Category: Music

Ray Charles – Boston, MA (09/23/78)

Ray Charles and band
Symphony Hall
Boston, Mass. U.S.A.
September 23, 1978

incomplete master audience recording
runtime: 74:18 (minutes/ seconds)

1: Georgia (on my mind) 5:09
(Hoagy Carmichael and his Orchestra cover)
2: oh, what a beautiful mornin’ 11:56
(Rodgers & Hammerstein cover)
3: feel so bad 7:32
(Chuck Willis cover)
4: a little more love 6:13
5: all I need 5:46
6: don’t change on me 3:10
7: I can’t stop loving you 10:43 (cuts, spliced at 7:11, tape flip)
(Don Gibson cover)
8: I can see clearly now 4:37
(Johnny Nash cover)
9: jealous kind 6:37
(Bobby Charles cover)
10:big leg woman (with a short short mini skirt) 8:34
(Israel Tolbert cover)

what’d I say 3:59

lineage:
Sony TC-48 auto levelling mono cassette recorder >
Maxell UD 90 minute cassette >
Nak. BX-125 > soundforge (16 bit/ 44.1 khz wav) >
flac
1st posted in 2009 with no sb aligning and no lineage or setlist info at all.
reseeded in 2020 with setlist, runtime and track times
and a flac > wav > flac (sb’s aligned) reconversion to remove the sbe’s.
unfortunately the 1st tape with about 45 minutes more of this concert has gone lost, but this is the remaining part after that, and sounds like it ends with the conclusion of the show.

Waylon Jennings – Carrabasset Valley, ME (08/02/75)

Waylon Jennings
August 2, 1975
Sugarloaf Ski Resort
Carrabasset Valley, ME
uncirculated soundboard tape
opening act was The Outerspace Band

Tracklisting:
01 Honky Tonk Heroes 4:11
02 Are You sure Hank Done It This Way? 3:11
03 Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line 1:36 [incomplete: drop-out early on and interrupted by technical problem]
04 You Ask Me To 2:33
05 Ladies Love Outlaws 1:47
06 Long Time Gone 3:01
07 Louisiana Women 3:57
08 I’ve Been a Long Time Leaving (But I’ll Be a Long Time Gone) 2:19
09 Amanda 2:14
10 Pick Up the Tempo 3:09
11 Me and Paul 3:40
12 Let’s Turn Back the Years 2:55
13 This Time 3:20
14 Me and Bobbie McGee 6:09
15 unknown fragment 0:43 [tape flip]
16 Rainy Day Woman 2:28
17 Bob Wills Is Still The King 2:38
18 band intros 1:05
19 I’m a Ramblin’ Man 5:13

total time: 56:18

band members as far as I can tell:

Waylon Jennings: vocals, guitar
Gordon _ :guitar, vocals, harmonica Kyle _ : keyboards
Ralph Mooney: pedal steel guitar
Duke __ :bass
Richie Albright: drums

Notes: pretty good soundboard tape – could be the master or a dub from the master; the audience is distant and some instruments are isolated to one channel but all in all a nice and listenable recording.
Someone throws a rock at the stage but no one is harmed, and Waylon seems to be having a good time anyway.

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source/lineage:
unknown generation soundboard cassette>Soundforge>WAVs>
HD>tracked and edited in Soundforge>SBEs repaired, FLAC-8 files and checksum files created in Trader’s Little Helper

A Zootype project December 2008

Waylon Jennings – Johnson City, TN (03/16/79)

Waylon Jennings & The Crickets
March 16, 1979
Freedom Hall Civic Center
Johnson City, TN

Soundboard->Cassette of unknown lineage-> Nakamichi CR-2A->Audacity->X-Act for flac etc

Disc 1:
01-Oh, Boy!
02-Maybe Baby
03-Rock Around With Ollie Vee
04-untitled
05-Everyday_Think It Over Medley
06-Love Is All Around
07-I Fought The Law
08-Walk Right Back
09-Rave On!
10-Keep A-Knockin’ (But You Can’t Come In)
11-That’ll Be The Day
12-Well…All Right_It’s So Easy_Peggy Sue Medley
13-Outlaw Shit
14-Are You Ready For The Country?
15-Waymore’s Blues
16-Amanda
17-A Long Time Ago
18-There Ain’t No Good Chain Gang

Disc 2:
01-The Bottle Let Me Down
02-A Couple More Years
03-This Time
04-Slow Rollin’ Low
05-Till I Gain Control Again
06-I’ve Always Been Crazy
07-Bob Wills Is Still The King
08-Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
09-Good Hearted Woman
10-Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)
11-Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?

I have no idea if this recording or any other recording of this performance has been circulated.

Technical Notes:
No eq’ing or altering.
There is a hum mainly notable in-between songs. It doesn’t detract too much from the music so I made no attempt to eliminate it.
The two discs represent the two sides of the cassette respectively.

