Various Artists - PBS Soundstage, The Rocky Mountain Way, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, CO, 8-13-2017

Here's a rather strange episode of PBS Soundstage." Occasionally, that TV show would just broadcast highlights of concerts that were happening anyway. For instance, in 2003, one episode of the show consisted of highlights from that year's Farm Aid benefit concert, and in 2016 they broadcast highlights of a tribute concert for George Harrison, called GeorgeFest. 

This another case like that. Weirdly, the concert was for the Colorado Music Hall of Fame. That year, they were inducting Joe Walsh's early 1970s band, Barnstorm, and Dan Fogelberg, and a couple of others. But really, it was basically a tribute to Fogelberg, who died in 2007. Walsh did play a few songs with Barnstorm for the first time in ages, but even that was kind of a Fogelberg tribute, since he was friends with Fogelberg and produced one of his albums. 

What we have here consists only of the highlights that made it on the Soundstage TV show. Other songs were played, including by some other musical acts, but I couldn't find them. On this recording, Joe Walsh started out playing three of his songs from his early 1970s Barnstorm era. Then the rest of the concert consisted of different musical acts performing Fogelberg songs. Fool's Gold is the name of Fogelberg's long-time backing back. Johnnyswim is a rather obscure married vocal duo. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Richie Furay (formerly of Buffalo Springfield and Poco) apparently played one or more of their own songs earlier in the concert. But all we have is them performing together on a Fogelberg song. Then country star Vince Gill and Christian pop star Amy Grant sang a Fogelberg song together. They're connected due to being married since 2000. 

The biggest name of the evening was saved for last: Garth Brooks. Whether one likes it or not, he's one of the best selling musical acts of all time. It turns out he's also a huge fan of Dan Fogelberg's music. He was introduced by Fogelberg's widow and then sang one Fogelberg song, "Phoenix." The concert ended with one last Fogelberg song, in which all their earlier performers joined Brooks on stage for the song.

I read an article discussing some controversy about this concert, because some unscrupulous local promoter billed the concert soley as a Garth Brooks one, driving up ticket prices. Some fans were very disappointed when it turned out he only had a small role to play, despite there being other big names too, like Joe Walsh. But apparently that promoter had nothing to do with the people who actually arranged and put on the concert. 

I had a pretty difficult time editing this one. This was one of those occasional episodes where some editor thought it was a smart idea to have voiceovers over parts of the songs, especially over instrumental solos. I was able to cut out a bunch of stuff that wasn't from the actual concert between songs, like interview segments. As for the voiceovers during songs, luckily they kept enough of the music that I was able to erase the voices and keep the underlying music, using the UVR5 program. However, there was some damage to the music in those songs, the ones with "[Edit]" in their titles. 

Also, this is yet another episode of this show where the best sounding recording turned out to be a video file. So I converted that to audio and broke it into mp3s. (And by the way, this episode isn't listed in the Wikipedia page's list of all the Soundstage episodes, but I know it was such an episode because I watched the video of it, complete with Soundstage graphics. The episode title, "The Rocky Mountain Way," is the name Soundstage gave the concert, not the actual concert name used at the time.)

This unreleased album is 56 minutes long.

01 talk (Joe Walsh)
02 Here We Go (Joe Walsh)
03 Turn to Stone (Joe Walsh)
04 talk (Joe Walsh)
05 Rocky Mountain Way (Joe Walsh)
06 Part of the Plan [Edit] (Fool's Gold)
07 Nether Lands [Edit] (Johnnyswim)
08 Run for the Roses [Edit] (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & Richie Furay)
09 talk (Vince Gill & Amy Grant)
10 Longer (Vince Gill & Amy Grant)
11 talk (Jean Fogelberg)
12 Phoenix (Garth Brooks)
13 talk (Chuck Morris)
14 There's a Place in the World for a Gambler (Garth Brooks & Everyone)

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 The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this concert, showing Joe Walsh performing a guitar solo.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to Buffalo Springfield, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-17-2018

Here's something a little different, but if you're a fan of the band Buffalo Springfield, I'm sure you'll like it.

