John Fogerty, Duane Eddy & Peter Frampton - Witness History III, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN, 4-5-2000

I really like concerts where we get to see musical legends perform together. Here's another one of those. It's from an event called "Witness History III." I'll explain what that was in a little bit. The main thing though is that it consists of short sets by Duane Eddy, John Fogerty, and Peter Frampton.

It seems there were three "Witness History" concerts. I've only found music from this one. All three of them were tribute concerts honoring guitarist Chet Aktins, and all were held at the same venue in Nashville, Tennessee. The first one took place in 1997, the second in 1998. This one, the third one in 2000, also was the last one. 

Pretty much everything I found out about this concert is due to a review by a person who attended it, which you can read here:

http://www.martystuart.com/witnessiii-review.htm

It seems some of the concert was broadcast on T.V., and some of that broadcast has made it to various bootlegs. But what we have here is surely incomplete. For instance, this starts with a set by Duane Eddy consisting of six songs. But the reviewer mentioned above says Eddy played 13 songs. It was probably similar with the Frampton and Fogerty sets as well. And there are other performers we don't have at all. The biggest loss is that Willie Nelson performed a set that we don't have. He was joined by Nanci Griffith and Bonnie Bramlett on a couple of songs. Chet Atkins was there, but it seems he'd suffered one or more strokes recently and wasn't able to perform. He died one year later, at the age of 77.

But on the plus side, what we do have is great, with excellent sound quality. John Fogerty has said that Duane Eddy was a big musical influence on him. He joined in on two songs in Eddy's set. Plus, he and Frampton joined Eddy for the final encore. Furthermore, Vince Gill joined in on lead guitar on songs in both Eddy's and Fogerty's sets. If Gill did any songs on his own, we don't have them.

I found most of this from one source. However, the first song comes from a video I found on YouTube. That makes me think there could be more out there that got broadcast. Hopefully, I'll be able to add to this eventually. But at least enjoy this much for now. 

This album is an hour and 24 minutes long

01 Three-30-Blues [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy & John Fogerty)
02 [Dance with The] Guitar Man (Duane Eddy)
03 talk (Duane Eddy)
04 Shazzam [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy with Vince Gill)
05 talk (Duane Eddy)
06 New Orleans Blues [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy with John Fogerty)
07 talk (Duane Eddy)
08 I Saw the Light [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
09 talk (Duane Eddy)
10 Rebel-'Rouser [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy)
11 Show Me the Way (Peter Frampton)
12 talk (Peter Frampton)
13 Can't Take That Away from Me (Peter Frampton)
14 Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton)
15 talk (Peter Frampton)
16 Do You Feel like We Do (Peter Frampton)
17 talk (John Fogerty)
18 Green River (John Fogerty)
19 Centerfield (John Fogerty)
20 talk (John Fogerty)
21 Proud Mary (John Fogerty with Vince Gill)
22 talk (John Fogerty)
23 Bad Moon Rising (John Fogerty)
24 Hard Times [Instrumental] (Duane Eddy, Peter Frampton & John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MnzYYncD

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/18aCXULZBs7gBai/file

The cover is a screenshot I took from YouTube videos. The video quality was low. So I took several close-up screenshots and patched them together in order to capture more detail. Then the Krea AI program helped add to the image quality. 

Covered: Neil Young, Volume 4: 1999-2005

Here’s the fourth album in the Neil Young covered series. Once again, thanks to Fabio from Rio for doing most of the work. I also want to mention that I have a long list of songwriters that I want to make Covered albums for. Many of the biggest ones, like Dylan, Lennon-McCartney, Jagger-Richard’s, Ray Davies, etc… are still to come. I’m sure I wouldn’t have gotten around to Young for a couple more years. But Fabio’s involvement and energy brought this one to the front of the line.

Here are Fabio’s comments about the time period of this volume:

By the turn of the millennium, Neil Young's songwriting had become a shared reference point for several generations of musicians. Musical artists from the folk revival, alt-country movement, and indie rock scene were all revisiting different eras of his catalog - from the fragile acoustic songs of the late sixties to the electric epics recorded with Crazy Horse. During this period, Young himself remained remarkably active, releasing albums such as "Silver and Gold" and "Greendale" while continuing to tour extensively. The covers gathered here reflect that generational dialogue: younger singer-songwriters, Americana performers, and alternative rock musicians rediscovering both famous classics and some of the most obscure corners of Young's songwriting. 

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Note that Fabio wrote individual paragraphs about all the songs in this volume. To see that, please look at the Word file added to the download zip file. Thanks again to Fabio for his help putting these albums together. 

This album is an hour and one minute long. 

01 Piece of Crap (Slobberbone)
02 Pushed It Over the End (South Ontario)
03 Long Walk Home (MrChuck)
04 I've Been Waiting for You (David Bowie)
05 Running Dry [Requiem for the Rockets] (Steve Von Till)
06 Albuquerque (Walkabouts)
07 Pocahontas (Gillian Welch)
08 The Old Laughing Lady (Thea Gilmore)
09 Old Man (Wilson Phillips)
10 I Believe in You (Patricia O'Callaghan)
11 Helpless (k.d. lang)
12 Barstool Blues (Maria McKee)
13 Broken Arrow (Kate Rogers)
14 Last Trip to Tulsa (Leo Koster)
15 Roll Another Number [For the Road] (Mike McClure)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xP2bMEgi

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/F0bJfmxhH1onFkG/file

The cover photo is from 1975. The original was in black and white. I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. I also used the Krea AI program to improve details. 

I got a complaint that the cover image was ruined by AI. I don't think so. Here's the unaltered black and white original. As I've said elsewhere, I typically only use Krea AI to make minor changes, mostly with color and contrast. If you don't like the colorization and other changes, feel free to use this version. 

Covered: Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly: 1980-2019

I don't keep a close eye on music news, but yesterday I happened to hear that songwriter Billy Steinberg died. Specifically, he died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 75. That probably doesn't mean anything to most people, because I don't think he's very well known as far as songwriters go. But it meant something to me, because I had already made a "Covered" album of the songs he and songwriting partner Tom Kelly made. (It's one of several dozen "Covered" albums I've made but haven't gotten around to posting yet.) Due to his death, I decided to post this sooner rather than later.

Steinberg and Kelly wrote a lot of hits from the 1980s to the 2000s that you probably know without ever knowing who wrote them. Even though they were male, somehow they had the most success with females covering their songs. They had five Number One hits in the U.S., all sung by women: "Like a Virgin" by Madonna (1984), "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper (1986), "Eternal Flame" (co-written with Susanna Hoffs and recorded by the Bangles in 1989), "So Emotional" by Whitney Houston (1987), and "Alone" by Heart (1987).

