#14 VAN MORRISON - Choppin' Wood (Flac)

In October 2000 Van Morrison began work on his second collaboration with Linda Gail Lewis. The previous month ‘You Win Again’ an album of rock ‘n’ roll, country and blues covers had been released.

 

This next album provisionally titled 'Choppin’ Wood' contained Linda Gail Lewis’s vocals and piano parts overdubbed on all bar one track.

 

Van started work on a rearranged collection, he began to record a new batch of songs and re-recorded Linda’s parts on some of their original recordings For reasons unknown he froze Linda out from the recording process and refused to let her hear any of the new songs, she quit the tour and the album was eventually discarded.

 

‘Down The Road’ took it’s place an inferior and bloated release compared to Choppin’ Wood.

VAN MORRISON
Choppin' Wood (2001)
Aborted Album Project

Source: Cdr > Eac > Flac level 6 align on sector boundaries
Artwork by JTT

01. Choppin' Wood
02. Hey Mr. DJ
03. The Beauty Of The Days Gone By
04. Down The Road
05. Princess Of Darkness
06. Just Like Greta
07. For A While
08. Mama Don't Allow
09. Meet Me In The Indian Summer
10. All Work And No Play

LINK

#13 ROLLING STONES - live at Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California November 9, 1969 (2nd show) (Flac)

Invented to capture live sound from remote locations during filming, the portable tape recorder could also double as a device to record a live concert. But how would it compare with a professional recording? The father of the modern bootleg, "Dub", answered any doubts on quality when he and his partner Ken issued Live’R Than You’ll Ever Be, on their TMoQ label [Trademark of Quality]. On Live’R was the second set The Rolling Stones played at the Oakland Coliseum in November, 1969, on the US tour that made their fame.

The quality made Rolling Stone magazine endorse the bootleg as a legitimate recording with a proper album review. Did the bootleggers have access to the soundboard and were the tapes bought from an insider?

"Dub acquired a Sennheiser 805 shotgun microphone and a UHER 4000 5-inch reel-to-reel recorder." This was state-of-the-art recording equipment at the time. Dub placed the equipment on stage in front of the onstage monitor speakers to capture the show as the Stones themselves heard it. Listening to it today, you can guess it was not too close to Charlie Watts’ drum kit, sparing us an ear-splitting headache. The guitars and Mick Jagger’s vocals carry the show from strength to strength. Mick Taylor’s fluid solos are a delight to hear.

The speed with which Dub issued his vinyl bootleg in December 1969, about a month after the show, and the enthusiastic reception it received among fans and music critics shocked the Stones’ record company. Decca had also recorded the Nov 27 and 28 shows at Madison Square Gardens in 1969 but had no plans for a release date. But with demand for live shows on the Stones US tour, Decca finally released their own Rolling Stones live album, Get Your Ya Ya’s Out on Sept 29, the following year, 1970. It was rumored to have been heavily doctored in the studio by The Stones for sonic perfection. It would have been an embarrassment to publicly acknowledge the bootleg’s quality. It had 10 tracks compared to the bootleg’s 16 which was the complete show from start to finish.

THE ROLLING STONES –

FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO PARIS
2001 Vinyl Gang Product

live at Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, California November 9, 1969 (2^nd show)

1.        Jumpin' Jack Flash 4:25

2.        Carol 3:41

3.        Sympathy For The Devil 6:23

4.        Stray Cat Blues 4:15

5.        Prodigal Son 3:52

6.        You Gotta Move 3:14

7.        Love In Vain 5:22

8.        I'm Free 5:06

9.        Under My Thumb 2:45

10.     Midnight Rambler 7:41

11.     Live With Me 3:30

12.     Gimme Shelter 4:16

13.     Little Queenie 4:20

14.     (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction 5:58

15.     Honky Tonk Women 4:02

16.     Street Fighting Man 4:35

Comments: Contains original Oakland '69 2nd show versions of Jumpin' Jack Flash with sound drops and a partial version of Under My Thumb. Cover is a copy of the original Toasted (TMoQ) 2LP.

