Joni Mitchell - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: Old Grey Whistle Test, New Victoria Theatre, London, Britain, 4-22-1974

In 1974, Joni Mitchell arguably reached the pinnacle of her commercial success. She released the album "Court and Spark" near the start of the year. It reached Number Two in the US and sold a couple million copies. For all her previous album, she'd generally stuck to a solo acoustic sound, whereas this one was rocking, with a full band. For her next few albums she would turn more towards jazz, so this was the closest she got to a conventional rock sound. 

Towards the end of the year, she released a live album, called "Miles of Aisles," which was recorded in August 1974. It was a good time for a live album for her, allowing her to do her earlier acoustic songs with a full band. However, it only contained one song from her hit album "Court and Spark," and it was "People's Parties," which wasn't one of the album's hits. Furthermore, there was almost no banter recorded between the songs.

Unfortunately, there are almost no truly excellent sounding bootlegs from her 1974 concert. In fact, the only one with a soundboard level quality that I know of is this one. However, there are problems. About 45 minutes of this show was broadcast on the BBC TV show "The Old Grey Whistle Test." I think more of it was broadcast for BBC radio. Three of the songs seemed to have not been bootlegged at all. Ditto with the banter between songs. 

So I've had to cobble this together from different sources. The "Old Grey Whistle Test" songs all sound great. But they were selected as highlights from throughout the show, rather than being a bunch. The rest generally sound almost as good, but there are some exceptions. There were some sonic flaws here and there. For instance, for the last song, "Twisted," there were about ten seconds that were all messed up, so I patched that with a version with a lot lower sound quality. Also, there was no applause at the end. So again I patched in a different version for the very end, allowing me to include all the cheering after the song. I had to do a similar patch for "(He Played Real Good) For Free." That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. There are a couple other spots with minor problems that I decided not to fix, since using a lower quality patch probably wouldn't sound any better.

I also decided to do something about the three songs that didn't get bootlegged:  "This Flight Tonight," "Woodstock," and "Jericho." For those, I used the best alternate versions I could find, which was a concert in Ambler, Pennsylvania, in August 1974 for the first two, and one in Seattle, Washington, for the last one. For the banter, I used additional bits of the concerts from Ambler and Seattle. But I listened to several bootlegs of her 1974 concerts, and there just wasn't that much banter.  For instance, for most of those concerts, she played the first six or so songs without any talking at all between songs. So this recording reflects that, with banter only before some of the songs. But she did talk extensively in a few cases.

I expect that in the next year or two, Mitchell will release her third "Archives" box set, which will include this time period. So hopefully we'll get a full version of a 1974 concert. Until then, this is the best version out there.

This concert is an hour and 47 minutes long. That makes it significantly longer than "Miles of Aisles," which is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 talk (Joni Mitchell)
02 This Flight Tonight (Joni Mitchell)
03 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (Joni Mitchell)
04 Free Man in Paris (Joni Mitchell)
05 The Same Situation (Joni Mitchell)
06 talk (Joni Mitchell)
07 Just like This Train (Joni Mitchell)
08 Rainy Night House (Joni Mitchell)
09 Woodstock (Joni Mitchell)
10 talk (Joni Mitchell)
11 Cactus Tree (Joni Mitchell)
12 Big Yellow Taxi (Joni Mitchell)
13 talk (Joni Mitchell)
14 People's Parties (Joni Mitchell)
15 All I Want (Joni Mitchell)
16 talk (Joni Mitchell)
17 A Case of You (Joni Mitchell)
18 talk (Joni Mitchell)
19 Jericho (Joni Mitchell)
20 talk (Joni Mitchell)
21 For the Roses (Joni Mitchell)
22 talk (Joni Mitchell)
23 Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire (Joni Mitchell)
24 Blue (Joni Mitchell)
25 [He Played Real Good] For Free [Edit] (Joni Mitchell)
26 Trouble Child (Joni Mitchell)
27 Help Me (Joni Mitchell)
28 Car on a Hill (Joni Mitchell)
29 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
30 Raised on Robbery (Joni Mitchell)
31 The Last Time I Saw Richard (Joni Mitchell)
32 Twisted [Edit] (Joni Mitchell)

https://www.imagenetz.de/files/b7373b6fffb53f0562198d681bed3edb.zip

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/N5zVuRJf

second alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/jPjrQiMPwyIs5yk/file 

The cover photo actually comes from a Joni Mitchell concert at this exact venue in April 1974. But apparently she played there a few nights, because the photo is from two days earlier, April 20th.

The Style Council - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 4-29-1987

This is the fourth and last of four Style Council BBC volumes. Like Volumes 2 and 3, it's a full concert that was broadcast on BBC radio at the time.

By 1987, the Style Council was on the decline. I think in retrospect even band leader Paul Weller would agree that he took the band in the wrong direction, increasingly pursuing house music, which only had a limited audience. They broke up in 1989, with their last studio album rejected by their record company and thus unreleased. Weller would later say that band should have broken up two or three years earlier.

That said, this still is a very good concert, in my opinion. By this point, the band had built up an impressive number of hit songs, and mostly played those rather than the new music that would be less successful. Personally, I like all the songs here. From the point of view of this concert, it's hard to imagine the band would fall out of favor so quickly only about a year later.

This concert is officially unreleased, but the sound quality is still very good. It's only 59 minutes long, so I'm guessing it was edited down from a longer concert to fit in an hour-long time slot on the radio.

UPDATE: On January 22, 2025, I updated the mp3 download file because I changed the name of this album from "Volume 3" to "Volume 4" after discovering a BBC concert I'd missed. I changed the cover art and mp3 tags accordingly, but the music is the same.

01 talk (Style Council)
02 My Ever Changing Moods (Style Council)
03 Shout to the Top (Style Council)
04 It Didn't Matter (Style Council)
05 Waiting (Style Council)
06 Walk in the Night (Style Council)
07 talk (Style Council)
08 The Cost of Loving (Style Council)
09 With Everything to Lose (Style Council)
10 A Woman's Song (Style Council)
11 talk (Style Council)
12 The Whole Point of No Return (Style Council)
13 Homebreakers (Style Council)
14 Heavens Above (Style Council)
15 [When You] Call Me (Style Council)
16 Internationalists (Style Council)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VMS8yEMP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/8OaEfTMzMy14uka/file

The cover photo is from the Red Wedge Tour in January 1986, at the Manchester Apollo in Manchester, Britain.

Belle and Sebastian - God Help the Girl- BBC Sessions, Volume 10: 2009

Just what is "God Help the Girl?" I've posted a stray tracks album by this group, but I'll explain again anyway. This was a side project of the main singer and songwriter of Belle and Sebastian, Stuart Murdoch. In 2009, instead of putting out another Belle and Sebastian album, he wrote a bunch of songs from a female point of view meant to be sung by women. The band put out an album in 2009, as well as an EP. They didn't do anything else as a band after that, but the project continued as a movie by the same title, written and directed by Murdoch, which was released in 2014.

You can read more here:

God Help the Girl (film) - Wikipedia

Anyway, since this wasn't a "real" band, but a Murdoch side project, it seems they didn't do much touring. However, at least one short concert took place, which was recorded and broadcast by the BBC. That makes up all but the last three songs here. Murdoch was there and talked some, but left all the lead vocals to the female singers. Neil Hannon of the bands Divine Comedy and the Duckworth Lewis Method joined in for one song at the end of the concert. 

The last three songs come from a proper BBC studio session. Two of those three songs were also done in the concert, but I've included both versions of them anyway.

In my opinion, God Help the Girl was basically Belle and Sebastian but with different lead vocalists. So I'm including this in the long series of Belle and Sebastian BBC albums.

This album is 35 minutes long.

