It is time for another five things. This time I’m talking about Porco Rosso, the animated film from Studio Ghibli, a wonderful episode of The Last of Us, Taskmaster my new favorite British Panel Show, a silly 1980s horror film called Trick or Treat, and one of my favorite 1980s movies, Heathers, which I shared with my daughter. Plus R.E.M. got back together for a single song with Michael Shannon. You can read all about it here.
Bridge School Benefit
10/18/98
Shoreline Amphitheater
Mountain View, CA
SEC 203, Row P, Seat 22
Nyquist Omnis >Sony TCD-D7
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Disc I:
Neil Young:
The Eels: (not recorded except for:)
Pete Droge/Mike McCready: (not recorded)
Jonathan Richman: (not recorded)
The Wallflowers:
The Barenaked Ladies:
Disc II:
Sarah McLachlan:
Neil Young:
Disc III:
R.E.M.:
Disc IV:
Phish:
Neil Young & Cast:
*Not Recorded (except for ’Novocaine Of The Soul’
OldNeumanntapr Notes:
This was the last Bridge School Benefit that I recorded, and the first with the custom hat-loaded Nyquist Omnis. We had a seat this time, as compared to the first two years in 1991 and 1992 when I froze my behind off up on the lawn. Shoreline can get cold for the Bridge shows, especially because they are always in October or November. I had seen The Barenaked Ladies before, in Avila Beach, and I knew they were good and funny as well. I hadn’t ever seen The Wallflowers, R.E.M., Sarah McLachlan, or Phish before so that was a treat. I really liked the acoustic Phish show, much more than when I saw them play electric. They really seemed to be having fun during their set. I really enjoyed hearing Sarah and Phish sing the Cat Steven’s song ‘Sad Lisa’. I noticed that when REM played there was someone recording with large diaphragm microphones, which could have been AKG 414s. I’ve never seen that source circulate before however. My friends Dave and Brian were with me, and my ex-wife Nikki, at this show. I think Dave had a single seat down in the 100 sections, but Brian was seated next to me on my right. At the end of the Phish show I turned to Brian and said, “I was waiting for you to say, There’s that scruffy guy with the hat again”, which is what he said, referring to Neil Young, at a previous Bridge School Benefit.
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Various Artists
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Vol. 35-36
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downloaded from tracker 2019-06-24. r5. Many thanks to JS for all the original collection and compilation
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https://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Sings-Dylan-Like/dp/B0039L1J6Q#customerReviews
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan Import Label: Righteous ASIN: B0039L1J6Q VARIOUS ARTISTS (Artist)
The peculiar thing about this release is the title, “Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan.” These are NOT Dylan songs, but his covers of traditional songs. I don’t wonder much how they decided on the misleading description.
I included some art in these last ones. It may/may not have any relationship to our subject. As always if you don’t want them, just set your client to opt out.
JS starts to get a bit ‘burned’ starting in here somewhere. See below. I can’t blame him at all and I don’t have to collect the tracks and put ’em into an attractive collection and get the ball rolling and all that. I can start to understand his reluctance when I asked him if he’d want to put them back up again (mid 2018 I think).
