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The Notting Hillbillies – London, England (07/24/98)

The Notting Hillbillies
Ronnies Scott’s Club
London, England
1998-07-24

CD 1

  1. Intro
  2. Run me down
  3. One way gal
  4. Good rockin’ tonight
  5. Your own sweet way
  6. Railroad worksong
  7. Why worry
  8. Water of love
  9. Rope stretching
  10. Hobo’s lullaby
  11. Meet me in the bottom
  12. Denomination blues
  13. K.C. Moan
  14. Can’t be satisfied

CD 2

  1. Blues stay away from me
  2. Calling Elvis
  3. Bewildered
  4. Introduction of Lonnie Donegan
  5. Frankie and Johnny (Lonnie Donegan)
  6. Corina Corina (Lonnie Donegan)
  7. Are we in trouble now
  8. Setting me up
  9. Feel like going home
  10. His latest flame
  11. The next time I’m in town

Source: Audience
Format: 2CD-R

Lineage: Trade CD-Rs > XLD (secure and accurate ripper) > FLAC

Mark Knopfler – guitar, vocals
Steve Phillips – guitar, vocals
Brendan Croker – guitar, vocals
Guy Fletcher – keyboards, vocals
Marcus Cliffe – bass

David Bowie – Mountain View, CA (10/19-20/96)

David Bowie
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA
10/19-20/96

Bridge School Benefit

10/19/96

Tracklist:
01 – Aladdin Sane
02 – The Jean Genie
03 – I’m A Hog For You Baby
04 – I Can’t Read
05 – The Man Who Sold The World
06 – Heroes
07 – Let’s Dance

10/20/96

Tracklist:
01 – Aladdin Sane
02 – The Jean Genie
03 – You And I And George
04 – I Can’t Read
05 – The Man Who Sold The World
06 – China Girl
07 – Heroes
08 – White Light White Heat

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Los Angeles, CA (11/12/88)


CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG featuring Jackson Browne
California Hungerton Benefit 1988
Palace Theater, Los Angeles,
November 12, 1988

Excellent FM broadcast remastered

  1. Teach Your Children – Graham Nash
  2. Crow On The Cradle – Jackson Browne & Graham Nash
  3. Lives In The Balance – Jackson Browne with Crosby & Nash
  4. Rock Me On The Water – CSNY
  5. The Old House – CSNY
  6. Love The One You’re With – CSNY
  7. In The Name Of Love – CSNY
  8. Tracks In The Dust – Crosby & Nash
  9. Don’t Say Goodbye – Crosby, Nash & Young
  10. Southern Cross – CSNY
  11. Long Time Gone – CSNY
  12. My Country Tis Of Thee – Crosby, Nash & JD Souther
  13. Jamaica Say You Will – Jackson Browne & Graham Nash
  14. Wasted On The Way – CSNY
  15. Blackbird – CSNY
  16. Teach Your Children – CSNY
  17. Hungry Heart – Bruce Springsteen

Kingfish – Hempstead, NY (03/27/76)



Kingfish
Calderone Concert Hall
Hempstead, NY
March 27th, 1976

Minglewood Blues [WLIR-FM] Flac
Label: Klondike Records ‎– KLCD5048
Format: CD, Album
Country: Europe
Released: Oct 2015

Tracklist:

01 Mystery Train > Muleskinner Blues 8:45
02 Goodbye Your Honor 3:14
03 Lazy Lightning > Supplication 8:49
04 Juke 3:32
05 Bye And Bye 4:29
06 Hypnotized 6:35
07 Minglewood Blues 3:44
08 Battle Of New Orleans 5:26
09 Big Iron 4:39
10 Jump For Joy 3:27
11 Promised Land 3:55
12 Sea Cruise 3:14

  • Brilliant performance at Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, NY on 27th March 1976
  • Includes the entire WLIR-FM broadcast
  • Digitally remastered for enhanced sound quality
  • Background liners

Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode: 5291012504814

Notes: Kingfish was fundamentally different to the more celebrated bands that Bob Weir and Dave Torbert hailed from. They clearly dug deep into their mutual love of American roots music to fashion a repertoire that established Kingfish as its own entity. The setlist performed here reflects the soul of their repertoire and finds Weir enjoying a brief sojourn from his obligations with the Grateful Dead while they took a well-earned break.

As for Bob Weir, nobody was really sure what a hiatus for the Dead meant, and Kingfish could have blossomed if the Dead had remained on the bricks, but Weir had a fantastic few hundred hours jamming with friends as this performance easily shows.

