Pink Floyd – Effervesing Elephant (1967-1970)

Pink Floyd
Effervesing Elephant

Linage: CD-R -> Eac (included in each Volume) -> Flac

Disc 1 Studio and Outtakes

Lucy Leave, declicked, stereo enhanced
King Bee, could not improve
Sunshine, stereo enhanced
Interstellar Overdrive, syd home demo — dehissed, declicked, stereo enhanced
Arnold Layne, stereo enhanced
Let’s Roll Another One, early 66 studio demo– declicked, dehissed, enhanced
Let’s Roll Another One, studio, speed corrected, dehissed
Candy and a Currant Bun, stereo enhanced
See Emily Play, stereo enhanced
Apples and Oranges, stereo enhanced,Legit stereo version
Vegtable Man, declicked, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Scream Thy Last Scream, stereo enhanced
Nicks Boogie, stereo enhanced
It Would Be So Nice, stereo enhanced
Paint Box, stereo enhanced
Biding my Time, stereo enhanced
Julia Dream, stereo enhanced
Point Me at the Sky, stereo enhanced
Embryo, stereo enhanced

Disc 2 BBC Sessions and TV

(67 bbc sessions now from 1st gen source of radio broadcast)

Best versions anywhere
Flaming, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Scarecrow, dehissed, stereo enhanced
The Gnome, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Matilda Mother, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Vegetable Man, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Scream thy Last Scream, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Pow r toch, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Jugband Blues, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Julia Dream, stereo enhanced
Let There Be More Light, stereo enhanced
Mudersitic Woman, stereo enhanced
Saucer of Secrets, stereo enhanced
Point Me at the Sky, stereo enhanced
Baby Blue Shuffle, stereo enhanced
The Embryo, stereo enhanced
Interstellar Overdrive, remixed channels, stereo enhanced
Moonhead, declicked, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Christmas Song, dehissed

Disc 3 Movie Apearances

all regular songs are alt takes

Committee, stereo enhanced
Country Song
The Violence Sequence (Studio Piano section)stereo enhanced
Crumbling Land Take 1, stereo enehanced
Crumbling Land Take 2, stereo enhanced
Red Queen Theme Take 1, stereo enhanced
Red Queen Theme Take 2, dehissed
Red Queen Theme Take 3, stereo enhanced, dehissed
Red Queen Theme Take 4, dehissed, stereo enhanced
Rick’s Whine, dehissed
Oneone Take 1, dehissed stereo enhanced
Oneone Take 2, remixed, stereo enhanced
Oneone Take 3, stereo enhanced
Oneone Take 4, stereo enhanced
Oneone/Fingals cave, declicked, stereo enhanced

Disc 4 Syd Outtakes

all tracks were stereo enhanced
all tracks are outtakes presented in chronological order

Late Night Instrumental
Golden Hair
Clowns and Jugglers
No Good Trying
Love You
Love You
Clowns and Jugglers
She Took a Long Cold Look
Baby Lemonade
Gigolo Aunt
Waving My Arms in the Air
I Never Lied to You
Effervesing Elephant
Love song
Dominos
Dominos
It Is Obvious
It Is Obvious
It Is Obvious

Disc 5 Misc Syd

Peel sessions
Stereo enhanced
Love You
Gigolo Aunt
Baby Lemonade
Effervescing Elephant
Two of a Kind

Syd solo olympia 1970
Digitally remastered from 2nd gen source
Love You
Gigolo Aunt
Effervescing Elephant
Clowns and Jugglers

Sounds of the 70’s
Dehissed from different source than MAG Proverbs
Baby Lemonade
Dominoes
Love Song

Misc
Remastered from different sources than usual
Rhamadam
Silaslang Instrumental
Swanlee Instrumental
74 outtake 1
74 outtake 2
74 outtake 3
Bob Dylan Blues
Syd Interview
Look of the Week Interview
CBC Interview
Tommorrow Interview
BBC Interview (Snowing)

Disc 6 Live 1967

Copenhagen (Sept. 13) + Rotterdam (Nov. 13) 1967
Digitally remastered from 2nd gen souce
Reaction in G
Arnold Layne
One in a Million
Matilda Mother
Scream the Last Scream
Astronomy Domine
Reaction in G
Pow r Toch
Scream the Last Scream
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Interstellar Overdrive

