Various Artists - 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 10-30-2009

I just posted the first day of the two-day long 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert, in 2009. Here's the second day.

This second day concert followed the same format as the one on the first day. Read my write-up for more details about this two-day concert in general. Suffice to say that for this day, four major musical acts were chosen: Aretha Franklin, Jeff Beck, Metallica, and U2. Each of them hosted one fourth of the concert, and each had special guests join them during their sections. 

I was a bit surprised by the choice of Jeff Beck, since his record sales weren't nearly as big as the others. It turns out that section was supposed to be for Eric Clapton, but he got sick at the last minute and had to back out. So Beck was another "guitar hero" to fill a similar role.

I detailed in my write-up for the first day of this concert how I put a longer concert out of material from a DVD, plus the HBO broadcast, plus an audience bootleg. That's the same case here, except I didn't find an audience boot for all the otherwise missing songs. I did find such a boot for some of the Metallica songs, but that didn't even have the entire Metallica set. But it did get me "You Really Got Me," with Ray Davies of the Kinks as the guest. 

The Wikipedia page for this concert lists all the songs that were performed, in their correct order. Here's that page:

25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts - Wikipedia 

Based on that, it looks like I'm missing five songs. Here are the songs that I couldn't find:

Drown in My Own Tears - Jeff Beck (or possibly Aretha Franklin, I'm not sure)
Cause We've Ended as Lovers - Jeff Beck
Rough Boy - Jeff Beck & Billy Gibbons
One - Metallica
Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica 

That's too bad, but at least the vast majority is here. If anyone has any of the missing songs, please let me know. The first day concert that I posted is a little over four hours long, whereas this one is two and a half hours long. If you add in the missing songs, this probably totals about three hours, not four. So I think the first day one is a little longer, and better. I'll bet some of that was due to Bruce Springsteen, as his section on the first day was extra long.

One interesting note about this concert is that the collaboration of Metallica with Lou Reed - a very unexpected pairing - eventually led to the recordings of the album "Lulu," a joint Metallica and Lou Reed release, in 2011. 

A couple of performers who appeared in the first day concert also appeared in this one. Jeff Beck played a song on the first day, and had his own section here. Sting sang duets on both days. And Bruce Springsteen had his own section on the first day, and sang two songs with U2 here. Jerry Lee Lewis also opened both days with a song.

The sound quality is generally excellent. The quality is actually higher here than on the first day, because I only have one song sourced from an audience boot this time ("You Really Got Me," as mentioned above). I ran into many of the same problems with the first day, such as having to smooth over the transitions between songs by adding extra cheering noises. Read my write-up about the other concert for more details on all that. 

This album is two hours and 33 minutes long.

01 talk (Tom Hanks)
02 Great Balls of Fire (Jerry Lee Lewis)
03 Baby, I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
04 Don't Play That Song [You Lied] (Aretha Franklin)
05 Make Them Hear You (Aretha Franklin)
06 talk (Aretha Franklin)
07 Chain of Fools (Aretha Franklin & Annie Lennox)
08 Theme from New York, New York (Aretha Franklin)
09 Think (Aretha Franklin & Lenny Kravitz)
10 [I Never Loved a Man] The Way I Love You (Aretha Franklin)
11 Respect (Aretha Franklin)
12 People Get Ready (Sting & Jeff Beck)
13 Freeway Jam [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
14 talk (Jeff Beck)
15 Let Me Love You Baby (Buddy Guy & Jeff Beck)
16 Big Block [Instrumental] (Jeff Beck)
17 Rice Pudding [Instrumental] (Billy Gibbons & Jeff Beck)
18 Foxy Lady (Billy Gibbons & Jeff Beck)
19 A Day in the Life [Instrumental Version] (Jeff Beck)
20 For Whom the Bell Tolls (Metallica)
21 talk (Metallica)
22 Turn the Page (Metallica)
23 talk (Metallica)
24 Sweet Jane (Lou Reed & Metallica)
25 talk (Metallica)
26 White Light-White Heat (Lou Reed & Metallica)
27 talk (Metallica)
28 Iron Man (Ozzy Osbourne & Metallica)
29 Paranoid (Ozzy Osbourne & Metallica)
30 talk (Metallica)
31 You Really Got Me (Ray Davies & Metallica)
32 All Day and All of the Night (Ray Davies & Metallica)
33 Enter Sandman (Metallica)
34 Vertigo (U2)
35 Magnificent (U2)
36 talk (U2)
37 Because the Night (U2, Bruce Springsteen & Patti Smith)
38 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2 & Bruce Springsteen)
39 Mysterious Ways (U2)
40 Where Is the Love - One (U2 & the Black Eyed Peas)
41 talk (U2)
42 Gimme Shelter (U2, Mick Jagger, Fergie & will.i.am)
43 talk (U2)
44 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of (U2 & Mick Jagger)
45 Beautiful Day (U2)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/UZjACSG5

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/mtktsXHvZPk8rgE/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From left to right: Bono, The Edge, Fergie, and Mick Jagger.

