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)
11 talk (Tom Morello)
12 Like a Stone (Tom Morello with Serj Tankian)
13 Prophets of Rage (Tom Morello with B‐Real & Chuck D)
14 talk (Tom Morello)
15 It's Tricky (Tom Morello with DMC)
16 talk (Tom Morello)
17 Walk This Way (Tom Morello with Scott Ian, DMC, Chuck D, B-Real, Sen Dog & Jack Black)
18 talk (Tom Morello)
19 Fight the Power (Tom Morello with Flavor Flav, Chuck D, B-Real, Sen Dog & DMC)
20 talk (Tom Morello)
21 Killing in the Name [Instrumental Version] (Tom Morello)
22 Rock and Roll All Nite (Tom Morello with Dave Grohl)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DHAbq7QF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6ndDD74Ig2Xvv1W/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.

Jason Isbell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 5-20-2015

One thing I like about posting albums from the April 2026 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester soundboard leak is that it forces me to discover music that I previously never heard. This is a good case in point. This is a concert by singer-songwriter Jason Isbell with his backing band, the 400 Unit. I'd heard good things about him, but I'd never really heard his music. Now I have, and I was impressed. Maybe you will be as well.

Here's the into to his Wikipedia entry:

"Michael Jason Isbell is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the best contemporary songwriters in his genre, he is known for his honest, emotional lyrics. Isbell began his career as a member of Drive-By Truckers for six years, from 2001 to 2007. His first album with his backing band, the 400 Unit, was released in 2009.

"In 2013, Isbell released his solo commercial breakthrough, 'Southeastern,' which debuted at No. 23 on the Billboard 200 and appeared on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The album was later certified gold. Southeastern also featured his signature song, 'Cover Me Up,' which won Song of the Year at the Americana Music Honors & Awards. ... Isbell has earned praise from artists such as John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, David Crosby, and Zach Bryan. He has won six Grammy Awards out of ten nominations."

Here's a link to the rest of the entry:

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

This concert took place a couple of months prior to the release of his 2015 album "Something More Than Free." So there are some songs from that one. All the songs are written by Isbell except the last one, a cover of Neil Young's "Like a Hurricane." 

Like most music from this leak, I had to work with a single mono audio file. So I chopped that into individual mp3s. Other than that, I didn't have problems here. The one alteration I made is boosting the volume of the applause at the ends of songs when I could. It wasn't super low, like it is sometimes with soundboards, but it did benefit from getting boosted.

This album is two hours and two minutes long. 

01 talk (Jason Isbell)
02 Stockholm (Jason Isbell)
03 Flying Over Water (Jason Isbell)
04 talk (Jason Isbell)
05 Tour of Duty (Jason Isbell)
06 Dress Blues (Jason Isbell)
07 talk (Jason Isbell)
08 24 Frames (Jason Isbell)
09 talk (Jason Isbell)
10 Decoration Day (Jason Isbell)
11 Go It Alone (Jason Isbell)
12 talk (Jason Isbell)
13 Different Days (Jason Isbell)
14 talk (Jason Isbell)
15 Live Oak (Jason Isbell)
16 Alabama Pines (Jason Isbell)
17 talk (Jason Isbell)
18 Traveling Alone (Jason Isbell)
19 Songs that She Sang in the Shower (Jason Isbell)
20 Cover Me Up (Jason Isbell)
21 Relatively Easy (Jason Isbell)
22 Codeine (Jason Isbell)
23 Elephant (Jason Isbell)
24 talk (Jason Isbell)
25 Something More than Free (Jason Isbell)
26 Never Gonna Change (Jason Isbell)
27 Outfit (Jason Isbell)
28 talk (Jason Isbell)
29 Danko-Manuel (Jason Isbell)
30 Like a Hurricane (Jason Isbell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/qJPVHeuE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/CZI1wE0WenyQIsP/file

The cover image is from a concert at the Prospect Park Bandshell, in Brooklyn, New York, on July 24, 2015.

