The Guess Who with Bachman-Turner Overdrive - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 1-3-1975

A few days ago (writing this in February 2026), I posted a Midnight Special episode hosted by the Guess Who in 1974. They did another one that was broadcast in very early 1975 (though it was almost certainly recorded in late 1974). So here it is. The band broke up later in 1975, so this was their last appearance on the show.

As I mentioned in my write-up for the 1974 Guess Who album, the band had their first big hit in a few years that year with the song "Clap for the Wolfman." Wolfman Jack, host of the Midnight Special, loved the song, since it was about him, and he had some spoken lines in the recording. He performed the song with the band in their 1974 appearance, and did so again here. In fact, he was so keen on the song that the episode began straight away with the song before the usual introductions, then it ended with a short reprise of the song! 

Note the band Bachman-Turner Overdrive didn't appear on this episode of the show. They were only on the show once, in 1973, and played two songs. This album was rather short, and I didn't think any of the other musical acts from this episode were a good fit with the Guess Who. But the key member of Bachman-Turner Overdrive was Randy Bachman, former lead guitarist of the Guess Who, so I thought that made a very good fit. Thus, I included their songs from an earlier episode on this album, even though that took place over a year earlier. 

Between this album and the other Guess Who Midnight Special album I've posted, the band played most of their best known songs, with no overlap. For instance, in this performance they went back to some earlier songs, like "No Time" and "Bus Rider," as well as playing some that were new for the time. The band's last significant hit was "Dancin' Fool," which was performed here. That was released in October 1974, and made the Top Forty in the U.S. singles chart. 

In case you're curious, the other acts in this episode of the show were the Spencer Davis Group, Montrose, and the Charlie Daniels Band. 

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 Clap for the Wolfman [Edit] (Guess Who with Wolfman Jack)
02 talk by Wolfman Jack [Edit] (Guess Who)
03 Dancin' Fool (Guess Who)
04 Bus Rider (Guess Who)
05 Sour Suite (Guess Who)
06 talk (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
07 Hold Back the Water (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
08 No Time (Guess Who)
09 Diggin' Yourself (Guess Who)
10 Gimme Your Money Please (Bachman-Turner Overdrive)
11 Dirty (Guess Who)
12 talk (Guess Who)
13 Clap for the Wolfman [Reprise] (Guess Who with Wolfman Jack)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DZi5uFTV

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/jdsQMVECCUsLdOl/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took of a video from this exact concert. Wolfman Jack is on the far left, wearing a blue shirt. Burton Cummings is on the far right, playing piano and apparently wearing the curtains from his living room for a suit. 

Fleetwood Mac - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA, 4-15-1973

The band Fleetwood Mac went through many personnel transformations, with only the bassist (John McVie) and the drummer (Mick Fleetwood) remaining constants. I'm interested in pretty much all versions of this band, because they remained consistently good despite all the changes. As far as live recordings go, I always though 1973 was a lost year. I couldn't find even one decent recording from that year. But recently (writing this in February 2026), I came across a worthy one. So here it is.

In 1972, the main creative forces in the band were Christine McVie on keyboards, Bob Welsh on lead guitar, and Danny Kirwan on lead guitar. By the end of 1972, Kirwan was out of the band. The band brought in two new members: Bob Weston on slide guitar, and Dave Walker on lead vocals. That's the line-up for this concert: Christine McVie, Bob Welsh, Bob Weston, Dave Walker, plus the two unchanging members, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood.

Walker, who had been the lead vocalist for the band Savoy Brown, was brought into the band because the band's manager thought the band needed a charismatic lead vocalist. However, he didn't last long. He was included in the album "Penguin," released in March 1973. But he only sang lead vocals on two songs, one of which he wrote. At the end of the tour to promote the album, he was ejected from the group. So, in the larger history of this band, Walker is a minor blip, only remembered for singing two songs on one album. But he actually dominates this concert, singing most of the songs. 

The band carried on with just five members. Later in 1973, the band released another album, "Mystery to Me." Shortly after the tour to promote that album started, it was discovered that Bob Weston was sleeping with the wife of Mick Fleetwood. The tour was immediately cancelled, and the band actually broke up for several months. When they finally got back together, Weston was gone. So this is probably the only decent concert bootleg out there prominently featuring both Walker and Weston. One can tell Weston's guitar playing since he pretty much exclusively played slide guitar.

Now, let me address this recording. This is an audience bootleg. I generally shy away from those, due to sound quality issues. But it was an unusually good one. The main problem was that the lead vocals were buried in the mix. So I used the MVSEP program to bring them back up. That made a big difference. I also ran MVSEP over all the songs again to get rid of the crowd noise during the songs. Furthermore, the banter between songs was hard to understand. I ran those tracks through the Adobe vocal enhancer program, and that helped a lot. After all that, I think this concert sounds almost as good as a soundboard boot from the time. 

The one disappointment I have in this concert is that McVie only sang lead vocals on one song, "Get like You Used to Be." That's curious, because the lead single for the album they were promoting at the time, "Penguin," was "Remember Me," a song written and sung by McVie. 

This album is 55 minutes long. It's relatively short for a concert, but that's because they were an opening act. You can hear right at the end how the emcee announces there will be a short break before the main act, Deep Purple, takes the stage. 

01 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
02 The Green Manalishi [With the Two Prong Crown] (Fleetwood Mac)
03 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Oh Well, Part 1 (Fleetwood Mac)
05 Get like You Used to Be (Fleetwood Mac)
06 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Night Watch (Fleetwood Mac)
08 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Same Old Blues (Fleetwood Mac)
10 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
11 In the Country (Fleetwood Mac)
12 talk (Fleetwood Mac)
13 Rattlesnake Shake (Fleetwood Mac)
14 talk by emcee (Fleetwood Mac)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BfV3NdrW

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/IoeQxCwJoYsPsA1/file

The cover image is kind of a creative invention. I found a photo of band members Bob Weston and Bob Welch in concert in 1973, and another photo of Dave Walker in concert in 1973. I put them together in Photoshop. Both original photos were in black and white, but I colorized them using the Kolorize program. From right to left: Bob Weston, Bob Welch, and Dave Walker. 

Wilson Pickett with Edwin Starr - Rose d'Or Festival, Pavillon Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland, 5-3-1972

I keep coming across really interesting music on YouTube that doesn't ever make it to audio bootlegs. I keep trying to fix that. Here's another example. It's a Wilson Pickett concert from 1972. Edwin Starr is here too, but he only has a lesser role on one song.

In my opinion, the prime period of Pickett's music career was from about 1965 to 1973. When it comes to live recordings, surprisingly, there never has been an official live album from those years. And when it comes to bootlegs, there's only one well known one, which I've posted here at this blog, which took place in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1969. So it's quite nice to find this second one.

The sound quality is good, due to the fact that it was broadcast on TV. You can find multiple versions on YouTube. A couple of them have lots of little gaps of silence in the songs, but I was able to find a version without those.

This concert was part of a four-day-long festival. For this year, it was known as the Rose d'Or Festival, but it would soon be renamed the Montreux Jazz Festival, which continues until the present. Most years, this was held at the Montreux Casino, but it had to be moved for this year, due to the fire at the casino documented in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water." I looked up the schedule, and Edwin Starr performed at the festival one day later, so it was easy for him to drop in on Wilson Pickett's set.

By the way, I think "I'm a Midnight Mover" turned into a different song halfway through, but if so, I don't know the name of that other song. If anyone does, let me know, and I'll fix the song list. 

Also, it's kind of hard to tell just when Edwin Starr was involved, since neither his arrival nor his departure was clearly announced. But he joined the song "People Make the World (What It Is)" right after Pickett asked if any members of the Rolling Stones in the audience wanted to join him on stage. (Either they weren't there, or didn't want to join.) Then Starr traded lead vocals through the end of the song. 

This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 Funky Broadway (Wilson Pickett)
02 People Make the World [What It Is] (Wilson Pickett & Edwin Starr)
03 I'm a Midnight Mover (Wilson Pickett)
04 I'm in Love (Wilson Pickett)
05 Fire and Water (Wilson Pickett)
06 Don't Let the Green Grass Fool You (Wilson Pickett)
07 Don't Knock My Love (Wilson Pickett)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NExW4kGTp6meNAW/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from a video of this exact concert. That's Edwin Starr closer to the camera, and Wilson Pickett slightly behind him. Although Starr didn't have that big of a role in this concert, finding an image like this showing the top of them together was too good to pass up. 

Various Artists - The TAMI Show, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, CA, 10-29-1964

When I recently posted the 1964 NME Poll Winners' Concert, I got a request to post another stellar 1964, known as "The TAMI Show." Like the NME concerts, this has to be one of the greatest collection of musical talent on one stage in the 1960s. The TAMI Show was made for a movie, which was released at the end of 1964. But I haven't seen just the audio available. So I converted a video of the movie into audio and chopped it into mp3s.

