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Titus

The value of money.

Roman Abramovich's primary superyacht, Eclipse, cost approximately $700 million to build.

Live Aid raised an estimated $200 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.

I think I've just found the solution for world famine!

Where's my Nobel prize?

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Titus

Rock Family Trees (documentary)

Yes & ELP.

Rock Family Trees was created by British rock journalist, author, and illustrator Pete Frame.

Starting in 1971, he mapped the intricate line-up changes of rock bands

in hand-drawn, highly detailed genealogies, eventually turning them into books

like The Complete Rock Family Trees and a BBC television series.

Narrated by John Peel, this episode focuses on the history of Yes and ELP

with contributions from most of the band members and associated acts

alongside vintage clips etc.

Worth a butcher's if you're into these prog dinosaurs.

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Titus

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Yes

Sounding Out (BBC)

The Pavilion

Hemel Hempstead, UK

October 3rd 1971

First broadcast on January 10th 1972

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Jon Anderson

A&E Breakfast with the Arts - November 2005

I took this from an old DVD found in "the cardboard box"

Jon's accent is still solid here which always warms my heart.

New recruit Rick Wakeman:

It's a rebroadcast, with introduction by Glenn Tilbrook,

of the classic 'Sounding Out' footage

combined with a solo spot/interview with Jon from 2005.

All in stunning Lux-or-Vision quality.

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Titus

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More fun from Gary Larson.

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Titus

The Frau Luxor has recently developed an interest in the Brontë sisters.

At the weekend we visited their former home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.

They lived in a parsonage (pictured above) which is now a museum.

The village itself is very picturesque

with several great pubs just a stone's throw away from each other.

The steady stream of Brontë enthusiasts makes this economically viable.

Haworth was first mentioned as a settlement in 1209.

This road plunges down from the main square and probably ends in a singularity:

Inside the house, visitors gasped when an eerie figure suddenly appeared.

Grown men fell to their knees and crossed themselves.

Mothers held their children close.

'Twas the ghostly apparition of Heathcliff Luxor:

He recited Biblical passages which turned out to be from 'Pulp Fiction'.

Weird!

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Titus

David Bowie

NHK Hall

Tokyo, Japan

December 12th 1978

Remastered FM.

I'm assuming it's FM, found it in an old carboard box.

Partial set from the final show of the 'Stage' era Isolar II tour.

Decent sound quality.

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Titus

01 Warszawa

02 "Heroes"

03 Fame

04 Beauty and the Beast

05 Five Years

06 Soul Love/Star

07 Hang on to Yourself

08 Ziggy Stardust

09 Suffragette City

10 Station to Station

11 TVC15

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Progglådan Box C: Folkprogg & Sjungande låtskrivare

(folk progg & singing songwriters)

CD 310

Vargavinter/Margareta Söderberg med Arbete och Fritid

The last CD from the third box set.

Vargavinter - literally 'Wolf Winter',

A term used to describe a particularly harsh winter with heavy snowfall.

They were apparently something of a Swedish folk supergroup

although you wouldn't know it

judging by the lack of info/photos available on the world wide web.

Here's some of the band:

They incorporate a range of 'world music' with a notable Indian influence.

Overall, I found it very enjoyable.

Songstress Margareta Söderberg teams up with Arbete och Fritid

for the second half of this CD. Not much documentation regarding her either.

The first two tracks have a trad/pastoral folk feel.

Track 3 is a stormer! I'd describe it as avant chamber music.

The last song continues in this more ambitious style

with a fabulous Edith Piaf-esque vocal performance. 

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Titus

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box-set artwork

Another from Gary Larson.

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Titus

Motörhead

Paris Theatre, London

May 16th 1979

Reposted from November 2023

I went to my first 'proper' gig on June 6th 1977.

It was Hawkwind at the Preston Guild Hall.

Opening band was Motörhead.

Phil Taylor had a broken wrist.

The roadies gaffer taped the drumstick to his hand between each song.

I recall going to look at the T shirts etc. at half-time and realised I was half deaf

...with ringing in my ears.

Happy days and I still have the, rather bland, ticket:

This is a very good quality slice of early Motörhead.

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Titus

01 Stay Clean

02 No Class

03 White Line Fever

04 I'll Be Your Sister

05 Too Late Too Late

06 (I Won't) Pay Your Price

07 Capricorn/Limb From Limb

bonus: John Peel session

September 25th 1978

08 Louie Louie

09 Tear Ya Down

10 I'll Be Your Sister

11 Keep Us On The Road

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Iron Maiden

Nakano Sunplaza

Tokyo, Japan

May 24th 1981

Remastered FM.

One for all the Maidenheads (a.k.a. Hy-Men)

The first time I encountered Iron Maiden they were opening for Judas Priest around 1979.

The only song we'd heard was Sanctuary.

I wasn't a huge fan but I saw them a couple more times 80/81.

I've never seen them with Bruce Dickinson.

I did see Bruce once with Samson though.

Paul Di'Anno was much better IMO. Here he is fronting the band

four months before his back-stabbing, so-called, bandmates sacked him. :)

Regardless of who's singing Iron Maiden make lifeless music with no soul.

It's just about gritting your teeth and getting through it

under the pitiful delusion that playing it faster will make it better.

I knew what the "guitar solo" would sound like before I heard it.

We already have Ace Frehley thanks.

Having said that, I quite enjoyed it as nostalgia.

