Bob Weir with Grace Potter - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-7-2012

Here's another concert from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. But this is a special one, because it's actually the first of three albums I'm posting from one night, because there were three sets of music. This first set mainly starred Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead. However, he was joined by Grace Potter on vocals for the last three songs. Those last songs also featured Warren Haynes on lead guitar, but I haven't put him in the headline for the album because he didn't do any lead vocals in this set.

Before I write more about this concert, I want to go into the history of the Capitol Theatre venue. That's because this was almost the first show after the venue reopened, as I will explain in a minute. The venue was first opened in 1926. It was opulently built during the Roaring Twenties, and for decades it was a great place to watch movies. It held about 2,000 people.

Then, in 1970, it switched to being a concert venue. A lot of great classic rocks played there, with the Grateful Dead being particularly well known for performing there 18 times in 1970 and 1971. It continued as a concert venue through the 1980s and 1990s, but the number of concerts went down due to a strict curfew time imposed during that era. By 2001, it closed, and became a special events venue instead, hosting weddings, mitzvahs, and such.

In 2012, however, it reopened as a concert venue under new ownership. The first musical act after the reopening was Bob Dylan, on September 4, 2012. I think this was the second one, three days later. It was symbolically important, because Bob Weir was one of the two main singer-songwriters for the Grateful Dead, and that band had a special connection to the place. Jerry Garcia once even said it was one of his two favorite venues, period. (The other one was the Fillmore.) Adding to the importance of the occasion, it was a benefit for a non-profit called HeadCount.

Note that all of the recordings from the soundboard leak mentioned above are from 2012 to 2019. Now I know why there's nothing from before 2012, since there were no concerts for many years prior to that. (Unfortunately the 2012 Dylan show wasn't included, but a 2017 one was, and I've posted that one already.) 

Here's a link to the Wikipedia entry about the venue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Theatre_(Port_Chester,_New_York)

As mentioned above, this concert was divided into three sets. This first set mainly featured Bob Weir, with Grace Potter and Warren Haynes assisting on the last three songs, also as I mentioned above. Then there was a set by the rap and soul band the Roots. Finally, there was an all-star set, featuring everyone mentioned so far (Weir, Potter, Haynes, and the Roots), plus Trey Anastasio, the leader of the band Phish. Those sets will be posted shortly.

By the way, there were two more songs at the end of this set, covers of "Wild Horses" and "Gold Dust Woman." However, I didn't include them because Weir left the stage and they only featured Potter and Haynes. I thought they fit better as part of the third set, so I put them there. Also, by moving them, it helped even out the time lengths between those two sets. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Bob Weir)
02 talk (Bob Weir)
03 Music Never Stopped (Bob Weir)
04 Me and My Uncle (Bob Weir)
05 Friend of the Devil (Bob Weir)
06 Loose Lucy (Bob Weir)
07 Lost Sailor (Bob Weir)
08 Saint of Circumstance (Bob Weir)
09 Peggy-O (Bob Weir)
10 Easy to Slip (Bob Weir)
11 Dear Prudence (Bob Weir)
12 talk (Bob Weir & Grace Potter with Warren Haynes)
13 Bird Song (Bob Weir & Grace Potter with Warren Haynes)
14 talk (Bob Weir & Grace Potter with Warren Haynes)
15 Jack Straw (Bob Weir & Grace Potter with Warren Haynes)
16 talk (Bob Weir & Grace Potter with Warren Haynes)
17 Jailhouse Rock (Bob Weir & Grace Potter with Warren Haynes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ARmEuaqW 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/GsNkVhZaHMbdgda/file 

The cover image showing Bob Weir and Grace Potter is from this exact set in this exact concert. 

Paul McCartney - Highway - Non-Album Tracks (2006-2009)

I have tons of albums that I really should post, but I never do, because I put them together years ago and I get distracted by the latest music that I find. But the other day I was updating some Paul McCartney links, and that reminded me I should post the next in a long series of non-album tracks albums that continues until the current day. So here we go.

This is a typical grab bag of songs when it comes to non-album tracks, from a wide variety of sources. All but two of the songs are officially released. The exceptions are "In Liverpool" and "My Valentine (Solo Piano Version)." The first is from a concert, and the latter is from a radio show appearance.

