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John Lee Hooker – Columbia, MD (06/18/92)

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John Lee Hooker
6/18/1992
Merriweather Post Pavillion
Columbia, MD

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with the Coast to Coast Blues Band including Debbie Davies – Guitar and Duke Robillard – Guitar

Source DSBD>DAT

Conversion : DAT @ 48k -> HT Omega 7.1 Soundcard (Optical Inputs)>WAV (48)> Syntillium Cool Edit Downsample to 44.1 WAV>CD WAV (Track Split)>FLAC

CCBB = Coast to Coast Blues Band
DD = Debbie Davies
DR = Duke Robillard

01 Why Baby (CCBB)
02 ???? (CCBB)
03 Better Leave My Woman Alone (CCBB, DR)
04 Trouble (CCBB, DR)
05 Instrumental and Introduction of other CCBB members
06 ???? (CCBB, DD)
07 ???? (CCBB, DD)
08 ???? (CCBB, DD)
09 John Lee Hooker Introduction
10 Serves Me Right to Suffer
11 Tired of Being Your Back Door Man
12 Put on Your High Heel Shoes
13 ????
14 ????

John Lee Hooker – Houston, TX (06/23/84)

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John Lee Hooker
8th Annual Juneteenth Blues Festival
June 23, 1984 (approximately)
Houston, TX
KPFT-FM

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Soundboard/FM

KPFT-FM, Houston, TX.

0-radio intro
1-Too Many Women
2-I Ain’t Gonna Worry About You No More
3-Boom Boom Boom Boom
4-Good Morning
5-You’re So Fine
6-Worried Life Blues
7-Boogie
8-JLH interview
9-radio outro

June 19, 2011

About Juneteenth:

http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/lkj01

On June 19 (“Juneteenth”), 1865, Union general Gordon Granger read the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, thus belatedly bringing about the freeing of 250,000 slaves in Texas. The tidings of freedom reached slaves gradually as individual plantation owners read the proclamation to their bondsmen over the months following the end of the war. The news elicited an array of personal celebrations, some of which have been described in The Slave Narratives of Texas (1974). The first broader celebrations of Juneteenth were used as political rallies and to teach freed African Americanqv about their voting rights. Within a short time, however, Juneteenth was marked by festivities throughout the state, some of which were organized by official Juneteenth committees.

John Lee Hooker – Santa Rosa, CA (03/17/89)

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John Lee Hooker
with guest guitarist Carlos Santana
March 17, 1989
Luther Burbank Center
Santa Rosa, California, USA

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From a 1st gen. audience VHS tape. Decent quality “stage recording” audio from a 1st gen. VHS tape. As is typical for this type of audience recording the instruments sound great but the vocals are a bit in the background. Carlos is out there for most of the set but there are 3 other guitarists and he is the guest so he doesn’t solo that much. But there are a few really ripping guitar solos if you know where to find them. Since the DVD video will have AC3 (Dolby Digital) audio this lossless version is for those who might want it this way too. I’m posting this before the video because I need some help with the setlist for the DVD authoring. I did the best I could but any additions/corrections will be much appreciated and the DVD video will follow shortly.

01 [01:51] [cuts in] unknown title
02 [02:13] band intros
03 [03:45] John Lee Hooker intro > She’s Gone
04 [06:24] Serves Me Right To Suffer
05 [01:31] John introduces Carlos Santana
06 [05:02] I Cried Myself To Sleep [Carlos solo at about 1:40 of this track]
07 [07:48] So Cold In Chicago
08 [05:06] Boom Boom
09 [04:05] Mabel
10 [08:31] Stormy Monday
11 [03:55] unknown title
12 [20:54] That’s Alright [Carlos solo at about 7 minutes into this track]
13 [01:07] encore break
14 [07:23] That’s Alright (reprise) [Carlos solo at about 2 minutes into this track]
total – 79:35

John Lee Hooker – guitar, vocals
with Mike Osborn – guitar
Deacon Jones – organ
Dr. Funkenstein – sax
Jimmy The Kid – bass
Bowen Brown – drums
Rich Kirch – guitar
Jill – tenor sax
Rita – tenor sax

