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The Birthday Haul

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Today is my birthday. I’m pushing ever closer to the big 5-0 which freaks me out a little (okay, a lot) but I had a good day. I still had to work which wasn’t fun, but this afternoon my brother’s 4-year-old grandson showed up and that was a delight. There was a mix-up with his childcare so my brother had to pick him up. But we were behind on work so the boy came with him. I had forgotten how fun kids that age can be. And exhausting. He asked questions every five seconds and I kept having to find things for him to do.

Later, we had a nice meal at my mother’s place. My father shares my birthday so we always share a party together.

Anyway, it was a good day and my wife bought me some lovely gifts.

Obviously, I love me some Criterion Collection so I got three films from them. I’m especially excited about Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me as we just finished the original series and I’ve never seen the film.

I watched the movie adaptation of Master and Commander the other day and loved it. Everyone says the book series is even better so I’m excited to find out if everyone is correct.

And Batman is my favorite comic book character. I’ve read The Court of Owls before, but it is nice to have a hard copy.

A Few Pickups

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I assume most of you have read my notification on the music site that I’m no longer going to be posting music. That was a hard decision to make, but I think it was the right one.

My hope is that with the time not posting music is going to save me can be spent making this blog more interesting. That will be a challenge because I was so used to posting music that it became like a reflex. It was just something I did every day. But writing movie reviews and posting other interesting things on this site is not yet a habit. I’ll have to make it one.

Something I’ve done in the past and enjoyed was to post pictures of recent purchases.

This post includes two separate purchases.

Tulsa regularly does a big flea market and we like to go (when we remember that it exists). We attended last Saturday and I immediately spied a big vendor with lots of DVDs and Blu-rays. He was selling them all for $1-$2 apiece. Naturally, most of them were crap, but as you can see I found a few gems.

There was another vendor with an even bigger, and better selection of movies. I started grabbing them but then realized they weren’t so cheap. They were individually priced, the cheapest being $5 and they went as high as $50 for larger boxed sets. Those prices weren’t bad for what he was selling, but since I originally thought they were $1 a piece I rejected them outright.

Today my wife went thrift shopping and sent me a picture of the second set. I don’t know anything about Sandition, but I generally love PBS shows and since it was selling for $1 for the three seasons we knew that was a bargain. I have no idea what My Wife Maurice is about (neither does my wife but it is French and she loves all things French).

Studious observers may notice that I now have two copies of the John Wayne movie The Quiet Man. I picked the DVD up at the flea market. When my wife sent me the selection of the movies she found at the thrift store she asked me if I had The Quiet Man. I looked at my list and told her, “No.” Friends, I had not yet added the DVD to my list. So, now I have an upgrade to Blu-ray!

I love a good bargain.

The Rolling Stones – Chicago, IL (06/21/19)

The Rolling Stones
No Filter in Chicago 1st Night -XAVEL ORIGINAL MASTER-」
XAVEL-Silver Masterpiece Series-205
Recorded Live at Soldier Field
Chicago, IL, USA
21st June 2019



[XAVEL ORIGINAL MASTER : Multiple Stereo IEM Sources Matrix Recording]

Trade FLACs >WAV > Change File Names To Reflect Etree Standards, FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.47 By OldNeumanntapr

(Disc 1)
01. Opening
02. Street Fighting Man
03. Let’s Spend the Night Together
04. Tumbling Dice
05. Sad Sad Sad
06. You Got Me Rocking
07. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
08. Angie
09. Dead Flowers
10. Sympathy for the Devil
11. Honky Tonk Women

(Disc 2)
01. Band Introductions
02. You Got the Silver (Keith Richards on lead vocals)
03. Before They Make Me Run (Keith Richards on lead vocals)
04. Miss You
05. Paint It Black
06. Midnight Rambler
07. Start Me Up
08. Jumpin’ Jack Flash
09. Brown Sugar
Encore:
10. Gimme Shelter
11. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Lineage: Silver CDs > XLD (secure and accurate ripper) > FLAC

2019/06/21 Soldier Field, Chicago, IL IEM SBD

No Filter in Chicago 1st Night Disc 1 XAVEL

The Rolling Stones – Los Angeles, CA (07/13/24)