01 talk (God Help the Girl)
02 Act of the Apostle (God Help the Girl)
03 God Help the Girl (God Help the Girl)
04 talk (God Help the Girl)
05 I'm in Love with the City (God Help the Girl)
06 Baby's Just Waiting (God Help the Girl)
07 talk (God Help the Girl)
08 Come Monday (God Help the Girl)
09 talk (God Help the Girl)
10 Musician, Please Take Heed (God Help the Girl)
11 talk (God Help the Girl)
12 Perfection as a Hipster (God Help the Girl with Neil Hannon)
13 Baby's Just Waiting (God Help the Girl)
14 God Help the Girl (God Help the Girl)
15 The Psychiatrist Is In (God Help the Girl)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15901518/BellenS_2009_GodHlptheGirlBBSessionsVolume10_atse.zip.html

On the cover, Murdoch is the sole male, pictured with three God Help the Girl singers. I don't know their names, but perhaps someone can help identify them.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Lovin' Spoonful, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-29-2020

I've had a request to post more from the Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO), as well as a specific request to post the Lovin' Spoonful tribute show. So here it is.

I've posted two WHO concerts already. You can read more about this group in the write-ups to those. But, in short, it's a group of mostly Los Angeles based professional musicians who put on a concert once a year to benefit a charity. Generally, these musicians are members of bands that are successful enough for a career, but typically not really big name acts. Many of them tend to play these WHO concerts every year. If you compare the artist names for this concert with the other two WHO concerts I've posted, you'll see the vast majority played in all of them.

But this concert was a bit unusual, due to the presence of members of the Lovin' Spoonful, the band that was the focus on the tribute this year. There were four members of the band in the 1960s: John Sebastian, who was the lead singer and main songwriter, and Joe Butler, Steve Boone, and Zal Yanovsky (who was replaced by Jerry Yester before the end of the 1960s). This concert was as good of a reunion of the original band as one could hope for, with Sebastian, Butler and Boone participating. Both Yanovsky and Yester died in the years prior to the concert.

The Lovin' Spoonful did reform in the 1990s, and has played concerts ever since then. However, crucially, John Sebastian didn't take part, and he was the heart of the band. He did play with the others for one concert in 1979, for the Paul Simon movie "One Trick Pony," then again in 2000 for the band's induction in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But that's been it, with this exception of this concert.

Even better, the original band didn't just play a song or two. They had a big role in the concert, with Sebastian singing lots of songs. There are no concert recordings of the original band with Sebastian that I know of, other than a song here or there on TV shows, so we're very lucky a bootleg recording of this concert has survived. And the sound quality is excellent all the way through. The one downside is that this is generally only the songs, with very little of the banter between songs. There's only a few bits of banter, mostly comments by Sebastian.

The band had a fairly small recorded output, with just five albums, from 1965 to 1969. So a large portion of their songs were played here, including some rather obscure songs. Also, some songs from Sebastian's solo career were included, such as "Stories We Could Tell," "How Have You Been," and his Number One hit "Welcome Back."

There are a few performers here not seen on the two previous WHO concerts I've posted. For instance, Marshall Crenshaw, the duo of Marti Jones & Don Dixon, Dave Alvin, Peter Lewis from Moby Grape, and Peter Case. 

This concert is two hours and six minutes long.

01 Coffee Blues (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 talk (John Sebastian)
03 Lovin' You (John Sebastian, Steve Boone & Joe Butler with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 talk (John Sebastian)
05 Full Measure (Joe Butler with John Sebastian & Steve Boone with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 Butchie's Tune (Dennis Diken & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 It's Not Time Now (Iain Matthews & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Fishin' Blues (Eleni Mandell, John Sebastian & Elliot Easton with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Nashville Cats (Bill Lloyd & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 There She Is (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Pow (John Easdale & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 Darlin' Companion (Bill Mumy & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Money (Cindy Lee Berryhill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Rain on the Roof (Marshall Crenshaw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 Coconut Grove (Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Didn't Want Have to Do It (Mark Eitzel with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 You're a Big Boy Now (Skylar Gudasz, John Sebastian & Elliot Easton with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Respoken (Marti Jones & Don Dixon with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 Warm Baby (David Goodstein with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 Other Side to This (Peter Lewis with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 Summer in the City (Joe Butler, John Sebastian, Steve Boone & Mark Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Welcome Back (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 Lonely (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 She's Still a Mystery (Darian Sahanaja & the Three O'Clock with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Darlin' Be Home Soon (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 Six O'Clock (Wednesday Week with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Never Goin' Back (Joe Butler with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 talk (John Sebastian)
29 You Baby (Claudia Lennear & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 Younger Girl (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Stories We Could Tell (Carla Olson & John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Younger Generation (Kathy McCarty with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 How Have You Been (Dead Rock West with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Daydream (Micky Dolenz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Night Owl Blues (John Sebastian & Dave Alvin with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 talk (Peter Case)
37 Blues in the Bottle (Peter Case with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Four Eyes (Peter Case & Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
39 Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind (Carnie Wilson & Rob Bonfiglio with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
40 You Didn't Have to Be So Nice (Susan Cowsill with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
41 Jug Band Music (John Sebastian with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
42 Do You Believe in Magic (John Sebastian, Steve Boone & Joe Butler with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
43 Daydream [Reprise] (John Sebastian, Joe Butler & Steve Boone with the Wild Honey Orchestra)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/biZSzH1G

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/E83U4jHEtdjvzKw/file

alternate:

https://www.imagenetz.de/i3sa6

The cover is exactly from a promotional poster for the concert. All I did was crop out some parts at the top and the bottom that didn't contain much useful information.

Sheryl Crow - Always on Your Side - Non-Album Tracks (2004-2005)

It feels like a really long time since I've posted a stray tracks album from Sheryl Crow, so here's another one. I'm moving forward chronologically, but as you can see, there are many more to come after this one.

Eight of the 12 songs here have been officially released. They're from soundtracks, various artists collections, and appearances on albums by other artists. The four unreleased songs aren't that different. Two of them, "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" and "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" are studio outtakes and have great sound quality. "Pride and Joy" and "Levon" are both from concerts, but also have solid sound quality.

The song "Always on Your Side" needs a bit of explanation I suppose. It first appeared on Crow's 2005 album "Wildflowers." But when the song was picked for release as a single, it seems the record company thought that turning it into a duet with another big name musician would help, so it was redone as a duet with Sting. So this is the Sting version. Some later albums contain this version as a bonus track.

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 All Kinds of People (Sheryl Crow)
02 Begin the Beguine (Sheryl Crow)
03 Old Habits Die Hard (Mick Jagger & Sheryl Crow with Dave Stewart)
04 Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain (Sheryl Crow)
05 I Never Loved a Man [The Way I Love You] (Sheryl Crow)
06 No Depression in Heaven (Sheryl Crow)
07 Blue (Zucchero & Sheryl Crow)
08 Pride and Joy (Sheryl Crow & Doyle Bramhall ll)
09 Need Your Love So Bad (B. B. King & Sheryl Crow)
10 Ring of Fire (Sheryl Crow)
11 Levon (Sheryl Crow)
12 Always on Your Side (Sheryl Crow & Sting)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15105093/SherylC_2004-2005_AlwysonYourSide_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Annual American Music Awards in November 2004.

Madness - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-31-1985

It's time for the next volume of the British band Madness playing for the BBC. Like the last volume in the series, this is a full concert that was broadcast live.

Madness had a great run of singles and albums from 1979 to 1986. But by the time of this concert in late 1985, they were reaching the end. I recently did some reading about their career, and found they were tired in every way. From the beginning, their music was ska-based and energetic, and their image was of being "nutty" and wild. As they got older, they found it harder and harder to keep that going. 

Yet, in my opinion, many of their songs from 1985 or thereabouts were still as good as their earlier ones. In retrospect, they had increasing problems with bad production, which was all too typical in the mid-1980s. But that was far less of a problem in a concert setting like this one.

This concert serves as a kind of "best of" for the band's first phase. (They would later reunite, and unlike most bands from their time, they would have a lot of critical and commercial success in the 2000s.) There's not much else to say. Even though this concert remains officially unreleased, the sound quality is excellent, and there were no problems to fix.

