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Pink Floyd – German Trading Tape of Outtakes

Pink Floyd
German Trading Tape of Outtakes

This tape was floating around in West German trading circles in the early 1980’s. It consists of three tracks:

Interstellar Overdrive (listed as an Ummagumma Outtake)
One Of These Days (alternate take one)
One Of These Days (alternate take two)

The OOTD material is shocking and weird! This tape was brought over to the kind folks at Yeeshkul!, who were only able to identify the first track. It’s not an outtake from Ummagumma at all, it’s from the BBC from December 1968. The other two tracks remain a subject of speculation. That’s all the information I have.

This material is in its best-so-far quality and is presented for your amusement, though not necessarily for your enjoyment. That part is up to you.

Nothing here is officially released, and your comments are welcome.

Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape

Various Artists – Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 11

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 11: Lookin’ For a New Friend

Happy new year, fellow Dylan cover fans! Volume 9 of this series featured songs that hadn’t been covered in the first eight sets. To kick off the second season of NSD, this one features artists who have not previously appeared in this series. One special note: track 5, “I Thew it All Away” performed by Paul Kelly, comes from a KCRW special called “Oh Merci!”, hosted by John Wesley Harding, on Dylan’s birthday in 1993. My friend Bob taped about 30 minutes of it, from which I’ve culled this track–but if anyone has the full show, please share it!

And while I’m making requests, here’s another, for Randall (in memory of his friend Mike): can someone send me a lossless version of Bruce Springsteen’s performance of “Forever Young” at the John Hammond tribute show? Randall gave me an MP3 version, and it’s beautifully heartfelt; I’d love to include a lossless version in a later volume of this series.

That’s it for now. Please keep the suggestions and files coming! As always, thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). Enjoy!

01 Highway 61 Revisited – The Long Ryders (May 11, 1985, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA)
02 Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Mar 19, 2006, KEXP, Seattle, WA)
03 I’ll Keep it With Mine – Marianne Faithfull (Jun 30, 1999, Modernes, Bremen, Germany)
04 Girl From the North Country – Pete Townshend (Aug 15, 1998, Max Yasgur’s Farm, Bethel, NY)
05 I Threw it All Away – Paul Kelly (May 24, 1993, Oh Merci! special, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA)
06 You’re a Big Girl Now – Todd Snider (Sep 17, 2006, Canal Street Tavern, Dayton, OH)
07 You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go – Shawn Colvin (Nov 29, 2006, Union Chapel, London)
08 Don’t Think Twice – Steve Young (Jun 14, 1991, Community Theatre, Berkeley, CA)
09 Sweetheart Like You – Guy Davis (Nov 5, 2006, Lage Vuursche, Furs, Netherlands)
10 Queen Jane Approximately – Henry Kaiser (Aug 27, 1994, Fukuoka Dome, Fukuoka, Japan)
11 Oh Sister – Black Crowes (2-15-97, Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands )
12 The Man in Me – My Morning Jacket (Jun 18, 2004, Brown-Forman Ampitheatre, Louisville, KY)
13 Man of Peace – Holmes Brothers (Apr 12, 2001, Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, ON)
14 I Shall Be Released – Kevn Kinney with Edwin McCain
15 Forever Young – Southside Johnny and Little Steven (Nov 21, 1993, WXRK-FM Studios, New York, NY)
16 Blowin’ in the Wind – Carlos Santana and Friends w/Steve Winwood (Jul 15, 2004, Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland)

The Who – Boston, MA (05/18/22)

The Who
May 18 2022
at TD Garden, Boston, MA, USA

Tour: The Who Hits Back!

No source info given.

With Orchestra

Overture
1921
Amazing Journey
Sparks
Pinball Wizard
We’re Not Gonna Take It
Who Are You
Eminence Front
Ball and Chain
Join Together

Band Only

The Seeker
You Better You Bet
Relay
Won’t Get Fooled Again

With Orchestra

Behind Blue Eyes
The Real Me
I’m One
5:15
The Rock
Love, Reign O’er Me
Baba O’Riley

Encore:
Happy Birthday to You
(Mildred J. Hill & Patty Hill cover) (Roger sang with audience for Pete’s Birthday on the 19th.)