The Rolling Stones - Ballads and Love Songs, Volume 1 (1964-2026) (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Guest poster Mike Solof has been having some computer troubles lately, so he hasn't been able to post as much as usual. But he's back with a two volume series. His last posts were a series of albums collecting the best ballads and rockers done by the four Beatles in their solo careers. This time, he carries forth that concept with the Rolling Stones. However, he only made ballad collections. That's because the Stones have rocked pretty much their entire career, so probably 80 percent or more of their music would be rockers. But ballads / love songs are a more interesting proposition. They've had some big successes with that kind of music for sure, but it definitely cuts against the grain for them. So I think it makes a more interesting compilation.

As with the ex-Beatles collections Mike recently made, these generally all come from the studio albums. The only partial exception is that Mike made a mix of "Beast of Burden" to make it more ballad-y.

As usual, please check out Mike's PDF file included with the download for more text and some additional pictures too. Volume 2 should follow soon.

This album is one hour long. 

01 Waiting on a Friend (Rolling Stones)
02 Moonlight Mile (Rolling Stones)
03 Memory Motel (Rolling Stones)
04 No Expectations (Rolling Stones)
05 Beast of Burden [Mike's Mix 2026] (Rolling Stones)
06 New Faces (Rolling Stones)
07 Out of Tears (Rolling Stones)
08 Fool to Cry (Rolling Stones)
09 Angie (Rolling Stones)
10 Winter (Rolling Stones)
11 Evening Gown (Mick Jagger)
12 Keys to Your Love (Rolling Stones)
13 Time Is on My Side (Rolling Stones)
14 The Worst (Rolling Stones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/aGR9mKBp

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/TuJX6egQTvwsNIX/file

The cover images are real photos, showing the band when they were young and much more recently. But Mike picked them out and I don't know the details. 

Billy Strings - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2-18-2021

Here's another concert from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. It's not actually from the April 2026 Port Chester leak. But I came across it while searching for more from that leak. It appears to have been some kind of webcast, so the sound quality is an excellent soundboard. The star this time is Billy Strings.

Strings occupies an unusual spot in terms of musical styles. He is typically called a bluegrass artist, and there is definitely a heavy aspect of that in his music. His father was a bluegrass musician and he developed a love for that kind of music from an early age. But he also grew to love rock and even heavy metal, and played in those kinds of bands as a teenager. 

He especially has found an audience with fans of "jam band" music, for instance sometimes playing entire concerts of Grateful Dead covers. Consider that when he got married in 2023, Trey Anastasio of Phish, Les Claypool of Primus, and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead played at the marriage reception. That's not what you'd expect of a typical bluegrass musician! 

And while this concert contains a lot of bluegrass songs, it also contains some left field choices, such as a cover of "Dark Star," probably the Grateful Dead's most praised psychedelic jam song, as well as "Bird Song," also by the Dead. Most of the rest of the songs are originals, except for "Home of the Red Fox," "Ole Slewfoot," "Sorrow Is a Highway," "Dusty Miller," and "Takin' a Slow Train."

Note that this concert took place during the social distancing phase of the Covid pandemic. So, while it took place in the Capitol Theatre, the venue was entirely empty. That's why there's no audience response at the ends of songs.

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

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

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 The Fire on My Tongue (Billy Strings)
02 talk (Billy Strings)
03 In the Morning Light (Billy Strings)
04 talk (Billy Strings)
05 Long Forgotten Dream (Billy Strings)
06 Bird Song (Billy Strings)
07 talk (Billy Strings)
08 While I'm Waiting Here (Billy Strings)
09 talk (Billy Strings)
10 Home of the Red Fox [Instrumental] (Billy Strings)
11 Ole Slewfoot (Billy Strings)
12 talk (Billy Strings)
13 Sorrow Is a Highway (Billy Strings)
14 talk (Billy Strings)
15 Everything's the Same (Billy Strings)
16 talk (Billy Strings)
17 Must Be Seven (Billy Strings)
18 talk (Billy Strings)
19 Dusty Miller [Instrumental] (Billy Strings)
20 Dark Star (Billy Strings)
21 Love and Regret (Billy Strings)
22 Dark Star [Reprise] (Billy Strings)
23 talk (Billy Strings)
24 Takin' a Slow Train (Billy Strings)
25 Love like Me (Billy Strings)
26 talk (Billy Strings)
27 Pyramid Country [Instrumental] (Billy Strings)
28 Hide and Seek (Billy Strings)
29 talk (Billy Strings)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZzS19Ji8

