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Bootleg Bonanza #2 is a very nice mix of bootlegs from Queen, Charlie Parker and Cream.
Some people claim this is a soundboard, while others claim this is an audience recording. To my ears, it sounds like an excellent audience recording. This is the complete concert.
"Now I'm Here (Reprise)" has a poorer sound than the rest of the concert, so I imagine it comes from another source. There's a funny moment during "Tutti Frutti" when Roger Taylor comes in late on the drums to start the heavier part of the song.
Some people claim this is a soundboard, while others claim this is an audience recording. To my ears, it sounds like an excellent audience recording. This is the complete concert.
"Now I'm Here (Reprise)" has a poorer sound than the rest of the concert, so I imagine it comes from another source. There's a funny moment during "Tutti Frutti" when Roger Taylor comes in late on the drums to start the heavier part of the song.
No surprises in the setlist.
CD1 :
01. One Vision
02. Tie Your Mother Down
03. In The Lap Of The Gods…Revisited
04. Seven Seas Of Rhye
05. Tear It Up
06. A Kind Of Magic
07. Days O
08. Under Pressure
09. Another One Bites The Dust
10. Who Wants To Live Forever
11. I Want To Break Free
12. Impromptu
13. Guitar Solo
14. Now I'm Here
CD2 :
01. Love Of My Life
02. Is This The World We Created?
03. (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
04. Hello Mary Lou
05. Tutti Frutti
06. Bohemian Rhapsody
07. Hammer To Fall
08. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
09. Radio Ga Ga
10. We Will Rock You
11. Friends Will Be Friends
12. We Are The Champions
13. God Save The Queen
Freddie Mercury—lead vocals and piano
Brian May—guitar and vocals
John Deacon—bass
Roger Taylor—drums and vocals
Jazz collectors will tell you, The First Law of Jazz Bootlegs is: The more interesting the material, the worse the fidelity. But this 79-year-old recording sounds amazing. This show was a radio broadcast from early March 1946, from the Finale Club, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.
Tracklist:
| 1 | Billie's Bounce | |||
| 2 | Ornithology [Inc] | |||
| 3 | All The Things You Are | |||
| 4 | Blue 'N' Boogie | |||
| 5 | Anthropology / Announcement |
Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker
Trumpet – Miles Davis
Piano – Joe Albany
Bass – Addison Farmer
Drums – Chuck Thompson
This was recorded live at The Grande Ballroom, in Detroit, Michigan, on October 15, 1967. This is an extraordinary stereo soundboard recording, and just might be the very best live Cream recording, with a performance superior to the later recordings officially released.
CD1:
1. Tales Of Brave Ulysses
2. N.S.U.
3. Sitting On Top Of The World
4. Sweet Wine
5. Rollin' And Tamblin'
CD2:
1. Spoonful
2. Stepping Out
3. Traintime
4. Toad
5. I'm So Glad
For the freeload, about something funny that happened on stage at a concert you saw.
Two things come to mind. First, in 1984, the World's Fair was held in New Orleans and they booked some great concerts at an outdoor auditorium built as part of the festivities, one of which was a double bill of Wynton Marsalis and Miles Davis. This was at the height of the feud between the two, due to Marsalis' slight to Davis about his then work not really being jazz. Marsalis played first and about half way through Davis' set, he re-emerged on one of the stage wings, with trumpet in hand, and those of us who noticed him were shocked and thought that the feud was over and the 2 would perform together. Given that Miles forcibly pushed Marsalis away from the stage, that thought was quickly extinguished.
ReplyDeleteSecond was an Allman Brothers concert at the Superdome in N.O. in 1976, when a very late starting ABB took a surprising break about 10 minutes into their set, and re-emerged some 30 minutes later with Greg Allman's right hand heavily wrapped, and Dickie Betts sporting a welt under his eye.
I was at both of these, which is kinda crazy, and my entry from 1974 or 75 was Jerry Jeff Walker in NOLA walking right off the stage part way through and reappearing with his wrist heavily bandaged, none-the-worse-for-wear
DeleteJerry was always memorable back then -usually for the wrong reasons.