The Wild Honey Orchestra is a loose grouping of musicians, mostly based in Los Angeles, who have been putting on a yearly concert to benefit an autism charity since about 2015. Each year, they pick a different musical theme, and they have retro tastes very similar to mine. For instance, they did cover versions of the entire Beatles albums "Revolver" and "Abbey Road" in 2014, then the Beatles' "White Album" in 2015, then Beach Boys music in 2016, Band music in 2017, this one is 2018, Kinks music in 2019, Lovin' Spoonful music in 2020, and Big Star music in 2022. The songs are done by those who generally have had successful careers in music but aren't big stars. The singers are backed by many musicians, often dozens on stage. So calling them an "orchestra" is fitting, even though it's sometimes more like a really big band than an orchestra in the classical music sense.

The big draw in this particular show was the presence of Richie Furay, one of the three key singer-songwriters in Buffalo Springfield. He generally was only on stage for the songs he sang, but he sang about eight of them. Other notables include Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees, Iain Matthews of Fairport Convention, Terry Reid, Syd Straw, Martha Davis of the Motels, Elliot Easton of the Cars, Susan Cowsill of the Cowsills, Carla Olson, Brent Rademaker of Beachwood Sparks, Darian Sahanaja of the Wondermints, the bands Dream Syndicate and the Three O'Clock, and many, many more.

These concerts aren't just thrown together. Each song was carefully rehearsed, with all the different parts well thought out. As a result, even the most complicated songs can sound well done. Give the short and turbulent history of Buffalo Springfield, that means their songs were often done is a style much closer to the studio versions than the guys of Buffalo Springfield ever managed. "Broken Arrow" is a case in point. Even the many sound effects of the studio version were faithfully duplicated here. But the performances are much better than just slavish reproductions. The lead vocalists in particular tended to put their individual styles on each song.

So, if you're a Buffalo Springfield fan, this is kind of a dream concert, with even deep cuts done well. 

I had been aware of these Wild Honey Orchestra concerts for a few years, but I hadn't paid them much attention, because I only came across audience bootlegs that merely sounded decent. I'm posting this because I finally found excellent, professionally recorded versions of each song. The snag is that there's only the music. Other than one story told by Richie Furay before one of the songs, there's virtually no banter here, and even the applause tended to fade out quickly. That's all I've got (in worthy sound quality), so it's all I can post. But in a way perhaps it's for the best, because there's just one solid song after another with little pause.

I've come across recordings of some of the other Wild Honey Orchestra concerts in similar quality, but not all, so I plan on posting those soon as well. If anyone has good versions of the Revolver/Abbey Road show, or the Big Star show, please let me know.

This concert is two hours and three minutes long.

01 Out of My Mind (Bebopalula with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Hung Upside Down (David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 Down to the Wire (Syd Straw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Burned (Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 We'll See (All Day Sucker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 Pay the Price (Brent Rademaker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 Sit Down, I Think I Love You (Darian Sahanaja & Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Merry-Go-Round (Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Pretty Girl Why (Luther Russell with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 Everydays (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Four Days Gone (Terry Reid with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 I Am a Child (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Carefree Country Day (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 talk (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 A Child's Claim to Fame (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Go and Say Goodbye (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 Kind Woman (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Expecting to Fly (Claudia Lennear & Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 In the Hour of Not Quite Rain (Our Truth with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Broken Arrow (Iain Matthews & Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 It's So Hard to Wait (Micky Dolenz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Sad Memory (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 On the Way Home (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 Rock and Roll Woman (Three O'Clock with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Everybody's Wrong (Martha Davis with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Mr. Soul (Dream Syndicate with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Bluebird (Willie Aron with Elliot Easton & the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Uno Mundo (Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Special Care (Claudia Lennear with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 Questions (Gary Myrick with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Do I Have to Come Right Out and Say It (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 Nowadays Even Clancy Can't Sing (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 For What It's Worth (Richie Furay with the Wild Honey Orchestra) 

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For the cover art, I found a photo of the sign out in front of the theater. I put that at the top. I also found some promotional art listing all the musicians who performed, and I put that at the bottom.