Musical Notes:
I believe The Crickets were at this performance and although I cannot find anything online to confirm this I am billing it as such. The first 12 songs are all Holly/Cricket tunes except 3 & 4 which are Holly-related and at the end of the “Well…All Right_It’s So Easy_Peggy Sue” medley he says “The Crickets” as if prompting them to take a bow and there are no more Holly/Crickets songs after that. This performance is less than a year from the release of “The Buddy Holly Story” movie which is mentioned in this performance. The Untitled track is a song “we wrote” (Jennings & The Crickets?) about that movie and what they got wrong. It is not “Old Friend” nor could I find any reference to it searching its lyrics.
The music comes right in on the cassette so I can’t confirm there aren’t missing songs. But I don’t know what other Holly/Cricket song they could have played.

Waylon Jennings – Abbott, TX (11/04/73)

Waylon Jennings & The Waylors
Nov. 4, 1973
Abbott High School
Abbott, Texas


“Live At Abbott High School”

“Abbott High School’s PTA Homecoming”

FM Broadcast of Unknown Gen > CDR > MacBook Pro > xACT 1.59 > Flac

KAMC-FM Broadcast

Setlist:

  1. Willie Nelson Intro > Lonesome, On’ry And Mean
  2. Good Hearted Woman
  3. Treats You Right
  4. Pretend I Never Happened
  5. Me & Bobby McGee
  6. Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues
  7. (DJ Talk)
  8. Amanda (In Progress)
  9. Laid Back Country Picker
  10. You Asked Me To
  11. Freedom To Stay (DJ Unintentional Interruption)
  12. Honky Tonk Heroes
  13. The Last Letter
  14. (DJ Talk)
  15. You Can Have Her
  16. T For Texas
  17. Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line

Recorded around the same time as the excellent “Waylon Live” and the outlaw country masterpiece “The Ramblin’ Man” this is prime Waylon around the time outlaw country music was starting to find its way but before it was to explode into the mainstream with “Wanted! The Outlaws” released in 1976, becoming the first platinum country record.

A regional broadcast of a mini festival on KAMC radio. The DJ’s unintentionally interrupt the broadcast at one point carrying on a conversation as if they have no clue they are on the air. It’s unfortunate as it interrupts the show but it is somewhat humorous. I’m not sure what they were thinking except they seem to be pretty proud to be broadcasting live while carrying on a fairly amateurish production including interviewing a couple of audience members who’s burning question is “who’s played so far”.

This show has been circulating as 1974 and never given a specific date. Research has pointed to it being in the Fall of ’74, Waylon played the Western Palace in Dallas on September 25th which is documented on “Waylon Live”. Looking at the song selection which includes “Amanda” from “The Ramblin’ Man” released in September of 1974 as well as a lot of the same songs featured on “Waylon Live” it would stand to reason this is part of the same series of shows. In addition, High School Homecomings generally takes place during football season in the Fall. Though no specific date has surfaced, none of this has ever been officially released.

If only it contained Waylon’s knockout version of “Midnight Rider” from “The Ramblin’ Man” but that will have to wait for a future upload.

Includes artwork I put together which is also attached below…

MJK5510

I Renamed Tracks, Corrected Date, Edited Text, Tagged & Embedded The Artwork That Came With It (Year Is Wrong), Created MD5 on 2020-09-16. Steve

10,000 Maniacs – Geneseo, NY (03/13/89)

10,000 Maniacs
Kuhl Gymnasium
State University of New York at Geneseo
Geneseo, N.Y.
March 13, 1989

Source: audience recording > ? > 1st generation cassette > recorded to hard drive > CoolEdit
(track separation) > burned to CD > tracks extracted using iTunes > Trader’s Little Helper >
you

Sound quality: B+ / B

Tracks:

Disc 1:

  1. What’s the Matter Here?
  2. A Campfire Song
  3. Poison in the Well
  4. Eat For Two
  5. Gun Shy
  6. Please Forgive Us
  7. My Sister Rose
  8. You Happy Puppet
  9. Trouble Me
  10. Cherry Tree
  11. Headstrong

Disc 2:

  1. Dust Bowl
  2. Like the Weather
  3. Don’t Talk
  4. Hey Jack Kerouac
  5. The Lion’s Share
  6. The Painted Desert
  7. Jubilee
  8. Verdi Cries
  9. Scorpio Rising
    soundcheck
  10. What’s the Matter Here? (instrumental)
  11. You Happy Puppet
  12. The Painted Desert

Notes:

This is the first 10,000 Maniacs concert that I ever attended, and this recording was made by one of my friends and is a transfer from my first generation cassette. I tried recording this show as well, but security caught me during the second song and confiscated my tape. No worries, though – my friend’s recording was better than mine anyway.

This concert was part of the band’s “Blind Man’s Zoo” pre-tour (the album wasn’t released until May 16), and Natalie actually announces the album title for the first time at the end of “Dust Bowl”. The show is almost entirely comprised of “In My Tribe” and “B.M.Z.” tracks, with the closing song “Scorpio Rising” being the only pre-“I.M.T.” song of the night.