Billy Steinberg was born in Fresno, California, though his family moved to Palm Springs when he was a teenager. After graduating from college, he formed a band called Billy Thermal. However, they didn't have any success, and one album they recorded around 1980 wasn't released until decades later, after he made a name for himself as a songwriter. He had his first songwriting success with "How Do I Make You," which was a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1980.  

Tom Kelly was born in a small town in Illinois in 1952. He went to a college in that state, but dropped out to pursue a music career. He was a backing musician for Dan Fogelberg in 1976 and 1977. He also did a lot of session work, for instance singing backing vocals on Toto albums. He had his first songwriting success with "Fire and Ice," a minor hit for Pat Benatar in 1981.

Both Steinberg and Kelly independently had songs on Benatar's 1981 album, "Precious Time." They met at a party that year, and soon began writing together. Previously, both of them had written lyrics and music. But they soon fell into a pattern where Steinberg generally wrote the lyrics while Kelly wrote the music. Their really big break as a songwriting team was "Like a Virgin" by Madonna. After that, they were in high demand. What's on this album is just the cream of the crop of the many dozens of songs they wrote for well-known musical acts.

Their partnership continued very fruitfully until the mid-1990s. At that point, Kelly tired of songwriting and dropped out of the music business. He'd already had enough success to live on the royalties he'd made. However, Steinberg kept going with new songwriting partners. From the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s, he mostly wrote with Rick Newels, who already was a successful professional songwriter. From the mid-2000s to about the mid-2010s, he mostly wrote with Josh Alexander.

Steinberg had a lot of songwriting success after he stopped working with Kelly. But I listened to his big hits and, to be honest, didn't like them very much after about 2000. They suffer the same problems as most popular pop music since about 2000: formulaic and forgettable. So I generally didn't include most of those. To be honest, even a lot of their earlier stuff was formulaic and forgettable, but sometimes, in fact many times, they had some real winners.

But in case you're curious, Steinberg's biggest later hits include "I Turn to You" by Melanie C (2000), "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt" by Atomic Kitten (2003), "Too Little Too Late" by JoJo (2006), "Don't Hold Your Breath" by Nicole Scherzinger (2011), and "Give Your Heart a Break" by Demi Lovato (2012). After that, the hits petered out, although some older songs keep getting rerecorded and making the charts again, especially "Alone" and "I Drove All Night." For instance, Alyssa Reid went all the way to Number Two in the British charts with "Alone" in 2012, although it was titled "Alone Again" and had the now practically obligatory rap section.

I'm not a fan of Whitney Houston's version of "So Emotional." But since it was a massive Number One hit, I wanted to include it in some form. I found a radically different cover version by Jon McLaughlin from 2019 that I like much better, so I used that instead. Had it not been for that song, this album would end in 2000.

Here are their Wikipedia pages: 

Billy Steinberg - Wikipedia

Tom Kelly (musician) - Wikipedia  

That album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 How Do I Make You (Linda Ronstadt)
02 Fire and Ice (Pat Benatar)
03 Like a Virgin (Madonna)
04 Sex as a Weapon (Pat Benatar)
05 True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
06 Eternal Flame (Bangles)
07 Alone (Heart)
08 In Your Room (Bangles)
09 I Touch Myself (Divinyls)
10 My Side of the Bed (Susanna Hoffs)
11 I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison)
12 Night in My Veins (Pretenders)
13 Lucky Love [Acoustic Version] (Ace of Base)
14 I'll Stand by You (Pretenders)
15 Falling into You (Celine Dion)
16 California (Belinda Carlisle)
17 One and One (Edyta Gorniak)
18 Everytime It Rains (Ace of Base)
19 The Consequences of Falling (k.d. lang)
20 So Emotional (Jon McLaughlin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4xNLLW9p 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/uxa5jlpb5sQPr8t/file

I don't know the details of the cover photo. But that's Tom Kelly on the left and Billy Steinberg on the right. There are patches of white in Steinberg's hair, which went completely white in later photos of him. 

k. d. lang - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham, Britain, 10-13-2000

Here's another BBC concert that comes to me thanks to musical friend Progspog. This is a k.d. lang concert from 2000. 

I've previously two BBC concerts from her that took place after this one. So both of them are getting renumbered at the same time I'm posting this. Here are the links to those, it you want to update the cover art and mp3 tags and such:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/k-d-lang-bbc-four-sessions-st-lukes.html

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/kd-lang-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

This concert took place to support her 2000 album "Invincible Summer." It leans heavily on that, with lots of songs from it. But she also found time to performer great older songs like "Crying" and "Constant Craving." Note that her career started with country music, but there's almost no country here.

Thanks again to Progspog, because even though this bootleg has been quite obscure, the sound quality is excellent, like that of an officially released live album. 

This album is 59 minutes long.

01 Extraordinary Thing (k. d. lang)
02 talk (k. d. lang)
03 Summerfling (k. d. lang)
04 talk (k. d. lang)
05 The Consequences of Falling (k. d. lang)
06 Suddenly (k. d. lang)
07 talk (k. d. lang)
08 Crying (k. d. lang)
09 What Better Said (k. d. lang)
10 In Perfect Dreams (k. d. lang)
11 talk (k. d. lang)
12 Wash Me Clean (k. d. lang)
13 Love's Great Ocean (k. d. lang)
14 When We Collide (k. d. lang)
15 World of Love (k. d. lang)
16 talk (k. d. lang)
17 Constant Craving (k. d. lang)
18 Miss Chatelaine (k. d. lang)
19 It's Happening with You (k. d. lang)
20 Simple (k. d. lang)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FbCan1ak

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6ZwmuBbu8KPF76z/file

The cover photo was taken at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, in Mountain View, California, on August 5, 2000.

Various Artists - A Tribute to Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 6-29-2000

Unfortunately, I'm all done posting Gershwin Prize and MusiCares tribute concerts, at least until more of them become publicly available. But there are other similar tribute concerts out there. This one is so similar in format that it's basically the same as the other two kinds of concerts. This concert honors the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 

In fact, there was a Gershwin Prize concert in 2012 honoring these two songwriters. But I'd argue this one is superior. For one thing, its twice as long. But also, it has more big name stars, especially Dionne Warwick, who is widely considered the top singer of Bacharach-David songs.