There's so much to say about the TAMI Show. I'm going to try to be relatively brief. It seems some clever people decided that rock music was all the rage in 1964, so if they could get enough big stars together for a concert, it would make a profitable movie. They did, and it did. The result was a classic, regularly cited as one of the best music movies of all time. In 2006, it was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The key about the concert is that all the songs were performed live, at a time when lip-syncing was standard for TV appearances. Jan and Dean emceed the concert. They also performed its theme song, "Here They Come (From All Over the World)", written by songwriters P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. The concert brought together some British Invasion bands (Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, and the Rolling Stones) with Motown acts (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, and the Supremes), plus some other big names, like the Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, and Lesley Gore.

The concert is probably best known for the performance by James Brown, and for good reason. The whole thing is worth watching, but especially his part. The Police even immortalized it in their song "When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around," with the lyric:  

Turn on my V.C.R. 
Same one I've had for years
James Brown on the T.A.M.I. Show
Same tape I've had for years

In other words, Sting (who wrote that song) has a video of the TAMI Show, and is fascinated by James Brown's performance, watching it over and over. It's easy to see why. Brown's dancing is so extraordinary, it almost defies the laws of physics. He was moonwalking, and more, back when Michael Jackson was just a little baby. The lyrics are also interesting in that the TAMI Show was very hard to find for decades, generally only being available as a bootleg video, so that probably was an especially prized possession for Sting. It was finally remastered and rereleased as a DVD in 2010.

I worked from the DVD version, converted it to audio, and chopped it into mp3s. The sound quality isn't great, but it's as good as you could hope for from a 1964 concert. The lead vocals were rather low in the mix, so I used the UVR5 program to boost them relative to the instruments.

There was some controversy at the time whether James Brown or the Rolling Stones should be the final act in the show. At the time, the Stones had barely toured the U.S. at all. In fact, this would be only the third stop on their first big U.S. tour. But they were rapidly rising stars, enough for them to be chosen as the final act. However, James Brown wasn't pleased about that, and made sure to steal the show.

Mick Jagger, lead singers for the Stones, later said, "James Brown was probably the best thing about our trip. He is a fantastic artist. When you've seen him, you've seen the act to end all acts. We appeared with him on the TAMI Show and we had to follow him. It was a disaster in a way because nobody can follow James Brown, it’s impossible." Despite the competition, it was a friendly rivalry, and they were on good terms with him when they crossed his path at various times in later years.

Here's a good article about the concert, written in 2025, if you want to know more:

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/teenagers-world-unite-2/

And here's the Wikipedia article:

T.A.M.I. Show - Wikipedia 

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long. 

01 [Here They Come] From All Over the World (Jan & Dean)
02 talk (emcee)
03 talk (Jan & Dean)
04 Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry)
05 Maybellene (Chuck Berry & Gerry & the Pacemakers)
06 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
07 It's Gonna Be Alright (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
08 Sweet Little Sixteen (Chuck Berry)
09 How Do You Do It (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
10 Nadine (Chuck Berry)
11 I Like It (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
12 That's What Love Is Made Of (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
13 You've Really Got a Hold on Me (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
14 Mickey's Monkey (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles)
15 Stubborn Kind of Fellow (Marvin Gaye)
16 Pride and Joy (Marvin Gaye)
17 Can I Get a Witness (Marvin Gaye)
18 Hitch Hike (Marvin Gaye)
19 talk (Jan & Dean)
20 Maybe I Know (Lesley Gore)
21 You Don't Own Me (Lesley Gore)
22 You Didn't Look Around (Lesley Gore)
23 Hey Now (Lesley Gore)
24 It's My Party - Judy's Turn to Cry (Lesley Gore)
25 The Little Old Lady from Pasadena (Jan & Dean)
26 Sidewalk Surfin' [Surfin' Safari] (Jan & Dean)
27 Surfin' U.S.A. (Beach Boys)
28 I Get Around (Beach Boys)
29 Surfer Girl (Beach Boys)
30 Dance, Dance, Dance (Beach Boys)
31 Little Children (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
32 Bad to Me (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
33 I'll Keep You Satisfied (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
34 From a Window (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
35 When the Lovelight Starts Shining through His Eyes (Supremes)
36 Run, Run, Run (Supremes)
37 Baby Love (Supremes)
38 Where Did Our Love Go (Supremes)
39 Hey Little Bird (Barbarians)
40 talk (Jan & Dean)
41 Out of Sight (James Brown)
42 Prisoner of Love (James Brown)
43 Please, Please, Please (James Brown)
44 Night Train (James Brown)
45 Around and Around (Rolling Stones)
46 Off the Hook (Rolling Stones)
47 Time Is on My Side (Rolling Stones)
48 It's All Over Now (Rolling Stones)
49 I'm Alright (Rolling Stones)
50 Let's Get Together (Rolling Stones & Everyone)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/vRghL7X4

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/IlezlVz2skiZmQ5/file

Since James Brown had the most renowned performance in this concert, I decided it was fitting to have a photo of him on the cover. That photo is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. All the other text and graphics comes from original promotional material for the concert. But I used Photoshop to do some repositioning and other editing.

Aretha Franklin - Festival de Jazz d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, France, 7-21-1970

Here's a really nice Aretha Franklin from 1970, right in the middle of her peak era of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

There are very few concert bootlegs of Franklin from this time period. This is probably the earliest one, other than a 1968 Stockholm concert that I've posted at this blog already. She also released a 1968 live album. There's more live material from 1971 and 1972. But this helps fill a gap between the 1968 recordings and the ones from 1971 and after.

This definitely has soundboard-level sound quality. I don't know if that's because it's from an FM radio broadcast, or TV broadcast, or other, but it sounds as good as official live albums from this time period.

Note that two of the songs, "Put on a Happy Face" and "A Brand New Me," were sung by her back up singers. I believe one of those singers was Carolyn Franklin, her sister, who also helped her write some songs. 

This album is 52 minutes long. 

01 [I Can't Get No] Satisfaction (Aretha Franklin)
02 Respect (Aretha Franklin)
03 [You Make Me Feel Like] A Natural Woman (Aretha Franklin)
04 I Say a Little Prayer (Aretha Franklin)
05 talk (Aretha Franklin)
06 Eleanor Rigby (Aretha Franklin)
07 Since You've Been Gone [Sweet Sweet Baby] (Aretha Franklin)
08 Tighten Up [Instrumental Version] (Aretha Franklin)
09 Put on a Happy Face (Aretha Franklin)
10 A Brand New Me (Aretha Franklin)
11 Dr. Feelgood [Love Is a Serious Business] (Aretha Franklin)
12 You Send Me (Aretha Franklin)
13 Spirit in the Dark (Aretha Franklin) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JmvpkgXc

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rkl5PP8I67WKvJE/file

I got lucky with the cover photo, because it's from this exact concert. It's the only one that I found. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Covered: Billy Steinberg & Tom Kelly: 1980-2019

I don't keep a close eye on music news, but yesterday I happened to hear that songwriter Billy Steinberg died. Specifically, he died on February 16, 2026, at the age of 75. That probably doesn't mean anything to most people, because I don't think he's very well known as far as songwriters go. But it meant something to me, because I had already made a "Covered" album of the songs he and songwriting partner Tom Kelly made. (It's one of several dozen "Covered" albums I've made but haven't gotten around to posting yet.) Due to his death, I decided to post this sooner rather than later.

Steinberg and Kelly wrote a lot of hits from the 1980s to the 2000s that you probably know without ever knowing who wrote them. Even though they were male, somehow they had the most success with females covering their songs. They had five Number One hits in the U.S., all sung by women: "Like a Virgin" by Madonna (1984), "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper (1986), "Eternal Flame" (co-written with Susanna Hoffs and recorded by the Bangles in 1989), "So Emotional" by Whitney Houston (1987), and "Alone" by Heart (1987).

Billy Steinberg was born in Fresno, California, though his family moved to Palm Springs when he was a teenager. After graduating from college, he formed a band called Billy Thermal. However, they didn't have any success, and one album they recorded around 1980 wasn't released until decades later, after he made a name for himself as a songwriter. He had his first songwriting success with "How Do I Make You," which was a hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1980.  

Tom Kelly was born in a small town in Illinois in 1952. He went to a college in that state, but dropped out to pursue a music career. He was a backing musician for Dan Fogelberg in 1976 and 1977. He also did a lot of session work, for instance singing backing vocals on Toto albums. He had his first songwriting success with "Fire and Ice," a minor hit for Pat Benatar in 1981.

Both Steinberg and Kelly independently had songs on Benatar's 1981 album, "Precious Time." They met at a party that year, and soon began writing together. Previously, both of them had written lyrics and music. But they soon fell into a pattern where Steinberg generally wrote the lyrics while Kelly wrote the music. Their really big break as a songwriting team was "Like a Virgin" by Madonna. After that, they were in high demand. What's on this album is just the cream of the crop of the many dozens of songs they wrote for well-known musical acts.