Rolling Stones
Sofi Stadium
Los Angeles,CA
07-13-2024

Lineage>SP-CMC-4U -> A10
taken from the ijwthstd blog>raw wav file>Roxio Sound Editor>Split tracks>Traders Little
Helper>flac 6>Us

Start Me Up
Get Off of My Cloud
Tumbling Dice
Angry
Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
(fan-voted song)
Fool to Cry
(tour debut)
Whole Wide World
Monkey Man
You Can’t Always Get What You Wa
Band Introductions
You Got the Silver
(Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Little T&A
(Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Before They Make Me Run
(Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Sympathy for the Devil
Honky Tonk Women
Miss You
Gimme Shelter
Paint It Black
Jumpin’ Jack Flash

Encore:
Sweet Sounds of Heaven
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

The Rolling Stones – Los Angeles, CA (07/10/24)

The Rolling Stones
“Hackney Diamonds Tour”
SoFi Stadium
Inglewood, CA
July 10, 2024

** 24 BIT **

Source: SP-CMC-8 (cardioids) > SP-SPSB-10 > Roland R-07 @ 24 bit/48 kHz
Mastering: .WAV > iZotope RX11 Advanced v11.0.1.3871 (De-click) > Sound Forge Pro 14.0 Build 140 [minor edits, normalize, & fades, Boz Digital Labs T-Bone2 plug-in (tilt EQ)] > CDWav
(tracking) > Trader’s Little Helper (level 5) > FLAC > TagScanner 6.1.17 (tagging)
Location: Close to the rail, 10 meters left of DFC (last few songs – at the rail, closer to the front speakers)
Recorded by: toshi
Mastered by: Dennis Orr

Setlist: (2:03:30)
01 Intro
02 Start Me Up
03 You Got Me Rocking
04 It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It)
05 Angry
06 Beast Of Burden
07 Wild Horses
08 Mess It Up
09 Tumbling Dice
10 Chat
11 You Can’t Always Get What You Want
12 Chat & Band Intros
13 Tell Me Straight (1)
14 Little T & A (1)
15 Before They Make Me Run (1)
16 Sympathy For The Devil
17 Honky Tonk Women
18 Midnight Rambler
19 Gimme Shelter
20 Chat
21 Paint It Black
22 Jumpin’ Jack Flash
23 Encore Break

  • Encore –
    24 Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
    25 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
    26 Crowd

(1) Keith – lead vocals

Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitar, & harp
Keith Richards – guitars & backing vocals
Ronnie Wood – guitars
Chuck Leavell – keyboards
Darryl Jones – bass
Steve Jordan – drums
Bernard Fowler – backing vocals & percussion
Matt Clifford – keyboards, percussion, & French horn
Tim Ries – saxophone & keyboards
Karl Denson – saxophone
Chanel Haynes – backing vocals (co-lead vocals on “Gimme Shelter”)

The Beatles – Arrive Without Travelling

THE BEATLES
Arrive Without Travelling: Remastered Edition

A Remasters Workshop edition
Pitch, phase and levels corrected, further declicked and denoised

  1. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (from “The Making Of Sgt. Pepper”)
  2. That Means A Lot (takes 23, 24 & ‘test’)
  3. I’m So Tired (take 14, from remix session 10-15-68)
  4. We Can Work It Out (take 2 with single lead vocal)
  5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (from “The Making Of Sgt. Pepper”)
  6. It’s All Too Much (take 2, unedited version)
  7. She’s A Woman (11-17-64 Top Gear seesion outtake)
  8. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (from “The Making Of Sgt. Pepper”)
  9. Within You Without You (from “The Making Of Sgt. Pepper”)
  10. Norwegian Wood (take 2)
  11. Penny Lane overdub session (excerpt)
  12. I’m In Love (John piano demo)
  13. 12-Bar Original (takes 1, 2 & end of prior rehearsal)
  14. I Feel Fine (11-17-64 Top Gear seesion outtake)
  15. Good Morning Good Morning (from “The Making Of Sgt. Pepper”)
  16. The Inner Light (instrumental track)
  17. Hold Me Tight (take 20 breakdown)
  18. A Day In The Life (from “The Making Of Sgt. Pepper”)

Jackson Browne – Columbia, SC (04/21/78)

