DEKAdance

Happy Birthday (1989)

mp3 only

I was looking through the archives and scratching my head

as to what might constitute East German music.

This is a band from pre-unification Dresden so I think that counts.

Zappa/Tubes/Samlas/Southside Johnny & Barenaked Ladies all rolled into one?

...file ünder Wunderbar.

regards

Titus

01 Happy Birthday

02 Culreb

03 Hoch Heidecksburg

04 Woman on the Road

05 It's Time Goes By

06 I am the Walrus

07 Alex Goes to Hollywood

08 They Had No Ticket About Them

09 The Contempt

link

Rory Gallagher

WDR Studio-L

Cologne, Germany

October 6th 1976

DVD

Classic Rockpalast footage with remastered audio.

regards

Titus

Too Much Alcohol

Out on the Western Plain

Banker's Blues

Rag Mama Rag

Nothing But the Devil

Play Video

Pistol Slapper Blues

Going to My Hometown

I Take What I Want

Calling Card

Secret Agent

Do You Read Me?

Bought and Sold

Country Mile

Jack-Knife Beat

Boogie

bonus: interview with Rory

link

The Stranglers

Edinburgh Playhouse

Scotland

February 24th 1981

Remastered soundboard.

Sound quality is a solid medium plus.

Great gig with a very nice mix...plenty Greenfield!

Dave would have been great in Deep Purple I always think.

regards

Titus

01 Threatened 

02 The Raven 

03 Toiler on the Sea 

04 Just Like Nothing on Earth 

05 Thrown Away 

06 Who Wants the World? 

07 Baroque Bordello 

08 Second Coming/Meninblack 

09 Shah Shah A Go Go/Hallow to Our Men 

10 Tank

11 Nuclear Device/Genetix 

12 Duchess 

13 Hanging Around

link

Kraftwerk

Gondel Kino

Bremen, Germany

June 25th 1971

Remastered FM.

Vintage Kraftwerk with NEU! founders Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger

still in the band at this point.

No Autobahns or Man Machines here.

Just proper heads down/no nonsense Krautrock.

In den letzten Wochen waren viele deutsche Besucher auf dem Blog

...aber sie hinterlassen nie einen Kommentar.

Ich bin mir sowieso nicht sicher, ob die Deutschen deutsche Bands mögen.

regards

Titus

01. Heavy Metal Kids

02. K1

03. K2 (Ruckzuck)

04. K3

05. K4

link

Dead Kennedys

The Old Waldorf

San Francisco

October 25th 1979

Remastered KALX-FM broadcast.

The DKs opening for The Beat.

Medium/rough quality 'liberated bootleg'.

Only 27 minutes long so I added a bonus interview with Jello.

He's set in his ways...I'll get my coat.

regards

Titus

01 Kill the Poor

02 Funland at the Beach

03 Back in Rhodesia

04 Dreadlocks of the Suburbs

05 Police Truck

06 Ill in the Head

07 Short Songs

08 California Über Alles

09 Holiday in Cambodia

10 Chemical Warfare

bonus:

11 Jello Biafra interview (WNYU-FM 1982)

link

Freak Kitchen

Drums Addict Festival 2009

DVD

Video footage with freshly remastered audio.

Sorry, I lost my original notes on this one including the track list.

The festival is obscure too and I read 2010 was the final edition.

Brilliant gig...you should give it a try.

regards

Titus

link

Niadem's Ghost

In Sheltered Winds (1986)

(mp3)

What Peter Nicholls did during his exile from IQ.

regards

Titus

01 Child Bride

02 Little Giants

03 The Rage

04 Wild Weather in Shallow Waters

05 High, Wide and Handsome

06 The Twilight World of Mr. Peach

07 Strange Parade

08 Never Again

09 Slashback

10 Endless Times

link

Anderson/Reed/Zorn

Improvisations

Jazz Middelheim

Antwerp, Belgium

August 13th 2009

Remastered FM.

Laurie Anderson - violin/electronics

Lou Reed - guitar

John Zorn - alto sax

weird and wonderful stuff as you might expect from this trio

but catchy pop compared to Lou's 'Metal Machine Music' :)

Lou and Laurie had been married since April 12th 2008.

regards

Titus

1. The First Improv (44:07)

2. The Second Improv (12:04)

3. band intros/applause/announcements (3:20)

4. The Third Improv (7:48)

5. interview with Laurie (4:25)

link

Ten Years After

Swing In (1969)

DVD

I've been watching a few episodes of 'Swing In'

and other German sourced footage recently.

I've been trying to mix the best video copies with the best sound quality. 