I'm not sure of the exact reason for this concert, be it an anniversary or something like that. But I suppose it doesn't matter much. But I do know the profits from the concert went to support the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy non-profit. And it was broadcast on TV at the time, and later released on DVD. That's how I have it here in excellent sound quality, since it's never been released on any audio format.

By the way, I know Hal David was there, because of photos of him there, including the cover photo I selected. But there's no sign of him on this recording. I suspect he gave a speech near the end of the concert, just like Burt Bacharach did, but his speech got edited out of the TV show (and thus the DVD) since Bacharach is the much more famous one out of the two. 

This album is an hour and 42 minutes long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 Wives and Lovers (Kenny Lynch)
03 talk (emcee)
04 One Less Bell to Answer (Lucie Silvas)
05 talk (emcee)
06 Don't Make Me Over (Lynden David Hall)
07 talk (emcee)
08 Reach Out for Me (Brian Kennedy)
09 talk (emcee)
10 Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Yazz)
11 talk (emcee)
12 You'll Never Get to Heaven (Shola Ama)
13 talk (emcee)
14 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (Sacha Distel)
15 talk (emcee)
16 This Guy's in Love with You (Paul Carrack)
17 talk (emcee)
18 A House Is Not a Home (Petula Clark)
19 Wishin' and Hopin' (Petula Clark)
20 [They Long to Be] Close to You (Petula Clark)
21 talk (emcee)
22 [There's] Always Something There to Remind Me (Leo Sayer)
23 talk (emcee)
24 Alfie (Sumudu Jayatilaka)
25 talk (emcee)
26 I'll Never Fall in Love Again (Brian Kennedy)
27 talk (emcee)
28 What's New Pussycat (Brian Conley)
29 Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa (Brian Conley)
30 talk (emcee)
31 I Just Have to Breathe (Teish O'Day)
32 talk (emcee)
33 Make It Easy on Yourself (Edwin Starr)
34 talk (emcee)
35 The Look of Love (Linda Lewis)
36 talk (emcee)
37 Elvis Costello (talk)
38 I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself (Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach)
39 talk (emcee)
40 Walk on By (Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach)
41 I Say a Little Prayer (Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach)
42 Do You Know the Way to San Jose (Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach)
43 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Dionne Warwick with Burt Bacharach)
44 What the World Needs Now Is Love (Dionne Warwick & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6Ec9rngv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mrGkAfgvmiFeA5M/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. That's Bacharach on the left and David, wearing glasses, on the right.

Covered: Hank Williams, Volume 2: 1995-2017

Here's the second part to the "Covered" series about country music legend Hank Williams.

As I said in my write-up for Volume 1, I wanted to make these albums accessible to more than just country music fans. So that's why I mostly chose covers from recent decades, and by the likes of Beck, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Norah Jones, and so on. 

The vast majority of these were hits when Williams did them before his death in 1953. While there were a lot of hit cover versions of his songs, these generally were not hits. As I just mentioned, I was striving to get away from country versions, and those were most of the hit versions.

As always with these "Covered" albums, the songs are in loose chronological order, based on the year of release. And, as always, check the mp3 tags for the details. 

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 I'm a Long Gone Daddy (The The)
02 I Can't Help It [If I'm Still in Love with You] (Cat Power)
03 [I Heard That] Lonesome Whistle (Beck)
04 I Can't Get You Off of My Mind (Bob Dylan)
05 Alone and Forsaken (Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler)
06 You're Gonna Change [Or I'm Gonna Leave] (Tom Petty)
07 Cold, Cold Heart (Norah Jones)
08 Lost Highway (Lee Rocker)
09 Ramblin' Woman (Cat Power)
10 Take These Chains from My Heart (Rosanne Cash)
11 A House of Gold (Patty Griffin)
12 How Many Times Have You Broken My Heart (Norah Jones)
13 Mansion on the Hill (Willie Nelson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/pJcuyMJv

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RhHR0FUCJasCzLZ/file

I don't know the details of where or when the cover photo was from. However, it was in color, so I didn't need to change anything. 

Various Artists - An All-Star Tribute to Joni Mitchell, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 4-6-2000

For a few years in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the TNT TV network hosted a few annual "all-star tributes" to some music legends. I've already posted albums of such tribute shows to Johnny Cash, Brian Wilson, and Paul Simon. Here's another one, celebrating the music of Joni Mitchell.

This concert actually featured Joni Mitchell herself, but she had a relatively minor role. At the very end, she performed one song and gave a short speech. Instead, the bulk of the concert consisted of famous musical acts performing her songs. Just look at the cover or at the song list to see the names. There also were some famous non-musicians who talked a little bit between songs, such as actors Susan Sarandon and Laurence Fishburne, and the main host, Ashley Judd. Plus, I never thought my music blog would have a track by Hillary Clinton, but here we are.

If I recall correctly, there was some more stuff to this concert that I edited out, such as testimonials about Mitchell's life and career, narrated by the likes of Goldie Hawn and Rosie O'Donnell. I kept the focus on the songs, and introductions to the songs.

The Stone Temple Pilots were also due to perform at this concert. However, the band's lead singer, Scott Weiland, blew his voice out by performing three full concerts the day before. They were due to perform the song "Woodstock." At the last minute, Richard Thompson stepped up to perform that song instead. That's why he's the only performer here to do two songs, because he also had been scheduled to perform the song "Black Crow." 

Note that the final song, "The Circle Game," faded out before it ended. Probably that's when the TV broadcast came to an end. I extended it a bit by repeating a chorus from earlier in the song and then fading it out. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title.

There's an amazing official Joni Mitchell website, www.jonimitchell.com. It has a webpage just on this concert, with lots of pictures and dozens of newspaper articles about it. Here's a link:

Joni Mitchell - 2000.04.06 | An All-Star Tribute To Joni Mitchell Hammerstein Ballroom | New York 

This album remains officially unreleased as an audio album. However, a DVD of it has been released. But this is about ten minutes longer. The sound quality is excellent. 

This concert is an hour and 18 minutes long. 

