Tuesday, May 21, 2013


Time and the other...

Miles Davis - 10/22/71, Neue Stadthalle, Dietikon, Switzerland (FM)
 Miles Davis - trumpet 
 Gary Bartz - saxophones 
 Keith Jarrett - keyboards 
 Michael Henderson - bass 
 Ndugu Leon Chancler - drums 
 Charles Don Alias - percussion 
 James Mtume Forman - percussion 
Directions
Honky Tonk
What I Say
Sanctuary
It's About That Time
Yesternow
Funky Tonk


Got a good reason for taking the easy way out

Spirit - 1/8/79, Stars, Philadelphia, PA (FM)
All My Friends
Fresh Garbage
1984
Rock'n'Roll Planet
Nature's Way
Like a Rolling Stone
Dark Eyed Woman
Looking Down
Animal Zoo
All Along the Watchtower
Mr. Skin
All the Same >
I Got a Line on You
Morning Will Come
Day Tripper
Hey Joe
Wild Thing

Los Lobos - 4/28/07, De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands (FM)
Bottle Up
Pigfoot Shuffle
I Walk Alone
Marina Christina
Don't Worry Baby
That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore
San Antonio
Mas y mas

Monday, May 20, 2013

Nicotine
-Ezra Pound

A Hymn to the Dope Goddess of the murmuring courts, Nicotine, my Nicotine, Houri of the mystic sports, trailing-robed in gabardine, Gliding where the breath hath glided, Hidden sylph of filmy veils, Truth behind the dream is veiléd E'en as thou art, smiling ever, ever gliding, Wraith of wraiths, dim lights dividing Purple, grey, and shadow green Goddess, Dream-grace, Nicotine. Goddess of the shadow's lights, Nicotine, my Nicotine, Some would set old Earth to rights, Thou I none such ween. Veils of shade our dream dividing, Houris dancing, intergliding, Wraith of wraiths and dream of faces, Silent guardian of the old unhallowed places, Utter symbol of all old sweet druidings, Mem'ry of witched wold and green, Nicotine, my Nicotine: Neath the shadows of thy weaving Dreams that need no undeceiving, Loves that longer hold me not, Dreams I dream not any more, Fragrance of old sweet forgotten places, Smiles of dream-lit, flit-by faces All as perfume Arab-sweet Deck the high road to thy feet As were Godiva's coming fated And all the April's blush belated Were lain before her, carpeting The stones of Coventry with spring, So thou my mist-enwreathéd queen, Nicotine, white Nicotine, Riding engloried in they hair Mak'st by-road of our dreams Thy thorough-fare.

You weekly dose of Carla Bley

Carla Bley - 11/6/80, Theatre de la Ville, Paris, France (FM)
Carla Bley - piano, organ, vocals
Arturo O'Farrill - piano & organ
Joe Daley - tuba
Tony Dagradi - tenor sax
Michael Mantler- trumpet
Steve Swallow - bass
D. Sharpe - drums
Earl McIntyre - euphonium
Gary Valente - trombone
Courtney Winter - soprano & alto saxes
8 et Demi
Utviklingssang
Can't Get My Motor to Start
I Want You To Love Me, But You Hate Me
Very, Very Simple
Murder
Reactionary Tango

Any help with the rest of the set list will be most welcome.

Ronald Shannon Jackson & The Decoding Society - 11/1/84, Berlin Jazz Fest, Berlin, Germany (FM)
Ronald Shannon Jackson - drums
Vernon Reid - guitar
Akbar Ali - violin
Eric Person - saxophone
Bruce Johnson - bass
Behind Plastic Faces
Thieves Market
A Mental Holiday
?
?
?
For Rita
Tricky Vic

In the spring we love the Dead

Grateful Dead - 9/4/83, Park West Ski Resort, Salt Lake City, UT (sbd)
Bertha
Promised Land
Friend Of The Devil
Little Red Rooster
Tennessee Jed
My Brother Esau
Althea
Hell In A Bucket>
China Cat Sunflower>
I Know You Rider
Scarlet Begonias>
Fire On The Mountain
Man Smart-Woman Smarter>
Drums>
Spanish Jam>
The Wheel>
The Other One>
Wharf Rat>
Around and Around>
One More Saturday Night
U.S. Blues

Saturday, May 18, 2013

-Franz Marc


It's Saturday afternoon, this'll be nice for after you finish mowing the lawn.

