Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XX

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Alan Ladd was one of the great film noir actors. He had a star-making turn as a contract killer in This Gun For Hire alongside Veronica Lake. He made three more noirs with her and continued to star in various noirs throughout his career. Kino Lorber presents two of those films in this set (Captain Carey, USA & Appointment with Danger) and then there is one film without him (Make Haste to Live).

The two films with Ladd are pretty good and the other – not so much. But I continue to love this noir sets from Kino. You can read my full review here.

Allman Brothers Band – Santa Barbara, CA (09/09/03)

Allman Brothers Band
9/9/03
Santa Barbara County Bowl
Santa Barbara, CA

8th Row Center: Neumann KM-140s (ORTF) >Tascam DA-P1
(Beyer MV-100 Was Not Used, As It Was In The Shop Getting A Left Channel XLR Connection Re-soldered)
DAT Master Transferred: Tacam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28, Tags Via xACT 2.53
Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Hot ‘Lanta
  2. Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More
  3. Trouble No More
  4. Rocking Horse ->
  5. Desdemona (with Karl Denson)
  6. Leave My Blues At Home
  7. Soulshine
  8. Who To Believe
  9. Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right (with Susan Tedeschi and John Molo)

Disc II:

  1. Statesboro Blues (with Susan Tedeschi)
  2. Stormy Monday
  3. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
  4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
  5. Midnight Rider ->
  6. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed ->
    xx. Drums ->
    xx. Bass ->
    xx. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed

Encore:

  1. One Way Out

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
This was the last time that I was to see and record the Allman Brothers Band. The SB County Bowl is a small intimate venue that holds about 3,500 people. We were up front in the 8th row. Space was tight and I had to run my gear under the seat but as I remember I believe that they let us bring in microphone stands this time, as opposed to back in 1992.

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Allman Brothers Band – Mountain View, CA (07/01/95)

Allman Brothers Band
July 1, 1995
Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mountain View, CA

Nakamichi CM-300’s w/CP-1 Cardioid Capsules >Sony TCD-D7 (16bit/48kHz)
SEC 204, Row A, Seat 10
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
Tayio Uden CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28, Tags Via xACT 2.43

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Disc I:

  1. Statesboro Blues
  2. Midnight Rider
  3. You Don’t Love Me
  4. Blue Sky
  5. What’s Done Is Done
  6. Soulshine
  7. The Same Thing
  8. Dreams
  9. End Of The Line
  10. Stormy Monday

Disc II:

  1. Back Where It All Begins
  2. Hoochie Coochie Man
  3. No One To Run With
  4. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed >
  5. Drums >
    xx. Bass >
    xx. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed

Encore:

  1. One Way Out
  2. Whipping Post

OldNeumanntapr Notes-
My fourth Allman Brothers Band show, and my second ABB show at Shoreline. This time we were in the reserved section rather than on the lawn and the crowd was a little bit better behaved. (At least this show I didn’t have people purposely coming up to my microphones and trying to scream into them!) I still didn’t have an external microphone preamp yet and the internal pre on the D7 was kind of finicky. Fortunately the Nakamichi’s didn’t require phantom power. It was nice to be able to bring in a microphone stand, as opposed to the ’92 show when I had to duct tape my microphone brace to the steel cables that separate the reserved from the general admission section. I believe Rusted Root opened this year. I do remember that I was not that impressed with them and did not record their set.

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Allman Brothers Band – Santa Barbara, CA (07/18/92)

Allman Brothers Band
7/18/92
Santa Barbara County Bowl
Santa Barbara, CA

8th row, left: Nakamichi CM-300 CP-1’s (on T-Bar) >Sony WM-D6C
(Maxell MX-S Metal, No Dolby)
Cassette Master >CDR Via: Sony TC-D5M >HHb CDR 800 PRO,
CD Masters >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.35 (Tags Via xACT 2.53)

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front-Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

disc 1:

  1. Don’t Want You No More
  2. It’s Not My Cross To Bear
  3. Statesboro Blues*
  4. Blue Sky
  5. Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’
  6. Nobody Knows
  7. Black Hearted Woman
    –acoustic–
  8. Seven Turns
  9. Midnight Rider
  10. Southbound
  11. Melissa

disc 2:

  1. Pony Boy
    –electric–
  2. Hoochie Coochie Man
  3. Get On With Your Life
  4. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
  5. Drums / Bass
  6. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
  7. Revival
    Encore:
  8. One Way Out
  9. Whipping Post