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-27-1993

Here's a BBC concert by Lenny Kravitz that took place in 1993.

In 1993, Kravitz released his third album, "Are You Gonna Go My Way." It sold over two million copies in the U.S. alone. It established him as a big star all over the world. 

The source for this actually was a pretty obscure bootleg, due to a sound quality issue. The lead vocals were buried way down in the mix, making it a difficult listen. But that's something that can be fixed with audio editing technology these days. So I used the UVR5 program to fix it. It sounds way better now.

When I first posted this in October 2025, I had six songs. But two months later, a commenter named Keskydee helped me by providing three more songs to it. So a big thanks for the help.

There is one bonus track, "Believe." It comes from the 1993 Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is very good.  

This album is an hour and eight minutes long, not including the bonus track.

01 Is There Any Love in Your Heart (Lenny Kravitz)
02 Freedom Train (Lenny Kravitz)
03 Always on the Run (Lenny Kravitz)
04 My Precious Love (Lenny Kravitz)
05 Sister (Lenny Kravitz)
06 Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
07 Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz)
08 It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Lenny Kravitz)
09 Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz)

Believe (Lenny Kravitz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RRejUCGS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/dGymIvmoD8Vojsj/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert... almost. It's actually from the same location, but one day later. 

Lenny Kravitz - VH-1 Storytellers, New York City, 8-22-1999

Here comes another "VH-1 Storytellers" episode. This time, it's Lenny Kravitz.

Kravitz has had a very successful musical career. He's sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Most of his success came in the 1990s. The timing of this concert is a bit curious, because it came over a year after the release of his last album at the time, "5." He did have a very big hit single in 1999, "American Woman," that came from a movie soundtrack instead of his latest album. But he didn't play that here, or at least it wasn't included in the TV show.

Only one song from this album "5" was included in this performance, "Fly Away," a big hit. But then again there were only six songs in all. That, in part, is because he did a lot of talking, about 16 minutes' worth. The other songs were all big hits from earlier albums, except for the deep cut "My Precious Love."

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
02 Are You Gonna Go My Way (Lenny Kravitz)
03 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
04 Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz)
05 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
06 Always on the Run (Lenny Kravitz)
07 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
08 Believe (Lenny Kravitz)
09 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
10 My Precious Love (Lenny Kravitz)
11 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
12 Fly Away (Lenny Kravitz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MfUY8K6d

alternate link:

https://bestfile.io/en/ClUEt5nGmOEk9tu/file

I couldn't find any good photos from this exact concert. So the cover photo is from a concert in Chicago, Illinois, on July 15, 1999.

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, Town and Country Club, London, Britain, 5-24-1990

A lot of people say that Lenny Kravitz mostly imitates other people's styles. I think that's true. But the thing is, he picks really great styles to imitate, mostly classic rock and soul, and he's really good at it. So he's definitely worthy of inclusion in my big BBC project. I particularly like his first few albums, so I went looking for any BBC material from that time period. 

I found this one, a concert on his tour to support his debut album, "Let Love Rule," released in late 1989. At that time, he didn't have a lot of original songs. So that's probably why two covers are included, "Cold Turkey" by John Lennon, and "If 6 Was 9" by Jimi Hendrix.

The album is an hour and two minutes long.

UPDATE: Note that when I originally posted this, I have five extra songs at the end, most of them from a 1993 BBC concert. But on October 3, 2025, I updated the mp3 download, by removing those extra songs. Instead, they're going on a "Volume 2." So I also renamed this one "Volume 1." 

01 Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
02 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
03 Mr. Cab Driver (Lenny Kravitz)
04 Freedom Train (Lenny Kravitz)
05 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
06 Be (Lenny Kravitz)
07 My Precious Love (Lenny Kravitz)
08 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
09 Cold Turkey (Lenny Kravitz)
10 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
11 If 6 Was 9 (Lenny Kravitz)
12 Fear (Lenny Kravitz)
13 talk (Lenny Kravitz)
14 Let Love Rule (Lenny Kravitz)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e33tGqnN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vuLuTnNLaTGt5EU/file

The cover photo is not from this exact concert, but it's from another small venue in London just one month earlier. It was taken at the Marquee Club on April 18, 1990.