Jackson Browne with David Lindley
Palm Meadows Benefit,
Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC
April 21, 1978

01 Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens
02 Take It Easy
03 Jamaica Say You Will
04 Looking Into You
05 Fountain Of Sorrow
06 For Everyman
07 Linda Paloma
08 Cocaine
09 Rosie //
10 // For A Dancer
11 The Reel Of The Hanged One
12 Crow On The Cradle
13 Before The Deluge
14 Running On Empty
15 The Load Out >
16 Stay
17 The Pretender
18 Will The Circle Be Unbroken * //

  • w/ John Sebastian

source: SBD
lineage: unknown
nak dragon/b > tascam hd-p2 24/96 > pc > adobe audition 2.0 > cd wave > flac

Jackson Browne – St. Petersburg, FL (01/28/78)

Jackson Browne
Bay Front Center
St. Petersburg, FL
January 28, 1978

Transfer: Low Gen Tape > Nakamichi DR-01 (azimuth adjusted) > Audacity 2.1.1 > Peak Pro 6 (pre-production) > iZotope RX / ozone 5 (mastered) > Peak Pro 6 (post production) > xACT 2.39 > FLAC

01 Take It Easy
02 The Fuse
03 Here Come Those Tears Again
04 Late For The Sky
05 Fountain Of Sorrow
06 Your Bright Baby Blues
07 Rock Me On The Water
08 Cocaine
09 For A Dancer
10 Doctor My Eyes
11 Love Needs A Heart
12 Running On Empty
13 Walking Slow
14 Before The Deluge
15 You Love The Thunder
16 The Late Show
17 The Pretender
18 The Load Out
19 Stay
20 The Road And The Sky

Known Faults:
-Walking Slow: splice
-The Late Show: splice

Jackson Browne closed the first month of the 1978 leg of the “Running On Empty” tour with two shows in Florida. At the end of last year, I shared the Miami show from the 29th taken from an excellent copy of CB’s low gen reels transferred by my JEMS partners. I’m pleased to add the penultimate night of this portion of the tour in St. Petersburg. This copy comes from a longtime Jackson Browne collector who wishes to remain anonymous.

This is the second release from his archives with the first being Detroit 1972. Anyone familiar with my Jackson uploads should be aware of my love for this tour. For me it’s Jackson’s sweet spot, a tour that features a tight band with an excellent setlist touring behind an album that can only be considered Jackson at his peak.

This show sandwiched between Miami on the 29th and Birmingham on the 26th (which Jackson comments on the lackluster Birmingham crowd during this show) does not disappoint and is one of the very best shows of this leg of the tour. Jackson is in a great mood, and comments numerous times about how great the audience is.

Quality is very good to excellent, close to the stage with good stability throughout only suffering from a possible generation or two loss. If the master ever surfaces it would easily make this, if not the best show, then one of the top 2 or 3 of the tour. If you are only collecting a few shows this one comes highly recommended.

In this time of uncertainty, our thoughts and prayers go out to Jackson and his family after his diagnosis with Covid-19. It sounds like he’s doing ok and currently recovering. As we all shelter at home, I hope shows like this lift you up and make it just a touch easier…stay safe out there.

A big thank you to the anonymous collector who so generously lent me the tapes to share with a wider audience!

Artwork and samples provided…

mjk5510

Jackson Browne – New York, NY (02/28/74)

Jackson Browne
Carnegie Hall
NYC Feb 28 1974
early and late shows

Cassette masters>dat to me>
file cloned in Microtrack
using a Tascam Dat deck>
Goldwave tracking>TLH8flac

Produced by Dolphinsmile
for the Dolphinsmile Archive

sound surprisingly good for 1974

Early

Take it Easy
Our Lady of the Well
Song for Adam
Jamaica Say You Will
Ready or Not
Your Bright Baby Blues
For Everyman
Rock Me on the Water
The Road and the Sky
Doctor My Eyes
Red Neck Friend
One More Song w Linda Rondstadt

Late

Take it Easy
Our Lady of the Well
Song for Adam
Jamaica Say You Will
Ready or Not
Your Bright Baby Blues
For Everyman
The Road and the Sky
Doctor My Eyes
These Days
One More Song w Linda Rondstadt