They Live (1988)

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There is a company called Fathom Events that bring classic (and not so classic) films as well as live theater and other special events to movie theaters across the country.

I used to go to their events fairly often, but then COVID hit and other things happened and I stopped going to the theater all together. I’m hoping to get back to it a little more often and was thrilled when I saw Fathom was doing some John Carpenter movies.

I got to saw They Live and wrote a little thing about it for Cinema Sentries.

Little Women (1933)

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I’ve had several movies to watch and review for Cinema Sentries which explains why I haven’t been writing much for my Great British Cinema Series. I have watched several British films in the interim and will write about them soon. But for now I’ll catch you up on my Cinema Sentries writing.

For large swaths of my life I tended to stay away from what is sometimes derogatorily called Women’s Pictures or Chick Flicks. I wasn’t necesarilly a man’s man either, I grew out of action movies early in college. But emotionally charged films about women in need of romance and other such things held very little interest for me.

I can’t say that I am mainlining romantic comedies these days, but I’ve soften somewhat in this regard. As you’ll read in my review, I first saw a version of Little Women in college and didn’t much care for it, but I’ve come to rather love it. This version starring Katharine Hepburn is one of my favorites.

Rest In Peace Olof Bjorner

Olaf Bjorner, the Swedish researcher who tirelessly documented Bob Dylan’s performances has died. I didn’t know him personally, but everything I’ve read about him was that he was a kind, generous man. Certainly, his website is indispensable for Dylan fans.

You can read a little more about him in the Peter Stone Brown archives.

Rest now, good sir, the world is a better place because of your life.

Ticket Stubs

I was cleaning up my office and found a bunch of old ticket stubs (both concert and theater productions). This isn’t everything I’ve seen, of course, just a really random selection. I don’t know if anybody is interested in this, but I wanted to scan them and decided to share them anyway.

Click here if you want to see them. Man, they do bring back memories for me. Kind of makes me sad that so many concerts don’t really give you physical tickets anymore.

The Who – New York, NY (04/06/68)

The Who
April 6th 1968
Fillmore East, New York

rough audience recording
CDR (trade) > flac

Also includes what is labeled as a AUD/SBD recording with no notes.

Substitute (2’09)
Pictures Of Lily (2’37)
Relax (10’53)
I’m A Boy (3’30)
C’mon Everybody (2’59)
A Quick One While He’s Away (11’19)
My Way (2’18)

time : 35’45

Notes : Can’t remember where&when I downloaded it, thanks to the forgotten previous sharer !
Reseed from DVDR archive, checksum files was ok, but one track, wrongly named, needed correction and then I recreated a new checksum. No other change.

Audience recording, hissy but pretty good though, for the age.
Relax is the same as the famous SBD version (but complete here), while some others tracks are different (as the latter half of the bootleg SBD is the 5th).
For a detailed explanation, read Date Correction.txt

The Rolling Stones – London, England (03/14/71)

The Rolling Stones
03/14/71
Chalk Farm Roundhouse (2nd Show)
London, England

Art indicates this is from a bootleg entitled London Roundhouse. There is no other source info.

Jumping Jack Flash
Live With Me
Dead Flowers
Stray Cat Blues
Love In Vain
Prodigal Son
Midnight Rambler
Bitch
Introduction
Honky Tonk Women
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction

Bonus Tracks: Leeds, England (03/13/71)

Little Queenie
Brown Sugar
Street Fighting Man

Peter Gabriel – Geneva, Switzerland (09/21/80)

Peter Gabriel
Geneve
Pavillion des Sports de Champel
21.9.1980
complete show

DB/RDWM 2013 edition

2 audience source – partial matrix when possible
HarBal 2.3 > Wavelab > iZotope RX > TLH > flac

artworks by DB Roger included

cd1
01 I Don’t Remember
02 Start
03 I Don’t Remember
04 Solsbury Hill
05 Family Snapshot
06 Intro to Milgram’s 37
07 Milgram’s 37
08 Modern Love
09 Not One Of Us

cd2
10 Lead A Normal Life
11 Moribund The Burgermeister
12 Mother Of Violence
13 Humdrum
14 Games Without Frontiers
15 Band introduction
16 And Through The Wire
17 I Go Swimming
18 Biko
19 On The Air
20 D.I.Y.
21 Here Comes The Flood

some notes from Digital Brother Roger
“The 1980 tour, known as the ëChina 1984 Tourí out of derision was possibly one of the most avant-garde tours PG ever emabarked on. This both in terms of sound innovations and visuals with the band accoutred in garage repair men suits. The tour followed the release of PGís third album which is often credited as the first LP to use the now-famous “gated cymballess drum” sound developped by drummer Jerry Marotta.

