King Crimson - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY, 11-15-2017

Here's another concert from the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak where some people asked for it to be posted sooner rather than later. It features King Crimson.

The British prog rock band King Crimson has changed personnel many times since their first album in 1969. The one constant has been guitarist and band leader Robert Fripp.  

The last studio album the band released was in 2003. However, they continued to come up with occasional new songs. This concert is pretty similar to "Live in Chicago," a live album recorded on June 28, 2017. Like that one, this includes a couple of new songs, such as "The Errors," plus radically revamped versions of many songs, especially those from from the early 1970s.

As far as I know, nobody else has shared this before with the individual songs. I must say, it was a rear pain in the butt for me to figure out where one song started and the next one ended, due to the nature of these songs, which often flowed into each other. But hopefully I got most of it right. 

This album is two hours and 47 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (King Crimson)
02 Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 1 [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
04 Neurotica (King Crimson)
05 Cirkus (King Crimson)
06 Lizard (King Crimson)
07 The ConstruKction of Light, Part 1 [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
08 Epitaph (King Crimson)
09 Radical Action [To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind] [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
10 The Errors (King Crimson)
11 Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part 2 [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
12 Islands (King Crimson)
13 Indiscipline (King Crimson)
14 The Hell Hounds of Krim [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
15 Discipline [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
16 Breathless [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
17 Starless (King Crimson)
18 Moonchild- The Dream [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
19 The Court of the Crimson King (King Crimson)
20 Easy Money (King Crimson)
22 Radical Action II - Level Five [Instrumental] (King Crimson)
23 'Heroes' (King Crimson)
24 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FP6F9A1t

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/iJh1hYutz81P69p/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Various Artists - Covered: Carole Bayer Sager: 1965-2004

Damn, once again, it's been too long since I've posted any albums in the "Covered" series. Here it is, almost November 2026, and I haven't posted an album in this series since August. I'll try to make up for that soon. Here's a songwriter where I only found enough material for a single album, Carole Bayer Sager.

Sager could have had a successful career as a performer, and she did for a little bit. She released three albums in the late 1970s, and had a couple of hits with them. More on that later. But, for all the years before and since then, she was content to just be a professional songwriter for others. From what I understand, she mostly, or sometimes entirely, wrote the lyrics, and left the music to others. Even on her three solo albums, all of the songs are co-written by others. 

Bayer was born in New York City, and her family was Jewish. (It's really quite remarkable how many professional songwriters not only have been Jewish, but specifically were Jewish and from New York City.) While still in high school, she co-wrote her first big hit, "A Groovy Kind of Love," which was a worldwide hit by the Mindbenders in 1965, and has been covered by others many times since. She graduated from New York University, where she majored in English, dramatic arts, and speech. 

The first five songs here are from the 1960s. Then there's a gap until 1975, when she didn't seem to write many successful songs. Maybe she was busy studying at the university. But in any case, she started having lots of success in the late 1970s. For instance, in 1977, she co-wrote "Nobody Does It Better" with Marvin Hamlisch (who is also Jewish and from New York City, by the way). It was the theme song to the James Bond spy film "The Spy Who Loved Me," and just barely missed hitting the top spot in the U.S. single chart, holding the Number Two spot for three weeks. 

She didn't have a steady songwriting partner. Instead, she co-wrote with a wide variety of collaborators. But she did have some regulars, including Hamlisch, Peter Allen, Melissa Manchester, Neil Sedaka, and Burt Bacharach. Actually, the number of great songwriters she collaborated with is pretty staggering. In addition to the ones mentioned above, they include Bob Dylan, Michael Jackson, Carole King, Neil Diamond, David Foster, Albert Hammond, Neil Simon, Carly Simon, Kanye West, and Babyface (a.k.a. Kenny Edmonds). 

Personally, I'm kind of mystified by this. Her lyrics seem okay, but nothing extra special. Nearly all of her songs are generic love songs with pretty typical love song lyrics. Why, for instance, would Dylan, a lyrical genius, want to collaborate with Bayer Sager, who is all about writing lyrics? The song they wrote together, "Under Your Spell," is a pretty forgettable song with generic lyrics on a pretty forgettable Dylan album, "Knocked Out Loaded." But hey, she must have done something right to keep collaborating with so many great talents. 

In some cases, her songwriting partners had to do with romance. For instance, she was in a long relationship with Hamlisch. That relationship later became the subject of a hit musical, "They're Playing Our Song." She also was married to Burt Bacharach for ten years, from 1982 to 1991. During that time, they co-wrote two really big hits, "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" for Christopher Cross, and "That's What Friends Are For." That latter song was a mega hit for a collaboration between Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Stevie Wonder, in 1985. But I find that version overdone and overplayed, so I've included the much lesser known original version by Rod Stewart from 1982.

Over 400 of Bayer Sager's songs have been recorded by various musical acts. Her commercial peak was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but she continued to have some success well into the 2000s. For instance, she cowrote a song with Kanye West in 2018, and also had two cowritten songs on a Barbra Streisand album that year. She is still alive and 82 years old as I write this in October 2026.

Frankly, I'm not a fan of a lot of her songs. Many of them seem generic and formulaic to me. There are a bunch of hit songs I didn't include here for that reason (although I didn't skip any really big hits). But she has an undeniable track record of a lot of very good songs, definitely enough for an album in this series. In fact, it's a few songs short of being enough material for two albums.

Here's her Wikipedia link if you want to know more:

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

01 A Groovy Kind of Love (Mindbenders)
02 Ashes to Ashes (Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders)
03 When Love Comes Knocking at Your Door (Monkees)
04 I'm Gonna Make You Mine (Shadows of Knight)
05 The Girl I Left Behind Me (Monkees)
06 Midnight Blue (Melissa Manchester)
07 Everything Old Is New Again (Anne Murray)
08 Nobody Does It Better (Carly Simon)
09 Heartbreaker (Chris Hillman)
10 You're Moving Out Today (Carole Bayer Sager)
11 When I Need You (Albert Hammond)
12 Don't Cry Out Loud (Melissa Manchester)
13 You’re the Only One (Dolly Parton)
14 It's My Turn (Diana Ross)
15 Arthur's Theme [Best That You Can Do] (Christopher Cross)
16 That's What Friends Are For (Rod Stewart)
17 On My Own (Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald)
18 I Do (For Real)
19 The Prayer (Celine Dion & Andrea Bocelli)
20 We've Had Enough (Michael Jackson) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5dmk3UXc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/DY7ccItPu7atOvC/file

The cover image is from an awards ceremony in 1982. She won the Academy Award for Best Original Song that year for "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)."

J. Geils Band - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-19-2012

Another musical act from the Port Chester leak that I've been getting some requests for is the J. Geils Band. So here's their concert.

The J. Geils Band was formed in 1968, lost their lead singer Peter Wolf in 1982, and broke up in 1985. They stayed broken up for a long time. They started getting together for occasional concerts in 1999. However, there weren't a lot of those. They performed slightly over 30 concerts total from 1999 to 2011.

In 2012, the year of this concert, they got together for another short reunion tour. However, this time, guitarist J. Geils was not included, despite being the person the band was named after. He was replaced by touring guitarists Duke Levine and Kevin Barry. Geils was not happy about this. He sued the other band members, ultimately unsuccessfully. He said there were no hard feelings, but he never played with the band again, dying in 2017.

Other than Geils, the other key members from the band's founding were still active, such as keyboardist Seth Justman, bassist Danny Klein, Magic Dick on harmonica, saxophone, and other instruments, and Peter Wolf on lead vocals. They still sounded very good, in my opinion.

In terms of the song list, it might as well have been 1982, since all the songs date from that year or earlier. 

I don't believe this concert has been shared, at least not at the bootleg sharing sites I'm familiar with. So I had to split the single mono track into individual mp3s. The sound quality is excellent, like everything else from the Port Chester leak. 

This album is an hour and 55 minutes long.

