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Soundboard 8.6 - This sounds VERY 80’s, I mean, it sounds pretty dated…but good quality. I guess they were not too bad, kind of simplistic maybe in a Twisted Sister kind of way, but the guitarist pulls out some tasty solos. Autograph Live Cameo Theater, San Antonio 1/11/1985 1 Send Her To Me 2 Thrill Of Love 3 Cloud 10 4 Friday 5 Deep End 6 my Girlfriend's Boyfriend Isn't Me 7 Turn Up The Radio 8 Take No Prisoners 9 Crazy World -
Audience 8.4 - A very rare tape here, new to circulation and not bad, but not great either. What is the downside? Recorded towards the back of the hall, and some consistent tape noise that crowds the middle a little. The upside? It’s actually not bad sounding for all that was against it, you get used to it and after a few minutes you realize it’s very listenable. The crowd is pretty rowdy, I heard fireworks going off at one point – and they really love their Kinks in Cape Cod. I like this for the collectors, they will appreciate it. The Kinks Cape Cod Coliseum, South Yarmouth, MA July 2, 1977 Band line-up Ray Davies – lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards (1964–1997) Dave Davies – lead guitar, backing and lead vocals (1964–1997) John Gosling – keyboards, piano, backing vocals (1970–1978) Mick Avory – drums, percussion (1964–1984) Andy Pyle – bass (1976–1978) Pamela Travis - backing vocals (1977) Claire Hamill - backing vocals (1977) Total Time = 01:28:12 Disc 1 01 One of the Survivors 02 Rush Hour Blues 03 Tired of Waiting 04 Set Me Free 05 Sunny Afternoon 06 Well Respected Man 07 Death of a Clown 08 All Day & All of the Night 09 Slum Kids 10 Life On The Road* Disc 2 11 Stormy Sky* (end cuts) 12 Life Goes On* 13 School Days 14 The Hard Way 15 Education 16 Full Moon 17 Banana Boat Song 18 Lola 19 You Really Got Me 20 Jukebox Music -
Audience 8.7 - This tape, when it first surfaced, was to many Kinks collectors the Holy Grail of live tapes. It marked the band’s triumphant return to the States, and the band was determined to make up for lost time. A fiery performance and a great capture. A tiny bit of tape chatter in the first track but it smooths out from there and is a real rocket ride! The Kinks Fillmore West, San Francisco, 11-29-1969 01 - Till The End Of Day 02 - Mindless Child Of Motherhood 03 - Last of the Steam-Powered Trains 04 - You're Looking Fine 05 - Mr. Churchill Says 06 - Big Sky 07 - You Really Got Me 08 - All Day And All Of The Night 09 - Love Me Till The Sun Shines 10 - Brainwashed 11 - Medley 12 - Louie Louie 13 - Victoria 14 - Medley -
Audience 9.3 - I am primarily interested in 1969-1973 Stones but I gotta say, this band has become very sophisticated and very tight, from the playing, setlist construction, audience interaction, you can’t deny them their place at the top of Rock Royalty because they’ve not only earned it, they continue to do it. Bravo, this is just superb, from beginning to end. The Rolling Stones O2 Arena London, UK. Nov. 25th & 29th, 2012 CD 1 01 Video Intro.wav 00:03:23 02 Show Intro.wav 00:04:28 03 I Wanna Be Your Man.wav 00:03:33 04 Get Off Of My Cloud.wav 00:03:41 05 It's All Over Now.wav 00:04:34 06 Paint It Black.wav 00:05:05 07 Gimme Shelter.wav 00:07:51 08 Wild Horses.wav 00:05:25 09 All Down The Line.wav 00:05:15 10 I'm Going Down.wav 00:07:54 11 Out Of Control.wav 00:07:17 12 One More Shot.wav 00:03:51 13 Doom & Gloom.wav 00:05:04 14 It's Only Rock n' Roll.wav 00:05:19 CD 2 01 Honky Tonk Women.wav 00:04:35 02 Band Intro.wav 00:03:10 03 Before They Make Me Run.wav 00:04:39 04 Happy.wav 00:04:06 05 Midnight Rambler.wav 00:12:52 06 Miss You.wav 00:07:37 07 Start Me Up.wav 00:04:27 08 Tumbling Dice.wav 00:04:46 09 Brown Sugar.wav 00:06:33 10 Sympathy For The Devil.wav 00:10:10 11 You Can't Always Get What You Want.wav 00:08:35 12 Jumpin' Jack Flash.wav 00:07:01 CD 3 01 Video Intro.wav 00:04:43 02 Show Intro.wav 00:04:31 03 Get Off Of My Cloud.wav 00:03:36 04 I Wanna Be Your Man.wav 00:04:14 05 The Last Time.wav 00:04:12 06 Paint It Black.wav 00:05:08 07 Gimme Shelter.wav 00:07:26 08 Lady Jane.wav 00:03:56 09 Champagne & Reefer.wav 00:06:44 10 Live With Me.wav 00:04:31 11 Miss You.wav 00:06:54 12 One More Shot.wav 00:03:52 13 Doom & Gloom.wav 00:04:27 14 It's Only Rock n' Roll.wav 00:05:38 15 Honky Tonk Women.wav 00:04:43 CD 4 01 Band Intro.wav 00:03:12 02 Before They Make Me Run.wav 00:04:44 03 Happy.wav 00:04:17 04 Midnight Rambler.wav 00:12:03 05 Start Me Up.wav 00:04:20 06 Tumbling Dice.wav 00:04:58 07 Brown Sugar.wav 00:05:53 08 Sympathy For The Devil.wav 00:09:17 09 You Can't Always Get What You Want.wav 00:08:43 10 Jumpin' Jack Flash.wav 00:05:04 11 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.wav 00:07:44 -