By the way, speaking about that version of "My Valentine," I "cheated" a bit and included that song slightly out of the range of material meant for this album. That actually was recorded in 2012. But I included it here because I have a different version of "My Valentine" for the next album in this series. So I like putting those versions on different albums, plus it's nice to end this album in a mellow way with a solo piano version. 

Three of the songs, tracks 5, 6, and 7, are bonus tracks for his 2007 studio album "Memory Almost Full." Two more, tracks 1 and 2, are from the "Space Within US" DVD. The others are all one-offs from various sources. Check the mp3 tags for the full details of those.

This album is 40 minutes long.

01 A Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Paul McCartney)
02 Piano Song [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
03 Heal the Pain (George Michael & Paul McCartney)
04 I Want to Walk You Home (Paul McCartney with Allen Toussaint)
05 222 [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
06 Why So Blue (Paul McCartney)
07 In Private [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
08 In Liverpool (Paul McCartney)
09 My Soul (Paul McCartney & Nitin Sawhney)
10 Highway (Paul McCartney)
11 [I Want To] Come Home (Paul McCartney)
12 I'm in Love Again (Klaus Voormann & Paul McCartney)
15 My Valentine [Solo Piano Version] (Paul McCartney)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/rb3J7BWk

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/EftLMgUkKLxRc97/file 

I've posted a zillion McCartney albums with a photo of him on the cover. That gets a little boring, so I decided this time instead to look for artwork instead. I found this painting, apparently called "Paul McCartney," by Iryna Kastsova.  

Jenny Lewis - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 9-14-2016

Here's yet another concert from the April 2026 Port Chester mono soundboard leak. This one stars singer-songwriter Jenny Lewis. Once again, I'm posting this now because several commenters requested it.

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

"Jenny Lewis is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She is the lead singer, rhythm guitarist, and keyboardist for the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, as well as a solo artist. Lewis gained prominence in the 1980s as a child actress, appearing in the films 'Troop Beverly Hills' (1989) and 'The Wizard' (1989) and the television series 'Brooklyn Bridge' (1991–1993). In the mid-1990s, Lewis semi-retired from acting to focus on her musical career, and formed Rilo Kiley in 1998 with fellow former child actor Blake Sennett. Rilo Kiley released four albums before they disbanded in 2014. Lewis has released five solo albums: 'Rabbit Fur Coat' (2006), 'Acid Tongue' (2008), 'The Voyager' (2014), 'On the Line' (2019), and 'Joy'All' (2023). In addition to Rilo Kiley and her solo career, Lewis has been a member of the Postal Service, Jenny & Johnny, and Nice as F-ck." 

Here's the link to the whole entry:

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

In mid-2014, Lewis released the studio album "The Voyager." For the first 12 songs, she played all the songs from her acclaimed 2006 debut solo album "Rabbit Fur Coat," in the exact same order as the album. That made up the first album of the concert. For the second half, she largely concentrated on songs from "The Voyager."

As is often the case with these Port Chester concerts, I started with a single sound file and chopped it into mp3s. So, like most of these, this hasn't been shared in this format before, at least as far as I know. 

This album is an hour and 35 minutes long.

01 Run Devil Run (Jenny Lewis)
02 The Big Guns (Jenny Lewis)
03 Rise Up with Fists (Jenny Lewis)
04 Happy (Jenny Lewis)
05 The Charging Sky (Jenny Lewis)
06 Melt Your Heart (Jenny Lewis)
07 You Are What You Love (Jenny Lewis)
08 talk (Jenny Lewis)
09 Rabbit Fur Coat (Jenny Lewis)
10 Handle with Care (Jenny Lewis)
11 Born Secular (Jenny Lewis)
12 It Wasn't Me (Jenny Lewis)
13 Happy [Reprise] (Jenny Lewis)
14 Head Underwater (Jenny Lewis)
15 Just One of the Guys (Jenny Lewis)
16 talk (Jenny Lewis)
17 Red Bull and Hennessy (Jenny Lewis)
18 See Fernando (Jenny Lewis)
19 talk (Jenny Lewis)
20 I Met Him on a Sunday (Jenny Lewis with Jessica Pratt)
21 talk (Jenny Lewis)
22 The Voyager (Jenny Lewis)
23 talk (Jenny Lewis)
24 I Never (Jenny Lewis)
25 talk (Jenny Lewis)
26 Door (Jenny Lewis)
27 She's Not Me (Jenny Lewis)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/BmgoccY3

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/0O9lz9WIE9OzfZk/file 

The cover image is from this exact concert.

