Climax Blues Band - Live At Rockpalast

Climax Blues Band - Live At Rockpalast - 1976 (2013 remastered)

Para iniciar fevereiro no mesmo clima que encerramos janeiro, um outro ao vivo gravado no Rockpalast. Nesse caso no longínquo 18 de janeiro de 1976, no estúdio 1 da WDR, Colônia.

O estilo é outro, mas o clima é o mesmo. Diversão pura.

01  I Am Constant   
02  Amerita/ Sense Of Direction  
03  Runing Out Of Time    
04  Country Hat     
05  Come On In My Kitchen  
06  Using The Power   
07  Going To New York 
08  Seventh Son      
09  All The Time In The World

 

Peter Haycock - Guitar, Vocal
Colin Cooper - Saxophone
John Cuffly - Drums
Derek Holt - Guitar
Richard Jones - Bass




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Ronnie Lane - Live At Rockpalast

Ronnie Lane - Live At Rockpalast 1980 - 2012

Os anos 70 haviam acabado e o ex-baixista, vocalista e compositor do Small Faces havia sido comunicado de que sofria de esclerose múltipla, uma terrivel doença degenerativa. Embora chocado com a notícia Ronnie nunca deixou de trabalhar e havia lançado recentemente seu último álbum solo, "SEE ME", que, a exemplo de todos os discos de sua discografia solo, fêz um sucesso inversamente  proporcional à sua qualidade.

Era 19 de março, quando ele esteve em Colônia, nos estúdios da WDR com uma banda de dar inveja a muitos figurões do mercado: Henry McCullough (Joe Cocker, Spooky Tooth, Wings de Paul McCartney), Ian Stewart Stuart (Rolling Stones), Chrissie Stewart (Frank Miller), Bruce Rowland (Grease Band e Fairport Convention), além dos membros originais de sua Slim Chance Charlie Hart e os saxofonistas George Carless e Raymond Carless.

São 13 canções que, se não cobrem sua trajetória solo, traz um bom apanhado da qualidade musical que sempre esteve presente em seus trabalhos. Afinal, não é qualquer artista que consegue se manter em destaque nos palcos em que ele dividiu com Steve Marriott, Rod Stewart e Ron Wood (pra ficar apenas nas bandas por onde passou). Qualidade também como instrumentista, onde nessa gravação ele empunha uma guitarra base com a mesma desenvoltura dos anos que nos acostumamos a vê-lo tocando baixo.

Dois destaques especiais nesse show são para Henry Mccullough, que ainda dá uma canja nos vocais em "I'm Ready" (embora nunca fora um grande cantor, não compromete) e para o piano de Ian Stu, que dá às composições um swing já conhecido nos vários anos junto com Jagger, Richards & Cia..

Poucas semanas após este show a saúde de Ronnie deteriorou-se de tal forma que a sua posterior reunião com Steve Marriot em  "Majik Mijits" limitou-se apenas aos estúdios, sequer ventilando a possibilidade de que saissem em turnê. Lane morreu em 04 de julho de 1997, com apenas 51 anos.

01  Rats Tales
02  Flags & Banners
03  Annie Had A Baby
04  How Come
05  Debris
06  You're So Rude
07  I'm Ready
08  When Lads Has Got Money
09  Kuschty Rye
10  Rocket 69
11  Man Smart Woman Smarter
12  You Never Can Tell
13  One For The Road

Ronnie Lane - Acoustic & Electric guitars Lead vocals
Henry McCullough - Lead & Slide guitars, Background Vocals, Mandolin (9), lead vocals (7)
Ian Stewart - Piano
Chrissie Stewart - Bass, Background Vocals
Charlie Hart - Accordion, Piano (5), Background vocals
Bruce Rowland - Drums
George Carless, Raymond Carless - Saxophone

The Complete SHOW (Thanks for original uploader)

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Chicago - The Nashville Sessions

Chicago - The Nashville Sessions - 2013

from VVN Music

As is becoming more-and-more commonplace, artists are re-recording their old material, not for small "oldies" labels as happened in the past, but to retain or reacquire rights to their own music.

That's how Chicago came to record The Nashville Sessions, a re-recording of fifteen of their biggest tracks.