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/33gKEqXDm5hQrrR/file

The cover image shows Strings performing at the Capitol Theatre in February 2021, but on a different date. It's from February 23, 2021, a few days after this concert.

Leon Russell - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 1-15-2013

Recently (as I write this in mid-October 2026), I've been focusing on getting more concerts from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak ready to post. I have about thirty of those ready to go, with the cover art made and all, so expect to see a lot more of those posted in the near future. Here's one of those starring Leon Russell.

Russell had a very long and successful music career, starting as a session musician in the early 1960s and then becoming a solo star in the early 1970s. His popularity declined some after the 1970s, but he had a strong late comeback in 2010, thanks to a joint album with Elton John called "The Union." This is a good concert to sum up his career, because his health was starting to fail. He died three years later, in 2016, at the age of 74.

Like all the recordings from the Port Chester soundboard leak, the sound quality is excellent. However, for this one, the lead vocals were rather low in the mix. Perhaps that was just the way it really was at the concert. But I didn't like it, so I used the MVSEP program to boost the vocals relative to the instruments for all the songs. I also boosted the volume of the cheering at the ends of songs. 

This album is an hour and 19 minutes long.

01 Prince of Peace (Leon Russell)
02 talk (Leon Russell)
03 Rolling in My Sweet Baby's Arms (Leon Russell)
04 Stranger in a Strange Land (Leon Russell)
05 Let the Good Times Roll (Leon Russell)
06 Dixie Lullaby (Leon Russell)
07 Baby What You Want Me to Do (Leon Russell)
08 Back to the Island (Leon Russell)
09 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Leon Russell)
10 talk (Leon Russell)
11 Kansas City Woman (Leon Russell)
12 talk (Leon Russell)
13 Wild Horses (Leon Russell)
14 Georgia on My Mind (Leon Russell)
15 I've Just Seen a Face (Leon Russell)
16 Hummingbird (Leon Russell)
17 Tight Rope (Leon Russell)
18 Delta Lady (Leon Russell)
19 talk (Leon Russell)
20 Sweet Emily (Leon Russell)
21 The Ballad of Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Leon Russell)
22 Magic Mirror (Leon Russell)
23 Come On in My Kitchen (Leon Russell)
24 A Song for You (Leon Russell)
25 Jumpin' Jack Flash - Papa Was a Rolling Stone (Leon Russell)
26 Paint It, Black - Kansas City (Leon Russell)
27 Roll Over Beethoven (Leon Russell)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/WLuMkHHr

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/Uun9YoPY8ZHEvXz/file

The cover image is from an unknown concert in 2014. 

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 3, Part 2: The Who

On Day Three of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, the Who were the headlining act, going on after opening sets by the Pretenders and the Specials. Previously, I posted one album containing parts of all three of their sets. However, in October 2026, I decided to post the entire Who set. So here it is. At the same time I'm posting this, I'm reposting a separate album containing the Pretenders and Specials sets.

When I first posted the albums from these Kampuchea concerts in 2023, I knew there was an available recording of the entire Who set, but I only chose to post some songs from it. In part that was because the sound quality was good, but not great. However, I have since found a source with excellent sound quality. 

