This one is rather strange for a "BBC concert," because it clearly originally was an episode of the U.S. TV show "Austin City Limits." However, it was also broadcast on BBC radio. You can even find it listed on the BBC website as part of their "In Concert" series. This kind of thing seemed to have happened more than I'd first realized when starting out with my big BBC project. I'm guessing there were times when a musical act was really popular and the BBC wanted to feature them, but they couldn't arrange to record them. For instance, perhaps they weren't going to Britain that year. So instead the BBC would simply buy the rights to someone else's radio or TV broadcasts.
That's one reason I'm really enjoying gathering this BBC material, because they so often managed to feature musical acts at their commercial and/or creative peaks, because the BBC had the power and money to do that kind of thing. The one glaring exception is when a musical act got so popular that they decided not to do any radio or TV broadcasts at all. That certainly happened sometimes. A classic example was the Beatles stopping all BBC broadcasts in mid-1965, even though they kept touring for another year.
Anyway, I digress. Getting back to this recording, although you can easily find video of this show on YouTube and elsewhere, it hasn't been released in audio format. In fact, I was surprised that I couldn't even find any audio bootlegs of this, only a few songs here and there. So I put it together myself, based on a high quality video source. The sound quality is excellent. But one problem was that there often wasn't enough audience applause at the ends of songs. Probably, there were cutaways to commercials or an emcee talking. So in many cases I patched in applause from the ends of other songs to give adequate space after every song.
Of course it's a tragedy that he died as young as he did. But it's especially tragic because, in my opinion, he was getting better and better as a songwriter and guitar player, probably helped by the fact that he'd stopped abusing drugs and alcohol. So of the three BBC albums I've posted by him, I think this one is the best.
This album is an hour and six minutes long.
01 The House Is Rockin' (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
02 Tightrope (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
03 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
04 May I Have a Talk with You (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
05 Mary Had a Little Lamb (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
06 Leave My Girl Alone (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
07 Crossfire (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
08 Look at Little Sister (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
09 Superstition (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
10 talk (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
11 Cold Shot (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
12 Couldn't Stand the Weather (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
13 Voodoo Child [Slight Return] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
13 Riviera Paradise [Instrumental] (Stevie Ray Vaughan)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/1K9ZaGFE
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/S9ykouDU5WbkFrP/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert.
Oh this gem is fantastic, thank you! I was behind the drum kit with my old band and played Pride and Joy and Mary Had a Little Lamb. But we never got to play any of his newer stuff, like Tightrope and Crossfire, which I absolutely love. Then through in perennials like Superstition and Voodoo Chile... And on top of that, this ends with Riviera Paradise. What a great show - thank you so much, G.
ReplyDeleteThanks for another fine SRV concert, Paul! These show are in high quality sound, and your usual cover artwork shines once again! Thanks for the share!
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Whereabouts does this show appear on the 'BBC Website'?
ReplyDeleteI can't find it off hand on their site, it's a real pain in the butt to find anything there. But here's a reference to it, anyway:
DeleteSPECIAL 0x16 Stevie Ray Vaughan Austin City Limits
April 3, 1985 BBC Two
Appearances that Vaughan and his solid band, Double Trouble, made on the PBS concert series Austin City Limits. The concerts were taped in 1983 and 1989; both provide a valuable portrait of Vaughan's astounding artistic development. The performances serve as bookends to Vaughan's brilliant career with Double Trouble, showing (in the words of producer Terry Lickona) a striking contrast between "zero self-confidence" and "pure magic," but in both cases you can see a master at work. Songs include "Pride and Joy," "Texas Flood," "Voodoo Chile," "Cold Shot," and "Riviera Paradise." This great-sounding DVD also includes the posthumous music video "Little Wing," featuring clips of Double Trouble and archival footage of blues greats from the 1920s to the mid-1990s.
https://thetvdb.com/series/in-concert/allseasons/official
Again, the 'TVDB' is not a BBC website, it's a third party and is wildly inaccurate. I randomly checked 4 of those listings and 3 of them have never ever been broadcast by the BBC including this Stevie Ray Vaughan show. As it says above, it's a DVD.
DeleteAs I've mentioned before, quite a lot of the shows you upload as 'BBC Sessions' are nothing to do with the BBC at all in any capacity whatsoever. Your sources of information are incorrect and deeply flawed not to mention untrustworthy. You really need to use the BBC Database itself and not some crappy unconnected site. The BBC Genome Project has over 11 million searchable listings of their own broadcasts - both TV and Radio - from 1923 to 2009.
Thanks, that Genome Project is a great website. I had come across it before, but I couldn't use it due to some wonky problem with my browser. But I just got it working with another browser. I'll check it out and see how complete it is.
DeleteBy the way, note that it does show the 1983 Rockpalast program, which you so vigorously objected to:
https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/96e0da258c5a49ff8b7b036a5fab09df
I'm been looking deeper into that website. The good news is, I'm finding dozens of things I'd otherwise missed. The bad news is, it's far from complete, because I keep noticing things I have that are unquestionably BBC that aren't there. I'd guess they have maybe 75% of what they should mentioned there. So just because something isn't mentioned there, that's not definitive proof of anything.
DeleteThe programme I "vigorously objected to" is not what you thought, suggested or implied. It was a 3 and a half hour programme consisting of mainly interviews with different people who were performing at Rockpalast. The BBC refused to pay the extorionate Broadcast rights hence the sparse amount of live music. The music inlcuded incomplete live snippets of SOME of those performing - a total of around 24 minutes of pre-edited snippets so hardly an 'In Concert' and not allocated a Concert number so not included in the 'In Concert' series. That is how you know it isn't part of the series because it doesn't have a CN Number nor has it been pressed to vinyl or CD. For example, the very first 'In Concert' was pressed to vinyl and had a CN of 0001. Prior to 'In Concert', live shows had various names such as: 'In Performance', 'In Person', 'John Peel's Sunday Concert', 'By Special Request' and a few other names before the 'In Concert Series' started proper in 1971. Incidentally, CN0001 - the first in the Series - was the Led Zeppelin gig from the Paris Theatre in April 1971.
DeleteYou need to obtain a copy of the 'BBC Worldwide Audio Catalogue' for a complete list of what is included in the series from it's beginning in 1971 to 2009. If it isn't in there, then it isn't part of the series.
P.S. I would be interested to know how you know that things are "unquestionably BBC"? Generally, if they aren't there on Genome, then it most likely isn't a BBC Production as I've tried to explain before. The Genome is incredibly accurate and sometimes highly informative, they have far more idea of their own broadcast output than any other resource on the planet. Also it should be added that just because something was broadcast in the 'In Concert' weekly slot doesn't mean it was a BBC Production.
DeleteAwesome thank you!
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