Klondike proudly presents the entire original WLIR-FM broadcast of Bob Weir with Kingfish live at Calderone Concert Hall, Hempstead, NY from 27th March 1976.

Professionally re-mastered original broadcast with background liners and rare archival photos! An exceptional celebration of the American songbook and a valuable addition for fans of NRPS and Grateful Dead.

The Forever Begging

Click HERE to donate to The Midnight Cafe.

I started this blog on May 29, 2004, which means I’m approaching twenty years as a blogger. I think most of you know the basics of my blogging history – started out as a journal for my year in France, turned into a pop culture site, which then morphed into solely a live music station, and for the last year I’ve added back in some pop cultural musings.

I’ve made something like 10,666 posts. I’ve shared some 8,000 shows, written about movies over 500 times. I’ve talked about music and books, and I’ve shared videos and interesting links. I’ve shared personal pictures and talked a lot about my life. I’ve traveled all over the world and shared my adventures.

I don’t know how much this means to anybody but myself. I like to think I’ve made something of my little corner in cyberspace. I know most of you come for the music, but I hope at least a few of you enjoy the other stuff.

On a few occasions now I’ve asked for donations to help cover the cost of the Cloud Drives. You all have given generously to that cause, and I thank you sincerely. In previous donation requests, I’ve capped the donations to the actual cost of the Cloud Drives. In my last begging session, I noted that since I was providing more content than just music downloads I thought I’d leave the Paypal link up so that you could donate at will.

This is a continuation of that. I’m going to pin this to the top of the page so it is easily viewable by everyone. I may periodically post reminders or what you might call mini-begging posts, kind of like they do on Substack and similar operations.

The Midnight Cafe is a labor of love. I do this because I enjoy it. I’ve put a lot more time and money into it than I’ll ever get out of it. But if you think it is worth a little of your money I would greatly appreciate any donation you’d like to give. If you are unable to give, that’s okay too. This site will always be free.

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The Movie Journal: March 2024

ride lonesome

I watched 37 movies in the month of March. 24 of them were new to me. 23 were made before I was born. It was Westerns in March and I watched ten movies with dudes in cowboy hats.

I’m realizing as I do more of these monthly movie themes that I usually start off strong, but then something always happens in the middle of the month that distracts me. Sometimes I have to review some movies that don’t fit the theme, or maybe I want to watch some movies or TV shows with my wife, or we go out of town. When that happens I find it difficult to come back to the theme.

It’s like my little side gig of reviewing Blu-rays for Cinema Sentries. Since it isn’t a paying gig I get to choose when I want to review something. Some weeks I get really excited and request lots of stuff. Then they show up in the mail and I have to watch them. Suddenly, I don’t want to watch those movies I want to watch other movies.

I love Westerns. I love Westerns in March. But then I had to review some film noirs, and then we went on a little trip, and suddenly I wanted to watch something else. Savvy readers will notice that at the end of the month, I started watching a lot of movies from the 1980s in preparation for Awesome ’80s in April.

Not that it matters, the whole point is to have fun. If I’m not having fun, then what’s the point?

Clark Gable remains my top actor this year with six films watched. All those Westerns drove several actors into a tie for second place with four films watched. These include John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and Lee Van Cleef. Burt Lancaster is right there with them.

The director’s race continues to be pretty lame. Umberto Lenzi remains in first place, tied with John Ford, both of whom have three films watched by me. Fritz Lang and Budd Boetticher come in second with two films each.

Rambo III (1988) – **1/2
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) – ***
First Blood (1982) – ***1/2
Repo Man (1984) – ****
Trancers (1984) – ***1/2
Curtains (1983) ***1/2
Forbidden World (1982) – ***1/2
Humanoids from the Deep (1980) –
Thieves’ Highway (1949) – ****1/2
The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) – ****
Zodiac (2007) – *****
Chain Lightning (1950) – ***
Finger Man (1955) – ***
Evil Under the Sun (1982) – ***1/2
While the City Sleeps (1956) – ****
Spasmo (1974) – ***1/2
Crashout (1955) – ****
City of Shadows (1955) – *
Act of Violence (1948) – ****
And Then There Were None (1945) – ***1/2
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) – ***1/2
Nightmare (1956) – ***
Bulldog Drummond’s Peril (1938) – **1/2
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) – ***1/2
Bone Tomahawk (2015) – ****
Ride the High Country (1962) – ****1/2
Black Tuesday (1954) – ***
Vice Squad (1953) – ***1/2
The Searchers (1956) – *****
The Whip and the Body (1963) – ***1/2
Ten Wanted Men (1955) – ***1/2
Ride Lonesome (1959) – ****1/2
Comanche Station (1960) – ****
The Professionals (1966) – ****
The Great Train Robbery (1903) – *****
The Faculty (1998) – ***1/2
Deadly Friend (1986) – **1/2