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Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol.35: Salute Him When His Birthday Comes
01 Song to Woody – Uncle Tupelo (May 28, 1990, Cicero’s, St. Louis, MO)
02 Tangled Up in Blue – Robyn Hitchcock (Feb 19, 2000, Largo, Los Angeles, CA)
03 This Wheel’s on Fire – Elvis Costello and the Imposters (May 9, 2011, Fox Theatre, Oakland, CA)
04 Everything is Broken – The Waterboys (Apr 10, 1990, Docks, Hamburg, Gemany)
05 You’re a Big Girl Now – Lloyd Cole (Dec 27, 2001, Joe’s Pub, New York, NY)
06 Oh Sister – Robin Pecknold (Jul 11, 2009, Neumo’s, Seattle, WA)
07 I Threw It All Away – Roddy Frame and Edwyn Collins (Oct 17, 1990, Copenhagen Music Cafe, Denmark)
08 Love Minus Zero – Joe Jack Talcum (Sep 13, 2009, The Mill, Iowa City, IA)
09 Queen Jane Approximately – David Rawlings Machine (Mar 24, 2009, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA)
10 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window – Kaiser-Phillips Band (Jan 7, 1990, Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA)
11 Positively Fourth Street – Jerry Garcia and Merle Saunders (Jul 10, 1973, The Keystone, Berkeley, CA)
12 I Shall Be Released – Gene Clark (May 12, 1989, Old Vienna Kaffeehaus, Westboro, MA)
13 Cross the Green Mountain – Elliott Murphy (Sep 5, 2009, Beitohallen, Beitostolen, Norway)
14 Masters of War – Leon Russell (Nov 21, 1970, Fillmore East, New York)
15 Blowin’ in the Wind – Neil Young (Feb 28, 1991, Dean E. Smith Center, Charlotte, NC)
16 Beyond Here Lies Nothin’ – Steve Wynn (Au 13, 2009, Hana-bi, Marina di Ravenna, Italy)
17 Forever Young – Joan Baez (Mar 31, 2004, Murat Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN)
Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, Vol. 36: Down in the Easy Chair
The last one of these I did came out on Dylan’s 70th birthday. Now we have one for America’s 235th birthday. To celebrate, we have the first NSD appearance of “Let Me Die in My Footsteps,” a lovely acoustic version by the Minnesota duo Roma di Luna.
As always, a big thanks to the tapers, the original uploaders, the nice folks who’ve sent me recordings, the fine artists who’ve created cover artwork, and especially the performers and most of all the composer. Due to the many different sources, I am not including lineages. I have done nothing to the original files but normalize the levels and fade in and out on each track (using Cool Edit). If you’ve got something good that deserves consideration for future volumes, PM me.
Finally, I have started an MP3 blog, which will feature tracks not in this series. Right now, you can get Jeff Tweedy’s cover of “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” which I believe is new to circulation; it’s a studio outtake from the “I’m Not There” soundtrack. I’ll be adding stuff daily, if there seems to be interest. (I won’t be posting MP3 versions of this series, as Music Ruined My Life is already doing a fine job of that.) Here’s the link:
http://smallfiguresinavastexpanse.blogspot.com/
01 Lay Down Your Weary Tune – Jefferson Airplane (Jan 15, 1966,Kiskano Theater, Vancouver BC)
02 I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight – Joe Henry (Oct 27, 1993, Finale Emilia, Italy)
03 Maggie’s Farm – Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Richie Havens, Warren Haynes, Taj Mahal(May 3, 2009, Pete Seeger’s 90th Birthday, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY)
04 New Pony – Ron Sexsmith (Jul 14th, 1996, Toronto, ONT)
05 Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright – Frank Turner (Jun 19, 2011, Vienna, Austria)
06 Meet Me in the Morning – Sarah Jarosz (Jul 18, 2009, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Oak Hill, NY)
07 Nobody ‘Cept You – 16 Horsepower (Mar 20, 2000, Doornroosje, Nijmegen)
08 Mr. Tambourine Man – Doug Sahm and Jerry Garcia (Nov 23, 1972, Thanksgiving Jam, Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX)
09 Just Like a Woman – Avett Brothers with Simon Felice (Jun 4, 2011, Mountain Jam, Hunter Mountain, NY)
10 Highway 61 Revisited – David Gogo Blues Band (Aug 23, 2009, Edmonton Blues Festvial, Alberta, Canada)
11 All Along the Watchtower – Paul Weller (Nov 20, 2010, Olympia Theatre, Dublin)
12 Let Me Die in My Footsteps – Roma di Luna (Aug 9, 2008, Hosmer Library, Minneapolis, MN)
13 Odds and Ends – Bottle Rockets (Dec 25, 1998, Hi-Pointe Cafe, St. Louis, Missouri)
14 The Mighty Quinn – Band of Heathens (May 5, 2010, Piano, Dortmund, Germany)
15 Long Distance Operator – Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi (Dec 31, 2007, Fox Theatre, Atlanta, GA)
16 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere – REM and Robyn Hitchcock (Mar 15, 1991, The Borderline, London)
17 I Shall Be Released – Robbie Robertson, Elvis Costello, and Rita Coolidge(May 11, 1995, Piazzi San Giovanni in Rome)
18 Love Rescue Me – U2 (May 24, 2011, University of Utah, Salt Lake City)
“I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.” – Bob Dylan
Velvet Underground Covers
Another point of VU Vol. 3
Various Artists
Vol 3:
01. Jesus (instrumental)Peter Mulvey & David Goodrich – April 17, 2003 Rams Head Onstage Annapolis MD (VG aud.)
02. All Tomorrow’s Parties – the Black Angels – 2006-11-18 Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater(VG aud.)
03. Femme fatale -Everything But the Girl – Tin Angel Philadelphia August 30, 1994 (G aud.)
04.Venus in Furs – The Creatures (Feat. Siouxsie Sioux) – Cabaret Metro Chicago – 07 29 1998 (VG aud.)
05. Sunday Morning – Weeping Willows – Mejeriet 2002-03-07 – FM
06. Here She Comes Now – Yo La Tengo – The Granada Theater, Dallas, Texas April 8, 2007 (aud.)
07. Hafdis Huld – Who Loves the Sun – White Session, Studio 106, Maison de Radio France, Paris (FM)
08. There She Goes Again – REM – From Peter Buck Tapes #1 – from Various Gigs in Tyrone Athens GA 81
09. Sweet Jane – Rank And File – The Blue Note Boulder, CO December 2, 1985 (sbd?)
10. Waiting for My Man – David Bowie – Sport Paleis Ahoy, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) May 13, 1976 ( SBD )
11. Beginning to See the Light – The Triffids – Shaw Theatre London BBC Radio 1 Broadcast April 1989 (FM)
12. Foggy Notion- Alejandro Escovedo – Blue Cafe Long Beach July 18 2001 (aud.)
13. Train Round a Bend – The True Believers – 2002-04-03 the Continental Club Austin,Tx (sbd)
14. Femme Fatale – The Slits – Dingwalls, Camden Town, London – 13 May 1977 (sbd?)
15. Sweet Jane -Jim Carroll Band – Paradise Theatre, Boston Dec. 1, 1980 WBCN-FM broadcast
16. Sister Ray – The Lemonheads – 02/06/2007 New Orleans, LA @ The Parish @ House of Blues (Aud.)
Another Point of VU, Vol. 4
Velvet Underground Cover
01. Herman Brood – Sunday Morning – VPRO’s De Slag Om Arnhem Netherlands 6 November 1991 (FM)
02. David Gray – Pale Blue Eyes -Kingsbury Hall2003-02-11 Salt Lake City (Good aud.)
03. Robyn Hitchcock – New Age – October 31, 2003 (late show)The Bottom Line New York City (VG aud.?)
04. The Decemberists – I’m Sticking with You – October 18th, 2005 The Metro Chicago (Good Aud.)
05. The Primitives – I’ll be Your Mirror – Rennes UBU 9th November 1988 (good aud.?)
06. Smashing Pumpkins – Venus In Furs – WZRD Radio Chicago 1989-3-16 (Fm)
07. The Beat farmers – There She Goes Again – December 12th 1985 at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz, CA ( sbd?)
08. Yonder Mountain String Band – Heroin – 03/31/2005 Boulder Theater, Boulder (sbd)
09. The Basement Sessions – Cool it down – March 31, 2004
The Ground Floor
Newark (VG aud.)
10. My Morning Jacket – Head Held High – That Tent, Bonnaroo Music Festival
Manchester,TN
6/16/06
11. Tea Leaf green – Waiting for my man – May 28, 2006 The Latenight Barn @ Summer Camp Music Festival, Three Sisters Park, Chillicothe, IL (VG aud.)