01 Raised on Robbery (Wynonna Judd & Bryan Adams)
02 talk (Ashley Judd)
03 Carey (Cyndi Lauper)
04 talk (Ashley Judd)
05 Woodstock (Richard Thompson)
06 talk (Hillary Clinton)
07 Chelsea Morning (Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter)
08 Big Yellow Taxi (Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter with James Taylor)
09 talk (James Taylor)
10 River (James Taylor)
11 talk (Ashley Judd)
12 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (Wynonna Judd)
13 talk (Susan Sarandon)
14 Help Me (k.d. Lang)
15 talk (Laurence Fishburne)
16 The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines (Cassandra Wilson)
17 talk (Ashley Judd)
18 The Circle Game (Sweet Honey in the Rock)
19 talk (Ashley Judd)
20 talk (Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter)
21 Amelia (Shawn Colvin & Mary Chapin Carpenter)
22 talk (Ashley Judd)
23 Black Crow (Richard Thompson)
24 talk (Richard Thompson)
25 talk (Ashley Judd)
26 Free Man in Paris (Elton John)
27 talk (Elton John)
28 A Case of You (Diana Krall)
29 talk (Ashley Judd)
30 talk (Tony Bennett)
31 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
32 talk (Joni Mitchell)
33 The Circle Game [Reprise] [Edit] (Joni Mitchell & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/acNAjTY6

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/GVHWLt1ZTKXHMpu/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From left to right, that's Joni Mitchell, James Taylor (in back), Cassandra Wilson, Shawn Colvin, and Elton John.

Van Morrison - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: 1999-2005

Here's another volume of Van Morrison performing for the BBC. This time, it's a collection of BBC TV performances.

Everything here comes from different episodes of the BBC TV show "Later... with Jools Holland." That's just by chance, as these were all the BBC sessions from the time period that I could find. The first two songs are from a 1999 episode. The next five are from another 1999 episode, a special year end celebration one. The three after that are from a 2000 episode. The last song is from a 2005 episode.

On many of these songs, Morrison shared the stage with some special guests. For the 1999 year-end episode (tracks 3 through 7), Morrison sang duets with Lonnie Donegan on three songs. Donegan was the "King of Skiffle" in the 1950s. The skiffle was a form of folk music that was extremely popular in Britain for a few years. Note that on one of the songs, "Midnight Special," Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music also joined Morrison and Donegan in singing different verses. For the 2000 episode (tracks 8 through 10), Morrison was prominently backed on vocals by Linda Gail Lewis. A duet album starring Morrison and Lewis was released in 2000.

There's one song I chose not to include from the 2005 session: "They Sold Me Out." I was fine with it at first, until I clearly heard the lyrics. They sound suspiciously antisemitic to me, and I don't want to further spread them. Even if they're not, the whole conceit of the song, in which he likens himself to being persecuted just like Jesus, is both ridiculous and offensive. Here's an article if you want a hint of the controversy this song caused:

https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/05/27/van-morrisons-lyrical-antisemitism/

In fact, this is basically when I reach the limit of what I can take from Morrison's declining career. Musically, he was repeating himself, and lyrically he was turning into a grumpy old man. Things would reach an all time low with his 2021 album "Latest Record Project: Volume 1," which has to be one of the worst albums of all time by a famous musical act. (At the crowd-sourced rateyourmusic.com, it gets a 1.77 on a 1 to 5 scale as I write this in 2025, which is a shockingly low number for that site.)

The music on this album I still like. He's helped a lot by the support of Lonnie Donegan and Linda Gail Lewis. But after this, I only plan on posting one more BBC album from him (although there are others), which is a concert from 2003.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Back on Top (Van Morrison)
02 When the Leaves Come Falling Down (Van Morrison)
03 Precious Time (Van Morrison)
04 Lost John (Van Morrison & Lonnie Donegan)
05 I Wanna Go Home [Sloop John B.] (Van Morrison & Lonnie Donegan)
06 Philosopher's Stone (Van Morrison)
07 Midnight Special (Van Morrison, Lonnie Donegan & Bryan Ferry)
08 Let's Talk about Us (Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis)
09 Real Gone Lover (Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis)
10 No Way Pedro (Van Morrison with Linda Gail Lewis)
11 Celtic New Year (Van Morrison)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N4o2Wu5U

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/V8c1NTHQU6Y38dE/file 

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of one of these TV episodes.

Warren Zevon - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 2000-2002

Back in 2022, I posted a Warren Zevon BBC concert from 1988. I'm pretty sure that's the only concert Zevon did for the BBC, judging by the many times they've rebroadcast it. However, I found some studio sessions to make up a Volume 2.

The bulk of this album is made up of a studio session Zevon did in 2000, hosted by BBC DJ Andy Kershaw. That makes up the first 12 tracks here. There were extensive interviews between Zevon and Kershaw, but I don't think those have much replay value, so I cut most of them out. I only kept some banter by Zevon that was directly related to the song he would play next.

After the Kershaw session, there are two songs performed on the BBC TV show "Later... with Jools Holland" in 2002. The banter prior to the first one, "Werewolves of London," is actually from the Kershaw session. Zevon talked some about that song, but didn't actually play it. So it fit nicely leading into the "Later..." session. It also helped that both sessions were done acoustic, making them sound like they were one larger session.

The album was still a little short, so I decided to add a non-BBC session at the end. Zevon wasn't on TV that much, but he did perform a three songs on the "Late Show with David Letterman" TV show in 2002, so I added those in. Unlike the rest, they were done with a full band. I removed the applause from the ends of the songs for TV shows that had applause, using the MVSEP program.

In 2002, Zevon was diagnosed with cancer, and told he didn't have long to live. He died in September 2003. He may not have known about his illness in 2000 when the Kershaw session happened, but death seemed to be on his mind. There was some banter about it, and it related to some of the songs he was writing at the time, like "Don't Let Us Get Sick." But he definitely knew about the diagnosis in 2002 when he did the Letterman show. 

Rather unusually, there's an entire Wikipedia entry about his appearance on that episode of the show. It makes for interesting reading:

Warren Zevon on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2002 - Wikipedia

Note that since I found this material for a "Volume 2," I added "Volume 1" to the title of the 1988 BBC concert that I'd previously posted. I also improved the cover art. You can get the updated version here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/11/warren-zevon-bbc-in-concert-hammersmith.html

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 talk (Warren Zevon)
02 I Was in the House When the House Burned Down (Warren Zevon)
03 For My Next Trick I'll Need a Volunteer
 (Warren Zevon)
04 talk (Warren Zevon)
05 Don't Let Us Get Sick (Warren Zevon)
06 talk (Warren Zevon)
07 Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon)
08 talk (Warren Zevon)
09 Seminole Bingo (Warren Zevon)
10 talk (Warren Zevon)
11 Lawyers, Guns and Money (Warren Zevon)
12 talk (Warren Zevon)
13 Werewolves of London (Warren Zevon)
14 My Shit's Fucked Up (Warren Zevon)
15 Mutineer (Warren Zevon)
16 Genius (Warren Zevon)
17 Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner (Warren Zevon)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/URbPhK1Q

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rWtueyK7e1EEBDm/file

The cover photo comes from a concert at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, March 16, 2000.