01 Sno-Cone [Part 1] [Instrumental] (J. Geils Band)
02 Wait (J. Geils Band)
03 Hard Drivin' Man (J. Geils Band)
04 talk (J. Geils Band)
05 Peter Gunn Theme [Instrumental] (J. Geils Band)
06 talk (J. Geils Band)
07 Homework (J. Geils Band)
08 Night Time (J. Geils Band)
09 talk (J. Geils Band)
10 Southside Shuffle (J. Geils Band)
11 Sanctuary (J. Geils Band)
12 talk (J. Geils Band)
13 I Do (J. Geils Band)
14 talk (J. Geils Band)
15 Crusin' for a Love (J. Geils Band)
16 talk (J. Geils Band)
17 Just Can't Wait (J. Geils Band)
18 Give It to Me (J. Geils Band)
19 talk (J. Geils Band)
20 Surrender (J. Geils Band)
21 talk (J. Geils Band)
22 On Borrowed Time (J. Geils Band)
23 Freeze-Frame (J. Geils Band)
24 Detroit Breakdown (J. Geils Band)
25 Love Stinks (J. Geils Band)
26 Lookin' for a Love (J. Geils Band)
27 talk (J. Geils Band)
28 Whammer Jammer [Instrumental] (J. Geils Band)
29 Ain't Nothin' but a House Party (J. Geils Band)
30 talk (J. Geils Band)
31 Start All Over Again (J. Geils Band)
32 Centerfold (J. Geils Band)
33 First I Look at the Purse (J. Geils Band)
34 talk (J. Geils Band)
35 Where Did Our Love Go (J. Geils Band)
36 talk (J. Geils Band)
37 Must of Got Lost (J. Geils Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sMRsPGDe 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/zb8QCP6iHud9NEg/file

I've been able to find cover photos from the exact concerts for most of the Port Chester leak concerts, but not this one. However, at least I came close in time and place. This is from a concert at the North Fork Theatre, in Westbury, New York, on September 12, 2012. That's only about seven days earlier, and 35 miles away.

Counting Crows - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 10-23-2012

Here's another concert from the April 2026 Port Chester leak that I got a few requests for: the Counting Crows in 2012.

The band's sixth studio album, "Underwater Sunshine (or What We Did on Our Summer Vacation)," was released in April 2012. It consisted entirely of cover versions. 

I have to admit I'm not much of a Counting Crows fan. I find the lead vocals of Adam Duritz a bit whiny. But I also must admit that I was impressed by this concert. The thing that impressed me the surprising number of cover versions, mostly deep cuts that showed really good musical taste. (And Duritz showed just how much of a music fan he is by mentioning that he has a bunch of Grateful Dead bootlegs from the Capitol Theatre, where this concert took place.) All the covers were explained by the fact the band was promoting a covers album, but it was still pretty cool anyway.

Here's a list of all the covers, and the original musical acts for each: 

Untitled (Love Song) - Romany Rye
Hospital - Coby Brown
Start Again - Teenage Fanclub
Meet on the Ledge - Fairport Convention
Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead
Mercy - Tender Mercies
Look at Miss Ohio - Gillian Welch
Return of the Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Bob Dylan 

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long.

01 Sullivan Street (Counting Crows)
02 Untitled [Love Song] (Counting Crows)
03 High Life (Counting Crows)
04 talk (Counting Crows)
05 I Wish I Was a Girl (Counting Crows)
06 talk (Counting Crows)
07 Hospital (Counting Crows)
08 Colorblind (Counting Crows)
09 Recovering the Satellites (Counting Crows)
10 Start Again (Counting Crows)
11 Anna Begins (Counting Crows)
12 Meet on the Ledge (Counting Crows)
13 Children in Bloom (Counting Crows)
14 talk (Counting Crows)
15 Friend of the Devil (Counting Crows)
16 talk (Counting Crows)
17 Mercy (Counting Crows)
18 talk (Counting Crows)
19 Look at Miss Ohio (Counting Crows)
20 A Long December (Counting Crows)
21 Return of the Grievous Angel (Counting Crows)
22 Rain King (Counting Crows)
23 talk (Counting Crows)
24 Washington Square (Counting Crows)
25 talk (Counting Crows)
26 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Counting Crows)
27 talk (Counting Crows)
28 Holiday in Spain (Counting Crows)
29 talk (Counting Crows)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cYiY1aLX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7yO1a7C1LyGDHa8/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Hot Tuna - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 8-6-2016

Here's another concert from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard bootleg leak that got interest from a handful of commenters here recently. It stars the band Hot Tuna. 

A lot of the time, maybe a majority of the time, Hot Tuna performs in acoustic mode. But this was a concert with a full band backing. As always, the core of Hot Tuna was Jorma Kaukonen on lead vocals and guitar, plus Jack Casady on bass. But for this tour, they were supported by Justin Guip on drums, Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams on various acoustic instruments such as acoustic guitar and violin, plus backing vocals, and Barry Mitterhoff on mandolin.

The last studio album Hot Tuna has released (until today as I write this in 2026) is "Steady as She Goes" back in 2011. They didn't actually play any songs from that, but stuck to older well known originals and some of their favorite cover versions.

Nobody else had posted this yet, at least at any of the bootleg sharing sites I know of. So I had to split a single audio track into individual mp3s. There was almost no banter whatsoever between songs.

This album is an hour and 46 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Hot Tuna)
02 I See the Light (Hot Tuna)
03 That'll Never Happen No More (Hot Tuna)
04 Rock Me Baby (Hot Tuna)
05 I Can't Be Satisfied (Hot Tuna)
06 talk (Hot Tuna)
07 Sleep Song (Hot Tuna)
08 Sea Child (Hot Tuna)
09 Feel So Good (Hot Tuna)
10 Ode for Billy Dean (Hot Tuna)
11 Watch the North Wind Rise (Hot Tuna)
12 99 Year Blues (Hot Tuna)
13 Bowlegged Woman, Knock Kneed Man (Hot Tuna)
14 Water Song [Instrumental] (Hot Tuna)
15 talk (Hot Tuna)
16 Funky No. 7 (Hot Tuna)
17 talk (Hot Tuna)
18 Hit Single No. 1 (Hot Tuna)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EKqnAsQy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/G9hY5YtCk1nN4oT/file

The cover image is a concert poster made for this exact concert. The original was rectangular, as most such posters are. I did some cropping and squishing to get it to fit into a square space. 

Jackson Browne - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-16-2015

I recently asked all of you which of the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard bootleg concerts you would like me to post sooner rather than later. Two of the top choices were Jackson Browne and Hot Tuna. So I'm posting those now. Here's the Browne.

Note, by the way, you can still voice your opinion on that if you haven't already. Just go back a few posts to find the announcement thread about that.

In late 2014, Browne released his studio album "Standing in the Breach." It was his first album of new material in six years. He was still touring to promote it when this concert took place about a year later. However, he only played three songs from that album: "Leaving Winslow," "Standing in the Breach," and "The Long Way Around."

This is one of the relative minority of concerts from the Port Chester leak where someone else already split it into individual songs and posted it that way. So I worked from that version. I still did my usual thing of breaking all the banter into separate tracks though, and Browne generally spoke before every song. 

Sometimes, Browne performs in solo acoustic mode, but for this concert he was backed by a band. 

This album is two hours and 24 minutes long. 

