David Gilmour

L.A. Forum

Inglewood, CA

March 27th 2016

Reposted from March 2024

Liberated Japanese bootleg which I am just passing on.

Excellent quality soundboard.

regards

Titus

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Slade

Reading Festival

England

August 24th 1980

Remastered FM.

There's a cut in 'Mama Weer All Crazee Now'

and 'Born to be Wild' is from a later, lower quality, broadcast.

trivia:

Slade never had a number one hit single in Germany.

The Germans preferred Sweet and James Last.

regards

Titus

01 Take Me Bak 'Ome

02 When I'm Dancin' I Ain't Fightin'

03 Wheels Ain't Coming Down

04 medley:

     Somethin' Else/Pistol Packin' Mama/bass/drums/violin/Keep a Rollin'

05 You'll Never Walk Alone/Mama Weer All Crazee Now

06 Get Down and Get With It

07 Merry Xmas Everybody/Cum On Feel the Noize

08 Alan 'Fluff' Freeman/Born to Be Wild/outro

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James Gang

1971/1974 DVD

Reposted from July 2021

                         May 2024

Here's three James Gang TV appearances.

First is from Paris 71. When Joe Walsh was in the band.

From the 'Pop Deux' French TV show.

The audio for this is a bit hit and miss.

The issues are from the actual show so a big boo/hiss to the French sound people.

At times the music volume drops but the vocals are still loud.

Despite those problems it's still worth seeing.

The second, also 71/Walsh, is their spot on the German show BeatClub.

Just one song but excellent.

Although the focus on this group often revolves

around their illustrious guitar players,

it has to be said: Jim Fox is a brilliant drummer.

Lastly we have their 74 Don Kirshner's Rock Concert session.

This is with the effervescent Roy Kenner on vocals/percussion

and Tommy Bolin on guitar.

Bolin did two years in James Gang, 72-74.

In 1975 he joined Deep Purple replacing Ritchie Blackmore.

The 'Come Taste the Band' album was not great

and I've heard recordings of the subsequent tour.

Bolin is not in good shape.

Jon Lord is taking solos that were once Ritchie's parts.

I guess Tommy got paid more than he had ever seen before

and we can guess what he spent it on.

Tommy died, having consumed a cocktail of drugs, on December 4th 1976.

He was only 25.

I have socks older than that.

And T shirts old enough to be his Dad.

He plays great on this DVD and creates some very unusual

(especially for the time) sounds/effects.

Let's remember Tommy Bolin like this yes?

regards

Titus

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Titus Luxor's History of Music

(condensed version)

By 6000 BC our ancestors had already discovered the pleasure

which could be derived from hitting a log with a bone.

8000 years later Hawkwind were doing exactly the same thing.

BTW the illustration is AI generated.

AI does weird stuff sometimes.

Note how the dude is holding one stick in both hands in an unnatural position.

Sometimes it puts one human foot on backwards...but it's learning.

Equivalent anomalies occur in AI chat/search too.

I believe they are known as 'hallucinations'.

I've done a few CD covers using AI

which have turned out quite well and will appear here soon.

I suppose I need to start indicating what is real or fake.

Very soon the difference will be almost irrelevant.

regards

Titus

Rob Loonhouse was the most famous air-guitarist in the world.

He graduated to making his own cardboard guitars

and gained such notoriety that he was invited to play with Iron Maiden

and possibly Judas Priest if memory serves me.

Rob with Paul DiAnno:

Most male rock fans played air-guitar back then.

We had one local guy who played air-drums.

His nickname was Duracell.

regards

Titus

Judas Priest

Sin After Sin (1977)

This is my remastered copy.

I used a vinyl rip of 'Starbreaker' because I hate the CD version.

They "fixed" the INTENTIONAL drop-out.

Made my blood boil!

In my youth, at my local rock emporium,

I would request 'Let Us Prey/Call for the Priest'

as those less popular tunes allowed me more space on the dancefloor

to do my Whirling Dervish/air guitar thing.