Miles Davis – Paris, France (11/06/67)

Miles Davis Quintet*
Salle Pleyel
Paris, France
November 6, 1967

No Blues
Label: Jazz Music Yesterday – JMY 1003-2
Unofficial Release
Italy
Released: 1990

1 ‘Round About Midnight
Composed By – Monk*
8:05

2 No Blues
Composed By – Davis*
13:05

3 Masqualero
Composed By – Shorter*
8:40

4 I Fall In Love Too Easily
Composed By – Styne*
9:00

5 Riot
Composed By – Hancock*
5:30

6 Walkin’
Composed By – Carpenter*
9:40

7 Green Dolphin Street
Composed By – Kaper*
16:50
8 The Theme
Composed By – Davis*
0:40

Jazz Music Yesterday

Bass – Ron Carter
Drums – Tony Williams*
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Tenor Saxophone – Wayne Shorter
Trumpet – Miles Davis

Recorded at Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, November 6, 1967 (info taken from jazzdisco.org).

Track 3 is mistitled “Mascalero.”
Track 4 is mistitled “I Fall in Love Too Easy.”

Matrix  Runout: JMY 1003 PHC
Rights Society: S.I.A.E.

Pink Floyd – Dream’s Factory (1970-1972)

Pink Floyd
DREAM’S FACTORY

cat: NEW KERUAC LINE 1011 —
date / venue: compilation (1970-1972)

limited edition with certification
the CD case is a round can box containing the cd on a round sponge
and a numbered warranty certificate (mine is 0010)
no info about the date of release
but I can remember I found that in a music shop (together with the RoIO Silence) around ’93-’95 (and it was yet released
surely not after 95, since then RoIOs got illegal here, while this release has the SIAE trademark on the certificate (if someone doesnít know it yet, the SIAE is the society that monitors the artistsí copyrights here in Italy)

  • tracklist + exact sources:
  1. BREATHE / ON THE RUN 8:59
    from the Live at Rainbow Theatre Feb. 20 1972 (same as on the RoIOs Forbidden Samples/The Live Side Of the Moon, Time etc…)
  2. ECHOES 25:17
    live from the Paris Cinema London concert – BBC archives Sept. 30 1971
  3. EMBRYO 3:04 (listed erroneously on the cover as Green is the Colour)
    live from the Paris Cinema London concert (BBC archives July 16 1970)
  4. IF 4:24
    live from the Paris Cinema London concert (BBC archives July 16 1970)
  5. US AND THEM / ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE 7:03
    from the Live at Rainbow Theatre Feb. 20 1972 (same as on the RoIOs Forbidden Samples/The Live Side Of the Moon, Time etc…)
  6. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE EUGENE 5:28 — (fades out)
    live from the Paris Cinema London concert (BBC archives July 16 1970)

I’m almost sure the tracks from the BBC broadcast comes from vinyl, not 100% sure anyway … sound is very good but all the tracks comes from very common recordings available on many different editions and with a better sound quality too

EXTRACTION / CONVERSION + notes by littlesheep

The Who – Saint Charles, IL (08/10/68)

The Who
1968-08-10
Saint Charles, IL
Jaguar Club

Source: Audience
Lineage: 1st gen cassette>Nakamichi 670 pitch & azimuth-adjusted playback deck>Wavelab 96/24>Izotope 44.1/16>flac
Transferred By: JEMS

Band Members:
Pete Townshend – vocals, guitar
Roger Daltrey – vocals, harmonica
John Entwistle – bass, vocals
Keith Moon – drums, vocals

Setlist:

  1. Intro
  2. I Can’t Explain
  3. Fortune Teller
  4. Tattoo
  5. Heaven And Hell
  6. Young Man Blues
  7. Daddy Rolling Stone
  8. Summertime Blues
  9. Magic Bus
  10. Boris The Spider
  11. A Quick One While He’s Away
  12. My Generation

Length: 66:05

Notes:
1st gen from the JEMS vaults. The recording is listenable but primative sounding. It is still probably an upgrade to most circulating copies of this recording as it is and is the 1st time this particular tape has ever been properly digitized in any form (Dec 2010).

“I got this from the guy that taped it after meeting him at a record show in Chicago. Features “Daddy Rolling Stone” and a early long version of Magic Bus most likely featuring a young Bobby Pridden on additional percussion at the beginning with Keith.”

tapeboy for JEMS