01 talk (Jackson Browne)
02 The Barricades of Heaven (Jackson Browne)
03 talk (Jackson Browne)
04 Just Say Yeah (Jackson Browne)
05 talk (Jackson Browne)
06 The Long Way Around (Jackson Browne)
07 talk (Jackson Browne)
08 Leaving Winslow (Jackson Browne)
09 talk (Jackson Browne)
10 These Days (Jackson Browne)
11 talk (Jackson Browne)
12 My Opening Farewell (Jackson Browne with Teresa Williams)
13 talk (Jackson Browne)
14 Mama Couldn't Be Persuaded (Jackson Browne)
15 talk (Jackson Browne)
16 For Everyman (Jackson Browne)
17 I'm Alive (Jackson Browne)
18 talk (Jackson Browne)
19 Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne)
20 For a Dancer (Jackson Browne)
21 talk (Jackson Browne)
22 Fountain of Sorrow (Jackson Browne)
23 Which Side Are You On (Jackson Browne)
24 talk (Jackson Browne)
25 Standing on the Breach (Jackson Browne)
26 talk (Jackson Browne)
27 Looking East (Jackson Browne)
28 talk (Jackson Browne)
29 Sky Blue and Black (Jackson Browne)
30 Doctor My Eyes (Jackson Browne)
31 talk (Jackson Browne)
32 Running on Empty (Jackson Browne)
33 talk (Jackson Browne)
34 Take It Easy (Jackson Browne)
35 Our Lady of the Well (Jackson Browne)
36 talk (Jackson Browne)
37 The Load Out (Jackson Browne)
38 Stay (Jackson Browne)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/45YB17wZ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4nY8cCkryTNRYL5/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Cat Stevens - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA, 4-26-1974

Here is a full-length bootleg Cat Stevens concert from 1974. He was backed by a full band.

There are tons of great Cat Stevens concert recordings from 1970 and 1971, both officially released and unofficial. Then there's a pretty obscure official live album from 1974, called "Saturnight." I don't like that one though, because it's far short of a full-length concert, and the song order is mixed up. It was only released in Japan (where the concert took place) until 2024, and still has only a limited release since then. Also in 2024, an official concert album from 1976 was released, called "Majikat." That one is very nice, but there's a lot of years between 1971 and 1976, considering that was the prime of his music career.

When it comes to concert bootlegs for him, it's very slim pickings between 1971 and 1976. The best full-length one I could find is this one, from Boston in 1974. It's an audience boot, which is disappointing, but it's a particularly good one. It occurred to me that, thanks to the advances in audio editing technology in recent years, I could bring this up to nearly soundboard level. So that's what I tried to do. I used the MVSEP program to clean up crowd noise during songs, boost the lead vocals that were low in the mix, and so forth. I think it sounds a lot better. It's not as good as the "Majikat" or "Saturnight" official live albums, but it sounds plenty worthy to my ears.

This concert took place a month after the release of his 1974 studio album "Buddha and the Chocolate Box." That's one of my favorite albums from him. (I've posted an alternate version of it at this blog that makes it even better.) So naturally he played some songs from that. This also contains an except from his long "Foreigner Suite" called "Sunnyside Road" that makes a nice song when all on its own.

One song here, "Sitting" has "[Edit]" in its title. That's because there was a particularly difficult section of the song near the beginning. You can probably hear it. I tried all I could to make that sound better, but I could only do so much. 

This album is an hour and twenty minutes long.

01 talk (Cat Stevens)
02 Wild World (Cat Stevens)
03 talk (Cat Stevens)
04 Longer Boats (Cat Stevens)
05 Oh Very Young (Cat Stevens)
06 Sitting [Edit] (Cat Stevens)
07 talk (Cat Stevens)
08 Foreigner Suite- Sunnyside Road (Cat Stevens)
09 talk (Cat Stevens)
10 Where Do the Children Play (Cat Stevens)
11 talk (Cat Stevens)
12 Moonshadow (Cat Stevens)
13 How Can I Tell You (Cat Stevens)
14 Bad Penny (Cat Stevens)
15 Later (Cat Stevens)
16 Lady D'Arbanville (Cat Stevens)
17 talk (Cat Stevens)
18 Peace Train (Cat Stevens)
19 Father and Son (Cat Stevens)
20 Music (Cat Stevens)
21 18th Avenue (Cat Stevens)
22 Bitterblue (Cat Stevens)
23 Hard Headed Woman (Cat Stevens)
24 talk (Cat Stevens)
25 King of Trees (Cat Stevens)
26 Sun-C79 (Cat Stevens)
27 Sad Lisa (Cat Stevens)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xok3BGTc

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Jackie DeShannon & Johnny Rivers - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 10-15-1976

I've been so busy posting albums from the Port Chester soundboard leak that posting albums from the "Midnight Special" TV show, and other projects, has largely been on hold. (The main problem is splitting single files into individual mp3s. If anyone can help with that, that would be awesome.) But last week (as I write this in later October 2026), a new episode was released on YouTube that I found too interesting to wait on. It's a rare episode with two hosts: Jackie DeShannon and Johnny Rivers.

Both of those are interesting to me. I would be happy to post concerts from them in the 1960s/1970s primes. But I'm especially interested in DeShannon. In my opinion, she's a drastically underrated singer and songwriter. One problem though is that it seems she performed concerts only rarely. I have posted a short concert she did way back in 1963, near the start of her career, but that's been the only worthy one I could find. So this is a very welcome discovery for me.

 

Both DeShannon and Rivers had most of their success in the 1960s, though they did have some successes later. For instance, Rivers had a Top Ten hit in the U.S. in 1977 with "Swayin' to the Music [Slow Dancin']" (often just known as "Slow Dancing"), and DeShannon wrote "Betty Davis Eyes" in 1974, which was a massive Number One hit for Kim Carnes in 1981. But this particular episode was a 1960s flashback one. All the musical acts were chosen for the 1960s hits.

It also was a dreaded "clip show format" type episode. Luckily, that didn't include DeShannon and Rivers, who gave all new performances for the episode, including introducing the other acts together. However, all the other acts consisted of previously aired performances, mostly from 1973 and 1974. Those were videos of the Byrds, Flo and Eddie (a.k.a. the Turtles), Steppenwolf, Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Sam and Dave, plus a tribute to Jan and Dean. 

 

All the songs DeShannon and Rivers performed only totaled about 25 minutes. I don't like posting episodes that short. Luckily, both performed on the show at other times. DeShannon was one of the guests for an episode broadcast on July 9, 1976. I've taken three songs from there: "All Night Desire," "Boat to Sail," and "I Wanted It All." That last one was a duet with Rita Coolidge, who hosted that episode. Those were all recent songs for DeShannon, in contrast to the 1960s hits she did for the episode co-hosted by Rivers.

 

As for Rivers, he hosted or co-hosted the show in 1973 and 1975. I may attempt to put those appearances together for an album at a later date. Additionally, he was on the show a couple of times in 1977 just to sing one song, his big hit from that year, "Swayin' to the Music [Slow Dancin']." Each week, the "Midnight Special" YouTube page posts another new episode. As I write this, they're still posting 1976 episodes. But luckily, someone has already posted that 1977 song from him with worthy sound quality. So I reached into the future a little bit (from this 1976 episode perspective) to include that song.

The first track has "[Edit]" in its title because I removed the theme song and replaced that with some applause. I also cut down Wolfman's Jack intro so he didn't mention the other musical acts.

This album is 41 minutes long. 

01 talk [Edit] (Wolfman Jack)
02 talk (Jackie DeShannon & Johnny Rivers)
03 Put a Little Love in Your Heart (Jackie DeShannon)
04 talk (Jackie DeShannon)
05 Secret Agent Man (Johnny Rivers)
06 Seventh Son (Johnny Rivers)
07 Poor Side of Town (Johnny Rivers)
08 When You Walk in the Room (Jackie DeShannon)
09 Needles and Pins (Jackie DeShannon)
10 What the World Needs Now Is Love (Jackie DeShannon)
11 Summer Rain (Johnny Rivers)
12 The Tracks of My Tears (Johnny Rivers)
13 All Night Desire (Jackie DeShannon)
14 Swayin' to the Music [Slow Dancin'] (Johnny Rivers)
15 Boat to Sail (Jackie DeShannon)
16 I Wanted It All (Jackie DeShannon & Rita Coolidge)
17 The Weight (Jackie DeShannon)
18 talk (Jackie DeShannon & Johnny Rivers)
19 What the World Needs Now Is Love (Jackie DeShannon & Johnny Rivers)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EZoKKNCn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hyZ7wo6yugNYuFw/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took of a video of this exact concert. 