*w/John Popper on harp

Taper Notes:
I had heard that the Allman Brothers were becoming taping friendly and trying to attract some of the Dead’s taper crowd. When I got to the County Bowl that afternoon I noticed that the sign that says ‘No Cameras, Tape Recorders, Weapons, Etc’, had black electrical tape over the words ‘tape recorders’. I took that as a Good Sign! They let me in with no problem after I explained that my bag contained Only audio taping equipment; my usual spiel. I just wish that the head of security had clued in the rest of the staff! The security sure tried to hassle me as I was setting up my mics. They were clueless that the Allmans allowed taping. The Bowl wouldn’t allow mic stands so I had to hold a T-Bar with the CM-300s on it the whole night. Man, was my arm tired later! As I was setting up my mics on the T-Bar, this security guy comes over, frowns, and says, ‘What are Those?’ Ah, microphones, says I. ‘What are they FOR?’, he asks. For Recording, says I. I Almost added, ‘Is this a trick question’? It seemed obvious to me what they were for! ‘We’ll see about this!’ he says, and storms off. A little while later he comes back, about 20 feet away, looks at me and shrugs his shoulders and shakes his head as he walked away! I had a lady complain to me that they wouldn’t let her bring in a camera so why was I able to tape the show? Hey, rules are rules. I asked her if she’d ever had a flash go off in her eyes but she wasn’t listening. There were a couple of other tapers there that night but I think that I was the closest to the stage. I’ve never seen another recording of this show from another source in circulation. Anyway, this was my 1st Allman Brothers concert and I thought that they were awesome. I loved the interplay between the musicians. Warren was on fire!!! Hootchie Coochie Man sent chills down my back. He is such a bluesman! I had seen and recorded the Dead since early 1986 but I understood after the show why people say that NOBODY COOKS LIKE THE ALLMAN BROTHERS!!! Blues Traveler opened the show and I recorded them with the same Nakamichi CM-300s->Sony WMD-D6C rig. Even now, after seeing the Allmans quite a few times over the years, I have to say that the 1992 line up is still one of my favorite incarnations of the band.

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Allman Brothers Band – Los Angeles, CA (05/15/79)

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
INGLEWOOD, CA @ THE FORUM
1979-05-15

Cassette Master -> Untracked Aiff File -> Soundforge -> FLAC

  1. -intro-
  2. Don’t Want You No More
  3. It’s Not My Cross To Bear
  4. Can’t Take It With You
  5. Blue Sky
  6. Need Your Love So Bad
  7. Blind Love
  8. Crazy Love
  9. Just Ain’t Easy
  10. In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
  11. Statesboro Blues
  12. Try It One More Time
  13. One Way Out
  14. Southbound
  15. Jessica
  16. Whipping Post
  17. Pegasus
  18. -intro-
  19. Ramblin’ Man
  20. -intro-
  21. Midnight Rider
  22. Will The Circle Be Unbroken?

Gregg Allman – Ventura, CA (05/27/99)

Gregg Allman & Friends
5/27/99
Majestic Ventura Theater
Ventura, CA

Neumann AK-40’s (x/y) >LC3 >KM-100’s >Beyer MV-100 >Tascam DA-P1
DAT Master Transferred: Tascam DA-30 >HHb CDR 800 PRO Via Analog i/o,
CD Masters (HHb Gold Discs) >FLAC (Level 8) Via xACT 2.28

FOB, 2nd Tier, Center Table. Microphones On 10ft Stand

Recorded, Transferred, FLAC’d, Tagged, & Front Cover Artwork By OldNeumanntapr

Set I

  1. Hot ‘Lanta
  2. I’m No Angel
  3. Slip Away
  4. Rendezvous With The Blues
  5. Midnight Rider
  6. Love The Poison
  7. These Days
  8. I’ve Been Hurt Real Bad
  9. House Of Blues

Set II

  1. Demons
  2. Born Under A Bad Sign
  3. Just Before The Bullets Fly
  4. Back To Daytona
  5. Melissa
  6. Whipping Post
  7. Trouble No More
  8. Please Call Home

OldNeumanntapr Notes:

This ‘review’ I had originally posted to DAT-Heads soon after the show in 1999

Just back from Greg Allman and Friends at the Ventura Theatre.
The theatre people gave me the usual run around even though I had a print
out of the ABB web page which stated the taping policy. I finally went
directly to Robert, the manager, who is a friend of a friend of mine.
He was cool and said he didn’t mind but someone would have to personally
ask the road manager. I relayed this to one of the security people outside
who came back 5 minutes later with a long face and said, ‘sorry dude. You
can’t’. I told him that Robert had already given his OK but they would
have to talk with the road manager. This guy then said he would go back
and ask again. I figured I was just going to get the run around so I
walked down the street and found an open side door near back stage. The
road manager was outside talking to this same security kid. I walked up
and smiled and the security guy looked at me then looked at the road
manager and said, ‘oh yeah. One other thing. You can answer this guy’s
question. You Don’t allow recording do you?’ He asked expecting the answer
no. ‘Sure. Audio, no video’ was his response.

