Various Artists - Lowell George Tribute Concert, The Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 8-4-1979

If you recognize this as an album I've posted here already, you are absolutely correct. But I'm deleting that version and reposting it because it's been significantly expanded, and I don't want people to miss it. The previous version (posted in August 2025) was 52 minutes long, and this version is an hour and 37 minutes long, so it's almost doubled in size.

This expansion is due to the fact that I randomly came across another bootleg of this concert with a mostly different bunch of songs. Happily, that version has soundboard quality, just like the previous version. In fact, some of the existing songs sounded better, so I've upgraded them.

Lowell George was the lead guitarist and a key songwriter for the band Little Feat throughout the 1970s. In 1979, the band split up due to creative differences, and George released a solo album. He announced plans to restart the band with a slightly different line-up. But on June 29, 1979, while on tour to support his solo album, he died of a heart attack related to an accidental heroin overdose. He was only 34 years old. Only a couple of months after his death, a tribute concert was held in Los Angeles to celebrate his life and his music. Here is what remains available from it.

I found a 1979 New York Times article about this concert, so I know a little bit about it. Here's the article link (though it may not work for you if you don't have a subscription):

https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/06/archives/pop-coast-tribute-to-lowell-george.html 

According to the article, the proceeds from the concert were given to George's family. The concert lasted almost three hours. In addition to the big names included in this album, some others also took part, like Michael McDonald of the Doobie Brothers, Eric Kaz, Craig Fuller, J. D. Souther, Ted Tempelman, and the Tower of Power.

Generally speaking, Little Feat was the backing band for most of the concert. But I didn't include them in most of the song credits because that would have made the song names longer and I didn't know for sure who played on which song.

The article states that some big musical stars, like Bob Dylan and the Eagles, wanted to perform at the concert as well. However, the surviving Little Feat band members who organized the concert decided to keep it to just the other musicians who knew George well. There also was pressure to have more than one concert, since interest was extremely high, but they decided not to go that route either.

The concert was filmed and recorded with the idea of later releasing an album or film of it. But so far, only one song mentioned has been officially released, "All That You Dream," on the Little Feat album "Hoy Hoy." I've read on social media that it is believed the rest of the film footage has been lost. 

I'm posting this album almost entirely due to the efforts of musical friend Lil Panda. In August 2025, he sent me this concert out of the blue. He'd found a video from the concert on YouTube. The sound quality was fundamentally good, but it had issues. I asked him what he did to fix it, and this was his reply: "Phase correction, azimuth adjustment, de-clicking, music rebalance (different for almost every song... trial and error), the repair assistant (vocal work), and spectral repair." So, thanks to his work, this should sound much better than ever before.

Furthermore, I made some additional changes, since I'm more willing to make changes to bootlegs if I think it improves the overall recording. I noticed some minor drop-outs here and there, usually only a second or less of silence. I patched those up when I found them. That's why four of the songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. "For a Dancer" also was merged from two versions.

In addition, I made another edit to all the songs. That's because the video usually cut the cheering at the ends of the songs short, to just a couple of seconds. It didn't sound right to me. So I did some copying and pasting of cheering from one song to another until all the songs had a decent amount of applause. 

Thanks again to Lil Panda for digging this up, improving it, and sending it to me. 

All of the above applies to the songs sources from the video. But in October 2026, I found many more songs from some unknown soundboard source. These generally sound better so I didn't have to do as much editing work on them. 

I have yet to find a definitive list of all the songs that were played in this concert. However, a person named Steve Combs did a lot of research on this concert, trying to find mentions from newspaper articles and other sources about which songs were performed and who played on each. I used his research to put together the song order. Even his research is incomplete. But, from that, I was able to find yet more songs that were played and we still don't have any recordings for. 

So here is a special song list of the songs here, plus ones still missing. The unnumbered songs with dashes in front of them are the ones that are still missing. Note that some of the ones on the bootleg I found weren't included on the list made by Steve Combs, suggesting there probably are still more songs we don't even know about.

But from what we do know, it seems Emmylou Harris and Little Feat were particularly unlucky. We only have recordings of one of three songs from Harris's set, and one out of five songs from Little Feat's set, although the concert did end with three more Little Feat songs, which we do have.

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
- Lotta Love (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
- Trouble (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
02 Rhumba Girl [Rhumba Man] (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt with the Tower of Power)
- Don't Break My Heart (Nicolette Larson with, Michael McDonald, Pat Simmons & the Tower of Power)
- Two More Bottles (Emmylou Harris)
03 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
- Love Hurts (Emmylou Harris & Linda Ronstadt)
- Time Loves a Hero (Little Feat)
- Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
- Old Folks Boogie (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
04 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
- Rock and Roll Doctor  (Little Feat)
- I Thank You (Bonnie Raitt)
- Standing by the Same Old Love (Bonnie Raitt)
05 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 About to Make Me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt with Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald & Rosemary Butler)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler & Doug Haywood)
13 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Walking Slow [Edit] (Jackson Browne with the Tower of Power)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Love Needs a Heart (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 Peace Divine (Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther & Linda Ronstadt)
24 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
25 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
26 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
27 Rescue Me [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
- Just One Look (Linda Ronstadt)
28 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
29 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
30 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
31 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
32 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

This album is and hour and 37 minutes long. 

Here's the usual song list, consisting of just the ones actually included here: 

01 Tears, Tears and More Tears (Nicolette Larson with the Tower of Power)
02 Rhumba Girl [Rhumba Man] (Nicolette Larson & Linda Ronstadt with the Tower of Power)
03 Here, There and Everywhere (Emmylou Harris)
04 Oh Atlanta [Edit] (Little Feat with Bonnie Raitt, Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
05 Angel from Montgomery (Bonnie Raitt)
06 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
07 About to Make Me Leave Home (Bonnie Raitt)
08 Runaway (Bonnie Raitt with Michael McDonald)
09 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
10 Under the Falling Sky (Bonnie Raitt with Jackson Browne, Michael McDonald & Rosemary Butler)
11 talk (Bonnie Raitt)
12 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler & Doug Haywood)
13 For a Dancer [Edit] (Jackson Browne)
14 talk (Jackson Browne)
15 Walking Slow [Edit] (Jackson Browne with the Tower of Power)
16 talk (Jackson Browne)
17 Your Bright Baby Blues (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Here Come Those Tears Again (Jackson Browne with Rosemary Butler)
20 talk (Jackson Browne)
21 Love Needs a Heart (Jackson Browne)
22 talk (Jackson Browne)
23 Peace Divine (Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther & Linda Ronstadt)
24 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
25 The Shoop Shoop Song [It's in His Kiss] (Linda Ronstadt & Nicolette Larson)
26 talk (Linda Ronstadt)
27 Rescue Me [Edit] (Linda Ronstadt)
28 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson)
29 Blowin' Away (Linda Ronstadt & Bonnie Raitt)
30 All That You Dream (Linda Ronstadt with Nicolette Larson & Rosemary Butler)
31 Willin' (Linda Ronstadt with Emmylou Harris, Rosemary Butler & Nicolette Larson)
32 Dixie Chicken (Little Feat & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/roHWDUv2

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/BHOkn5WVi26Ilw3/file

I had difficulty finding any decent photographs from this concert. There's an entire video of it on YouTube, as mentioned above, but the image quality is very low-res. I eventually found one image I was okay with, which I used as the cover. From right to left, it shows Nicolette Larson, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, and Linda Ronstadt. Souther's prominent role is a bit ironic, since he doesn't feature in the actual music here, due to whatever songs he was in not making it to the video. It kind of looks like I edited the photo to squish everyone close together, but in fact that's how it was in the original.

The image was still in pretty poor shape, so I tried to use the Krea AI program to improve it. But I could only do so much, so it's still rough. I also couldn't change the lighting that turned most everything orange, though I tried to make it more colorful.

