Tradition runs rampant around Thanksgiving: generations of old recipes, football, Alice’s Restaurant , The Last Waltz, and, of course, a parade of balloons shutting down NYC. What else do you need? If […]
Category: Live Upload Series
Television :: Piccadilly Inn – Cleveland, July 25, 1975
One hell of a night in Cleveland. Television played its first out-of-town shows deep in the heart of Ohio in the summer of ’75. The opening band was Rocket From […]
Bob Dylan And The Band :: Oakland, CA 1974
Seven and half years off the road, Dylan returns with the Band. Oakland Coliseum Stadium Feb 11, 1974. Bob Dylan And The Band :: Oakland, CA 1974 (zipped folder, external link) Only the good shit. Aquarium Drunkard is powered […]
Stevie Wonder :: @ The Rainbow Theatre — London, 01/31/74
There are very few artists who had album runs like the one Stevie Wonder pulled off in the ’70s (the Stones come immediately to mind). The following set, from January of 1974, […]
John Fahey :: The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA – September 1973
John Fahey would’ve been 75 today, and though he’s been gone for some time now, the legend of Blind Joe Death seems to grow larger with each passing year. There’s no shortage […]
Lou Reed :: Ultrasonic Recording Studio, Hempstead, NY 12/26/72
The day after Christmas, December of 1972: Lou Reed and band (The Tots) in Hempstead, NY, recording live for radio at Untrasonic Recording Studio. Recorded just a month after the release […]
The Complete Tom Waits Storytellers (Unedited)
There is little to no argument that Tom Waits is one of the longest standing bullshitters in the history of popular music. As such, upon the release of his 1999 […]
Tom Waits :: San Diego Folk Festival / April 19, 1974
Early Tom Waits chestnut, sans band, accompanying himself on piano and guitar in his native San Diego, April 1974. I originally happened upon this recording several years ago via Captain’s Dead , […]
Lou Reed :: Acoustic Demos (1970)
Twelve acoustic demos recorded in the Fall of 1970 following Lou Reed’s departure from the Velvet Underground. Concerning the set, A History of The Underground notes that while many of the tracks are similar to […]
Richard Hell & The Voidoids :: CBGB, NYC, November 19, 1976
By the end of 1976, Richard Hell had co-founded two of the most important bands of New York’s fertile underground music scene — Television and The Heartbreakers . He’d also been kicked out of both […]
Tom Waits :: Ivanhoe Theater 11/21/76 — Radio Broadcast (WXRT)
Captured radio broadcast (WXRT) from 1976 of Tom’s performance in Chicago at the Ivanhoe Theater. Download: Tom Waits :: Ivanhoe Theater 11/21/76 – Radio Broadcast (WXRT) (103mb) Emotional Weather Report (Ivanhoe Theater Nov 21, 1976) Invitation To The Blues (Ivanhoe […]
James Booker :: Montreux Jazz Festival, July 1978
Spiders on keys, indeed. This past March the long awaited James Booker documentary, Bayou Maharajah , premiered at SXSW in Austin. It was met with widespread critical acclaim. I was first hipped to this bonafide […]
The Byrds :: The Ash Grove, Los Angeles, CA – August 22, 1970
“The more you drink, the better you’re gonna like us,” Roger McGuinn tells the crowd of Angelenos early on during this set. “And the more we drink, the better we’re […]
The Soft Boys :: Dingwall’s, London, UK, December 7, 1980
When it comes to the greatest twin-guitar teams from the late 70s/early 80s, you’ve got three options: the buzzsaw glory of Verlaine and Lloyd in Television; the mathematical jangle of […]
Tom Waits :: Never Talk to Strangers (LP Bootleg, 1979)
Recorded at the BBC Studios London, for the “Tonight In Person” show in July of 1979, this vinyl bootleg finds Waits working up material from his Asylum years. This particular performance […]