Produced by Roger Glover and with the fabulous Simon Phillips on drums

it remains a classic.

regards

Titus

01 Sinner

02 Diamonds and Rust

03 Starbreaker

04 Last Rose of Summer

05 Let Us Prey

06 Call for the Priest/Raw Deal

07 Here Come the Tears

08 Dissident Aggressor

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Roxy Music

Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre

Glasgow

June 11th 2001

This is the complete broadcast as kindly shared by Progsprog.

Phil Manzanera is a brilliant and inventive guitarist

who was a big influence on me.

Nice guitar here from Chris Spedding as well.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Re-Make/Re-Model

02 Street Life

03 Ladytron

04 While My Heart is Still Beating

05 Out of the Blue

06 A Song for Europe

07 My Only Love

08 Oh Yeah (On the Radio)

09 Tara

10 Both Ends Burning

Disc 2

01 Avalon

02 If There is Something

03 More Than This

04 Mother of Pearl

05 Jealous Guy

06 Editions of You

07 Virginia Plain

08 Love is the Drug

09 Do the Strand

10 For Your Pleasure

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Progglådan Box B: CD 208

Instrumentala, Experimentella, Urproggare samt Punk

Pink Champagne/Tant Strul

This one features two female Swedish bands.

I couldn't decide if the opening riff

was Beefheartesque genius or just plain crap.

It turns into pretty rough garage punk after that.

Ideal for fans of pretty rough garage punk.

I enjoyed it but Beefheart's legacy need fear not.

"Cheerleaders with guitars" (for my US readers)

regards

Titus

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Wishbone Ash

The Funky Biscuit

Boca Raton, FL

April 22nd 2022

Reposted from October 2023

Remastered soundboard.

Very good quality but lacks a bit of room-ambience

as many SBDs do to my ears.

OK, I'm being picky!

This is a nice one for those who don't like

the rough and ready audience recordings

for which I have a, perverted, fondness.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Bona Fide

02 Enigma

03 Eyes Wide Open

04 The King Will Come

05 Warrior

06 Throw Down the Sword

07 Sometime World

08 Way Down South

Disc 2

01 We Stand As One

02 Standing in the Rain

03 band intros/Phoenix

04 break/Blowin' Free

05 Jail Bait

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Scorpions

Zur Grille

Minden, Germany

April 19th 1973

Remastered audience recording.

This is not the best quality, as you may rightly suspect,

but it's historical value is unquestionable.

There seems to be a power outage in the middle of Far Away.

They were opening for Eloy & UFO.

The talented, 18 year old, Michael Schenker

was soon to be poached by the latter.

It was a difficult period for Scorpions due to an unstable line-up.

Following their debut album 'Lonesome Crow'

drummer Wolfgang Dziony had left the band.

He was replaced in 1972 by Werner Löhr.

Later that year, American, Joe Wyman took the drumstool.

BTW He was driving the van when the brakes failed

(resultant damage shown on the inner cover)

Wyman quit and returned to the States in December

because they couldn't or wouldn't ever pay him.

Scorps, allegedly, held his kit to ransom to prevent him leaving

but he went anyway so they effectively stole his drums!

Helmut Eisenhut took over at the start of 1973

and was dead by the summer.

Next up was Hal Fingerhood

..It's a bit like Spın̈al Tap.

I won't go into the bass players they went through.

(Thank goodness...Ed.)

regards

Titus

1 Hey Little Woman 

2 Far Away/jam

3 Lonesome Crow

4 Journey Forever

5 It All Depends

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The Brain Surgeons and Friends

To Helen with Love!

A Tribute to the Life and Music of Helen Wheels

Helen Wheels was part of the New York underground/punk scene in the 1970s.

She co wrote songs with  Blue Öyster Cult:

Sinful Love, Tattoo Vampire, Celestial the Queen, Nosferatu.

Fallen Angel and Light Years of Love.

