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

Jackson Browne – Syracuse, NY (03/27/71)

Jackson Browne
3/27/71
The Jabberwocky
Syracuse, NY

Bonnie Raitt played a show at the same place on the same date. Presumably, it was the same gig and one opened for the other, but I can’t find confirmation of that. You can grab a recording of her performance here.

Soundboard Reel: Sony TC-355 Reel, Mono, 7 & 1/2 ips,
Trade CD >FLAC (Level 8) + Tags Via xACT 2.47 By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Under The Falling Sky
  2. World To Gain
  3. Together Again
  4. Mae Jean
  5. Last Time I Was Home
  6. Jesus In 3/4 Time
  7. My Opening Farewell
  8. talk
  9. From Silver Lake
  10. Rock Me On The Water
  11. Jamaica Say You Will

Disc II:

  1. Together Again
  2. Take It Underground
  3. talk
  4. talk
  5. When You Loose Your Money
  6. Our Lady Of The Well
  7. These Days
  8. Someday Morning
  9. Shadow Dream Song
  10. Song For Adam
  11. Looking Into You

Oldest Known Live Jackson Browne Recording

Do NOT Convert To MP3.
Enjoy! Share freely, don’t sell, play nice, don’t run with scissors, etc. 😉

Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – Nashville, TN (06/06/02)

BELA FLECK & the Flecktones feat. Karl Denson
2002-06-06
(june 6, 2002)
Riverfront Park
Nashville, TN

audience recording
Neumann KM140 > Sonosax SX-M2 > Panasonic SV-255
Lineage: Sony PCM-R500 > HHb CDR-850 (CDRW) > EAC > Cool Edit Pro (fades only) >
CD Wave (track splits) > mkwACT (SHN)
Taped by: Dr. Tom & The Silencer, Transfered by: Dirk Cota

CD1

  1. announcements/intro 6:03
  2. tuning jam -> 3:20
  3. Next 7:50
  4. Puffy Is Free 10:06
  5. Throwdown At The Hoedown 10:09
  6. Big Country 10:41
  7. Imagine This* 12:13
  8. Vic solo 3:04
  9. Sherpa 13:45

CD2

  1. Bela solo 4:16
  2. Stomping Grounds 12:56
  3. Sojourn Of Arjuna 12:24
  4. A Moment So Close 9:48
  5. Hoe Down 11:35
    encore
  6. Flight Of The Cosmic Hippo 6:51

*with Karl Denson – saxophone

cover artwork inside

taping policy:
http://www.archive.org/details/BelaFleckandtheFlecktones

last seed by FBAUER on 2009-10-07 as torrent #270172
re-seeded by FBAUER 2014-11-02

Foreign Film February: The Third Murder (2017)

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Our second film in this year’s Foreign Film February is a Japanese legal thriller that starts out strong but quickly gets muddled and ultimately wound up kind of boring me.

In the opening scene, we see a man bludgeon another man to death and then set him on fire. Then the film moves forward in time with the killer, Misumi Takashi (Kōji Yakusho) under arrest and being questioned by his defense attorneys.

He fully admits to killing the man but his story regularly changes in regards to what actually happened and why he did it. His attorneys argue over the best way to defend their client and keep him from being executed.

The devil, they say, is in the details, and while there are a lot of details in this film, I had a difficult time caring about them. This is a film that makes quite a to-do over whether he should be charged with Robbery-Murder or Murder-Robbery. The difference being in his intentions. If his intentions were robbery and the murder came after then his motive is greed, but if he murdered him for some other emotional reason (such as anger over being fired – for the dead man was his boss) and robbed him afterward then the jury might be more sympathetic.

That’s an important legal distinction, I guess, but not one that makes for compelling cinema.

It is well-acted and well made and some of the revelations are interesting, but overall I found myself ready for it to be over long before it actually was.

Five Cool Things and The Fantastic Four: First Steps

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I wanted the sixth cool thing to be that picture of Bob Weir and Taylor Swift at the Grammys that’s been circulating around, but I couldn’t afford the rights to it. I wonder what those two people talked about. Do you think Taylor learned some improvisational tips from Bob? Will she start performing a fifteen-minute version of “Cruel Summer?” Will Bob start wearing a onesie on stage?