Perhaps the only surprise here is the appearance of Feargal Sharkey on one of the songs. Sharkey was the lead singer of the British punk band the Undertones, but he left for a solo career in 1984. His first solo single, "Listen to Your Father," was written by Carl Smyth, a member of Madness, and was performed and produced by Madness. It was a minor hit in Britain. Madness also backed Sharkey when he performed the song for the BBC TV show "Top of the Pops," so it's not that surprising that they did the song together for this concert too.

This album is an hour and 17 minutes long.

I do like some of what Madness did after they later reunited, and they did more performances for the BBC then, so I'll have more to post in this series.

01 talk (Madness)
02 Keep Moving (Madness)
03 Samantha (Madness)
04 Take It or Leave It (Madness)
05 Michael Caine (Madness)
06 Mad Not Mad (Madness)
07 talk (Madness)
08 Grey Day (Madness)
09 My Girl (Madness)
10 Tomorrow's Dream (Madness)
11 talk (Madness)
12 House of Fun (Madness)
13 4 B.F. [For Bryan Ferry] (Madness)
14 Yesterday's Men (Madness)
15 Blue Skinned Beast (Madness)
16 talk (Madness)
17 Time (Madness)
18 It Must Be Love (Madness)
19 talk (Madness)
20 Burning the Boats (Madness)
21 Shut Up (Madness)
22 talk (Madness)
23 Uncle Sam (Madness)
24 talk (Madness)
25 Embarrassment (Madness)
26 talk (Madness)
27 I'll Compete (Madness)
28 talk (Madness)
29 Listen to Your Father (Madness & Feargal Sharkey)
30 One Step Beyond (Madness)
31 Baggy Trousers (Madness)
32 talk (Madness)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15603419/Madns_1985_BBSessionsVolume4InConcertHammrsmithOdeon__12-31-1985_atse.zip.html

I couldn't find any really good photos from 1985. The cover photo comes from an appearance on Saturday Night Live in April 1984.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 4: 2021-2022

This is the fourth of my volumes of Bill McClintock mash-ups.

This is just more of what's on the previous volumes, so if you like those, you'll like this too. If anything, McClintock has been getting more skilled with his mash-ups as he keeps going.

Just to review in case you've missed those previous volumes, this isn't music performed by McClintock. Instead, he takes two, or sometimes three, songs, and mashes them together. The first song is a good example, where there are parts of both "Rock Steady" by Aretha Franklin and "Sweet Emotion" by Aerosmith in roughly equal measure, but mashed together to create something new.

As I mentioned before, he often likes to mash something from a heavy metal or hard rock group with something totally different, but that's not always the case. One extreme musical clash is the mash-up of the new wave hit "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor with a Merle Haggard country song, "Goodbye Comes Hard for Me." How is it possible those fit together?! I don't know, but somehow they do.

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

UPDATE: Many months after I first posted this, I realized that I'd used the same background color, yellow, for the album cover here and with Volume 3. So I changed the color to yellow. Everything else is exactly the same.

01 Rock Emotion [Rock Steady vs. Sweet Emotion] (Aretha Franklin vs. Aerosmith)
02 Funktonite [Kryptonite vs. Do it Any Way You Wanna] (3 Discos Down vs/ People's Choice)
03 Your Jumpin' Heart [Your Cheatin' Heart vs. Jump] (Hank Williams Jr. vs. Van Halen)
04 She's a Trooper [Maniac vs. The Trooper] (Michael Sembello vs. Iron Maiden)
05 Ten Seconds to Run [Ten Seconds to Love vs. Nowhere to Run] (Motley Crue vs. Martha and the Vandellas)
06 You Make Me Feel Sad but True [You Make Me Feel like Dancing vs. Sad but True] (Leo Sayer vs. Metallica)
07 Holy Mary Jane [Mary Jane vs. Holy Diver] (Rick James vs. Dio)
08 Strokin' More than a Feeling [Strokin' vs. More than a Feeling] (Clarence Carter vs. Boston)
09 Eye of the Haggard [Eye of the Tiger vs. Goodbye Comes Hard for Me] (Survivor vs. Merle Haggard)
10 Hey Baby, Am I Black or White [Hey Baby vs. Black or White] (Ted Nugent vs. Michael Jackson)
11 Electric Sex Machine [Electric Eye vs. Sex Machine] (James Priest vs. James Brown)
12 Mutiny at the Go-Go [Going to a Go-Go vs/ Mutiny on the World] (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles vs. the Armored Saint)
13 Land Down One-der [Land Down Under vs. One] (Men at Work vs. Metallica)
14 Look Again [Do It Again vs. Looks That Kill] (Steely Dan vs. Motley Crue)
15 Master of the Neutron Dance of Destruction [Neutron Dance vs. Symphony of Destruction] (Pointer Sisters vs. Megadeth)
16 Super Rock Hard [Super Freak vs. Rock Hard, Ride Free] (Rick James vs. Judas Priest)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1UNcssRwxnazfqC/file 

As with the previous volumes, the cover uses a logo from Bill McClintock's YouTube page, plus a photo of him I added in the middle of it. I used a different background color to help differentiate it from the previous volume.

Humble Pie - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1971-1974

Here's the third and last album of the British band Humble Pie playing for the BBC. This is a collection of BBC studio sessions.

Humble Pie was mainly created so that singer and guitarist Steve Marriott could be in the same band as singer and guitarist Peter Frampton. This worked well for a while, but Frampton left the band by the end of 1971. The first five songs here come from a BBC session in March 1971 when Frampton was definitely still in the band. But all the other songs are from 1972 or later, after Frampton had left.

Everything here is officially unreleased. The first seven songs are from BBC studio sessions. Tracks 8 and 9 come from a BBC TV show called "Full House." Tracks 10 and 11 come from another BBC TV show, "The Old Grey Whistle Test." The last song, "30 Days in the Hole," comes from a BBC concert in 1974. This was the band's biggest hit and best known song. Surprisingly, even though it was released in 1972, I couldn't find a BBC version until 1974. By that time, the success of the band was declining, so it seems they stopped being invited to the BBC. The band broke up in 1975, though there were a few reunions after that, so that's why this is the last volume in this series.

This album is 52 minutes long.

01 I Don't Need No Doctor (Humble Pie)
02 Four Day Creep (Humble Pie)
03 I'm Ready (Humble Pie)
04 Rolling Stone (Humble Pie)
05 The Light (Humble Pie)
06 Road Runner (Humble Pie)
07 Sweet Peace and Time (Humble Pie)
08 Say No More (Humble Pie)
09 Honky Tonk Women (Humble Pie)
10 Black Coffee (Humble Pie)
11 Twist and Shout (Humble Pie)
12 30 Days in the Hole (Humble Pie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15292110/HumbleP_1971-1974_BBSessionsVolum3_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure when or where this photo is from exactly. But it's from the time Frampton was still in the band.

Roy Orbison Tribute Concert Update

Recently, I posted a Roy Orbison tribute concert that took place in 1990, after his death in late 1988. You can find a link to that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/02/various-artists-roy-orbison-tribute.html

It turns out that a musical associate of mine, Lilpanda, had a different high quality source of that concert. Most of it was the same, but he had five songs I didn't have. I put three of them at the start of the concert, since I don't know the song order. Those are by NRBQ, Joe Ely, and Syd Straw. But the most news-worthy aspect of the concert was that it ended with a reunion by three original members of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and David Crosby. I'd only had two of the songs they did, "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man," the latter with Bob Dylan joining in. But Lilpanda's version also had the Byrds performing "Eight Miles High" and "He Was a Friend of Mine. So if you go to the updated link, you'll get about 20 extra minutes of music, including the two extra Byrds songs.

