The Steve Howe Guitar Collection (1994)

This is excellent if you have any interest in guitars.

The book measures approximately 10 x 13 inches (25 x 33cm)

and it is printed on very high quality paper.

There are several pages that open out to form beautiful triple-page layouts:

We get the usual Gibsons and Fenders etc. as you'd expect.

All exquisite in their own right but Steve's hoard

of weird and wonderful instruments goes much further than that.

Here's a few scans:

I wonder what will happen to them all when Steve is gone?

BTW  you can click on any picture in a post

to view all the images as a slideshow which, in some cases, is bigger/better.

(Apologies if you've already figured that out)

regards

Titus

Blue Öyster Cult

Royal Concert Hall

Nottingham, England

December 9th 1985

Remastered audience recording.

Sound quality is pretty rough/overdriven...maybe for fans-only.

The first half of 'Burnin' for You' is very warbly

and sounds like it's patched from an inferior copy of the tape.

The taper made multiple satirical comments (mostly between songs).

I removed most of these but "Casio tone Mk.2" could not be eradicated.

I managed to patch-out the "time for a shit" during the drum solo.

At the end he deemed the crowd "worst fucking audience in the world".

It must be a Nottingham sense of humour thing :)

This is from the 'Club Ninja' era with four songs in the set.

The album was not generally well received.

I saw them twice in 1985.

The first was at the Guild Hall in Preston.

It was December 4th and a mosh-pit job

so the ticket did not fair well in that sweat-sodden atmosphere:

It was quite a decent UK tour:

Of course I couldn't resist the final show in Manchester :)

Btw The album was only released on the 10th so no one had heard it.

The US release was held back to February 11th 1986.

Twelve days after that Joe Bouchard played his last show in Tokyo.

It all showed how lacklustre and indifferent the "industry" had become.

I think 'Club Ninja' had bad production and a feeble mix.

The songs sounded better live.

I'm surprised they didn't play 'Perfect Water'.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/ME 262

02 Dominance and Submission

03 E.T.I.

04 White Flags

05 Make Rock Not War

06 Take Me Away

07 (Then Came) The Last Days of May

08 Dancin' in the Ruins

Disc 2

01 Joan Crawford

02 Shadow Warrior

03 Burnin' for You

04 Godzilla

05 (Don't Fear) The Reaper

06 Roadhouse Blues

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Sometimes, it's tempting to yearn for the past.

A simpler time when we were untouched by the stresses of modern life.

Globalisation and technology changed the world forever.

Old traditions died out...such as beheading.

I love a good beheading, me.

regards

Titus

10cc

City Hall

Sheffield, England

February 2nd 1976

Remastered audience recording.

The last tour to feature the original fab-four.

They lean heavily on their, then new, 'How Dare You?' L.P.

which is fine by me, as many of those great songs were never played again.

'How Dare You?' was probably their most ambitious album.

With 'Une Nuit à Paris' also in the set it's a quite demanding show.

Unfortunately the encore (Rubber Bullets) is missing.

There is occasional localised talking around the taper.

Wherever possible (between songs) I edited those out.

The usual banter seems a little more bitter here.

I suspect they knew the break-up would happen after the tour.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Lazy Ways

02 Art for Art's Sake

03 Rock 'n' Roll Lullaby

04 The Worst Band in the World

05 The Second Sitting for the Last Supper

06 Old Wild Men

07 Iceberg

08 Don't Hang Up

Disc 2

01 Head Room

02 The Sacro-Iliac

03 I'm Mandy Fly Me

04 I Wanna Rule the World

05 The Wall Street Shuffle

06 I'm Not in Love

07 Une Nuit à Paris

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

and Through the Looking-Glass (1871)

I've always loved Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

They terrified me as a child and fascinated me as an adult.

Sometimes I just dip in and read a favourite chapter.

'Wool and Water' is the best description of trippin' ever!

My treasured copy was given to my eldest brother in 1956.

I can't remember a time when it wasn't around.

It's seen better days as you can see.

I thought I'd celebrate it's 70th birthday

by sharing some of Philip Gough's wonderful illustrations.

Many of them are weird and unsettling

but that Jabberwocky one gave me nightmares when I was a kid :)

"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice (she was so much surprised,

that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English)

regards

Titus

Blue Öyster Cult

Palais des Sports

Paris, France

February 13th 1989

Remastered audience recording.

The Imaginos tour hits the French capital.

Support was provided by Patrick Rondat who drops in on Roadhouse Blues.

I saw them a month later in Manchester:

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/RU Ready 2 Rock

02 Dominance and Submission

03 E.T.I.

04 I am the One You Warned Me Of

05 Harvester of Eyes

06 Buck's Boogie

07 Astronomy

08 Take Me Away

09 In the Presence of Another World

10 Flaming Telepaths

Disc 2

01 Veteran of the Psychic Wars

02 ME262

03 Joan Crawford

04 Burnin' for You

05 Godzilla

06 (Don't Fear) The Reaper

07 This Ain't the Summer of Love

08 Golden Age of Leather

09 The Red and the Black

10 Roadhouse Blues

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Night of the Demon (1957)

The classic film adaption of M.R. James' 'Casting the Runes'.

In her 1985 song 'Hounds of Love' Kate Bush used a sound clip from the film

featuring the line, "it's in the trees, it's coming!".

This copy includes optional subtitles

in English, French, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

So Yes. Oui, Ναί, Si, Sim and...erm...Sí again. 

regards

Titus

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Titus

The Clash

Capitol Theatre

Passaic, New Jersey

March 8th 1980

Remastered FM.

Compiled from two sources and patched where necessary.

I took a missing piece of 'Clampdown' from the Chicago 1979 recording.

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Titus

01 Clash City Rockers

02 Brand New Cadillac

03 Safe European Home

04 Jimmy Jazz

05 London Calling

06 Guns of Brixton

07 Train in Vain

08 White Man in Hammersmith Palais

09 Koka Kola/I Fought the Law

10 Spanish Bombs

11 Police & Thieves

12 Stay Free

13 Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad

14 Wrong 'Em Boyo

15 Clampdown

16 Janie Jones/Complete Control

17 Armagideon Time */English Civil War

18 Garageland

19 Bank Robber*

20 Tommy Gun

* with Mikey Dread

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Yeah, we believe you Charlie.

I've never been a fan of the Royal family.

The concept of inherited privilege at the taxpayers expense sticks in my craw.

Like a fishbone to the Queen Mother.

Camilla Parker bowls.

regards

Titus

Cecil Taylor Unit

Antioch College

Yellow Springs, Ohio

April 3rd 1971

Remastered FM.

This post was inspired by a Mike L. comment.

Cecil Percival Taylor was a classically trained pianist.

A pioneer of free-jazz and occasional poet.

It's a great recording but their relentless approach to jamming

may not be to everyone's taste? :)

This band throws caution to the wind.

Frank Zappa might well have dismissed it as "noodling".

file under: Extreme Jazz Improv.

'Yellow Springs' sounds like an Australian chardonnay.

regards

Titus

Part 1 (61:41)

Part 2 (44:55)

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The friends of Jeffery Epstein (just a small selection)

Veteran rocker Sir Mick Jagger seeking satisfaction?

Magician David Copperfield.

I bet he wishes he could make that photo disappear.

Sir Richard Branson.

Never liked him.

Jacko (quelle surprise!)

He's bad. We knew it.

regards

Titus