Disc 7 live 68

Amsterdam early show (May 23, 1968)
Both Amsterdam shows digitally remastered from 1st gen source
Let There Be More Light
Interstellar Overdrive
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Saucer Full of Secrets
Astronomy Domine
Rog Interview
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Disc 8 Live 68

Asmterdam late show (May 23, 1968)
Keep Smiling People
Let There Be More Light
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
Flaming
Saucer Full of Secrets
Interstellar Overdrive
Astronomy Domine
Let There Be More Light Instrumental

Disc 9 Various live 70

All tracks remastered from better source than usual source

Alans Pysch Breakfast
Corrosion
Main Theme from More
Violent Sequence
Sysyphus

The Rolling Stones – Master Licks

The Rolling Stones
Master Licks

Goats Head Soup Outtake 1972/73
1 Angel Girl

Soundboard, Bangalore 4/4/2003
2 Miss You

Soundboard Tokyo 10/03/2003
3 Tumbling Dice

Soundboard Singapore 24/3/2003
4 You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Lake Geneva Rehearsals Session 15/4/1979
5 Africa

Cleveland 14/10/2002
6 Loving Cup
7 Words & Music Of The Fan Club Cd Sampler (2002)

Some Girls Outtake
8 What Gives You The Right

Undercover Demo 1982/83
9 She Was Hot

Ronnie Wood & Family Bbc Uk Tv 14/12/2001
10 This Little Heart

Exile On Mainstreet Demo 1969/71
11 Sweet Virginia

Chuck Leavell Combo, Budokan Rehearsals 10/3/2003
12 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love

The Friday Night Horror Movie: Needful Things (1993)

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Stephen King is one of the world’s most popular authors. His works have been adapted into movies more than just about anyone else. On paper that makes sense. Beyond his immense popularity, his books are full of well-drawn characters, plots that generally swing, and all sorts of killer clowns, small-town vampires, the living dead, rabid dogs, and murderous cars. That should easily translate to the cinema.

More often than not it doesn’t. Movies based on Stephen King’s books are usually pretty bad. Needful Things is no exception. My continuing theory is that the movies tend to focus on those crazy monsters and the supernatural, but as any fan of King’s books can tell you, you might come to King for the killer clowns, but you stay for his descriptive abilities, and the way he fully draws his characters. The movies tend to shorten the character development in order to focus on the monsters and other craziness.

I’ve not read Needful Things, but I can feel the filmmakers doing that with the story. The basic outline is that a strange character named Leland Gaunt (Max Von Sydow) opens a shop called Needful Things in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine. He’ll sell you the thing you most desire. And he’ll sell it to you for cheap. A little cash and maybe a favor or two.

The favors, of course, are of evil intent. He’ll get you to do something bad, but not too bad. At least it doesn’t seem that bad to the person doing it. He gives a young boy a Mickey Mantle baseball card and in return asks him to smear some mud on a lady’s clean sheets, hanging out to dry. That’s mean, maybe, but not evil. Except what the boy doesn’t know is that this lady will blame Nettie Cobb (Amanda Plummer) a waitress she’s been feuding with. Someone else will be tasked to do something against Nettie who will blame the sheet lady. On and on it will go until the two women are coming at each other with knives and a cleaver. Soon enough the entire town is at each other’s throats.

But the thing is in the King novel (I presume, still haven’t read it, but I’d be willing to bet money this is true) he plumbs into the details of each character’s desires and what makes those favors so disastrous.

For example, there is one character who is sold an old high school athletic jacket. One imagines that in the book King spends multiple pages telling us about this guy. Digging into how his best days were in high school, playing sports, getting the girl, and exceeding at life. About how every day after that has been a steady series of letdowns. We’d understand who this guy was, and why that jacket means everything to him. In the movie, we get a ten-second flashback of him riding around in a convertible with his jacket on and a girl at his side. That gets the point across, but not enough to make me actually care.

That happens over and over in the film. There are a lot of characters who buy a lot of things from Gaunt and have to perform a lot of favors for him. We get the gist of everything, but none of the details. And it’s the details that make us care.

The cast, including Ed Harris as our hero the sheriff, and J.T. Walsh as an asshole businessman are all good for what little they are given. Max Von Sydow is clearly having a wonderful time. He’s worth the price of admission alone.

In the end it isn’t the worst Stephen King adaptation, but it is far from the best.