The Wild Honey Orchestra - Tribute to the Village Green Preservation Society, Alex Theatre, Glendale, CA, 2-23-2019

A couple of days ago, I posted a Wild Honey Orchestra (WHO) concert that was a tribute to Buffalo Springfield. That got some good responses, so here's another WHO concert. This one is a tribute to the Kinks, most especially their classic 1968 album "The Village Green Preservation Society." The first half consists of covers of the songs from that album, in order. The second consists of other Kinks covers, all of them from their golden era, roughly 1964 to 1971.

As I explain in the Buffalo Springfield tribute post, WHO are a loose grouping of professional musicians, mostly from the Los Angeles area, who get together for one tribute concert a year, with all the proceeds benefiting an autism charity. While the WHO generally doesn't include big stars, they do contain a lot of musicians who are beloved in their niches of the music business.

You can see the names of the singers in the song credits below (as well as some full bands, like Redd Kross and the Three O'Clock). But to help out, here are some of the bands some of singers have been associated with:

Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey: the dBs
Darian Sahanaja: the Wondermints
Dennis Diken: the Smithereens
Jason Falkner: Jellyfish & the Grays
Thomas Walsh: Pugwash
Dan Wilson: Semisonic
Graham Coxon: Blur
Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker: That Dog
Carla Olson: Textones
Jody Stephens: Big Star
Mark Eitzel: American Music Club
Mike Mills: R.E.M.
Steve Wynn: Dream Syndicate
Scott McCaughey: the Filthy Friends & the Minus 5
Elliot Easton: the Cars
Clem Burke: Blondie
Bill Janovitz: Buffalo Tom
Ira Kaplan: Yo La Tengo
John Easdale: Dramarama

I'm sure I missed some associations (feel free to help), but you get the idea. 

By the way, before posting this, I just read an article about it. That mentioned that while no actual member of the Kinks took part, that was due to health and/or travel issues. Lead guitarist Dave Davies did take part in a 1995 WHO show, so I was surprised these yearly concerts go back that far. I only have bootlegs going back to 2015, so it anyone has any older ones with good sound quality, please let me know.

Speaking of sound quality, much of this sounds excellent. About the first twenty songs all come from a professionally recorded source. That sounds great. The rest come from an audience bootleg. Normally, I don't post that kind of thing, but this was an unusually good sounding one. Also, I used the audio editing program Spleeter to improve the sound quality some. Still, you may notice a difference between the two source.

Unfortunately, the good source only had the songs, no banter between the songs. So I stuck with that all the way through, for consistency's sake. It may be better this way: all killer, no filler.

As I said with the Buffalo Springfield WHO post, "Orchestra" fits in the group name, because they are a big bunch. As many as two dozen musicians played on stage at any given time. That meant they were able really go deep in creating the ideal backing for each song. For instance, if a certain song had a prominent oboe in it, you can bet an oboe was played here too. If you're a Kinks fan, like I am, this is great stuff.

This concert is two hours and six minutes long.

01 Village Green Preservation Society (Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
02 Do You Remember Walter (Darian Sahanaja with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
03 Picture Book (Dennis Diken with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
04 Johnny Thunder (Mike Viola with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
05 The Last of the Steam Powered Trains (Terry Reid with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
06 Big Sky (Jason Falkner with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
07 Sitting by the Riverside (Ira Kaplan with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
08 Animal Farm (Thomas Walsh with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
09 Village Green (Andrew Sandoval with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
10 Starstruck (Dan Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
11 Phenomenal Cat (Chris Stamey & Debbie Shair with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
12 All of My Friends Were There (Chris Price with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
13 Wicked Annabella (Steve McDonald with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
14 Monica (Peter Holsapple & Millie McGuire with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
15 People Take Pictures of Each Other (Kristian Hoffman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
16 Drivin' (Bebopalula with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
17 Stop Your Sobbing (Bill Janovitz with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
18 Top of the Pops (Carla Olson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
19 Victoria (Jackshit with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
20 She's Got Everything (Three O'Clock & Jason Falkner with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
21 This Time Tomorrow (All Day Sucker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
22 Fancy (Redd Kross with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
23 I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Terry Reid with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
24 You Shouldn't Be Sad (Ira Kaplan with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
25 Strangers (Syd Straw with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
26 This Is Where I Belong (Freedy Johnston with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
27 Afternoon Tea (Steve Stanley with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
28 Dedicated Follower of Fashion (Graham Coxon with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
29 Autumn Almanac (Probyn Gregory with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
30 A Well Respected Man (Nick Guzman with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
31 Too Much on My Mind (Dan Wilson with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
32 Two Sisters (Rachel Haden & Anna Waronker with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
33 God's Children (Jody Stephens & Luther Wright with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
34 Waterloo Sunset (Rob Laufer with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
35 Shangri-La (John Easdale with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
36 Days (Mark Eitzel with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
37 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Steve Wynn with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
38 Get Back in Line (Scott McCaughey with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
39 Lola (Mike Mills with the Wild Honey Orchestra)
40 You Really Got Me (Everyone with the Wild Honey Orchestra) 

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The cover art consists of three parts. The very top part comes from promotional material for the show. Below that is a photo of the marquee for the theater. And at the bottom is a photo of the WHO on stage. As you can see, lots of musicians!

The Byrds - Love that Never Dies - Non-Album Tracks (1989-1998)

The Byrds disbanded in 1973. There were some reunions and collaborations between various key members in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but those faded out. Then, in 1989, the Byrds had a brief renaissance, culminating in all five original members appearing on stage to accept being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and even playing a few songs together. 

But things faded out again soon after that. One factor was that, only a few months after the Hall of Fame induction, key member Gene Clark died of cancer, exacerbated by various addictions, But also, Roger McGuinn was always central to the Byrds sound, with both his distinctive voice and guitar playing. He put out his first solo album in many years in 1991 with "Back to Rio," and even had a minor hit, "King of the Hill." However, shortly thereafter it seems he decided he wasn't interested in a conventional rock music career, and switched to mostly performing solo acoustic versions of traditional folk songs. Since 1991, he's only put out one conventional rock album of new songs, "Limited Edition," in 2004, with none of the other former Byrds on it. He rebuffed many requests by David Crosby for a Byrds reunion, saying he didn't need the money and preferred to keep the Byrds as a fond memory from long ago. Now, as I write this in 2023, Crosby has died as well, so no further Byrds reunions are possible.

This collects the best of what I could find from that early 1990s reunion time period. I've included songs actually done by the Byrds, which is defined here as original members McGuinn, Crosby, and Chris Hillman. Those three were on the outs with the other original members, Clark and Michael Clarke, due to legal battles over the use of the band name (other than their reunion for the Hall of Fame). Additionally, I've included a couple of songs with at least two members, McGuinn and Hillman or Hillman and Crosby. Finally, I've included songs just by McGuinn that had that Byrdsy sound to it. Putting all that together is just enough material for what I think is a very solid album.

McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman played a few concerts as a threesome in 1989, as part of their legal battle to argue that they were the real Byrds, and different bands led by either Clark or Clarke were not. I'm not including any songs from those concerts since the sound quality is rougher than everything else here. But if people are interested, I could post the best sounding bootleg from those shows. However, those concerts led to McGuinn, Crosby, and Hillman recording four songs together in the studio, which came out on the 1990 box set simply titled "The Byrds." Three of those were covers, but the fourth, "Love that Never Dies," is a very nice McGuinn original. 

Tracks six through ten are what I consider the best songs from McGuinn's 1991 album "Back from Rio." However, one of those, "Without Your Love," is labelled as a Byrds song, because Crosby and Hillman also played and song on it. In 1996, McGuinn released a live acoustic album called "Live from Mars." But it had two new, original extra studio songs on it, "Fireworks" and "May the Road Rise," that were done with a full band. So I've included those here. The final song come from a Hillman solo album.

I didn't include any songs from the 1991 Hall of Fame induction. The performance was pretty rough, obviously with no practice, and Clarke totally drunk. (He would die of liver failure due to years of heavy alcohol consumption in 1993.) You can find videos of a couple of songs from that on YouTube. Far better were two songs done for a Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. I've posted that full concert here recently. But I'm including the two Byrds songs from that as bonus tracks, for those who don't want the whole show.

