Buck Dharma Band

Ricky Browning Benefit

Gwinnett Arts Center

Atlanta, Georgia

April 11th 1997

Newly remastered audience recording from my old CDs.

When I first heard this, years ago, I thought Buck mentioned Rick Downey

...until I did further research:

In 1997 a fan brought Buck Dharma's attention

to the story of Ricky Browning, a ten year old boy from Atlanta,

who was suffering the ravages of an inoperable brain tumour.

Ricky had his own inspiring method to fight his illness,

he imagined his hero, Godzilla, fighting the tumour.

Buck assembled the Buck Dharma Band,

and performed a fund-raising concert for Ricky and his family.

There's a video about Ricky and the concert which I've also uploaded.

As for the show...it is brilliant.

Stripped down versions of the songs.

Just the trio of Buck, Danny Miranda and John Miceli.

Sandy Roeser (Mrs. Buck) chips in on vocals for the second half

and young Ricky joins John Miceli on drums for Godzilla.

I've been putting off revisiting this recording for donkey's years.

Here it is at long last!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

A much needed reminder of the good in this troubled world?

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/Blackbird/In My Life

02 Astronomy

03 Live for Me

04 Deadline

05 Burnin' for You

06 Before the Kiss

07 Shooting Shark

08 Buck's Boogie

Disc 2

01 Real World

02 Wind, Weather & Storm

03 In Thee

04 Born to Rock

05 Five Thirty-Five

06 (Don't Fear) The Reaper

07 Godzilla

08 I Fought the Law

09 Harvest Moon

Audio

Video

I'll let you draw your own conclusions.

regards

Titus

Sad news that Ross (The Boss) Friedman has passed away:

On February 9th 2026, Friedman announced

that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease.

He died from the condition on March 26th aged 72.

Ross was a legendary guitarist known for his work with Dictators,

Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, Shakin' Street, Manowar and Brain Surgeons.

Pound for pound Ross was THE BOSS.

D.F.F.D.

regards

Titus

The Dictators
The Gino Club
Stockholm, Sweden 1996

Reposted from June 2020

Superb FM broadcast of the greatest proto punk band ever.
Makes AC/DC sound like the Doobie Bros.
Saw them in an upstairs room of a Manchester pub around 2018.
There were about 60 people in attendance.
Very sad they drew so few but it was wonderful...a fight broke out!
This is in wav from my old CD.
regards
Titus

01 New York, New York
02 Haircut & Attitude
03 Master Race Rock
04 I Want You Tonight
05 Faster & Louder
06 Baby Let's Twist
07 I Am Right
08 Call Me Animal
09 The Party Starts Now
10 I Stand Tall
11 Science Gone Too Far
12 Had It Coming
13 Search & Destroy
14 The Next Big Thing
15 Stay With Me

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regards

Titus

Frank Zappa

The Palladium

New York City

October 31st 1981 (early show)

The perfect companion to the previously posted late show.

There is an egg thrower in the crowd.

This was way back when Americans could afford to waste eggs.

Great version of 'Blue Light'. an old favourite of mine.

That song always seems relevant.

Tax the churches!

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 Chunga's Revenge

02 "The finest night of the year”

03 You Are What You Is - take 1

04 You Are What You Is - take 2

05 Mudd Club

06 The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing

07 Dumb All Over

08 Heavenly Bank Account

09 Suicide Chump

10 Jumbo Go Away

11 Envelopes

12 Drowning Witch

13 What’s New in Baltimore?

14 Moggio

15 We’re Turning Again

16 Alien Orifice

Disc 2

01 Teen-age Prostitute

02 Flakes

03 Broken Hearts are for Assholes

04 The Blue Light

05 Tinsel Town Rebellion

06 Yo Mama

07 Bobby Brown Goes Down

08 City of Tiny Lites

09 “We’re not gonna stand for it!”

10 Strictly Genteel

11 Dancin' Fool

12 Whipping Post

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Mark Blake

Pigs Might Fly

The inside story of Pink Floyd (2007)

There are many books about Pink Floyd.

This is one I can heatily recommend.

The short lived five piece line-up (January 1968):

After a while they just stopped picking Syd up on the way to gigs.

