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Arlo Guthrie – Ventura, CA (03/23/91)

Arlo Guthrie
3/23/91
Ventura Theater
Ventura, CA

1st Row, Left-Side Balcony: Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1’s >Sony WM-D6C,
XLIIS Cassette Master Transferred: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
Tayio Uden CD Masters Extracted To One-Track WAV Files >Audacity (Track Splits, Minor Edits, Amplify, & Normalize) >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.53

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Chilling Of The Evening
  2. I Ain’t Got No Home
  3. When The Ship Comes In
  4. The Motorcycle Song
  5. Darkest Hour
  6. Coming Into Los Angeles
  7. Keep The Dream Alive
  8. Wake Up Dead

Disc II:

  1. Oklahoma Nights
  2. Gabriel’s Mother’s Highway Ballad #16
  3. When A Soldier Makes It Home
  4. City Of New Orleans
  5. Amazing Grace
  6. All Over The World
  7. Can’t Help Falling In Love
  8. Highway In The Wind

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the first time that I had seen / recorded Arlo and I was stoked to finally get to see him. My ex wife Nikki was six months pregnant with our daughter Lucy. I had her take my Sony D6 in for me with an ace bandage under her skirt, and I took the microphones, cables and blank tapes. I remember that there was a search going in and one person was stopped because they had an 110 Instamatic camera, and the bouncer made them take it back to their car. They tried to say that there was only a few frames left on the roll but the bouncer wasn’t buying it. We sailed in without a hitch because NO One wants to frisk a pregnant woman! The Ventura Theater was built in the late 1920s in the architecture of Spanish Colonial Revival, and first opened in 1928. It’s a really cool old theater and makes for a great place to see a live show. The seats were taken out years ago on the floor and that level, in three tiers, was converted to a dinner theater. The best seats are up front, but it’s also the riskiest place in which to record from. I recorded this show from the front row of the balcony. It’s a little boomy up there, but far safer for recording. You can actually hear the fan in the spotlight during the quiet parts. There were two spotlights in the balcony and I was sitting about three seats to the left of one of them, on the left side. The last time I have been to the Ventura Theater (The new owners modified the name to the Majestic Ventura Theater in the early to mid 90s) was to record John Prine in 1999. I have been told that the balcony is now closed off permanently and a sound wall was built between the back of the floor section and the bar area, which is under the balcony. This was possibly to improve the sound in the front part of the theater. I ran the Nakamichi microphones in a modified Levi jacket. I had holes sewn into the bottom of each front pocket, so only the capsule/wind screens would protrude from the jacket. I had long hair that I would wear down, to hide the mics from view, and used shortened XLR >RCA cables to connect to my recorder which I kept in a small hip pack. I wish I could have used the CP-4 shotgun capsules but that would have been far more noticeable, at least to the spotlight operator. My friend Jim used to tape his stereo mic to the top of the railing at the front of the balcony and drape his coat partially over the top. Whatever works, I guess. I liked the set list, and got to hear both The Motorcycle Song and The City Of New Orleans, so I was happy. Arlo told some great stories, as usual, and he talked a bit about the Gulf War. He said that he wanted to write a song about it but ‘it kept changing’. I was able to get my ticket signed after the show. Tape flips have been edited in Audacity. There was one after the sixth song on the first disc, and one in the middle of ‘Amazing Grace’.

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Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead – Washington, D.C. (07/07/86)

Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead
7/7/86
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium
Washington, DC



01 – Unchain My Heart
02 – Positively 4th Street
03 – Clean-Cut Kid
04 – Emotionally Yours
05 – Shot Of Love
06 – We Had It All
07 – Masters Of War
08 – Straight Into Darkness
09 – Think About Me
10 – The Waiting
11 – Breakdown
12 – To Ramona
13 – One Too Many Mornings
14 – It Ain’t Me Babe
15 – I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
16 – I’m Movin’ On
17 – Band Of The Hand
18 – When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
19 – Just Like A Woman
20 – Ballad Of A Thin Man
21 – Even The Losers
22 – Spike, 23 – She’s About A Mover
24 – Refugee
25 – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
26 – Seeing The Real You At Last
27 – Across The Borderline
28 – I And I
29 – Like A Rolling Stone
30 – In The Garden
31 – Blowin’ In The Wind
32 – Shake A Hand
33- Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Grateful Dead

–Set 1–
01 – Ramble on Rose
02 – New Minglewood Blues
03 – It Must Have Been the Roses
04 – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue*
05 – Desolation Row*

–Set 2–
06 – Box Of Rain ->
07 – Playin’ in the Band ->
08 – Terrapin Station ->
09 – Drums ->
10 – Space ->
11 – The Other One ->
12 – Wharf Rat ->
13 – Around & Around ->
14 – Good Lovin’

–Encore–
15 – Satisfaction

*w/ Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan – Nagoya, Japan (03/08/86)

Bob Dylan w/ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Gymnasium
Nagoya, Japan
8 March 1986

Improved Air Remaster 051 [IA051]
Olaf Bjorner recommended show.
LB-1589

Source/Lineage: stereo aud>?>IAR remaster>?>flac

Please note: On Disk Two track 4 contains both Tom Thumb & I and I.

