Bruce Hornsby & the Range
March 24, 1987
Daytona Beach Bandshell
Daytona Beach, FL
Bruce Hornsby – vocals, piano, accordion
David Mansfield – guitars
George Marinelli – guitars, mandolin, vocals
Joe Puerta – bass, vocals
John Molo – drums, percussion
Intro / Jacob’s Ladder
The Long Race
Mandolin Rain
Every Little Kiss
The Red Plains >
I Know You Rider
Piano Intro
The Way It Is
King Biscuit Flower Hour
CDR silver > eac > Flac
Broadcast Week: January 17, 1994 to January 23, 1994
While reading reviews of Subservience, I noticed quite a few people referencing The Hand That Rocks the Cradle as a clear influence. I couldn’t remember if I had watched that one before so I queued it Saturday morning.
It is a movie I distinctly remember knowing about when it came out. I remember the trailers and people talking about it. It was a part of a slew of films that came out in the early 1990s that were like big-budgeted, R-rated Lifetime movies. They usually featured Rockwell-esque domestic life being shattered by some pretty, young woman.
Directed by Curtis Hanson, this film is better than most of those films. It sometimes subverts the genre in interesting ways, but even when it plays it straight, Hanson is a good enough director to make it rise above.
Claire Bartell (Annabella Sciorra) is a happy housewife. She has a loving husband, Michael (Matt McCoy), a young daughter Emma (Madeline Zima – who played the mother in Subservience which is a nice bit of casting), and a baby on the way.
When she is sexually assaulted by her obstetrician (in a scene that foreshadows its creepiness so much that my wife left the room before anything untoward actually happened) she comes forward. Other women come forward after that and the Doctor decides to kill himself before he can be arrested. The doctor’s wife, Peyton (Rebecca DeMornay) miscarriages when she learns the news.
Flash forward a few months. The baby is born and Claire decides she wants a nanny. Not to go back to some job, mind you, but she volunteers at a nursery and she wants to build a greenhouse in her backyard. So she’ll be close by, but it would be nice to have someone watch the kids, clean up a little, and maybe cook once in a while.
Enter Peyton and her devious ways. What’s interesting about the film is that it doesn’t do what you expect it to. In most films like this Peyton would seduce the husband, then turn him against the wife. But here, despite nearly every other male character saying something about how beautiful Peyton is and how they wish she was their nanny, and despite Peyton actually trying, Michael will not give in to temptation.
Likewise rather than attempting to turn the family against Claire, she turns Claire against everyone close to her. The local handyman (Ernie Hudson) who dotes on Emma, might just be a pervert. The friendly relationship between Michael and her best friend Marlene (Julianne Moore) might have turned into an affair. Peyton manipulates every situation to make Claire feel like she’s going crazy.
The film begins with the handyman riding his bike in a hoodie. He stops by the Bartell house and knocks on the door. Nobody hears the knock or answers the door. He walks around the house and looks through the windows. When Claire sees him she screams and panics. Suburban white woman screams as an unknown black man stands outside her house.
But he was expected. Claire had requested a handyman be sent to her house. The film doesn’t directly comment on her inherent racism in this scene, but it is certainly there. When we see him riding that bike the music is peaceful. When he approaches the house and looks through the windows the film doesn’t make it menacing. So that when she screams and when he is recognized as a kind person, it is surprising. It is just another way the film lightly subverts our expectations of the genre.
It is still a white, suburban family being, um, rocked by a beautiful, young woman, so it doesn’t stray too far from the formula, but I appreciate that it was at least trying to do something different.
Allman Brothers Band
6/30/90
Johnny Mercer Theater
Savannah Civic Center
Savannah GA
Soundboard; 3rd Gen Cassette [XLII]
Trade Cassettes Transferred Via Denon DR-M12HR >Tascam DR100mkII (24bit/48kHz)
WAV >Audacity (Balance Channel Levels, Amplify, Track Splits, Down Sample To 16bit/44.1kHz, Minor Edits [Tape Flips] & Fades) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53 [Sept 2024]
Transferred, Audacity Post Production, FLAC, Tags, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr
Disc 1:
Disc 2:
Disc 3:
band line up:
Gregg Allman – keyboards, vocals
Dickey Betts – lead guitar, vocals
Warren Haynes – guitar
Johnny Neel – piano
Allan Woody – bass
Butch Trucks – drums
Jai Jonny Johnson – drums
OldNeumanntapr Notes;
This was one of the last cassette trades that I did in the early 90s before I made the switch to DAT. This show, and the Allman Brothers Band soundboard from 11/25/75 Civic Center Providence, RI, both came from a gentleman in the south, I believe in Georgia.
The XLII cassettes sat in my cassette collection for 30 years or so before I pulled them out for transfer. I don’t think I ever did anything with these tapes and I certainly never shared them until now. Once I switched to DAT I kind of forgot about my cassette collection. Thanks to Dave for the use of the Denon cassette deck so I could do the transfers.
Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉
There is a lot of the Coen Brother’s filmography, especially Fargo, nesting inside of Greedy People. What with the violence in a small town, quirky characters, dark humor, inept burglars, and folksy musical choices. But the film can’t quite pull off that perfect Coen mix to make it more than just mild entertainment.
The script is full of characters with odd-ball quirks, but it rarely seems to know what to do with them, or how to make them actual fleshed-out people. In a similar manner the story is full of interesting incidents – some violent, some funny – but it never merges into a cohesive whole. Still, it is quite entertaining and very enjoyable to watch.
Will Shelley (Himesh Patel) has just graduated from the police academy and has moved his very pregnant wife Paige (Lily James) to a small, island community off the coast of South Carolina. A place he hopes will be a peaceful place to raise a family.
His smart, and gentle boss Captain Murphy (Uzo Aduba) assigns Officer Terry Brogan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), affable, abrasive, and redneck to the core, to show Shelley the ropes. Brogan has a few rules every cop should live by. The first of which is “Don’t kill anybody unless you have to.” Because it gets “messy.” Also, you should get a hobby because this is a small town and the job is boring.
Mostly Brogan shows Shelley where to get free coffee and doughnuts. Then he decides to stop by his married girlfriend’s house for some afternoon delight, leaving Shelley to wait in the cruiser. When a call comes in for what Shelley believes is an in-progress burglary he honks the horn at Brogan and then heads to the scene without him.
To say things go bad would be an understatement. He accidentally discharges his weapon when the homeowner (Traci Lords) surprises him. When she defends herself the ensuing tussle finds her dead, having fallen on a table loging a piece of it into her skull.
Brogan shows up, and they both freak out, but when they find $1 million in cash inside a box, they come up with a plan. Make it look like a robbery gone bad and they can keep the money.
To say things only get worse from there would be yet another understatement.
It is all very Coen-esque. Like the Coens the film is not afraid to get real dark, but it is also quite funny and enjoyable to watch. But unlike the Coen Brothers movies, this doesn’t have a lot of depth to it. It feels too scripted.
For example, Brogan’s hobby is listening to CDs to learn Mandarin Chinese. He, very adeptly, says something in that language and when asked what it means he notes it means “I speak fluent Chinese.” He’s learning the language because his girlfriend is Chinese. A guy as dumb and redneck as Brogan is learning to speak fluent Chinese is funny and quirky, but I’m not sure how realistic it is.
So much of the movie is like this. Characters are given quirks which gives the film character, but it all feels scripted. You can feel the writing in it. The plot is similar. This woman accidentally gets killed on Shelley’s first day. There happens to be a million dollars lazily stashed in a basket. The dead lady’s husband (Tim Blake Nelson) just happened to have hired a hitman to kill his wife on the same day Shelly accidentally did the deed. There are apparently two competing hitmen on this small island and they are easy to contact. Etc. There are a lot of coincidences and oddities that are completely unrealistic.
Still, the performances are good. Gordon-Levitt is excellent at switching from goofball to menacing villain from one minute to the next. Lilly James isn’t given much for her character to do but she makes it her own. Etc.
Call it Coen Brothers-lite. Call it pretty good.
1972.02.14 – Hamburg, Germany
Bill Evans Trio w/ Herb Geller
14th February 1972
Studio 10
Hamburg, Germany
Most of the seeds i do are actually “reseeds” of very good material i found here on DIME. As i’m not often seeding any “new material”, i appreciate make things
staying on the tracker, especially when it concerns quality recordings. Evans is a classic, ad a brillant one.
I made 2 different directorys as we got the concert from two different seeders. They were both seeded at different moments,
and i decided to make just one seed so that everyone can appreciate a complete recording… I think it fits on one cd.
Thanks to both original seeders.
The original source stays the same: FM source.
Sound quality is excellent studio one, maybe better than lot of commercial releases of Evans.
Hope you’ll enjoy, all this material was already seeded on DIME those 2 last years.
Personal:
Bill Evans (p)
Eddie Gomez (b)
Marty Morell (dr)
Herb Geller (fl) *>with him
Disc 1
1.Introduction by Michael Naura
Disc 2
Betty Davis
“Riviera ’76 Festival Jazz-Rock”, Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France
Audience Recording (Sivad)
July 25, 1976 (Approximately 11:00pm)
Lineage (Sivad): Audience Recording (Sivad) > 2 UHER dynamic mics > Nakamichi 550 Portable Cassette Recorder > TDK Tape > TASCAM > Cassette Deck >
Vaio Soundcard 😦 > Audacity > HD
Additional Lineage to the above (RatedX): CD Wave > TLH Flac Level 8
Betty Davis – Vocals
Larry Johnson – Bass, Vocals
Fred Mills – Keyboards, Vocals
Carlos Morales – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Semmie ìNickeyî Neal, jr. – Drums
According to the MC Introductions: Betty davis dedicated this show to Miles Davis.