I thanked him and went to go in. The door people were a little alarmed at
my mic stand and wanted to know what it was. All the tables on the floor
were reserved for dinner except for 4 seats on the center table, second
tier. Myself and another taper sat down. He had already paid for dinner, I
hadn’t. Immediately the floor manager was all over me telling me I
couldn’t set up here because it was for dinner people only, blah blah
blah. So I had to pay the $20 on the spot for dinner but got to keep my
killer FOB center location. Right where I wanted to be anyway.

Moral to the story is it helped having the printout of the web page but it
also helped more being able to go right to the manager. But still I had to
work to get my gear inside because I basically had to ask the band’s road
manager myself. I couldn’t believe I was the only stand in the room!
I was expecting more tapers in Ventura. Especially since it was so close
to LA.

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Bob Dylan & Mark Knopfler – The Jokermen

Bob Dylan (featuring Mark Knopfler)
The Jokermen

Muscle Shoals Sound Studios, Sheffield, Alabama, USA, 30th April – 11th May 1979 (Slow train coming sessions)
Powerstation, New York, USA, 11th April – 8th May 1983 (Infidels recording sessions)
Powerstation, New York, USA, early June – 5th July 1983 (overdub sessions)

Tracks CD 1 The outtakes:

  1. Trouble in mind
  2. Ye shall be changed
  3. Blind Willie McTell (acoustic version)
  4. Someone’s got a hold of my heart
  5. Tell me
  6. Lord protect my child
  7. Foot of pride
  8. Death is not the end
  9. Julius and Ethel
  10. This was my love
  11. Blind Willie McTell (electric version)
  12. Angel flying too close to the ground
  13. Straight as in love
  14. Clean cut kid
  15. Don’t fly unless it’s safe
  16. Dark groove
  17. Trouble in mind

Track #1-2: Taken from the Slow train coming sessions.
Track #3-8: Perfect sound quality.
Track #9-11: The sound quality varies. Never officially released.
Track #12 This is the vinyl B-side.
Track #13-16: The sound quality varies. Never officially released.
Track #17: This is the vinyl B-side. Same recording as track #1 but with one verse cut.

Tracks CD 2 The alternative versions:

  1. Jokerman
  2. Sweetheart like you
  3. Neighbourhood bully
  4. License to kill
  5. Man of peace
  6. Union sundown
  7. I and I
  8. Don’t fall apart on me tonight
  9. Foot of pride (version #2)
  10. Someone’s gotta hold of my heart (version #2)
  11. Tell me (version #2)
  12. Lord protect my child (version #2)
  13. Death is not the end (version #2)
  14. Angel flying too close to the ground (version #2)
  15. This was my love (version #2)
  16. Julius and Ethel

Tracks #1-8: Alternative versions of the Infidels songs.
Tracks #9-15: Alternative versions of outtakes.
Track #16: Mono version, same take as the other one.
The lead guitar has almost disapeared.
All tracks; Never released officially. Sound quality varies.

Tracks CD 3 Rehearsels and live:

  1. I and I (version #2)
  2. Sweetheart like you (version #2)
  3. Union sundown (version #2)
  4. Sweetheart rehearsals
  5. Blowin’ in the wind
  6. Rock ’em dead
  7. Knocking on heavens door
  8. All along the watchtower
  9. Leopardskin pillbox hat
  10. License to kill
  11. Knocking on heaven’s door

Tracks #1-3: Alternative versions. Sound quality varies.
Track #4: Sweetheart like you rehearsals. Alternative takes, talking, improvisations. Sound quality varies.
Track #5-7: Mark Knopfler joining Bob Dylan at the Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia, 10th February 1986. Backing band Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Poor sound.
Track #8-11: Dylan joining Dire Straits at the Sports and Entertainment Centre, Melbourne, Australia, 19th February 1986. Poor sound.

Additional comments This is a totally unique collection of a lot of songs performed by Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler together. This collection is spanning from the early sessions for Slow train coming, the Infidels sessions, the concert in 1986 when Dylan joined Dire Straits to perform four of his own songs and also the concert a couple of days before that when Mark Knopfler joined Bob Dylan at a concert, backed by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Two B-sides from vinyl singles and some songs which are not too much different than the album versions but different mixes or some instrument fewer or something like that. The sound quality has been improved a lot because all songs have been remastered. If you are looking for a complete collection of all songs with Dylan and Knopfler, please check this recording: The complete Infidels sessions. This is not 100% of all Dylan & Knopfler sessions though. You need to get the official releases of Infidels and Slow train coming aswell! Nothing from these two records is to be found in this collection. This is the material that didn’t find it’s way to these two records. Taken from the silver pressed bootleg “The Jokermen”.