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 12: In Concert, BBC Radio Theatre, London, Britain, 6-27-2000

The next album in my series of David Bowie BBC albums in a particularly special concert. This concert took place two days after Bowie performed in front of a massive audience at the annual Glastonbury Festival. This contrast, by contrast, was extremely small, with only 250 people fitting into the venue.

The people lucky enough to get in consisted of fan club members who won a lottery. But also, a number of elites were allowed in, including stars like Russell Crowe, Meg Ryan, Boy George, Lulu, Bob Geldof, members of Duran Duran, and more.

This concert was officially released twice. The first version came out as a bonus disc on some versions of the album "Bowie at the Beeb." But it was missing five songs. Later, it was included as part of the box set "Brilliant Adventure." This included the missing songs.

However, both of these versions were missing all the banter between songs, and there was a lot of banter. So I used a bootleg version that contained everything. The sound quality of that was just as good as the released versions. However, I did cut out two false starts to songs.

This concert is a must-have for any Bowie fan. Knowing that he was recording this for the radio as well as probable later official release, he really rose to the occasion.

This album is two hours and nine minutes long.

01 Wild Is the Wind (David Bowie)
02 talk (David Bowie)
03 Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie)
04 talk (David Bowie)
05 Seven (David Bowie)
06 talk (David Bowie)
07 This Is Not America (David Bowie)
08 talk (David Bowie)
09 Absolute Beginners (David Bowie)
10 talk (David Bowie)
11 Always Crashing in the Same Car (David Bowie)
12 talk (David Bowie)
13 Survive (David Bowie)
14 talk (David Bowie)
15 The London Boys (David Bowie)
16 talk (David Bowie)
17 I Dig Everything (David Bowie)
18 talk (David Bowie)
19 Little Wonder (David Bowie)
20 talk (David Bowie)
21 The Man Who Sold the World (David Bowie)
22 talk (David Bowie)
23 Fame (David Bowie)
24 talk (David Bowie)
25 Stay (David Bowie)
26 talk (David Bowie)
27 Hallo Spaceboy (David Bowie)
28 Cracked Actor (David Bowie)
29 talk (David Bowie)
30 I'm Afraid of Americans (David Bowie)
31 talk by Gail Ann Dorsey (David Bowie)
32 Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie)
33 talk (David Bowie)
34 The Jean Genie [Instrumental Version] (David Bowie)
35 talk (David Bowie)
36 All the Young Dudes (David Bowie)
37 talk (David Bowie)
38 Starman (David Bowie)
39 'Heroes' (David Bowie)
40 talk (David Bowie)
41 Let's Dance (David Bowie)
42 talk (David Bowie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rh9Yisua

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/8T5iLjZHEZ4BtFh/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 11: 1999-2000

I love David Bowie's music from the 1960s to the mid-1980s. I think his songwriting wasn't as strong after that. However, he still was an excellent performer. I have a bunch of his BBC albums still to post from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Generally speaking, most of the songs he did in these sessions are from earlier in his career anyway, so you should like these albums even if you're not such a big fan of his new material from those years.

This album is a case in point. It's a collection of BBC studio sessions for the most part, with just three songs that were relatively new at the time ("Survive," "Something in the Air," and "Repetition"). The first seven tracks are from an October 1999 session before a very small audience. Tracks 8 and 9 are from an appearance on the BBC TV show "Later... with Jools Holland." 

Finally, the last four tracks are from the 2000 Glastonbury Festival, which was broadcast on the BBC. Normally, I would have posted the entire Glastonbury performance, but that has been officially released as the live album "Glastonbury 2000." Also, I have other very similar performances of most of the songs from that, since the next album in this series is a full BBC concert that took place just two days after Glastonbury. So I only included four songs that he didn't play in that concert.

I used the MVSEP audio editing program to remove the crowd noise from the first seven tracks plus the last four, so everything here would sound like it was recorded in a studio. There wasn't much clapping with the first seven anyway, since it sounds like the audience was quite small. Everything here is unreleased except for the four Glastonbury tracks.

This album is 50 minutes long.

01 Survive (David Bowie)
02 Drive-In Saturday (David Bowie)
03 Something in the Air (David Bowie)
04 Can't Help Thinking about Me (David Bowie)
05 talk (David Bowie)
06 Repetition (David Bowie)
07 China Girl (David Bowie)
08 Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie)
09 Cracked Actor (David Bowie)
10 Changes (David Bowie)
11 Station to Station (David Bowie)
12 talk (David Bowie)
13 Golden Years (David Bowie)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/1cf31ogH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zj9YKUraxwObErm/file

I'm not a fan of smoking cigarettes, so normally I wouldn't have chosen the cover photo I did for this album. However, this is the one and only photo I found of Bowie that actually comes from one of the BBC sessions included here, so I thought this was the most fitting photo. Specifically, this photo was taken during the October 25, 1999 BBC session in Maida Vale Studios in London. The first seven tracks here come from that session.

Paul Weller - BBC Sessions, Volume 8: 2000-2005

It's time for me to post more of Paul Weller at the BBC. It's been six months since I last remembered to post more of this series. This time, the album consists of BBC studio sessions.

A huge box set called "At the BBC" consists of BBC performances from 1992 to 2008. However, Weller has performed at the BBC so often that even that big box set missed quite a lot. The first eight songs here are all unreleased, despite being BBC studio sessions with excellent sound quality. The last six songs do come from the box set.

For the most part, Weller played with a full band here, though there are a few acoustic performances.

This album is 52 minutes long. 

Oh, by the way, if you're a stickler for such things, at the same time I posted this, I posted minor changes to the titles for Volumes 1 and 7 in this series.

01 He's the Keeper (Paul Weller)
02 Picking Up Sticks (Paul Weller)
03 A Whales Tale (Paul Weller)
04 Dust and Rocks (Paul Weller)
05 Bag Man (Paul Weller)
06 Bullets for Everyone (Paul Weller)
07 In the Crowd (Paul Weller)
08 I Forgot to Be Your Lover (Paul Weller)
09 Wishing on a Star (Paul Weller)
10 Thinking of You (Paul Weller)
11 Corrina, Corrina (Paul Weller)
12 talk (Paul Weller)
13 Early Morning Rain (Paul Weller)
14 talk (Paul Weller)
15 To the Start of Forever (Paul Weller)
16 Paper Smile (Paul Weller)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9d4jwdD1

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/WJ6MMcElMqmo8PM/file

The cover photo is from a concert in Belgium in July 2000.