😒

regards

Titus

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Titus

Nik Turner's Hawkwind/Hedersleben/Flying Hair

The Complex

Glendale CA

Novermber 27th 2016

Reposted from December 2023

Let's face it Nik was a shambolic musician...but there's only one Thunder Rider.

Here's a remaster of the whole night's entertainment.

Nice audience recordings with minimal intrusive crowd noise.

The support bands are good so give them a chance!

regards

Titus

Disc 1

Flying Hair

01 Babies Cryin'

02 Tantrum

03 Beady Eyes

04 Tunnel Vision

05 Apache Line

06 Hypnotize

07 Night Fight

08 Phase II

Hedersleben

09 Apogee/Judas Star

10 Rarefied Air

11 (On the Ground) Safe n Sound

12 Walk Above the Clouds

13 The Fall of Chronopolis (suite)

14 History of Light

Disc 2

Nik Turner's Hawkwind

01 Earth Calling/Born to Go

02 Time We Left This World Today

03 The Black Corridor

04 Space Is Deep

05 Opa-Loka

06 Children of the Sun

07 D-Rider

08 Sonic Attack

09 Master of the Universe

10 Orgone Accumulator

11 Brainstorm/band intros

12 You Shouldn’t Do That

13 Silver Machine

14 Tequila

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A sign of the times?

I think  'No Trump' would be a better rallying call.

regards

Titus

Albert Bouchard

Surrealist (2017)

My reworking of this solo effort from Albert.

regards

Titus

01 1000 Years

02 Trick of Moonlight (About a Mermaid)

03 Voyeur (part II)

04 Million Conversations

05 Sky

06 Vast Dark Night

07 Hands That Built America

08 Soy Extranjero

09 Rains Too Deep

10 25 to Life (Pàno)

11 Galelio Galilei

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Happy birthday to Prog God Tony Banks. 76 today!

regards

Titus

Progglådan Box C: Folkprogg & Sjungande låtskrivare

(folk progg & singing songwriters)

CD 309

Turid Lundqvist, Jan Hammarlund & Lena Ekman

Marit Turid Lundqvist (better known as Turid)

born November 16th 1949 in Stockholm

is a Swedish singer, songwriter, composer and musician.

Jan Eric Gustaf Hammarlund is a Swedish singer-songwriter and musician

born July 17th 1951 in Täby.

One of the first Swedish artists to "come out" as gay in the 1970s.

Lena Margareta Ekman is a Swedish singer, songwriter and musician

born on February 19th 1950 in Malmö

who has often participated in feminist contexts.

It's fairly standard folk music but surprisingly likeable.

Some nice vocal harmonies ala Steeleye Span.

regards

Titus

link

box-set artwork

The Art of the Deal?

regards

Titus

Roomful of Blues

Bimbo's 365 Club

San Francisco, CA

February 3rd 1996

Remastered FM.

I painstakingly patched a ton of glitches/small gaps etc.

Took ages but it was worth it for this brilliant gig.

Roomful of Blues are a rolling ensemble who have been active for over 50 years.

Great jazzy blues with a lot of swing.

Some tracks remind me of Ray White/Ike Willis era Zappa.

regards

Titus

Disc 1

01 intro/instrumental

02 Blind Love

03 If You Know It

04 Say We're Through

05 Lillie Mae

06 I Left My Baby

07 Turn it On, Turn it Up

08 Marie, Marie

09 Slam Jam

10 Walkin' Slow Behind You

11 I Smell Trouble

12 Early in the Morning

13 Honey Hush

Disc 2

01 instrumental

02 Payin' the Cost to Be the Boss

03 Angry Woman

04 Ain't it a Shame

05 Gettin' Out

06 You Win

07 She's the Girl that Radiates

08 Champagne Eyes

09 That Ain't Right

10 You Don't Know

11 Last Night

12 Sent for You Yesterday

13 I Should Have Known

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regards

Titus

Gary Larson makes me smile.

regards

Titus

When I was growing up in the late 60s/early 70s

the second world war was just ancient history to me

no more significant than the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.

They'd just exchanged a chariot for a Spitfire.

Everything was great! It was the age of science.

Hey, they put a man on the moon (would you believe?)

The TV show 'How' taught me how things worked:

Tomorrow's world showed me how things would work in the future:

They neglected to tell me the world is a shithole.

regards

Titus

On March 2nd Trump said the US campaign had been projected to last

four to five weeks but could “go far longer than that”.