This album is 48 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks.

01 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with Roger McGuinn & Chris Hillman)
02 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
03 Paths of Victory (Byrds)
04 From a Distance (Byrds)
05 Love that Never Dies (Byrds)
06 Someone to Love (Roger McGuinn)
07 Suddenly Blue (Roger McGuinn)
08 King of the Hill (Roger McGuinn with Tom Petty)
09 Without Your Love (Byrds)
10 If We Never Meet Again (Roger McGuinn)
11 Fireworks (Roger McGuinn)
12 May the Road Rise (Roger McGuinn)
13 I'm Still Alive (Chris Hillman with David Crosby)

Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds with Bob Dylan)
Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)

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The cover photo was taken backstage at the Roy Orbison tribute concert in 1990. From right to left, that's Hillman, Crosby, and McGuinn. I used Photoshop to darken the background, because there were some distracting balloons and other things there.

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.

Various Artists - Covered: Fats Domino & Dave Bartholomew, Volume 2: 1990-2012

Yesterday, I posted Volume 1 of my Covered Series focus on the songwriting team of Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew. Here's both the second and the last volume.

I already said most of what I wanted to say in my notes for Volume One. Refer to that if you want to know more about the artists here and some of their history together.

However, I do have comments about a couple of songs. One is that between the two volumes, I believe I have included all of the big hits written by Domino and/or Bartholomew. However, Domino did have a few hits that neither of them had a role in writing. The biggest of these by far is "Blueberry Hill." It's considered one of Domino's best known hits, maybe even his signature song. But it actually was first done in 1940, and was a hit for Glenn Miller and then again for Louis Armstrong. Domino merely revamped it into a rock and roll song.

I think the song "The Monkey" is an especially fascinating one. It was written just by Bartholomew. It  was released as a single performed by him in 1957, but it wasn't a hit. However, the lyrics are remarkable for its era. Remember, this was the time of McCarthyist witch hunts, when too much criticism could get a person blacklisted. By using the conceit of a monkey criticizing the human race, he was able to make some stinging social criticism. For instance, here's one of the verses that implicitly knocks the whole capitalist system:

And another thing you will never see
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree
And let all the coconuts go to waste
Forbidding other monkeys to come and taste
Why, if I put a fence around this tree
Starvation would force you to steal from me

The whole song even subtly mocks racism, as well as creationism, since the monkey in the song knocks the idea that monkeys and humans are related, because monkeys don't see humans as being worthy of them. That cleverly turned the idea of humans thinking they couldn't be related to monkeys on its head. That's especially meaningful given that Bartholomew was a black man, just like Domino. Kudos to Elvis Costello for covering this obscurity decades later and giving it some more attention. I noticed on YouTube that he even played the song in concert with Bartholomew, which is nice.

One rule I had in putting these two volumes together is I didn't want to include two songs by the same artist. But I'll admit I bent that rule a bit, because Robert Plant sings lead on two of the songs here, even though he does it with two different bands.

This album is 44 minutes long.

01 Goin' Home (James Brown)
02 Be My Guest (Yellowman)
03 I'm Gonna Be a Wheel Someday (Sheryl Crow)
04 It Keeps Raining (Bitty McLean)
05 Real Gone Lover (Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis)
06 The Monkey (Elvis Costello)
07 Walking to New Orleans (Neil Young)
08 Valley of Tears (Robert Plant & the Soweto Gospel Choir)
09 Honey Chile (Lucinda Williams)
10 I Want to Walk You Home (Paul McCartney with Allen Toussaint)
11 Whole Lotta Loving (Lenny Kravitz with Rebirth Brass Band)
12 My Girl Josephine (Super Cat with Jack Radics)
13 I've Been Around (Lil' Band O' Gold with Robert Plant)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17301668/COVRDDOMINBARTH1990-2012Volum2_atse.zip.html

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For once, I didn't have to make a lot of edits to get a color photo of two songwriters together. The cover photo here is exactly as it originally appeared, with the two of them leaning against each other. However, I did make one edit, and that was to change the black background to a light blue one.

UPDATE: On September 29, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Various Artists - Roy Orbison Tribute Concert to Benefit the Homeless, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA, 2-24-1990

I recently stumbled across this Roy Orbison concert. As far as I can tell, it's never really appeared as a bootleg, other than as a single file with no song titles or artists given. So I had to some research just to figure out what this was exactly. But I think it was worth it because it's a very interesting show, with lots of big names. Despite it being ostensibly about Roy Orbison, probably the biggest musical event of the concert was the reunion of three key members of the Byrds - Roger McGuinn, David Crosby, and Chris Hillman - who were then joined by Bob Dylan for the song "Mr. Tambourine Man." Dylan wrote it in 1964, and the Byrds had a Number One hit with it in 1965, but they'd never done the song on stage together.

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at the end of 1988, when he was only 52 years old. The timing of his death was especially unfortunate because he hadn't had much commercial success in the 1970s and 1980s, but that drastically changed right as he died, with him being a member of the Traveling Wilburys supergroup. He even had his first Top Ten hit in over 25 years with "You Got It." 

Regardless, Orbison was a much admired musical legend. So when he died, his wife Barbara Orbison put together a tribute concert that also doubled as a benefit concert to help the homeless. It's an odd concert as these things go, because most of the acts paid tribute to Orbison by covering his songs, but some other acts went in a different direction and played songs that seemed to have no link to Orbison whatsoever. For instance Iggy Pop played "Home," a song from his then-current album. Speaking of Iggy Pop, another odd aspect to the concert was the musical acts involved. Some made lots of sense, because they'd been heavily influenced by Orbison, such as John Fogerty or Chris Isaak. 

Others were more mystifying musically. For instance, you may well wonder what Patrick Swayze is doing here, dueting on the Everly Brothers song "Love Hurts" with Larry Gatlin. Yes, that Patrick Swayze, the famous actor. He released a few songs here and there, but never put out an album. Apparently, some acts mainly got involved because they liked the charitable cause.

Aside from Iggy Pop, the Patrick Swayze and Larry Gatlin duet, and the Byrds songs, plus a duet version of "I'm in the Mood" by John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt, and "The Thrill Is Gone" by B. B. King, I believe all the rest of the songs have some Orbison connection. For instance, "In the Real World," "Rock House," "Chicken Hearted," and "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again" are fairly obscure songs, but they were all written and/or sung by Orbison. (He also did "Love Hurts," although the Everly Brothers did it first.)

Anyway, this contains all of the music performed at the concert that I could find. However, I cut out some of the talking between songs. There were some pitches for people to donate to the charitable cause, which is no longer relevant since the phone number mentioned has long gone dead, I'd assume. But I suspect there was more banter between songs, and maybe even more songs, that didn't get bootlegged. The show was broadcast on TV, but I think it's a safe bet a lot of edits were made to get it to fit within the allowed screen time. There were some acts involved that didn't get any songs featured at all, such as Michelle Shocked and the duet of Wendy and Lisa. They did help out along with some others on the all-female version of "Oh, Pretty Woman," but I wouldn't be surprised if they did songs that got cut from the TV show, and thus this bootleg, because they weren't so famous.

Also, near the end of this concert, the Byrds did four songs: "Turn, Turn, Turn," "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Eight Miles High," and "He Was a Friend of Mine." Dylan took part with "Mr. Tambourine Man," as I previously mentioned. " He also took part in "He Was a Friend of Mine," but just barely, because he merely strummed along on guitar and didn't sing at all, so I didn't add his name to the credits for that song. I know this because I found a video of it on YouTube.

The Byrds performances of "Turn, Turn, Turn" and "Mr. Tambourine Man" have been officially released on a Byrds box set. But the other two remain unreleased, as far as I know.

This album is an hour and 39 minutes long. If anyone knows the correct order of the songs, please let me know.