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Titus

01 Wrathchild

02 Purgatory

03 Sanctuary

04 Remember Tomorrow

05 Another Life/drum solo

06 band intros/Genghis Khan

07 Killers

08 Innocent Exile

09 Twilight Zone

10 Strange World/Murders in the Rue Morgue

11 Phantom of the Opera

12 Iron Maiden

13 Running Free

14 Transylvania/guitar solo

15 Drifter

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The Stalls of Barchester (1971)

Vintage BBC, so British it's almost painful.

Based on the story 'The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral' by M. R. James

with an introduction by Christopher Lee.

It stars Robert Hardy as Archdeacon Haynes of the fictional Barchester Cathedral,

whose mysterious death is investigated 50 years later by the scholar Dr. Black (Clive Swift)

First aired on BBC1 on December 24th 1971.

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Titus

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Arc de Trump.

Is it too late to submit my design?

How about a referendum?

Let the people decide.

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Titus

A trip down memory lane...

"The name of this band is Twisted Fucking Sister"

I recall Dee Snider announcing as they launched into their 'legendary' set

at the 1983 Donington Monsters of Rock festival.

Can't say I was much into their music but Dee was funny.

Police asked Snider to limit his F-word usage to sixteen.

Asked subsequently why he'd exceeded that limit,

he explained he hadn't realised that 'motherfuckers' would be included.

How the hell did they decide sixteen was the most they could tolerate?

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Titus

Minutemen

The Music Machine

Santa Monica, CA

January 9th 1985

Remastered audience recording.

49 minutes/27 songs.

Worse than doing the bloody Ramones!

D. Boon was the real deal.

Minutemen conquer the world:

This was a benefit event for "Nuclear Nomads".

I'm not sure what that was.

The announcer mentions a documentary.

There's a 2023 film/documentary of the same name

but that is unconnected as far as I can tell.

Can anyone shed light on this?

I couldn't find much about the venue either.

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Titus

01 intro/One Reporters Opinion

02 Retreat

03 The Big Foist

04 Toadies

05 Corona

06 Beacon Sighted Through Fog

07 The Only Minority

08 God Bows to Math

09 Please Don't Be Gentle with Me

10 The Glory of Man

11 Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?

12 Mutiny in Jonestown

13 Mr. Robot's Holy Orders

14 Don't Look Now

15 Anxious Mo-Fo

16 Instrumental

17 The Anchor

18 Ack Ack Ack

19 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love

20 This Ain't No Picnic

21 Dream Told by Moto

22 Cut

23 Little Man with a Gun in His Hand

24 History Lesson part II

25 The Red and the Black

26 Lost 

27 Green River

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2126 update:

Trump in "excellent" health claims Whitehouse insider.

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Titus

Stephen Davis

Hammer of the Gods (1985)

First released in 1985, updated in 1995 and again in 2005.

This is one of the best books I've read about Zep.

Some interesting photos are included.

The picture above was taken in 1974.

Jimmy Page is not visible but he's somewhere behind Robert Plant'

Fifteen year old Lori Maddox is seated at the far right next to Bonzo.

"This was typical of the kind of photograph

the band didn't want their wives to see"

Is Page mentioned in the Epstein files?

Percy Plant looks out over Hollywood and shouts "I am a Golden God!":

The author pulls no punches and I expect the band were less than pleased.

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Titus

Pink Floyd

The World's Greatest Albums

Atom Heart Mother

A documentary about the making of the album.

Quite a lot from genius/madman Ron Geesin

who tries to claim as much credit as he can.

Ron's hubris is eclipsed by the bunch of 'modern' production 'experts'

who pontificate with 20/20 hindsight.

Funny how the songs 'If' and 'Summer '68' are ignored.

These songs were pieces by Waters and Wright respectively

so I assume they refused permission to use them.

Worth a watch.

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Titus

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Beat Club

Episode 70

August 9th 1971

This episode has interesting historical footage of the preparation/organisation

of a free festival with clips of the performers Out of Focus, Embryo and Amon Düül II.

Good to see the home-grown bands featured here.

I think Germany neglected it's own artists

and were maybe too anglophile for their own good.

Deutsch bands often received more initial interest in the UK.

Another excellent episode.

Beggar's Opera keyboardist Alan Park is really good.

He had a brief spell with 10cc in 1995.

My gold star, however, goes to Weather Report.

Does Dom Um Romão bring that table with him do you think?

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Titus

Emergency - Times Passed By

Can - Paperhouse

Weather Report - Waterfall

Beggar's Opera - Raymond's Road

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Roy Buchanan

American Axe Tracks

Volume Three - Stepping Into The Light 1971-1972

Reposterd from Noverber 2024

More early Roy.

I did some volume levelling and a bunch of other fixes

but the quality varies throughout.

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Titus

1971 July - Johnny Otis outtakes

01 Johnny's Shuffle

02 Sweet Home (L.A.)

03 Goin' Down Slow

04 Johnny's Boogie

05 Bye Bye Baby

1971 July - Merle Haggard outtakes

06 Merle Haggard introduction

07 Swing Blues #1 or #23

08 Travelin' Blues

1971 July - Mundell Lowe outtakes

09 Misty

10 Farther Along

1971 - Esther Mae Scott

11 Golden Bells

1971 October - Crossroads, Burlap Bag sessions

12 Funny How Time Slips Away

1972 January - Vibrations TV show

13 Malaguena  9:35

1972 June - Carnegie Hall

14 Harold Lowder introduction

15 Color Him Father

16 Together Again

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This one is definitely in my top ten Gary Larson cartoons.

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Titus