Lineage: 1st gen. TDK HD-XPRO T-120 VHS tape.
Transfer (January, 2014): Sony WV-DR7 > Sony DVMC-DA2 Media Converter > Mac Final Cut Pro @48Kbps > Pro Tools (DC offset correction, normalization, minor clicks manually repaired seamlessly, fades and down-sampling to 44.1Kbps – No equalization or noise reduction).
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John Lee Hooker – Philadelphia, PA (11/09/85)

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John Lee Hooker & the Coast to Coast Blues Band
Chestnut Cabaret,
Philadelphia, PA
November 9, 1985

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Source\Lineage: SBD>Sony D5(m)>Onkyo TA-RW344 w\ azimuth correction>Cooledit Pro 2.0>.wav>CD Wave>flac (level 8)

billydee masters, series 2, vol 19

Coast to Coast Blues Band
1) >intro< 2) ? 3) ? 4) >chat< 5) Dust My Broom 6) >chat < John Lee Hooker & the Coast to Coast Blues Band 7) John Lee Hooker Intro>
I Feel So Bad
8) Boom Boom
9) Serves Me Right to Suffer
10) I Didnít Know
11) Youíre So Fine
12) Crawliní King Snake
13) Dusty Road
14) >I could use a Bud Light< 15) Going Down 16) Hi-Heel Sneakers 17) >chat< 18) One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer 19) >chat<
20) When My First Wife Left Me
21) Boogie Chilluní (cut)

-x-

Just passed the 25th anniversary of this oneÖ.

In later years, the band would play fer most of the show with JLH merely appearing onstage fer a few songs. Here, however, we get a very spirited performance where the band warm-up is short and sweetÖ

This one is white hot! A SBD patch master, a rowdy crowd, a stinging guitar and perfect mix, itís all here.

Donít let the end cut detract yaÖitís 11 mins into the song and cuts during the band introductionsÖ

Enjoy this one, but please!

John Lee Hooker – San Francisco, CA (05/30/85)

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John Lee Hooker
The Stone, San Francisco, CA
Mar. 30 1985

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101 Shake Your Money Maker
102 Thrill Is Gone
103 Dust My Blues
104 unknown
105 I Don’t Know
106 Going Down
107 Boom Boom
108 Crawling King Snake
109 Rock Steady
201 High Heeled Sneakers
202 Whiskey And Women
203 Boogie Chillen
204 Boogie Chillen (reprise)
205 outro

2nd generation SBD.
SB MASTER > 2ND GEN CASSETTE > M-AUDIO TRANSIT > COOL EDIT > CD WAVE EDITOR > FLAC (by Davmar77) > CD > EAC > FLAC (by anon.)

This was shared on the torrents a long time ago by Davmar77. It was before I kept FLAC files, due to a tiny hard drive. Since then, and over the years, I have seen this show surface in unknown lineage which doesn’t sound as good, or worse, this version turned into very lossy MP3. Either one is, imho, a downgrade. I waited for someone to re-post the FLAC files, but after not seeing them for a very long time, I decided to just re-FLAC my own. Better 1 CDR generation than several. I will be glad to replace, and delete this, if Davmar’s FLACs are re-posted.

-anon.

John Lee Hooker – Brest, France (07/23/83)

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John Lee Hooker
& the Coast To Coast Blues Band
Blues festival
Manoir de Keroual
Brest,France july 23 1983

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Aud 1st gen > CDwave > Flac6

44:46 min

01 Walking The Dog
02
03 John Lee Hooker intro >
I’m In The Mood
04 Boom Boom
05 One Bourbon,One Scotch,One Beer (cut at the very beginning)
06 Boogie #1 >
07 Boogie #2

with Sugar Blue on harmonica

Enjoy !

John Lee Hooker – Paris, France (07/11/83)

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JOHN LEE HOOKER
Paris-France
Casino
11 july 1983,

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from Exc SM aud

It’s my own recording but i think i only kept an equalized copy of this show.