Delete2 occasions from me as well, first at a Memphis in May concert on the banks of the Mississippi River at sunset. Aretha Franklin is introduced by a Mayor of Memphis, they have 2 at a time, 1 for city & another for county. In 2009, one was good & the other was bad, I don't know which was which, but the mayor (I presume city) presented Aretha with the Key to the City, which she took, said thank you & then promptly followed with, "Get offa my stage!) & a kick & a shove, then the show began. Friggin' awesome. Wrist to wrist pink boa!
ReplyDeleteSecond was a trip from the stage to the audience, rare as far as I know, but of course I could be mistooken. August 1, 1984 (a present to my wife for her 31st birthday, her actual birthday is August 2), we went to see Frank Zappa at the Paolo Soleri Amphitheatre. At some point during the show, I can't remember why, Frank left the stage, came into the audience for a moment and was handed (or he asked for) a baby. He held the child for a moment, appearing to coo into the kid's ear, smiled returned the child and then back to the stage for more music. A funny bizarre memory for sure. Thanks Babs.
Yes also two things come up at once. When I was in a band, I used to carry a plastic whiskey bottle with tea and honey on stage. I don't do alcohol, but I found that bottle, and the band members saw the joke and we went with it. Yes, after a good few songs one heacy metal bi boy reached out to the bottle, took a big gulp, and spat it out in full view of everybody who laughed, laughed, laughed. He was a good sport, and took a second and third gulp and swallowed this time.
ReplyDeleteThe second thing was Gibby Haynes, stuffing his pants with dozens, hundreds of daffodils that were thrown at him. (in some countries the daffodil is called narcissus, after the greek persona)
It's about 45 or more years ago, in a small oldstyle jazz club - downstairs, the smell of cigarettes and alcohol. A old saxophone player from USA played with the homeband, a nice evening. Very late, the concert was close to the end, the bass player had a solo - and after that he felt to the floor, because he was very drunk. Lying there, he holds his bass and played the tune to the end...
ReplyDeleteSometime in the mid 80s Fred Frith was playing in a storefront in Richmond, VA. He was in his ‘guitars on the table’ period. That night it wasn’t so much guitars as 1 x 6 planks of wood around 4 feet long, to which he had mounted electric pickups and a set of screws at opposite ends with guitar strings running across. He manipulated the strings with assorts of things; toys, metal, a transistor radio and many other objects and devices. After an hour or so he picked up regular electric guitar. Someone in the audience shouted ‘YEAH!’ Fred looked up and said “naw” and proceeded to play in the same abstract, atonal improv style as before.
ReplyDeleteThe first show that came to mind may have been more miraculous than funny… In the early 80s at a Sun Ra show at the outdoor Merriweather Post Pavilion in Washington DC, sax player John Gilmore engaged in an extended duet with a neighborhood dog who it turned out had plenty chops of its own.
ReplyDeleteRandy Newman kept forgetting his own lyrics! He said, "I didn't rehearse, I assumed 'muscle memory' would kick in."
ReplyDeleteI saw Bruce Springsteen completed flub the lyrics to "Blinded By The Light". He thought it was pretty funny too.
DeleteIn the midst of a gig we were playing, the stage was suddenly rushed by two members of of the venue staff, one of which was carrying a large plastic trash bin. They continued behind me, but as I was singing at the time I had to wait to the end of the verse to turn around and check it out. Our bass player's amplifier (a vintage Kustom with the rolled naugahyde) had been pushed to one side and the trash can was positioned to catch a deluge of water pouring thru the leaking roof. Not a note was missed, nor a beat dropped! The dude who carried the bin turned out to be a future drummer in the group...
ReplyDeletePlaying in a proto-thrash group in Brisbane in 1980, our guitarist always had trouble keeping time (which kind of worked given the material). So the frustrated screamer-vocalist started keeping the beat with broad conductorial sweeps. The audience started to do the same, and it became a thing at our gigs, wherein the crowd would conduct for the guitarist. I found it a true hoot.
