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Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes - Having a Party - live at the El Casino, Montreal, December 18, 1978



(Good sound quality, below average volume level. Crank it up.)

Having a Party was written by Sam Cooke, and is one of the few songs performed by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes at all of their live shows. They often change up to 60% of their live set from one show to the next.

I was at this show, the first concert I ever saw in a night club. I had completed the fall semester at college a few days earlier, and I was in Montreal on Monday, December, 18, I looked in the newspaper, to see what was going on, and saw an ad for the Jukes show that night. I was familiar with the band, but I didn't know they were in town for a show.

I went down to the box office that afternoon, and bought a ticket for $5.50. I met some friends I knew at the show; it was general admission, a club with tables and chairs, upstairs above stores, with a very low ceiling, and seating capacity of about 400. This rare recording is from a one time only radio broadcast of December 20, 1978, on CHOM-FM, Montreal.

Johnny brought a woman from the audience on stage to sing some backing vocals, and to dance with him. She was tall, had short brown hair, and had a French accent. She also danced very well. It was really hot in that club that night, but 30 below zero outside.

Thanks to 'Dan C' for the cassette tape, and to 'Deb from New Jersey', for the digital conversion to CD.

 

[bobistheowl]

A few more tracks from Southside Johnny andthe Asbury Jukes at The El Casino Montreal, December 18, 1978:

I Played The Fool:



Featuring Al "The Doctor" Berger on bass, and Eddie Manion on Baritone Sax.

Without Love:



Johnny had a cast on his arm, from a fight in a previous tour stop. The vocals drop for a moment, while introducing the horn section, because the microphone slipped out of his hand, and he had to pick it up, while talking.

Take it Inside:



Written by Steven Zan Vandt, (Silvio on The Sopranos), and played live by Steve with his band Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul on a tour in 1982-83. He had much of the same horn section as were present in this concert, including Eddie Manion, Stanley Harrison, La Bamba, and trumpet player Mark Pender.

They played a great show at Le Spectrum in Montreal on February 8, 1983. I'm one of a few people who have a copy of that show, on audio cassette. Mine is dubbed from the original recording, taped from the audience.


Talk To Me:



Written by Bruce Springsteen, for Johnny. Featuring Stanley Harrison on Tenor Saxophone.

She's Got Me Where She Wants Me:



Featuring trombonist Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg on falsetto backing vocals.


You Don't Know Like I Know:




This is a cover of a song originally recorded by Sam and Dave. Michael Jackson stole most of their dance moves.

There was approximately half an hour between this performance and the previous song, Stagger Lee. They hadn't intended to play this, but the crowd called for more long enough for the band to come back out. Johnny was in a bathrobe, having taken a shower backstage. Stagger Lee is posted in another thread.

 

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Sam Kinison Stand up Comedy

Sam Kinison was the rock star of stand up comedy from the mid 1980's, until his death in April, 1992, caused by a drunk driver. He first appeared on TV on Rodney Dangerfield's Ninth Annual Young Comedians Special, broadcast on HBO in the summer of 1984. His first live performance in Toronto was at the Yuk Yuk's club in Yorkville, and I was one of the opening acts, (See "WOW, I can't believe it actually happened" thread, from late October, 2014).

Take a journey back to a distant time in the near past, when people went out of their way to seek out humour they knew would offend them, and learn how to laugh again.

Gay Terminator:



Jesus:



Anal Sex and The Garden of Eden



Blow jobs:



Alphabet:



A variation of this routine, in video, is somewhere in the Ask bobistheowl! thread. On YouTube, the file is called Oriental Lick Master.

World Hunger 1



World Hunger 2



From an appearance of HBO in 1985, back when the only place to see HBO was in a hotel room.

Devil:



Lesbians are our Friends:



Medically Correct Jokes:



Sexual Therapy:



Gay Jokes:



Say It!



Rap sucks:



[Walt Disney:[/b]



You F~cking whore:

https://ge.tt/5juY6782/v/0[/b]

 

[bobistheowl]

Someone liked the Elvis, so here's The King's cover of the Simon and Garfunkel standard Bridge Over Troubled Water. He plays this in the Jumpsuit Elvis Documentary film Elvis On Tour, release by MGM in 1972. It was the 33rd, and final, feature film of Presley's celluloid career.

He put it out on a Gospel album, which is why your radio station didn't play
it.