It all started in 2008 when the group signed with international music publisher Primary Wave Music. According to the band "The entire landscape had changed from what was normal when the band's debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, was released in 1969. ... There was a 'disconnect' in terms of new recordings, new music and having a presence in other media and 'new media.'

"The old model had us waiting for the record companies, or the publishing companies, which represented our body of work, to create that presence. It was no longer efficient."

Luckily, the band had retained their rights to rerecord their music, so they went into a Nasville studio between projects and began the work of painstakingly recreating their original tracks.  They first recreated the rhythm parts, even trying to duplicate every glitch and mistake. Then, Robert Lamm added the keyboard followed by the brass parts and the lead and backup vocals.

"Listening to the mixes we are amazed at how close we came to sounding like the original recordings."

01. 25 or 6 to 4
02. Make Me Smile
03. Feelin' Stronger Every Day
04. Beginnings
05. Saturday In The Park
06. Colour My World
07. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
08. Questions 67 and 68
09. Old Days
10. Just You And Me
11. Call On Me
12. Another Rainy Day in New York City

13. No Tell Lover
14. ( I've Been) Searchin' So Long
15. Alive Again





Esse post é para atender a um pedido desesperado do João Abel :) ;) .

NB: Eu entendi a parte aonde uma banda (ou o seu nome empresarial) com sua formação completamente diferente à original volta a gravar seus hits como forma de ter direito às suas músicas. Só não entendi porque elas precisavam ser tão similiares a da gravação original.

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Glenn Hughes And Joe Lynn Turner - EP

 

Glenn Hughes And Joe Lynn Turner - EP - 2012

Esse EP apareceu nas lojas de downloads no final de 2012 lançado por uma tal de "Musik and Film Inc." e dele não se tem nenhuma informação. Nem mesmo no site oficial dos dois envolvidos há qualquer menção a esse trabalho. O que consegui saber é que esse selo é proprietária de uma série de gravações que foram realizadas em rádios e traz - segundo seu site oficial - um cast que incluem nomes como os de Ozzy Osbourne, Missing Persons, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynryd, Travis Tritt , Ian Ashbury and the Cult , Tommy Tutone , Axl Rose e  Slash. Porém, esse mesmo EP não se encontra lá, mas sim no Itunes (que em sua apresentação, condenam). Enfim, um balaio de gatos que não entendi muito bem.

Sobre o EP em si, parece-me que se trata de uma apanhado de gravações (em rádio, pocket e promocionais shows, etc). A gravação é tosca (basta ver como encerram abruptamente Mistread) mas vale como item de colecionador, uma vez que é virtualmente impossível de se achar na net (a não ser que voce pague por ele, claro). Como um amigo meu disse-me: alguém tava querendo levantar uns trocados para passar bem o Natal de 2012.

NB: esse post é patrocinado e abastecido pelo parceiro Celso.

01. Mistread
02. Smoke On The Water (acoustic)
03. Hush
04. Smoke on The Water
05. (My) Woman From Tokyo




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Tim Bogert And Carmine Appice - Friends

Tim Bogert And Carmine Appice - Friends - 2013- EP

Lançado no final de 2013 pelo selo digital Rocker Records, de propriedade de Carmine Appice, as gravações deste EP ocorreram no ínicio dos anos 2000. Segundo o próprio Carmine, o espírito com que foram gravadas as 6 faixas traz muito dos melhores trabalhos gravados à época com o Vanilla Fudge, principalmente com relação aos arranjos.

01. Bye Bye love
02. Falling
03. Black Box
04. Eternity
05. The Star Spangled Banner (with TM Stevens)
06. Falling (Bonus) (with Brian Auger)




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The Dreadful Yawns - Dreadful Yawns

  
















The Dreadful Yawns  - Dreadful Yawns - 2005

By James Christopher Monger, AMG

Formed in 1998 by singer/guitarist/songwriter Ben Gmetro, guitarist/singer Dave Molnar, and drummer Charlie Druesedow, the Dreadful Yawns' subtle blend of acoustic-based indie pop, space rock, and neo-psychedelic folk went against the grain of the late-'90s post-hardcore Cleveland scene. In 2002, through perseverance and musical integrity, the band began to gain support from the often unforgiving Midwest, and after numerous lineup changes that saw brief stints by various area bass players (they eventually settled on Mike Allan), percussionists, and piano players, the multi-instrumentalists managed to complete Early, their full-length debut for Undertow Music, released in 2003. 