Here's TYA with my newly remastered audio.

regards

Titus

I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always

Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.

Spider in My Web

I'm Going Home

link

regards

Titus

Alice Cooper

Montreux Jazz Festival

Stravinski Auditorium

Montreux, Switzerland

July 12th 2005

Here's a newly acquired MP4 copy of this classic Alice footage from nearly 20 years ago.

Where does the time go dear readers?

regards

Titus

Department of Youth

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Dirty Diamonds

Billion Dollar Babies

Be My Lover

Lost in America

I Never Cry

Woman of Mass Distraction

I'm Eighteen

Between High School and Old School

What Do You Want from Me?

Is It My Body?

Go to Hell

The Black Widow/drum solo

Gimme

Feed My Frankenstein

Welcome to My Nightmare

The Awakening

Steven

Only Women Bleed

Ballad of Dwight Fry

Killer

I Love the Dead

School's Out

Poison

Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills

Under My Wheels

link

Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes

Dick Clark Theatre

Tarrytown, NY

June 25th 1980

Remastered FM.

The usual high energy stuff you'd expect from The Jukes.

regards

Titus

01 I'm So Anxious

02 Talk To Me

03 Murder

04 I Don't Want To Go Home

05 Got To Get You Off My Mind

06 On The Beach

07 The Fever

link

This is a map of my impact on the world.

The darker the colour the more popular I am.

It struck me that I mainly reach the countries who,

broadly speaking, meet western political approval.

The lighter coloured areas tend to be frowned upon.

Russia, China,  the Middle and Far East & Africa are just not playing ball.

Before RT Today was banned they often reported on Chile

and the Central American countries...also lighter in colour.

I noticed those news items rarely featured on western media outlets.

Another sizable plot of land with a faint hue is Greenland.

Up for grabs?

...ring any bells recently?

regards

Titus

Samla Mammas Manna

Sprängkullen

July 5th 1976

Remastered soundboard.

(actually a 'mics on stage' recording I suspect)

Alongside Zappa, Samlas are my go-to band when I crave unusual and playful music.

This is fan-bloody-tastic in my book.

Lars Hollmer was a genius.

Kan någon svensktalande ge mig en uppfattning om vad de säger

under de längre talade avsnitten?

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Snôrungernas Symfoni

02 Ide Och Lardomshistoria

03 Joosan Lost

04 Ismael Gästarbetare

Disc 2

01 Bogdan Dansar

02 Solberga

03 Kuba är bra

04 Odet

05 Folkvisa I Morsa

link

Pink Floyd

Grugahalle

Essen, Germany

October 11th 1969

DVD

Well known early Floyd footage with my remastered audio.

Only 20 minutes long unfortunately.

regards

Titus

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

A Saucerful of Secrets

link

Hattler

Reithalle

Offenburg, Germany

October 20th 2023

Remastered audience recording.

This is KRAAN bassist Hellmut Hattler's side project.

Interesting to hear him play with other musicians.

Germany's answer to Chris Squire.

Great gig.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/All Rite

02 Mountain Bike

03 Waiting

04 Sunny Jay

05 Mirrorman

06 Salaud

07 Nachtstrom

08 Hellmut talks

09 guitar solo

10 Lilo & Max/The Terrace

Disc 2

01 Fine Days

02 Teaser

03 Dimitri

04 Delhi News

05 Whatchagonnado?/intros

06 New I.D.

07 So Low/outro

link

Dr. Feelgood

Going Back Home 75

My remastered compilation of Dr. Feelgood recordings from 1975.

Lots of work involved trying to make the various sources 'match'.

A TLD exclusive dear readers.

regards

Titus

Paris Theatre

London

October 18th 1975

01 I Can Tell

02 Going Back Home

03 Don't You Just Know It

04 Roxette

05 Another Man

06 I Don't Mind

07 Riot in Cell Block No. 9

08 Rollin' & Tumblin'

09 You Shouldn't Call the Doctor

The Geordie Scene (Tyne Tees TV)

Newcastle

broadcast February 20th 1975

10 She Does it Right

11 Boom Boom

12 All Through the City

13 Roxette

John Peel session

January 21st 1975

14 I Don't Mind

15 I'm A Hog For You

16 Keep it Out of Sight

17 Route 66

Kid Jensen's 45 (Granada TV)

broadcast July 20th 1975

The Hard Rock Club

Great Stone Road

Old Trafford, Manchester

18 Back in the Night

Kursaal

Southend-on-Sea

November 8th 1975

19 Going Back Home

20 I'm a Hog for You Baby

21 Roxette

22 You Shouldn't Call the Doctor

link

The Crusaders

North Essex Polytechnic

Colchester, UK

October 10th 1978

Tenderly tweaked BBC radio Rock Goes to College broadcast.