The Cure – Los Angeles, CA (05/23/23)

The Cure
2023-05-23
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, CA

SOURCE:
SP-CMC-8 (w/Mods) > Sony PCM-A10 > Sandisk Mini-SD Card (32gb – Class 10)

TRANSFER:
.WAV (24 Bit) > Adobe Audition 2023 CC (normalize/amplify/tracking) > Trader’s Little Helper > FLAC (Level 6)

SETLIST:

  1. Intro
  2. Alone
  3. Pictures of You
  4. A Night Like This
  5. Lovesong
  6. And Nothing is Forever
  7. The Last Day of Summer
  8. A Fragile Thing
  9. Burn
  10. Another Happy Birthday
  11. Charlotte Sometimes
  12. Push
  13. Primary
  14. Shake Dog Shake
  15. From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
  16. Endsong
  17. (encore break #1)

— ENCORE #1 —

  1. I Can Never Say Goodbye
  2. It Can Never Be the Same
  3. A Thousand Hours
  4. At Night
  5. A Forest
  6. (encore break #2)

— ENCORE #2 —

  1. Lullaby
  2. Six Different Ways
  3. The Walk
  4. Friday I’m in Love
  5. Doing the Unstuck
  6. Close to Me
  7. In Between Days
  8. Just Like Heaven
  9. Boys Don’t Cry
  10. Outro

NOTES:

What’s a better encore to Cruel World (err, more like an encore to Cruel World’s own encore, so an encore to an encore?) than seeing The Cure a couple days later? Yeah I can’t think of anything better either, so here we are! I, like everyone else probably, failed to get tickets when they first went on sale (even with THREE Hollywood Bowl dates, I was completely shut out – I smell something fishy there), so I had to be patient and keep checking back on Ticketmaster every so often. I was about to give up until I read about some Firefox extension that would help refresh TM’s page every few seconds for whatever event date you wanted, so I set it to run on all three days, and the first and only date that had a ticket pop up that I was able to purchase was for Tuesday. Works for me.

This was my third time seeing the Cure, and the first time since their Pasadena Daydream performance back in 2019. My seat was rather decent, in section G2, though it became apparent I was in the senior citizen section, as no one in that section wanted to stand up. And when I did stand up, for “Pictures of You”, one of my favorite songs, I was “heckled” to sit down near the end. Then a couple songs later, duing “Lovesong”, when multiple people near me stood up, I stood up again, and then sat back down for a slower song and immediately heard the “Thanks, I can see again asshole!”. I flipped the bird and then they barked back. Gosh, I really do hope that by standing, I ruined their first concert ever. Fucking douchebags. Sorry, maybe my concert etiquette is far different than others, given I do a lot of festivals, but if you want to stand, then fucking stand. Who cares? Now if we’re discussing these idiots talking during the show? Well that’s a whole other issue. But standing? Pff, gimme a fucking break. Here’s a big FUCK YOU to all the crybabies in G2. I’d almost not want to release this recording, just to spite those dickheads behind me.

Anyway, back to the show. I thought it sounded great. I was so glad they chose the Hollywood Bowl rather Staples (or Crypto or whatever the fuck it’s called now) or Kia Forum. I generally like the Bowl and its sound, so no complaints there. It was pretty cool that they had some sounds of thunder and rain coming through the PA before they took the stage. They eventually started flashing the stage lights like it was lightning, and for a split second I had terrible flashbacks to Cruel World on Saturday night, thinking actual lightning was in the area and this show was going to get cancelled. But no, it was just Robert fucking with us all.

They played a lot of the hits, skipped a lot of the hits, and played some new stuff, including the debut of “Another Happy Birthday”. I actually think the new song “And Nothing is Forever” is the best sounding song out of all the new stuff, by a mile. I was blown away by that one. Robert said they all had a “bug” and that he was probably patient zero. That might explain why everyone but Robert looked fucking bored out of their minds on stage. Roger O’Donnell looked like he was auditioning for a new Weekend At Bernie’s. I swear, he makes Gilian Gilbert of New Order look like a raving lunatic on stage in comparison. Here’s hoping it was just that “bug”…

Steve Earle – Berlin, Germany (02/06/13)

Steve Earle
Radio Eins Studio, Berlin, Germany
2013-February-06

01 Interview
02 The Low Highway
03 Invisible
04 Burnin’ It Down
05 Remember Me
06 My Old Friend The Blues >
07 Someday
08 The Devil’s Right Hand >
09 Copperhead Road
10 Transcendental Blues

Steve Earle – vocals, acoustic guitar
Steve was introducing his new record “The Low Highway”

FM Broadcast > LS11( line in) >wav16/44.1 wav >PC > tracksplitting>flac.frontend lev8 > flac

Steve Earle – Copenhagen, Denmark (01/25/97)

Steve Earle
Bootleg “The Art Of Zen Mandolin – Unplugged In Copenhagen”
Pumpehuset, Copenhagen Denmark
January 25th 1997

01 Christmas In Washington
02 You Know The Rest
03 Angry Young Man
04 South Nashville Blues
05 CCKMP
06 My Old Friend the Blues
07 Someday
08 Tom Ames’ Prayer
09 Hometown Blues
10 Devil’s Right Hand
11 Goodbye
12 Outlaw’s Honeymoon
13 New York City
14 Somewere Out There
15 Little Rock ‘n Roller
16 Regular Guy

