003
Live With Me

9 Budokan 2003
Worried About You

10 Los Angeles 2003
Sympathy For The Devil
Guest – Remi Kabaka

11 Keith Richards & Ron Wood – Backstage Licks Tour
Blues Jam

12 Sydney 2003
Ruby Tuesday

13 Soundboard Sydney 2003
Rock Me Baby
Guitar – Angus Young
Vocals – Malcolm Young

Noirvember: Woman on the Run (1950)

woman on the run poster

While out for a walk, Frank Johnson (Ross Elliott) witnesses a murder. He calls the police who want to detain him as he is the only eyewitness. But when he realizes the killers took a shot at him, only barely missing, he takes off.

The police then talk to Frank’s wife Eleanor (Ann Sheridan) to determine his whereabouts. She will become our main character. She also doesn’t know much about Frank anymore, certainly not where he might be. Their marriage has been strained to the breaking point for some time.

She’ll team up with ace reporter Danny (Dennis O’Keefe) to try and find her husband before the bad guys do. They’ll wander around the city looking for clues and edging ever closer to finding Frank. It concludes with a marvelously hectic ride on a roller coaster for Eleanor and a terrifying fight for his life for Frank.

This is one of those films that I should have written about when I first watched it, nearly two weeks ago, but I didn’t. Now the memory of it fades. What I do remember is that I loved it. The cast is terrific, the story twists and turns in the best possible ways. It is a perfectly pitched noir.

Highly recommended.

Noirvember: Berlin Express (1948)

berlin express movie poster

A group of strangers, from a wide variety of backgrounds and nationalities board an American Army train in France bound for post-war Frankfurt. One of the men is a German scientist headed for an important peace conference.

A bomb explodes in the scientist’s train car, killing the man acting as the scientist’s decoy. When the train stops at the next station the real scientist is kidnapped. His assistant Lucienne (Merle Oberon) convinces the other passengers (at least the ones the film has introduced us to) to help find him. An American, Robert Lindley (Robert Ryan) leads the way.

Filmed on location in a very bombed-out Frankfurt and Berlin the film blends a documentary style with film noir. This works both for and against the film. It is fascinating to see these cities lying in ruins, giving us a real sense of the utter destruction the war laid on Europe. It gives the film a heft that studio sets could never accomplish. But the film’s narration constantly comments on it taking us out of the drama and into the classroom.

The film also lays its morality on us a little thick. This is understandable as the film was made so close to the end of the war, the wounds were still fresh. It seems to be pleading with us “Can’t we all just get along?” which is a fine sentiment, but one that cheeses up the otherwise pretty terrific thriller aspects. The bad guys turn out to be underground Nazis which is a unique spin and highlights how even after the war was officially over Europe was far from a safe and peaceful place.

Director Jaques Tourneur gives it his usual noir feel with lots of great camerawork. Cinematographer Lucien Ballard keeps things locked in shadow. Merle Oberon is terrific and I always love Robert Ryan.

In the end, it is well worth watching if you are a fan of film noir and post-War thrillers, even if it doesn’t quite live up to its potential.

The Friday Night Horror Movie: The Leopard Man (1943)

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We are halfway through November and I’ve only written about two film noirs. Truth be told I’ve only watched nine film noirs this month. Work has been physically exhausting these last few weeks and when I come home I’m often too tired to watch much of anything, and certainly too tired to write about what I watch. Then we had those plumbing issues that kept me away from the house last weekend, and I’ve had some things to watch and review for Cinema Sentries.

Things should lighten up now on all fronts so hopefully I’ll be able to get some good noir viewing in and do a little writing too.

For tonight’s horror movie, I wanted to watch something…if not an actual noir at least noir adjacent. Something that emerged in the 1940s when film noir was at its peak. Something with some great noir-ish lighting and camera work.

The Leopard Man fits those bills perfectly. It was directed by Jaques Tourneur who also directed Out of the Past, one of the great film noirs, and Berlin Express which I watched the other day and hopefully will write about soon.

There is a lot to love about The Leopard Man but it also feels disjointed – like a series of vignettes instead of a cohesive story. With a runtime of just 66 minutes, I wish they’d added another twenty minutes of story or so and fleshed it out a bit more.

Kiki Walker (Jean Brooks) is a nightclub singer in a small New Mexico border town. One night her manager Jerry Mannin (Dennis O’Keefe) concocts a foolish bit of promotion and has Kiki drag a leopard out on the stage while her rival Gabriella (Margo) is performing. Wise to the shenanigans Gabriella uses her castanets to frighten the leopard causing Kiki to let go of its leash and send the leopard fleeing into the night.