The Decemberists - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-26-2015

Here's another concert from the great Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak. Except to see a LOT more of these from me in the next couple of months! I'd love to post all of the 85 or so I have yet to post by the end of 2026, so I could start with a relatively clean slate in 2027. Out of all the musical acts I've heard from these shows so far that I wasn't familiar with yet, I think I was most impressed by the Decemberists. 

Their Wikipedia entry has this to say about the band: "The Decemberists are an American indie rock band from Portland, Oregon, formed in 2000. ... As of 2024, the band has released nine studio albums with their lyrics often focusing on historical incidents and folklore. Audience participation is a part of their live performances, typically during encores. The band stages whimsical reenactments of sea battles and other centuries-old events, typically of regional interest, or acts out songs with members of the crowd."

Here's the link to their full Wikipedia entry:

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

In January 2015, the band released the studio album "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World," and they were touring to support that at the time of this concert. Previously, the band generally released concept albums about some pretty esoteric concept. For instance, this concert ends with a bunch of songs from the band's 2009 album "The Hazards of Love," which is a concept album about a woman who falls in love with a shape-shifting boreal forest dweller, only to be opposed by the forest queen. But the band's 2015 album was more straight-forward, by their standards. A New York Times review said the album "strikes a note of pop concision and maturity, building on what worked on [their previous album] 'The King Is Dead.' Lyrically, there are fewer thistles and minarets and palanquins - and, musically, less digressive excess - than once made up the Decemberists' trademark style."

Like most albums I'm posting from the Capitol Theatre leak, I started with a single audio file consisting of a mono soundboard of the whole concert. Then I broke it into individual mp3s. That was tricky here, especially for their suite of songs from "The Hazards of Love," but hopefully I got the song breaks right. 

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

01 talk (Decemberists)
02 The Crane Wife 3 (Decemberists)
03 Leslie Anne Levine (Decemberists)
04 talk (Decemberists)
05 Down by the Water (Decemberists)
06 talk (Decemberists)
07 Rox in the Box (Decemberists)
08 talk (Decemberists)
09 Philomena (Decemberists)
10 The Wrong Year (Decemberists)
11 talk (Decemberists)
12 On the Bus Mall (Decemberists)
13 talk (Decemberists)
14 Why Would I Now (Decemberists)
15 Make You Better (Decemberists)
16 talk (Decemberists)
17 Carolina Low (Decemberists)
18 talk (Decemberists)
19 July, July (Decemberists)
20 talk (Decemberists)
21 O Valencia (Decemberists)
22 talk (Decemberists)
23 The Chimbley Sweep (Decemberists)
24 talk (Decemberists)
25 Fits and Starts (Decemberists)
26 talk (Decemberists)
27 Prelude - The Hazards of Love 1 [The Prettiest Whistles Won't Wrestle the Thistles Undone] (Decemberists)
28 A Bower Scene - Won't Want for Love [Margaret in the Taiga] (Decemberists)
29 The Rake's Song (Decemberists)
30 The Hazards of Love 4 [The Drowned] (Decemberists)
31 talk (Decemberists)
32 Of Angels and Angles (Decemberists)
33 talk (Decemberists)
34 Dear Avery (Decemberists)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4XYRQ1Cy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/4tD9l32hsM7iWZz/file

The cover image of the band's lead singer Colin Meloy is from this exact concert.

The Moody Blues - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-27-2012

I just posted an announcement, asking for feedback on which of the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak concerts I should post first. The first comment suggested the Moody Blues, so here we go.

By 2012, the Moody Blues were well past their glory years, with their last studio album coming in 2003. They were down to three members dating back to the 1960s: Justin Hayward, John Lodge, and Graeme Edge. But they still put on a good concert, at you can hear here. They stayed together until the end of 2018, when Edge died. Since then, all the original members have passed except Hayward, the band's main singer and songwriter.

I have to admit I "cheated" a bit with this concert. The Capitol Theatre soundboard leak mentioned above actually included all of this November 27, 2012 concert, plus the second half of the November 28th. The set lists were basically the same, except the November 28th portion we have included the song "Driftwood." So I stuck that into this concert, in the same spot it occupied on November 28th.

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long. 

01 Gemini Dream (Moody Blues)
02 The Voice (Moody Blues)
03 Steppin' in a Slide Zone (Moody Blues)
04 You and Me (Moody Blues)
05 Tuesday Afternoon (Moody Blues)
06 Gypsy (Moody Blues)
07 talk (Moody Blues)
08 Nervous (Moody Blues)
09 talk (Moody Blues)
10 Say It with Love (Moody Blues)
11 talk (Moody Blues)
12 Peak Hour (Moody Blues)
13 I Know You're Out There Somewhere (Moody Blues)
14 The Story in Your Eyes (Moody Blues)
15 talk (Moody Blues)
16 Driftwood (Moody Blues)
17 Your Wildest Dreams (Moody Blues)
18 talk (Moody Blues)
19 Isn't Life Strange (Moody Blues)
20 The Other Side of Life (Moody Blues)
21 talk (Moody Blues)
22 Higher and Higher (Moody Blues)
23 Are You Sitting Comfortably (Moody Blues)
24 talk (Moody Blues)
25 I'm Just a Singer [In a Rock and Roll Band] (Moody Blues)
26 Late Lament [Poem] (Moody Blues)
27 Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
28 talk (Moody Blues)
29 Question (Moody Blues)
30 Ride My See Saw (Moody Blues)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FnMpQo5t

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

More Port Chester Concerts Coming

In recent weeks, I've been listening almost exclusively to April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York soundboard concerts. In my opinion, this is an amazing musical treasure trove, but most of it is in danger of being forgotten. 

I've posted about 35 concerts from the trove already. There are a few dozen different ones posted by others at bootleg sharing sites as well. But there are many dozens more that are not being shared anywhere I can see, not even at SoulseekQT, which normally has everything. It's been more than six months since the leak, and I don't see anyone else posting more concerts from this, not even in their raw form. So that's why I'm really focusing on getting these out there, even for musical acts I barely know or don't like all that much. And also even though it's a pain in the rear, since the vast majority of these were leaked as single files, which I then have to chop up into mp3s. I have a feeling that if I don't share these, nobody will. 

I've been a very busy bee. The following is a list of all the concerts I have all ready to go, with the mp3 splits and other audio editing, plus the cover art made. (Another thing I really like about these concerts is that there are good photos from the vast majority of them, due to the venue posting thousands of photos at Flickr.) All I need to do is upload them and write the write-ups. I could post these in any order, and so far I'm doing that pretty randomly. But if anyone wants me to post any of these sooner rather than later, please let me know which ones in this thread. I should start posting a lot more now that I've finished processing so many. I believe it's 53 more concerts in all. 

B.B. King
Beth Hart
Black Crowes (two concerts)
Bob Weir (three concerts)
Brandi Carlile
Bruce Hornsby
Chris Stapleton
Counting Crows
Elvis Costello & the Roots
Decemberists
Fishbone
Garbage
Gov't Mule (two concerts)
Grace Potter
Hot Tuna
Iggy Pop
Iron & Wine
Jackson Browne
J. Geils Band
Keb Mo
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
King Crimson
Lemonheads
Little Feat
Los Lobos
Lyle Lovett
Moody Blues
Neko Case
Neutral Milk Hotel
Old 97's
Peter Frampton
Phil Lesh & Friends (three concerts, all with Joan Osborne)
Psychedelic Furs
Queens of the Stone Age
REO Speedwagon
Roots
Sarah McLachlan
Sheryl Crow
Shins
Spoon
Steve Earle
Tedeschi Trucks (two concerts)
Trigger Hippy
Wallflowers
Warren Haynes
Willie Nelson

But wait, there's more! There are still more concerts that I haven't listened to or processed at all. These will take more time. Generally speaking, they consist of musical acts I'm less familiar with or completely unfamiliar with. (And, by the way, there are still dozens more concert recordings in the leak that I'm skipping entirely, because I checked at the rateyourmusic.com website, and they don't have many fans.) Out of the ones below, I'll probably process some of them, but not all. It depends on two things. One, how much do I like them. And two, how much popular demand there is for them. So if you want me to post some of these, let me know which ones, and that will influence what I do with them. I believe there's 37 concerts in this second list below. Thanks.