Helen died on January 17th 2000 at the age of 50

having developed an infection following back surgery.

This album features members of BÖC, Dictators and others.

There is no connection to Paul McCartney and Wings. 

regards

Titus

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Joe Walsh

Westwood One

Unknown venue/date

first broadcast May 1986

Reposted from December 2022

Here is a remastered vinyl rip of an FM radio promo.

Joe starts with an 'acoustic' spot before moving into rockier material.

A reasonably clean recording which had

an element of 'fingernails on a blackboard' to my sensitive ears.

I tried to make it a bit warmer/heavier/organic/orgasmic.

Yeah, those other bloggers are prolific,

but Titus actually listens to the music. (Bitch!...Ed.)

My last post of 2022.

A big thank you to those who have contributed,

I won't quote names for fear of missing someone out.

You know who you are and it is very much appreciated.

All the best for 2023 dear readers.

regards

Titus

01 Tomorrow

02 Indian Summer

03 Dreams

04 Help Me Through the Night

05 The Confessor

06 In the City

07 Goin' Down

08 Funk 49

09 Life in the Fast Lane

10 Rocky Mountain Way

11 The Bomber

12 All Night Long

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Santana

Palast der Republik

East Berlin

April 6th 1987

Remastered FM probably from multiple sources.

Great 3 hour gig with, the legendary, Buddy Miles.

Jump over the wall and check it out.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 The Beat of My Drum

02 Veracruz

03 Primera Invasion/Open Invitation

04 She's Not There/Marbles

05 Incident at Neshabur

06 One

07 Samba Pa Ti

08 Songs of Freedom

09 The Healer

10 Super Boogie

Disc 2

01 Texas

02 Them Changes/We Got to Live Together

03 Savor/percussion

04 bass/Cavatina

05 Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen

06 Oye Como Va/Evil Ways/Jingo

07 Once It's Gotcha

Disc 3

01 Carlos talks/By the Pool/Europa

02 Right Now/band intros

03 Johnny B. Goode

04 Wild Thing

05 Soul Sacrifice/drums

06 Concierto de Aranjuez/El Mar

07 Before We Go

08 Praise

09 Deeper, Dig Deeper

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black midi

Bonnaroo

Great Stage Park

Manchester, Tennessee

June 16th 2023

Remastered webcast.

Unfortunately, as of last year, black midi appear to have ceased trading.

regards

Titus

01 Welcome to Hell

02 Speedway

03 Sugar/Tzu

04 Lumps

05 Still

06 Eat Men Eat

07 Dethroned (jam intro)

08 Slow

09 Talking Heads

10 Near DT, MI

11 John L/953

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Golden Earring

Record Plant

Sausalito, CA

April 26th 1975

Remastered soundboard/broadcast.

This post is to celebrate the life and music of George Jan Kooymans

who died on the same day as Ozzy aged 77.

Nothing wrong with Radar Love etc. but I prefer this as it tickles my prog.

Some tasty guitar from George!

regards

Titus

01 intro/The Switch

02 Lucky Number

03 Kill Me (Ce Soir)

04 Big Tree, Blue Sea

05 Daddy’s Gonna Save My Soul

06 Love is a Rodeo

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Black Sabbath

Convention Hall

Asbury Park, NJ

August 5th 1975 

Freshly remastered from my very old CDs.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Killing Yourself to Live

02 Hole in the Sky

03 Snowblind

04 Symptom of the Universe

05 War Pigs

06 Megalomania

Disc 2

01 Sabbra Cadabra/jam/Supernaut/drum solo

02 Iron Man/Orchid

03 guitar solo/Rock n Roll Doctor/Black Sabbath

04 Spiral Architect

05 Children of the Grave

06 Paranoid

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Goodbye Ozzy

regards

Titus

Black Sabbath

Montreux Casino

Switzerland

August 31st 1970

Reposted from May 2024

"I tell you to enjoy life I wish I could but it's too late"

Slightly remastered soundboard.