Later that night a young woman is out shopping and is attacked and killed by the leopard. A night or two later another young woman is killed while visiting her father’s grave. And then even later yet another woman is killed. All of the deaths seem to be caused by the leopard, but Jerry begins to suspect a human killer. He and Kiki investigate.

The film looks great. Tourneur and cinematographer Robert De Grasse created these wonderful images bound in deep shadows and creeping light. The film creates a wonderfully suspenseful atmosphere with some excellent local color. Tourneur always seems to be sensitive to his characters of color and minorities, and here he makes his Mexican characters real people and not just caricatures. Unusual for its time he also casts Latino actors for the roles instead of white people in brownface.

The story he’s telling is quite good too. I enjoyed the mystery and the various vignettes. But like I say I wish the film had an additional half hour to tell them. All too often a character will be introduced only to be forgotten about in the next scene.

For example, the first woman who is killed has a mother and a brother. We get a nice little scene with them. The mother is fussing at the girl to go to the shop for her, and the brother teases her that she’s scared of the dark and the leopard. The girl is killed on her doorstep, banging on the door while her mother desperately tries to save her. But then we get nothing. We see the mother at the official inquest but she has no lines. Then we don’t see her again at all.

This type of thing happens a lot. There just isn’t enough time to flesh out any character stories save the leads.

But what we do get is quite good.

Pink Floyd – Knebworth, England (07/05/75)

Pink Floyd
1975-07-05
Knebworth Park
Hertfordshire, England, UK



Setlist:

Disc1

  1. Intro 2:25
  2. Raving And Drooling 14:46
  3. You’ve Got To Be Crazy 17:04
  4. Waters talks about tuning 5:17
  5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-5) 13:55
  6. Have A Cigar 5:06
  7. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9) 12:35
  8. Speak To Me 5:41
  9. Breathe 2:58

Disc2

  1. On The Run 5:12
  2. Time 5:21
  3. Breathe (Reprise) 1:05
  4. Great Gig In The Sky 6:22
  5. Money 8:54
  6. Us And Them 7:56
  7. Any Colour You Like 8:14
  8. Brain Damage 3:58
  9. Eclipse 2:17
  10. Tuning 3:06
  11. Echoes 25:45

Total : 158:04

Pink Floyd – Hamilton, Canada (06/28/75)

Pink Floyd
June, 28th, 1975
Hamilton, Ontario
Ivor Wynne Stadium

Disc One:

1) Raving And Drooling
2) You’ve Gotta Be Crazy (Small Tape Cut After Song)
3) Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1
4) Have A Cigar
5) Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 2

Disc Two:

1) Speak To Me
2) Breathe
3) On The Run
4) Time
5) The Great Gig In The Sky
6) Money (Small Tape Cut After Song)
7) Us And Them
8) Any Colour You Like
9) Brain Damage
10) Eclipse
11) Tuning Up
12) Echoes

Pink Floyd – Detroit, MI (06/24/75)

Pink Floyd
Olympia Stadium
Detroit, Michigan
June 24th 1975

Disc One: 68:38

  1. Raving & Drooling – 11:53
  2. You Gotta Be Crazy – 4:37
  3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pt 1-5) – 12:34
  4. Have a Cigar – 4:47
  5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (pt 6-9) – 12:32
  6. Speak to Me/Breathe – 4:40
  7. On the Run – 5:16
  8. Time/Breathe (reprise) – 6:20
  9. Great Gig In The Sky – 5:55

Disc Two: 51:13

  1. Money – 8:40
  2. Us & Them – 8:01
  3. Any Colour You Like – 7:03
  4. Brain Damage – 3:49
  5. Eclipse – 2:07
  6. Echoes – 21:31

Pink Floyd – Detroit, MI (06/23/75)

Pink Floyd
Jun 23 1975
Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI, USA

Wish You Were Here Tour

Sheep (early version, known as “Raving and Drooling”)
Dogs (early version, known as “You Gotta Be Crazy”)
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Have a Cigar
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)
The Dark Side of the Moon
Breathe (In the Air)
On the Run
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Encore:
Echoes

This set came with no info. I got the setlist from setlist.fm but I didn’t check for its correctness – Mat

John Hiatt – Portland, OR (10/29/24)