Joni Mitchell - 8/25/79, Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Forest Hills, NY (sbd)
Joni Mitchell - Vocals, Guitar, Piano
Don Alias - Drums, Percussion
Michael Brecker - Saxophone
Lyle Mays - Keyboards
Pat Metheny - Guitar
Jaco Pastorius - Bass
Big Yellow Taxi
Just Like This Train
In France They Kiss on Main Street
Coyote
Edith and the Kingpin
A Free Man in Paris
Goodbye Porkpie Hat
The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines
Amelia
Hejira
Dreamland
Black Crow
Furry Sings the Blues
God Must Be a Boogie Man
Raised on Robbery
Shadows and Light (w/the Persuasions)
The Last Time I Saw Richard
Why Do Fools Fall in Love(w/the Persuasions)
Woodstock

In the spring we love the Dead


Grateful Dead w/Branford Marsalis - 9/10/91, Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY (sbd)  
Shakedown Street
C.C. Rider >
It Takes a Lot To Laugh a Train to Cry
Black Throated Wind
High Time
Cassidy
Deal    
Help on the Way >
Slipknot >
Franklins Tower >
Estimated Prophet >
Dark Star >
Drums
Space >
Dark Star >
I Need a Miracle >
Standing on the Moon >
Turn on Your Lovelight
It's All Over Now Baby Blue

Friday, May 17, 2013


Speaking of Dave Holland...

Sam Rivers Quartet & Anthony Braxton - 10/15/78, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA (FM)
Sam Rivers - soprano sax, tenor sax, flute, piano
Anthony Braxton - alto sax
Joe Daley - tuba, euphonium
Dave Holland - bass, cello
Thurman Barker - drums, percussion
No set list available - quite likely all improvised

They go together

Carla Bley & Steve Swallow - 10/31/98, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee, Zurich, Switzerland (FM)
Carla Bley - piano
Steve Swallow - electric bass
Major
A Dog's Life
Satie for Two
Blues in Twelve Bars >
Blues in Twelve Other Bars
Tropical Depression
King Cornet
Romantic Notion No. 3 >
Walking Batterie Woman >
Real Life Hits
Playing With Water


Bobby D - 6/15/88, Fiddler's Green Amphitheater, Denver, CO (sbd)
Subterranean Homesick Blues
One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below)
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again
You're a Big Girl Now
Ballad of a Thin Man
Mama, You Been on My Mind
Eileen Aroon
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Just Like a Woman
Seeing The Real You at Last
Simple Twist Of Fate
Like a Rolling Stone
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Maggie's Farm

Thursday, May 16, 2013


I think I'm gonna start a series of Dave Holland posts.  What do you think?

Gateway Trio - 3/?/75, Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Germany (sbd)
John Abercrombie - Guitar
Dave Holland - Bass
Jack Dejohnette - Drums & Piano
Shadow Dance
Unshielded Desire
Four Winds
ESP
Moor
May Dance
Backwoods Song
Bessie's Blues
Timeless
Ralph's Piano Waltz

Bonnie Raitt - 7/30/86, The Coach House, San Juan Capistrano, CA (sbd)
Ramblin' Fool
Leave Home
Crime of Passion
Cry Mercy
River of Tears
Love Me Like a Man
Angel from Montgomery
For What It's Worth
Somebody Been Sleepin' in My Bed
Face Up
All Day, All Night
Runaway
No Way to Treat a Lady
Oh Carol
Any Old Time

Sounds like two different source tapes here.  The quality improves about halfway through the second track.

Emmylou Harris - 6/15/79, The Catalyst, Santa Cruz, CA (SBD)
To Daddy
My Songbird
If I Could Only Win Your Love
The Angels Rejoiced in Heaven Last Night
Could You Love Me One More Time?
Green Rolling Hills
I Believe >
Land That Lies Up Yonder
If I Needed You
Satan's Jewel Crown
Keep on the Sunny Side Of Life
Bury Me Beneath the Willow
Sleepless Nights
Where the Soul Never Dies
Here There & Everywhere
Leaving Louisiana in the Broad Daylight

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Tree at My Window
-Robert Frost

Tree at my window, window tree,
 My sash is lowered when night comes on;
 But let there never be curtain drawn
 Between you and me.