Jefferson Airplane - Polo Field, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 9-30-1989

Jefferson Airplane is reknowned for the great music they did in the 1960s and early 1970s. But the band also got back with all the key members for a reunion album and tour in 1989. That's pretty much been forgotten because the album (cleverly titled "Jefferson Airplane") was pretty bad. But the same couldn't be said of the tour, since they mostly played their older classics. It turns out there's a recording of the very last concert the band ever played together. Unfortunately, it was merely a good audience bootleg. But I did a lot of work on it. Now, it sounds close to soundboard-level quality, in my opinion.

The key five members of Jefferson Airplane were Grace Slick, Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Jack Casady, and Jorma Kaukonen. After the band broke up around 1972, they continued to play in various combinations. Slick, Kantner, and sometimes Balin played in Jefferson Starship, then later just Starship, for most of the 1970s and 80s. Meanwhile, Casady and Kaukonen spent most of their time at Hot Tuna. But there were exceptions. For instance, in 1986, Kantner, Balin, and Casady joined forces as the KBC Band and put out an album with that same name.

By the mid-1980s, Slick was the only original Jefferson Airplane member in Starship. That band had big commercial success, with the song "We Built This City" reaching Number One on the U.S. singles chart in 1986, and then "Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now" also reaching Number One in 1987. But the songs were critically panned, with "We Built This City" in particular sometimes appearing on worst songs of all time lists. Slick decided she wanted out, and left Starship in 1988. (It continued with other band members, led by lead vocalist Mickey Thomas.) 

Slick actually decided to leave the music business altogether. She later stated, "All rock-and-rollers over the age of 50 look stupid and should retire." But before quitting, she agreed to one last album and tour with the original Jefferson Airplane. This concert pretty much was the end of her music career. She only made occasional brief appearances in concerts after this. For instance, she sang with a revived Jefferson Starship (now led by Kantner) for a few songs for a 1995 concert, and then again for a 2001 concert. But that was about it. So kudos to her for sticking to her principles.

Interestingly, this concert completely skipped all the Starship hits, and only played one Jefferson Starship hit, "Miracles." All the other songs were from the 1960s or early 1970s or the band's 1989 reunion album.

This final concert came about due to a benefit project led by Paul Kantner. The idea was to have a free concert at Golden Gate Park. But everyone who attended was supposed to bring a can of food to give to the San Francisco Food Bank. About 60,000 people attended, and donated about 45,000 pounds of food.

Here's what a newspaper review said about the concert at the time: "Jefferson Airplane rocked the Polo Field, their sound ringing through the massive infield, bouncing off eucalyptus and cypress trees and echoing deep into the woods. The crowd was a jumble of aging hippies and second-generation tie-dye teenagers, smiling cops and mellow Hells Angels, babies, dogs and old-fashioned Park winos." I believe the only opening act was Hot Tuna. But I don't have that recording. 

Here's an interesting article about the concert from a local newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, at the time. The quote above comes from it:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/When-Jefferson-Airplane-s-1980s-reunion-14447131.php

To improve the sound quality, I edited every single song. I ran the songs through the MVSEP program once to get rid of crowd noise during the songs (but keeping the cheering at the ends). I then ran all the songs through that program again to boost the lead vocals relative to the instrumental portions. Then I ran the songs a third time to reduce the reverb. The original version sounded decent, but I think this sounds a lot better.

This album is two hours and 18 minutes long. 

01 talk by Bill Graham (Jefferson Airplane)
02 She Has Funny Cars (Jefferson Airplane)
03 Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)
04 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
05 Plastic Fantastic Lover (Jefferson Airplane)
06 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
07 Won't You Try - Saturday Afternoon (Jefferson Airplane)
08 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
09 Today (Jefferson Airplane)
10 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
11 Good Shepherd (Jefferson Airplane)
12 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
13 Lather (Jefferson Airplane)
14 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
15 Solidarity (Jefferson Airplane)
16 Wooden Ships (Jefferson Airplane)
17 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
18 America (Jefferson Airplane)
19 Freedom (Jefferson Airplane)
20 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
21 Third Week in the Chelsea (Jefferson Airplane)
22 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
23 Panda Song (Jefferson Airplane)
24 Miracles (Jefferson Airplane)
25 The Wheel (Jefferson Airplane)
26 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
27 Ice Age (Jefferson Airplane)
28 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
29 Summer of Love (Jefferson Airplane)
30 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
31 True Love (Jefferson Airplane)
32 Planes (Jefferson Airplane)
33 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
34 Volunteers (Jefferson Airplane)
35 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
36 It's No Secret (Jefferson Airplane)
37 Rock Me Baby (Jefferson Airplane)
38 Crown of Creation (Jefferson Airplane)
39 3-5ths of a Mile in Ten Seconds (Jefferson Airplane)
40 talk by Bill Graham (Jefferson Airplane)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2Ha2HRXP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/itRGAaWf9h50w0F/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. From left to right: Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, and Grace Slick. I couldn't find a good photo showing all five band members, since they were scattered around the stage.

James Brown with the Brothers Johnson - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 10-8-1976

It feels like it's been ages since I've last posted any episodes of the "Midnight Special" TV show. But don't worry. Although I'm currently focused more on some other projects, like the Port Chester and Bob Matthews leaks, I still will get around to all the "Midnight Special" stuff eventually. Here's one, featuring soul music legend James Brown, with a couple of songs from the Brothers Johnson included.

From about 1963 to 1976, James Brown had a remarkable and seemingly endless series of dozens of soul music hits. But 1976 would be the end of this successful phase in his career. He had a good hit that year with "Get Up Offa That Thing," which made it to Number 4 in the U.S. soul music chart, and just missed the Top Forty pop chart. But disco was coming on strong, and he didn't do well with disco. He wouldn't have another Top Ten soul hit until 1985, with "Living in America."

Even so, in 1976, he was popular enough to host "The Midnight Special" twice, for episodes that were aired on August 6, 1976, and October 8, 1976. (As usual with this show, I don't know the actual recording dates for those.) To get enough material, I combined his performances from both shows. The first eight tracks come from August 6, 1976, and the rest come from October 8, 1976, including two songs by the Brothers Johnson. Since there's more from the October show, I put that one in the title.

As usual, I cut out many of the other musical acts. In case you're curious, for the August show, the other acts were Alice Cooper, Seals and Crofts, J.D. Souther, Rhythm Heritage, and a prerecorded video by Elton John and Kiki Dee. For the October show, the other acts were Black Oak Arkansas with Ruby Starr, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Walter Murphy, and Alan Meyer.  

I probably don't post these "Midnight Special" shows because they are a hassle to put together. Also as usual, I had to do a lot of work to get the cheering to end naturally at the ends of songs, since in most cases there were quick cuts to the next acts or to commercials. Also, I did some special edits to the first two tracks, which is why both of those have "[Edit]" in their titles. Generally, I got rid of mentions of other musical acts that I cut out, as well as getting rid of the opening theme song music.

The Brothers Johnson didn't do any songs with James Brown, but I included them also since their style of funk music was a good match with his. They released their debut album, "Look Out for No. 1," in 1976, and had two big hits right away, "Get the Funk Out Ma Face" and "I'll Be Good to You." Those were the two songs they performed here.

Here's their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Johnson

This album is 38 minutes long. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 talk [Edit] (James Brown & Wolfman Jack)
03 Get Up [I Feel like Being A] Sex Machine (James Brown)
04 Get on the Good Foot (James Brown)
05 Get Up Offa That Thing (James Brown)
06 Try Me (James Brown)
07 It's a Man's Man's Man's World (James Brown)
08 Everybody Wanna Get Funky One More Time (James Brown)
09 The Payback (James Brown)
10 talk (James Brown)
11 Get the Funk Out Ma Face (Brothers Johnson)
12 Cold Sweat (James Brown)
13 Papa's Got a Brand New Bag (James Brown)
14 I'll Be Good to You (Brothers Johnson)
15 Please, Please, Please (James Brown)
16 Doing It to Death (James Brown)
17 talk (James Brown)
18 Doing It to Death [Reprise] (James Brown)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FUKmytdy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NuOjGcWZlD5QotZ/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from the August 6, 1976 broadcast.

Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - New Old Fillmore, San Francisco, CA, 4-10-1970

Here's a great Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks concert bootleg that wasn't in the public domain until today - as I write this on October 7, 2026. It was made public as part of the Bob Matthews collection that I talked about previously.

In late September 2026, I posted a handful of concerts from the Bob Matthews collection. Since then, new bootlegs have continued to become public from that collection, at roughly one per day. But I haven't posted any in a while for one reason or another. For instance, there has been a big stretch of releases of Youngbloods concerts - nine of them in the last two weeks. They're all pretty similar, so I was good with posting just one. Some others were only partial concerts. But whenever I come across one I like, such as this one, I'll try to make posting it a priority.

The venue of this concert confused me at first: "The New Old Fillmore." The history of venues in San Francisco with the name Fillmore in it is confusing. At first, there was "The Fillmore," which was run by promoter Bill Graham from 1966 to 1968. But the neighborhood was getting dangerous and the place was rather small, so he moved to a new location (previously known as the Carousel Ballroom) in the summer of 1968. He opened up another venue in New York City at the same time, so these two places became known as the Fillmore West (San Francisco) and Fillmore East (New York City). 

What happened to the old Fillmore though? I didn't know this until putting this album together today, but from about mid-1969 to mid-1970 it was taken over by new management and renamed "The New Old Fillmore." So that's where this concert took place. This new management was associated with the band the Flamin' Groovies, so I presume they played there a lot. And, in fact, the Bob Matthews collection has already released a Flamin' Groovies concert at this venue from the day after this, April 11, 1970, but I didn't post it because it's partial recording consisting of two and a half songs. However, I managed to find out that on at least April 10th and 11th, there were four acts on the bill each night: the Amboy Dukes, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, the Flamin' Groovies, and the headliners, Hot Tuna. Since this has been posted and that partial Flamin' Groovies one has been posted too, I'm hopeful we'll get the other sets from those days as well. We'll see.

By the way, the Fillmore West and Fillmore East closed down in the summer of 1971. The original Fillmore eventually reopened in 1994 and has stayed open ever since. Once again, it's just called "The Fillmore." (Although, given that it's technically the successor to the "New Old Fillmore," maybe it should be called the "New New Old Fillmore!") 

This is a fun set. I wasn't familiar with Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks until recently, but I'm liking them more and more. The sound quality is fantastic, like most of the Bob Matthews collection so far. There was some background noise on the talking tracks, but I got rid of most of that with the help of the MVSEP program. 

This album is 45 minutes long. 

01 talk (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
02 How Can I Miss You When You Won’t Go Away (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
03 talk (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
04 By Hook or by Crook (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
05 talk (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
06 Canned Music (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
07 talk (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
08 Cheaters Don't Win (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
09 talk (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
10 Shorty Falls in Love (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
11 News from Up the Street (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
12 talk (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
13 Milk Shakin' Mama (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
14 I Scare Myself (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)
15 talk by emcee (Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RPJdAkHT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/BMnOEGgeAxWktSZ/file

The cover image comes from a TV show appearance from around this time. It might be the Flip Wilson show, since I found a low-res video of the band performing there with the same clothes and background, but they might have used that background and wore those same clothes as a regular thing at the time, I don't know. Anyway, the photo was in color but rather small and low quality. I improved it with the use of the Gemini program.

A Printed Version of the Maximum Wall Booklet?

Fabio from Rio was instrumental in making the 180 page booklet for Pink Floyd's "Maximum Wall," and he's very interested in making some printed copies. He has written an announcement to that effect. So here's his words on this topic: 

Hi folks, since I've commented I'm getting printed copy of the booklet for myself, I've been getting some requests for other printed copies. So I'd like to share some ideas of how this can be done.

I've been getting some quotes from printing stores here in Rio, Brazil, and as expected, printing just a single copy is quite expensive - practically unfeasible. But if you print a larger quantity, the cost per copy drops dramatically. That’s the beauty of economies of scale.

So what I would suggest to anyone here who is considering having the book printed, is to look around in your area (country or state) for other people who might also be interested, and then print a larger batch - 10, 20 or more copies. The more you print, the cheaper it gets.

Try reaching out to Pink Floyd fan groups on social media, perhaps even sharing the link to this page. Or you can even ask here at the comments section to this post. I'm sure there will be people interested. Then it's just a matter of figuring out the logistics of getting the copies to everyone.

I can't really offer to organize this myself because I'm in Brazil, and it wouldn't make much economic sense to print the books here and then ship them all over the world when you can do it locally. But I'm already in touch with other fans here in Brazil and with a few in Argentina. My goal is to get somewhere between 40 and 50 people interested, because at that point the individual printing cost drops considerably. But even if I only manage to get 10 or 20 people, I'll still print them and distribute them here - including the CDs!

So I'd suggest doing the same in your own area. Get a few fans together, print a larger batch, and share the cost. It should make the whole thing much more affordable for everyone.

Finally, if there are other Brazilian fans around that are interested, please let me know. I may also consider requests from neighbor countries (you will have to support a higher shipping and handling cost, and additional costs and taxes may apply).

Also, I will be doing all this for free, with zero profit, not including any margin over the printing, shipping and handling costs. 

I don't know the final cost yet (it will depend on how many copies are printed), but depending on the paper quality and other details, I expect something around the equivalent of 80 to 100 US dollars for each copy, plus shipping and handling,  for the "superdeluxe" version (hard cover, high quality paper and 4 CDs). I'm also quoting a budget-friendly option (soft cover, not so obscenely expensive quality paper, and perhaps no CDs) for those that just want a hard copy but don't want or can't afford the most expensive version. That one should cost around 40 dollars here in Brazil (or less if we can get enough scale).

But again, these are just estimates - for the Brazilian printed version. Things may well be extra expensive in Brazil. You should get your own quotes from your local printing stores; you may get even better prices there!

Finally, if any of you have other ideas on how to do it with a lower cost, share your thoughts in the comments section here. Even better is if you could offer to be a local hub in your state or country and/or ask for other interested parties near your vicinity.

Pink Floyd - Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA, 9-22-1972

So, how to follow up posting a great Pink Floyd recording? How about with another great Pink Floyd recording? Some weeks ago (as I write this in October 2026), a commenter pointed out this bootleg. I don't remember the name of that person, but if it's you, please take a bow in the comments section. I already had posted a 1972 Pink Floyd concert with a similar set list. But this sounds so good I thought it deserved to be posted too. Plus, I felt I could make some audio edits to get it to sound even better.

This version of this bootleg was new to me, but it looks like it was posted by Jimfisheye and neonknight back in 2023. They did a ton of work on it. I've included a text file from them that details all that. The key is that the concert was being performed in quadrophonic sound, meaning there were four main speaker areas, and each one was broadcasting a slightly different mix, emphasizing different instruments. So the output sounded a bit different depending on where you were sitting in the venue. This would be hard to adequately capture by a taper. But luckily, for this concert, there wasn't just one taper, by six. All were operating independently at the time. But later, when their efforts were combined, it turned out they had a good spread, capturing all music from the four main speaker areas. Then a lot of work was done by Jimfisheye and neonknight to combine all those recordings into one stereo mix.

Thus, before I even touched this, it sounded impressive. But there were problems, in my opinion. The main one was that sometimes there were people sitting near one or more of the tapers who made noise, sometimes carrying on entire conversations, that was captured and could be heard in the final mix. Now that it's 2026, and audio editing technology keeps getting better and better, we're able to get rid of most of that. So that's what I did, using the MVSEP program. I also had some help from Mike Solof with splitting the files and putting them back again. That took a lot of work, because we split the files multiple times, getting rid of crowd noise, boosting the vocals relative to the instruments, and other similar changes.