DISK ONE

  1. Justine (Don Harris/Dewey Terry)
  2. Positively 4th Street
  3. Clean Cut Kid
  4. I’ll Remember You
  5. Trust Yourself
  6. That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie/Beasley Smith)
  7. Masters Of War
  8. It Ain’t Me, Babe
  9. To Ramona
  10. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
  11. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know (Cecil A. Null)
  12. Just Like A Woman
  13. I’m Moving On (Hank Snow)
  14. (Talk)
  15. Lenny Bruce
  16. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
  17. Lonesome Town (Baker Knight)
  18. (Talk)
  19. Ballad Of A Thin Man

DISK TWO

  1. Rainy Day Women # 12 & 35
  2. Seeing The Real You At Last
  3. Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)
  4. Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues / I and I
  5. (Band Intro)
  6. Like A Rolling Stone
  7. (Talk)
  8. In The Garden
  9. Blowin’ In The Wind
  10. Uranium Rock (Warren Smith)
  11. (Talk)
  12. Sukiyaki (Rohusuke Ei/Hachidai Nakamura)
  13. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Concert #18 of the 1986 True Confessions Far East Tour. Concert #18 with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. 1986 concert #18.

Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar) with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers:
Tom Petty (guitar), Mike Campbell (guitar), Benmont Tench (keyboards), Howie Epstein (bass), Stan Lynch (drums) and The Queens Of Rhythm: Debra Byrd, Queen Esther Marrow, Madelyn Quebec, Elisecia Wright (backing vocals).

Note. The vocals to “Sukiyaki” are only hummed.

BobTalk
Thank you. That was a recent hit of mine. Sold about three records ha-ha-ha. Here’s one, ha-ha, here’s one a little older. (after That Lucky Old Sun)

All right, I wanna take a little break here. I wanna introduce you to one of America’s finest rock ‘n’ roll bands, certainly one of my favorites, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. (after Masters Of War)

Thank you. All right, here’s a song about recognition. Or lack of recognition. Tennessee Williams, it was he who said “I don’t ask for your pity, just your understanding. Not even that, but just your recognition of me in you. At times the enemy in us all.” Anyway, Tennessee Williams, he got a pretty drastic life too. He kind of died all by himself in a New York City Hotel room. Without a friend in the world. Another man died like that, except Tennessee Williams did have some success. This man didn’t have too much success, but he started a lot of people off. People who came, picked up on what he did and took it someplace else and made a lot of money and became very successful. And he died in a lonely grave. (before Lenny Bruce)

Thank you. All right, that was for Hugh McGhee wherever you are. This is a song I wrote a while back in response to people who ask me questions all the time. You just get tired of that every once in a while. You just don’t want to answer no more questions. I figure a person’s life speaks for itself, right? So, every once in a while you got to do this kind of thing, you got to put somebody in their place. Where I come from, there’s a lot of people who aren’t exactly in their place they should be, so every once in a while somebody has got to come and put them in their place. I don’t know whether it’s like that over here or not. I hope it’s not. But this is a song …. It’s not a bad thing to be put in your place, I didn’t say that. It’s actually a good thing. It’s been done to me every once in a while and I’ve always appreciated it. So this is my response to something that happened over in England. I think it was about ’63, ’64. Anyway the song still holds up. Seems to be people around still like that. So I still sing it. It’s called Ballad Of A Thin Man.

Thank you. Domo, domo, domo, I love that word, ha-ha . All right then once again now give them a warm hand. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. (after Ballad Of A Thin Man)

Thank you. Ha-ha. Everybody must get stoned. Of course that can be taken two ways. This here next song, this can be taken only one way. I’ll play it for you if I can get my guitar into tune. Oh! it just came on! (before Seeing The Real You At Last)

Thank you. I wanna thank Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers for backing me up tonight. On the keyboards, give him a warm hand, Benmont Tench. On the drums, Stan Lynch. On the bass guitar, Howie Epstein. On lead guitar, Michael Campbell. I especially want to thank Mr. Tom Petty himself. And of course I never go anywhere without my singing partners over there. They go by all kinds of names. But they go everywhere with me. And they hold me up in more ways than one. I wanna thank them too. Thank you girls. (before Like A Rolling Stone)