17 Johnny Come Lately
18 Intro
19 Ellis Unit One
20 Guitar Town
21 I Ain’t Never Satisfied
22 Now She’s Gone
23 Valentine’s Day

(Not included in this show but on the bootleg CD:
disc 2, tracks 8-17 recorded In Kingston, Canada, May 1988)

(probably recorded from FM broadcast)
Original Silver Disc, Dandelion Dl 087/88
Silver Disc – Wav – Flac (Level 8)

Pink Floyd – Miami, FL (03/30/94)

PINK FLOYD
Joe Robbie Stadium
Miami Florida USA
March 30, 1994

David Gilmore – guitars/vocals
Nick Mason – drums
Rick Wright – keyboards/vocals
Jon Carin – keyboards/vocals
Tim Renwick – guitars/vocals
Guy Pratt – bass/vocals
Gary Wallis- percussion
Dick Parry – sax
Sam Browne – vocals
Durga McBroom – vocals
Claudia Fontaine- vocals

Tracks
Disc 1

  1. High Hopes
  2. Wish You Were Here
  3. Another Brick In The Wall
  4. The Great Gig In The Sky
  5. Us And Them
  6. Money
  7. Comfortably Numb
  8. Hey You
  9. Run Like Hell

Disc 2

  1. Astronomy Domine “This track was officially released and has been removed”
  2. Learning To Fly
  3. What Do Yo Want From Me
  4. Take It Back
  5. Lost For Words
  6. Sorrow
  7. A Great Day For Freedom
  8. Keep Talking
  9. One Of These Days
  10. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  11. Breathe
  12. Time

Queen – Tokyo, Japan (02/17/81)

Queen
February 17, 1981
Nippon Budokan,
Tokyo, Japan

Lineage:
Audience > master > wardour silvers (“prime jive”) > cd-r > eac lossless wav. rip > dBpoweramp > FLAC (level 8)
sound: EX-

Disc 1:

We Will Rock You (fast)
Let Me Entertain You
Play The Game
Mustapha
Death On Two Legs
Killer Queen
I’m In Love With My Car
Get Down Make Love
Rock It
Save Me
Now I’m Here
Dragon Attack
Now I’m Here (reprise)
Love Of My Life

Disc 2:

Keep Yourself Alive
drum/guitar solos
Vultan’s Theme
Battle Theme
Flash (cut)
The Hero
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Bohemian Rhapsody
Tie Your Mother Down
Another One Bites The Dust
Sheer Heart Attack
Teo Torriatte
We Will Rock You
We Are The Champions
God Save The Queen

Total time: 112 minutes.

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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

me

On this day in 2004, I wrote my very first blog post. It was a very simple post introducing myself to the world. I had no idea what I was going to do with this blog. I had vague notions I would use it to journal my year in France, but that was it. I certainly didn’t think I’d still be blogging two decades later.

What a long, strange trip it has been.

There have been many changes over those years. I’m certainly a different man than I was when I started writing The Midnight Cafe (which was called Brewster’s Millions way back then).

I had hoped to write something a little more celebratory. I had hoped to link to some of my favorite writings and shows. But the storm put enough trouble in my way to keep that from materializing (we have power now, but no internet – I’m using my phone’s wi-fi hotspot to write this). I may do a nostalgic tour when everything comes back.

I do want to say a great big thank you to all of those who have been around for a long time. No one was here from the beginning as I was too shy to tell anyone about it for a few weeks, and when I did start to open up about it only friends and family had access for a while.

People come and go from these things and while that is perfectly understandable, it is wonderful to see some of you coming back day after day, year after year. It is wonderful to see new faces, too. I’m really just surprised and amazed anyone comes around so thank you to all who do and for the support you have given this little site.

It has been a real treat and an honor to run The Midnight Cafe for these past twenty years, I hope I get to do it for twenty more.

PS: That top picture was taken not long after we moved to Strasbourg. The bottom one was taken a few minutes ago. What a difference twenty years makes!

me twenty years later

Oh The Wind and Rain

A massive thunderstorm rolled through my little town late Saturday night. It brought with it extremely high winds and tornadoes.

My family is safe. The storm blew over a tree in my backyard and smashed up my fence. Lots of shingles came off my roof.

Power has been down across the town including at my house. They originally said it might take a week to get power back but some places already have it. My parents got it back last night so we stayed with them.

I’m writing this on my phone. I’ll try to put some pictures up later. I won’t be able to do any real blogging until we have power.

Stay safe out there friends.