Vague dream-head lifted out of the ground,
 And thing next most diffuse to cloud,
 Not all your light tongues talking aloud
 Could be profound.

But tree, I have seen you taken and tossed,
 And if you have seen me when I slept,
 You have seen me when I was taken and swept
 And all but lost.

That day she put our heads together,
 Fate had her imagination about her,
 Your head so much concerned with outer,
 Mine with inner, weather.

There are more leaves on some trees than others

Miles Davis - 7/26/69, La Pinède, Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France (FM)
Miles Davis - trumpet
Wayne Shorter - saxes
Chick Corea - piano
Dave Holland - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Directions
Spanish Key
I Fall in Love Too Easily
Masqualero
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
No Blues
Nefertiti
Sanctuary

Never cross BoBo

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - 6/3/74, Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH (sbd)
Spirit in the Night
The E Street Shuffle
4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)
You Never Can Tell
Tokyo
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)
Let the Four Winds Blow
I'm Ready

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Today is also Jack Bruce's birthday.  So, here's a great show from my favorite member of Cream.


Jack Bruce & The Cuicoland Express - 10/9/01, Kulturzentrum Schlachthof, Bremen, Germany (FM)

Jack Bruce - bass, keyboards, vocals
Vernon Reid - guitar
Bernie Worrell - keyboards 
Horacio Hernandez - drums
Robby Ameen - drums 
Richie Flores - congas

Surge
Out into the Fields
52nd Street
Heartquake
This Anger's a Liar
Sunshine of Your Love
Theme for an Imaginary Western
Milonga
Dancing on Air
Windowless Rooms
Mr Flesh
Dark Heart
White Room
We're Going Wrong
Politician

It's my birthday.  Happy My Birthday to you.

Stan Getz - 6/23/72, Montreux, Switzerland (sbd)
 Stan Getz - tenor sax 
 Chick Corea - piano 
 Stanley Clarke - bass 
 Tony Williams - drums 
Captain Marvel
Day Waves
Lush Life
Windows
I Remember Clifford
La Fiesta
Times' Life

Camel - 1/23/79, Koseinenkin  Hall, Tokyo, Japan (FM)
Unevensong
Song within a Song
Sleeper
Supertwister
Tell Me
Rhayader >
Rhayader Goes to Town
La Princesse Purdue
Echoes
Never Let Go

Alejandro Escovedo - 6/19/00, Bottom Of The Hill, San Francisco, CA (sbd)
Baby's Got New Plans
Five Hearts Breaking
I Was Drunk
Castanets
Rhapsody
Wave
Crooked Frame
The End
Follow You Down
Gravity>
Falling Down Again>
Street Hassle>
Tugboat
Everybody Loves Me
Put You Down
Evening Gown
Sway
Sometimes
Last To Know

Monday, May 13, 2013


Had a great time at the Todd Rundgren show last week, so I'm gonna keep going with the Todd boots. I think you're gonna like this one.

Todd Rundgren - 8/3/89, The Living Room,  Providence, RI (sbd)
Real Man >
Unloved Children
Parallel Lines
Can't Stop Running
Compassion
Secret Society
Something to Fall Back On
Can We Still Be Friends >
Mated
Love in Action
Lost Horizon Medley >
Feel It
Rock Love
Hawking
Hello, It's Me
I Love My Life

Much too fat and a little too long

Spirit - 7/2/95, Club Maui, Philadelphia, PA (sbd)
Love From Here
Uncle Jack
Nature's Way
Fresh Garbage
Pawnshop Blues
1984
Darling If
La Paloma Jam
Animal Zoo
Red House
I Got A Line On You
Prelude (Nothing To Hide)
Dark Eyed Woman
Working in Philly

Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely time

Led Zeppelin - 3/19/75, Pacific Coliseum, Vancouver, British Columbia (sbd)
Rock and Roll
Sick Again
Over the Hills and Far Away
In My Time of Dying
The Song Remains the Same
The Rain Song
Kashmir
No Quarter
Trampled Underfoot
Moby Dick
Dazed and Confused
Stairway to Heaven
Whole Lotta Love
Black Dog

