The Magic Band

BBC studios

Maida Vale, London

July 7th 2004

Reposted from February 2023

Here's an off-the-shelf CD which sounds really good.

Great session hosted by John Peel who was famously a Beefheart enthusiast.

John (Drumbo) French stands in for Don Van Vliet when vocals are required.

(Michael Traylor occupying the drumstool when needed)

Great to hear Mark Boston play.

Denny Wally and Gary Lucas are well qualified to handle the guitar parts.

It would have been the icing on the bake had Bill Harkleroad been involved.

You Rush fans might like their version of 'Circumstances'.

regards

Titus

01 Diddy Wah Diddy

02 Circumstances

03 Nowadays a Woman's gotta Hit a Man

04 Hair Pie (bass bake)

05 On Tomorrow

06 Syeal Softly thru Snow

07 Abba Zabba

08 My Human Gets Me the Blues

09 Alice in Blunderland

10 Hair pie (bake 2)

11 Evening Bell

12 Electricity

13 The Floppy Boot Stomp

14 Mirror Man

15 Moonlight on Vermont

16 Big Eyed Beans from Venus

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Progglådan Box D: Melodisk Rock CD 406

Ola Magnell/John Holm

(both are completely new to me)

Nils Olaus Lennart Karl Magnell (January 20th 1946 – February 6th 2020)

was a Swedish pop-rock singer and guitarist.

This 1983 recording may not show him in his best light.

I'm told Ola's 70s work is preferable

but this is OK as I guess he's doing some 'oldies'.

In 1975, Swedish singer-songwriter John Holm

went on his very first concert tour and appeared on Swedish television

having previously concentrated on studio recordings.

A difficult to work with perfectionist (apparently)

Really good with tasty guitar ala Wishbone Ash, John Miles or Allman Bros.

regards

Titus

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Translation: Paid for by the U.S. tax-payer.

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Titus

Rory Gallagher

Funky Quarters

San Diego, California

October 3rd 1972

Remastered soundboard.

One of the lesser quality recordings from my vast Rory archive

but I thought I'd put it through the old Luxor-mincer and see what came out.

(Mincemeat?...Ed.)

Have a stiff drink before listening.

Rory also played at this short-lived venue the night before.

Funky Quarters was burned down by arsonists after two years in business.

The owners were apparently "violently mugged" shortly before the fire.

Draw your own conclusions as to any connection between the two incidents.

"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen"

BTW  the flyer says England's No.1 guitarist...oh dear.

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Titus

01 Used to Be

02 I Should've Learnt My Lesson

03 When You'll Be Mine

04 Goin' to My Hometown (cut)

05 In Your Town

06 Bullfrog Blues

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Mr Pye (1986)

A UK (Channel 4) television series written by Donald Churchill.

It's based on a 1953 short novel by Mervyn Peake and directed by Michael Darlow.

Mr. Pye is a quasi-religious evangelical tale with a strange vibe.

Like watching 'Last of the Summer Wine' but finding it a bit unsettling.

For those unfamiliar: 'Last of the Summer Wine' was a long running British show

set in rural Yorkshire with gentle humour aimed at a largely elderly audience.

Starring Derek Jacobi (later: Sir Derek George Jacobi)

Jacobi started his professional acting career with Laurence Olivier

as one of the founding members of the National Theatre.

He has appeared in numerous Shakespearean stage productions

but is probably most loved for his leading role

in the 1976 TV series 'I Claudius' (I CLAVDIVS)

for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor.

Mr. Pye was filmed on the beautiful island of Sark (Peake's original setting)

and the scenery alone makes it worth watching.

Sark is an island in the southwestern English Channel, off the coast of Normandy,

which forms part of the archipelago of the Channel Islands.

It belongs to the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a self-governing British Crown Dependency,

with its own set of laws based on Norman law and its own parliament.

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Titus

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Titus

Beat Club - episode 76

February 26th 1972

More gems from the Beat Club archives

including Dutch outfits Mouth & MacNeal and Earth & Fire.

(Wind having been expelled?) :)

(Not the same band, he's being stupid...Ed.)

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Titus

Livin' Blues - L. B. Boogie/Hitch Hikin'

Nazareth - Morning Dew

Bell & Arc - So Long Marianne/She belongs to Me

Earth & Fire - Storm & Thunder

Mouth & MacNeal - How Do You Do?