I gotta say I'm enjoying this project because my musical tastes are mostly stuck in the 1960s to 1990s. Since the vast majority of these are from 2012 to 2019, it's "forcing" me to listen to more musical acts I had overlooked. (There's a minority from after 2019 that weren't part of the leak, mostly webcasts from the same venue that I happened to find.) Some of these musical acts don't impress me much, but some do, so it's expanding my musical horizons a bit. Overall, I'd say the venue has very good taste in the kinds of musical acts they book, which is what makes this trove so interesting to me.

Alabama Shakes
Alejandro Escovedo
Avett Brothers (two concerts)
Blues Traveler
Claypool Lennon Delirium
Courtney Marie Andrews
Dan Auerbach
Dawes
Dion
Drive-By Truckers (2013)
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians
Elf Power
Felice Brothers
Furthur
Gary Clark, Jr.
Geese (two concerts)
Grizzly Bear
Jane's Addiction
Jason Isbell (2019)
Jenny Lewis
Jim James
Mac DeMarco
Modest Mouse
My Morning Jacket
Ray LaMontagne
Regina Spektor
Ryan Adams
Spin Doctors
Strokes
Trey Anastasio Band (two concerts)
Warren Haynes (two concerts)
Ween
Wilco

The Flaming Lips - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 7-30-2019

I've been meaning to post some music from the Flaming Lips for years now. I have some BBC music collected from them, but I have get to get around to properly organizing it. But now I have an excuse to post something from them, because this concert was part of the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak.

Here's part of the intro to their Wikipedia entry:

"The band started out playing garage punk and noise pop, before branching into more psychedelic and experimental territory. They recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers they released 'Hit to Death in the Future Head' (1992), followed by 'Transmissions from the Satellite Heart' (1993) and the hit single 'She Don't Use Jelly' which broke the band into the mainstream. They later released 'The Soft Bulletin' (1999), which was NME magazine's Album of the Year, followed by the critically acclaimed 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' (2002). In February 2007, they were nominated for a BRIT Award for 'Best International Act.' The group has won three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. They were placed on Q magazine's list of the '50 Bands to See Before You Die' in 2002."

Here's a link to their full Wikipedia entry:

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

Earlier in 2019, the band released the studio album "King's Mouth: Music and Songs." However, they only played a grand total of one song from that album: "Feedaloodum Beedle Dot." Instead, most of the songs are from the late 1990s and early 20002, widely considered their creative peak.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 talk (Flaming Lips)
02 Also Sprach Zarathustra [Instrumental] (Flaming Lips)
03 Race for the Prize (Flaming Lips)
04 talk (Flaming Lips)
05 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 (Flaming Lips)
06 There Should Be Unicorns (Flaming Lips)
07 talk (Flaming Lips)
08 She Don't Use Jelly (Flaming Lips)
09 talk (Flaming Lips)
10 True Love Will Find You in the End (Flaming Lips)
11 talk (Flaming Lips)
12 Feedaloodum Beedle Dot (Flaming Lips)
13 The Star-Spangled Banner (Flaming Lips)
14 talk (Flaming Lips)
15 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (Flaming Lips)
16 talk (Flaming Lips)
17 Are You a Hypnotist (Flaming Lips)
18 talk (Flaming Lips)
19 All We Have Is Now (Flaming Lips)
20 talk (Flaming Lips)
21 Do You Realize (Flaming Lips)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/exs2yBh4 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cMB2yGLJTApwmqO/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. The Flaming Lips are well known for their impressive visual props in their concerts. Lead singer Wayne Coyne can be seen below one of the robots from "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."

Phil Lesh & Friends - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 11-15-2012

Here's another concert from the April 2026 Capitol Theatre in Port Chester soundboard leak. This one features Phil Lesh and Friends. There are gazillions of concert recordings from this Grateful Dead spin-off band, like there are for most such spin-off bands. But I want to post this anyway to be true to posting all the good stuff from the leak.

If you're not that familiar, Phil Lesh was the bassist for the entire duration of the Grateful Dead's existence. He was a great bassist, but had limitations as a vocalist. He was kind of the Ringo Starr of the Dead when it came to singing, meaning he might get one song on a studio album to sing, if even that much. He wasn't that prolific as a songwriter either, though he did write a few really good ones, especially "Box of Rain," the last song in this concert. 

Thus, even though he was the star attraction here due to his history with the Grateful Dead, it's hard to lead a concert as a bassist who only occasionally sings. So there's a lot of leaning on the "Friends" part of "Phil Lesh and Friends." Here are the other members of the band in this concert:
Jackie Greene: Guitar, Keyboards, and Vocals
Adam MacDougall: Keyboards and Vocals
John Kadlecik: Guitar and Vocals
Joe Russo: Drums 

Greene has had a pretty successful music career as a singer-songwriter, as well as being in some other bands, such as Trigger Hippy with Joan Osborne. John Kadlecik has an amaaaazing ability to sound like Jerry Garcia, both with his lead vocals and his lead guitar work. Even though it's an imitative thing, I still find it impressive, showing a lot of talent.

Phil Lesh and Friends existed from 2008 until when Lesh died in 2024. Here's the Wikipedia page:

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

I believe every single song here was played by the Grateful Dead at some point, including the covers, such as "Dear Mr. Fantasy," originally by Traffic. 

The album is two hours and 47 minutes long.

01 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
02 Jack Straw (Phil Lesh & Friends)
03 Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Phil Lesh & Friends)
04 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
05 Crazy Fingers (Phil Lesh & Friends)
06 He's Gone (Phil Lesh & Friends)
07 Cold Rain and Snow (Phil Lesh & Friends)
08 Ship of Fools (Phil Lesh & Friends)
09 Mason's Children (Phil Lesh & Friends)
10 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
11 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Phil Lesh & Friends)
12 Help on the Way - Slipknot (Phil Lesh & Friends)
13 Viola Lee Blues (Phil Lesh & Friends)
14 Alligator (Phil Lesh & Friends)
15 The Eleven (Phil Lesh & Friends)
16 Standing on the Moon (Phil Lesh & Friends)
17 Uncle John's Band (Phil Lesh & Friends)
18 Slipknot (Phil Lesh & Friends)
19 Franklin's Tower (Phil Lesh & Friends)
20 talk (Phil Lesh & Friends)
21 Box of Rain (Phil Lesh & Friends) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/7fBFDhdq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/YXgyXLMQ3bOCah0/file

The cover image of Phil Lesh is from this exact concert. I took the text at the top from a concert poster.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 10 - Bruce Springsteen

Here's the tenth and last out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars Bruce Springsteen. But it also featured a number of special guests, and ended with all the stars from earlier in concert on stage for a couple of finale songs.

This was a rather strange set by Springsteen. I was expecting a more typical set from him, which are often long and mostly filled with songs he wrote. But the set was rather short by his standards, under an hour, and most of it felt like an extended finale. Weirdly, he only played two songs that he wrote, "Streets of Minneapolis" and "The Ghost of Tom Joad." Both of those had obvious political relevance for the festival's progressive themes, especially the recently written "Streets of Minneapolis." The covers were also along the same lines, such as "Clampdown," the Clash's song against dictators and fascism, and "Fortunate Son," the Creedence Clearwater Revival song about the unfairness of who fight in most wars.