Some folks is even whiter than me

Fire On The Mountain
Someday I'll See You Again, Sweetheart
?
Shuckin The Corn
Big Black Freight Train
Foggy Mountain Special
Dont Forget Me, Little Darling
?
Let Those Brown Eyes Smile At Me
Six White Horses
Wildwood Flower
A Hundred Years From Now
Tragic Romance
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Cotton Eyed Joe
?
Give Me My Flowers While I'm Living
Six White Horses
Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong
Cumberland Gap

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Roger McGuinn - 7/7/74, Islip Speedway, Islip, NY (FM)
I'm So Restless
My Back Pages
Bag Full of Money
Chimes of Freedom
Ballad of Easy Rider ->
Wasn't Born to Follow
Take a Whiff on Me
Old Blue
Mr. Tambourine Man
8 Miles High
Mr. Spaceman
So You Want to Be a Rock'n'Roll Star
Fifth Dimension
Lover of the Bayou
Bells of Rhymney
Chesnut Mare
Better Change
Do What You Want to Do

In the spring we love the Dead


BK3 w/Tara Nevins - 5/31/09, Hunter Mountain, Hunter, NY (aud)
Louisiana Sun >
Scarlet Begonias
If You Only Could
Politics and Lies >
He's Gone >
Bertha

Friday, May 10, 2013

Corinna's Going A-Maying
by Robert Herrick

GET up, get up for shame, the blooming morn
Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.
       See how Aurora throws her fair
       Fresh-quilted colours through the air :
       Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
       The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east
Above an hour since : yet you not dress'd ;
       Nay ! not so much as out of bed?
       When all the birds have matins said
       And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin,
       Nay, profanation to keep in,
Whereas a thousand virgins on this day
Spring, sooner than the lark, to fetch in May.

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
       And sweet as Flora.  Take no care
       For jewels for your gown or hair :
       Fear not ; the leaves will strew
       Gems in abundance upon you :
Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
Against you come, some orient pearls unwept ;
       Come and receive them while the light
       Hangs on the dew-locks of the night :
       And Titan on the eastern hill
       Retires himself, or else stands still
Till you come forth.   Wash, dress, be brief in praying :
Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

Come, my Corinna, come ; and, coming, mark
How each field turns a street, each street a park
       Made green and trimm'd with trees : see how
       Devotion gives each house a bough
       Or branch : each porch, each door ere this
       An ark, a tabernacle is,
Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove ;
As if here were those cooler shades of love.
       Can such delights be in the street
       And open fields and we not see't ?
       Come, we'll abroad ; and let's obey
       The proclamation made for May :
And sin no more, as we have done, by staying ;
But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.

There's not a budding boy or girl this day
But is got up, and gone to bring in May.
       A deal of youth, ere this, is come
       Back, and with white-thorn laden home.
       Some have despatch'd their cakes and cream
       Before that we have left to dream :
And some have wept, and woo'd, and plighted troth,
And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth :
       Many a green-gown has been given ;
       Many a kiss, both odd and even :
       Many a glance too has been sent
       From out the eye, love's firmament ;
Many a jest told of the keys betraying
This night, and locks pick'd, yet we're not a-Maying.

Come, let us go while we are in our prime ;
And take the harmless folly of the time.
       We shall grow old apace, and die
       Before we know our liberty.
       Our life is short, and our days run
       As fast away as does the sun ;
And, as a vapour or a drop of rain
Once lost, can ne'er be found again,
       So when or you or I are made
       A fable, song, or fleeting shade,
       All love, all liking, all delight
       Lies drowned with us in endless night.
Then while time serves, and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.

I have saved all my ribbons for thee

Leonard Cohen - 6/24/88, Laugardalshöll, Reykjavik, Iceland (sbd)
Dance Me to the End of Love
Ain't No Cure for Love
Who by Fire
Bird on the Wire
I'm Your Man
Sisters of Mercy>
Heart with No Companion
First We Take Manhattan
Avalanche
Chelsea Hotel
Tower of Song
Stranger Song
Everybody Knows
Joan of Arc
Story of Isaac
Hallelujah
Passing Through
Take this Waltz
The Partisan
If it Be Your Will
Coming Back to You
Suzanne
So Long, Marianne
I Can't Forget
A Singer Must Die
First We Take Manhattan
Famous Blue Raincoat
I Tried to Leave
Wither Thou Goest

Thursday, May 9, 2013


The Rolling Stones - 11/5/81, Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, NJ (sbd)
Under My Thumb
When the Whip Comes Down
Let's Spend the Night Together
Shattered
Neighbors
Black Limousine
Just My Imagination
Down The Road Apiece
Going to a Go-Go
Let Me Go
Time Is on My Side
Beast of Burden
Waiting on a Friend
Let It Bleed
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Little T & A
Tumbling Dice
She's So Cold
All Down the Line
Hang Fire
Miss You
Start Me Up
Honky Tonk Women (w/ Tina Turner)
Brown Sugar
Jumpin' Jack Flash
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

I think this is not the whole show.  Pretty good stuff, though.

