Blackmore's Night

Greenwich Odeum

East Greenwich, RI

April 10th 2025

Audience recording taped by the very talented Farve4.

I'm just passing this on for Andy or anyone else who may be interested.

It's the opening night from last year's Us tour:

I'll have a look at some older shows soon 

All I did here was make the CD covers.

I was waiting for 'Stargazer' LOL.

Can you tell I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here? :)

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 God Save the Keg

02 Cartouche

03 Darkness/Dance of the Darkness

04 Under a Violet Moon

05 The Temple of the King

06 Durch den Wald zum Bach Haus

07 World of Stone

08 Promise Me

09 Unsung Hero

Disc 2

01 All the Fun of the Fayre

02 Renaissance Faire

03 Allan Yn N Fan/Minstrels in the Hall

04 Ghost of a Rose

05 Wind in the Willows

06 Home Again/Hava Nagila/Drink Drink Drink/The Happy Wanderer

07 Midwinter's Night/Dandelion Wine

08 A Whiter Shade of Pale

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The City of Lost Children (1995)

A twisted vision of a surreal dystopian future.

Chock-full of ideas that will get you thinking!

This copy has optional audio, subtitles, and DVD cover scans

in both French and English.

Aren't I good to you? :)

regards

Titus

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Night of the Guitar - Live! (1989)

Reposted from December 2022

After posting the Wishbone Ash, with a guest appearence

from Pete Haycock, my mind was drawn to this.

Quite neglected, I feel, because the guitar line- up is amazing.

It was recorded during a short tour in November 1988.

These are my remastered mp3s.

There is video footage around which I haven't seen

although I've read bad reviews re the quality.

Leslie West wins the loudest/buzziest amp award.

Man of the Match? - probably Alvin Lee by a whisker.

It's a cornucopia of hammer-ons, pull-offs, trills and thrills!

Our axemen:

Pete Haycock/Alvin Lee/Andy Powell/Ted Turner/Leslie West

Randy California/Robby Krieger/Steve Howe/Steve Hunter

All excellent for me but surely there aren't many visitors here

who don't have interest in at least one of these musicians?

with:

Bass Guitar, Vocals – Derek Holt

Bass, Keyboards – Livingstone Brown

Drums – Clive Mayuyu

Guest – Stewart Copeland

Keyboards – Chris Bucknell

MC – Miles Copeland

regards

Titus

01 Pete Haycock – Dr. Brown I Presume

Written by – P. Haycock*

02 Steve Hunter with Pete Haycock – The Idler

Written by – S. Hunter

03 Pete Haycock with Steve Hunter – Lucienne

Written-By – P. Haycock

04 Randy California with Steve Hunter – Groove Thing

Written by – R. California

05 Randy California – Hey Joe

Written by – William Roberts

06 Robby Krieger with Steve Hunter – Love Me Two Times

Written by – Doors

07 Ted Turner with Andy Powell – The King Will Come

Written by – Wishbone Ash

08 Leslie West – Theme From An Imaginary Western

Written by – Bruce, Brown

09 Steve Howe – Clap Medley

Written by – S. Howe

10 Steve Howe with Pete Haycock – Wurm

Written by – S. Howe

11 Alvin Lee – No Limit

Written by – Lee, Hubbard

12 Alvin Lee – Ain't Nothin' Shakin'

Written by – Colacrai, Fontane, Gluck, Lambert

13 Steve Howe/Andy Powell/Randy California/Pete Haycock/Robby Krieger

– All Along The Watchtower

Written by – B. Dylan

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KRAAN

Aladin

Bremen, Germany

March 13th 1980

Remastered FM.

The second disc is from a different/better source.

They released a version of this last year which is on bandcamp

but I don't know how it compares to my copy.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Yaqui Yagua

02 Far West/Borgward

03 Berg und Tal

04 She's Gone

05 Hallo Ja Ja I don't know

Disc 2

01 Almrausch

02 Let it Out

03 Vollgas Ahoi

04 Nam Nam/Silky Way

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regards

Titus

Alice (Něco z Alenky) 1988

By far my favourite film adaption of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

A Czech production written and directed by Jan Švankmajer.

It isn't particularly faithful to the book but it captures the darkness perfectly.

I have included optional subtitles in Arabic, English, French, Greek and Spanish.

regards

Titus

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Steeleye Span

Octagon Theatre

Yeovil, England

March 24th 1995

Remastered FM.

Medium quality.

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Titus

01 The Fox

02 We Poor Labouring Me

03 Black Jack Davey

04 Harvest of the Moon

05 My Johnny was a Shoemaker

06 Seagull

07 Twa Corbies/The Water is Wide

08 The Elf Knight

09 Thomas the Rhymer

10 All Around My Hat

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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