Jane's Addiction - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 5-19-2015

Here's yet another concert from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. This one features the band Jane's Addiction. I'm posting this now because several commenters asked that I post this sooner rather than later.

Here's part of the intro to the Wikipedia entry about the band:

"Jane's Addiction was an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1985. The band's best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Perry Farrell, bassist Eric Avery, drummer Stephen Perkins, and guitarist Dave Navarro. Jane's Addiction was one of the first bands from the early 1990s alternative rock movement to gain commercial success. ... Jane's Addiction's first release was their self-titled live album in 1987, which caught the attention of Warner Bros. Records. Their first two studio albums, 'Nothing's Shocking' (1988) and 'Ritual de lo Habitual' (1990), received acclaim and grew a cult fanbase. As a result, Jane's Addiction became a significant part of what Farrell dubbed the 'alternative nation.' The band's first farewell tour in 1991 launched the first Lollapalooza." 

After that, the band broke up and reunited multiple times. They released the album "Strays" in 2003 and "The Great Escape Artist" in 2011. They announced an apparent final break-up in December 2025.

Here's a link to the entire Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane%27s_Addiction 

For this concert, the band didn't have a new album to promote, with their most recent one being from four years earlier. So instead they performed the entire "Nothing's Shocking" album from start to finish, in the exact order as on the album. That makes up the bulk of the concert, the first fourteen tracks. They finished with three more songs, with all of those coming from the band's next album, "Ritual de lo Habitual."

As is typical of these Port Chester soundboards, I started with a single mono file and chopped them into individual mp3s. If I remember correctly, the lead vocals were low, so I used MVSEP to boost that for all the songs. 

This album is an hour and 16 minutes long.

01 Up the Beach (Jane's Addiction)
02 Ocean Size (Jane's Addiction)
03 Had a Dad (Jane's Addiction)
04 Ted, Just Admit It (Jane's Addiction)
05 Standing in the Shower... Thinking (Jane's Addiction)
06 talk (Jane's Addiction)
07 Summertime Rolls (Jane's Addiction)
08 Mountain Song (Jane's Addiction)
09 talk (Jane's Addiction)
10 Idiots Rule (Jane's Addiction)
11 talk (Jane's Addiction)
12 Jane Says (Jane's Addiction)
13 talk (Jane's Addiction)
14 Pigs in Zen (Jane's Addiction)
15 talk (Jane's Addiction)
16 Been Caught Stealing (Jane's Addiction)
17 talk (Jane's Addiction)
18 Three Days (Jane's Addiction)
19 Stop (Jane's Addiction)
20 talk (Jane's Addiction)

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/nu5aHimPgxOOgva/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Michael Hedges - Cover Versions, Volume 2: 1981-1984

Here's the second out of four albums of Michael Hedges performing acoustic versions of cover songs.

As I mentioned with Volume 1, I had a ton of help from musical friend Fabio from Rio in making this. Everything he and I found is unreleased, generally from soundboard concert bootlegs.

In Volume 1, all of the songs came from busking performances at the New Varsity Theater in Palo Alto, California. But in 1981, Hedges released his first studio album, and he started performing concerts all over. So only two songs here are from the New Varsity Theater ("Ballad of Spider John" and "Can We Still Be Friends"). For the rest, please look at the mp3 tags for the exact details on the dates and locations.

The main thing to know though is that the sound quality is excellent throughout. And while these all come from concerts, I carefully erased all the crowd noise (using the MVSEP program) so these practically sound like studio recorded versions. 

This album is an hour and six minutes long.