Recorded with Sony TCD5 & a couple of Beyer Dynamic M201 N mics.
Cassettes – MarantZ SD4051 deck – Zoom H5 – SD card on PC – Audacity (volume, tracks, FLAC export) md5 with TLH.

John Lee Hooker with the Coast to Coast blues band.

Setlist :

01 Tore Up
02 Walking The Dog
03 Dow Home Blues
04 Early In The Morning ?
05 Boom Boom
06 Maudie
07 Bluebird
08 Hi-Heel Sneakers
09 Worried Life Blues
10 I Didn’T Know
11 Little Girl Go Back To School
12 Boogie Chillen
13 Boogie Chillen reprise (encore)

(01 – 03 : band without Jonh, Lee).

On dime by letsgo, november 2020.

John Lee Hooker – Milan, Italy (05/11/83)

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JOHN LEE HOOKER & THE COAST TO COAST BLUES BAND
CINEMA/TEATRO ORFEO
MILANO, ITALY
MAY 11TH 1983

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from master.

  1. INSTRUMENTAL *
  2. BAND INTRO > DRUNK LIKE I CAN BE *
  3. JOHN LEE HOOKER INTRO > HOW LONG CAN I GO
  4. SHE’S GONE
  5. BOOM BOOM
  6. WORRIED LIFE BLUES
  7. I LOVE YOU
  8. SERVES ME THE RIGHT TO SUFFER
  9. I DIDN’T KNOW
  10. BOOGIE CHILLIN’ > THE BOOGIE

ENCORES :

  1. NINETY DAYS *
  2. WOKE UP THIS MORNING *
  3. GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOLGIRL (cut at the very end)
  • Band only.

Excellent audience recording from master, great show.

Master cassette > behringer ultra curve pro deq 2496 equalizer > tascam cdrw750 > plex tool professional XL > wav > flac.

Recorded, transfered & uploaded by 38f on Dime on march 2nd 2006.

John Lee Hooker – Copenhagen, Denmark (05/08/83)

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John Lee Hooker & The Coast To Coast Blues Band
Copenhagen Tivoli, DK
1983-05-08

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Source:: 2x SONY ECM-150->SONY TC-D5M->SONY FeCr90 tape.
Transfer: Master->SONY TC-D5M->Tascam DR-05->HD->Audacity->FLAC

Compression details: Threshold: -20 dB / Noise floor: -35 dB / Compression rate: 1,5 to 1 / Attack time: 0.2 sec /
Release time: 1.0 sec / Compres from maximum values: yes / Compressed from signal at 0 Db.

A Honecker Recording.Transfer done 02-2020.

  1. Tore Up
  2. Instrumental (unknown title)
  3. Walkin´ The Dog
  4. I Hate To See You Leave (?)
  5. She´s Gone
  6. Boom Boom
  7. Good Morning Lil´ School Girl
  8. I Didn´t Know
  9. Crawling King Snake
  10. Jealous
  11. The Boogie (Boogie Chillen´)

Tracks 01-03 are The Coast To Coast Blues Band without John Lee Hooker.

John Lee Hooker – Montigny Les Metz, France (05/08/81)

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John Lee Hooker & The Coast To Coast Blues Band
Salle Europe
Montigny Les Metz, France
May 08, 1981

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Sennheiser MKE 2002 (binaural) > Uher Report Monitor 2000 (1/2 track, 3 1/2 ips)
March 2007: Revox A77 (1/2 track, 3 1/2 ips) > Audiophile 2496 > CDWave > Flac frontend

taped by HaJo
transfered by franka

total – 75:49

01 Get My Baby
02 instramental
03 Find My Baby
04 instrumental
05 Served Me Right to Suffer
06 Boom, Boom, Boom
07 unknown
08 Roll Me
09 Rock Steady (fades in / tape flip)
10 When Im gone?
11 Rain
12 Baby, Please Don’t Go
13 One Burbon, One Scotch & One Beer
14 Boogie
15 outro/boogie