 

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Prelude - After The Goldrush (1974)



Prelude were an obsure English vocal harmony group, from the mid 70's that still play gigs for old hippies. These true one hit wonders spent five weeks on the Billboard chart in Feb/Mar, 1974 with their a capella version this Neil Young composition. I actually have this on 45 rpm vinyl, but I'm not the original owner.

 

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Vince Guaraldi Trio - Linus and Lucy



This is the song that Schroeder played in the cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas, and all the other kids acted like they were in the cafeteria scene from the 1980 Alan Parker film, Fame.

 

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Jonathan Richman - That Summer Feeling, (live)



I think this is a song he plays live sometimes, but did not record for studio release. It appears in the 1998 film Some Girl.

Jonathan was the guy playing guitar in trees in the film There's Something About Mary. He describes his muic style as Campfire Soul.

I'll have more from Jonathan in this thread, but not necessarily today, but I do have Vincent Van Gogh for now.

 

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Gladys Knight and The Pips - The Way We Were/ Try to Remember (1975)



Gladys Knight and The Pips first performed professionally in 1953, when Gladys was nine years old. The original The Pips were her brother and their cousins.

Listening to the introduction, I truly hope that, in the future, no one looks back on 2015 and thinks of now as 'The Good Old Days'.

 

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Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles (live at The House of Blues, West Hollywood, CA 11 Nov, 2002



The sound quality isn't up to commercial standards, having been taped from the audience, but this would otherwise be lost, if someone hadn't taped this from the audience. I'll have lots to say about Vanessa in a future post.

 

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Thanks, bolt.upright. 8:30 this morning was past my bedtime, last night, and I had a moment of carelessness. I fixed post #474.

Note that the text in the quote in your post did not change when I corrected the text, but a formatting change would have altered your quoted portion.

We don't need to discuss this further in this thread. Here's a tune, to get this thread back on track:

Jimi Hendrix - Jam at Jimi's apartment, with Mitch Mitchell 02-01-1970



I got this from a guy on WinMX in 2003, in a file trade. I don't know if it's on one of the 8,367 Jimi Hendrix albums released posthumously.

Tupac has only half that many, but he hasn't been dead as long. I hear they're mixing his answering machine messages with a music track, but that's not out yet.

This is a rare opportunity to hear Jimi play acoustic guitar.

I can't be sure if the date of the recording is January 2 or February 1, 1970. People in different countries use different formats sometimes.

 

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Billy Bragg - The Busy Girl Buys Beauty - Club Ilokivi, Jayvaskyala, Finland 11-12-'84




I first heard this song in early 1983, on a mixed cassette tape made for me by a guy in Montreal. I knew him through a social circle, and just by coincidence, I also worked for the same company as his father. He had excellent taste in music. I'm still trying to locate some of the songs he put on that tape. Maybe no one else remembers them anymore.

I saw Billy Bragg about a month after this recording was made at a nightclub in Finland. Billy was a solo act then, he just played electric guitar and sang in his cockney accent. Between songs, he told funny stories, and dispersed his left wing political views. He played at Larry's Hideaway, that used to be on Carleton Street, near Allen Gardens. It was a great show, in the worst bar in town. He probably chose to play there, for that reason. Maybe 150 people were there, but he'd only have needed to sell about five tickets to rent a room upstairs, if he didn't mind mattress stains.

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[bobistheowl]

Marsha Hunt - Keep the Customer Satisfied (1970)



There's a video of this on one of the back pages, with information about Marsha. This is for people who want to listen to the music, while reading or writing a different tread or post,

For the person,(s?), who clicked the Likes for the video post.

 

[bobistheowl]

Amy Winehouse - Monkey Man (Live on Later... With Jools Holland)



This is the slower version, with Jools introducing, and sitting in on piano. It's probably from the 2006 New Years Eve Hootenaney show.

Jools Holland was the original keyboard player for Squeeze. He hosts a popular weekly music live show on the BBC in the UK. Reruns of Later... With Jools Holland air on AUX, (Rogers channel 107), at various times

This looks like it's sourced from the hannibal cap, but someone screwed up the encoding a bit, to make the clip for YouTube, which accounts for the minor pixellation in a few spots. If hannibal had made an error like that, he'd have corrected in within a couple of hours. He takes great pride in his capping work, I just don't know where he's doing it now.

This is a cover of a song originally written and performed by The Maytals, and later covered by The Specials. We'll have a Maytals song up next.