Here's a list of the original artist for each song:

01 Ballad of Spider John - Willis Alan Ramsey
02 Blackbird - Beatles
03 Wondering Where the Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn
04 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Beatles
05 Captain Kennedy - Neil Young
06 Head and Heart - John Martyn
07 A Day in the Life - Beatles
08 Can We Still Be Friends - Todd Rundgren
09 Come Together - Beatles
10 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Bob Dylan 
11 Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
12 After the Gold Rush - Neil Young 
13 Watermelon Man - Willis Alan Ramsey
14 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill - Beatles
15 Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young

Note that on the first album in this series, there were a lot of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young covers. There's three Neil Young covers this time, plus one Joni Mitchell one. But there's a lot more Beatles covers. There was only one last time, but five this time. 

Here's the usual song list: 

01 Ballad of Spider John (Michael Hedges)
02 Blackbird (Michael Hedges)
03 Wondering Where the Lions Are (Michael Hedges)
04 You've Got to Hide Your Love Away (Michael Hedges)
05 Captain Kennedy (Michael Hedges)
06 Head and Heart (Michael Hedges)
07 A Day in the Life (Michael Hedges)
08 Can We Still Be Friends (Michael Hedges)
09 Come Together (Michael Hedges & Pierre Bensusan)
10 Don't Think Twice, It's Alright (Michael Hedges)
11 Woodstock (Michael Hedges)
12 After the Gold Rush (Michael Hedges)
13 Watermelon Man (Michael Hedges)
14 The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill (Michael Hedges)
15 Cinnamon Girl (Michael Hedges with Darol Anger)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/s1Bdzsk3 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/PRuznqWShIqk6bH/file 

The cover image is a screenshot from a video shot in the early 1980s, but I don't know the details. 

Steve Earle - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2-1-2014

Here's yet another album from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. This one stars singer-songwriter Steve Earle.

In April 2013, Earle released his most recent album at the time, "The Low Highway." But that was close to a year prior to this concert, so I don't think he was especially promoting the album he only played two songs from it, "Burnin' It Down" and "Remember Me." Instead, he played songs from all points in his career, as well as the occasional cover versions, such as "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Tom Ames' Prayer." Also note that the concert was a solo acoustic one.

For the last two songs, Earle was joined by singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen. I believe he was the opening act.

This album is an hour and 31 minutes long.

01 Where Have All the Flowers Gone (Steve Earle)
02 Guitar Town (Steve Earle)
03 My Old Friend the Blues (Steve Earle)
04 Someday (Steve Earle)
05 talk (Steve Earle)
06 Hometown Blues (Steve Earle)
07 South Nashville Blues (Steve Earle)
08 Tennessee Blues (Steve Earle)
09 talk (Steve Earle)
10 Now She's Gone (Steve Earle)
11 Goodbye (Steve Earle)
12 talk (Steve Earle)
13 Sparkle and Shine (Steve Earle)
14 Every Part of Me (Steve Earle)
15 Valentine's Day (Steve Earle)
16 talk (Steve Earle)
17 Devil's Right Hand (Steve Earle)
18 Burnin' It Down (Steve Earle)
19 talk (Steve Earle)
20 City of Immigrants (Steve Earle)
21 talk (Steve Earle)
22 Remember Me (Steve Earle)
23 talk (Steve Earle)
24 The Galway Girl (Steve Earle)
25 talk (Steve Earle)
26 Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)
27 talk (Steve Earle)
28 Loretta (Steve Earle & Robert Earl Keen)
29 Tom Ames' Prayer (Steve Earle & Robert Earl Keen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/utwGk7tF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/dOzgHbFfKjeEr3N/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

Warren Haynes - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 10-11-2012

Here's another concert from the great April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. This one features Warren Haynes, who is both a talented singer-songwriter and lead guitarist.

Haynes was one of the lead guitarists for the Allman Brothers Band from 1989 to 1997. During that time, he began a side project band, Gov't Mule. But that eventually became his main band, which continues until this day (as I write this in 2026). He returned to the Allman Brothers Band from 2000 to 2014. But if he wasn't busy enough with two bands, he also started various solo projects on top of that. In 2011, he released his second solo album, "Man in Motion," which had a bit more of a soul music sound to it.