See here for more information on this most famous of recordings

http://www.rollingstonesnet.com/Liver_LP.html

#12 PATTI SMITH - Live At The Bottom Line NYC. 1975 (Flac)

Patti Smith

The Bottom Line, NYC

December 27, 1975

Late Show

1   Lullaby (I Was Working Real Hard)

2   We're Gonna Have A Real Good Time Together

3   Privilege (Set Me Free)

4   Ain't It Strange

5   Space Monkey

6   Redondo Beach

7   Free Money

8   Pale Blue Eyes >

9   Louie Louie

10  Pumping My Heart

11  My Mafia

12  Birdland

13  band intros / tuning / talk

14  Land > Gloria

15  crowd / tuning

16  Time Is On My Side

17  My Generation

18  crowd / talk

19  Dedication

Taken from

WNEW-FM Reel Master > M-Audio Transit > Cool Edit > Cd Wave Editor > Flac

Running Time: 76:02

Bass - Ivan Kraal

Drums - Jay Dee Daugherty

Guitar - Lenny Kaye

Piano -  Richard Sohl

Vocals - Patti Smith

special guest on My Generation - John Cale

see this site for information on Patti’s bootlegs http://www.oceanstar.com/patti/info/bootlegs.htm

#11 MOGWAI - Reading Festival 2001 (pre-fm) (flac)

Those that have already downloaded the New Order - Reading Festival post will need no convincing of the quality of the BBC transcription discs. This is another, this time we move ahead eight years to 2001 when Mogwai headlined the Evening Session stage (named after a BBC Radio 1 programme)

Only six tunes but nearly an hour's worth of music. The set-list features four of Mogwai's best known tracks: Mogwai Fear Satan, New Path To Helicon, Ithica and the epic My Father, My King.

Reading Festival
Evening Session Stage
25 August 2001
Headline show on second stage.

Setlist:
01 4' Applause & Intro (Faded In) (0:04)
02 Sine Wave (4:14)
03 Mogwai Fear Satan (9:56)
04 You Don't Know Jesus (6:17)
05 New Path To Helicon, Part 1 (8:10)
06 Ithica (3:27)
07 My Father My King (25:13)

Generation:
BBC Mastered CD -> EAC V0.9 beta 4 (secure mode) -> FLAC frontend (level 8)
 

"Somehow, it's dark outside as Mogwai soothe our frazzled brains. They are magnificent..."
 a kittenpainting review

LINK HERE

#10 THE DOORS - Isle of Wight 1970 (Flac)

Soundboard recording

August 30, 1970 (early hours of Sunday morning)

East Afton Farm, Isle Of Wight, England

69: 27

1970 was the third and final festival on the island until thirty-two years later. It drew a larger crowd than Woodstock and the Doors took their place on the bill alongside such live heavyweights as the Who and Jimi Hendrix. 

This is the complete show, an unmixed soundboard tape from a multi-track master recording. Some prefer the mix on the bootleg Palace Of Exile but it has a minute missing from The End and When The Music's Over is an edited version.

Scheduled for Saturday night, August 29th the Doors found themselves taking the stage in the early hours of Sunday morning due to the festival times over-running, a common occurrence in those days unlike modern festivals where everything is regimented and run like clockwork, witness the sight of Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie being manhandled offstage at Glastonbury when he decided that the band would play one more song

The set-list was dominated by tracks from the first two albums with only Ship Of Fools and Roadhouse Blues making an appearance mid-set from the current album Morrison Hotel. 

Just over three months later the Doors final live shows with Jim took place on December 11th  & 12th

TRACKS:

1.         Introduction - 0:18

2.         Back Door Man - 4:18

3.         Break On Through - 4:53

4.         When The Music's Over - 13:31

5.         Ship Of Fools - 7:37

6.         Roadhouse Blues - 6:07

7.         Light My Fire - 14:21

8.         The End - 18:18

BAND:

Jim Morrison: lead vocals

Robby Krieger: guitar, vocals

Ray Manzarek: keyboards, keyboard bass, vocals

John Densmore: drums, percussion

ORIGINAL NOTES:

The Doors, August 30, 1970 (Sunday)

East Afton Farm, "The Isle Of Wight Festival"

Isle Of Wight, England [Soundboard Recording]

Multi-Track Master > DAT > DAT > CDR > WAV >

Flac Frontend > FLAC (lvl 8, SBE aligned)

Dust out your Doors collection. Finally, from the vault of an anonymous Doors fan, comes a previously unsurfaced audio recording. Consider it a surprise present to Doors fans on Jim Morrison's birthday.