Covered: Smokey Robinson, Volume 3: 1972-2013

This is the third and final Covered album celebrating Smokey Robinson, the songwriter, as opposed to Smokey Robinson, the singer. As with the previous two volumes, the focus is on songs he wrote or co-wrote. I've selected versions performed by others, even when the original hit version was performed by him.

The timing on this volume works out nicely, because 1972 was the farewell tour for his band Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and after that it was all his solo career. Note though that the Miracles continued on without Robinson, and even had some more hits, especially "Love Machine."

In retrospect, maybe I should have made this a Covered album of Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin, who was the guitarist for the Miracles, because they wrote many songs together. Tarplin left the Miracles the same time Robinson did, and continued to sometimes write songs with him. For instance, the big hit "Cruisin'" was cowritten by them. Band member Pete Moore also wrote many hits with Robinson. He even co-wrote "Love Machine" mentioned above, without him.

Robinson's solo career wasn't as successful as his career with the Miracles, in my opinion. There were a lot of mellow, soulful ballads that didn't distinguish themselves from each other much. In fact, the name of one of his solo hits, "Quiet Storm," became the name of a radio format for that type of music. But he did write some classics, including two huge hits all over the world, "Cruisin'" and "Being with You."

That said, a majority of the songs here are later covers of songs that were first hits by the Miracles in the 1960s. So many of them have timeless appeal and have been hits multiple times for different music acts.

I broke my rule of trying not to include any performances by Smokey Robinson himself by including one, "Baby That's Bachatcha." It's not because that was his best performance or something like that. Rather, it was a solo hit worthy of inclusion here, and I didn't find any decent cover versions.

As I previously mentioned in an earlier volume, Robinson is still alive as I write this in 2024. But he's 84 years old, so he's basically retired from music. May his music be enjoyed and remembered long after he's gone.

This album is 54 minutes long.

01 Floy Joy (Supremes)
02 Happy [Love Theme from 'Lady Sings the Blues'] (Michael Jackson)
03 The Tracks of My Tears (Linda Ronstadt)
04 The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game (Patti Smith)
05 Baby That's Backatcha (Smokey Robinson)
06 Don't Look Back (Peter Tosh with Mick Jagger)
07 Ooh Baby Baby (Linda Ronstadt)
08 The Tears of a Clown (English Beat)
09 More Love (Kim Carnes)
10 Going to a Go-Go (Rolling Stones)
11 Being with You (John Holt)
12 From Head to Toe (Elvis Costello)
13 Who's Loving You (Terence Trent D'Arby)
14 Cruisin' (Huey Lewis & the News & Gwyneth Paltrow)
15 I'll Be Doggone (Solomon Burke)
16 Quiet Storm (Eliza Lacerda)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17350557/COVRDSMOKYRBNSN1972-2013Vlum3_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RvZMuRGT

The cover photo is from 1980. That's all I know.

Don Henley - VH-1 Storytellers, Hollywood Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 2-19-2000

The "VH-1 Storytellers" flood is almost at an end, with just one more album after this. This is an episode featuring singer-songwriter Don Henley.

We're lucky that this appears to be another double episode. On YouTube, and with most bootlegs, one can only find the first half of this. Perhaps that was all that was actually aired. But I luckily found more, which sounds like material edited down to a second episode. I believe I even removed one comment Henley made about halfway through that was an intro to the second episode (and didn't make sense when listening to all the music together).

The episode took place three months prior to the release of the studio album "Inside Job." It was Henley's first solo album in eleven years. Despite that long break, it sold over a million copies in the U.S. (He's never been that prolific. It would take him 15 years to release his next studio album.)

Henley performed four songs from his "Inside Job" album: "Taking You Home," "Workin' It," "Everything Is Different Now," and "For My Wedding."

Henley had his greatest success in the 1970s as a member of the Eagles. But it seems that by this point in his music career, he was tired of his Eagles songs. He only performed two of them here, "Life in the Fast Lane" and "Desperado." Even then, "Life in the Fast Lane" was drastically rearranged into more of a rap song. The other songs he played were generally solo hits from the 1980s.

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long. 

01 talk (Don Henley)
02 The End of the Innocence (Don Henley)
03 talk (Don Henley)
04 Dirty Laundry (Don Henley)
05 talk (Don Henley)
06 The Boys of Summer (Don Henley)
07 talk (Don Henley)
08 Taking You Home (Don Henley)
09 talk (Don Henley)
10 Workin' It (Don Henley)
11 talk (Don Henley)
12 The Heart of the Matter (Don Henley)
13 talk (Don Henley)
14 Everything Is Different Now (Don Henley)
15 talk (Don Henley)
16 Sunset Grill (Don Henley)
17 talk (Don Henley)
18 Life in the Fast Lane [Rap Version] (Don Henley)
19 talk (Don Henley)
20 For My Wedding (Don Henley)
21 talk (Don Henley)
22 Desperado (Don Henley)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17201392/DONHNLY2000StrytllrsHllywodCntrStdosLsAnglesCA__2-19-2000_atse.zip.html

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/s6RhX7pw

The cover photo is from an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 14, 2000.

Travis - VH-1 Storytellers, Bray Film Studios, Windsor, Britain, 5-29-2000

Here is yet another "VH-1 Storytellers" episode. This time, it features the band Travis.

At the time of this concert, Travis was massively popular, but mostly in Britain and the rest of Europe. They remain far less known in the U.S. They released their first album, "Good Feeling," in 1997. It went Platinum in Britain. In 1999, their second album was released, "The Man Who." It went Platinum nine times over in Britain. (Note that in Britain Platinum sales are achieved with 300,000 copies sold, not a million in the U.S., due to the country's much smaller population size.) Their next album would also sell big in Britain, but since then, their sales have declined considerably.

This episode contained two interesting covers: "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears, and "River" by Joni Mitchell. Both of them only came out as B-sides at the time. Naturally, the rest of the concert was dominated by songs from the band's big album "The Man Who."

As was usually the case for this series, most of the first song was not included. But I found a different version from the same year (at the Glastonbury Festival, actually), and used it to fill in the missing portion. Also, the lead vocals were low in the mix, so I boosted them using the UVR5 audio editing program.