But I can't say this concert was promoting that, because he played exactly zero songs from it. He did play one song, "Glory Road," which would appear on his next solo album, "Ashes & Dust," released in 2015. The rest of the songs were generally Gov't Mule (five of those) or Allman Brothers Band songs (one of those, "Old Friend"), or cover versions.  

By the way, this is just one of several Haynes concerts I have from Port Chester and plan on posting. There's ones from 2015 and 2026 as well. Plus, I have two Gov't Mule concerts from 2015.

This album is two hours and 24 minutes long.

01 talk (Warren Haynes)
02 Indian Sunset (Warren Haynes)
03 talk (Warren Haynes)
04 Forevermore (Warren Haynes)
05 Fallen Down (Warren Haynes)
06 Lucky (Warren Haynes)
07 talk (Warren Haynes)
08 Endless Parade (Warren Haynes)
09 talk (Warren Haynes)
10 I've Got Dreams to Remember (Warren Haynes)
11 talk (Warren Haynes)
12 It Hurts Me Too (Warren Haynes)
13 talk (Warren Haynes)
14 Glory Road (Warren Haynes)
15 Wild Horses (Warren Haynes)
16 To Lay Me Down (Warren Haynes)
17 talk (Warren Haynes)
18 Two of a Kind, Workin' on a Full House (Warren Haynes)
19 talk (Warren Haynes)
20 Listen to the Lion (Warren Haynes)
21 talk (Warren Haynes)
22 The Real Thing (Warren Haynes)
23 Gordon James (Warren Haynes)
24 So Weak, So Strong (Warren Haynes)
25 Old Friend (Warren Haynes)
26 talk (Warren Haynes)
27 Wasted Time (Warren Haynes)
28 Railroad Boy (Warren Haynes)
29 talk (Warren Haynes)
30 Revelator (Warren Haynes)
31 talk (Warren Haynes)
32 Patchwork Quilt (Warren Haynes)
33 talk (Warren Haynes)
34 Come On in My Kitchen (Warren Haynes)
35 talk (Warren Haynes)
36 China Doll (Warren Haynes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/JXSqEAwy

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/YFBsO0yHzkYGgEL/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. The text and graphics around the edge are from a poster for this concert. 

Michael Hedges - Cover Versions, Volume 1: 1979-1980

In my opinion, Michael Hedges is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He's really underrated. But he also is very underrated as a vocalist. In concert, he sometimes played cover versions that showed off his singing more than his guitar playing, since he tended to stick to the original arrangements instead of doing his unusual alternate tuning style of his original songs. I like his cover versions so much that I collected all such songs I could find with worthy sound quality. I found enough for four volumes. Here's the first one.

Note that I got a lot of help from musical friend Fabio from Rio for this project. I collected enough songs for about two volumes. Then I told Fabio about that, he said he'd had something similar in the works. He'd collected many more songs that I'd missed, and passed them on to me. 

At the time period of this album, Hedges' musical career was just getting started, and he hadn't signed a record contract yet. Around 1979, he moved to Palo Alto, California, to study music at Stanford University, after studying music at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. Shortly after arriving, he began busking in the area, especially at the New Varsity Theater in Palo Alto. The owner of that theater really liked him, and often videotaped him performing songs in the theater courtyard for people waiting in line to watch movies. All of the songs in this volume come from these videotapes, which were posted on YouTube. 

I converted them to mp3s and cleaned them up with the MVSEP program, including removing the crowd noise. I think they sound excellent. One might think they were from a soundboard source, or even studio recordings.

In my opinion, one reason Hedges was so good was because he had great musical taste, so he was "standing on the shoulders of giants." You can see in the song selection here he was especially influenced by Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. All the performances here are solo acoustic. 

This album is one hour and three minutes long. 