Their partnership continued very fruitfully until the mid-1990s. At that point, Kelly tired of songwriting and dropped out of the music business. He'd already had enough success to live on the royalties he'd made. However, Steinberg kept going with new songwriting partners. From the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s, he mostly wrote with Rick Newels, who already was a successful professional songwriter. From the mid-2000s to about the mid-2010s, he mostly wrote with Josh Alexander.

Steinberg had a lot of songwriting success after he stopped working with Kelly. But I listened to his big hits and, to be honest, didn't like them very much after about 2000. They suffer the same problems as most popular pop music since about 2000: formulaic and forgettable. So I generally didn't include most of those. To be honest, even a lot of their earlier stuff was formulaic and forgettable, but sometimes, in fact many times, they had some real winners.

But in case you're curious, Steinberg's biggest later hits include "I Turn to You" by Melanie C (2000), "Love Doesn't Have to Hurt" by Atomic Kitten (2003), "Too Little Too Late" by JoJo (2006), "Don't Hold Your Breath" by Nicole Scherzinger (2011), and "Give Your Heart a Break" by Demi Lovato (2012). After that, the hits petered out, although some older songs keep getting rerecorded and making the charts again, especially "Alone" and "I Drove All Night." For instance, Alyssa Reid went all the way to Number Two in the British charts with "Alone" in 2012, although it was titled "Alone Again" and had the now practically obligatory rap section.

I'm not a fan of Whitney Houston's version of "So Emotional." But since it was a massive Number One hit, I wanted to include it in some form. I found a radically different cover version by Jon McLaughlin from 2019 that I like much better, so I used that instead. Had it not been for that song, this album would end in 2000.

Here are their Wikipedia pages: 

Billy Steinberg - Wikipedia

Tom Kelly (musician) - Wikipedia  

That album is an hour and ten minutes long. 

01 How Do I Make You (Linda Ronstadt)
02 Fire and Ice (Pat Benatar)
03 Like a Virgin (Madonna)
04 Sex as a Weapon (Pat Benatar)
05 True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
06 Eternal Flame (Bangles)
07 Alone (Heart)
08 In Your Room (Bangles)
09 I Touch Myself (Divinyls)
10 My Side of the Bed (Susanna Hoffs)
11 I Drove All Night (Roy Orbison)
12 Night in My Veins (Pretenders)
13 Lucky Love [Acoustic Version] (Ace of Base)
14 I'll Stand by You (Pretenders)
15 Falling into You (Celine Dion)
16 California (Belinda Carlisle)
17 One and One (Edyta Gorniak)
18 Everytime It Rains (Ace of Base)
19 The Consequences of Falling (k.d. lang)
20 So Emotional (Jon McLaughlin)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/4xNLLW9p 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/uxa5jlpb5sQPr8t/file

I don't know the details of the cover photo. But that's Tom Kelly on the left and Billy Steinberg on the right. There are patches of white in Steinberg's hair, which went completely white in later photos of him. 

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 9: In Concert, Twickenham Stadium, London, Britain, 6-18-2005

Just two days ago (writing this in mid-February 2026), I posted a "BBC Sessions, Volume 7" for U2, a 1993 concert that I'd previously missed. A commenter noted US also did a 2005 concert that was broadcast for the BBC. I looked it up, and sure enough, that person was right. So I decided to get and post this one ASAP, because I was forced to do some renumbering. I had just renumbered the three albums in this series that come after this. I have renumbered them again. I hope most people hadn't had time to get that previous renumbering yet. And let's hope this renumbering sticks. If someone now tells me there was a 1982 concert U2 did for the BBC that I'd missed, I'll be tempted to go have a good cry!

Although my last U2 post was only two days prior to this one, there's been big U2 news in the meantime: they unexpectedly dropped an EP called "Days of Ash." This made a lot of headlines, because the songs addressed some current political topics. Here's what Wikipedia has to say about it: "Produced by Jacknife Lee, the six-track EP contains five new songs, including protest songs addressing the killings of Minneapolis woman Renée Good, Iranian teenager Sarina Esmailzadeh, and Palestinian activist Awdah Hathaleen, as well as a poem by Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai set to music. It is the first collection of original songs the band released since their studio album 'Songs of Experience' in 2017."

In other U2 posts, I've complained that the quality of the band's new songs has slowly gone downhill since the early 2000s. So I was very pleasantly surprised by this new EP. It helps that I agree with their political stances. But I think purely on a musical level, this is the best new music they've released in years. So I encourage you to check it out.

Anyway, back to this album. In 2005, U2 was still riding high, promoting 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb," which I would argue was their last solid album. (At least so far - this new EP gives me hope.) That album has their last big hits (again, at least so far), especially "Vertigo." So this contains the best songs from that album, plus classics from their earlier albums.

The BBC broadcast most of this concert, but not all of it. Apparently, the first time, the broadcast began around the start of "City of Blinding Lights," the ninth track, and then continued until the end. You can even hear lead singer Bono talking about this before that song begins. 

Later broadcasts included some of the earlier songs, but not all of them. Only three songs were missing: "The Electric Co.," "New Year's Day," and "Beautiful Day." I managed to find an audience bootleg for just those three songs. I did what I could, using the MVSEP program to split off the lead vocals and then run them through a filter to lessen the echo. I also used that program to get rid of the crowd noise during those songs. That helped some, but they still don't sound as good as the rest. However, they sound decent, or I wouldn't have included them.

Oh, also, I noticed the vocals were a bit low in the mix. So I ran all the songs through MVSEP to fix that as well. 

The music here is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent, with a partial exception of the three songs I mentioned above. 

This album is two hours and one minute long. 

01 Vertigo (U2)
02 I Will Follow (U2)
03 The Electric Co. (U2)
04 Elevation (U2)
05 New Year's Day (U2)
06 Beautiful Day (U2)
07 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)
08 All I Want Is You (U2)
09 City of Blinding Lights (U2)
10 Miracle Drug (U2)
11 Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own (U2)
12 Love and Peace or Else (U2)
13 Sunday Bloody Sunday (U2)
14 Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)
15 Running to Stand Still (U2)
16 Pride [In the Name of Love] (U2)
17 Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
18 One (U2)
19 Zoo Station (U2)
20 The Fly (U2)
21 Mysterious Ways (U2)
22 Yahweh (U2)
23 Vertigo [Second Version] (U2)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Fn8JUeyA

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hw8lXuJouKkGA8Z/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

The Guess Who - The Midnight Special, NBC Studios, Burbank, CA, 3-29-1974

I have a lot of new things I keep finding that distracts me from posting more of projects I've previously announced, but all those projects are still in progress. One of them is posting more from the "Midnight Special" TV show. When I posted a poll about this show, the Guess Who were one of the top vote getters. They were on the show a handful of times. I've turned that into two albums. Here's the first one.

The Guess Who didn't have any big hits in 1972 or 1973, after having more success from 1969 to 1971. But in 1974, they had another Top Ten hit in the U.S. with "Clap for the Wolfman," which was a tribute song for DJ Wolfman Jack. At the time, the Midnight Special was hosted by none other than Wolfman Jack, who naturally loved the song. He spoke some lines on the record. He repeated those here in this live version. (According to the Wikipedia article about the song, he even performed the song with the band sometimes while they were on tour in 1974.) I find it interesting that this episode aired at the end of March 1974, and probably was recorded a little earlier than that, but "Clap for the Wolfman" wasn't released on album until April 1974, and wasn't released as a single until June 1974. So this may have been the public debut of the song.

The Guess Who hosted this show on the date mentioned in this album title, March 29, 1974. Most of the songs here are from that date. But tracks 7 through 10 are from an episode that aired on December 14, 1973. And track 11 is from an episode that aired on February 22, 1974. They hosted the show again in 1975, but that will be the subject of a different album.

The first track has "[Edit]" in the title because I removed the theme song playing in the background and replaced it with crowd noise. And "Clap for the Wolfman" also has that in its title because there was a glitch in the song. Luckily, it happened during a chorus, so I was able to repair it by patching in a bit from a different chorus.

In case you're curious, the other musical acts in the main episode here were Wishbone Ash, Sha Na Na, Slade, David Essex, Judi Pulver, and Leo Kottke.

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

This album is 40 minutes long. 

01 talk by Wolfman Jack [Edit] (Guess Who)
02 American Woman (Guess Who)
03 talk (Guess Who)
04 Star Baby (Guess Who)
05 These Eyes (Guess Who)
06 Clap for the Wolfman [Edit] (Guess Who with Wolfman Jack)
07 Albert Flasher (Guess Who)
08 Undun (Guess Who)
09 Straighten Out (Guess Who)
10 Glamour Boy (Guess Who)
11 Share the Land (Guess Who)
12 talk (Guess Who)
13 Hand Me Down World (Guess Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/8Mf4TUco

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/xnDkn4NazWflbLF/file

The cover photo is a screenshot taken from this exact concert. I could have selected more of a close-up pic, but I liked this unusual perspective showing how the stage stuck out into the audience. That's lead singer Burton Cummings on the front edge of the stage.