Note this band is from Scotland, and the lead singer, Fran Healy, has a pretty thick Scottish accent. As an American myself, I found it pretty hard to understand his banter between songs. So beware.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Turn [Edit] (Travis)
02 talk (Travis)
03 Why Does It Always Rain on Me (Travis)
04 talk (Travis)
05 ...Baby One More Time (Travis)
06 talk (Travis)
07 Driftwood (Travis)
08 talk (Travis)
09 Coming Around (Travis)
10 talk (Travis)
11 As You Are (Travis)
12 talk (Travis)
13 Slideshow (Travis)
14 talk (Travis)
15 River (Travis)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17180700/TRVIS2000StrytllrsBryFlmStdosWndsrBrtin__5-29-2000_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P7wfXDVf

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the video of this exact concert. I used the program Krea AI to add detail.

Bon Jovi - VH-1 Storytellers, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 9-20-2000

Next for the "VH-1 Storytellers" series is an episode by the band Bon Jovi.

In this case, we happen to have album that is about double the typical episode length. This is because of a soundboard bootleg of the entire concert. I cut out some dead air. Also, a couple of songs were done twice, but I only kept one version each.

Bon Jovi has sold over 120 million albums worldwide. At the time of this concert, the band had release the studio album "Crush" several months earlier. It revived the band's sagging commercial sales, mostly due to the hit song "It's My Life." The album went on to sell over two million copies in the U.S., and did very well in Europe as well.

Only two songs from that album were performed in this concert: "It's My Life" and "Just Older." Most of the rest are hits from earlier albums. They also did the Tom Waits song "Jersey Girl," which has never been officially released by them.

This album is an hour and 13 minutes long.

01 talk (Bon Jovi)
02 Love for Sale (Bon Jovi)
03 talk (Bon Jovi)
04 Jersey Girl (Bon Jovi)
05 talk (Bon Jovi)
06 You Give Love a Bad Name (Bon Jovi)
07 talk (Bon Jovi)
08 It's My Life (Bon Jovi)
09 talk (Bon Jovi)
10 Stranger in This Town (Bon Jovi)
11 talk (Bon Jovi)
12 Bed of Roses (Bon Jovi)
13 talk (Bon Jovi)
14 Livin' on a Prayer [Acoustic Version] (Bon Jovi)
15 talk (Bon Jovi)
16 Wanted Dead or Alive (Bon Jovi)
17 talk (Bon Jovi)
18 Just Older (Bon Jovi)
19 talk (Bon Jovi)
20 Bad Medicine (Bon Jovi)
21 talk (Bon Jovi)
22 Never Say Goodbye (Bon Jovi)
23 talk (Bon Jovi)
24 Someday I'll Be Saturday Night (Bon Jovi)
25 talk (Bon Jovi)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VrEoQJmj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mRLyTXTtzq5XSLp/file 

The cover image is a screenshot I took from this exact concert. I also used the Krea AI program to add more detail.

No Doubt - VH-1 Storytellers, VH-1 Studios, New York City, 8-10-2000

Next for the "VH-1 Storytellers" series is an episode featuring the band No Doubt.

No Doubt really hit it big with their 1995 album "Tragic Kingdom." It sold over 16 million copies worldwide, and over 10 million in the U.S. They took five years to follow it up though. Their next album, "Return of Saturn," was a relative disappointment, selling about a million and a half copies in the U.S. That was the album they were touring to support for this special. Their next album released a year later would do considerably better. But then the band would break up and their lead singer, Gwen Stefani, would go on to have a very successful solo career.

Only two of the songs performed at this concert were from the "Return of Saturn" album: "Ex-Girlfriend" and "Simple Kind of Life." The latter song was the only significant hit from the album. Most of the other songs were from the "Tragic Kingdom" album. Interestingly, the band played early and abbreviated versions of two songs, "Don't Speak" and "Ex-Girlfriend," before playing the final versions.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 Sunday Morning (No Doubt)
02 talk (No Doubt)
03 Just a Girl (No Doubt)
04 talk (No Doubt)
05 Don't Speak [Early Version] (No Doubt)
06 talk (No Doubt)
07 Don't Speak (No Doubt)
08 talk (No Doubt)
09 Ex-Girlfriend [Early Version] (No Doubt)
10 talk (No Doubt)
11 Ex-Girlfriend (No Doubt)
12 talk (No Doubt)
13 Simple Kind of Life (No Doubt)
14 talk (No Doubt)
15 Spiderwebs (No Doubt)
16 talk (No Doubt)
17 Trapped in a Box (No Doubt)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17171361/NODUBT2000StrytllrsVHStdosNwYrk__8-10-2000_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ui8gPWSM

The cover is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. I used the Krea AI program to increase the detail level.

The Doors and Friends - VH-1 Storytellers, Hollywood Center Studios, Los Angeles, CA, 11-22-2000

This is possibly the strangest episode of the "VH-1 Storytellers" TV series, because it highlights the music of the band the Doors, despite the fact that that band's career effectively ended when its charismatic lead singer Jim Morrison died way back in 1971. 

The band's three surviving members Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, and John Densmore continued for a year or two, but it wasn't the same without Morrison and they broke up. Every now and then, they reunited for some tribute or another. For instance, in 1993, the Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the three of them played a few songs with Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam serving as the lead singer. But these occasions were rare.

Then, in 2000, the tribute album "Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors" was released. But this was different than almost all tribute albums, because members of the Doors played on the songs, with a variety of lead singers. There even were some songs incorporating unreleased recordings of Jim Morrison's voice before he died. Unfortunately, it wasn't well received by critics, and didn't sell well. 

There was no tour to support it... except for this one Storytellers episode. Again, the three surviving members of the Doors reunited to perform on all the songs, as well as do most of the talking and reminiscing between songs. Many (though not all) of the lead singers from the "Stoned Immaculate" album participated: Scott Weiland of the band Stone Temple Pilots, Ian Astbury of the band the Cult, Travis Meeks of the band Days of the New, Scott Stamp of the band Creed, and Perry Ferrell of the band Jane's Addiction.

I believe this was the last time the three surviving members of the Doors performed together in concert. Ray Manzarek died in 2013, so there could be no further reunions.

We have a lot more than the typical 45 minute long episode in this case because a DVD performance was released. However, even that wasn't the full show. And weirdly, a couple of songs were only included as "bonus tracks," so they were tacked on at the end instead of fitting into the concert with all the others. I moved one of those to fit with other songs sung by the same lead singer. But moving the other one wasn't so easy, so I left it at the end.