Atomic Rooster with Chris Farlowe - Breakthrough

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THX 1138 (1971)

An American social science-fiction film with overt Orwellian influences.

Co-written and directed by George Lucas in his full-length feature directorial debut.

Produced by Francis Ford Coppola with Walter Murch sharing writing duties with Lucas.

It stars Robert Duvall and Donald Pleasence.

This is the Director's Cut which has been digitally restored and enhanced.

There is audio in English and Russian (just someone translating)

plus optional subtitles in various languages.

regards

Titus

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The Pacific War in Color (2018)

Episode 6 - Fire from the Sky

The allies slug it out on the island of Peleliu

in a campaign to pave the way for Gen. MacArthur's return to the Philippines.

Japan unveils a devastating new tactic...the kamikaze.

regards

Titus

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Santana

Montreal/NYC

Remastered soundboard.

This is a vague one.

I'm not sure of the dates or venues.

The recording seems to have first surfaced around 1993.

Some of it may be from Forum de Montréal, Canada November 3rd 1992.

The Russ Ballard cover 'Winning' is not a song they played that often.

I couldn't find any evidence of them performing it. in New York or Montreal,

during the early 90s and I'm not sure who sings it.

I suspect the 1980s as a more likely era for the New York portion.

That's assuming ANY of it is from Montreal or New York :)

Does anyone know anything more about this?

The sound quality is pretty good.

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Titus

01 Black Magic Woman

02 Gypsy Queen

03 Oye Como Va

04 Hold On

05 Evil Ways

06 No One to Depend On

07 She's Not There 

08 Winning

09 Spirits Dancing in the Flesh

10 Soul Sacrifice

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Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville says that Americans could be flying with pilots

who are part of the furry community, calling that possibility "terrifying".

During a Senate speech he said "many" airline pilots, flight attendants,

and air traffic controllers are furries but he gave no evidence.

Tommy Tuberville is "terrifying".

I wonder who else he thinks shouldn't be pilots?

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Titus

Led Zeppelin

Royal Albert Hall

London, UK

January 9th 1970

Remastered soundboard.

My reworking of one of the numerous versions.

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Titus

Disc 1

01 We're Gonna Groove

02 I Can't Quit You Baby

03 Dazed and Confused

04 Heartbreaker

05 White Summer/Black Mountain Side

06 What Is and What Should Never Be

07 Moby Dick

Disc 2

01 How Many More Times

02 Whole Lotta Love

03 Communication Breakdown

04 C'Mon Everybody

05 Something Else

06 Bring It On Home

07 Long Tall Sally

08 Communication Breakdown

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Titus

The 39 Steps (1935)

A classic British spy thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

It's loosely based on the 1915 novel 'The Thirty-Nine Steps' by John Buchan.

Starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

By 1936 Carroll was the world's highest-paid actress.

This contains an Alfred Hitchcock cameo, a signature occurrence in most of his films.

At around 7 minutes into the film, both Hitchcock and the screenwriter Charles Bennett

are walking past a bus that Robert Donat and Lucie Mannheim board outside the music hall.

Optional subtitles in several languages are included.

regards

Titus

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Steve Goodman

Main Point

Bryn Mawr, PA

June 20th 1976

Remastered FM.

Nice show from, C&W legend, Steve who's guests include Billy Joel on piano

and Warren Zevon on drums (I've posted Warren's opening set previously).

Goodman died from leukaemia in 1984 aged 36.

He was a lifelong fan of the Chicago Cubs baseball team

and wrote several songs about them.

In 1988 some of his ashes were scattered at Wrigley Field (home of the Cubs)

mirroring Steve's lyrics to 'A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request'.

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Titus

Disc 1

01 It's a Sin to Tell a Lie

02 I Ain't Heard You Play No Blues/Unemployed/Chicken Cordon Bleus

03 Old Fashioned

04 Banana Republics

05 Can't Go Back

06 Turnpike Tom

07 Lookin' for Trouble/This Hotel Room

08 You Never Even Call Me by My Name

Disc 2

01 band intros/Truck Drivin' Man

02 Blue Umbrella

03 Jesse's Jig (Beth's Bounce, Rob's Romp)

04 City of New Orleans

05 Mama Don't Allow It

06 Johnny B. Goode

07 Blues in C/Twist & Shout (cut)

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Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)

Tex Avery's reimagining of the Little Red Riding Hood fable

with French or English audio options.

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Titus

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Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan

Episode 38

Bob's topic today is all about luck.