Here's a list of the original artists for each song: 

01 [He Played Real Good] For Free - Joni Mitchell
02 Old Man - Neil Young
03 Blue - Joni Mitchell
04 Guinnevere - Crosby, Stills & Nash
05 Never Never Land - Joni Mitchell
06 Hello, It's Me - Todd Rundgren
07 Little Wing - Neil Young
08 Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell
09 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes - Crosby, Stills & Nash
10 New Mama - Neil Young
11 Cocaine Drain - John Hall
12 Edith and the Kingpin - Joni Mitchell
13 May You Never - John Martyn
14 Cortez the Killer - Neil Young
15 Mother Nature's Son - Beatles
16 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio - Joni Mitchell
17 I'm into Something Good - Herman's Hermits
18 You Can Close Your Eyes - James Taylor

Here's the usual song list: 

01 [He Played Real Good] For Free (Michael Hedges)
02 Old Man (Michael Hedges)
03 Blue (Michael Hedges)
04 Guinnevere (Michael Hedges)
05 Never Never Land (Michael Hedges)
06 Hello, It's Me (Michael Hedges)
07 Little Wing (Michael Hedges)
08 Big Yellow Taxi (Michael Hedges)
09 Suite- Judy Blue Eyes (Michael Hedges)
10 New Mama (Michael Hedges)
11 Cocaine Drain (Michael Hedges)
12 Edith and the Kingpin (Michael Hedges)
13 May You Never (Michael Hedges)
14 Cortez the Killer (Michael Hedges)
15 Mother Nature's Son (Michael Hedges with Mike Marshall & Darol Anger)
16 You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (Michael Hedges)
17 I'm into Something Good (Michael Hedges)
18 You Can Close Your Eyes (Michael Hedges)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hhAqnHtX

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/gLJrm1FsRxdFkFc/file

The cover image is a screenshot I took from one of the 1980 videos taken at the New Varsity Theatre. The original was rather low-res, so I used the Gemini program to increase the quality.

YES!!!!

Thank you, everyone, who voted in the U.S midterm election. The Democrats have had a historic blue tsunami victory! It meets or exceeds my wildest expectations. It goes a long way to restoring my faith in my fellow Americans. We still have a long two years to go under Trump, but things should be drastically different, and better, now that the country has so clearly rejected him and his party.

Back to the music. 

VOTE!

Tomorrow, in the U.S., we're having very important midterm elections. I strongly encourage all of you Americans to vote. Even though it's "only" a midterm election, it's very important for the future of the country.

Some people say, "Why bother to vote? Elections almost never hinge on a single vote." And that's true. But there's a "people like you" theory. That means that if you don't vote, odds are the people like you also will not vote, because they have the same information and are making the same decisions. If you vote, the odds are people like you will also vote. What this means in practice is that groups of people who think voting is important actually vote in large numbers and have an impact. Other groups don't bother and thus their interests are largely ignored. 

We especially see this with younger people vs. older people. Overall, most young people don't understand the importance of voting, so they generally get the short end of the stick with government policies. As people get older, they increasingly understand the importance of voting, and vote in greater and greater percentages. For instance, in this election (like previous elections), it's estimated about 75 percent of the voters will be above 50 years old. If younger people would vote as much as older people do, we would like in a totally different country, a much more progressive country.

So please, vote! It's such a small thing that takes short amount of time to do, but it really is the most important way you can help steer the country's future.

The Psychedelic Furs - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 10-20-2012

I just posted a concert by the Lemonheads that comes from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. They were the opening act on this night, playing a short set. The Psychedelic Furs were the main act that night, performing a full-length concert. So I'm posting both of these back to back.

I'm kind of surprised this is the first Psychedelic Furs album I've posted. They were one of the many New Wave bands I liked and grew up with in the 1980s. Here's the intro to their Wikipedia entry:

"The Psychedelic Furs are an English rock band founded in London in February 1977. Led by lead vocalist Richard Butler and his brother Tim Butler on bass guitar, the Psychedelic Furs are one of the many acts spawned from the British post-punk scene. The band had several hits in their early career. In 1986, filmmaker John Hughes used their song 'Pretty in Pink' for his film of the same name. They went on hiatus after they finished touring in 1992, but resumed in 2000 and continue to perform live. The band released 'Made of Rain,' their first studio album in nearly three decades, in July 2020."

Here's the link to their full Wikipedia entry: 

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

At the time of this concert, the band hadn't released a new studio album since 1991. That's partly due to the fact the two key members, Richard Butler and Tim Butler, had another band for most of the 1990s, Love Spit Love. Richard Butler released a solo album in 2006. Pretty much all the songs performed were from 1980s Psychedelic Furs albums. However, they did play one Love Spit Love song, "Believe." And "Little Miss World" is a song that was performed a lot in concert in the 2010s but has yet to be officially released on any album.