The other reason I had at the time was that it was an off night for the Who. Lead guitarist (and occasional lead singer) Pete Townshend was going through a phase where he was going overboard with drugs and especially alcohol. It was very obvious to concert goers that he was very drunk during this concert. He danced around much more than usual, but sometimes flubbed his guitar or vocal parts. He also gave a kind of political speech during the "Dancing in the Street - Dance It Away" medley. It was meant to support the goals of the benefit concert, but it was done in a sarcastic style that could have been easily misunderstood. He also made a similar comment earlier in the concert, asking fans if they were happier to be living in London than in awful Cambodia/Kampuchea. That also was meant to be sarcastic, but might not have come across that way.

Anyway, it's true there are flaws like this. But I relistened to the concert and decided it was a damn good concert anyway. The Who were close to their prime (Keith Moon having died the year before), and there are very few excellent sounding recordings from 1979. I also wanted to post as much from these benefit concerts as I could. So I decided to post the whole performance.

Note that the song numbering begins with 12 in case you want to put this in the same folder as the Day 3, Part 1 performances by the Pretenders and the Specials. 

This album is two hours and 31 minutes long. 

12 talk (Who)
13 Substitute (Who)
14 I Can't Explain (Who)
15 talk (Who)
16 Baba O'Riley (Who)
17 talk (Who)
18 The Punk and the Godfather (Who)
19 talk (Who)
20 My Wife (Who)
21 Sister Disco (Who)
22 talk (Who)
23 Behind Blue Eyes (Who)
24 talk (Who)
25 Music Must Change (Who)
26 talk (Who)
27 Drowned (Who)
28 Who Are You (Who)
29 talk (Who)
30 5-15 (Who)
31 I Am the Sea (Who)
32 Pinball Wizard (Who)
33 See Me, Feel Me (Who)
34 Long Live Rock (Who)
35 talk (Who)
36 My Generation (Who)
37 I'm a Man (Who)
38 Sparks [Instrumental] (Who)
39 I Can See for Miles (Who)
40 Hoochie Coochie Man (Who)
41 Won't Get Fooled Again (Who)
42 talk (Who)
43 Summertime Blues (Who)
44 Dancing in the Street (Who)
45 Dance It Away (Who)
46 The Real Me (Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/61XsAiqm

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/v3rIXoAU5hT2zCo/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert. Pete Townshend is closest to the camera. Roger Daltrey is in the middle ground, and John Entwistle is farthest away. I sharpened the picture using Krea AI, and made some additional changes in Photoshop. 

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 3, Part 1: The Pretenders, the Specials

Here's Day Three, Part 1, of the four-day-long Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. It has the highlights from the third night. Just like Part Two, there were three big music acts. This time, it was the Pretenders, the Specials, and the Who. The Who get their own album ("Day Three, Part 2"), so this is just the Pretenders and the Specials.

When I first posted this album in 2023, it was an hour longer. That's because it included a large portion of the set by the Who performed on the same night. But in October 2026, I decided to post the entire Who set as a separate album. So this now consists of just the sets by the Pretenders and the Specials. I'm deleting the old version and reposting it here to make it easier for you to find.

If you want to know more about these concerts in general, check out my write-up for Part One. 

As I mentioned previously, there was an official double album released of these concerts, but it is long out of print. Three songs by the Pretenders and one song by the Specials come from that. In addition, a bootleg of outtakes from the official album was made public eventually. The rest of the Pretenders and Specials songs come from that. 

I would have liked to have more songs by the Pretenders and the Specials, but I think there's just enough for both acts to put up a good showing. Both acts performed many more songs played that what's included here, since each of the three acts on this night basically performed their usual full concert set lists. For instance, the Specials played 15 songs, but there are only four here. Also, I'm guessing some of the banter between songs is missing.

This album is 33 minutes long.

01 The Wait (Pretenders)
02 Precious (Pretenders)
03 Tattooed Love Boys (Pretenders)
04 Brass in Pocket (Pretenders)
05 Private Life (Pretenders)
06 Monkey Man (Specials)
07 talk (Specials)
08 It Doesn't Make It Alright (Specials)
09 Stupid Marriage (Specials)
10 talk (Specials)
11 Too Much, Too Young (Specials)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/TJKHVjDF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0QnmrFTHpYfJ74I/file

The cover photo of the Pretenders is from this exact concert. It shows lead singer Chrissie Hynde prominently, and lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott in the background.