I can’t remember how my friend got into the soundcheck, but he was able to record the band rehearsing three songs. The sound quality of the soundcheck songs is noticably worse, and includes some loud and annoying chatter from someone standing next to the taper.

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year (original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!

10,000 Maniacs – London, England (07/31/88)

10,000 Maniacs
Sadlers Wells
London, England
1988-07-31

Source: soundboard recording > ? > CD received in trade > extracted from CDR using iTunes > FLAC > you

Sound quality: A+

Tracks:

  1. Hey Jack Kerouac
  2. Gun Shy
  3. Planned Obsolescence
  4. City of Angels
  5. Cherry Tree
  6. Lilydale
  7. My Sister Rose
  8. Verdi Cries
  9. Like the Weather
  10. What’s the Matter Here?
  11. Don’t Talk
  12. Scorpio Rising
  13. Among the Americans
  14. Poison in the Well

Description:

This is almost certainly the most commonly-circulated 10,000 Maniacs live recording, and for good reason – the sound quality and performance are both excellent. In my opinion, this recording includes the definitive live version of “Planned Obsolescence” (mis-identified as “Blind Faith” on the silver CD pressing, which was titled “Cool White Stare”).

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year (original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!

10,000 Maniacs – New York, NY (07/22/88)

10,000 Maniacs
July 22nd, 1988
Pier 84
New York, NY
USA

Source: possible soundboard or FM, or even very good audience recording > ? > cassette received in trade >
recorded to hard drive > CoolEdit (track separations) > burned to CDR > extracted from CDR using iTunes > FLAC > you

Sound quality: B / B+

Tracks:

  1. stage intro.
  2. Hey Jack Kerouac
  3. Maddox Table
  4. Gun Shy
  5. City of Angels
  6. Peace Train
  7. A Campfire Song
  8. Like the Weather
  9. Don’t Talk
  10. ABC Lullaby (unreleased – Natalie solo)
  11. Verdi Cries

Description:

This is a recording of unknown origin – it’s either a moderate-to-high generation soundboard or FM recording, or a very good audience recording. It’s possible that the band was opening for someone else, or that they were playing as part of a festival, since the set is fairly short. If they were headlining this show, then the recording must be considered to be incomplete – this could not possibly be the entire headlining set.

The setlist seems fairly standard for this era, with the exception of the unreleased “ABC Lullaby” which is a very pretty piano-based song in the style of “Verdi Cries” or the similar unreleased song “After Talking to Myself” (see Chicago 4-14-88, uploaded separately).

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year (original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!

2015 re-seed

10,000 Maniacs – Minneapolis, MN (04/19/88)

10,000 Maniacs (Natalie & Rob acoustic)
Let It Be Records (in-store appearance)
Minneapolis, MN
1988-04-19

Source: audience recording > ? > cassette received in trade > recorded to hard drive > CoolEdit
(track separations) > burned to CDR > extracted from CDR using iTunes > FLAC > you

Sound quality: B

Tracks:

  1. What’s the Matter Here? (acoustic)
  2. Don’t Talk (acoustic)
  3. A Campfire Song (acoustic)
  4. Scorpio Rising (acoustic)

Description:

This is an audience recording of Natalie and Rob performing a short acoustic set (either minimally amplified, or entirely unamplified) at Let It Be Records in Minneapolis. If you’ve ever wondered what an acoustic version “Scorpio Rising” sounds like, this is probably your one and only chance to find out.

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year (original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!

10,000 Maniacs – Chicago, IL (04/14/88)

10,000 Maniacs
“Budweiser Sunday Night Concert”
WXRT Broadcast
Vic Theater
Chicago, IL
1988-04-14

Source: FM > ? > cassette received in trade > recorded to hard drive > CoolEdit
(track separations) > burned to CDR > extracted from CDR using iTunes > FLAC > you

Sound quality: A / A-

Tracks:

  1. WXRT radio intro
  2. Hey Jack Kerouac
  3. Can’t Ignore the Train
  4. My Sister Rose
  5. Planned Obsolescence
  6. Gun Shy
  7. Just As the Tide Was a’Flowing
  8. City of Angels
  9. The Christian Polka
  10. Peace Train
  11. Like the Weather
  12. What’s the Matter Here?
  13. Don’t Talk
  14. Scorpio Rising
  15. Jamestown, My Hometown
  16. Poison in the Well
  17. After Talking to Myself (unreleased – Natalie solo)
  18. Verdi Cries

Description:

This is an excellent-quality FM broadcast of a complete “In My Tribe” concert. The setlist is fairly standard for the era,
although the inclusion of a short piano-based original song informally referred to as “After Talking to Myself” is noteworthy.
In most other respects, this recording is very similar to the commonly-circulating Sadlers Wells (London) show from July 1988.

10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year
(original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs
are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly
deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings
during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous
Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others
haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

Enjoy!