Elton John - Cover Versions, Volume 5: 2002-2007

In 2023 and 2024, I posted four volumes collecting all the cover versions performed by Elton John that I could find. However, I stopped this series before finishing it because I ran into copyright issues with the fourth volume. But I've had way less of those issues in recent months, so I'd going to try to post the fifth volume. If that works out, the sixth and final volume will follow. But you might want to grab this quickly, just in case.

Tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8 are all unreleased, and from concerts. Out of those, tracks 2 and 3 are from a CMT Crossroads episode with Ryan Adams. Track 9 was also performed live, but it's from a tribute album to Luther Vandross. For all these live songs, I used the MVSEP program to wipe the cheering, so those songs would fit with the studio tracks.

That leaves the studio tracks, all of which are released. Those are from a mix of movie soundtracks, tribute albums, and duets done on albums by other musical acts. If you want more details, please look at the mp3 tags for the individual songs. Like always, I include the source info for each song on every album I post. 

By the way, some of the links in the previous volumes in this series weren't working, but I just replaced them with new links. 

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Oh My Sweet Carolina (Elton John)
02 Firecracker (Elton John & Ryan Adams)
03 La Cienega Just Smiled (Elton John & Ryan Adams)
04 Makin' Whoopee (Elton John)
05 Moon River (Elton John)
06 Nighttime Is the Right Time (Elton John & Mary J. Blige)
07 Born to Lose (Elton John)
08 Rock This House (B. B. King & Elton John)
09 Anyone Who Had a Heart (Elton John & Luther Vandross)
10 Dreamland (Bruce Hornsby & Elton John)
11 Where We Both Say Goodbye (Catherine Britt & Elton John)
12 Rags to Riches (Tony Bennett & Elton John)
13 Blueberry Hill (Elton John) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/PWY7tZVF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Tk5ynn7dYAJmOmv/file

The cover photo is from a concert at Wembley Arena, in London, on December 5, 2003. 

Various Artists - NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, London, Britain, 5-1-1966

I've already posted the NME Poll Winners' Concerts from 1964 and 1965. Here's the only other one known to be exist in the public sphere, the 1966 one.

This is arguably one of the greatest concerts of all time, just in terms of sheer star power. The last three acts were the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles, for crying out loud! That was probably the one and only time those three acts appeared on stage in a row like that.

Unfortunately though... we're missing most of the good stuff, including all of those three performances! So sorry. And worse, of the remaining concert, we are missing half of that too. This concert was at least two hours long. So, to broadcast it on TV, it was split it two, and the two parts were shown on TV a week apart. It's pretty clear to me that only the second part survives, because all of the first part is missing. 

Here are all the musical acts that played in the first part: the Overlanders, Small Faces, the Spencer Davis Group, Roy Orbison, the Walker Brothers, the Yardbirds, the Seekers, the Alan Price Set, the Shadows, and Cliff Richard. If you add all those acts together, plus the ones we do have below (Sounds Incorporated, the Fortunes, Herman's Hermits, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich, the Yardbirds, Crispian St. Peters, Alan Price Set, and Dusty Springfield), plus the three acts finishing the second set (the Who, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles), it's hard to argue this was the greatest collection of rock music talent ever on one stage in the 1960s. It's such a shame we don't have all of it!

Of course, the greatest loss is not getting to hear the Beatles' set. This would turn out to be the very last concert the Beatles performed in Britain, excepting the unannounced performance on top of Abbey Roads Studios in 1969. We do know the songs they played though: "I Feel Fine," "If I Needed Someone," "Day Tripper," "Nowhere Man," and "I'm Down."

To further frustrate you, these NME concerts continued until 1971. I couldn't find many details about the concerts after 1966. However, we know a bit more about the 1967 and 1968 concerts, because setlist.fm gives a list of the performers for each of those years.  

Here's a list of the known performers for the 1967 concert (in alphabetical order): Alan Price Set, Cat Stevens, Cliff Richard, Cream, Dusty Springfield, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Lulu, Small Faces, the Beach Boys, the Dubliners, the Move, the Spencer Davis Group, the Troggs. 

And here are the known performers for the 1968 concert (also in alphabetical order): Amen Corner, Cliff Richard, Don Partridge, Dusty Springfield, Love Affair, Lulu, Procol Harum, Scott Walker, Status Quo, the Association, the Herd, the Move, the Paper Dolls, and the Rolling Stones. 

Man, what incredible concerts those would be to hear! Unfortunately though, no known recordings of any of the concerts after 1966 exist. I strongly suspect they weren't broadcast on TV, but I don't know for sure. Let's hope that the remainder of the 1966 concert and all of the 1967 to 1971 concerts are sitting in some vault and will be released to the public one day. 

Now, let's get to why we don't have the recordings of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Apparently, there was a big argument backstage. The popular version is that both Mick Jagger of the Stones and John Lennon of the Beatles argued that they were the biggest band in the world, and thus demanded to go on last. However, it appears this wasn't true. In fact, most of the members of the Beatles and the Stones were friends with each other. 

I found what appears to be the more accurate story at The Paul McCartney Project website. It has an impressive webpage dedicated to this concert, with lots of photos and text. You can find that here:

https://www.the-paulmccartney-project.com/concert/1966-05-01/

That webpage includes an excerpt from a book that extensively quotes Maurice Kinn, who was the owner of NME at the time. Here's what Kinn claims happened: 

"Halfway through the Stones' set, the four Beatles arrived at the foot of the stairs to the stage, with their guitars in hand. I told them they were 25 minutes early, but Lennon insisted that they were going on. I said they couldn't and John shouted, 'Didn't you hear me the first time? We're going on now, or we're not going on at all.' In a rapidly convened huddle with Brian Epstein, I outlined my dilemma, that I had promised the Stones, in writing, that the Beatles should not follow them immediately onto the stage. I had arranged for the awards presentation to come between the two acts and explained to Brian that if the Beatles did not come on at the previously arranged time, I would be left with no option but to send MC Jimmy Savile on stage to explain to 10,000 NME readers that the Beatles were in the stadium but they weren’t going to play. I explained to him very clearly what would happen then. There would be a riot! Half of Wembley would be destroyed and Wembley and the NME would both sue Epstein. Brian conveyed this to the Beatles and John exploded! He gave me abuse like you've never heard before in all of your life. You could hear him all over the backstage area. He said, 'We'll never play for you again!' But he knew that he had no choice. Fifteen minutes later, the Beatles went on stage, collected their awards and played the show."

So it seems it's true there was an argument involving Lennon, but not Jagger. Jagger was performing on stage at the time and was probably totally oblivious about the conflict going on nearby. While I think Lennon is one of the greatest musicians of all time, he could be an asshole sometimes, and it looks like this was one of those times. Probably the Beatles were sick and tired of giving concerts by this time, and Lennon had lost all patience and just wanted to get this obligation over with.

Be that as it may, the Beatles didn't even allow the cameras to roll when they took the stage, due to the conflict mentioned above. I'm not sure how it came to be that the Who and the Rolling Stones also didn't allowing their performances to be broadcast either, but that's what happened. 

So anyway, while we can lament all the missing music, what we're left with is still pretty damn impressive. And we're lucky to have anything at all, since very few live recordings from 1966 survive. As for the sound quality, it's reasonably good, but not great. Consider this was probably recorded off a TV in 1966, so one has to lower one's standards a bit. I tried to improve it, but there wasn't much I could do, since I couldn't successfully separate the vocals from the instruments, or the instruments from each other. In the end, I just kept it the same. 

In case you're curious about who won the poll awards this year, there's a list at the NME website, which you can see here:

https://www.nme.com/nme-awards/awards-history/1966-606221

Also, note that I found a review for this concert from NME, thanks to the Paul McCartney Project website mentioned above. I included an image of it in the download file. It has comments about all the performances, including all the missing ones.

This album is one hour long. 