No bass intro from Geezer on N.I.B. is a bit disappointing

but I'm being picky...this is really good stuff.

regards

Titus

01 tuning/Paranoid

02 N.I.B.

03 Behind the Wall of Sleep

04 Iron Man

05 War Pigs

06 Fairies Wear Boots

07 Hand of Doom

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Just heard Ozzy, the legend, has died aged 76.

regards

Titus

Dire Straits

WDR Studio-L

Cologne, Germany

February 16th 1979

DVD

Fresh capture of the vintage Rockpalast footage with remastered audio.

regards

Titus

Down to the Waterline

Six Blade Knife

Once Upon a Time in the West

Lady Writer

Single-Handed Sailor

Water of Love

In the Gallery

Follow Me Home

News

What's the Matter Baby?

Lions

Sultans of Swing

Wild West End

Where Do You Think You're Going?

Eastbound Train

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Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan.

Episode 30

This was a Thanksgiving edition with the theme being 'left-overs'.

Songs that were considered for previous broadcasts.

Thanksgiving is when Americans eat Christmas dinner.

I'm not sure what they eat at Crimbo.

regards

Titus

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Marillion

Rooftop Skyroom 

Buffalo, NY

July 26th 1983

Slightly tweaked soundboard.

The sound engineer is messing with the levels during the first two minutes.

After that it's quite good albeit with some minor cuts and edits.

I was drunk when I did the artwork.

regards

Titus

01 He Knows You Know

02 Garden Party

03 Script for a Jester's Tear

04 Assassing

05 Chelsea Monday

06 Three Boats Down from the Candy

07 Forgotten Sons

08 Market Square Heroes

09 Margaret

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Mike Watt & fRIENDS

Metro

Chicago IL.

May 6th 1995

Remastered soundboard.

Watt teamed up with Eddie Vedder and Dave Grohl

to headline this triple bill.

Germs/Foo Fighters/Nirvana's Pat Smear also helped out on guitar

with Foo Fighters' William Goldsmith on drums when Grohl played guitar.

As openers, Grohl fronted the fledgling Foo Fighters

and Vedder played drums for Hovercraft. (His wife, Beth Liebling's band)

regards

Titus

01 Walking the Cow

02 Big Train

03 Formal Introduction

04 Against the '70s

05 Drove Up From Pedro

06 Habit

07 Making the Freeway

08 Chinese Firedrill

09 Piss-Bottle Man

10 Forever... One Reporter's Opinion

11 E-Ticket Ride

12 Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing

13 Coincidence Is Either Hit or Miss

14 The Red & the Black

15 Secret Garden

16 Powerful Hankerin'

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Sparks

Primavera Sound Festival

Parc del Fòrum

Barcelona, Spain

June 2nd 2023

Remastered soundboard/stream.

Ron Mael is a creative genius.

If you like Sparks you will like this recording.

regards

Titus

01 intro tape (Take Me for a Ride)/So May We Start

02 The Girl is Crying in Her Latte

03 Angst in My Pants

04 Nothing is As Good As they Say it Is

05 Balls

06 Shopping Mall of Love

07 The Toughest Girl in Town

08 We Go Dancing

09 Bon Voyage

10 Music that You Can Dance To

11 When Do I Get to Sing "My Way"

12 The Number One Song in Heaven

13 This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us

14 All That

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Wishbone Ash

Tralf Music Hall

Buffalo, NY

March 5th 2004

Reposted from November 2022

Really good quality SBD here.

Just a couple of minor things fixed but otherwise untouched.

The separation and balance is spot on.

Another venue that is, I believe, no longer in business.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Bona Fide

02 Wait Out the Storm

03 Warrior

04 The King Will Come

05 Throw Down the Sword

06 Faith, Hope, and Love

07 Standing in the Rain

08 Time Was

Disc 2

01 F.U.B.B.

02 Almighty Blues

03 Living Proof

04 Blowin' Free

05 Blind Eye

06 Jail Bait

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