For years, The Doors' performance at the Isle Of Wight has only been available in an edited or incomplete form. The most popular release, "Palace Of Exile," is missing over a minute in the middle of "The End" and the intro to "When The Music's Over" is severly edited. Audience recordings of the show are missing "Roadhouse Blues." Previously on this site someone offered a matrix of the audience and soundboard sources in order to recreate the complete concert in the best quality available. Now for the first time, we have a master DAT source for the COMPLETE Isle Of Wight concert in perfect soundboard quality. At almost 70 minutes total, this is as good as it gets until an official release gets made -- if one is ever made.

This comes direct from the multi-track master recording. Quality is near perfect. The only downside is that the stereo separation isn't very good. It sounds like it's an unmixed copy of the multi-track master. So you'll hear Ray's organ more in the center than it should be and Ray's vocals are mixed way down so you don't hear them at all during "Break On Through" and other songs. (A good thing for some?) Still, I would place the overall quality as better than "Palace Of Exile." Little to no hiss. Bass level is much more reasonable. Sharper sound quality overall.

Now just what did I do to the original recording before posting it here? Thankfully, not much. There were a handful of clicks/pops throughout the recording that I removed individually using Adobe Audition. (The glitch during the announcer's introduction is on the original tape and couldn't be repaired without cutting it down.) I also swapped the channels so that Robby's guitar is in the right channel where it should be. The biggest change I made was balancing the channel levels and bringing everything up. This small change really punched up the sound compared to the original transfer. There was no EQ or other tricky business involved. Sounds pretty damn good, if I do say so myself. If anyone wants the original transfer, I'm open to trades.

One small note: About 4:29 into "The End," the music drops out for about 5 seconds and you only hear Jim's voice. Not sure why, but "Palace" doesn't have this mixing error. Also, regarding the date of this performance: The Doors were scheduled to play on August 29th, Saturday night, but didn't actually get on stage until 2:00am on Sunday morning, August 30th. Hence the date I have listed. (Date information taken from Greg Shaw's book, The Doors On The Road.)

A big thank you to the Doors fan who shared this rare tape. He/She wishes to remain anonymous on this one. I'm merely acting as middleman, and I'm happy to do so.  -Porsche

#09 BECK & THE FLAMING LIPS - KCRW 2002 (Flac)

Beck’s Sea Change was a downbeat album reflecting on his broken relationship with long-term girlfriend, the designer Leigh Limon. It was released in September 2002 and the resulting tour featured the Flaming Lips as his opening and backing band.

They also recorded together for this partly acoustic session on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic radio show, Christmas Eve 2002, and previously in November for the Austin City Limits show.

This is a more collaborative performance than Austin City Limits where the Flaming Lips sound like any other backing band, here there can be no mistaking their influence on Beck’s live sound.

Versions exist with the interview sections but this remastered source by thir13en contains only the music.  The ten-minute interview with the camera running is available on YouTube, the look on Beck’s face while Wayne dominates the interview is priceless

1.       Golden Age

2.       We Live Again

3.       Cold Brains

4.       Do You Realize ?

5.       Lonesome Tears

6.       Lost Cause

7.       Little One

8.       Paper Tiger

9.       New Pollution

Beck Hansen (vocals, acoustic guitar, tambourine)

Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitar, keyboards)

Michael Ivins (bass)

Steven Drozd (guitar, keyboards, vocals

Kliph Scurlock (drums)

Greg Kurstin (keyboards, vocals)

     KCRW FM Radio Broadcast

 December 24 2002

 KCRW, Santa Monica, CA

 34’23

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original notes

**Remastered** by thir13en

Beck

w/ Flaming Lips

2002-11-24

KCRW

Santa Monica, CA

Another great in-studio Beck performance, and during his tour with the Flaming Lips as his band. This is fine quality stuff here, from the first to the last note, it's a real nice ride.

I've heard a few sources of this show and come across a few different lossy sourced ones as well. While I wouldn't suggest taping shows from a Grundig radio, this one was the best source I've heard. Much gratitude to our taper for making it happen with the tools that were handy at the time. I cleaned up the static a bit and then smoothed over the spectrum, maximized.

It's a very clear recording, KCRW does exceptional work yet again.