This RDWM/DB production consists of a two source recording merged together and patching in some places where one of the recordings had holes. The first recording I obtained a copy on cassette from a friend in Geneva who knew the taper but I was never able to find out the name of the taper and what equipment he used. His recording was very clean and complete. It ended up being picked up by Highland Bootlegs under the name: ëPavillion of Memoriesí but it was missing ëHere Comes The Floodí.The second came to me by a taper nicknamed ëMentschí who used

the following gear: Uher 4200 Portable Reel-To-Reel Recorder & Senheisser MD421 Mics. Unfortunately our good friend ëMentschí became very paranoid about security after having smoked a fat joint and the recording suffers from frequent cuts and him moving around from his original location in the hall. The combination of
both sources makes this archive one of the finest sounding audience captures of this remarkable 80 tour.

Thanks to RDWM for his long hours of patience on patching the loose ends. Enjoy! DB”

Bob Dylan Announces October 2023 Tour Dates

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I’m really tempted to drive all the way up to Kansas City for this.

10-01 Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre
10-02 Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre
10-04 St. Louis, MO – Stifel Theatre
10-06 Chicago, IL – Cadillac Palace Theatre
10-07 Chicago, IL – Cadillac Palace Theatre
10-08 Chicago, IL – Cadillac Palace Theatre
10-11 Milwaukee, WI – The Riverside Theater
10-12 Milwaukee, WI – The Riverside Theater
10-16 Indianapolis, IN – Murat Theatre
10-20 Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J. Brady Music Center
10-21 Akron, OH Akron Civic Theatre
10-23 Erie, PA – Warner Theatre
10-24 Rochester, NY – Auditorium Theatre
10-26 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall
10-27 Toronto, Ontario – Massey Hall
10-29 Montreal, Quebec – Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
10-30 Schenectady, NY – Proctors Theatre

The Mosquito Coast (1986)

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I’m watching one movie from every year I’ve been alive in chronological order. We’re now up to 1986.

Harrison Ford is such an iconic actor, he’s portrayed so many characters that are a part of our cultural consciousness – from Han Solo and Indiana Jones to Rick Deckard and Richard Kimble that it is difficult to remember just how much of an interesting actor he was. I don’t mean to take away from anything he’s doing now, but there was a time when he took risks. He made movies with some of the world’s greatest directors – Roman Polanski, Mike Nichols, Alan J. Pakula, and Peter Weir. He was so much more than the icon he has become.

In 1986 he made The Mosquito Coast with Peter Weir and it feels so many lightyears away from the types of films he’s known for, the types of films people dress up as at cons, that he’s almost unrecognizable.

He plays Allie Fox, a brilliant inventor who is what we now might call a kooky conspiracy theorist. He’s lost his faith in the American Dream and its consumerism, and undying thirst for the almighty dollar. He thinks the government is out to destroy everything good in the world. He fears an oncoming nuclear holocaust.

So, he sells everything he has and moves his family to Belize. There he buys a small village on a river in the middle of the jungle. There he tries to set up a utopian society. It kind of works for a while, especially when he invents a machine that makes ice – a novelty in the isolated village. The machine is huge and lingers over the village like a giant, metallic god. When missionaries visit the village he kicks them out. When three rebels visit…well, things don’t go so well.

The jungle and the isolation don’t alleviate any of Allie’s fears. His madness only grows worse. Eventually, he destroys nearly everything he cares for, even as he slowly stops caring for just about everything.

Harrison Ford is magnificent in this. It is so fascinating to watch him play what could only kindly be called an anti-hero, and might more correctly be called an outright villain. But he’s never intentionally terrible. Allie is a man who knows down to his bones that he is righteous, but everything keeps getting in his way. Hellen Mirren, as his wife, is good as well, but she’s not given much to do. River Phoenix reminds us of what a wonderful young actor he was and makes me wish he’s lived longer.

It is an odd little film, not really fun to watch, but interesting nonetheless.

Bob Weir & Wolf Bros Announce Fall 2023 Tour

bob weir and wolf bros

My secret admission is that I prefer The Wolf Bros over Dead & Co. And while the latter is now officially retired it is pretty cool to see Bobby still out there playing music. They aren’t coming anywhere near me, but if they are close to you I recommend seeing them.

September 8—Park City Song Summit Festival—Park City, UT
September 10—FirstBank Amphitheater—Franklin, TN*
September 12—CCNB Amphitheatre at Heritage Park—Simpsonville, SC*
September 13—Ting Pavilion—Charlottesville, VA
September 15—Saratoga Performing Arts Center—Saratoga Springs, NY*
September 16—Xfinity Center—Mansfield, MA*
September 17—Forest Hills—Queens, NY*
September 19—The Green At Shelburne Museum—South Burlington, VT
September 20—Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater—Bridgeport, CT*
September 22—Pine Knob Music Theatre—Clarkston, MI*
September 23—Farm Aid—Noblesville, IN
September 26—Mershon Auditorium—Columbus, OH
September 27—The Met Philadelphia—Philadelphia, PA
September 28—Pier Six Pavilion—Baltimore, MD

*Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival 2023

Tickets are available here.