In my opinion, this now sounds as good as typical bootlegs of the era. And that's a great thing, because there don't seem to be any actual soundboard recordings of a 1972 concert like this that has survived and become public. The classic "Dark Side of the Moon" album wouldn't be released until 1973, but the band performed the entire album for most of their 1972 concerts, and that's the case here. Slowly but surely, they were making improvements. A couple of songs still were to undergo big transformations, as you can see in the song title list.  

But the "Dark Side" part is less than half of the entire concert. That lasted 45 minutes. Then the band played another hour and 15 minutes performing songs from earlier albums. 

This album is two hours and four minutes long.

01 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
02 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
03 The Travel Sequence [Early Version of On the Run] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
04 Time (Pink Floyd)
05 The Mortality Sequence [Early Version of The Great Gig in the Sky] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
06 Money (Pink Floyd)
07 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
08 Any Color You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
09 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
10 Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
11 One of These Days (Pink Floyd)
12 Careful with That Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
13 Echoes (Pink Floyd)
14 A Saucerful of Secrets (Pink Floyd)
15 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/atJB7TnX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/lyLi4KEjGgECTwx/file

I couldn't find any good photos or posters from this exact concert. But I found a poster for a concert that took place just a few days later, at the HEC Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, on September 29, 1972. In order to use it though, I had to crop the rectangular poster into a square shape. I also added some text right underneath the band's name.

Pink Floyd - The Maximum Wall (1979)

It's finally time to post "The Maximum Wall," by Pink Floyd. This has been a group effort, as I got a lot of help from Mike Solof, Fabio from Rio, and GW. In fact, GW assisted me with the write-up. Here it is:

Hey you: 

Presented here is a landmark production for this blog: The Maximum Wall.  It's a project I have been carefully assembling, brick by brick, off and on over eight years - a reimagining of the entire Wall universe.

It gathers every available building block of material: the album, the film, demos, outtakes, alternate versions, songs from "The Final Cut" album, and more. They've all been collected, edited, extended, mixed and sequenced to create a single continuous vision, narrative and experience.

It now comprises 52 songs, spanning nearly 3 hours of music. It includes a 180-page book as your in-depth guide, containing the stories behind every song, lyrics, liner notes, context, and the vision that holds it all together. My hope is that it deepens your experience and brings you even closer to the heart of the Wall.

Rolling Stone magazine ranked it as one of the top 100 albums of all time. Some people still find it overblown and pretentious, and I can understand that. But I think it is one of the all-time great double-albums. It could have been a triple album - the band had to trim some songs, and cut out others entirely. Then some of the cut songs were included on Pink Floyd's 1983 album "The Final Cut."

In 1980 and 1981, Pink Floyd went on tour and played "The Wall" in its entirety. In these shows, they restored some of the missing pieces, and often played longer solos. An official live album of those tours was released in 2000. The film version of "The Wall" was released in 1982, featuring new versions of some of the songs and a couple of previously unreleased songs. Both officially-released and bootleg collections of demo and alternate versions and outtake songs provided hours of extended material with which to build.

While there have been a number of previous fan edits attempting to condense the album to a 'single disc' or a fuller version of the familiar double album, I wanted to develop my own ideal "super-sized" version, with an "expansive" approach. My goal was to make "The Wall" as large as reasonably possible, using all of the bits and pieces that fit and were worthy of inclusion. The result is an experience that's slightly over TWICE the length of the official double album: a quadruple album!

This project is for people who want as much of "The Wall" story and music as possible. Although it's very long, I've maintained quality control. In my opinion, Waters and the rest of the band were operating at peak creativity, so most everything they did for "The Wall" was good, at a bare minimum. 

In order to create this mega-version of the album, I took a lot of creative liberties. I relied on my own judgment, as well as drawing from the work of previous fan edits. While everything here comes from Pink Floyd's recordings (with the exception of a Gilmour solo song and a few sections from a 1984 Waters solo concert,) I've freely edited all that Pink Floyd material in whichever way I felt best suited the music. In a few cases, I've cut songs in two, and fashioned new songs out of various pieces that weren't designed as independent songs. If you're a musical purist, inclined to think "Waters and/or Floyd wouldn't have done it that way," this is not the fan edit for you. But if you are the type of fan that could not revel enough in the music and experience of "The Wall," you will NOT be disappointed.

I want to thank the people who inspired and assisted me to take on and complete this massive vision. For many years, I had an idea to put together a bigger "Wall" album, and the plan simmered until late 2020. A very big Pink Floyd fan, Mike Solof, contacted me after finding this blog and noting the various Pink Floyd concerts and stray tracks collections there. He shared some of the best fan edits of it, suggestions, feedback and constant encouragement and inspiration throughout the process. Another frequent collaborator, Fabio From Rio, joined our crew as well, providing absolutely invaluable help in conceiving and illustrating the accompanying book. Finally, near the conclusion of the process, we were joined by friend of the blog GW, for assistance with Scarfe's illustrations and further collaboration on the book.

Regarding the booklet, what started out as a simple companion booklet grew into something much more ambitious: a 180-page deep dive into the world of "The Wall". It follows the entire expanded 52-song journey, with extensive notes on the music, the full lyrics, background and context, explanations of the edits and sequencing, references to the film and live performances, and even an introductory essay exploring the ideas, themes, and evolution behind this extraordinary body of work. Fabio from Rio designed the booklet in a double-A4-page format, and you can check out some of the pages here to get a feel for the result.

As you can see from these page samples, this is also very much a visual book. It is packed with dozens of illustrations (many by Gerald Scarfe – including rare ones - others inspired by his art, and even some brand-new images that may surprise you), photographs, film references, and a number of unexpected details and surprises scattered throughout. We wanted it to feel less like liner notes and more like a book you could actually sit down and explore on its own; something that would reward hardcore fans as much as someone discovering this expanded universe for the first time. In the end, the book became almost a project within the project, and it's an essential part of what makes "The Maximum Wall" more than just an expanded playlist.

And, of course, we need to give special thanks to Pink Floyd, and especially its main composer, Roger Waters, for creating "The Wall" in the first place. Working on this project has left us with a much greater appreciation for this album. I think it has increasing relevance in our own era, with the rise of far-right movements in many countries, including our own. In our opinion, one of the strongest aspects of the album is how it shows how people's personal problems can make them susceptible to joining larger toxic political movements. 

That increased appreciation applies to this masterwork in its entirety.  Unlike many concept albums, "The Wall" is coherent, incisive, and really holds together, both lyrically and musically. That's even more the case in this version, with all of the additional related songs and music blended in. The whole is truly greater than the sum of its parts, because you can see the larger vision and how the different pieces fit together. So, in conclusion: Isn't this where you should come in?

One last comment. I'd love to hear feedback from you, especially after you've given this a listen. Thanks. 

This album is two hours and 52 minutes long.

01 In the Flesh, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
02 When the Tigers Broke Free (Pink Floyd)
03 The Thin Ice, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
04 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
05 Mother, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
06 One of the Few (Pink Floyd)
07 The Hero's Return, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
08 The Happiest Days of Our Lives (Pink Floyd)
09 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
10 Goodbye Blue Sky (Pink Floyd)
11 Young Lust, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
12 Sexual Revolution (Pink Floyd)
13 Mother, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
14 The Hero's Return, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
15 The Gunner's Dream (Pink Floyd)
16 Young Lust, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
17 Pull Yourself Together (Pink Floyd)
18 Empty Spaces, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
19 What Shall We Do Now (Pink Floyd)
20 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 (Pink Floyd)
21 One of My Turns (Pink Floyd)
22 The Final Cut (Pink Floyd)
23 Don't Leave Me Now (Pink Floyd)
24 The Thin Ice, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
25 Empty Spaces, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
26 Another Brick in the Wall, Part 4 (Pink Floyd)
27 The Last Few Bricks [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
28 Goodbye Cruel World (Pink Floyd)
29 There's No Way Out of Here (Pink Floyd [David Gilmour])
30 Is There Anybody Out There, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
31 Nobody Home (Pink Floyd)
32 Your Possible Pasts (Pink Floyd)
33 The Fletcher Memorial Home (Pink Floyd)
34 Not Now John (Pink Floyd)
35 We'll Meet Again (Pink Floyd)
36 Vera (Pink Floyd)
37 Bring the Boys Back Home (Pink Floyd)
38 Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
39 Hey You (Pink Floyd)
40 The Show Must Go On (Pink Floyd)
41 In the Flesh, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
42 Run like Hell (Pink Floyd)
43 The Thin Ice, Part 3 [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
44 Waiting for the Worms (Pink Floyd)
45 Stop (Pink Floyd)
46 Is There Anybody Out There, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
47 Paranoid Eyes (Pink Floyd)
48 Waiting for the Trial (Pink Floyd)
49 The Trial (Pink Floyd)
50 Who's Sorry Now (Pink Floyd)
51 It's Never Too Late (Pink Floyd)
52 Outside the Wall (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/y56pjrfY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/qWCI6FpOxxLWduZ/file

Here is a link for a FLAC version for those who want that. Be warned it is very large, over 2 GB in size:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZUJjsta2 

For the cover art, Fabio used an AI program to make a variation on the official album cover.  