The "excursion" to Iran is costing the US taxpayer around $1 billion par day.

Photosensitive Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon plans to ask lawmakers

for some $200 billion in supplemental funds to pay for the operations.

You do the math!

regards

Titus

My best wishes to the beleaguered people of Hawaii.

"The worst flooding to hit Hawaii in two decades

has swept homes off their foundations, floated cars out of driveways

and left floors, walls and counters covered in thick, reddish volcanic mud.

Authorities said hundreds of homes had been damaged,

along with some schools and a hospital.

On Monday, new downpours set off a fresh round of flooding

on Oahu’s south side while residents on the island’s North Shore

cleaned up and assessed the destruction from last week’s torrents.

No deaths have been reported, but more than 230 people had to be rescued."

As far as I know Trump has said nothing about the flooding.

I thought it was supposed to be "America first"?

Is Hawaii not American enough?

regards

Titus

"The U.S. government will pay a French energy firm nearly $1 billion

to cancel its plans to build a pair of wind farms off the East Coast,

the Trump administration announced Monday in its latest move to stymie offshore wind. 

The French firm TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases for projects

off the coasts of New York and North Carolina, with the United States

paying $928 million to reimburse what the company initially spent on the leases.

Under the deal, TotalEnergies will reinvest that money into oil and gas projects,

including a liquefied natural gas export facility in Texas."

Many wars and world issues are linked to resources, especially fossil fuels.

Wind turbines and other renewables will help solve more than just environmental concerns.

This isn't a popular idea with those who profit from the current system.

Trump says "windmills" are ugly.

They're not windmills, you orange dickhead, they don't mill anything.

Here's a beautiful oil refinery:

Trump is worried about the impact on birds.

Trump has frequently claimed that China manufactures wind turbines

but does not use them domestically.

Not in the top ten, due to it's small population, is Norway.

"Norway generates over 98% of its electricity from renewable sources,

primarily hydropower, making it a global leader in clean energy.

With a system built on abundant water resources, hydro

contributes around 89–90% of production, while wind power accounts for nearly 9–10%.

Fossil fuels, mainly gas, contribute less than 1%."

They are no angels being major fossil fuel exporters

but I guess they can get by without access to the strait of Hormuz?

regards

Titus

Richard Thompson

West End Cultural Centre

Winnipeg, MB

July 16th 2000

Not the full show but a very nice FM  broadcast.

regards

Titus

01 DJ intro

02 Bathsheba Smiles

03 I Feel So Good

04 The Ghost of You Walks

05 If You Don't Want Me

06 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

07 Turning of the Tide

08 Shoot Out the Lights

09 God Loves a Drunk

10 I Misunderstood

11 Dimming of the Day

12 Valerie

13 DJ outro

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regards

Titus

Tritonus

Nachtmusik - WDR Radio

Germany

March 24th 1977

Remastered FM broadcast.

This recording features a choir and a proper pipe organ!

Really good keyboard driven prog half way between ELP and Rick Wakeman.

Big Carl Palmer-esque drum solo on the last track from Arthur Weiss.

I've read that Arthur moved to the US and continued playing

but I can't find anything further about him.

Wiki says he  was only with Tritonus in 2015

which is incorrect as he played on their 1977 live album.

That was only released in 2015 hence the confusion.

Good article/interview with keyboardist Peter K, Seiler here

regards

Titus

01 Between the Universes

02 Escape and No Way Out

03 Mars Detection

04 The Day Awakes

05 The Day Works

06 Far in the Sky

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Beat Club

Episode 56

June 27th 1970

Reposted from September 2024

Some sections on David Peel in this episode who's album 'The Pope Smokes Dope'

was produced by John Lennon making it a collector's item for Lennon/Beatles fans.

Peel has connections to Kevin Michael 'GG' Allin (born Jesus Christ Allin)

who is/was...er...shall we say interesting?

Worth a wiki.

regards

Titus

Van der Graaf Generator - Whatever Would Robert Have Said?

Brinsley Schwarz - Ebury Down

Santana - Jingo-Lo-Ba/Incident at Neshabur

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime/Mighty Man

Family - The Weaver's Answer

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