01 talk (Sounds Incorporated)
02 In the Hall of the Mountain King [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
03 Zorba's Dance [Instrumental] (Sounds Incorporated)
04 talk (Fortunes)
05 This Golden Ring (Fortunes)
06 You've Got Your Troubles (Fortunes)
07 talk (Herman's Hermits)
08 A Must to Avoid (Herman's Hermits)
09 You Won't Be Leaving (Herman's Hermits)
10 talk (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
11 You Make It Move (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
12 Hold Tight (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
13 talk (Yardbirds)
14 Train Kept A-Rollin' (Yardbirds)
15 Shapes of Things (Yardbirds)
16 talk (Crispian St. Peters)
17 Send Me Some Lovin' (Crispian St. Peters)
18 The Pied Piper (Crispian St. Peters)
19 talk (Alan Price Set)
20 Baby Workout (Alan Price Set)
21 I Put a Spell on You (Alan Price Set)
22 talk (Dusty Springfield)
23 In the Middle of Nowhere (Dusty Springfield)
24 You Don't Have to Say You Love Me (Dusty Springfield)
25 talk (Dusty Springfield)
26 Shake (Dusty Springfield)
27 talk (Beatles & emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/L5VqhUHF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GvbEFGJxuHwyVLp/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Sorry if it's misleading to have a photo of the Beatles but no actual Beatles music on the album. At least we do have the recording of the Beatles accepting their awards. This photo was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program.

Various Artists - NME Poll Winners' Concert, Empire Pool, London, Britain, 4-26-1964

NME stands for "New Musical Express," a popular music magazine in Britain. In 2022, I posted a 1965 NME Poll Winners' Concert. Recently, I mentioned I have the 1964 and 1966 concerts as well. That led to a commenter requesting that I post them sooner rather than later. So let's start with this one from 1964.

NME began their yearly music polls, and resulting poll winner's concerts, in 1953. Apparently, the concerts continued until 1971. Since then, the polls and awards have continued, but with more conventional awards ceremonies. Usually, the concerts were broadcast on TV in Britain. However, it seems all the concerts from 1963 and earlier are either lost or otherwise unavailable to the public. (That missing material includes the Beatles performing in the 1963 concert.) Luckily, though, we have versions of the 1964 to 1966 concerts.

In 1964, the Beatles were arguably the biggest stars in the history of popular music. They sold one-fifth of all the music in the world that year, a feat that nobody else has come close to in the years since. So, naturally, they were the big stars of this concert, and were the closing act. By contrast, the Rolling Stones had had a few hits, and were already stars, but they had yet to become superstars. 

This show is basically a "who's who" of the best known British Invasion bands in 1964. Most of these acts would be left behind in a year or two, because musical trends were changing fast back then. But of course a few would thrive and grow even more popular.

I found an account of this concert at the Beatles Bible website. Here's the link:

https://www.beatlesbible.com/1964/04/26/live-nme-poll-winners-all-star-concert-2/

It quotes from a book written by Derek Taylor, who was the main press officer for the Beatles at the time. Here's the quote from Taylor:

"At the end of my first week with NEMS, on the Sunday, I went with [Beatles manager] Brian [Epstein] to Wembley Pool for the New Musical Express Poll-Winners' Award Concert, which comprised two shows. The afternoon show was the main event, with the Beatles topping a bill that included the Rolling Stones, Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Searchers, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Manfred Mann, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes, Cliff Richard and the Shadows, the Dave Clark Five, the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Hollies, Freddie and the Dreamers, Joe Brown and his Bruvvers, Kathy Kirby, Jet Harris, Big Dee Irwin and the Joe Loss Orchestra. Stars of the evening show – which featured several Epstein acts including Tommy Quickly, the Fourmost, Sounds Incorporated, and (again) Billy J. Kramer – were the Stones. Everyone used Vox amps and it was quite a day out for fans, I'd say. Roger Moore presented awards and so, with a special one for Joe Brown, did Roy Orbison; and afterwards there was a short set from the Merseybeats. Disc jockeys present for the celebrations included David Jacobs, Jimmy Savile and, from WINS Radio New York City, the one and only Murray the K. During the afternoon show, Mick Jagger and Brian Jones visited the Beatle dressing room. ... A huge smile illuminated Jagger's young face and his merry eyes glittered with the delights of success. There was in that dressing-room a glow of liberated young people at large in a beckoning world, their pockets full of fivers, heads full of songs, bodies full of sexuality. Nothing could stop them now."

There are some things we can learn from this quote. One key fact is that the recording presented here isn't the complete show. Other acts who performed included Cliff Richard and the Shadows, the Dave Clark Five, Tommy Quickly, and the Fourmost. I also found mentions elsewhere of others who performed: the Applejacks, Cilla Black, Eden Kane, and Frank Ifield. I'll bet Roy Orbison performed as well, since he was there to accept an award. Elvis Presley, who won "Outstanding Male Singer," sent a recorded message which was played to the audience of about 10,000 people.

Fun fact: the lead vocalist on the second track, "Patsy Girl," is Ross MacManus, the father of Elvis Costello. 

The recording quality is a bit rough. Consider it was probably recorded off a TV in 1964, so lower your standards a little bit. But it's still quite listenable, in my opinion. The lead vocals were usually low in the mix, so I used the MVSEP program to boost them for most of the songs. 

In case you're curious about who won the poll awards this year, there's a list at the NME website, which you can see here:

https://www.nme.com/nme-awards/awards-history/1964-606225  

This album is one hour and 58 minutes long. 

One final note. I mentioned above that I previously posted the 1965 NME concert. At the same time I'm posting this, I made some changes to that one. I didn't change the music, but I switched out the cover photo for a better one, and changed the write-up a bit. Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/01/various-artists-nme-poll-winners.html

01 Opening Theme [Instrumental] (Unknown)
02 Patsy Girl (Ross MacManus & & the Joe Loss Orchestra Band)
03 talk (Hollies)
04 Rockin' Robin (Hollies)
05 Just One Look (Hollies)
06 talk (Rolling Stones)
07 Not Fade Away (Rolling Stones)
08 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Rolling Stones)
09 talk (Rolling Stones)
10 I'm Alright (Rolling Stones)
11 talk (Joe Loss Orchestra Band)
12 Kayote Vender [Instrumental] (Joe Loss Orchestra Band)
13 talk (Swinging Blue Jeans)
14 Shake, Rattle and Roll (Swinging Blue Jeans)
15 talk (Swinging Blue Jeans)
16 Good Golly, Miss Molly (Swinging Blue Jeans)
17 talk (Searchers)
18 Farmer John (Searchers)
19 talk (Searchers)
20 Don't Throw Your Love Away (Searchers)
21 talk (Searchers)
22 What'd I Say (Searchers)
23 talk (Freddie & the Dreamers)
24 Kansas City - Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey (Freddie & the Dreamers)
25 talk (Freddie & the Dreamers)
26 Send Me Some Lovin' (Freddie & the Dreamers)
27 talk (Freddie & the Dreamers)
28 Short Shorts (Freddie & the Dreamers)
29 talk (Tremeloes)
30 Candy Man (Tremeloes)
31 talk (Tremeloes)
32 Do You Love Me (Tremeloes)
33 talk (Manfred Mann)
34 Sticks and Stones (Manfred Mann)
35 Hubble Bubble (Manfred Mann)
36 talk (Jet Harris & Tony Meechan)
37 Diamonds [Instrumental] (Jet Harris & Tony Meechan)
38 talk (Jet Harris & Tony Meechan)
39 Big Bad Bass [Instrumental] (Jet Harris & Tony Meechan)
40 talk (Kathy Kirby)
41 You're the One (Kathy Kirby)
42 Dance On (Kathy Kirby)
43 talk (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
44 I'll Keep You Satisfied (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
45 They Remind Me of You (Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas)
46 talk (Merseybeats)
47 I Think of You (Merseybeats)
48 talk (Merseybeats)
49 Don't Turn Around (Merseybeats)
50 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry [Over You] (Merseybeats)
51 talk (Diamonds)
52 Happy Being Fat (Diamonds)
53 talk (Joe Brown & His Bruvvers)
54 I'm Henry VIII, I Am (Joe Brown & His Bruvvers)
55 talk (Joe Brown & His Bruvvers)
56 The Seculy Gas [Instrumental] (Joe Brown & His Bruvvers)
57 talk (Joe Brown & His Bruvvers)
58 What a Crazy World (Joe Brown & His Bruvvers)
59 talk (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
60 I Like It (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
61 talk (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
62 I'm the One (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
63 talk (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
64 Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying (Gerry & the Pacemakers)
65 talk (Roger Moore)
66 talk (Beatles)
67 She Loves You (Beatles)
68 You Can't Do That (Beatles)
69 talk (Beatles)
70 Twist and Shout (Beatles)
71 Long Tall Sally (Beatles)
72 talk (Beatles)
73 Can't Buy Me Love (Beatles)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RLHMHeFi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/VIOOKmfwfsb8k2S/file

The cover photo of the Rolling Stones is from this exact concert. It shows Brian Jones on the left, and Mick Jagger on the right, hold maracas. Actually, technically, this is a composite of two photos. One of them had a good Jones but Jagger was messed up, and the other one had a good Jagger but Jones was messed up. So I used Photoshop to combine them. They were in the exact same positions in both photos; it was just a matter of using the best parts.

The original was in black and white. But I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. As for the text, I used some promotional material for the album I made for the 1965 NME concert. For this cover, I just copied that over, and changed the dates and musical act names and so forth. 