Alas, we shall never know. But since I couldn’t talk about that I instead talked about a couple of movies (Lost Highway, Marty) and a few TV shows (Would I Lie To You, Arcane & The Long Shadow) and finished it off with a dumb-looking trailer for yet another attempt at a Fantastic Four movie. You can read it all right here.

Jackson Browne – Nashville, TN (02/22/78)

Jackson Browne
Municipal Auditorium, Nashville, TN
February 22, 1978

01 Take it Easy
02 The Fuse
03 Fountain of Sorrow
04 Here Comes Those Tears Again
05 Before the Deluge
06 Your Bright Baby Blues
07 Rock Me on the Water
08 Cocaine
09 Rosie
10 For a Dancer
11 Doctor My Eyes
12 These Days

13 For Everyman
14 Walking Slow
15 Running On Empty
16 Love Needs a Heart
17 The Pretender
18 The Load Out
19 Stay
20 The Road and the Sky

SBD > ? > DAT > CDR(1) > WAV > Flac

This show is soon after the release of Running on Empty, Jackson Browne’s most popular album. Great performance of “Fountain of Sorrow”.

Fleetwood Mac – San Francisco, CA (06/09/68)

Fleetwood Mac
June 9, 1968 plus another partial set from the same run of shows (June 7 or 8, 1968).
Carousel Ballroom
San Francisco, CA

Excellent stereo soundboard recording from low gen. source

CD#1 60:55
June 9, 1968 first set
01 [cuts in] Madison Blues 4:31
02 My Baby’s Gone 6:00
03 My Baby’s Skinny 4:48
04 Worried Dream 9:57
05 Dust My Broom 4:32
06 Got To Move 3:00
07 Worried Mind 4:41
08 instrumental 10:29
09 Have You Ever Loved A Woman? 7:58
10 Lazy Poker Blues 4:49

CD#2 55:38
June 9, 1968 second set 36:44
01 [cuts in] Stop Messin’ ‘Round [with Paul Butterfield] 2:12
02 I Loved Another Woman [with Paul Butterfield] 7:03
03 I Believe [with Paul Butterfield] 5:17
04 The Sun Is Shining [with Paul Butterfield] 6:27
05 Long Tall Sally [with Paul Butterfield] 4:53
06 Willie & The Hand Jive 4:04
07 > Tuti Frutti 3:02
08 thanks by Peter Green, announcer band intros + crowd noise before encore 0:32
09 Ready Teddy [cut] 3:16

June 7 or 8, 1968 S.F. Carousel Ballroom 18:52
10 [cuts in] I Need Your Love So Bad 1:46
11 I Believe 4:59
12 Shake Your Moneymaker 9:12
13 Ready Teddy 2:30
14 Peter Green says thanks, announcer outro + crowd noise 0:19

Peter Green – guitar, vocals
John McVie – bass
Mick Fleetwood – drums
Jeremy Spencer – guitar, vocals
Paul Butterfield – harp (where noted)

There are minor channel fluctuations in a few spots but this mostly sounds spectacular with a very 60’s sounding mix (vocals in one channel and guitars in the other). To be able to hear Paul Butterfield with Fleetwood Mac is a highlight but Peter Green sounds really great too!

I have heard that this was posted back in the STG era, but this version has been remastered with the sets separated better between discs and some minor “nip and tuck” type edits. No EQ or noise reduction was used in the remastering process.

From Peter Green’s stage comments, this is from one week into Fleetwood Mac’s first U.S. tour and he sounds like he’s having a really good time on the last night of a 3 show run with Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. This is presumed to be the last night because Peter Green makes a comment about how they’ll be back in 2 weeks (not the following night). I think that they returned to the Carousel on the 22nd or 23rd of June.

A Dime member offered to create some cover art and it contains some rare cover photos that came from another Dime member so thanks to both of them and to the original source for this terrific recording!