I prefer the performance from the full length concert video I Told You I Was Trouble, but YouTube took down the clip I uploaded there, and I don't think that one is still in my channel. I could give it a shot again, and maybe post that one two, some time.

 

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Toots and the Maytals - Sweet and Dandy (1972?)



The Maytals were Jamaica's premiere Ska band, and greatly influence the late 70's/ early 80's Two Tone, Blue Beat and Rocksteady scene in England.

The style sort of died out, because there was too much violence at the live shows. The music appealed to young audiences, black and white, and the clubs were maybe filled beyond a reasonable limit. People didn't have enough personal space, and tensions escalated. That's described in the song Ghost Town, by The Specials.

Ska music is great to dance to. Most people today probably think the style was invented by No Doubt, but they were ska poseurs, sort of like Paramour and Punk. Rancid plays some genuine ska.

The Maytals, led by Toots Hibbert, attempted to set a Guinness record once, by recording and releasing an album, all in the same calendar day. They did it, but were denied the recoird, because no observer from Guinness was present, to verify the achievement. This song is included on the soundtrack for the film, The Harder They Come, with dialogue in Jamaican Patois English, and English subtitles for American audiences.

 

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The Boyzz - Too Wild to Tame



They were trying to sound like early KISS.

 

[bobistheowl]

David Bowie - Station to Station (live at Nassau Coliseum, Long Island New York February, 1976)



This was the first song I ever heard at a concert, other than bands that played at high school dances.

I saw the tour at The Montreal Forum about four days before this show. There was no support band; the concert opened with Luis Buñuel's 1929 surrealist short film, Un Chien Andalou, ("An Andalusian Dog"). Buñuel was from the region of Spain called Andalusia, and he was referring to himself in the film title. It was his first film as a director, in a career that lasted almost 50 years. He made a lot of movies with Catherine Deneuve as the lead actress. Buñuel was a close friend of Salvador Dali.

Buñuel's other well known films include Belle de Jour, ("Lady of the Afternoon"), (1967), in which Deneuve played Séverine Serizy, "...a young woman who is compelled to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute while her husband is at work.". I have that one; it's pretty good. I downloaded a torrent on Demonoid that contained most of Bunuel's films, but I didn't download all of the ones in the torrent, only the ones I wanted to see. It's probably not on "the new Demonoid", that resurfaced after the original went tits up.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_Jour_(film)

And The Discrete Charm of the Bourgoisie, which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film in 1972.

The guitar in Station to Station was played by Stacey Hayden, from Canada. There's nothing on him on Wikipedia, so he may not have had a long music career.

The stage lighting was entirely white and very bright, and all the band members were dressed in black and white clothing. Bowie came out on stage about four minutes into the song; he was probably having a cigarette off stage. His flaming orange hair was the only thing on stage that wasn't black or white.

This recording is from a bootlegged vinyl album named The Thin White Duke. I used to listen to this a lot in high school, when everyone else was listening to Frampton Comes Alive.

I used to get my bootlegged vinyl records at Dutchy's Record Cave, on Crescent Street in Montreal. Dutchy had season's tickets in standing room, for hockey games at The Montreal Forum. No one stood in Dutchy's spot, except Dutchy, ever. There was a small plaque, telling people that. He could have afforded season ticket seats, but he liked the crowd in the standing room area.

Dutchy was the guy that used to play the trumpet at Habs' home games, back in the day.

For those of you who don't know, all of the ge.tt links I post can be listened to online, or downloaded, as .mp3 files. On the ge.tt file hosting site, I post for you exclusively live recordings, or songs from defunct record labels, so there won't be any copyright claim notices, that would give the mods here reasons to delete them. I toss in the odd 40 year old song, as well. Those guys don't usually mind if you do that, except for Gene Simmons, of course.

 

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Country Dick Montana, Dave Alvin, Mojo Nixon and The Beat Farmers - Tom Jones Medley



This is from the late 1980's. Country Dick Montana, the singer, died onstage during a concert in 1995, at age 40. I posted a video from YouTube of a different performance of this song, on Festivus. This is a better performance, but there's no picture.

I love this performance, and I hope you will, too.

 

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Iggy Pop and James Williamson - I Got a Right (c. 1971)



This is, arguably, the first Punk Rock song, and greatly influenced many future music styles. I had this on a vinyl 45 RPM record, on the Siamese Records label, when I was a teenager. I used to play it at REALLY loud volume, with the headphones on, downstairs, when my parents were asleep. A couple of times, I woke them up.