Michael Hedges - Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA, 11-12-1997

Here's a concert by the fantastic and underrated guitarist Michael Hedges. Guest poster Fabio from Rio was instrumental in having this album get posted. He's the one who found the video of this and suggested that we turn it into an audio album. He also has an interesting personal story about Hedges, so I've asked him to do the write-up and share that story. Take it away, Fabio:

It's been almost 30 years since we lost one of the greatest guitarists of the last century in a fatal car crash on a slippery road near Mendocino, CA, on December 2, 1997. It is a pity that so many people have never heard of him or his music. Hedges was not only a remarkable guitar player, but also a hugely talented composer and singer. He practically reinvented acoustic guitar playing, and many of his techniques and innovations have since been embraced and incorporated by guitarists all over the world. So, it is about time that more of Michael Hedges' music found its way onto the Albums That Should Exist blog, and this - his last known recorded concert, just weeks before his death - seems like a good place to start!

I saw Hedges live once, during his only visit to Rio, Brazil, in 1996, about a year before his untimely death. He performed in a small underground bar at a hotel near Copacabana Beach. By then, I had only recently been introduced to his music by my brother, who is also a guitarist. There were perhaps 40 people in the tiny venue, and we were seated at a table right next to Hedges. If I had stretched out my arm, I could literally have grabbed his leg!

After the concert, we and two other guys stuck around at the bar. Before long, Hedges — drinking something that looked like an almond milk power drink — showed up and started chatting with us. He talked to us for what seemed like ages, as if we were old childhood friends. He answered our questions, accepted some CDs of Brazilian music (apologizing that he had nothing from his side to give us in return), and even tuned an acoustic guitar to one of his signature tunings, showing us how to play some of his licks. It was basically an impromptu 15-minute masterclass! That gives you an idea of what a great guy he was.

But that was a different concert, and unfortunately it wasn't recorded. (At the time, I didn't tape the concerts I attended.) Here, about a year later, we have a good example of one of his typical late-period concerts. It consists of original instrumental pieces and songs he sang himself, some excellent covers, the occasional oddity (such as the recitations of "Jabberwocky" and "Oklahoma," and the brief, jokey "Free Bird" rendition that precedes "All Along the Watchtower"), and an overall wonderfully relaxed atmosphere, with plenty of laughs from the audience.

Hopefully, we'll have more Hedges here at ATSE soon. Paul and I have compiled a great collection of almost all the live covers performed by Hedges into a four-volume set, which we'll be sharing soon. And I have around 50 of his live concerts in my collection, so there should be plenty more to come eventually, if there's interest.

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Thank you, Fabio. The only that I'd want to add to that is some information about the audio editing. The video sounded pretty good at first listen, but it turned out it need a lot of work. There was a lot of hiss, so I ran all the songs through the MVSEP program to get rid of most of that. The vocals during the talking bits didn't sound good either, so I ran all of those through the Adobe vocal enhancer. I also ran all the songs through MVSEP again to improve the balance between the lead vocals and the instruments. On top of all that, it turns out the audience was very quiet during the songs, except there was a LOT of coughing. Pretty much every song had at least one cough, sometimes more. So I had to remove those one by one. There might be a couple that I've missed, but it's way better than before.

So ultimately, this was essentially sounding like an audience boot at first, given that it was a fan-recorded video instead of a professional one. But after all those edits, I believe this sounds as good as most soundboard boots. 

This album is an hour and 45 minutes long.

01 Aerial Boundaries [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
02 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Michael Hedges)
03 talk (Michael Hedges)
04 Jitterboogie [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
05 Baal T'shuvah [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
06 Ragamuffin [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
07 talk (Michael Hedges)
08 Rickover's Dream [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
09 Free Swinging Soul (Michael Hedges)
10 Rough Wind in Oklahoma (Michael Hedges)
11 talk (Michael Hedges)
12 Silent Anticipations [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
13 talk (Michael Hedges)
14 Confortably Numb (Michael Hedges)
15 talk (Michael Hedges)
16 Arrowhead [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
17 talk (Michael Hedges)
18 Shell Shock Venus (Michael Hedges)
19 talk (Michael Hedges)
20 Because It's There [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
21 talk (Michael Hedges)
22 Ritual Dance [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
23 talk (Michael Hedges)
24 Like a Rolling Stone (Michael Hedges)
25 Jabberwocky (Michael Hedges)
26 The Rootwitch [Instrumental] (Michael Hedges)
27 talk (Michael Hedges)
28 Gimme Shelter (Michael Hedges)
29 Oklahoma (Michael Hedges)
30 talk (Michael Hedges)
31 Free Bird [Snippet] (Michael Hedges)
32 All Along the Watchtower (Michael Hedges)
33 talk (Michael Hedges)
34 No Expectations (Michael Hedges)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/41bkFHJp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/ehlRocIc4H0dw9p/file 

There was a lot of difficulty making this cover image. Technically, it's a screenshot taken from this exact concert. However, the footage was very low-res. So using Gemini, there was some pretty creative filling in of details to get this result. But this is how he would have really looked, with that harp guitar (for a portion of the concert), those clothes, and so on. Even for his helmet, because the screenshot was dark and murky there, I relied on a different photo of the custom-made, strange, beat-up helmet (that worked with his microphone) he was using at that time to make sure it was accurate.

Paul McCartney - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: In Concert, Liverpool Sound, Anfield, Liverpool, Britain, 6-1-2008

I've posted a bunch of BBC concerts by Paul McCartney. However, I had missed this one until recently. I've posted another one that takes place after this, in 2013. That one had been "BBC Sessions, Volume 5," but I've changed it to "Volume 6." If you want to get the renamed version, here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/01/paul-mccartney-bbc-sessions-volume-5-in.html

As any serious Beatles fan knows, McCartney and the other three Beatles were all born and raised in Liverpool, England. As a solo act, McCartney didn't perform in Liverpool that much. But he returned for this concert in 2008 to help celebrate Liverpool's official designation as the "European Capitol of Culture" for that year. About 36,000 people attended the sold out show.

The Zutons and Kaiser Chiefs were the opening acts. McCartney was introduced by comedian Peter Kay. I liked Kay's funny intro, so I've included that here. McCartney was joined by Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters for three songs. McCartney also introduced a new song that he didn't put on any of his studio albums, "In Liverpool." Not only was this the first time he played this song in public, so far it's the only time. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is an hour and 51 minutes long.