UPDATE: On February 12, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. Musical associate Lilpanda had a different source for this concert, with the same high quality sound. Most of it was the same, but there were five songs I didn't have. So I added those. I don't know the correct song order, so I put three of the newly discovered ones at the start (the ones by NRBO, Joe Ely, and Syd Straw). That also included two songs by the Byrds, "Eight Miles High" and "He Was a Friend of Mine," so I put those with the rest of the Byrds' set. That added about 20 minutes of music to the album.

01 Chicken Hearted (NRBQ)
02 Working for the Man (Joe Ely)
03 She's a Mystery to Me (Syd Straw)
04 talk (John Fogerty)
05 Ooby Dooby (John Fogerty)
06 Mean Woman Blues (Levon Helm)
07 I'm in the Mood (John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt)
08 talk (Chris Isaak)
09 Leah (Chris Isaak)
10 Dream Baby [How Long Must I Dream] (Shrunken Heads [Tom Tom Club & Jerry Harrison])
11 Crying (k. d. lang)
12 The Thrill Is Gone (B. B. King with Al Kooper & Don Was)
13 You Got It (John Hiatt with Don Was)
14 It's Over (Was [Not Was])
15 In the Real World (Booker T. Jones)
16 Home (Iggy Pop)
17 Oh, Pretty Woman (k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt & Emmylou Harris)
18 That Lovin' You Feelin' Again (Emmylou Harris & Michael McDonald)
19 Claudette (Dwight Yoakam)
20 talk (Bernie Taupin)
21 Running Scared (Benny Mardones)
22 Love Hurts (Larry Gatlin & Patrick Swayze)
23 talk (Stray Cats)
24 Rock House (Stray Cats)
25 talk (Barbara Orbison)
26 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
27 Candy Man (Bonnie Raitt with Chris Isaak)
28 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
29 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
30 talk (Roger McGuinn)
31 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds & Bob Dylan)
32 He Was a Friend of Mine (Byrds)
33 Only the Lonely (Everyone)

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For the cover, I used a photo of Dylan with the three former Byrds from this exact concert. The section at the top with the title comes from some promotional artwork for this concert, but I cropped and stretched it to fit.

Various Artists - Covered: Fats Domino & Dave Bartholomew, Volume 1: 1949-1989

It's been a long time since the last time I posted something new for my long-standing "Covered" series. But never fear. This series will never die, not as long as I can help it. ;) I enjoy writing songs myself, so I really appreciate talented songwriters. And that's what this series is about, highlighting the songs of the best songwriters through cover versions others have done of their songs.

In most cases in the Covered series so far, the songwriters had most of their hits done by others, such as the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David. But in the case of the songwriting team of Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino had a couple dozen big hits with these songs. Bartholomew also had a solo career, but he just dabbled in that with a small number of records compared to Domino, and didn't have any big hits. However, I wanted to post something from this team, because I get the impression that Domino's songwriting talent isn't well known, compared to say, Chuck Berry from the same era, and Bartholomew's contribution is even less known. I've found enough material for two volumes.

Domino had most of his hits in the 1950s and early 1960s. They were such big hits that I think it took a while before many people decided to make their own versions. So even though this volume begins way early, in 1949, with the songs in chronological order, it quickly moves to the 1970s and after. I didn't include any of Domino's own versions, since the whole point is to highlight these songs through cover versions. However, I did include one song recorded by Bartholomew, since few people have heard his stuff. 

If you want to know more about these two, here are their Wikipedia pages:

Fats Domino - Wikipedia

Dave Bartholomew - Wikipedia 

Domino and Bartholomew had a long and fruitful songwriting collaboration, from Domino's first hit in the late 1940s until 1963, when Domino finally switched record companies. That put him in a different company than Bartholomew and effectively ended their partnership, although it seems they stayed on good terms. That probably was a bad move on Domino's part, since that's when his hits stopped, although the Beatles and the rest of the British Invasion coming the next year probably was a big factor as well. Generally speaking, the songs co-written by both of them were recorded by Domino. But Bartholomew was a producer as well, and he had a number of hits done by others, such as "I Hear You Knocking" and "One Night." Domino died in 2017, and Bartholomew died in 2019.

I'll have more to say in Volume Two. This volume is 44 minutes long.

01 3 x 7 = 21 (Jewel King)
02 Toy Bell (Bees)
03 I'm in Love Again (Fontane Sisters)
04 Shrimp and Gumbo (Dave Bartholomew)
05 I'm Walkin' (Ricky Nelson)
06 The Big Beat (Del Vikings)
07 Witchcraft (Elvis Presley)
08 Let the Four Winds Blow (Searchers)
09 The Land of a Thousand Dances (Wilson Pickett)
10 I Hear You Knocking (Dave Edmunds)
11 Grow Too Old (Bobby Charles)
12 I'm Ready (Band)
13 Sick and Tired [Return of Django] (Neville Grant)
14 Ain't That a Shame (John Lennon)
15 Blue Monday (Cat Stevens)
16 The Fat Man (Robbie Robertson)
17 One Night (Joe Cocker)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17301673/COVRDDOMINBARTH1949-1989Volum1_atse.zip.html

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I couldn't find any good photos of Domino and Bartholomew together when they were young (although I did find a good one for Volume 2), so I had to make one from scratch. I took a photo of Domino and another of Bartholomew and put them together. The one of Domino was in color, but it clearly was colorized by someone before I got my hands on it. I adjusted the colors somewhat to hopefully make the colorization less obvious. I took a black and white photo of Bartholomew and colorized it. He's in a grey jacket and Domino is in a blue one.

UPDATE: On September 29, 2024, I upgraded the photo with the use of the Krea AI program.

Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips - Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY, 8-30-2022

What has British singer-songwriter Richard Thompson been up to lately (as I write this in February 2023)? Unfortunately, he hasn't put out any new albums since the start of the Covid pandemic. However, he has put out two generous EPs, which would make up a nice album. Plus, he's back doing concerts, and he sings and plays just as great as ever. For some reason, this concert from August 2022 was broadcast live on the Internet. It was professionally recorded, and it sounds great, so I figured it's worth sharing here.

I took this from a large video file, and broke it up into individual mp3s. There were no problems. I cut out a little bit of dead air between songs, mostly guitar tuning, but not much. Oh, also, Thompson has developed an annoying habit in recent years of coughing a lot between songs. This concert wasn't so bad compared to what I expected, so maybe he's getting better. But still, I edited out nearly all the coughing.

In recent years, Thompson has been romantically involved with musician Zara Phillips. This is a solo acoustic concert, except Phillips joined in on backing vocals for the second half of the concert. Since she was only there for half of the concert, and didn't say a word between songs, I credited this album to "Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips" rather than "Richard Thompson & Zara Phillips."

This concert left me even more impressed with Thompson's talent. As I write this, he's 73 years old, but he sure as hell doesn't sound like it. He's perfected a technique of playing solo parts while keeping the rhythm going, making it sound like there are two guitars playing at once. But it's all just him. Also, his songwriting is still at a high level. He played a nice mix of older classics and new songs from his recent EPs, plus one song, "Singapore Sadie," that hasn't been released yet.

This concert is an hour and 35 minutes long.

01 talk (Richard Thompson)
02 Gethsemane (Richard Thompson)
03 talk (Richard Thompson)
04 If I Could Live My Life Again (Richard Thompson)
05 talk (Richard Thompson)
06 Genesis Hall (Richard Thompson)
07 talk (Richard Thompson)
08 Turning of the Tide (Richard Thompson)
09 talk (Richard Thompson)
10 Persuasion (Richard Thompson)
11 talk (Richard Thompson)
12 Johnny's Far Away (Richard Thompson)
13 talk (Richard Thompson)
14 She Moves through the Fair (Richard Thompson)
15 talk (Richard Thompson)
16 Walking the Long Miles Home (Richard Thompson)
17 talk (Richard Thompson)
18 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard Thompson)
19 talk (Richard Thompson)
20 Who Knows Where the Time Goes (Richard Thompson)
21 talk (Richard Thompson)
22 Wall of Death (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
23 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
24 Singapore Sadie (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
25 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
26 Word Unspoken, Sight Unseen (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
27 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
28 The Rattle Within (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
29 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
30 Keep Your Distance (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
31 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
32 She Never Could Resist a Winding Road (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
33 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
34 I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
35 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
36 Walking on a Wire (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
37 talk (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
38 The Tinker's Rhapsody (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)
39 She Was Lost in the Crowd (Richard Thompson with Zara Phillips)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/SzkMWYM4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hw48lmbgc1UYZxC/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from the video footage for this concert. However, Thompson and Phillips were a bit father away from each other, but I moved them closer using Photoshop. In January 2025, I upgraded the image with the Krea AI program.