Unfortunately, for some bizarre reason, the DVD kept to the TV show's weird habit of including only part of the first song. This was frustrating because it appears that this concert was the one and only time the lead singer Perry Farrell sang this song, "L.A. Woman," with the surviving Doors members. He did do the some in concert some with his band Jane's Addiction, but that had been about a decade earlier, and the versions were fairly different. On the "Stoned Immaculate" album he sang one song, but it was a different song "Children of the Night" (which by the way wasn't an original Doors song, though it used some of Jim Morrison's poetry and his voice). So I had to leave this song incomplete. It's especially frustrating because it's only about a minute out of what is at least an eight minute long song.

All in all, this episode is a bit strange, but I think it works. The lead singers all sang well, and the banter between songs by the surviving members of the Doors was interesting. It seems this actually was much more successful than the "Stoned Immaculate" album, which had a lot of misguided efforts to use Morrison's voice and/or modern music styles that didn't fit the Doors.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long.

01 L.A. Woman [Incomplete] (Doors & Friends with Perry Farrell)
02 talk (Doors & Friends)
03 Love Me Two Times (Doors & Friends with Pat Monahan)
04 talk (Doors & Friends)
05 Alabama Song [Whisky Bar] - Backdoor Man (Doors & Friends with Ian Astbury)
06 talk (Doors & Friends)
07 The End (Doors & Friends with Travis Meeks)
08 talk (Doors & Friends)
09 Break on Through [To the Other Side] (Doors & Friends with Scott Weiland)
10 talk (Doors & Friends)
11 Five to One (Doors & Friends with Scott Weiland)
12 talk (Doors & Friends)
13 Light My Fire (Doors & Friends with Scott Stapp)
14 talk (Doors & Friends)
15 Roadhouse Blues (Doors & Friends with Scott Stapp)
16 talk (Doors & Friends)
17 Riders on the Storm (Doors & Friends with Scott Stapp)
18 talk (Doors & Friends)
19 Wild Child (Doors & Friends with Ian Astbury)
20 talk (Doors & Friends)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17167417/TDORSNFRENDS2000StrytllrsHllywodCntrStdosLsAnglesCA__11-22-2000_atse.zip.html

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The cover photo is of Scott Stapp, taken from this exact concert.

Pete Townshend - VH-1 Storytellers, Portchester Hall, London, Britain, 3-23-2000

Next for the "VH-1 Storytellers" series is an episode featuring Pete Townshend.

Back in 1971, the Who released the album "Who's Next." This originally was going to be a concept album / rock opera called "Lifehouse," but Townshend, the band's main songwriter, gave up on it and just released "Who's Next" as a typical studio album without an obvious concept. But he never gave up entirely on the Lifehouse idea, and made occasional attempts to finish it off.

His attempt to finish it probably culminated in 1999 and 2000. In 1999, a radio play for Lifehouse was done by the BBC, which lasted about two hours and included the original demos done in the early 1970s. Then, in 2000, Townshend released "The Lifehouse Chronicles," a six CD box set containing the radio play, all the original demos, and more. When he performed for Storytellers, he was promoting this box set. So all of the songs are from the Lifehouse project, including three that were on the "Who's Next" album ("Behind Blue Eyes," "Baba O'Riley," and "Won't Get Fooled Again").

 

As was typically the case for this show, only the end of the first song was included. But I was able to find another version of this song, "Let's See Action (Nothing Is Everything)," from the same year to fill in the missing portion.

 

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Let's See Action [Nothing Is Everything] [Edit] (Pete Townshend)
02 talk (Pete Townshend)
03 Pure and Easy (Pete Townshend)
04 talk (Pete Townshend)
05 Behind Blue Eyes (Pete Townshend)
06 talk (Pete Townshend)
07 Baba O'Riley (Pete Townshend)
08 talk (Pete Townshend)
09 Won't Get Fooled Again (Pete Townshend)
10 talk (Pete Townshend)
11 Greyhound Girl (Pete Townshend)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6TgiENBj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cf45foM5CZwpQfa/file

I couldn't find a good photo from this exact concert. So instead I used a photo of Townshend that actually came from a concert by the Who in London in 2000.

The Smashing Pumpkins - VH-1 Storytellers, Hammerstein Ballroom, New York City, 8-24-2000

Here comes yet another "VH-1 Storytellers" episode. This time, it's the Smashing Pumpkins.

This band was very popular in the 1990s, selling over 30 million albums. However, their popularity declined near the end of the decade, as the band changed styles and ran into the usual problems band have with big success, such as drug overuse and personality conflicts. In 2000, the album "Machina" was released, but it sold poorly compared to earlier albums, only going gold (meaning sales of over 500,000). By contrast, the band's 1995 double album "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" sold over 10 million.

In May 2000, several months before this concert, the band's main singer and vocalist Billy Corgan announced the band would break up by the end of the year, after some additional recording and touring. Sure enough, the band had their last concert in December 2000. (The band would later reform in 2007, and still exists as I write this in 2024.) As a result, this concert was recorded with both the band and the audience knowing the break up was coming. There is a joke about this during the banter between songs, where a song doesn't end properly and Corgan says he'll have to break up the band as a result.

I found two sources for this. One is a video of what was broadcast on TV at the time. It has excellent sound, and this is almost entirely sourced from that. The other is an audience bootleg of the entire performance, which lasts almost two hours. Unfortunately, the sound quality for that is poor, too poor for me to want to use it. I only used some of it for the first song, "Snail." That's because the show only included a portion of the song, in their usual, annoying style. I hate having only part of a song, so I used the audience boot to fill in the missing part of the song. I tried to use some audio editing tricks to improve the sound quality some, but there's only so much one can do with poor source material. You probably will be able to easily notice when there's a switch to the video source near the end of the song.

Three of the songs included here are from the 2000 album "Machina": "Try, Try, Try," "With Every Light," and "Stand Inside Your Love." Most of the songs I couldn't include due to the poor sound quality were also from that album.

This album is 47 minutes long.

01 Snail [Edit] (Smashing Pumpkins)
02 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
03 Today (Smashing Pumpkins)
04 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
05 Try, Try, Try (Smashing Pumpkins)
06 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
07 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins)
08 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
09 Thirty-Three (Smashing Pumpkins)
10 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
11 With Every Light (Smashing Pumpkins)
12 talk (Smashing Pumpkins)
13 Stand Inside Your Love (Smashing Pumpkins)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17172251/TSMASHNGPUMPKNS2000StrytllrsHmmrstinBllromNwYrkC__8-24-2000_atse.zip.html

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https://pixeldrain.com/u/jgFdUgc1

The cover is a screenshot I took from the YouTube video of this exact concert. I upgraded the detail with the Krea AI program.