I took a single mono track of this entire concert and chopped it into mp3s.

This album is an hour and 25 minutes long. 

01 Introduction (Psychedelic Furs)
02 Only You and I (Psychedelic Furs)
03 Love My Way (Psychedelic Furs)
04 Run and Run (Psychedelic Furs)
05 Mr. Jones (Psychedelic Furs)
06 Heartbreak Beat (Psychedelic Furs)
07 The Ghost in You (Psychedelic Furs)
08 No Easy Street (Psychedelic Furs)
09 She Is Mine (Psychedelic Furs)
10 Little Miss World (Psychedelic Furs)
11 All of This and Nothing (Psychedelic Furs)
12 Believe (Psychedelic Furs)
13 Danger (Psychedelic Furs)
14 Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs)
15 Highwire Days (Psychedelic Furs)
16 Heaven (Psychedelic Furs)
17 talk (Psychedelic Furs)
18 President Gas (Psychedelic Furs)
19 India (Psychedelic Furs)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/gWE13Seq

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NCCO0ojV0yHRwAu/file

The cover image of the band's lead singer Richard Butler is from this exact concert. Regarding the font, I wanted to have a little fun with it. I asked the Gemini program to come up with a font style that was both psychedelic and furry. I like what it came up with.

The Lemonheads - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 10-20-2012

Here's a Lemonheads concert from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. I didn't get any requests to post this one sooner rather than later. However, the Lemonheads were the opening act for the Psychedelic Furs, and I did get requests for that. So I'm posting the opening act, then the main act.

Here's the intro to Wikipedia's entry about the band:

"The Lemonheads are an American alternative rock band formed in Boston in 1986 by Evan Dando, Ben Deily, and Jesse Peretz. Dando has remained the band's only constant member. After their initial punk-influenced releases and tours as an independent/college rock band in the late 1980s, the Lemonheads' popularity with a mass audience grew in 1992 with the major label album 'It's a Shame about Ray.' This was followed by a cover of Simon and Garfunkel's 'Mrs. Robinson,' which became one of the band's most successful singles. They were active until 1997 before going on hiatus, but reformed with a new lineup in 2005 and released 'The Lemonheads' the following year. The band released its latest album, 'Love Chant,' in October 2025."

Here's the link to the full Wikipedia entry:

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

At the time of this concert, the band's latest album was "Varshons," released in 2009. For the tour this was a part of, they played all the songs from their most popular album, "It's a Shame about Ray," plus some other songs.

For this concert, I started with a single mono soundboard audio file and chopped it up into mp3s. I had the additional problem of not being able to find a song list from the concert, so I had to figure out all the song titles. That was a slight challenge, since I wasn't familiar with their music beyond their hits, but I'd catch a bit of the lyrics and just search the Internet to get the song title. 

This album is 39 minutes long. 

01 Down about It (Lemonheads)
02 Confetti (Lemonheads)
03 Hospital (Lemonheads)
04 My Drug Buddy (Lemonheads)
05 Break Me (Lemonheads)
06 The Great Big No (Lemonheads)
07 Mallo Cup (Lemonheads)
08 It's about Time (Lemonheads)
09 Style (Lemonheads)
10 Ride with Me (Lemonheads)
11 Dawn Can't Decide (Lemonheads)
12 It's a Shame about Ray (Lemonheads)
13 Tenderfoot (Lemonheads)
14 Rudderless (Lemonheads)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/y1xrELwA 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/z7yn3Zz55sIoUAB/file

The cover image of lead singer Evan Dando is from this exact concert. The band's name explicitly comes from the Lemonheads candy. So I thought it would be fun to use the exact same colors and font for the candy on this album title. I used the Gemini program to create the extra text at the bottom in the same style.

Rickie Lee Jones - The 1979 "Rickie Lee Jones" Album - Live (A Mike Solof Guest Post)

Here's another album from guest poster Mike Solof. The idea behind it is simple. Mike was listening to "Rickie Lee Jones," the 1979 debut album by singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, and decided he liked it so much that he wanted to hear live versions of all the songs. So he found live versions of every song, all with soundboard sound quality, and put them together in the exact same order as the original album.