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 2, Part 2: Matumbi, Ian Dury & the Blockheads

Note that I already posted a version of this album in 2023. However, I removed the Clash songs since I found enough to make a separate album out of those. I decided to delete the post of the remaining music of the Matumbi and Ian Dury and the Blockheads sets and repost it here to make it easier for you to find.

This is Day 2, Part 2 of the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea. It was actually a series of four concerts in a row, so it makes sense to post each of the concerts separately.

For the first night, the only musical act was Queen. But for this second night, there were three acts: Matumbi, the Clash, and Ian Dury & the Blockheads, in that order. I've numbered the songs so you can put all four parts together in the same folder if you want. That's why the first track here is already track 25.

I explained some in my Part 1 write-up how the only officially released album from this concerts was a double album that is now long out of print. Merely two of the songs here come from that. Luckily, a lot of music has come out unofficially on bootleg. Decades later, one bootleg emerged that was about as long as the official double album and had excellent sound quality. It seems these all were songs that were being considered for the album but didn't quite make the cut. That's where I got all but one of the songs but Ian Dury and the Blockheads and all the songs by Matumbi.

I had never heard of Matumbi before this. They were one of the most popular British reggae bands in the late 1970s. However, their 1979 song "Point of View [Squeeze a Little Lovin']" was their only Top Forty hit in Britain. They fizzled out, then broke up in the early 1980s.

There's a lot more music played than what is presented here. For instance, since the Clash performed an hour-long set, I'm sure the set by Ian Dury and the Blockheads was as long or longer, since they were the headliner act for the evening. If anyone has any of the other songs for this concert or the other ones with worthy sound quality, please let me know and I'll add them in.

This album is 50 minutes long.

24 Empire Road (Matumbi)
25 talk (Matumbi)
26 Come with Me (Matumbi)
27 After Tonight (Matumbi)
28 talk (Matumbi)
29 Point of View [Squeeze a Little Lovin'] (Matumbi)
30 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
31 Clever Trevor (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
32 Blackmail Man (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
33 Blockheads (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
34 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
35 My Ol' Man (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
36 Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
37 talk (Ian Dury & the Blockheads)
38 Sweet Gene Vincent (Ian Dury & the Blockheads with Mick Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EA1Bb9oZ 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/oaN4VtJ9J04DADa/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot of Ian Dury I took from a video that was taken from the movie.

Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, Hammersmith Odeon, London, Britain, 12-26-1979 to 12-29-1979: Day 2, Part 1: The Clash

In 2023, I posted four albums for the four nights of concerts that made up the "Concerts for the People of Kampuchea" benefit concerts in 1979. At that time, I was aware the full performance by the Clash was available, but I only included a few songs from it due to sound quality issues. But now, as I write this in October 2026, audio editing technology has improved by leaps and bounds. So I revisited the full Clash recording, and decided I could improve the sound quality enough to post it. So here it is.

But that's not all. There was a similar situation with the set by the Who on the next night. I had only posted part of it, but now I'm posting the whole thing. Day 1, a full set by Queen, is staying exactly the same. Day 4, consisting of sets by Rockpile, Elvis Costello, and Paul McCartney, is also staying exactly the same, because I couldn't find any more music from that one. But I'm splitting Day 2 into two albums and also splitting Day 3 into two albums.

When I posted some of the Clash set back in 2023, only three songs from this Clash performance had really good sound quality. "Armagideon Time" came from the official live album of highlights from these concerts. Two more, "Bankrobber" and "London Calling," came from a soundboard quality bootleg of more highlights. I've kept those the same as before.