The Who – Landover, MD (12/13/79)

The Who
1979-12-13
Washington DC (Landover, MD) The Capitol Centre

Source: Audience
Lineage: Master Cassette>Nakamichi 670 azimuth-adjusted playback deck>Nakamichi outboard Dolby B>Wavelab 96/24 1ch mono>
Taping Gear: Teac M-100>Sony 153SD (mono, Dobly B on)
Taped and transferred by JEMS

Substitute
I Can’t Explain
Baba O’Riley
The Punk And The Godfather
My Wife
Sister Disco
Behind Blue Eyes
Music Must Change
Drowned
Who Are You
5:15
Pinball Wizard >
See Me Feel Me
Long Live Rock
My Generation
I Can See For Miles
Sparks
Won’t Get Fooled Again
encore:
Summertime Blues
Dancing In The Streets
Dance It Away
How Can You Do It Alone
The Real Me

At the 10th show of the Winter ’79 tour Roger greets the audience with ‘It’s been along time’ to which Pete responds ‘Not fucking long enough!’ Despite that, Pete comes out swinging! This might be the best show of tour. Pete starts out the show in punk rock mode, wearing a leopard print t-shirt, which along with his Dr. Martins (from Robot on Chelsea Road, for the fashionable among you…)seems to put him in a more youthful/rebellious frame of mind. This is reflected in his playing, as he is at the top of his game for the entire show. After the first couple of songs, he traded the t-shirt for black jacket with no shirt.
This is the first of two nonconsecutive shows at the Capitol Centre. In response to the deaths at the show in Cincinnati, then-Providence Mayor Vincent ‘”Buddy” Cianci, who oversaw the Providence Civic Center auditorium, canceled the show that was to be held there on December 17th. The Who’s management looked at their options and decided to add a second show at the Capital Centre to make up for the canceled show.
Just as a side note, The Capital Centre, along with The Philadelphia Spectrum, the Chicago International Amphitheater, the Richfield Coliseum, and the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, have all been torn down as well as the next two dates on this tour, The Veteran’s Memorial New Haven Coliseum and The Boston Garden, and the Pontiac Silverdome, while still there, is no longer in use…time marches on.

The encore here features some of my favorite improvised lyrics of the tour. ‘I listen to all the great thinkers, but I prefer to listen to the great drinkers. I was born in a trunk in Acton, and I like Eric Clapton…just got to be happy and dance it away!’. The version of ‘How Can You Do It Alone’ that follows is a very uptempo ‘punk’ take on it, including a ‘one-two-three-four’ count in.
The tape for this one came out particularly good as we were in the 8th row on the floor in front of Pete, which, were about the same seats we had three years earlier for the Who’s performance here. (Still on the tracker at:http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=261431)
Thanks again to Andy for putting these shows up for us.
Others in this series are here:

Pink Floyd – Rotterdam, The Netherlands (02/19/77)

Pink Floyd
Oude Ahoy Hallen
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
February 19, 1977

Disc One:

Sheep
Pigs On The Wing (Part 1)
Dogs
Pigs On The Wing (Part 2)
Pigs (3 Different Ones)

Disc Two:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)
Welcome To The Machine
Have A Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)
Money

Door-to-Door Maniac (1961)

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Johnny Cash was a huge country and western star in 1961 but he wanted to branch out. He wanted to more famous. Hollywood seemed like a good place to make that happen. But Hollywood wasn’t exactly foaming at the mouth for Cash as an actor so he found himself starring in this super low-budget thriller. He’s pretty good in it, though that might partially be because he was strung out from partying all night which fits the character well. The movie would have been completely forgotten were it not for Cash.

This Blu-ray also contains a film Right Hand of the Devil which is what makes it worth the price of admission. It isn’t that good either, but it is weird and fascinating. It was made by a hairdresser named Aram Katcher who desperately wanted to be an auteur. He put his savings into the film and it is full of his idiosyncracies, which makes it a great little midnight movie.

You can read my full review of both films at Cinema Sentries.

Into the Night By Cornell Woolrich & Lawrence Block

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It should come as no surprise that I like to read crime fiction. I watch enough of those movies to make me liking the books to be perfectly predictable.

I just recently started getting into Lawrence Block. He’s probably most famous for a series of novels starring Matthew Scudder a down-on-his-luck former New York police turned sort-of private eye. I’ve read a couple of those books and am currently reading a Block novel that doesn’t involve Scudder. I like his style very much.

I’ve never read anything by Cornell Woolrich, though I should probably rectify that, since he wrote the stories to some great movies including Rear Window, The Bride Wore Black, and Mississippi Mermaid.