Silky smooth melodic jazz.

No Larry Carlton on this recording

but, fear not, Billy Rogers handles the guitar parts with aplomb.

regards

Titus

01 intro/Chain Reaction

02 Sweet n Sour

03 I Felt the Love

04 Snowflake

05 Crossfire

06 Many Stops Along the Way

07 Put it Where You Want it

08 Spiral

link

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band

Minneapolis Auditorium

July 4th 1980

Remastered FM.

Medium sound quality with more than one source I suspect.

I heard 'Chanson pour les Petits Enfants' on the radio, back in the day,

which prompted me to buy the 'Volcano' album.

Beautiful song/been a fan ever since.

This is a 4th of July show so ideal for all you whoopin' Americans.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Fins

02 Cuban Crime of Passion

03 Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season

04 Growing Older But Not Up

05 Volcano

06 Come Monday

07 Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes

08 Margaritaville

09 Dreamsicle

10 God's Own Drunk

Disc 2

01 Chanson pour les Petits Enfants

02 Incommunicado

03 Wonder Why We Ever Go Home?

04 Landfall

05 Why Don't We Get Drunk?

06 band intros/Cheeseburger in Paradise

07 A Pirate Looks at Forty

08 Treat Her Like a Lady

09 Dixie Diner

10 Survive

link

Al Di Meola

Forum

Leverkusen, Germany

November 12th 2024

DVD

Albert revisits 'The Electric Years' on this recent tour.

He looks really good for a 70 year old.

I remastered the audio a bit.

regards

Titus

One Night Last June

Flight Over Rio

Beyond the Seventh Galaxy

Ava's Dance in the Moonlight

Midnight Tango

Casino

Egyptian Danza

Captain Señor Mouse

Elegant Gypsy Suite

link

Larry Carlton

Festival de Jazz

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

July 12th 2017

DVD

Footage of the Larry Carlton Quartet with (hopefully) enhanced audio.

Claus Fischer on 5 string bass guitar. Check him out!

regards

Titus

intro

The Lords Prayer

Goodbye

My Mama Told Me So

Friday Night Shuffle

Oui Oui Si

Minute by Minute

Sunrise

Burnable

Josie

link

KISS

Gaumont Theatre

Ipswich, England

October 11th-1984

Remastered FM.

With the fabulous Bruce Kulick on lead guitar.

I usually view Paul's intros as kitsch-dumb

but here they are just cringeworthy and misogynist.

Shame he thinks that's a good idea.

regards

Titus

01 intro/Detroit Rock City

02 Cold Gin

03 Strutter

04 Fits Like a Glove

05 Heaven's on Fire

06 Under the Gun

07 I've Had Enough (Into the Fire)

08 I Still Love You

09 I Love It Loud

10 Creatures of the Night

11 Love Gun/outro

link

J.J. Cale

Cain's Ballroom

Tulsa, OK

December 31s 1975

Remastered soundboard.

Medium quality but a great New Year's Eve gig.

It will be celebrating it's 50th anniversary this year.

One for the Okies.

regards

Titus

01 Cajun Moon

02 Call Me the Breeze

03 Lies

04 Clyde

05 After Midnight

06 Call the Doctor

07 Got My Mo-Jo Working (But It Just Won't Work on You)

08 Magnolia

09 Crazy Mama

10 Sensitive Kind

11 Bringing It Back

12 Cocaine

link

Steve Hillage

Free Concert in Hyde Park

London, England

September 18th 1976

Remastered soundboard/FM?.

I found this on a very old hard drive

along with a few other items which look potentially blog-worthy.

Not the full show but worth a listen.

I've read this was Miquette Giraudy's live debut.

Steve bollocks the crowd for fighting.

regards

Titus

1.Hurdy Gurdy Man

2.Hurdy Gurdy Glissando

3.Solar Music Suite

4.All Too Much

link

Recent polls suggest:

1. 38% of Americans under age 30 are in favour of an authoritarian rule

rather than the current (admittedly unhealthy) democratic system.

2. Two thirds of young Americans have never heard of The Holocaust.

I suspect the two results are not unconnected and I'm probably not alone

in fearing that Europe is heading down the same dark road.

to clarify...

This was never intended to be a criticism of young people.

I may disagree with them but I can see their point.

My generation was raised in an unusual world.

Perhaps it is we who are deluded?

If I was 18 now I may well think Trump 'gets things done'.

regards

Titus