There were special guests on almost every song, many with prominent roles. For instance, Springsteen sang a duet with Joan Baez on Bob Dylan's "Chimes of Freedom." And festival organizer Tom Morello was heavily involved, which was fitting, since he's been in Springsteen's touring band in recent years. He even was the main lead vocalist for Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," including singing some verses that were mostly forgotten over the decades because of their overtly political nature.

I hope listening to the sets from this concert has helped inspired you to vote for the upcoming midterm elections, if you're an American citizen. Let's kick the bums out. Power to the people! 

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 talk (Tom Morello)
02 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
03 Streets of Minneapolis (Bruce Springsteen)
04 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
05 Chimes of Freedom (Bruce Springsteen & Joan Baez)
06 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
07 Clampdown (Bruce Springsteen with Tom Morello)
08 The Ghost of Tom Joad (Bruce Springsteen & Tom Morello)
09 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
10 Fortunate Son (Bruce Springsteen with Dave Matthews, Tom Morello & Nathaniel Rateliff)
11 talk (Bruce Springsteen)
12 Rockin' in the Free World (Bruce Springsteen with Dave Grohl, Dave Matthews & Tom Morello)
13 talk (Tom Morello)
14 This Land Is Your Land (Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Everyone)
15 Power to the People (Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Everyone)
16 talk (Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/foUCzyi6 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/w3zdlbyzpLHKDZi/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. From right to left in the front row: Bruce Springsteen, Jordan Edward Benjamin of Grandson, Tom Morello, Joan Baez, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Dave Matthews.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 9 - The Foo Fighters

Here's the ninth of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars the Foo Fighters, led by Dave Grohl.

I don't have a lot to say about this set. So this is as good a time as any to post this link from Rolling Stone magazine. It's a gallery of about 25 photos from the festival:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-pictures/tom-morello-power-to-the-people-springsteen-foo-fighters-1235635540/

Also, one notable thing about the festival that made some news headlines is that Jack Smith, who was a special prosecutor investigating some of President Trump's many crimes, attended. Grohl pointed him out with his banter before the song "My Hero," though without identifying him by name, and dedicated the song to him. 

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band guested on Mose Allison's "Young Man Blues." Other than that surprise choice, the other songs were all originals.

This album is 45 minutes long.

01 Times like These (Foo Fighters)
02 Young Man Blues (Foo Fighters)
03 All My Life (Foo Fighters)
04 The Pretender (Foo Fighters)
05 My Hero (Foo Fighters)
06 talk (Foo Fighters)
07 Best of You (Foo Fighters)
08 talk (Foo Fighters)
09 Everlong (Foo Fighters)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/r6jdfFFf

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/cX6CFywFaBvHQFd/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 8 - Dropkick Murphys

Here's the eighth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars the rock band the Dropkick Murphys.

This band is from the Boston area, and you can tell if you listen to the banter between songs. Their music rocks, but has a strong Irish music influence. It's been called Celtic punk or Celtic rock. They also have a strong politically progressive stance in many of their songs, which you can see by looking at some of the song titles here.

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

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

This album is 43 minutes long.

01 Who'll Stand with Us (Dropkick Murphys)
02 The Boys Are Back (Dropkick Murphys)
03 Citizen I.C.E. (Dropkick Murphys)
04 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
05 Don't Call Me a Fucking Terrorist (Dropkick Murphys)
06 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
07 Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya (Dropkick Murphys)
08 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
09 Bury the Bones (Dropkick Murphys)
10 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
11 First Class Loser (Dropkick Murphys)
12 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
13 The Men Behind the Wire (Dropkick Murphys)
14 talk (Dropkick Murphys)
15 Rose Tattoo (Dropkick Murphys)
16 Worker's Song (Dropkick Murphys)
17 I'm Shipping Up to Boston (Dropkick Murphys)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CHyMfxnc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7NxFKm0KU0FR92z/file

The cover image of lead singer Ken Casey is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 7 - Joan Baez, Stephen Stills

Here's the seventh out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one features two short sets, only starring Joan Baez and the other one starring Stephen Stills.

Baez only sang two songs, both folk music standards. "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" was written by Woody Guthrie. No doubt it was chosen because of its sympathy to illegal immigrants coming to the U.S., which has been a hot button political issue. She was backed by Nathaniel Rateliff on both songs.

At the time of this concert, Baez was 85 years old. I gotta say, her voice wasn't quite up to the task at various points. Apparently she'd already decided to retire from concerts, but I guess worthy causes like this one keep pulling her back. 

Stills, surprisingly, only sang one song. But it also was a very fitting one for this festival, his 1966 classic "For What It's Worth." He also was backed by Rateliff, and well as Tom Morello.

This album is 20 minutes long.

01 talk by Tom Morello (Joan Baez)
02 talk (Joan Baez)
03 Deportee [Plane Wreck at Los Gatos] (Joan Baez with Nathaniel Rateliff)
04 talk (Joan Baez)
05 Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (Joan Baez with Nathaniel Rateliff)
06 talk by Tom Morello (Stephen Stills)
07 talk (Stephen Stills)
08 For What It's Worth (Stephen Stills with Tom Morello & Nathaniel Rateliff)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FNbbeuaJ

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/OUSKM9Ke6FrXIRG/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 6 - Dave Matthews

Here's the sixth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one is a set by Dave Matthews.

At the time of this concert, it's been a while since Matthews last released at studio album, about three years. But two of the songs in this short set are currently unreleased: "Peace on Earth" and "Papertown." Also, he finished with a cover of the Marvin Gay classic "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)." Apparently, this is the first time he ever played the song in concert. 

The performance was mostly acoustic in nature instead of with his usual band. However, he did have some light backing by other musicians, including a prominent female vocalist helping out on "Mercy, Mercy Me." 

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 talk by Tom Morello (Dave Matthews)
02 talk (Dave Matthews)
03 Don't Drink the Water - This Land Is Your Land (Dave Matthews)
04 talk (Dave Matthews)
05 Peace on Earth (Dave Matthews)
06 So Damn Lucky (Dave Matthews)
07 talk (Dave Matthews)
08 Papertown (Dave Matthews)
09 talk (Dave Matthews)
10 Save Me (Dave Matthews)
11 talk (Dave Matthews)
12 Mercy, Mercy Me [The Ecology] (Dave Matthews)
13 talk (Dave Matthews)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/P5gFJom3 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/CxpPUyEYCMav9rd/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 5 - Public Enemy

Here's the fifth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one features the rap group Public Enemy.

If you've been following this blog for a while, you must have noticed I'm not a fan of rap music, since I almost never post that kind of music here. But I do like Public Enemy, especially their first few albums. Unlike most rap I've heard, they talk about important things, especially political things, in an intelligent way, instead of the usual about ho's, wealth, boasting, dissing, and so forth. I also like how their music is clearly based on an appreciation of classic soul music. Plus, lead rapper Chuck D has an awesome, righteous voice. It's exactly as if Martin Luther King, Jr. were a rapper. And that's no coincidence, since Chuck D has said he's closely studied King's voice.

Here's their Wikipedia page:

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

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 talk (Public Enemy)
02 talk (Public Enemy)
03 Harder than You Think (Public Enemy)
04 talk (Public Enemy)
05 By the Time I Get to Arizona (Public Enemy)
06 Can't Truss It (Public Enemy)
07 talk (Public Enemy)
08 Shut 'Em Down (Public Enemy)
09 talk (Public Enemy)
10 Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos (Public Enemy)
11 Welcome to the Terrordome (Public Enemy)
12 He Got Game (Public Enemy)
13 talk (Public Enemy)
14 911 Is a Joke (Public Enemy)
15 State of the Union [STFU] (Public Enemy)
16 Black Is Back [Back in Black] (Public Enemy)
17 Bring the Noise (Public Enemy with Scott Ian)
18 Fight the Power (Public Enemy)
19 talk (Public Enemy)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/NCpdTc6g 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/AwOzCPdvC1YqERZ/file

The cover image of band leaders Chuck D and Flavor Flav is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 4 - Tom Morello

Here's the fourth out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars Tom Morello.