Bob Weir & Warren Haynes - Weir Here, TRI Studios, San Rafael, CA, 7-31-2013

Once again, I feel obliged to begin this write-up by pointing out that Bob Weir, formerly a member of the Grateful Dead, died last month. (I write this in February 2026.) I've already posted three albums celebrating his musical legacy. But when I putting the last one, which was an episode of his 2013 webcast "Weir Here," I got interested in another episode of that webcast and decided to post it too. For this one, Weir was joined by lead guitarist Warren Haynes.

Here's what Wikipedia has to say about Haynes:

"Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was a guitarist for David Allan Coe and The Dickey Betts Band. Haynes is also known for his associations with the surviving members of the Grateful Dead, including touring with Phil Lesh and Friends and the Dead."

Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist for the Grateful Dead, was born on August 1, 1942. So this performance took place one day before the anniversary of his birth. The episode had Garcia in mind. As a result, most of the songs were ones that were usually co-written and sung by Garcia, not Weir. Both Weir and Haynes sang lead vocals, separately and together.

Weir and Haynes were supported by a small backing band, while generally staying in acoustic mode: Jeff Chimenti on keyboards, Lincoln Schleifer on bass, Jeff Sipe on drums, and Alecia Chakour and Jasmine Muhammed on backing vocals. Some of these other band members sang lead vocals occasionally, especially on "The Weight."

Like the other "Weir Here" episode, I converted the video to audio, then cut it into mp3s. I haven't seen this circulating as an audio bootleg, but hopefully that will change now. Everything here is unreleased, and the sound quality is excellent. 

Also like that other episode, there were two long discussions that took place during breaks in the middle of the performance. I made those two bonus tracks, so one can hear the music without interruption. 

This album is an hour and 20 minutes long, not including the bonus tracks. 

01 Walkin' Blues (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
02 talk (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
03 The Weight (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
04 Bird Song (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
05 West L.A. Fadeaway (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
06 Sugaree (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
07 talk (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
08 Crazy Fingers (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
09 talk (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
10 Shakedown Street (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
11 China Cat Sunflower - I Know You Rider (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)

Discussion 1 (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)
Discussion 2 (Bob Weir & Warren Haynes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ijoSHxFp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/pAZtoA5ZfQ0WKVE/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a YouTube video. I used KreaAI to improve the image quality.

U2 - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, RDS Arena, Dublin, Ireland, 8-28-1993

I recently discovered that I'd missed a 1993 U2 BBC concert. This was annoying, because it meant I'd have to renumber the four U2 BBC albums that come after this one. But in this case it's very much worth it because U2 was at or near the peak of the creativity and popularity around this time.

In 1991, U2 changed their sound with the classic album "Achtung, Baby." They followed that up in 1993 with an album in a similar vein, "Zooropa." This concert took place on the tour to support that album, so many of the songs are from those two albums. There also are a smattering of cover versions: "Unchained Melody," "Satellite of Love," "Help!," and "Can't Help Falling in Love." Also, as U2 likes to do, there were little snippets of other songs. For instance, "Bad" includes snippets from "Candle in the Wind," "Fool to Cry," and "The First Time." 

Since U2 was from Dublin, Ireland, this concert was a homecoming for them. It was the second of two nights of concerts there. It also was the end of their European tour. They did a short swing through Australia, New Zealand, and Japan later that year. 

Keep in mind the renumbering of the four albums after this this I mentioned above, which means new album covers and changed mp3 tags and so forth. It took me some extra work to find them - maybe "U2" is too short to work for this internal search engine. So here are the links to help you, if you want to redownload them:

Volume 8: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2024/08/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-7-2000-2009.html

Volume 10: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-8-in-concert.html

Volume 11: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-8-acoustic.html

Volume 12: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/02/u2-bbc-sessions-volume-10-u2-at-bbc.html

(Note that I later changed the numbering of the last three after discovering material for a Volume 9.) 

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long. 

01 Intro (U2)
02 Zoo Station (U2)
03 talk (U2)
04 The Fly (U2)
05 Even Better than the Real Thing (U2)
06 Mysterious Ways (U2)
07 talk (U2)
08 One - Unchained Melody (U2)
09 Until the End of the World (U2)
10 New Year's Day (U2)
11 Numb (U2)
12 Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World (U2)
13 Angel of Harlem (U2)
14 When Love Comes to Town (U2)
15 talk (U2)
16 Stay [Faraway, So Close] (U2)
17 Satellite of Love (U2)
18 Bad (U2)
19 Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)
20 Running to Stand Still (U2)
21 Where the Streets Have No Name (U2)
22 Pride [In the Name of Love] (U2)
23 Desire (U2)
24 talk (U2)
25 Help (U2)
26 Ultra Violet [Light My Way] (U2)
27 With or Without You (U2)
28 Love Is Blindness (U2)
29 Can't Help Falling in Love (U2)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XKB3WYMR

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/YGCRhMrsJHSDdUo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the use of the Kolorize program. 

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-19-1968, Part 2 - Country Joe and the Fish

This is the seventh and last album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features Country Joe and the Fish.

The first five of the albums I've posted from this festival took place on May 18, 1968. But this one, and the previous one, the Electric Flag set, took place on May 19th. That's why I'm calling this "Part 2" in the title, instead of "Part 7," because it's Part 2 of May 19th. 

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

Out of all the sets, this one has the most issues. The main reason is because it almost certainly is incomplete. According the schedule listed before the festival began, the bigger names of the musical acts were given 45 minutes to perform. That was true of Country Joe and the Fish. To be specific, they were to perform from 3:45 P.M. to 4:30, after the Electric Flag and before the Doors. All the other acts stuck to their time allotments, give or take five minutes. But this recording is only 24 minutes long. Furthermore, the last song here is cut off. 

My theory is whoever was taping this festival had to stop recording in the middle of this set. They could have run out of batteries or run out of tapes to record on. Such problems were common in those early days of bootleg taping, especially when the costs of tapes were much higher relatively speaking than they would be later. That would also explain why there's no recording of the Doors, even though they were one of the two headlining acts for the festival. 

In fact, a majority of the last song here, "Superbird," was missing. So I filled it out with another version taken from another bootleg that same year. And a chunk of "Masked Marauder" was missing too, causing me to make a similar fix. That's why those two songs have "[Edit]" in their titles. 

In conclusion, the recordings from this festival were borderline unlistenable to my ears, especially due to the high buzzing noise I previously mentioned a few times. But thanks to recent audio editing technology advances, and a lot of grunt work on my part, I hope this festival now can be enjoyed. It still has issues, and probably always will, because audio editing can only go so far. For instance, missing sets, banter, and parts of songs can't be restored. But, in my opinion, the more time passes, the more the music of the late 1960s is seen as historically important and special, so I thought it was worth it to make what music survives from this festival accessible once again.

This album is 24 minutes long. 

01 Rock and Soul Music (Country Joe & the Fish)
02 Love (Country Joe & the Fish)
03 Masked Marauder [Instrumental] [Edit] (Country Joe & the Fish)
04 Flying High (Country Joe & the Fish)
05 Superbird [Edit] (Country Joe & the Fish)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/u9xRtcGV

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/86uy6hqxylL3AOD/file

The cover photo of Country Joe McDonald is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program. It's strange to me that he was wearing a suit and tie, given he was a major countercultural "hippie" figure, but maybe he was trying to be ironic or something, I don't know.

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-19-1968, Part 1 - The Electric Flag

This is the sixth album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features the Electric Flag.

Up until now, all of the albums I've posted from this festival took place on May 18, 1968. But this one (and the last one I'll be posting) took place on May 19th. That's why I'm calling this "Part 1" in the title, instead of "Part 6," because it's Part 1 of May 19th.

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

In some previous write-ups I've done for this festival, I extensively quoted a review of this concert from the San Francisco Examiner. It didn't say much about the music, but the reviewer highlighted a few favorite performers. In addition to calling the Steve Miller Band "astonishing", it said "Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles in the Electric Flag, Jerry Garcia's guitar with the Grateful Dead, and the blues of Taj Mahal were also outstanding over the weekend." 

I couldn't find much written about this festival on the Internet. However, I found a now defunct website that had some commentary about this performance. It starts with an extensive quote by an unnamed person who attended the concert: 

"In the mid-afternoon onstage came the Electric Flag, a group I was aware of but had never heard. I didn't know what to expect as the bunch of them hemmed and hawed and fumbled around the stage for a bit, distractedly looking around and mumbling with each other. After a few minutes of this, [Nick Gravenites] came downstage and announced from a vocal mic, ‘Hey, Mike, if you can hear me, come on, man! It’s time to play. Drop the chick and get your ass up here ... now!’ Another minute went by [and] all of a sudden this lanky, frizzy-haired freak came running onstage, laughing and grabbing up his guitar. He then proceeded to burn his memory into my head forever."