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash – Nashville, TN (02/17/69)

Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
Nashville, TN
02/17/69

Label: Yellow Dog Records, Luxembourg, 1994
Catalog Number: YD-049

OU: “During the Nashville Skyline sessions on February 18, 1969,
Dylan teamed up with Johnny Cash at Columbia Music Row Studios
in Nashville to record over a dozen songs. Only one of these made it
onto Nashville Skyline (“Girl from the North Country”). Most of the
rest are here, in perfect fidelity. With full band backing (including
Carl Perkins on electric guitar), the pair run through easygoing,
rockabilly-tinged versions of Dylan songs, Cash songs, old Sun
rockabilly chestnuts (“That’s All Right Mama” and “Matchbox”),
and a bit of country gospel. Johnny Cash, in fact, dominates the
proceedings: he sings lead more often, and the mere two Dylan tunes
(“Girl from the North Country” and “One Too Many Mornings”) are
outweighed by a larger heaping of Cash classics (“Big River,” “I
Walk the Line,” “I Still Miss Someone,” “Ring of Fire,” “Guess
Things Happen That Way”). The disc also includes three interesting
Dylan performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on
May 1, 1969 recorded for a TV broadcast on The Johnny Cash
Show. Judged as a loose, informal meeting of two giants, it’s
pleasurable and intensely satisfying listening experience.”

Tracklisting:
01: One Too Many Mornings (version 1)
02: One Too Many Mornings (version 2)
03: Good Ol’ Mountain Dew
04: I Still Miss Someone
05: Careless Love
06: Matchbox
07: That’s All Right Mama
08: Big River
09: Girl Of The North Country
10: I Walk The Line
11: You Are My Sunshine
12: Ring Of Fire
13: Guess Things Happen That Way
14: Just A Closer Walk With Thee
15: Blues Yodel (version 1)
16: Blues Yodel (version 2)
17: Johnny Cash Show:
18: I Threw It All Away
19: Living The Blues
20: Girl Of The North Country

disc is 1 file plus cue sheet.
To burn to CD with tracks separated all you have to do is download and install burnnn http://www.burrrn.net
open cue sheet with burrrn application (track list appears magically).
Press the “Burrrn” button
too easy

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Sopot, Poland (07/18/22)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Opera Leśna
Sopot, Poland
July 18, 2022

Source: audience master

Recorded by Pablak

Position: sector C, 5th row, in front of the center of the stage

Sound quality: A+ (an excellent audience recording, no EQ, not amplified)

Lineage: CA 14 Cardioid Microphones -> Olympus LS-5 @ WAV 24bit/96kHz -> iZotope RX 9 Advanced Audio Editor (close clapping removal, tracking, fade in and out, resample to 16 bit/44,1 kHz) -> foobar2000 (FLAC and tags) -> TLH (SBEs and checksums) -> You

Setlist:

  1. [opening applause]
  2. Rich Woman
  3. Quattro (World Drifts In)
  4. Fortune Teller
  5. Rock and Roll
  6. Please Read the Letter
  7. Stick With Me Baby
  8. High and Lonesome
  9. You Led Me to the Wrong
  10. Trouble With My Lover
  11. Go Your Way
  12. Leave My Woman Alone
  13. [musicians introduction]
  14. Gone Gone Gone
  15. When the Levee Breaks
  16. Somebody Was Watching Over Me
  17. [encore break]
  18. Searching for My Love
  19. Can’t Let Go

Musicians:

Robert Plant – vocals, maracas,
Alison Krauss – vocals, fiddle,

band (from right to left):
JD McPherson – guitars, backing vocals,
Dennis Crouch – bass,
Jay Bellerose – drums,
Viktor Krauss – guitars, mandolin, keyboards, mellotrone, backing vocals
Stuart Duncan – fiddle, guitars, mandolin, backing vocals

2022 Pablak Production

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Lucca, Italy (07/14/22)

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Piazza Napoleone
Lucca
Italy
14 july 2022

Lucca Summer Festival 2022

Taper: Biccio59
Source: SP CM 2 Cardiod Mic > Battery Box > Edirol RH09 > Wave
Editing: tracking, fade in/out > Ozone mastering > WAV [16/44.1] > xACT > FLAC
Mastering: Andrea82

Setlist:

01 Rich Woman
02 Quattro
03 Fortune Teller
04 Rock And Roll
05 Please Read The Letter
06 High And Lonesome
07 You Led Me To The Wrong
08 Trouble With My Lover
09 Go Your Way
10 Leave My Woman Alone
11 When The Levee Breaks
12 Gone Gone Gone
Encore:
13 Can’t Let Go