John Hiatt
10/29/24
Aladdin Theater
Portland, OR

Front Row Center Balcony;
Sonic Studios DSM Microphones >Sony PCM-M10 (16bit/44.1kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Lower Crowd Applause, Amplify Entire Recording by 1.7db, Index Tracks, Fades) Fix SBEs >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded By DAT CC
Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Intro
  2. Come Back Home
  3. Real Fine Love
  4. Trudy And Dave
  5. Long Time Comin’
  6. The Tiki Bar Is Open
  7. Crossing Muddy Waters
  8. Tennessee Plates
  9. Mississippi Phone Booth
  10. My Old Friend
  11. What Do We Do Now

Disc II:

  1. Lift Up Every Stone
  2. Is Anybody There
  3. Perfectly Good Guitar
  4. Weightless In My Arms
  5. Drive South
  6. Slow Turning
  7. Feels Like Rain
  8. Thing Called Love
  9. Memphis In The Meantime

Encore:

  1. Riding With The King
  2. Have A Little Faith In Me

John Hiatt – Acoustic Guitars, Harmonica, Vocals

OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was another show that my friend Craig recorded that he wanted me to do post production. The Aladdin Theater is a nice intimate theater, according to Craig, and has a capacity of 600 people. Judging by the recordings that he has made there the acoustics sound really nice. Hiatt tells some funny stories, including one where he admits that he pees just before going onstage because otherwise ‘The last part of the show gets speeded up’. As an aging taper, I can relate to this, as I have to do the same just before getting to my seat!

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

Pink Floyd – Shows by Date

xxxx.xx.xx – The Final Cutting
xxxx.xx.xx – German Trading Tape of Outtakes
xxxx.xx.xx – the Great Gig in the Sky, An Alternate Take of Dark Side of the Moon
xxxx.xx.xx – Nothing But the Blues
xxxx.xx.xx – Outtakes From Outer Space
xxxx.xx.xx – Turn Off the Light Thru Dark
xxxx.xx.xx – Yet Another Lost Album

1965-1967 – Origines
1965-1967 – A Saucerful of Outtakes
1965-1967 – The Syd Barrett Tapes
1965-1969 – Have You Got It Yet
1965-1969 – Rhamadam and the Dawn of Pink Floyd
1965-1970 – Lucy Leave and Other Rarities
1965-1971 – The Syd Barrett Years
1965-1974 – Psychedelic Freakout
1965-1975 – Dark Globe
1965-1988 – Beyond Rhyme Nor Reason
1965-1991 – The Ultimate Rarities
1965-1996 – A Treeful of Secrets
1966-1967 – Flowers and Vegetables
1966-1967 – Psychedelic Games For May
1966-1968 – Interstellar Overdrive Alternate Masters
1966-1968 – Last Screams
1966-1970 – Lotus
1966-1970 – Magnesium Proverbs
1966-1972 – Auntie’s Psychedelic Soirees
1966-1977 – Total Eclipse Revisited
1966-1981 – Old Interviews
1966-1982 – Unmissable Tracks
1966 – A Fish Out of Water
1967-1969 – At Dawn
1967-1969 – At the Beeb
1967-1969 – BBC Archives
1967-1969 – The Complete Top Gear
1967-1969 – Music For Architectural Students
1967-1970 – Before Time Began
1967-1970 – Effervescing Elephant
1967-1970 – Melk Weg
1967-1970 – Unforgotten Hero
1967-1971 – BBC Broadcasts
1967-1971 – My Head Kissed the Ground
1967-1971 – Sights and Sounds of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd
1967-1972 – Studio Archives and Other Dreams
1967-1973 – Anthology II
1967-1974 – I Wanna Tell You a Story
1967-1975 – Lost and Founds
1967-1980 – Antiques and Curios
1967-1988 – Some More Secrets
1967-1993 – Total Eclipse – A Retrospective
1967-1994 – Bear in a Tree
1967 – CBS Radio Interview
1967 – Doll’s House Darkness
1967 – Vegetable Man Scream They Last Scream
1967.09.10 – Stockholm, Sweden
1967.09.13 – Copenhagen, Denmark
1967.09.25 – London, England
1967.11.13 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1967.12.20 – London, England
1968-1969 – Celestial Voices, Celestial Particles
1968-1969 – Top Gear Sessions
1968-1971 – From Oblivion
1968-1971 – Secrets
1968-1972 – Ummagumma Revisited
1968-1977 – Careful With That Axe, Eugene
1968 – The Transitional Period
1968.05.06 – Rome, Italy
1968.05.23 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1968.05.31 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1968.07.27 – Los Angeles, CA
1968.12.28 – Utrecht, The Netherlands