I don't think any musician had more fun at this festival than Morello. He was its main organizer, and took full advantage of that role. He was all over the place, guesting in the sets by others and having lots of guests in this, his set. For instance, he played guitar for the entire Suns of Soundgarden set I posted already, and he'll show up some more in later sets.

Morello has had a very interesting and unusual music career. He's probably best known as the lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. But he's also been part of the successful groups Audioslave and Prophets of Rage, and has had a solo career in a very different folk rock style. He's also done a lot of collaboration with Bruce Springsteen, including occasionally being a member of his touring band in recent years. 

On top of all that, he's a very educated guy, having graduated from Harvard University with a degree in political science, and has become a knowledgeable socialist political activist. His political stances have strongly come through most of his music projects. He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for his role in Rage Against the Machine, and Rolling Stone magazine has listed him at the 18th best guitarist of all time.

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

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

This set was actually billed to "Tom Morello and Friends," because there were special guests on a majority of songs, including some where the guests were the main lead singers. Here's some information about the guests. 
- Grandson performed a set earlier in the festival, which you can find in Part 1. 
- Serj Tankian is the lead singer for the band System of a Down. 
- B-Real is one of the two lead rappers in the band Cypress Hill, which also performer earlier, also in Part 1.
- DMC is Darryl McDaniels, one of the two lead rappers in Run-DMC.
- Chuck D and Flavor Flav are members of the rap group Public Enemy. Their set will appear later in this festival. Also, Morello, B-Real, and Chuck D were all members of the rock rap supergroup Prophets of Rage. 
- Scott Ian is the leader of the thrash metal band Anthrax.
- Sen Dog is also a member of Cypress Hill, as well as lead vocalist for the nu metal band Powerflo.
- Jack Black is a famous actor as well as member of the rock band Tenacious D. He sang for the Black Sabbath tribute band Jack Sabbath in Part 2 of this festival.
- Dave Grohl is lead vocalist for the Foo Fighters. Their set will appear later in this festival. 

The songs here are a mix of songs Morello did for Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and his solo career. Plus, there are occasional covers, such "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith, "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, and "Rock and Roll All Nite" by Kiss. 

By the way, for track 7, I couldn't list all the songs in the medley or the song wouldn't play on my computer, due to the folder name plus file name being too long. Here's the full name of that one: "Bombtrack - Know Your Enemy - Bulls on Parade - Guerilla Radio - Sleep Now in the Fire - Bullet in the Head - Cochise." 

This album is an hour long. 

01 Soldier in the Army of Love (Tom Morello)
02 talk (Tom Morello)
03 Date Night (Tom Morello)
04 talk (Tom Morello)
05 Hold the Line (Tom Morello with grandson)
06 talk (Tom Morello)
07 Bombtrack-Know Your Enemy-Bulls on Parade-Guerilla Radio-Cochise [Instrumental] (Tom Morello)
08 talk (Tom Morello)
09 Adjourn It (Tom Morello with Serj Tankian)
10 talk (Tom Morello)
11 Like a Stone (Tom Morello with Serj Tankian)
12 Prophets of Rage (Tom Morello with B‐Real & Chuck D)
13 talk (Tom Morello)
14 It's Tricky (Tom Morello with DMC)
15 talk (Tom Morello)
16 Walk This Way (Tom Morello with Scott Ian, DMC, Chuck D, B-Real, Sen Dog & Jack Black)
17 talk (Tom Morello)
18 Fight the Power (Tom Morello with Flavor Flav, Chuck D, B-Real, Sen Dog & DMC)
19 talk (Tom Morello)
20 Killing in the Name [Instrumental Version] (Tom Morello)
21 Rock and Roll All Nite (Tom Morello with Dave Grohl)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8FhGo73G

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/Y3tNkumREwSWnVq/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 3 - Nathaniel Rateliff

Here's the third out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. This one stars singer-songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff.

I've posted a Nathaniel Rateliff performance before, from the 2025 FarmAid benefit concert. So I won't say much about him this time.

At the time of this concert, he hadn't released a new studio album since 2024. So the songs here are from a variety of his albums. Plus, "Standing in the Rain Boys" is an unreleased song at the time of this performance.

This album is 33 minutes long. 

01 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
02 Tonight No. 2 (Nathaniel Rateliff)
03 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
04 Heartless (Nathaniel Rateliff)
05 South of Here (Nathaniel Rateliff)
06 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
07 Standing in the Rain Boys (Nathaniel Rateliff)
08 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
09 The Future (Nathaniel Rateliff)
10 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
11 And It's Still Alright (Nathaniel Rateliff)
12 talk (Nathaniel Rateliff)
13 Time Stands (Nathaniel Rateliff)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gWR7UErc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/4SCiAk4cr7DQN0w/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. 

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 2 - Jack Sabbath, Suns of Soundgarden

Here's the second out of ten albums of the October 2026 Power to the People Festival. It's the first "proper" one, since it contains mp3s of each song instead of just one big file per music act. Actually, this contains two acts, Jack Sabbath and Suns of Soundgarden. I've put them together because their sets are rather short. Both of them also are similar in nature, since they're tribute bands playing songs from just one artist.

First is Jack Sabbath. The lead singer of this band is Jack Black, the famous actor. For this concert, they only covered songs by the heavy metal band Black Sabbath. As far as I can tell, this has been their one and only concert, at least so far. They haven't released any recorded music either.

Although Black is primarily known as an actor, he's had a long and successful career in music as well. He has an excellent voice, which he's shown off in some movies, like "High Fidelity." He's been part of a rock duo called Tenacious D since 1994. For this apparently one-off performance, all the other musicians he played with were quite young. Looking at video footage of them playing, I'm guessing they're all in their early teens. It's just like a real life version of his movie "School of Rock." The other band members are Roman Morello, son of Tom Morello (who organized the festival), Revel Ian, son of Scott Ian (leader of the thrash metal band Anthrax), Yokoya Soma, and Hugo Weiss. For their last song, "War Pigs," they were joined by Geezer Butler, the original bassist and lyricist for Black Sabbath.  

The second band here, Suns of Soundgarden, is very similar to the first one, except they're a tribute band for Soundgarden instead of Black Sabbath. (And by the way, I double checked, and their name is "Suns," not "Sons." Perhaps that's a reference to Soundgarden's best known song, "Black Hole Sun.") This also seems to have their their one and only performance, at least so far, and they also haven't released any recorded music. The band consists of Taylor Momsen from the Pretty Reckless on lead vocals, Matt Cameron from Soundgarden and Pearl Jam on drums, Mike McCready from Pearl Jam on guitar, Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave also on guitar, and Robbie Mangano on bass.

These are a little out of order in terms of the order of the music acts in the festival, but I put them together for the reasons mentioned above. In case you're curious, Jack Sabbath performed before Killer Mike, and Suns of Soundgarden performed before Public Enemy later in the day. 

This album is 37 minutes long. 

01 talk by Tom Morello (Jack Sabbath)
02 Mr. Crowley (Jack Sabbath)
03 talk (Jack Sabbath)
04 The Wizard (Jack Sabbath)
05 talk (Jack Sabbath)
06 War Pigs (Jack Sabbath with Geezer Butler)
07 talk by Tom Morello (Suns of Soundgarden)
08 Loud Love (Suns of Soundgarden)
09 Outshined (Suns of Soundgarden)
10 Spoonman (Suns of Soundgarden)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/fLkRzyZR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/XWCjDC0uTdq08aw/file

 The cover image of Jack Sabbath is from this exact concert.