12. Joy Division – Sister Ray – Plan K, Brussels, Belgium 17th January 1980
13. The Bridge – Rock’n Roll – The Recher Theatre Townson, MD
September 17, 2004
14. Ted Leo (solo show) – What Goes On – Daystage (Hilton Hotel) – New York, NY 10/31/02
Our air conditioner is broken again, and as it was 86 degrees inside our home last night, the wife and I decided to take a trip to some fine air-conditioned air in the local Barnes and Noble. As most of our CDs are now locked inside cardboard boxes we were limited in our music choices for the drive.
We wound up choosing REMs major label debut, Green. I say we, but it should be noted that in fact, the decision was really nothing but my wife putting it in the CD player. I make that distinction as I probably would not have chosen that particular album. It turned out to be a good choice, as it is an excellent album. A fact I tend to forget.
I say all this to point out the sheer simplicity of understanding why “World Leader Pretend” floated back into my brain this early morning.
It is what I would call an underrated classic.“Pop Song” and “Stand” tend to get the glory from this album, or even the beautiful “You Are Everything” but “WLP” should get high praise as well.
Musically it is a little mid-tempo number with lilting guitars and a bit of a cadence on the drums. It sounds a little military – well military with background vocals by Mike Mills. The sound fits the lyrics which use a great deal of military language to discuss deeper, personal ideas.
It juxtaposes the concept of governments raising walls and preparing their defenses with the singer’s own emotional walls and defenses, proclaiming at last that he raised these walls and he will have to be “the one to knock it down.”
That’s a pretty universal sentiment and one that has struck large chords with me at various times in my own life when I raised my own defenses.
It is also, I believe, the only time REM has printed the lyrics of a song in their liner notes.
Editor’s Note: For a brief period back in 2004 I had a little Facebook group where we would ask each other for our Top Five…whatevers. I got the idea from the film High Fidelity, and we had a lot of fun with it. I regularly posted my answers to the question on my blog.
1. “Box of Rain” by the Grateful Dead from the album American Beauty.
Phil Lesh wrote all of the music, and even scatted the vocal lines before giving it to Robert Hunter to write the lyrics. He wanted a song to sing to his dying father. Hunter is quoted as saying the lyrics nearly wrote themselve coming as fast as the pen could hit the page. It is a beautiful song and opens waht is arguably the best Grateful Dead album ever made.
2. “Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 from the album The Joshua Tree
The opening track to my all time favorite U2 album. The slow, ethereal feel of the organs drifting is like sitting in a cathedral. Then the quick rhthym of the Edge’s guitar fades followed the thump thump of Adam Clayton’s bass. My head begings to nod, my feet begin to tap and then ‘BAM’ Bono’s vocal “I wanna run. I want to hide” it’s like the lift off of a rocket. Pure joy is followed for the next 4 minutes.
3. “So What” by Miles Davis from the album Kind of Blue
The jazz album for people who don’t own any jazz. This is a Miles Davis album in name only, with a line up like John Coltrane, Julian “Cannonball” Adderley on saxophones, Bill Evans on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Jimmy Cobb on drums this is an allstar jazz group. And it is this opening tonal song that brings the world to a new kind of jazz. Even the opening notes are some of the finest music to be played on any album.
4. “A Hard Days Night” by the Beatles from the album Hard Days Night.
From the opening chord of George’s guitar you know this is gonna be something exciting. From that startling moment John launches into one of the all time great rock and roll dities. Just one of many lennon/mccartney tunes that sound like they’re having so much fun and you just can’t help but sing a long at the top of your lungs.
5. “Radio Free Europe” by REM from the album Murmur.
A muddy, murky tune that you can’t understand a word to ushers to the world the sound that would be REM (at least for the next decade or so). Alternative college rock had been brewing behind the scenes for awhile and this, to me at least, is one of the defining songs of the whole scene. To this day I have no idea what Michael Stipe is singing about, and I just don’t care.
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