01 talk by Peter Kay (Paul McCartney)
02 Hippy Hippy Shake (Paul McCartney)
03 Jet (Paul McCartney)
04 Drive My Car (Paul McCartney)
05 Flaming Pie (Paul McCartney)
06 Got to Get You into My Life (Paul McCartney)
07 Let Me Roll It (Paul McCartney)
08 My Love (Paul McCartney)
09 C Moon (Paul McCartney)
10 The Long and Winding Road (Paul McCartney)
11 Dance Tonight (Paul McCartney)
12 Bourree in E Minor - Blackbird (Paul McCartney)
13 Calico Skies (Paul McCartney)
14 In Liverpool (Paul McCartney)
15 I'll Follow the Sun (Paul McCartney)
16 Eleanor Rigby (Paul McCartney)
17 Something (Paul McCartney)
18 Penny Lane (Paul McCartney)
19 Band on the Run (Paul McCartney with Dave Grohl)
20 Back in the U.S.S.R. (Paul McCartney with Dave Grohl)
21 Live and Let Die (Paul McCartney)
22 Let It Be (Paul McCartney)
23 Hey Jude (Paul McCartney)
24 Yesterday (Paul McCartney)
25 A Day in the Life (Paul McCartney)
26 Give Peace a Chance (Paul McCartney)
27 Lady Madonna (Paul McCartney)
28 I Saw Her Standing There (Paul McCartney with Dave Grohl)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/HHaEJq4u

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/f4MZ4MGSEP1X7DC/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Tim Hardin - Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA, 2-2-1970

Singer-songwriter Tim Hardin made some great music in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and some of the songs he wrote then are classics. But there are very few worthy live recordings of him from that era. I found a decent audience bootleg and significantly improved the sound quality.

At the time of this concert, from a distance, Hardin's music career seemed to be going well. He'd released a few albums that had gotten a lot of critical praise. In late 1969, he'd even had what would turn out to be his only hit single, with "Simple Song of Freedom," a song written by Bobby Darin. (Darin previously had a hit song written by Hardin, "If I Were a Carpenter.) But Hardin was a mess. His biggest problem was that he was addicted to heroin. In 1969, he went to a rehab clinic to try to get clean, but that didn't work. He also suffered from stage fright. He rarely performed live, and when he did he was erratic. 

So we're lucky to have any bootleg recording from this time period at all. There is a nice recording of him playing with a band at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, and there's a good official live album released in 1968 called "Tim Hardin 3: Live in Concert." But other than that, this is the only other recording I know from this time period. As I mentioned above, it's an audience bootleg, with merely decent sound quality. But luckily it's a solo acoustic performance, which is easier to record than full band performances. 

I did my usual audio editing tricks to improve this, using the program MVSEP. Boosting the lead vocals in the mix helped a lot. So did getting rid of hiss. But probably the biggest improvement was using Adobe's vocal enhancer to make his banter between songs more understandable (though sometimes he still mumbles and can't be heard well). 

This concert features a guest appearance by Doug Kershaw. Kershaw had a country hit with the song "Louisiana Man" back in 1961. It got a lot of cover versions after that and became a minor classic. He performed that song in the middle of this set with Hardin.

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is better, and worthy, in my opinion, but it still has its flaws. But I think it's a lot better than previous versions of this recording. 

01 talk (Tim Hardin)
02 Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
03 talk (Tim Hardin)
04 Red Balloon (Tim Hardin)
05 Moonshiner (Tim Hardin)
06 talk (Tim Hardin)
07 Simple Song of Freedom (Tim Hardin)
08 talk (Tim Hardin)
09 Louisiana Man (Tim Hardin & Doug Kershaw)
10 talk (Tim Hardin)
11 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out (Tim Hardin)
12 talk (Tim Hardin)
13 Don't Make Promises (Tim Hardin)
14 Till We Meet Again (Tim Hardin)
15 talk (Tim Hardin)
16 Once Touched by Flame (Tim Hardin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hhg7Ut6K

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/b5oKQhpNqvvelgT/file

The cover image is from an appearance on a BBC TV show on September 1, 1970. (I wish I had the audio from that, but I don't). The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Ask Gemini program. 

David Bowie with John Hutchinson - The Mercury Demos - Beckenham Arts Lab, Chelsea, Britain, 2-2-1969

Here's another really interesting recording from David Bowie's very early career. It has been officially released, but I've made some sound quality improvements that I think justifies me posting it here.

Up until the time of this recording in very early 1969, Bowie's music career had been a mostly unsuccessful struggle. After a couple of years of failed singles, he'd released an album in 1967, the cleverly titled "David Bowie," but it failed to even reach the charts. Its combination of pop and music hall styles was very out of sync with the times. Then, as he wrote new songs, he began changing his style. The key song that began to turn him into a star with "Space Oddity," the first song here. It would get released as a single in July 1969, six months after this recording, and it would reach the Top Five in the British singles chart. That would lead to the release of another album later in 1969, which has variously been released under the names "Space Oddity," "David Bowie," and "Man of Words/Man of Music." Many of the songs performed here would eventually appear on that album.

At the time of this recording, Bowie wasn't entirely sure what he was doing as public performer, and was searching for a creative direction. He was part of a musical trio called Feathers with Hermione Farthingale (his girlfriend at the time) and John Hutchinson. They combined acoustic music with mime, poetry, and theatrical presentation. But when he had a chance to be an opening act on a February and March 1969 tour supporting T. Rex, he actually performed as a mime! Feathers never recorded or released any music, and only performed a few concerts in late 1968 and early 1969 before breaking up, due to Farthingale breaking up romantically with Bowie and taking part in filming a movie overseas.

At the time of this recording, Bowie didn't have a record contract. He'd met an A&R executive working for Mercury Records who told him to submit a tape of songs to his boss, Bob Reno. This is that tape. It must have been successful, because when "Space Oddity" was released as a single some months later, it came out on Mercury Records. I think the idea here was to make a recording as the Feathers trio. However, Farthingale was overseas, so it's just Bowie and Hutchinson on the recording here. Both of them sang and played guitars, but Bowie was clearly the dominant creative force, with the songs written by him, except for two covers, in the cases of "Love Song" and "Life Is a Circus." But Fathingale gets discussed in the banter between songs. And two songs, "An Occasional Dream" and "Letter to Hermione," are very clearly about her.

This recording was first released in early 2019 as the stand alone album "The Mercury Demos." Then, later in 2019, it was included as part of the "Conversation Piece" box set. Normally, I don't post albums that are officially released on my blog unless I make some significant change. In this case, I think I did that with the banter. The officially released version seems to have been released "as is," meaning there was no attempt to improve the sound quality. The songs themselves sound great, and the official version is much better than the bootleg version that existed before. But the copious banter between songs sounded pretty bad. The voices were murky, and there was a lot of background noise, like the sounds of bumping, clicking, rustling, and so forth. At one point, Bowie even noticed how a piano being played in an adjacent apartment could be faintly heard.

So I did my best to clean all that up. Using the MVSEP program, I separated the vocals from everything else for all the talking tracks. Then I got rid of almost all of that "everything else," except if it was the sound of guitar tuning or noodling or something like that. But all the bumping, clicking and rustling went into the trash. Then I ran all the vocal parts through Adobe's vocal enhancer, which does a great job bringing clarity to non-singing vocals. I think the result is a huge improvement. Frankly, the official version should have done this. But I guess 2019 was right before advances in AI led to advances in audio editing technology.

I think this is a must have for any fan of Bowie's early career. And, personally, I like his late 1960s and early 1970s music the best (although his career had many high points). 

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
02 Space Oddity (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
03 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
04 Janine (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
05 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
06 An Occasional Dream (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
07 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
08 Conversation Piece (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
09 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
10 Ching-a-Ling (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
11 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
12 Letter to Hermione (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
13 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
14 Lover to the Dawn [Early Version of Cygnet Committee] (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
15 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
16 Love Song (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
17 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
18 When I'm Five (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
19 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
20 Life Is a Circus (David Bowie with John Hutchinson)
21 talk (David Bowie with John Hutchinson) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TAZahYJm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/M1MfjRfFifCRQdv/file

The cover image is based on the official cover. That is based on what apparently is the cover of the original 1969 tape containing this music. I think that was written by Bowie, but I'm not entirely sure. However, that just had the song list and the text below and to the side. I wanted some vital information on the cover, so I added the text at the top, hopefully in a similar style to the rest.