Power to the People Festival, Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD, 10-3-2026, Part 1 - The Early Acts

I write this on October 20, 2026. Two weeks ago, on October 3rd, there was a big rock festival designed to get people excited to vote out the Republicans across the United States. It was organized by Tom Morello, former lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine who has often been part of Bruce Springsteen's back-up band in recent years. In two weeks, on November, 3rd, that election is due to happen. I am hopeful there will be a big blue (Democratic) wave that starts turning the country away from Trump-led insanity. To help with that effort, I am posting this entire festival. Maybe this will help inspire you to vote, since much of the music here has political themes. (And if you're a Republican supporter, please go away, this music blog is not for you. And what the heck is wrong with you, sticking with him after his approval ratings are near historic lows for any modern president? Sheesh!)

Anyway, the reason I can post this is because video footage of the entire festival was broadcast for free on YouTube. I haven't seen it shared on any of the music sharing sites I visit though, probably because it's a really big pain in the butt to break it up into songs, or even individual acts. It's over nine hours long, so that's a lot of splitting to do.

In fact, it was a bit too much splitting for me. The first three and half hours of the festival consists of eight relatively little known music acts. I listened to all of them, twice. Some were okay, but none of them really grabbed me. So I decided to split the music into individual songs for the last five and half hours of music (with the bigger name acts, like Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, and the Foo Fighters), but not this first three and half hours. For these, I only broke them into the sets of each act. If anyone wants to further split some or all of these sets into individual songs, I would love that. Send that to me and I'll repost this that way.

However, I did grab all the set lists for these acts from setlist.fm. So you can follow along with them in the song list below.

Probably the best known act of these early acts is Cypress Hill. They sold millions of albums, especially in the 1990s. But they're a rap group, and I'm just not that into most rap, so I didn't feel inspired to split their songs into individual mp3s. Sorry.

Many if not all of the music acts here have leftist political songs, sometimes pretty radical. So if you're one of those people still part of the Republican clown car driving off the cliff, and still reading this, the odds are pretty good you will not want to hear this.

This album is 3 hours and 29 minutes long. 

01 Neighborhood Kids

Biddi Bomb
Brainwash
Third World Problems
Kids in the Cages

02 Last Internationale
 
Kick Out the Jams
Animals
Wanted Man
Hard Times

03 State Radio

Democracy in Kind
CIA
Revolutionaries
Calling All Crows
Cry Out
Gang of Thieves
Camilo

04 Kneecap

Unconquered - with Tom Morello

05 grandson

Autonomous Delivery Robot
Bury You
We Did It!!!
Oh No!!!
Self Immolation
Masters of War
Blood // Water

06 Linda Lindas

Gotta Get Out
Oh!
Burning Out
Blood on Our Hands
Closer
Nothing Left
Everybody Told Me
Racist, Sexist Boy

07 Killer Mike

Down by Law
Shed Tears
Never Scared
Never Scared [Second Version]
Kryptonite [I'm on It]
Slummer
Reagan
Yes!

08 Cypress Hill

When the Shit Goes Down
Real Estate
How I Could Just Kill a Man
Hand on the Pump
I Ain't Goin' Out like That
Bombtrack
[Rock] Superstar
Insane in the Brain
Jump Around - with Flavor Flav

https://pixeldrain.com/u/83kfvDae

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/tpJpNS5ssS7ueFH/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. Rather than show an image of one of the early acts in favor of all the others, I wanted something that represented the festival as a whole. So this is from the finale, with lots of people on stage, highlighting the large "Power to the People" sign. The text at the top is taken from a poster promoting the concert. I then used the same font when writing the text at the bottom.

The Rolling Stones - Ballads and Love Songs, Volume 2 (1964-2026) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

A couple of days ago, I posted "Volume 1" in this short series. Here's the second and final album of the Rolling Stones performing ballads / love songs. Like the first volume, this was put together by guest poster Mike Solof.

A commenter named Trivial Tony posted this in response to Volume 1, and I'll quote it here since it sums this up nicely: "Something we rarely talk about - the Stones were not known for their ballads but were remarkably good at them, even though they tended to be wearier than the Beatles' declarations of love." Here's another 15 examples of that. This doesn't gather up all of their ballads by any means, but hopefully it gets most or all of the best ones.

Pretty much everything here comes from the original studio albums. However, there are two tracks near the end where Mike made special mixes to make the songs more ballad-esque by toning down the drums and other rocking elements. 

Note that the track numbering continues from Volume 1, at Mike's request, in case you want to put all the songs together for a longer listen. 

This album is 58 minutes long. 

15 Angel in My Heart (Mick Jagger)
16 Ruby Tuesday (Rolling Stones)
17 You Better Move On (Rolling Stones)
18 Love in Vain (Rolling Stones)
19 Back Street Girl (Rolling Stones)
20 As Tears Go By (Rolling Stones)
21 Blinded by Love (Rolling Stones)
22 Play with Fire (Rolling Stones)
23 Blinded by Rainbows (Rolling Stones)
24 Almost Hear You Sigh (Rolling Stones)
25 Wild Horses (Rolling Stones)
26 Dreamy Skies (Rolling Stones)
27 Depending on You [Mike's Mix 2026] (Rolling Stones)
28 Back in Your Life (Rolling Stones)
29 Let It Bleed [Mike's Mix 2026] (Rolling Stones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/eVubdRaz

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/ATHv1WnGq2NkDMA/file

Like Volume 1, the cover shows the Stones when they were young and the top and much more recently at the bottom. And, like the first one, I don't know the sourcing for these. The bottom picture had the colors so washed out that I effectively had to colorize it, even though it already was technically in color.

The Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 12-30-2012

Here's a concert by the Steve Miller Band from Port Chester in 2012.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this is from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak or not. It was not included in the PDF file listing everything in that leak. But it matches the details of that leak perfectly. It's a mono soundboard of the same time period of everything else in the leak (roughly 2012 to 2019), and it showed up some time in 2026. So I would guess it's some kind of straggler that should have been included in the file but was missed. In any case, it has the same fantastic soundboard sound quality as everything else in the leak, and that's the most important thing.

At the time of this concert, Miller didn't have any new music to promote. He did release blues covers albums in 2010 and 2011, but he didn't play much from those. Instead, this is a long concert with lots of his best known songs. He also was joined by Sonny Charles, who sang lead or co-lead vocals on a few songs. Charles was the lead vocalist for the soul band Checkmates, Ltd., which had a big hit in 1969 with the song "Black Pearl." He toured regularly with Miller from 2008 to 2012.

Here's his Wikipedia entry:

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

If you want a live greatest hits from Miller, this is a pretty ideal concert for that. All his best known songs are included, plus some bluesy stuff with or without Charles. 

This album is an hour and 59 minutes long. 

01 Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band)
02 Take the Money and Run (Steve Miller Band)
03 The Stake (Steve Miller Band)
04 talk (Steve Miller Band)
05 Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
06 Mercury Blues (Steve Miller Band)
07 talk (Steve Miller Band)
08 Farther Up the Road (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
09 talk (Steve Miller Band)
10 Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma (Steve Miller Band)
11 talk (Steve Miller Band)
12 All Your Love [I Miss Loving] (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Kow Kow (Steve Miller Band)
15 talk (Steve Miller Band)
16 Ooh Poo Pah Doo (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
17 Texas (Steve Miller Band with Sonny Charles)
18 talk (Steve Miller Band)
19 Sugar Babe (Steve Miller Band)
20 Serenade from the Stars (Steve Miller Band)
21 Wild Mountain Honey (Steve Miller Band)
22 talk (Steve Miller Band)
23 Gangster of Love (Steve Miller Band)
24 Dance, Dance, Dance (Steve Miller Band)
25 talk (Steve Miller Band)
26 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
27 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
28 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band)
29 talk (Steve Miller Band)
30 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
31 talk (Steve Miller Band)
32 Swingtown (Steve Miller Band)
33 talk (Steve Miller Band)
34 Space Cowboy (Steve Miller Band)
35 talk (Steve Miller Band)
36 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/6HZXL3NP

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/F3A2bWJzuuIWs5K/file

The cover photo is from a concert at the L'Olympia, in Paris, France, on November 2, 2012.