01 French MC Intro From The Stage :27
02 Instrumental ? 3:18
03 Nasty Gal 4:31
04 Dedicated To The Press 3:40
05 The Lone Ranger 9:46
06 He Was A Big Freak 5:49
07 Talkin Trash 9:23
08 Steppin In Her I. Miller Shoes 5:21
09 Instrumental ? 2:09
10 Shut Off The Light (w/Applause) 5:15
Total Time: 49.39
Note:
” A bit of first-hand information on this one, as I’ve been lucky enough to attend this three-day outdoor event that was held at the Paul Ricard racetrack in Le Castellet (south of France) where, if I remember well, the previous week-end legendary Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve on Ferrari had won the French Formula One Grand Prix. The festival was called ìRiviera ’76î and the main reason for me to get there was that Miles had to play the ‘ony European concert’ of that year. Of course, he didn’t show up ‘cos he had just begun his infamous five-year sabbatical, but nobody knew it at that time, not even Miles himself, I believe. The stage announcer said that, because of a sudden illness Miles couldn’t be there and he sent his former wife to replace him. I only knew vaguely about Betty Davis, but that night (July 1st, 1976) all of us found out what a blast she was!
For the chronicle, other artists who performed at the festival were: John McLaughlin’s Shakti, Airto Moreira (solo performance), Pat Martino (terrific), Tony Williams & Lenny White (with Brian Auger) Larry Coryell, Joe Cocker (who was too drunk to sing, sadly), Stuff (in my view one of the greatest bands of all time), The Crusaders, Joe Beck and some other I can’t remember now. As for the Betty Davis recording posted here (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=336120),
it is not the complete set. I recorded with my trusty Nakamichi 550 the main acts, and at least half a dozen cassettes of that event still survive, Betty Davis included. One day I hope to find the time to make digital transfers of all the stuff I have recorded in the old days and put some of it on the web for all to share.”
In is above comments Sivad talks of the show being July 1st 1976 but when he sent me the file he mention the show to July 25, 1976 wich is probably right since the festival was held between July 23rd and July 26th.
As Sivad said in his e-mail exchange with me: “Considering it’s an open-air audience recording vintage 1976, I don’t think it could sound any better than this, particularly because the equipment I used was top shelf.
If you close your eyes it’s almost like being there: I had no wind shields on the mics, hence in some spots you can even feel the French riviera’s evening breeze!”
Sivad & RatedX: August 21st 2011
Ben Folds
08/24/05
Mountain Winery
Saratoga, CA
Boxing
The Ascent of Stan
The last Polka
Gracie
All U Can Eat
Bastard
Gone
(Band Intro)
Jesusland
You To Thank
Careless Whisper (w/ Rufus Wainwright)*
Landed
(Banter)
Bitches Ain’t Shit**
Brick
Army
Philosophy
(Three Part Harmony Practice)
Not The Same
*George Micheal Cover
**Dr. Dre Cover
(Odd Men Out Tour)
Original source notes:
ransfer: USB > Sony SonicStage V3.0 > WavMerge 2.1 >
Adobe Audition 1.0 (Normalize @98%) > CDWAVE Editor > Flac Frontend > FLAC > You
Taped/Transfered by: Danielle Hashem
New Lineage
Converted to WAV many years ago. I don’t remember how, probably via iTunes. Burned that to CDR, again years ago.
Ripped CDR to WAV file via iTunes then converted to FLAC with xACT. This was in April 2020.
Ben Folds
April 5, 2004
Univ. of Illinois – Foellinger Auditorium
Urbana, IL
Taper: Mark Makdad
Source: Shure SM81s > ART Technologies Tube Preamps > IBM T30 Thinkpad > SHN
REMASTERED VERSION
Remastered with taper’s permission by Jon Freeland
Path: Spark XL [C4 > Q6 > TC Denoise > L2] AIFF > xACT > SHN
Concerted to FLAC and tagged by the Midnight Cafe using xACT on March 18, 2020.
Recompiled by Jon Freeland 6-3-04.
Thanks to Mark Makdad for recording such an excellent show.
Thanks also to dmaster of toritraders.com for reorganizing and etree-ifying the setlist and files.
My wife and I honeymooned in a little town in Ontario called Stratford. Like its namesake in England, the birthplace of Shakespeare, Stratford had three major theaters. They put on world-class productions. We saw several shows while we were there and had a wonderful time.
The best production was My Fair Lady. I had never seen any production of that show, not even the movie. It was magical. Even the costumes got a standing ovation.
I’ve seen the movie several times since and just love it. This past February I got to see it in the movie theater with my wife and it brought back all the feelings.
You can read my review here.
themidnightcafe.org 