Regarding the sourcing, most of the songs come from a concert in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in September 1979. However, "Danny's All Star Joint" comes from a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1982. And there are three songs from significantly later: "Night Train," "Company," and "After Hours." Those come from a 2010 concert in Alexandria, Virginia. Check the mp3 tags for more specific details, if you're interested in that.

As usual, with any Mike Solof album posting, check out the PDF file included in the download zip. It has a bunch of photos of Jones and some other goodies. Also, he created a single file version of this album to avoid any brief gaps of silence between songs. That's in the download as well.

This album is 50 minutes long. 

01 Chuck E's in Love (Rickie Lee Jones)
02 On Saturday Afternoons in 1963 (Rickie Lee Jones)
03 Night Train (Rickie Lee Jones)
04 Young Blood (Rickie Lee Jones)
05 Easy Money (Rickie Lee Jones)
06 The Last Chance Texaco (Rickie Lee Jones)
07 Danny's All Star Joint (Rickie Lee Jones)
08 Coolsville (Rickie Lee Jones)
09 Weasel and the White Boys (Rickie Lee Jones)
10 Company (Rickie Lee Jones)
11 After Hours (Rickie Lee Jones)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/y4fyyQye

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/gtWslJA3xmWHs4o/file

The cover image is taken from the bootleg of the Dutch concert that makes up most of the music here. Mike picked it, so I don't know the exact details. However, it's probably from 1979, the same year as the Dutch concert. 

The Strokes - Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 5-31-2016

I recently posted lists of albums I'm working on sourced from the April 2026 Port Chester soundboard leak. Out of all the ones I hadn't processed yet, the Strokes concert got the most interest from commenters. So I've finished it off, and here it is.

The band burst onto the music scene in 2001 with a highly acclaimed debut album. They had their ups and downs after that, including some long gaps between albums. On June 3, 2016, just a few days after this concert, they released an EP, "Future Present Past," with three new songs on it: "Threat of Joy," "Oblivius," and "Drag Queen." They played all three songs for the first time in public at this concert.

Here's a link to the band's Wikipedia page if you want to know more:

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

Like most concerts from the Port Chester leak, I got this as a single mono soundboard file. I then chopped it up into mp3s. 

This album is an hour and four minutes long. 

01 talk (Strokes)
02 The Modern Age (Strokes)
03 Soma (Strokes)
04 Threat of Joy (Strokes)
05 talk (Strokes)
06 What Ever Happened (Strokes)
07 talk (Strokes)
08 Under Cover of Darkness (Strokes)
09 Alone, Together (Strokes)
10 Electricityscape (Strokes)
11 Ask Me Anything (Strokes)
12 talk (Strokes)
13 Oblivius (Strokes)
14 talk (Strokes)
15 Someday (Strokes)
16 You're So Right (Strokes)
17 Juicebox (Strokes)
18 talk (Strokes)
19 Evening Sun (Strokes)
20 talk (Strokes)
21 Drag Queen (Strokes)
22 talk (Strokes)
23 Trying Your Luck (Strokes)
24 Reptilia (Strokes)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/XDm1egtZ

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/JJefpaho9DbnsMN/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

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

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

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

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

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

This album is two hours and 47 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ku2ruwnm

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/Amy0xEPnyOcjmci/file

The cover image is from this exact concert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/DY7ccItPu7atOvC/file

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 55 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/sMRsPGDe 

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/cYiY1aLX

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 46 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EKqnAsQy

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is two hours and 24 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/45YB17wZ 

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and twenty minutes long.

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/xok3BGTc

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert.

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

This album is 41 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/EZoKKNCn

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/hyZ7wo6yugNYuFw/file

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

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

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

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

Here's the link to their full Wikipedia entry:

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 49 minutes long. 

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

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

alternate:

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

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

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

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

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

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

This album is an hour and 52 minutes long. 

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

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FnMpQo5t

alternate:

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

The cover image is from this exact concert. 

More Port Chester Concerts Coming

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

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

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

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

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

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

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