I should mention that the poster for this concert was one of the strangest designs ever. It was a rendition of some medals that was supposed to be cut out and worn. I guess you’d have to see it to understand the concept…

Transfer info: unspecified lineage CD’s received in trade // CD extraction with Toast Titanium > Macintosh Pro Tools (minor edits, normalization & retracking) > AIFF > FLAC > CD.

FLAC files (level 8) created with xACT with sector boundaries verified.
md5 file created with checkSUM+.

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Foreign Film February: The Vanished Elephant (2014)

the vanished elephant

Welcome to Foreign Film February 2025. I started the month off with a bang, watching three movies over the weekend. Then I got busy and distracted and forgot to actually write about them. Here we are nearly one week into this, the shortest of months, and I have neither watched any other movies nor written anything.

Hopefully, the rest of the month will go better. But considering…well *waves hands frantically in all directions*…everything else going on in the world, I wouldn’t count on it.

The Vanished Elephant is a beautiful, strange, moody, and confounding neo-noir mystery that questions the very fabric of the story it is telling the longer it is spun.

Edo Celeste (Salvador del Solar) is a successful crime writer who has decided to end his long-running detective series. Naturally, as these things go, a real-life mystery forms. New clues have come to light which might let him understand what happened to his fiancee who disappeared several years prior.

He keeps finding packages full of photographs which, when placed together in a certain order will reveal a much larger picture. There is a whole complicated procedure that I did not at all understand that led him to figure out in what order to place the photographs.

Some murders happen. He investigates on his own despite the real police constantly telling him not to. Eventually, he will become a suspect.

As the film progresses this fairly standard mystery formula begins to dissolve to be replaced by an even bigger mystery about the nature of story and reality. To say more would be to spoil its many surprises.

Ultimately, it didn’t work that well for me. I found it more unintelligible than mysterious. It is definitely a film that will work better for the viewer on a second viewing as you’ll likely discover details that will help you understand what it is doing. I’m just not sure I care enough to give it another go.

It is well-made and quite beautiful to look at. It reminded me a bit of David Lynch’s movies, but that might just be because he just died and I’ve been thinking about him of late. But it does have that beautiful weirdness about it.

Juror No. 2 is the New Blu-ray Pick of the Week

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I wonder if when Clint Eastwood finally sheds this mortal coil he’ll be more remembered as an actor or a director. He’s made plenty of great films as one or the other (and more than a few in which he directed himself). I’m not sure I’d be able to choose which one I enjoy the most. He’s had a long storied career, that’s for sure.

Reportedly Juror No. 2 is reportedly the 94-year-old director’s final film. It was well received by critics but sadly got an incredibly small theatrical release before being dumped on Max. It stars Nicolau Hoult as a juror on a high-profile murder case who realizes he has information he could use to sway the rest of the jury in either way he wants.

That’s all I know. That’s all I want to know. As I often say in these things I like going into movies cold, knowing very little about them. The buzz is that this is a very solidly constructed courtroom drama. The kind of thing they don’t make much of anymore. That’s good enough for me to make it this week’s pick.

Wicked: A movie based on a musical based on a book based on a movie. And they say Hollywood is out of ideas. Wicked reimagines the Wizard of Oz from the Wicked Witch of the West’s point of view, delving into her background and discovering why she became so wicked. It was originally a novel that was turned into a Broadway musical, and now it is a movie. I’ve not read the book, or seen the show, but my wife has treated me to some of the music, which is pretty good.

Werewolves: A supermoon turns millions of people into werewolves. Sounds fun.

Punch Drunk Love: Criterion is giving this wonderful PT Anderson film which proved Adam Sandler can actually act, the 4K UHD treatment.

The Sacrifice: Andrei Tarkovsky’s beautiful, meditative film gets the 4K UHD treatment from Kino Lorber. You can read my review of the Blu-ray here.

Oh, Canada: Richard Gere stars in director Paul Schrader’s latest drama about a draft dodger who fled to Canada during the Vietnam War. I’m a big fan of Schrader so I’m excited about this one.

Two Spaghetti Western Classics: Kill Them All and Come Back Alone / The Hellbenders: Kino Lorber brings these two Italian Westerns to the 4K UHD world.

I forgot to link over to Cinema Sentries for last week’s pick, you can read it here if you like.