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI, 7-2-1960

I've been meaning to post this concert for a long time, because I really like (Dave) Lambert, (Jon) Hendricks and (Annie) Ross. I'm finally getting around to it. There aren't a lot of great quality concert bootlegs dating all the way back to 1960, but this is one.

This trio were pioneers of a jazz sub-genre called "vocalese." Here's Wikipedia's definition of what that means:

Vocalese uses recognizable lyrics that are sung to pre-existing instrumental solos, as opposed to scat singing, which uses nonsense words such as "bap ba dee dot bwee dee" in solos. In the "first wave" of vocalese creation, that sometimes took the form of a tribute to the original instrumentalist. The word "vocalese" is a play on the musical term "vocalise"; the suffix "-ese" is meant to indicate a sort of language. The term was attributed to Jon Hendricks by the jazz critic Leonard Feather to describe the first Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross album, "Sing a Song of Basie." 

A very pivotal song was "Twisted." It was written by Annie Ross in 1952, with her lyrics added to an existing jazz instrumental. It helped led to the trio being formed. It later got covered by many other musical acts, including Joni Mitchell. Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross all wrote songs, often new lyrics to existing instrumentals, and all three sang lead vocals. They released their first album in 1957. They put out several others. Probably their best known one is "The Hottest New Group in Jazz," which came out in 1959 and is great. Many of the songs from that album were performed in this concert. 

However, the trio didn't stay together much longer than that. Ross had personal problems, including a growing heroin addiction. She was replaced in 1962. But the other female singers they replaced with her didn't bring the same magic. The trio format ended in 1964. Then Lambert died in a car accident in 1966, ending any hopes of reunions. The other two lived much longer. Hendricks died in 2017 and Ross died in 2020.

Here's their Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert,_Hendricks_%26_Ross 

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Jumpin' at the Woodside (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
02 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
03 Doodlin' (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
04 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
05 Happy Anatomy (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
06 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
07 Airegin (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
08 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
09 Fiesta in Blue (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
10 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
11 Swingin' 'til the Girls Come Home (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
12 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
13 Rusty Dusty Blues (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
14 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
15 Gimme Dat Wine (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
16 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
17 Cottontail (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
18 talk (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
19 Cloudburst (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)
20 Everyday I Have the Blues (Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ke2fTnpg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/LFc9Xe4Tpx9tTsK/file

I don't know any details about the photo except it's probably from 1960. From right to left: Dave Lambert, Annie Ross, and Jon Hendricks.

Leo Sayer - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, London, Britain, 2-5-1974

Recently, I had a person named Paul who contacted me and told me they had a BBC concert I'd missed. It's from the BBC TV show "In Concert," which had a lot of episodes in the early 1970s especially. I've been trying to collect recordings of all the episodes of that show, so I'm posting this straight away. It stars singer-songwriter Leo Sayer.

Note that I previously posted a BBC concert from Sayer, dating to 1988. Now that I have another one, I've just renamed that one to "BBC Sessions, Volume 2." Here's a link to that one if you want to get the updated cover art and so forth:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/12/leo-sayer-bbc-in-concert-bristol.html

At the time of this concert, Sayer was just starting to become a star. His debut album "Silverbird," was released in late 1973, and made it all the way to Number Two in the British charts. It went unnoticed in the U.S., but this is a BBC show, so that doesn't matter for this concert. It went up the charts mainly due to the song "The Show Must Go On," which also went all the way to Number Two in Britain.

Also in 1973, Roger Daltrey, the lead singer of the Who, released his debut solo album, "Daltrey." The reason I mention that is because all of the songs on it were written by Sayer and his songwriting partner David Courtney, including a hit, "Giving It All Away." He performed two of the songs from that album in this concert, "Giving It All Away" and "One Man Band." (He would later do versions on his own albums, but not yet.) 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. Thanks again to Paul for sharing the music. If anyone else has episodes of this show that I haven't posted yet, please let me know. You can see a list of the episodes here:

https://thetvdb.com/series/in-concert/allseasons/official

UPDATE: A week after I first posted this, a musical friend let me know there is another version of the concert with one extra song, "Don't Say It's Over." So I added that song in. Thanks for that tip.

This album is 34 minutes long.

01 Tomorrow (Leo Sayer)
02 talk (Leo Sayer)
03 One Man Band (Leo Sayer)
04 Giving It All Away (Leo Sayer)
05 talk (Leo Sayer)
06 Goodnight Old Friend (Leo Sayer)
07 talk (Leo Sayer)
08 The Dancer (Leo Sayer)
09 talk (Leo Sayer)
10 The Show Must Go On (Leo Sayer)
11 talk (Leo Sayer)
12 Don't Say It's Over (Leo Sayer)
13 The Innocent Bystander (Leo Sayer)
14 Slow Motion (Leo Sayer)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/tHfFfxYj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vxNuWKj987NwAym/file

The cover image shows Sayer in a Pierrot clown outfit on a Dutch TV show in Hilversum, Netherlands, at some point in 1974.

Paul McCartney - Solo Ballads (1969-2026) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here we are, with the last album in guest poster Mike Solof's eight album series of the best rockers and ballads from the solo careers of the four ex-Beatles. As I mentioned in the write up to the last album in this series, for Paul McCartney's solo rockers, McCartney has had a long and prolific career, so there's just more of his songs. That led to a solo rocker album just for him, and now this solo ballad album just for him.

As usual with this series, the songs generally come from the well-known studio albums. That's the case here. However, there's a surprise in that one song, "Best Love," is a Paul lead vocal on a song that appeared on an album by comedian Steve Martin (who also happens to be a surprisingly good banjo player, so it's a serious song). 

Also, four of the songs are special edits made by Mike, the ones with "[Mike's Mix 2026]" in their names. That's because some of these songs were a little rocking to truly qualify as ballads. So Mike edited them to make them sound more gentle and mellow. 

Although this series is over, Mike wanted to carry on making rocker and ballad best ofs for other musical acts. Hopefully you will see one result from that posted here soon. 

This album is 51 minutes long. 

01 I'm Carrying (Paul McCartney)
02 Once upon a Long Ago [Mike's Mix 2026] (Paul McCartney)
03 Waterfalls (Paul McCartney)
04 With a Little Luck [Mike's Mix 2026] (Paul McCartney)
05 Here Today (Paul McCartney)
06 Best Love (Steve Martin & Paul McCartney)
07 This One [Mike's Mix 2026] (Paul McCartney)
08 Maybe I'm Amazed [Mike's Mix 2026] (Paul McCartney)
09 My Love (Paul McCartney)
10 My Valentine (Paul McCartney)
11 Distractions (Paul McCartney)
12 This Never Happened Before (Paul McCartney)
13 Wanderlust (Paul McCartney)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZeydfoYV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/bVl1btduqniMOik/file

The cover image of Paul and Linda McCartney is from around 1970. 

Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 - Jimmy Buffett

Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by Jimmy Buffett and his band. For most of this festival, I don't know the order of the performers. But I do know that Buffett was the headliner and final act for this day of the festival. That helps explain why his set was unusually long compared to the others.

I read that before the festival, Buffett said in the media he might ditch his usual set list and play more of an acoustic set, due to the long history of folk music at the festival. But in the end he pretty much stuck to his usual set. The one exception was he ended with a cover of "Blowin' in the Wind" by Bob Dylan. That definitely was a nod to the history of the festival, due to some famous Dylan performances in it in the 1960s. I checked on the setlist.fm database, and it seems this was the only time Buffett ever played that song in concert.

Also as an aside, the festival stage was very close to the harbor. There were boats in the harbor filled with people watching the musical acts. Apparently they often registered their approval by honking their horns. I thought that was very fitting for Buffett, since he based so much of his persona around a Caribbean beach bum vibe. 

This album is an hour and 48 minutes long. 