The Pretend EP came out the following year, and the band moved to Bomp Records soon after it was released. Their self-titled sophomore release hit stores in 2005, and it proved to be their one and only release on Bomp. The Dreadful Yawns moved to Exit Stencil and underwent a near complete changing of the guard before their third album, Rest, came out in 2007. Gmetro's supporting cast of characters at that point in time consisted of Elizabeth Kelly, Chris Russo, Clayton Heuer, and Eric Schulte.

01. You Sold the Farm
02. Get Yourself Back Home
03. Darkness Is Gone
04. It's a Charmed Life
05. Back In the Ground
06. Part of Your Past
07. Waking Up to You
08. Get Straight
09. Better Things to Do
10. There's No Place Like Home
11. Drinking Song
12. Lullaby
13. The People and the Sky
14. No Destination




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Jakko M. Jakszyk - Silesia

Jakko Jakszyk - Silesia - 1982

from wikipedia

Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk is an English musician. multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer, he is the current lead singer and second guitarist in King Crimson and also pursues a solo career. He is generally referred to as "Jakko" by both colleagues and fans, and most of his releases have been credited to this shorter name (while others have been credited to "Jakko M. Jakszyk").

As a solo artist, Jakko has released six albums. Prior to joining King Crimson in 2013, he had fronted multiple bands and projects over the course of three-and-a-half decades (including 64 Spoons, Dizrhythmia, 21st Century Schizoid Band, Jakszyk Fripp Collins and Rapid Eye Movement) and had also been a member of Level 42, The Lodge, The Tangent and Warren Harry. He has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians (including Tom Robinson, Peter Blegvad, Danny Thompson, Gavin Harrison Pandit Dinesh, and Dave Stewart) as well as following an extensive and well-respected career as a session musician and soundtrack producer.

01. I'll Stand On My Own    
02. Grab What You Can (Biez Co Mozesz)    
03. Something In The Mirror    
04. If It Should Be Today    
05. Straining Our Eyes    
06. One More Time    
07. This Is Me    
08. Mills And Boone    
09. Tell Me Where To Run To    
10. Silesia    
11. Ingmar Bergman On The Windowsill    

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Marimba, Keyboards, Balalaika, Mellotron
Dave Stewart - Synthesizer
Ed Poole (2, 3) - Bass
John Clarke (5) - Drums, Percussion
Amanda Parsons (11), Barbara Gaskin (2) - Backing Vocal
Chris Baker (6) - Handclaps
Dave Jackson - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone
Annie Whitehead - Trombone
Ted Emmett - Trumpet (1, 5, 6, 9)

NB: Silesia is original from 1982 and was deleted prior to release. In 90's briefly available  as reissue.

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Terry & The Pirates - Rockpalast West Coast Legends (re-re-post)

Terry & The Pirates - Rockpalast West Coast Legends Vol. 5 - 2009 (DVDA) 

It's going on twenty eight years since Terry & The Pirates went on their whirlwind seventy two hour tour of Europe to play three gigs. Since that time both John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins have passed away, and over the ensuing years with all of the hard rocking and partying that has  transpired and considering just the passage of time alone, it may have left some the band's memories a little hazy. I know if John was still around he'd probably be able to write a book about it, but since he's not we'll try to tell you the story as best we can.

The cold weather conditions of going to Germany in the dead of winter is not the most perfect setting for a bunch of musicians who were accustomed to the bright sunshine and idyllic hills of picturesque Marin County in Northern California; but when you live to play the music that you love, you really don't have any choice, but to go and follow your muse.

Bill Belmont from Rag Baby Records helped set things up for Terry. It was December of 1982 when Terry & The Pirates embarked on what is now jokingly referred to by the band as the "Torture Tour" and for good reason - it was grueling.