1969-1970 – Around the Music
1969-1970 – OMAYAD
1969-1970 – The Remaking of OMAYAD
1969-1971 – Echoes of Atom Heart Mother
1969-1989 – Recurring Nightmare
1969 – June Laying the Embryo
1969.03.27 – Chesterfield, England
1969.04.14 – London, England
1969.05.09 – Southampton, England
1969.06.22– Manchester, England
1969.06.26 – London, England
1969.07.20 – London, England
1969.08.08 – Plumpton, England
1969.08.09 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1969.09.17 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1969.10.11 – Essen, Germany
1969.10.25 – Amougies, Belgium
1969.12.xx – Zabriskie Point Sessions
1969.12.06 – Port Talbot, Wales

1970-1971 – BBC Description Disc
1970-1972 – Blues
1970-1972 – Dream’s Factory
1970-1972 – Fragments of Floyd
1970-1975 – Riding the Cow
1970 – Zabriskie Point Live
1970 – Zabiskie What’s the Point
1970.01.18 – Croydon, England
1970.01.23 – Paris, France
1970.02.11 – Birmingham, England
1970.02.28 – Leeds, England
1970.03.xx – Rome, Italy
1970.03.12 – Hamburg, Germany
1970.03.13 – Berlin, Germany
1970.03.14 – Nuremberg, Germany
1970.03.15 – Hannover, Germany
1970.03.20 – Lund, Sweden
1970.04.11 – Stony Brook, NY
1970.04.22 – Port Chester, NY
1970.04.29 – San Francisco, CA
1970.04.30 – San Francisco, CA
1970.05.01 – Santa Monica, CA
1970.06.06 – London, England
1970.06.28 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1970.07.12 – Aachen, Germany
1970.07.16 – London, England
1970.07.18 – London, England
1970.07.27 – Somerset, England
1970.08.08 – San Tropez, France
1970.09.12 – London, England
1970.09.27 – New York, NY
1970.10.16 – San Rafael, CA
1970.10.23 – Santa Monica, CA
1970.11.06 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1970.11.21 – Montreaux, Switzerland

1971-1973 – Obscured by Clouds Live
1971-1974 – One of These Days
1971-1975 – Echoes Compilation
1971.01.23 – Leeds, England
1971.02.06 – London, England
1971.02.12 – Colchester, England
1971.02.13 – Farnborough, England
1971.02.24 – Munster, Germany
1971.02.25 – Hamburg, Germany
1971.02.26 – Offenbach, Germany
1971.04.03 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1971.05.15 – London, England
1971.06.04 – Dusseldorf, Germany
1971.06.05 – Berlin, Germany
1971.09.18 – Montreaux, Switzerland
1971.09.23 – Copenhagen, Denmark
1971.09.25 – Copenhagen, Denmark
1971.09.30 – London, England
1971.10.04-07 – Pompeii, Italy
1971.10.10 – Yorkshire, England
1971.10.17 – San Diego, CA
1971.11.06 – Cleveland, OH
1971.11.20 – Cincinnati, OH

1972-1977 – She Kisses Like a Fish
1972.01.20 – Brighton, England
1972.01.21 – Portsmouth, England
1972.01.22 – Bournemouth, England
1972.01.28 – Leeds, England
1972.02.12 – Sheffield, England
1972.02.17 – London, England
1972.02.18 – London, England
1972.02.19 – London, England
1972.02.20 – London, England
1972.02.17-20 – London, England
1972.03.08 – Osaka, Japan
1972.03.09 – Osaka, Japan
1972.03.10 – Kyoto, Japan
1972.04.27 – Detroit, MI
1972.05.04 – Boston, MA
1972.05.18 – Berlin, Germany
1972.05.21 – Germersheim, Germany
1972.05.22 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1972.06.28 – Brighton, England
1972.06.29 – Brighton, England
1972.09.22 – Los Angeles, CA
1972.09.24 – San Francisco, CA
1972.11.14 – Dusseldorf, Germany
1972.12.01 – Saint-Ouen, France
1972.12.02 – Saint-Ouen, France
1972.12.07 – Lille, France


1973.01.13 – Paris, France
1973.03.06 – St. Louis, MO
1973.03.08 – Cincinnati, OH
1973.03.10 – Kent, OH
1973.03.11 – Toronto, Canada
1973.03.17 – New York, NY
1973.05.18 – London, England
1973.05.19 – London, England
1973.10.12 – Munich, Germany
1973.11.04 – London, England


1974.06.22 – Colmar, France
1974.11.15 – London, England
1974.11.16 – London, England
1974.11.17 – London, England
1974.11.19 – Stroke-On-Trent, England
1974.12.09 – Manchester, England
1974.12.14 – Bristol, England