Thank you. We’re gonna play this song here as the last song of the night. This is about my hero. Everybody’s got a hero. This song’s about my hero. (before In The Garden)

Thank you. We’re gonna play this song here. This was a popular song when we were was growing up. Always meant a great deal. So, we don’t know exactly all the words but maybe you do. If you know them, you sing them. (before Sukiyaki)

Aretha Franklin – Saratoga Springs, NY (06/27/93)

Aretha Franklin
Newport Jazz Festival – Saratoga
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
1993-06-27

01 I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)
02
03
04 I Say a Little Prayer
05 Chain of Fools
06 (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman
07 Day Dreaming [intro]
08 Day Dreaming
09 Sparkle
10 Respect
11 [Kecalf Franklin intro]
12 Son of a Queen
13
14 [band intro]
15 The Greatest Love of All
16 Freeway of Love

Encore
17 Freeway of Love [reprise]

Master 2 Nakamichi 700s and Teac DA-P20 DAT Master > wav > flac

The Whip and the Body (1963)

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I’ve written about Mario Bava’s kinky melodramatic gothic romance before. It was a Friday Night Horror Movie last summer. But I got a nice Blu-ray copy of it this past spring and wrote another thing about it for Cinema Sentries. I always like it when I write two reviews of something many months apart. It is a fun way to see how my feelings have changed.

They didn’t change all that much with this one. I always find the visuals to be incredible, but the story to be a little lacking. You can read the Blu-ray review here and my Friday Night Horror essay here.

Bob Dylan – Osaka, Japan (03/06/86)

Bob Dylan, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and The Queens of Rhythm
6 March 1986
Castle Hall
Osaka Fu, Japan

Bob Dylan set 1

  1. Justine (Don Harris/Dewey Terry)
  2. Positively 4th Street
  3. Clean-Cut Kid
  4. Emotionally Yours
  5. Trust Yourself
  6. That Lucky Old Sun (Haven Gillespie/Beasley Smith)
  7. Masters Of War

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers set 1

  1. Straight Into Darkness (Tom Petty)
  2. Breakdown (Tom Petty)

Bob Dylan set 2

  1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
  2. Girl From The North Country
  3. It’s All Right, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
  4. I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know (Cecil A. Null)
  5. Just Like A Woman
  6. I’m Movin’ On (Hank Snow)
  7. Lenny Bruce
  8. When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
  9. Lonesome Town (Baker Knight)
  10. Ballad Of A Thin Man

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers set 2

  1. So You Want To Be A Rock & Roll Star (Roger McGuinn/Chris Hillman)
  2. Refugee (Tom Petty/Mike Campbell)

Bob Dylan set 3

  1. Rainy Day Women #12&35
  2. Seeing The Real You At Last
  3. Across The Borderline (Ry Cooder/John Hiatt/Jim Dickinson)
  4. I And I
  5. Like A Rolling Stone
  6. In The Garden

Encore

  1. Blowin’ In The Wind
  2. Uranium Rock (Rock ’em Dead) (Warren Smith)
  3. Sukiyaki (Ue o muite aruko) (Rohusuke Ei/Hachidai Nakamura)
  4. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

THE BAND IS:

Bob Dylan – vocal, guitars, harmonica

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Tom Petty – guitar, vocals
Mike Campbell – guitar
Benmont Tench – keyboards
Howie Epstein – bass
Stan Lynch – drums

The Queens Of Rhythm
Debra Byrd – backing vocals
Queen Esther Marrow – backing vocals
Madelyn Quebec – backing vocals
Elisecia Wright – backing vocals

Bob Dylan – Sydney, Australia (02/24-25/86)

Bob Dylan With Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Hard To Handle
Entertainment Centre
Sydney, Australia
02/24-25/86

1 In The Garden
2 Just Like A Woman
3 Like A Rolling Stone
4 It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
5 Girl From The North Country
6 Lenny Bruce
7 When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
8 Ballad Of A Thin Man
9 I’ll Remember You
10 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

This has no source information but it is presumably an audio rip of an out of print VHS movie.

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX

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Alan Ladd was one of the great film noir actors. He had a star-making turn as a contract killer in This Gun For Hire alongside Veronica Lake. He made three more noirs with her and continued to star in various noirs throughout his career. Kino Lorber presents two of those films in this set (Captain Carey, USA & Appointment with Danger) and then there is one film without him (Make Haste to Live).

The two films with Ladd are pretty good and the other – not so much. But I continue to love this noir sets from Kino. You can read my full review here.