Carla Bley - 11/26/10, Jazzclub Birdland, Neuberg an der Donau, Germany (FM)
Andy Sheppard - saxophones
Carla Bley - piano
Steve Swallow - bass
Saints Alive
Les Trois Lagons
Vashkar
Utviklingssang

Wednesday, May 8, 2013


Miles Davis - 4/9/60, Kurhaus, Scheveningen, Holland (FM)
 Miles Davis - Trumpet 
 John Coltrane - Tenor Sax 
 Wynton Kelly - Piano 
 Paul Chambers - Bass 
 Jimmy Cobb - Drums 
So What
'Round Midnight
On Green Dolphin Street
Walkin'
The Theme
I think this was posted here at least once before.  Like all good monsters (and this is a monster of a show), it just keeps coming back.


Jefferson Starship - 7/14/76, Colt Park, Hartford, CT (sbd)
Ride the Tiger
Fast Buck Freddie
That's for Sure
Love Lovely Love
Hot Water
Somebody to Love
Ozymandias
With Your Love
Play on Love
Big City
Hyperdrive
Nighthawk
Cruiser
St. Charles
Have You Seen the Saucers?
Dance with the Dragon
Sweeter than Honey
Volunteers
Miracles
White Rabbit
Please Come Back
Volunteers

I think I'm just gonna keep going with the Bonnie Raitt shows.  I hope you don't mind... actually, that's not true.  I don't care of you mind.

Bonnie Raitt - 8/5/77, Vara Studios, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (sbd)
Under the Falling Sky
Walk Out the Front Door
Good Enough
Nothing Seems to Matter
Kokomo
Give It Up or Let Me Go
I Thought I Was a Child
Home
Angel from Montgomery
About to Make Me Leave Home
Sugar Mama
Three Time Loser
Runaway

Tuesday, May 7, 2013


May you always see what your life is worth

Jackson Browne - 11/11/80, Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan (sbd)
The Fuse
For Everyman
Here Come Those Tears Again
Fountain of Sorrow
Your Bright Baby Blues
You Love the Thunder
Call It a Loan
Of Missing Persons
Disco Apocalypse
That Girl Could Sing
Hold Out
Boulevard
Doctor My Eyes
Running on Empty
Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate
The Pretender
Hold On Hold Out
The Load Out
Stay
The Road and the Sky

It would be nice if the bats would leave me alone

Spirit - 5/17/81, Berlin, Germany (FM)
Five in the Morning
Animal Zoo
Nature's Way
Turn to the Right
Hey Joe
Fish Fry Road >
It's All the Same >
Drums >
It's All the Same >
I Got a Line on You
All Along the Watchtower
Full show?  Don't know, but if yer into Bruce, you want this. Of course, if yer REALLY into Bruce, you already have it.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - 1/19/74, Kent State University, Kent, OH (sbd)
Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street?
Walking the Dog
Incident on 57th Street
Kitty's Back
Thundercrack
You Mean So Much to Me
Growin' Up
Blinded by the Light

Monday, May 6, 2013

-Atkinson Grimshaw

Soon after you see me, I'll be somewhere else

Led Zeppelin - 6/29/80, Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland (sbd)
Train Kept A Rollin'
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Black Dog
In The Evening
The Rain Song
Hot Dog
All My Love
Trampled Underfoot
Since I've Been Loving You
Achilles Last Stand
White Summer >
Black Mountain Side
Kashmir
Stairway To Heaven
Rock And Roll
Heartbreaker
Acoustic Crazy Horse

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - 10/1/94, Shoreline Amphitheater, Mountain View, CA (sbd?)
My Heart
Prime of Life
Driveby
Sleeps With Angels
Hey Hey, My My (Into The Black)
Train of Love
Change Your Mind
Piece of Crap