ReplyDeleteAt a punk gig the singer jumped into the crowd expecting the Peter Gabriel treatment.
ReplyDeleteThe crowd split and he was evacuated with a few fractures instead.
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I'm sure I've written about this before but Mr Robert Zimmerman was touring the UK in the late 80's. I went to see him at the Birmingham NEC and much to the chagrin of his rhythm section our Bob repeatedly went into what were clearly unrehearsed and clearly very extended guitar solos. You could tell his rhythm section weren't happy because of the gestures and facial expressions of bemusement and incredulity which twice resulted in them stopping playing having on at least three occasions guessed wrongly when the solo was due to end and they should start playing the main riff again.
ReplyDeleteThey can't have been far off walking off by the end the final solo. Meanwhile Bob seemed totally oblivious to the reaction behind him on stage being completely absorbed in his performance even if some of us were more entertained by their reaction than his playing.
Whatever else Bob is, he ain't Jimmy Page.
By the same token, Jimmy Page ain't Bob Dylan. :-D
DeleteAnd on the basis of those solos probably very grateful he ain't either! ;-D
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Nothing funny ever happened in any of the concerts I've seen.
ReplyDeleteI have a one disc version of that Queen concert, one of the last in the bootleg "Live in the U.S.A." (though this wasn't, obviously) series that I spent my pocket money on as a teenager buying his first CDs.
Nice to have the whole thing, and yeah, that Kin dof Magic tour set list was pretty much set in stone...
In the early 70s, I saw Slade here in New York. At one point during the show, everyone except “lead” guitarist Dave Hill left the stage. All by himself, he climbed up on a platform and did this guitar “freak-out” type of thing. He was like a little kid, who couldn’t play guitar playing through two Hiwatt stacks, that was completely nonmusical, and seemed to go on only forever. On top of that, he was acting as if he was really putting something down. When he finished, the rest of Slade rejoined him, and Noddy Holder screamed (as only Nod could) “DAVE HILL…DAVE HILL!!!” And nobody clapped. After a pregnant pause, people started laughing….the look on their faces was priceless.
ReplyDeleteIn 1995, Bob Dylan performed in Biloxi MS (to my knowledge, the only time he's ever performed in the Landmass Between New Orleans & Mobile within the Republic of West Florida). Through pure luck, I had front row center seating. During one of Bob's logorrheic songs ("Gates of Eden," I think), a very attractive woman wearing a slinky white dress came down front, removed her undies & tossed them on stage in front of John Jackson, the lead player. The heroic & chivalrous Mr Jackson of course gave her a hand & he hopped on stage.
ReplyDeleteShe then proceeded to dance around behind Bob, flashing the band & audience. Needless to say, the band was falling out laughing & poor nearsighted Bob is lost in probably the 300,000th word in the third verse. He gets to a break, turns to see what the ruckus was about. The woman flashed him!
This was the only time in 25 concerts over 50 years that I have seen Bob Dylan grin on stage.
Watching Eric Clapton barf onstage at the Hordern Pavilion in Sydney 1974-75. Yvonne Elliman had to drag him offstage. This also happened to Chuck Berry and BB King at the same venue. It was the heat. Chuck went down like a sack of spuds but BB tried to fight it off. Sadly he had to go off eventually. Another one that had the audience laughing was in Worthing UK. At one of many visits by the Kinks, Dave Davies told Ray to F**k off after Ray continually took the piss out of him. No brotherly love there at the time.
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DeleteI'm a week late to this discussion, but just remembered this one. At a Meat Puppets gig in the mid-80's, Cris Kirkwood was having technical difficulties with his bass. He got fed up, threw the instrument to the floor and stormed offstage. I didn't think he was coming back, but the others kept playing, and a few minutes later Cris walked back onstage holding a broom as though it were a guitar and "played" the rest of the song.
ReplyDeleteI don't have any really funny moments to recall. Short of this, I was delighted when Ed Blackwell moved from his drum set to the wood floor of a gazebo to hand drum a rollicking solo during a Charlie Haden set at The Saratoga Jazz Festival in the late eighties.
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