Here's an archival link of the whole article: 

Electric Flag: An American Music Band 

This band was talented, but maybe too talented, because different creative members wanted to go in different directions. It turned out this was one of the band's last concerts. The band's stellar lead guitarist Mike Bloomfield quit the band about a week later. However, the band still had more concerts they had already booked. Bloomfield played a few more shows into early June before quitting for good. The rest of the band broke up not long after that.

As I've mentioned previously, I did extensive work trying to rescue these songs from poor sound quality. Two of the songs in this set had special problems, which is why they have "[Edit]" in their titles. In the original version, there was a short gap in the middle of "Hey Joe." I patched it up. And about the last minute of "Texas" was missing. So I filled that in with another version from a different bootleg.

 This album is 43 minutes long. 

01 Soul Searchin' [Instrumental] (Electric Flag)
02 Groovin' Is Easy (Electric Flag)
03 Hey Joe [Edit] (Electric Flag)
04 Sweet Home Chicago (Electric Flag)
05 Killin' Floor (Electric Flag)
06 Texas [Edit] (Electric Flag)
07 Another Country (Electric Flag)
08 Wine (Electric Flag)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Eqw8pS64

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/48IWSe0AjgAPFKL/file

The cover photo of Mike Bloomfield is from this exact concert. The original was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.  

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-18-1968, Part 5 - Jefferson Airplane

This is the fifth album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features Jefferson Airplane.

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

Jefferson Airplane was the headlining act of the first day of the festival, and thus were given the most covered final set of the day. As you can see from the cover photo and text, the festival was scheduled to go each day from 11 A.M. to 6 P.M., and it seems the kept that schedule fairly well because it was still light outside at the time of this set. 

It makes sense that Jefferson Airplane was one of the headliners, along with the Doors being the headliners for the second day. Out of all the musical acts performing at the festival, those two had had the biggest commercial success at this point, by far. Jefferson Airplane had two Top Ten hits in the U.S. in 1967 with "Somebody to Love" and "White Rabbit." And the Doors went all the way to Number One with "Light My Fire" in 1967.

At this point in 1968, the band was already moving towards their fourth album, "Crown of Creation." It wouldn't be released until September. But they played two songs from it in this concert, "Greasy Heart" and "Star Track."

I mentioned previously that some of these recordings were bedeviled by a high buzzing noise. Unfortunately, this set suffers from that probably the most. I especially had a hard time with the song "Today." Since it's a quiet, acoustic song, the buzz is particularly noticeable. I tried my best to reduce that, but I couldn't completely get rid of it.   

This album is 46 minutes long. 

01 White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
02 Plastic Fantastic Lover (Jefferson Airplane)
03 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
04 Watch Her Ride (Jefferson Airplane)
05 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
06 Today (Jefferson Airplane)
07 The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil (Jefferson Airplane)
08 talk (Jefferson Airplane)
09 Greasy Heart (Jefferson Airplane)
10 Fat Angel (Jefferson Airplane)
11 Star Track (Jefferson Airplane)
12 Won't You Try - Saturday Afternoon (Jefferson Airplane)
13 Somebody to Love (Jefferson Airplane)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qsCMiLYg

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/wEZI5zoxZcpJbE5/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. From right to left: Paul Kantner (he appears small and near the bottom of the image, on guitar), Marty Balin (holding the tambourine), Jorma Kaukonen (on lead guitar), and Grace Slick (holding maracas and wearing a pink top).

The original was in black and white. However, I was able to find some color images of the band at this concert. It's just that they had problems, so I preferred to use this one. But because I saw some color ones, I was able to get the colors correct. For instance, I was able to get the color of Slick's top correct, as well as other colors. 

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-18-1968, Part 4 - Big Brother & the Holding Company

This is the fourth album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features Big Brother and the Holding Company. The main attraction was the band's lead singer, Janis Joplin.

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

At the time of this concert, Big Brother and the Holding Company hadn't had much success with their records yet. They'd released a self-titled debut album in 1967, but it didn't fully capture their appeal and was largely ignored. But the positive buzz they were getting from their live appearances was tremendous. In August, they would release their second album, "Cheap Thrills." It would go to Number One in the U.S. and stay there for many weeks. The lead single, "Piece of My Heart," would also be a big hit.

I mentioned issues with the sound quality above. However, this set apparently was recorded by Jorma Kaukonen, lead guitarist of Jefferson Airplane. I think it does sound a little better than most of the other recordings from this festival. Presumably, he would have been able to position his tape recorder very close to the stage, and may have been able to use a better tape recorder as well. But it still was an audience boot, and suffered many of the same problems I described elsewhere. 

This album is 38 minutes long. 

01 Catch Me Daddy (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
02 Roadblock (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
03 talk (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
04 Summertime (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
05 talk (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
06 Coo Coo (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
07 Combination of the Two (Big Brother & the Holding)
08 Farewell Song (Big Brother & the Holding Company)
09 Piece of My Heart (Big Brother & the Holding Company)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wx3ki6Bi

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/yKQ07qH6uudt1I7/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. I had to scrounge for photos for most of the other acts, but there were quite a few of Joplin, many of them in color. I went with one that showed other band members as well.

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-18-1968, Part 3 - The Grateful Dead

This is the third album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features the Grateful Dead.

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

At the time of this concert, the Grateful Dead were still in a formative stage. They had only released one studio album so far, the cleverly titled "The Grateful Dead," in 1967. Most of the songs performed in this short set were from the second side of the band's second album, "Anthem of the Sun." But that album wouldn't be released until a couple of months after this concert.

The Dead weren't originally scheduled to perform at this festival, so they didn't appear on the poster, or in articles announcing the festival from a few days earlier. However, they did get listed in the official program, as well as in an article that came out a day before the festival. 

In the two write-ups I've done for this festival so far, I extensively quoted a review of this concert from the San Francisco Examiner. It didn't say much about the music, but the reviewer highlighted a few favorite performers. In addition to calling the Steve Miller Band "astonishing", it said "Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles in the Electric Flag, Jerry Garcia's guitar with the Grateful Dead, and the blues of Taj Mahal were also outstanding over the weekend." 

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 Alligator (Grateful Dead)
02 Drums [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
03 Alligator [Reprise] [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
04 Caution [Do Not Stop on Tracks] [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)
05 Feedback [Instrumental] (Grateful Dead)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/V37q7cce

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/cLQFR8qFjNuyunf/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. That's Jerry Garcia in the middle, before he fully grew out his distinctive beard. And Ron "Pigpen" McKernan's head can be seen in a cowboy hat.

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-18-1968, Part 2 - The Steve Miller Band

This is the second album out of seven albums I'm posting from the 1968 Northern California Folk-Rock Festival. This set features the Steve Miller Band.

I said quite a lot in my write-up for the first album I posted from this festival, the Youngbloods set. I recommend you read that, because most of that applies to this set too. Most importantly, note that this is sourced from an audience bootleg, so the sound quality isn't up to my usual standards. I had to do a lot of work to fix all sorts of flaws. The final results sounds pretty decent for a 1968 concert, in my opinion, but you need to be tolerant about the flaws that still remain.

In the write-up I did for the Youngbloods set, I extensively quoted a concert review that appeared in the San Francisco Examiner. That review also had this to say: "The Steve Miller Band was astonishing on Saturday, playing the most involved guitar and bass lines I have ever heard outside a multitrack recording."

All the sound quality problems I mentioned in the write-up for the Youngbloods applies here too. In fact, this set probably sounds a bit worse than the other ones from the festival. As I mentioned there, I used the  MVSEP program to split the vocals from the instruments and then boost the vocals relative to the instruments. But for some of the songs that sounded the worst, like many in this set, the recording was too muddled for the program to be able to make that split. So in some cases I couldn't do all the fixes I wanted.

Two songs here had extra problems, meriting putting "[Edit]" in their titles. For "Steppin' Stone," there was a short section in the middle that was missing. I used a piece from another bootleg from this era to fill in about ten seconds. But there were some differences with that recording, so the edit is probably fairly obvious. Still, I felt that was better than having a gap there instead. A similar problem occurred with the song "Junior Saw It Happen." The last minute or so was missing. So I also filled that in from another bootleg. Once again, the edit wasn't ideal due to differences between the two versions, but again I'd rather have that than the song cutting out.

The bootleg version of this claimed it took place on the second day of the festival, not the first. But you can see in the newspaper review quote above that they played on the first day ("The Steve Miller Band was astonishing on Saturday"). That also jibes with the schedule posted before the festival started. According to that, the band was due to play after the Youngbloods and before the Grateful Dead. 

This album is 49 minutes long. 