PRE-13 SOURCE INFO

Lineage: Grundig Yachtboy FM radio>G4 OEM minijack input>16 bit aiff>edited, normalized, tracked with Sound Studio>FLAC8 via Xact.

Recorded with a portable radio because my thrift store tuner died the day before.

A stellar performance, more FM noise than usual due to the Grundig radio.

#08 RADIOHEAD - Glastonbury Festival, England 1997 (Flac)

Radiohead

June 28, 1997

Glastonbury Festival

Pilton, UK

A legendary show from nearly fifteen years ago. 1997 was a particularly strong year for British music with now classic albums released including The Verve - Urban Hymns, Primal Scream - Vanishing Point, Charlatans - Tellin' Stories, Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team, Spiritualized - Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space…,  Teenage Fan Club - Songs From Northern Britain and of course Radiohead's - OK Computer

Disc 1:

01 Lucky

02 My Iron Lung

03 Airbag

04 Planet Telex

05 Exit Music (For A Film)

06 The Bends

07 (Nice Dream)

08 Paranoid Android

09 Karma Police

10 Creep

11 Climbing Up The Walls

12 No Surprises

Disc 2:

01 Talk Show Host

02 Bones

03 Just

04 Fake Plastic Trees

05 You

06 The Tourist

07 High & Dry

08 Street Spirit

Lineage:

Source (Disc 1, tracks 1-3): BBC Transcription Services "In Concert" CD > CDR(?) > SHN > WAV > * (see notes) > FLAC

Source (Rest of show): SBD > EMI Promo Cassette > WAV > CDR > SHN > WAV > * (see notes) > FLAC

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Notes:

This show has circulated from a few different sources, and sometimes in incomplete form.  This particular source supplies most of the show from the EMI promo cassette.  The only problem with the EMI promo is that it didn't include the first three tracks of the show... "Lucky," "My Iron Lung," or "Airbag." 

When I received this show in SHN format the BBC sourced tracks were in one folder, and the EMI sourced tracks in another.  If you were to simply take the BBC tracks and place them before the EMI tracks you were left with a sloppy transition (the end of the BBC source seemed to cut out abruptly, and didn't flow smoothly into the EMI source). 

What I have done here is basically taken the last track of the BBC source ("Lucky") and crossfaded it with the first track from the EMI source ("Planet Telex").  What you're left with is a very smooth transition from one source to the other, giving the impression that this is a complete show taken from a single source. 

The only other issue that existed with this show was that there was some slight static/crackling on the BBC source (maybe this is why it wasn't used for the entire show).  I have taken the BBC source and ran it through GoldWave's Pop/Click Filter, and this issue has been slightly improved.  Before I used the filter you could hear the static a little bit, now you can only hear it if you're looking for it, either way, it's barely noticeable and doesn't interfere with the listening experiendce.

The overall volume and mix of each source seemed to be about the same, so no further adjustments werre made.

I encoded the files to FLAC (level 8) with Trader's Little Helper, and also corrected the SBE's (which were most likely a result of my edits).  

 

LINK HERE 

#07 THE JAM - Live In Boston 1982 (pre-fm) (Flac)

pre-fm radio station reel
The Orpheum Theatre, Boston

May 20, 1982
Running time: 57: 11

Paul Weller: vocals, guitar
Bruce Foxton: bass, vocals
Rick Buckler: drums percussion
The tour also featured a horn section and backing singers

The  'Trans-Global Express Tour' began on March 12 1982, the same day as the final Jam studio album, The Gift was released. The tour progressed through March and April with dates in the UK, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France.  May saw the band in the USA and Canada then onto Japan in June for the final five dates.
This recording comes from a pre-fm reel used for radio broadcast during the North American leg of the world tour, few unreleased Jam recordings are available in this excellent sound quality.

1) Radio intro
2) Interview with Rick and Bruce
3) Circus
4) Start
5) Pretty Green
6) In the Crowd
7) That’s Entertainment
8) Tales from the Riverbank
9) Carnation
10) Town Called Malice
11) Move on Up
12) David Watts
13) Private Hell
14) Ghosts
15) When You’re Young
16) The Gift
17) Post- concert interviews with band and fans

Lineage:
Pre-FM  reel > Cdr > wav > Cdwav> mastercdr > wav > flac