That leaves the rest of the set. When shared on bootleg sites, it's often called a soundboard recording, but in fact it clearly is an audience boot. I used the MVSEP program to split it into six parts (vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other). I discovered from that that the drums and bass were way too loud, and the vocals and guitar were too quiet. So I did some remixed that hopefully improved that a lot. Also, the vocals had a lot of reverb on them, so I specifically ran the vocals through a de-reverb function. Furthermore, I got rid of some talking by people around the taper, although I couldn't always get rid of all of it.

I think this sounds much better now. It's still not great, still not up to soundboard level, but I think it's pretty close.

This album is 55 minutes long. 

01 Clash City Rockers (Clash)
02 Brand New Cadillac (Clash)
03 Safe European Home (Clash)
04 talk (Clash)
05 Jimmy Jazz (Clash)
06 talk (Clash)
07 Clampdown (Clash)
08 talk (Clash)
09 Guns of Brixton (Clash)
10 Train in Vain [Stand by Me] (Clash)
11 talk (Clash)
12 Wrong 'Em Boyo (Clash)
13 Koka Kola (Clash)
14 talk (Clash)
15 White Man in Hammersmith Palais (Clash)
16 Stay Free (Clash)
17 Bankrobber (Clash)
18 Janie Jones (Clash)
19 Complete Control (Clash)
20 talk (Clash)
21 Armagideon Time (Clash)
22 London Calling (Clash)
23 talk by emcee (Clash)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/9gxQ8aPt

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/qoyMGfe8oNDXVYW/file

The cover photo is of the Clash and was taken from this exact concert. On the right side in the background, you can see a big, round United Nations logo used for the Kampuchea concerts. I sharpened the image using Krea AI program. Then in October 2026, I further fleshed out the details with the Gemini program.

Duran Duran - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 8-2-2015

Here's another concert coming to you thanks to the April 2026 leak of mono soundboard bootlegs from the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. This time, it's the band Duran Duran.

This concert took place about a month before the band released their studio album "Paper Gods." But the band only played one song from that album, the lead single, "Pressure Off."

At this point, the band had four of the five members they had in their early 1980s peak: Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes, John Taylor, and Roger Taylor. The fifth, Andy Taylor, left the band in 2006.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 The Wild Boys (Duran Duran)
02 A View to a Kill (Duran Duran)
03 talk (Duran Duran)
04 The Reflex (Duran Duran)
05 talk (Duran Duran)
06 Come Undone (Duran Duran)
07 talk (Duran Duran)
08 Is There Something I Should Know (Duran Duran)
09 talk (Duran Duran)
10 Girl Panic (Duran Duran)
11 All You Need Is Now (Duran Duran)
12 The Chauffeur (Duran Duran)
13 Election Day [Arcadia] (Duran Duran)
14 talk (Duran Duran)
15 Ordinary World (Duran Duran)
16 talk (Duran Duran)
17 Notorious (Duran Duran)
18 Pressure Off (Duran Duran)
19 Planet Earth (Duran Duran)
20 Hungry like the Wolf (Duran Duran)
21 [Reach Up for The] Sunrise (Duran Duran)
22 talk (Duran Duran)
23 White Lines [Don't Don't Do It] (Duran Duran)
24 Rio (Duran Duran)
25 talk (Duran Duran) 

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VopxUnzj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/10joXvpEyHPNUae/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. I actually found two images I really liked from this concert. I asked musical friends Fabio from Rio and GW which one I should pick, since I couldn't decide. They talked me into picking the one up above. 

But Fabio from Rio had pity on me and used an AI program to turn the other picture into a back cover, in case anyone wants one of those. So thanks to Fabio for that. It doesn't show the band very well, but it shows what a grand venue the Capitol Theatre is.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is and hour and 37 minutes long. 

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

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/roHWDUv2

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/BHOkn5WVi26Ilw3/file

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is two hours and 18 minutes long. 

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

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

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 38 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FUKmytdy

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is 45 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RPJdAkHT

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/BMnOEGgeAxWktSZ/file

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

A Printed Version of the Maximum Wall Booklet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is two hours and four minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/atJB7TnX

alternate:

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

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