This tour was going to be a little strange because their guitarist Greg Douglass had prior tour commitments with the Greg Kihn Band and would be unable to be a part of it, so Terry Dolan, John Cipollina, David Hayes, Greg Elmore and Nicky Hopkins would have to go on without him.

The night before they were to leave for Germany their wives and girlfriends made sure to "keep the boys busy" until the wee wee hours to help ensure that they would behave themselves while on tour. No one is talking as to whether this tactic worked or not and maybe that's a good thing, but the general consensus was if they weren't traveling, getting a quick bite to eat, doing a sound check or playing a gig, they were trying to get a little shut eye in between.

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Terry Dolan - Vocals, Guitar

John Cipollina - Guitar

Nick Hopkins - Piano

David Hayes - Bass

Greg Elmore - Drums

01.  Rising Of The Moon                       
02.  Inside And Out                           
03.  Something To Lose                        
04.  Genoa                                      
05.  Montana Eyes                             
06.  The Train Kept A' Rolling                
07.  Silverado Trail                           
08.  Cobra                                    
09.  Inlaws And Outlaws                       
10.  Writing You A Letter                     
11.  I Put A Spell On You                     
12.  Edward The Mad Shirt Grinder             
13.  Rainbow                                 
14.  River                                    
15.  I Ain't Livin' Long Like This            
16.  Into The Wind                            
17.  Don't Do It                              
18.  Gun Metal Blues      





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Country Joe McDonald - War War War Live (re-re-repost)

Country Joe McDonald - War War War Live - 2007

Nine poems from Robert W. Service’s war-themed collection Rhymes of a Red Cross Man set to music and sung by Country Joe McDonald. Recorded live on July 7, 2007 at the 2nd annual “Our Way Home Peace Event and Reunion,” honoring US Vietnam War resisters and others in Castlegar, British Columbia. Live show includes an introduction by Country Joe explaining how the original Vanguard album came to be recorded.

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01. Introduction by Country Joe
02. Foreword
03. The Call
04. Young Fellow, My Lad
05. The Man from Athabaska
06. The Munition Maker
07. The Twins
08. Jean Desprez
09. War Widow
10. The March of the Dead

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Pete Haycock's Climax - Total Climax

Pete Haycock's Climax - Total Climax - 1985

Pete Haycock ((4 March 1951 – 30 October 2013) formed what was then known as the Climax Blues Band in 1967 with singer Colin Cooper, right at the height of the British blues boom. The band released its self-titled debut album in 1969 - reportedly recorded in two days, it featured a mix of original and traditional (Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson) blues songs. In 1970, the band dropped the "Chicago" from its name so as not to be confused with the American band, and recorded a number of well-received albums as the Climax Blues Band during the early 1970s.

In 1976, with an amazing nine albums under their belt (in a mere seven years), the band released Gold Plated, which would become their breakthrough album, scoring Top 30 status on the strength of "Couldn't Get It Right," the song hitting #3 in the U.S. and #10 in the U.K. By this time, the band's sound was more rock than blues, with a few jazzy flourishes thrown in for good measure, but it was Haycock's lead guitar skills that drove the band's fortunes. They continued to release albums at a prolific pace, but Haycock left the band in 1985 to pursue his own musical vision, and Climax Blues Band broke up a couple years later.

Haycock soon formed Pete Haycock's Climax, the band touring extensively throughout Europe, the guitarist later recording a pair of instrumental solo albums for I.R.S. Records. Moving to Germany, Haycock launched a new career writing movie scores, collaborating with composer Hans Zimmer on films like Thelma & Louise before striking out on his own. A benefit project for children with cancer led to Haycock's association with fellow guitarist Robin George, the two recording a charity single together as the LovePower Band. After a lengthy hiatus from the stage, Haycock returned back to his roots, forming Pete Haycock's True Blues in 2008, touring and recording a single album.

01. This Fight Is Fixed
02. Scene of The Crime
03. Young Executive
04. Love to Burn
05. I´m The Madness in Your Life
06. In Time
07. Irresistible Forces
08. Guilty
09. Mean Streak
10. Sunbird
11. Love´s Got a Hold on Me
12. Friends in High Places
13. Gotta Have More Love





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