Audience 8.5 - Here is perhaps one of the best captures from the tour (not quite as good as Oakland or LA but this tape has some real power). This recording seems to be rather close to the PA, but there’s no distortion. Tape is not overly wide ranging from high to low but there’s plenty of meat and a good amount of dynamics nonetheless. Certainly this is one to get. The Rolling Stones 1969.11.11 Phoenix Coliseum Phoenix, Arizona 01. -Jumping Jack Flash 02. -Carol 03. -Sympathy For The Devil 04. -Stray Cat Blues 05. -Prodigal Son 06. -You Gotta Move 07. -Love In Vain 08. -Under My Thumb 09. -Midnight Rambler 10. -Live With Me 11. -Gimme Shelter 12. -Little Queenie 13. -Brown Sugar (*) (*) Live At Altamont Speedway 1969.12.06 -
Audience 7.9-8.3 - A tape that starts rough and ends rough but in the middle it is actually not bad. This is a taper that made this an event, the evening was captured with a genuine excitement which is epitomized by the introduction to the show by taper. I love that stuff. I like this tape because I understand now – it transcends the necessity for perfection because it happened in real time for the people who made this tape and there’s a twinkle of magic because you suddenly, for a split second, become them during the show. I can’t really explain it, but something happened while listening that made me understand what I was listening to beyond a rating. Make sense? THE ROLLING STONES Boston Garden Boston MA. November 29th 1969 1st Show THE BAND Ian Stewart keyboards Mick Jagger lead vocals harmonica Keith Richards guitar lead and backing vocals Charlie Watts drums Mick Taylor guitar Bill Wyman bass guitar 1 -Dianne Intro 2 -Terry Ried 3 -Stones Intro 4 -Jumpin' Jack Flash 5 -Oh Carol 6 -Sympathy For The Devil 7 -Stray Cat Blues 8 -Love In Vain 9 -Prodigal Son 10 -Under My Thumb 11 -Midnight Rambler 12 -Live With Me 13 -Little Queenie 14 -(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 15 -Honky Tonk Woman 16 -Street Fighting Man -
Studio Quality 9.5 - A fine collection of alternate mixes with a few I’d never heard. You have to be pretty well versed to know what is different on some of these, but yeah, there’s different layers to explore. The Rolling Stones TRACK LIST: 1. Brown Sugar - 4:05 2. Brown Sugar - 3:43 3. Brown Sugar - 3:44 4. Sway - 3:23 5. Wild Horses - 5:21 6. Wild Horses - 5:39 7. Can't You Hear Me Knocking (Mick Taylor live) - 14:16 8. You Gotta Move - 2:29 9. Bitch - 3:28 10. Sister Morphine - 5:27 11. Dead Flowers (live, Leeds 1971) - 4:08 12. Bitch - 4:09 13. Brown Sugar - 3:46 14. Let it Rock (from the Spanish Sticky Fingers) - 2:44 (Playtime: 67:04 ) Studio alternate & early versions from the Sticky Fingers period. "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" is a Mick Taylor live version with Keith Richards recorded in New York '86. -
Soundboard 9.1 - In this recording, what you will notice right away is the massive sound that they dialed in for Charlie…very different but I like it! The rest is OK, not as full bodied as I’d prefer it to be but it gets the job done. The Rolling Stones 1989 Tour Rehearsals Sullivan Stadium Foxboro, MA. 08-29-1989 Disc 1: 01-Start Me Up 02-Bitch 03-Shattered 04-Sad Sad Sad 05-Undercover of the Night 06-Harlem Shuffle 07-Miss You 08-Tumbling Dice 09-Ruby Tuesday 10-Play With Fire 11-Dead Flowers 12-One Hit (to the Body) 13-Mixed Emotions 14-Honky Tonk Woman 15-Rock and a Hard Place Disc 2: 01-Midnight Rambler 02-Can't Always Get What You Want 03-Little Red Rooster 04-Before They Make Me Run 05-Happy 06-Paint it Black 07-2000 Light Years From Home 08-Sympathy for the Devil 09-Gimme Shelter 10-It's Only Rock and Roll 11-Brown Sugar 12-Satisfaction 13-Jumpin' Jack Flash -