Into the Night was found in Woolrich’s desk after he died, unfinished. Lawrence Block was hired to finish it. The end result is pretty good. You can read my full review of it here.

Bruce Springsteen – Dallas, TX (02/10/23)

Bruce Springsteen
Feb 10, 2023
American Airlines Center
Dallas, TX

Set One

No Surrender
Ghosts
Prove It All Night
Letter To You
The Promised Land
Out in the Street
Candy’s Room
Kitty’s Back
Nightshift
Encore
Detroit Medley
Born to Run
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Glory Days
Dancing in the Dark
Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
I’ll See You in My Dreams

Notes
Bruce Springsteen – Lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonica; Roy Bittan – Piano, keyboards; Nils Lofgren – Electric and acoustic guitars, lap steel, backing vocal; Garry Tallent – Bass; Max Weinberg – Drums; Jake Clemons – Tenor saxophone, percussion, backing vocal; Charlie Giordano – Organ, keyboards; Anthony Almonte – Percussion, backing vocal; Ada Dyer – Backing vocal; Curtis King – Backing vocal; Lisa Lowell – Backing vocal; Michelle Moore – Backing vocal; Barry Danielian – Trumpet; Ed Manion – Baritone and tenor saxophone;† Ozzie Melendez – Trombone; Curt Ramm – Trumpet
Recorded by John Cooper
Mixed by Jon Altschiller; additional engineering by Danielle Warman, Nic Coolidge, Allison Leah and Alex Bonyata
Mix Advisor: Rob Lebret
Post Production by Brad Serling and Arya Jha
Art Design by Michelle Holme
Cover Photo by Rob DeMartin
Tour Director: George Travis
Manager: Jon Landau
HD files are 24 bit / 96 kHz; DSD Files are DSD64

song fifth night set
Tour premiere of ìDetroit Medleyî
Four songs from 2020ís Letter To You: ìGhosts,î ìLetter To You,î ìLast Man Standingî and ìIíll See You In My Dreamsî
ìLast Man Standingî features a new arrangement
ìIíll See You In My Dreamsî is performed solo acoustic to end the show
Two songs from 2022ís Only the Strong Survive: ìNightshiftî (written by Franne Golde, Dennis Lambert and Walter Orange, popularized by The Commodores) and ìDonít Play That Songî (written by Ahmet Ertegun and Betty Nelson, popularized by Ben E. King)
ìJohnny 99î is performed in the Wrecking Ball tour arrangement
Concert stalwarts like ìBecause The Night,î ìDancing in the Darkî and ìTenth Avenue Freeze-Outî are performed in tighter, shorter versions

Kingfish – Stonybrook, NY (11/09/75)

KINGFISH 1975-11-09
SUNY Gym
Stonybrook, NY

Jump Back Baby
CC Rider
Asia Minor
Little Bluebird
Goodbye Yer Honor
Shop Around
Jump For Joy
Juke
Promised Land
I Hear You Knockin’
Shake and Finger Pop
Bye and Bye
Hypnotize
Big Iron
Battle of New Orleans
Around and Around
Pack Up My Overnight Bag

SBD > cassette (?) > reel (?) > DAT >
CDR > EAC

Robbie Hoddinott-lead guitar
Matt Kelly-harmonica, guitar
Bob Weir-rhythm guitar, vocals
Dave Torbert-bass, vocals
Chris Herold-drums

Devil’s Doorway (1950)

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Obviously, I love a good Western. For the last two years, I’ve dedicated the month of March to the genre. A great Western is transcendent. Even a bad one can be a lot of fun. But there is no getting past the casual racism that is found in a great many Western. This is especially true in Westerns from the 1930s into the 1940s. Hollywood thought nothing of making Native Americans nameless, blood-thirsty savages who wanted nothing more than to rape the women, kidnap the children, and murder the men.

Slowly, Hollywood changed. By the 1950s they sometimes (but not always, not even all that often) made films that depicted Native Americans with an ounce of empathy. Devil’s Doorway is a film that points to the realities of how Native Americans were treated by white folk. Even ones who fought valiantly in the Civil War.

Unfortunately, the lead Native American is played by a decidedly white fella.

Were the film really good, I might be able to forgive that lapse in judgment. But as it is, the film isn’t great and so that bit of indiscretion stands out like a racist thumb.

You can read my full review here.