There was a CD released that's entirely composed of different 'takes', in the studio, of this one song. The 45 RPM version was "Take 5". The only other one I ever found was Take 2:



I Got a Right is sometimes attributed to Iggy and the Stooges, but only Iggy and James Williamson from The Stooges played on the session. Williamson was the only member of the band who wasn't a heroin addict.

This song kicks more ass than I do. Crank up this low-fi masterpiece, (re: Take #5; Take 2 is more of a demo)

 

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Television - Marquee Moon (July, 1978, from "The Blowup")



Television were an 'art punk' band, formed in 1973, who played their first live show on March 2, 1974, twelve years to the day after Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in an NBA basketball game. They broke up in July, 1978, after releasing two albums. They had a reunion album and tour in 1992, and I saw their show in Toronto at The Danforth Music Hall.

Television was the first punk band to play shows at the CBGB's club in The Bowery, New York City. CBGB stands for Country, Bluegrass and Blues, the style of music formerly played there. Television originally played at CBGB's on Sunday or Tuesday nights, and were soon joined by joined by other nascent Punk and New Wave bands playing that club like The Patti Smith Group, Blondie, The Ramones, and Talking Heads, all unsigned to recording contracts at the time.

I was standing outside of the Danforth Music Hall in November, 1992, the night of the show, on the sidewalk, and I turned around, and saw my best bud from College standing there. I thought I was hallucinating. He lived out of town, and I didn't expect him to be there, but he knew I really liked this band, even though he was not familiar with them, like I was. He just wanted to surprise me by showing up. The seating was general admission, but with seats. I met his new girlfriend, at the time. They were married in 1998.

She's a 'true BBW', or was. She has a very pretty face, and apparently had a hot bod in high school. She studied Women's Studies at Brock University, and we always had friendly disagreements about gender politics.

She had some flowers growing in her apartment, (violets), and moved them closer to the window in the winter, so they'd get more sunlight. When I saw that, I said "Well, that's just another example of violets against windows.", and she was offended, but he laughed.

During the show, we smoked a spliff of hashish that lasted the full length of this song; it wasn't the 15 minute version you guys can hear, but it was at least 12. I've only ever met a couple of guys who roll joints better than I do. No body else was smoking dope during the show. We got some funny looks of disapproval, but no one said anything.

I first heard about Television long before I heard them, from the 'Underground' page in Creem Magazine. In early gigs, the first lead guitarist, Tom Verlaine, ("T.V", hence the band's name), used to play guitar on stage in a wheel chair, spinning it while he played. It's been said that Verlaine never played the same guitar solo twice, and I believe that. He was all about improvisation. The band had two lead guitarists, the other was Richard Lloyd.

This song has an unusual time signature. The two guitars are playing different riffs, of different lengths, that are occasionally in synch with each other. It shouldn't work, but it does. Marquee Moon is also the title of their classic first studio album, (Elektra label, 1977), on almost every critic's list of the greatest albums of all time, (it's usually in the high twenties, on those lists).

The Blow Up was a 'semi-official' release. Basically, it was an audience recording that the band didn't mind being released commercially, and they got a cut of the sales. It was originally released on audio cassette only, by ROIR, (Reach Out International Records), in 1982. I found a copy of the cassette at a record store, long gone, that used to be across the street from Maple Leaf Gardens.

Verlaine did the long guitar solo that forms most of the song. If you can stomach his singing voice, this is one of the great rock performances of all time; the sound quality is average, but authentic. Someone in the audience recorded it with a portable tape recorder, and preserved it for future generations, like you.

Verlaine just improvised the solo as he went, using a Fender Telecaster. You'll hear some echoes of The End, by The Doors, near the end of the song.

You don't find many 34 MB .mp3s, of one song. This one is 320 kbs, and over 15 minutes long.

Some people are going to love this performance, besides me.

 

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Harlan Lattimore and his Orchestra - Reefer Man (c. 1930)



Harlan Lattimore lead an all-Black orchestra that played venues like The Cotton Club and The Apollo Theater in New York city, and in segregated night clubs in other cities.

This is a song about marijuana, from when it was still legal to consume. It was probably released on a 78 RPM record, 'LP size'. Those old '78's' were so thick and hard, you could hammer a nail with them. They were phased out in the early 1950's.