As in the famous song from, the musical, Guys and Dolls:

'Luck Be a Non Binary Pronoun Tonight'

Luck is not a magical or mystical force,

but it is "real" as a combination of random chance,

probability, and human behaviour.

Science and psychology show that what we call 'luck'

is just how we notice and react to unexpected events.

Be lucky Dear Readers.

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Titus

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70 Up

The final update on this mammoth social experiment.

My apologies for the ITV trailer in part 1 and the slightly glitchy part 2.

Nothing major really.

It was shown over the last week so I wanted to get it posted for any Luxor Dreamers

who have been following the series here and may be eager for 'conclusion'.

I only cried three times :)

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Titus

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The Cars/April Wine

Best of the King Biscuit Flower Hour 

KZAM Seattle FM

Aired June 7th 1981

My remaster of this JEMS reel to reel recording.

I've posted a different version of The Cars' broadcast before.

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Titus

The Cars 

The Palladium, 

New York City, NY 

September 22nd 1978

plus unknown location (1980)

David Robinson -drums/vocals

Greg Hawkes - keyboards/saxophones/vocals

Benjamin Orr - vocals/bass guitar

Ric Ocasek - vocals/rhythm guitar

Elliot Easton - guitar/vocals

01 KZAM/KBFH intro

02 Misfit Kid

03 My Best Friend's Girl

04 Just What I Needed

05 Gimme Some Slack

06 Candy-O

07 Good Times Roll

08 You're All I've Got Tonight

April Wine

Hammersmith Odeon, 

London, England

January 27th 1981

Myles Goodwyn - vocals/guitar/keyboards

Brian Greenway - vocals/guitar

Gary Moffet - guitar/vocals

Steve Lang - bass/vocals

Jerry Mercer - drums

09 Future Tense

10 Sign of the Gypsy Queen

11 Just Between You and Me

12 Roller

13 I Like to Rock 

14 KBFH/KZAM outro

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The Village (2004)

An American period thriller written, produced, and directed by M. Night Shyamalan.

It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody,

William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, and Brendan Gleeson.

The film has plot issues and many have been quick to criticise it's failings.

I acknowledge those short=comings but I think it has merit.

The on-location cinematography and the oppressive atmosphere make it worth a watch.

This screenshot would look pretty cool framed on your wall:

Optional multi-language subtitles are included.

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Titus

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Unvaccinated individuals or those with unknown vaccination status

represent almost all reported measles cases.

These outcomes are consistent with estimates that two doses of measles vaccine

protects 97% of those vaccinated.

Spot the difference.

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Titus

The Pacific War in Color (2018)

Episode 5 - Striking Distance

The allied forces prepare to occupy the islands of Tinian and Guam,

as they signify a threat to American air operations.

At the same time, General Curtis LeMay must plan

and execute a fire bombing against Japan.

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Titus

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Steve Howe update (via UCR Classic Rock & Culture)

Yes guitarist Steve Howe (79) has given an update on his health,

revealing that it’s “gonna take some time to get me back to normal”

In April, Yes announced they were postponing their U.K. tour

so that Howe could undergo "an essential operation that needs recovery time."

While still being non-specific about the procedure,

Howe explained that it continues to keep him sidelined.

“I don’t want to dwell on it too much;

if I start talking I’ll go somewhere I don’t want to go,”

Howe admitted during a recent conversation with Guitar Player.

“I had this major thing and it was pretty difficult.”

“But I’m keeping up my playing and my momentum,” he continued.

“It’s been three months now since I had the operation, so I’m making progress, slowly.”

Despite the tour postponement, Yes have still been busy this year.

In June, the band released Aurora, the 24th studio album of the group’s prolific career.

During the Guitar Player conversation, Howe admitted

it was “immensely disappointing” having so much scheduled,

only to have to deal with health issues.

“I had ambitious goals that we just had to postpone ’til next year,” he noted.

“But we still put Aurora out; it was in the process, so we couldn’t really stop it.

Sometimes the world doesn’t wait for you and other times it does,

so you have to make judgment calls.”

Howe said Yes “put everything on hold” when his health problem arose,

but he plans to be ready to perform again next year.

“We rescheduled everything we had this year for next year

and hopefully everything will be hunky dory and we’ll be back around

and try and do all the things we were going to do this year.”

Yes is currently scheduled to return to touring in May 2027.

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Titus