01 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
02 Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw (Jimmy Buffett)
03 Brown Eyed Girl (Jimmy Buffett)
04 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
05 Fruitcakes (Jimmy Buffett)
06 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
07 Jamaica Mistaica (Jimmy Buffett)
08 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
09 Grapefruit - Juicy Fruit (Jimmy Buffett)
10 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
11 It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (Jimmy Buffett)
12 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
13 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes (Jimmy Buffett)
14 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
15 Come Monday (Jimmy Buffett)
16 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
17 Elvis Presley Blues (Jimmy Buffett with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
18 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
19 Son of a Son of a Sailor (Jimmy Buffett)
20 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
21 Volcano (Jimmy Buffett)
22 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
23 Cheeseburger in Paradise (Jimmy Buffett)
24 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
25 Cowboy in the Jungle (Jimmy Buffett)
26 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
27 Makin' Music for Money (Jimmy Buffett)
28 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
29 While My Guitar Gently Weeps [Instrumental Version] (Jimmy Buffett)
30 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
31 Last Mango in Paris (Jimmy Buffett)
32 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
33 School Boy Heart (Jimmy Buffett)
34 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
35 A Pirate Looks at Forty (Jimmy Buffett)
36 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
37 Southern Cross (Jimmy Buffett)
38 Fins (Jimmy Buffett)
39 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
40 Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett)
41 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
42 One Particular Harbor (Jimmy Buffett)
43 talk (Jimmy Buffett)
44 Blowin' in the Wind (Jimmy Buffett)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/2zyeec6B

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QqB0PK32GRv0qqS/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 - Willy Mason

Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by singer-songwriter Willy Mason.

I don't know much about Mason. Here's his Wikipedia entry intro, which doesn't say much:

"Willy Mason (born November 21, 1984) is an American singer-songwriter. He grew up on Martha's Vineyard in a musical family and began performing and recording in the early 2000s. Mason has performed in the United Kingdom and later toured internationally as both a solo artist and collaborator." 

Here's his full entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Mason 

At the time of this concert, he had released two studio albums, "Where the Humans Eat" in 2004 and "If the Ocean Gets Rough" in 2007. All the songs performed here are original from those albums. In the years since this concert until now (as I write this in 2026), he has only released two more albums.

This album is 24 minutes long.

01 talk (Willy Mason)
02 Show Me the Way to Go Home (Willy Mason)
03 talk (Willy Mason)
04 Pickup Truck (Willy Mason)
05 Simple Town (Willy Mason)
06 Live It Up (Willy Mason)
07 Riptide (Willy Mason)
08 talk (Willy Mason)
09 Restless Fugitive (Willy Mason)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Byrj2kJS

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/b40L2vhm4H0Nus8/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 - The Levon Helm Band

Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by the Levon Helm Band.

Levon Helm is best known as the main lead singer and drummer for the Band. But since the Band first broke up around 1977, he's had a long solo career as well. Unfortunately though, by the time of this concert, he was showing signs of physical decline, which can be heard in his voice. He would die four years later, in 2012, at the age of 71. He still generally sounded like you'd expect here, though. And he spread the lead vocals duties around a bit, letting some other members of his band sing a couple of songs, including one by his daughter Amy Helm. Generally, the songs were a mix of those from his solo albums, plus some classics by the Band.

As usual for this festival, the sound is excellent, while everything is unreleased. However, there was a problem with the first song, "The Same Thing," since the first thirty seconds or so were missing. I found another concert from the same year, at the Bonnaroo Festival, and used that to patch in the missing bit. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

This album is an hour and six minutes long. 

01 The Same Thing [Edit] (Levon Helm Band)
02 Ophelia (Levon Helm Band)
03 talk (Levon Helm Band)
04 Fannie Mae (Levon Helm Band)
05 talk (Levon Helm Band)
06 Love Played a Game (Levon Helm Band)
07 talk (Levon Helm Band)
08 Long Black Veil (Levon Helm Band)
09 talk (Levon Helm Band)
10 Got Me a Woman (Levon Helm Band)
11 Ashes of Love (Levon Helm Band)
12 Anna Lee (Levon Helm Band)
13 talk (Levon Helm Band)
14 Deep Elem Blues (Levon Helm Band)
15 Rag Mama Rag (Levon Helm Band)
16 The Shape I'm In (Levon Helm Band)
17 Chest Fever (Levon Helm Band)
18 talk (Levon Helm Band)
19 The Weight (Levon Helm Band with Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/3pSA6h8P

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/TbFUFVp0jiiIzOz/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Newport Folk Festival, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI, 8-3-2008 - Gillian Welch & David Rawlings

Here's another album from the 2008 Newport Folk Festival. This time, it's a set by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Technically, it was billed just as a Gillian Welch performance, but David Rawlings played a prominent role. Since they have usually been billed a duo in the years since, I did that here to be consistent with other albums I may post from them.

As usual, the music here is unreleased and the sound quality is excellent. However, there was a problem with the last song, "Jackson." I was able to patch the problem though. That's why that one song has "[Edit]" in its title.

Speaking of "Jackson," it's one of two cover versions here. The other one is "Gone at Last."

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk by emcee (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
02 Look at Miss Ohio (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
03 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
04 I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
05 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
06 Lawman (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
07 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
08 My First Lover (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
09 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
10 No One Knows My Name (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
11 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
12 Throw Me a Rope (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
13 Gamblin' Man (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
14 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
15 Red Clay Halo (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
16 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
17 Knuckleball Catcher (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
18 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
19 Sweet Tooth (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
20 Orphan Girl (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
21 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
22 Gone at Last (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
23 talk (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)
24 Jackson [Edit] (Gillian Welch & David Rawlings)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/QhZgz2se

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/t5zkiio5Jlz6jbM/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 4-30-2015

Here's another great concert from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard bootleg leak. This one features John Hiatt and Lyle Lovett. But it's not a split bill where one of them played a set and then the other one did. Instead, both of them stayed on stage the entire time, frequently helping out on each others' songs. It was just the two of them on stage with their acoustic guitars.

Prior to getting this concert ready for posting, I had no idea how frequently Hiatt and Lovett have collaborated musically. They never put out an album together, so I'd missed it. But they're toured together like this almost every year since 2008, at least. And they've done it again this year as I write this in 2026.

As usual with these Port Chester boots, the sound is in mono. But other than that, the quality is excellent. 

This album is two hours and six minutes long.

01 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
02 Lift Up Every Stone (John Hiatt)
03 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
04 Church (Lyle Lovett)
05 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
06 Buffalo River Home (John Hiatt)
07 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
08 Whooping Crane (Lyle Lovett)
09 talk (John Hiatt)
10 Marlene (John Hiatt)
11 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
12 Sonja (Lyle Lovett)
13 talk (John Hiatt)
14 Crossing Muddy Water (John Hiatt)
15 White Boy Lost in the Blues (Lyle Lovett)
16 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
17 Master of Disaster (John Hiatt)
18 talk (Lyle Lovett)
19 All Downhill (Lyle Lovett)
20 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
21 Real Fine Love (John Hiatt)
22 She's No Lady (Lyle Lovett)
23 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
24 Feels like Rain (John Hiatt)
25 Fiona (Lyle Lovett)
26 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
27 Thing Called Love (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
28 L.A. County (Lyle Lovett)
29 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
30 Perfectly Good Guitar (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
31 If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
32 Have a Little Faith in Me (John Hiatt)
33 My Baby Don't Tolerate (Lyle Lovett)
34 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
35 Slow Turning (John Hiatt)
36 talk (John Hiatt & Lyle Lovett)
37 Step Inside This House [Step Inside My House] (Lyle Lovett)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/GHdTJkJw 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/vZm69d6OKy7Mzkp/file

The cover image is actually a composite of two photos. Both photos were taken at the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston, New York, on May 3, 2015, probably within moments of each other. In one, Lovett's head looked good, but Hiatt's didn't. In the other, it was the opposite. So I used the Lovett one primarily, but pasted in the better head for Hiatt.