01 talk (Steve Miller Band)
02 Living in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
03 Steppin' Stone [Edit] (Steve Miller Band)
04 I Just Want a Little Bit (Steve Miller Band)
05 Fanny Mae (Steve Miller Band)
06 Junior Saw It Happen [Edit] (Steve Miller Band)
07 Blues with a Feeling (Steve Miller Band)
08 Your Old Lady (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Gi3kpdK8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/GumjRendgOzt0Jd/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. It's from a time when Boz Scaggs was still in the band. That's Miller on the left in the yellow shirt, and Scaggs is on the right. Note the original version of this photo was in black and white, but I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival, Santa Clara County Fairgrounds, San Jose, CA, 5-18-1968, Part 1 - The Youngbloods

I'm posting another rock festival. Before I say more, I need to note the sound quality of the recordings from this festival have issues. With the recent advances in audio editing technology, I wanted to see if it's possible to elevate mere average sounding audience bootlegs, which is what the source here is. I'm happy to say I did make a lot of improvements. I wouldn't be posting this if I didn't think it's listenable. But be warned it's not up to my usual sound quality standards.

There were a lot of great rock festivals in 1960s that are largely forgotten now because of the lack of good audio or video recordings from them. Such as this one. If you're a fan of classic rock from that era, the lineup of acts from this two-day-long festival is impressive. First, the big names: the Doors, Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, the Steve Miller Band, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, the Youngbloods, the Electric Flag, Kaleidoscope, Taj Mahal, and Ravi Shankar. There also were lesser knowns: the Sons of Champlin, People, the Loading Zone, Trans Atlantic Flash, Smokestack Lightning, Chrome Syrcus, the Indian Head Band, the Dirty Blues Band, Mint Tattoo, and the New Mourning Reign. Additionally, the Grateful Dead weren't scheduled to play, but performed a set anyway. And apparently, Eric Burdon and the New Animals were on the bill but didn't perform for some reason.

Unfortunately, I don't have most of that music, but I was able to find most of the big names: the Youngbloods, the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Steve Miller Band, Country Joe and the Fish, Jefferson Airplane, and the Electric Flag. The big miss, unfortunately, is the Doors. Jefferson Airplane was the main headliner (and final act) on the first day of the festival, and the Doors was the same for the second and last day of the festival. But while there's a few minutes of video of the Doors performance that's survived, it has no sound, and there isn't any audio bootleg. 

It seems there are two sources that someone put together. One was just an ordinary taper in the crowd. The other was Jorma Kaukonen, lead guitarist of Jefferson Airplane, who taped some of the acts from or near the stage. The Kaukonen taped parts sound slightly better, but only slightly. I believe he taped the Big Brother and the Holding Company set, plus just the second half of his own band's set, Jefferson Airplane.

There's a Wikipedia entry about this festival, but it says very little. Here's the link:

Northern California Folk-Rock Festival (1968) - Wikipedia

However, there's a Doors fan website that has a lot more pictures and information about the festival, here:

The Doors | Northern California Folk Rock Festival 1968

The festival was created and promoted by a person named Bob Blodgett. He did the festival again in 1969. I've posted the Jimi Hendrix set from that, which can be found here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/01/jimi-hendrix-northern-california-folk.html

That seems to be the only set from the 1969 festival that's available. But there was some controversy about the 1969 festival, because Blodgett claimed some acts like Led Zeppelin would be performing, when they hadn't even been contacted. He did this to help drive ticket sales, but it backfired. It ruined his reputation as a festival promoter, so there was no 1970 version.

That link to the Doors fan site includes a photocopy of an article in the San Francisco Examiner reviewing both days of the festival. I'll quote some interesting parts of it here: "There is little doubt that the capacity of the flat, drab arena was reached both days, especially yesterday when listening and squatting space was at a premium even when the rains came, along with the Doors, at about six o'clock. The sound system was excellent and most of the groups performed splendidly. But overall production was disgraceful, particularly considering the 28,000 tickets sold for a gross of close to $100,000. Refreshment facilities were abominable, relaxation was impossible on the hot, dirty field (no seats, folks), and the clumsy staging required lengthy pauses between each presentation, when a split stage could easily have enabled each succeeding band to set up in advance.

"Yesterday's involvement of the Hell's Angels as a free-loading, swaggering stage guard, treated as honored guests (and announced as "our guardians") was wholly uncalled for and an obvious concession to intimidation. but sour grapes thus strewn, this observer still got great kicks out of all manner of performances. I was regularly surprised that the crowd (about two-thirds from the South Bay area, I'd say) was so passive at the end of magnificent presentations." 

Here's a direct link to the entire article, if you're curious:

San Francisco Examiner Concert Review 

Now, let me get to the sound quality issue. I decided to try to improve the sound quality of the recordings of this festival because while they come from audience boots, I sensed they had potential to sound a lot better. Plus, a festival from all the way back in 1968 with this line-up deserves to be preserved. So I put a lot of work into this. Typically, I ran each song through audio editing programs multiple times. With the source being an audience boot, one frequent problem was the sound of the crowd being heard during the songs. There was constant background noise. But worse, sometimes one could hear snippets of conversations of people nearby. Running the files through the MVSEP crowd noise filter helped a lot. I also ran the songs through MVSEP to separate the vocals from the instruments. Usually, I boosted the vocals relative to the instruments before putting the two parts back together again. While the vocals were separated, I often was able to delete conversations. But occasionally people would be talking while someone was singing. Sometimes, I was able to fix that, by running that song through MVSEP again and separating out different vocals. But that only worked maybe half of the time, so there's still some annoying talking heard here and there.

So that was a lot of fixing there. But there were additional problems. One really annoying problem was that there was a fair amount of hiss, and worse, a high buzzing sound that came and went. I ran all the songs through an MVSEP denoise filter. That got rid of most of the hiss. I took extra steps to deal with the buzzing sound. Luckily, it usually was the worst during the times between songs. That meant I could use a noise reduction filter against those parts, since I only use that during talking, not music, because it damages the music. Also, for the songs with the most buzzing, I used MVSEP yet again to separate each instrument onto its own track (guitar, bass, drums, piano, etc...). Sometimes I got lucky, and the buzzing would only be on a track that otherwise was silent, so I was able to wipe more of the buzzing that way. But still, there's some buzzing that remains, often at a lower volume than before. It's not on all the sets from this festival, but one can still hear some of it in this Youngbloods set.

There were other problems as well. One common problem with bootlegs with this era is that tapers would frequently turn tape recorders off and on between songs in order to save tape. That did happen a lot in this case, but at least the taper managed to turn the recording back on in time to capture much of the banter. But also, occasionally the taper didn't resume taping until after the song had already started. That happened here with the song "Let's Get Together." About the first minute was missing. So I filled that in with another recording from the era. It sounds somewhat better, so you can probably hear the difference between the two parts. That's why that song has "[Edit]" in its title. 

I edited these albums months before posting them, so I forget why "Rain Song" also has "[Edit]" in its title. But I think it's because I copied and pasted one part of the song over another part in order to get rid of some loud talking or some other problem like that. Whatever I did, I can't tell what it is anymore from listening, so I must have done a good job! ;)

I had yet more problems with the applause at the ends of some songs. Again, due to the tape recorder getting turned off and on, the applause often got prematurely cut off. So I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to make sure all songs had a reasonable amount.

One last point. I'm not entirely sure about the order of the performances. But if you look at the images from that Doors fan site I linked to above, there are a couple of images that show the scheduled order of the bands in the festival. So I went with that order. But it's possible there were some changes to the schedule, I don't know. And the Youngbloods were listed as performing on both dates of the festival. I don't know if that's what they actually did. But the bootleg source says this is from the first day, so I'm assuming that's true unless I get evidence otherwise.

This album is 35 minutes long. 

01 talk (Youngbloods)
02 Ain't that Lovin' You Baby (Youngbloods)
03 Rain Song [Edit] (Youngbloods)
04 talk (Youngbloods)
05 Beautiful (Youngbloods)
06 talk (Youngbloods)
07 Reason to Believe (Youngbloods)
08 talk (Youngbloods)
09 On Sir Francis Drake [Instrumental] (Youngbloods)
10 talk (Youngbloods)
11 Four in the Morning (Youngbloods)
12 talk (Youngbloods)
13 Wine Song (Youngbloods)
14 talk (Youngbloods)
15 Darkness, Darkness (Youngbloods)
16 talk (Youngbloods)
17 Too Much Monkey Business (Youngbloods)
18 talk (Youngbloods)
19 Let's Get Together [Edit] (Youngbloods)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/c6sEDcNX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/quXaD58YIG3oECi/file

I believe the cover image of Jesse Colin Young is the only one not actually from this festival. Instead, it's from Carnegie Hall in New York City, on May 30, 1970. The picture was taken indoors, but I removed the background and replaced it with blue sky to match the other ones from the festival.

The text at the top comes from a poster for the concert. I added some color to some of the words. The festival took place over two days, as I mentioned above. This is from the first day, May 18. I highlighted that date in red in that text at the top. For the sets that took place on May 19, I highlighted that text instead.