Tom Jones - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: BBC Four Sessions, LSO St Luke's, London, Britain, 9-1-2012

Tom Jones has been confounding me for some time, but in a good way.  When I started this blog back in 2018, it never would have occurred to me to post any of his music. But due to my BBC project, I discovered four albums of BBC sessions, and they were better than I'd expected. Then I discovered no less than six albums of his TV show "This Is Tom Jones," and I was positively surprised again, mostly due to all the duets he had with other famous musical artists. 

Now, I've discovered another BBC concert he did from 2012. Normally, I wouldn't be interested. By this time, Jones had been in the music business for nearly 50 years. I've found that most artists that old are way past their prime, and just doing the same stuff they'd done a lot better decades earlier. But in 2010, Jones reinvented himself. He put out "Praise and Blame," a rootsy album that mostly consisted of gospel and blues covers, with a non-commercial sound significantly different from everything else he'd done in his long career. His record company was appalled, with one top executive calling his new album a "sick joke" and trying hard to prevent it from being released. However, Jones had the last laugh, because that album went all the way to Number One in the British charts. 

Jones has stuck with this new style ever since, getting the best critical reviews of his career. In 2012, he put out another album, "Spirit in the Room." This BBC concert pretty much consists entirely either of songs from "Praise and Blame" and "Spirit in the Room." There's none of his earlier hits, no "It's Not Unusual," no "Green, Green Grass of Home," none of that stuff. It's refreshing that he was taking risks in his seventies.

I don't think a musical bootleg of this concert has existed until I made it. I found a high quality video of the concert and converted it into mp3s. There were no problems needing fixing. I had to dig pretty deep the find out the date of the recording and other details though.

You might like this, even if you don't like his well-known hits. Consider that he opened the show with a lesser known Bob Dylan song and closed it with a lesser known Leonard Cohen one to show this is not the Tom Jones you'd normally expect. 

This concert is an hour and 13 minutes long.

UPDATE: On September 27, 2024, I changed the title from "Volume 5" to "Volume 6" due to finding a "Volume 4" I'd previously missed.

01 What Good Am I (Tom Jones)
02 talk (Tom Jones)
03 Hit or Miss (Tom Jones)
04 talk (Tom Jones)
05 Strange Things Happening Every Day (Tom Jones)
06 Ain't No Grave (Tom Jones)
07 Dimming of the Day (Tom Jones)
08 talk (Tom Jones)
09 Fall In and Follow the Band (Tom Jones with Tom Paley)
10 talk (Tom Jones with Tom Paley)
12 Sitting on Top of the World (Tom Jones with Tom Paley)
13 Trouble Me (Tom Jones with Tom Paley)
14 Burning Hell (Tom Jones)
15 talk (Tom Jones)
16 Black, Brown and White (Tom Jones & Josh Osho)
17 talk (Tom Jones)
18 Wisely and Slow (Tom Jones with the Staves)
19 talk (Tom Jones with the Staves)
20 You Don't Knock (Tom Jones with the Staves)
21 talk (Tom Jones)
22 If I Give My Soul (Tom Jones)
23 talk (Tom Jones)
24 You Gotta Move (Tom Jones with Seasick Steve)
25 talk (Tom Jones with Seasick Steve)
26 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (Tom Jones with Seasick Steve)
27 talk (Tom Jones with Seasick Steve)
28 It's a Long, Long Way (Tom Jones with Seasick Steve & the Staves)
29 talk (Tom Jones)
30 Run On (Tom Jones)
31 Didn't It Rain (Tom Jones with the Staves)
32 talk (Tom Jones)
33 Tower of Song (Tom Jones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17171839/TOMJNS2012BBSessonsVolum6BBFourSessons__9-1-2012_atse.zip.html

alternate link:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ye9LaUwq

The cover photo is of Jones in 2012, but I don't know the details.

Album Volume Balance and Mp3 Tag Fixes Are Finished!

Posting music on this blog has been a learning process. About a year ago, I realized that I'd screwed up in that I didn't adjust the volume balance between songs on albums where the songs came from different source. So sometimes one song would be really loud and another would be really quiet. All the songs also have extra information posted in their mp3 tags, such as the years the songs were recorded and what the sources are. But also around a year ago, I realized that I'd made a mistake in putting the source info in the same mp3 tag field as the album name. So I decided to fix both of those things at once.

Making those fixes was a really big pain in the rear. I've had to go through most of the albums I've posted here (except for concerts from a single source) and make volume edits to a majority of the songs, as well as changing the album and comment fields for all those songs. Then I had to re-zip and re-upload all those albums. I sure which I'd done these things right in the first place! It's taken me seemingly zillions of tedious hours, bit by bit, over the course of the last year. I'm very happy to announce that I'm finally done. I may have missed a few albums here and there. If so, definitely please let me know. But the vast, vast majority should be fixed.

With these fixes, the albums I've posted should sound better. But also, they should play better in some music programs like iTunes. Sometimes there still is a problem when an album has a mix of different artists on them. For instance, if there's a concert with half of the songs just featuring Paul Simon solo and then the second half featuring Simon and Garfunkel, some programs get confused and have trouble treating that like one album. I can't do anything about that, because I have to be honest about who played on which songs. But at least the stray tracks albums I've made won't be split into lots of different albums by such programs, as they used to be.

Various Artists - Bill McClintock Mash-Ups, Volume 3: 2019-2021

Here's the third volume of mash-ups by the twisted mind of Bill McClintock. 

If you don't know who McClintock is, or what this is about, I suggest you check out the comments from the first volume in this series. But, in short, this isn't music played or sung by him. Instead, he makes mash-ups by combining two or sometimes three songs together by famous artists. He's the best mash-up creator I've come across, by far, at least so far. He has a particular penchant for mashing together hard rock or heavy metal songs with pop or soul music to create what sometimes sounds like a brand new genre, which has been called "soul metal" or "disco metal." You really should give it a listen. If nothing else, it's very unusual and interesting.

As with the other volumes in this series, the naming of the songs and the artists is a bit complicated. First comes to combined name of the mash-up, then the names of the songs that were mashed together in brackets. Then the names of the artists for each of the original songs. The mash-up names were made by McClintock, although I occasionally made some tweaks.

This album is an hour and three minutes long.