1975-1980 – Azimuth Coordinator
1975.04.13 – Daly City, CA
1975.04.20 – Tempe, AZ
1975.04.26 – Los Angeles, CA
1975.04.27 – Los Angeles, CA
1975.06.12 – Philadelphia, PA
1975.06.17 – Uniondale, NY
1975.06.20 – Pittsburg, PA
1975.06.22 – Milwaukee, WI
1975.06.23 – Detroit, MI
1975.06.24 – Detroit, MI
1975.06.28 – Hamilton, Canada
1975.07.05 – Knebworth, England

1976-1977 – The Extraction Tapes
1977 – A Real Need – Animals Live
1977.01.23 – Dortmund, Germany
1977.01.24 – Dortmund, Germany
1977.01.27 – Frankfurt, Germany
1977.01.29 – Berlin, Germany
1977.01.30 – Berlin, Germany
1977.02.17 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1977.02.18 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1977.02.19 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1977.02.20 – Antwerp, Belgium
1977.02.22 – Paris, France
1977.03.17 – London, England
1977.04.24 – Tampa, FL
1977.04.26 – Atlanta, GA
1977.05.09 – Oakland, CA
1977.05.10 – Oakland, CA
1977.06.07 – Montreal, Canada
1977.06.25 – Cleveland, OH
1977.06.27 – Boston, MA
1977.06.28 – Philadelphia, PA
1977.06.29 – Philadelphia, PA
1977.07.01 – New York, NY
1977.07.02 – New York, NY
1977.07.03 – New York, NY
1977.07.04 – New York, NY
1977.07.06 – Montreal, Canada
1978-1979 – The Wall Demos

1980.02.01 – Los Angeles, CA
1980.02.07 – Los Angeles, CA
1980.02.09 – Los Angeles, CA
1980.02.10 – Los Angeles, CA
1980.02.25 – Uniondale, NY
1980.08.09 – London, England
1981.02.13 – Dortmund, Germany
1981.02.16 – Dortmund, Germany
1981.02.19– Dortmund, Germany
1981.06.14 – London, England
1981.06.16 – London, England
1982-1983 – The Final Cut: Working Demos and Interview
1982.05.01 – Paris, France
1983-1993 – Secret Rarities: Demos and Outtakes
1983 – The Rough Cut

1987.09.09 – Ottowa, Canada
1987.09.19 – Philadelphia, PA
1987.09.22 – Toronto, Canada
1987.10.07 – New York, NY
1987.10.21 – Landover, MD
1987.10.25 – Chapel Hill, NC
1987.11.26 – Los Angeles, CA
1987.12.08 – Seattle, WA
1988.01.22 – Auckland, New Zealand
1988.01.27 – Sydney, Australia
1988.02.01 – Sydney, Australia
1988.02.19 – Melbourne, Australia
1988.03.02 – Tokyo, Japan
1988.04.25 – Phoenix, AZ
1988.05.24 – Minneapolis, MN
1988.06.25 – Hannover, Germany
1988.07.01 – Vienna, Austria
1988.08.02 – Oslo, Norway
1988.08.06 – London, England
1988.08.20 – Uniondale, NY
1989.06.18 – Cologne, Germany
1989.06.23 – Linz, Austria
1989.07.04 – London, England
1989.07.09 – London, England
1989.07.10 – Nijmegan, The Netherlands
1989.07.15 – Venice, Italy

1990.06.30 – Knebworth, England
1994.03.16 – San Bernadino, CA
1994.03.30 – Miami, FL
1994.04.24 – Tempe, AZ
1994.04.29 – Dallas, TX
1994.05.18 – Foxboro, MA
1994.07.03 – Madison, WI
1994.07.12 – Chicago, IL
1994.08.02 – Cologne, Germany
1994.08.06 – Basel, Switzerland
1994.08.30 – Oslo, Norway
1994.09.09 – Strasbourg, France
1994.09.20 – Rome, Italy
1994.09.21 – Rome, Italy
1994.10.12 – London, England
1994.10.13 – London, England
1994.10.14 – London, England
1994.10.16 – London, England
1994.10.19 – London, England
1994.10.20 – London, England
1994.10.21 – London, England
1994.10.22 – London, England
1994.10.23 – London, England
1994.10.26 – London, England
1994.10.27 – London, England
1994.10.28 – London, England
1994.10.29 – London, England

2005.07.02 – London, England
2017.07.30 – Newport, RI – Roger Waters w/John Prine
2024.09.27 – Rome, Italy – David Gilmour