Soundboard 9.5 - What is this and why had I never heard it before? Damn! Look, stop whatever you are doing and just get this now. Terry Kath. Terry Kath. Terry Kath. This is his resume on tape. Not only is it a good board tape, but it specifically showcases Terry’s playing in a way you don’t often get on other tapes of a band with this range of equipment. I swear I can hear the pick on his strings. Damn this is a great show and damn did we lose one hell of a player in Terry Kath. Chicago Milwaukee Harbor Lakefront Milwaukee, WI. 1970-07-19 01 Introduction 02 South California Purples 03 25 or 6 to 4 04 Beginnings 05 Ballet For a Girl in Buchannon 06 I'm a Man Terry Kath: Guitar, vocals Peter Cetera: Bass, vocals Robert Lamm: Keyboards, vocals Lee Loughnane: Trumpet James Pankow: Trombone Walt Parazaider: Woodwinds Danny Seraphine: Drums -
Radio Broadcast 9.1 - A fine document, if a touch dated, but either way it sounds warm and full. There’s a lot going on here, I can’t imagine trying to keep up with this pace on stage! Brand X 1977-09-28 Glass Onion Rochester, NY Disc 1: Early Show 1. Radio Intro/Disco Suicide 2. Why Should I Lend You Mine 3. Deadly Nightshade 4. Nightmare Patrol 5. Nuclear Burn Disc 2: Late Show 1. Disco Suicide 2. Earth Dance 3. Malaga Virgen 4. Access To Data 5. Why Should I lend You Mine 6. Deadly Nightshade John Goodsall - Guitar Percy Jones - Bass Robin Lumley - keyboards Morris Pert - Percussion Kenwood Dennard - Drums -
Soundboard 9.3 & Audience 9.1 - The ’66 show is remarkably clear, they were smart enough to make sure to close mic the instruments! The ’73 show is famous for how good and clear it is for an audience tape. It’s very immersive, a great tape by all accounts. The Rolling Stones International Center Honolulu, Hawaii 7-28-66 Disc 1 1. Introduction - Not Fade Away 2. The Last Time 3. Paint It Black 4. Lady Jane 5. Mothers Little Helper 6. Get Off Of My Cloud 7. 19th Nervous Breakdown 8. Satisfaction - Outroduction HIC Arena Honolulu, HI 1973-01-21 09. Brown Sugar 10. Bitch 11. Rocks Off 12. Gimmie Shelter 13. It's All Over Now 14. Happy Disc 2 1. Tumbling Dice 2. Sweet Virgina 3. Dead Flowers 4. You Can't Always Get What You Want 5. All Down The Line 6. Midnight Rambler 7. Live With Me 8. Rip This Joint 9. Jumping Jack Flash 10. Street Fighting Man 11. Radio Ad Band Members: Mick Jagger- vocals, harmonica Keith Richards - guitar, vocals Mick Taylor - guitar Bill Wyman - bass Charlie Watts - drums Nicky Hopkins - piano, organ Bobby Keyes - saxophones Jim Price - trumpet, trombone -
Audience 8.3/8.4/8.8 - When listening to the first two discs, it would be easy to dismiss them right away as being inferior, but I encourage the listener to stick with them for a while. The first disc is not bad, the sound is loud and narrow but guitars and vocals are clear and extremely direct! That means you get to actually hear it, and it’s an early period gig in a small venue and these are few and far between. The second disc is a little further from the stage, but I get the music pretty well if somewhat noisily. Here the audio is reasonably balanced too, so drums very much there, as is guitar and vocals. I actually got into it once I adjusted. The third disc is the best of the three, with clarity and balance, and even some dynamic range. You can increase the volume and not damage your ear drums. All three discs are above average performances too, with the third disc being among the very best ever. A worthwhile collection here. MÖTLEY CRÜE Red Hot 1983-1985 Disc 1 1983-12-05 City Coliseum Austin, TX 01 -Shout At The Devil 02 -Bastard 03 -Take Me To The Top 04 -Ten Seconds To Love 05 -Merry-Go-Round 06 -Knock 'Em Dead, Kid 07 -Piece Of Your Action 08 -Too Young To Fall In Love 09 -God Bless The Children Of The Beast - Red Hot - Guitar Solo 10 -Looks That Kill 11 -Live Wire 12 -Helter Skelter 13 -Jailhouse Rock Disc 2 1984-02-05 Riverfront Coliseum Cincinnati, OH 01 -Intro - Shout At The Devil 02 -Take Me To The Top 03 -Knock 'Em Dead, Kid 04 -Too Young To Fall In Love 05 -Red Hot 06 -Piece Of Your Action 07 -Looks That Kill 08 -Live Wire 09 -Helter Skelter Disc 3 1984-01-30 Madison Square Garden New York, NY 01. -Shout At The Devil 02. -Take Me To The Top 03. -Knock 'Em Dead, Kid 04. -Too Young To Fall In Love 05. -Red Hot 06. -Guitar Solo 07. -Piece Of Your Action 08. -Looks That Kill 09. -Live Wire 10. -Helter Skelter Show Notes: After their gold album presentation the previous night, MÖTLEY CRÜE are awarded platinum albums onstage during their first ever show at the famous Madison Square Gardens in New York City. This is the band's first platinum award, as they have now sold over a million copies of Shout At The Devil. When Tommy walks into his condo with his gold and platinum awards for the first time after the tour, his girlfriend Candice throws a plate at him smashing the glass frame of his gold award, after she becomes jealous over a photo she found of Tommy with some girl. Nikki takes his awards with him to the island of Nantucket, MA where he plans on meeting some girls, one of them actress Demi Moore who is working on the movie set of One Crazy Summer. Demi also shared a similar childhood to Nikki in many ways, with her father leaving before she was born, then being around drinking, arguing and beatings, and moving home a ridiculous amount of times. She greets Nikki as the prop plane lands, who in a wasted state, falls down the plane's steps onto the tarmac, smashing a bottle of Jack Daniels from his hand while his awards hit him in the head. Having been through Alcoholics Anonymous herself, Demi suggests the program to Nikki, who learns of it for the first time. -
Soundboard 9.5 - Pinpoint precision, that is how I describe this one. The band, the songs, the mix, the tone…so what I am saying is “it’s a good one”. Pine Knob, MI. July 26, 1978 Disc 1- Song For America
- Point Of Know Return
- Paradox
- Journey From Mariabronn
- Mysteries And Mayhem
- Lamplight Symphony
- The Wall
- Lonely Street
- Dust In The Wind
- Miracles Out Of Nowhere
- Portrait (He Knew)
- Carry On Wayward Son
- Sparks Of The Tempest
- Bringing It Back
- Magnum Opus
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This is the follow up album to the recent reissue of Ruff Mix, the band's official studio offering released in 1975. Culled from the band's personal archives, the music was saved from destruction (literally the master tapes burned in a fire and barely survived) and remixed to present a picture of the band just prior to recording Ruff Mix, and then a few years after its release. The CD features late guitarist Richard Heath (Oz Knozz, Lady Killer, Lic) on side 1 and Rick Wheeler on side 2. -
Audience 8.4 - I think the draw is, when you are dealing with these old audience tapes that don’t have very wide dynamic range, is that as long as you get a solid guitar, and reasonable vocals, it’s going to appeal to collectors because what they want is the performance mainly – and I tend to agree because this is after all the peak period for the band. You can hear guitar, vocals, and keys in pretty decent clarity and forceful too – I see the value in this recording, a little rough around the edges when band is at full flight due to limitations with the recorder, but let me tell you I hung around, listened to the whole thing, and came away satisfied. It’s not too bad! Palasport, Genova, Italy March 11, 1973- Intro
- Highway Star
- Smoke On The Water
- Strange Kind Of Woman
- Mary Long
- Keyboard Solo - Lazy
- Drum Solo - The Mule
- Space Truckin'
- Black Night
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Soundboard 9.0 - Interesting hearing this line up in such clarity, it certainly allows you to make a better judgment on the music, which by the way is pretty damn good. It’s different, in some ways, but it is still very good. My advice is not to go into it thinking you are getting Black Sabbath – rather consider it a Tony Iommi side project, then it makes more sense and will grab you in a better way. Black Sabbath Monsters Of Rock Festival Arena Del Chionso Reggio Emilia, Italy 1992-09-12 1. Computer God 2. Children of the Sea 3. Time Machine 4. War Pigs 5. Master of Insanity/After All (The Dead) 6. Iron Man 7. Heaven and Hell