01 Still of the Boogie [Still of the Night vs. Keep on Truckin'] (Whitesnake vs. Eddie Kendricks)
02 I Can't Get Closer for That [I Can't Go for That vs. Closer] (Hall & Oates vs. Nine Inch Nails)
03 War Puppets Rise to Heaven [War Pigs vs. Rise. vs. Master of Puppets] (Black Sabbath vs, Herb Alpert vs. Metallica)
04 I Got Girls [I Feel Good] [Girls, Girls, Girls vs. I Got You [I Feel Good]] (James Brown vs. Motley Crue)
05 You Make September Fun [You Make Loving Fun vs. September] (Fleetwood Mac vs. Earth, Wind & Fire)
06 Dance Memories [Dance, Dance, Dance vs. Dead Memories] (Chic vs. Slipknot)
07 Chop Around the Suey [Chop Suey vs. All Around the World] (System of a Down vs. Justin Bieber)
08 Flying Hot Stuff [Flying High Again & Hot Stuff] (Ozzy Osbourne & Donna Summer)
09 Closer to Fire the Fame [Closer vs. Fire. vs. Fame] (Nine Inch Nails vs. Ohio Players vs. David Bowie)
10 Stop, Listen, and Bust a Move [For What It's Worth vs. Bust a Move] (Buffalo Springfield vs. Young MC)
11 Bad Mother [Bad Girls vs. Mother] (Donna Summer vs. Danzig)
12 Superkill [Super Bad vs. Overkill] (James Brown vs. Motorhead)
13 Girls, Girls, Girls, and Your Mamma, Too [Girls, Girls, Girls vs. Word Up] (Motley Crue vs. Cameo)
14 Rime of the Good Times [Rime of the Ancient Mariner vs. Good Times] (Iron Maiden vs. Chic)
15 South of Christmas [South of Heaven vs. Last Christmas] (Slayer vs. Wham)
16 Chained Uptight [Unchained vs. Uptight] (Van Halen vs. Stevie Wonder)
17 Hip to Be the Sandman [Hip to Be Square vs. Enter Sandman] (Huey Lewis & the News vs. Metallica)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XZ3JhywQ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/hhQc4CuSZvFvTSd/file

As with the two previous volumes, the cover uses a logo from Bill McClintock's YouTube page, plus a photo of him I added in the middle of it. I used a different background color to help differentiate it from the previous volume.

The Byrds - The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA, 2-9-1978

David Crosby reunited with other key members of the Byrds for three acoustic concerts in the late 1970s. I've posted one of those concerts already, which took place at the Boarding House in San Francisco in December 1977. There's another one that took place at the Roxy in Los Angeles in early 1978. I don't know much about that, since it hasn't been bootlegged, but all four of the band's original singer-songwriters united there: Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, and Gene Clark.

Finally, there's this concert, which also took place at the Boarding House in San Francisco, but in February 1978. Again, Crosby, McGuinn, Hillman, and Clark reunited on stage. We're lucky, because this concert was broadcast live on the local radio station KSAN, so this bootleg recording exists with professional sounding quality.

There are pluses and minuses of this concert compared to the December 1977 one at the Boatding House. In that one, Hillman wasn't there. So this is a fuller reunion. In fact, I could be wrong, but I think the only time after this that these four appeared on stage together was for their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in 1991. The earlier show was longer by about twenty minutes, and they did some great, lesser known songs that they didn't do here, such as "She Don't Care about Time," "Wild Mountain Thyme," and "Chimes of Freedom." So that one is definitely worth hearing. But the sound quality is better for this one, and the performance was more assured.

Just like the December 1977 show, the concert began with solo spots for most of the members. Crosby didn't do a solo spot, but Clark, McGuinn, and Hillman did two songs each. Hillman was assisted on vocals by a female singer, Kim O'Kelley, who had been singing with him in his solo concerts at the time.

There was a major sound quality issue with one of Clark's songs, however: "Release Me Girl." The acoustic guitar sounded great, but the vocals were all messed up. For nearly all of the song, the vocals were quiet and distant. I tried using the audio editing program X-Minus to boost them, but when I did they still sounded muffled and bad. Only near the very end of the song was an apparent problem with the microphone fixed, and Clark came through loud and clear. So instead, I used X-Minus to strip the vocals entirely from the song. Then I took the vocals from another concert around this time and patched that it, carefully matching the pitch and tempo and so forth. That one happened to have McGuinn joining in on backing vocals, so there's that bonus now, even though he didn't actually do that for this show. 

The vast majority of this concert had all four of the Byrds on stage singing and playing together. Clark and McGuinn had been doing an acoustic tour together in late 1977, so they knew these songs and arrangements well. Hillman had joined that tour by this time, so he had gotten up to speed with them. However, like the previous Boarding House show, Crosby was flying by the seat of his pants, often singing harmonies on songs that the Byrds did only after he'd left the band in 1967, such as "Chestnut Mare," "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere," and "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," not to mention relatively new songs like "Crazy Ladies" and "Bye Bye Baby." Still, a fun time was had by all.

These reunion concerts led to three of the ex-Byrds forming the band "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman." They wrote some good new songs. Unfortunately, when they put out two albums, one called "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman" in 1979 and the other called "City" in 1980, they opted for a slick, contemporary sound that didn't suit them, even touching on disco at times. They deliberately stayed away from their 1960s Byrds sound, such as the distinctive use of the Richenbacher guitar by McGuinn. This was a big mistake. They sounded much better in concert.

As part of wanting a contemporary sound and moving away from the Byrds sound, they didn't want to get too involved with Crosby. When they recorded their first album "McGuinn, Clark and Hillman" in Miami, Crosby actually flew there from the West Coast with the idea of adding harmonies to one or more of the songs, only to have that rejected by the others. That led to more bad feelings, so there were no more reunions for a long time. The next time Crosby appeared on stage with McGuinn and Hillman would be in 1989, when the three of them did a few concerts as the Byrds as part of a legal battle to win the rights to the band's name from the band's original drummer, Michael Clarke. They did some other things together around that time, including some studio recordings, before petering out again around 1991.

It so happens that there aren't any really good bootleg recordings of those 1989 reunion shows. As a result, this show and the 1977 Boarding House show stand out as the best documents of Byrds reunion shows. They're all the more important because not many recordings has survived of the original Byrds on stage back in the 1960s when Crosby was still in the band.

This concert has been bootlegged many times, often with the name "Doin' Alright for Old People," based on a comment Clark made between songs. In recent years, due to European copyright law, different "grey market" versions of this have gone on sale. However, don't be fooled. Those are basically bootlegs, with none of the profits going to the actual artists. I imagine there are legal complications to getting the rights of all four band members, so this probably will never be officially released. Ditto with the 1977 reunion show. But at least we have the bootlegs.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. By the way, for the 1977 show, I merged an early and late show together. This time, I don't know if there was just one show, or if only one was recorded. Either way, this is just one complete show this time.

01 Silver Raven (Gene Clark)
02 Release Me Girl [Edit] (Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn)
03 talk (Gene Clark & Roger McGuinn)
04 Bound to Fall (Chris Hillman & Kim O'Kelly)
05 It Doesn't Matter (Chris Hillman & Kim O'Kelly)
06 The Ballad of Easy Rider (Roger McGuinn)
07 Jolly Roger (Roger McGuinn)
08 talk (Byrds)
09 Chestnut Mare (Byrds)
10 Crazy Ladies (Byrds)
11 talk (Byrds)
12 Train Leaves Here This Morning (Byrds)
13 talk (Byrds)
14 Mr. Tambourine Man (Byrds)
15 talk (Byrds)
16 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Byrds)
17 talk (Byrds)
18 Turn, Turn, Turn [To Everything There Is a Season] (Byrds)
19 Knockin' on Heaven's Door (Byrds)
20 talk (Byrds)
21 Bye Bye Baby (Byrds)
22 So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star (Byrds)
23 talk (Byrds)
24 Eight Miles High (Byrds)
25 talk (Byrds)
26 I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better (Byrds)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qdyP1RJV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DruVk426eazcwY5/file

alternate:

https://www.upload.ee/files/15278258/TByrd_1978_TheBoardngHouseSanFrnciscoCA__2-9-1978_atse.zip.html

What I did to try to get an accurate, color photo is a bit complicated. I found one photo that showed all four Byrds here on stage at the Boarding House in the late 1970s. It had to be this exact show, because it had Hillman in it, and he wasn't there for the 1977 show. However, that photo was only in black and white, and the band members were spread out on stage, making it not a good one to use for the cover. I found another one in color with them wearing exact same clothes, so that one must also have been from this exact concert. However, by chance, that one didn't have Hillman in it. So I took another photo of Hillman from a different late 1970s concert and used Photoshop to add him in.

For the band name at the top, like I did with the 1977 show, I used the lettering from the band's 1973 reunion album "Byrds."