Wilco - 2008-5-16 - The Pageant - St. Louis, MO

Day 2 of 3 last year. I was in for the first night (being posted tomorrow) and at Radiohead the night before. My buddy went to 2 of the 3 Wilco shows but none of us were able to see them all. As usual, Tweedy and Co. put on a great performance, these guys are top notch musicians. Album art photo by Charles Harris.

Disk 1 (part 1) (77:00)
01: Via Chicago
02: I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
03: You Are My Face
04: Muzzle Of Bees
05: Handshake Drugs
06: A Shot In The Arm
07: Kamera
08: War On War
09: Jesus, Etc.
10: Impossible Germany
11: It's Just That Simple
12: Misunderstood
13: Forget The Flowers
14: California Stars
15: Can't Stand It


Disk 2 (part 2) (62:46)

01: Theologians
02: I'm The Man Who Loves You

Encore 1:
03: Poor Places
04: Reservations
05: Spiders (Kidsmoke)

Encore 2:
06: I'm Always In Love
07: Hate It Here
08: Walken
09: Casino Queen
10: Hoodoo Voodoo

Encore 3:
11: The Late Greats

Download - Wilco - 2008-5-16 - The Pageant - St. Louis, MO

The Moody Blues - Superstar Concert Series - BBC 1987

I was lucky enough to see these guys in 2004 at the Rosemont Auditorium.

(disk1) - BBC Live 1987

01 Gemini Dream
02 The Voice
03 Tuesday Afternoon
04 Your Wildest Dreams
05 The Story In Your Eyes
06 It May Be A Fire
07 New Horizon

(disk2) - BBC Live 1987 (track 1 & 2) / Live at San Diego 1994 (track3 - track6)

01 The Othe Side Of Life
02 Nights In White Satin
03 Gypsy
04 Steppin' In A Slide Zone
05 I'm Just A Singer
06 Question

Great great band. If you have not seen this DVD and like the band, just buy it. This is NOT a recording from these concerts. From Amazon.com:

"Recorded live at La Taverne de L’Olympia, Paris in 1970, The Lost Performance captures two incredible shows featuring the legendary Moody Blues. Justin Hayward John Lodge, Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas and Graeme Edge perform some of their greatest hits at the height of their success. Includes Nights In White Satin, Ride My Seesaw, Tuesday Afternoon, Question, Lovely To See You My Friend, Never Comes the Day, Tortoise and the Hare, Are You Sitting Comfortably, Gypsy, Candle of Life, Legend of a Mind, Lazy Day, Don't You Feel Small."

Download - The Moody Blues - Superstar Concert Series - BBC 1987

The Beatles - Acoustic Masterpieces - The Esher Demos

I apologize for the lack of posts. Work, school (last semester, thank God) and my side business have been crazy crazy crazy busy. 3 Songs would not convert to MP3 but they were all "edited out". Not sure what that means...

Enjoy this, I will have some more obscurities (for this blog at least) later on today.

1. Cry Baby Cry
2. Child Of Nature
3. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
4. I'm So Tired
5. Yer Blues
6. Everybody's Got Something To Hide...
7. What's The New Mary Jane
8. Revolution
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
10. Circles
11. Sour Milk Sea
12. Not Guilty
13. Piggies "edited out"
14. Julia
15. Blackbird
16. Rocky Raccoon
17. Back In The USSR
18. Honey Pie "edited out"
19. Mother Natures Son
20. Obla-Di Obla-Da
21. Junk "edited out"
22. Dear Prudence
23. Sexy Sadie

Download - The Beatles - Acoustic Masterpieces - The Esher Demos MP3
Download - The Beatles - Acoustic Masterpieces - The Esher Demos FLAC

Off to Wisconsin

I am off to Wisconsin until Monday. When I get back I will have some Wilco and Iron and Wine to post. Enjoy your long weekends.

Carl Broemel - Lose What's Left & Live at Spin Indy

It seems like I have been getting a lot of questions/comments/praises about how good Carl Broemel's, MMJ multi-instrumentalist-all-around-bad-ass, solo album is so I figured I would post it again. The Live at Spin Indy is PART of a show I found a while back. For some reason not all the tracks would download correctly but 7 did. Lose What's Left is a hidden treasure.

Download - Carl Broemel - Lose What's Left
Download - Carl Broemel - Live at Spin Indy - 2007-02-23

MMJ - Live from Las Vegas at The Palm

Just got done with my first listen and this really is relaxing stuff. It is really great to finally have a quality live recroding of Knot Comes Loose. This Nashville To Kentucky is one of the best I have heard, this song in particular is totally relaxing and Carl's sax is beautiful. Dear Wife (anyone know anything about this track?) has a lounge music type piano solo starting around 1:01 that really does seem straight out of Vegas. This is almost like a shorter version of Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps; some hits, some rarities, some acoustic, some electric. GO BUY IT!!!

iTunes

1. Tonight I Wanna Celebrate With You
2. Dear Wife
3. Knot Comes Loose
4. Nashville To Kentucky
5. They Ran
6. Thank You Too

Jeff Luke - My Morning Jacket in Chicago Pictures

These pictures were taken by Jeff Luke the 2nd night in Chicago. They really blow me away, the guy has talent. Anyways, I thought everyone would enjoy them. Have a good weekend!

Jeff Luke Photography

MMJ - Live from Las Vegas - Exclusively at The Palms

Make sure to buy this when it comes out January 13th!

MMJ - Live from Las Vegas - Exclusively at The Palms

Band Of Horses - Orange Peel; Asheville, NC - 2007-3-16

First off I would like to mention that version 2.0 of the great music blog Mystic Chords of Memory is back and has some great stuff posted.

Next, I am uploading this file as well because I do not want the download limit to be exceeded on MCofM.

Last, BofH is great. I first got turned on to them by my buddy and initially I did not pay enough attention to them. What it was is that I was very enveloped into MMJ at the time and didn't really care about anything else. A trip to Wisconsin later with said friend my outlook changed on these guys totally. This is a great show.

**LINK UPDATED 2010-08-24**

Download - Band Of Horses - Orange Peel; Asheville, NC - 2007-3-16

MMJ - NYE 2009

Well it seems like 15,000 lucky fans had a very special night. I would be lying if I said I was not a bit jealous BUT I am more than satisfied after my 2 nights in Chicago with our boys. From what I understand there is a FM broadcast recording and I will keep my eyes peeled for that. For the time being enjoy the good audience recording. Thanks tapers for all your hard work and thanks Kyle Dean Reinford from Brooklyn Vegan for the album artwork photo.

Disc 1/Set 1:
1. intro music - What Are You Doing New Years Eve
2. Move On Up (Curtis Mayfield) *
3. Evil Urges *
4. Off The Record
5. Gideon
6. The Way That He Sings
7. Thank You Too
8. I'm Amazed
9. Golden ^
10. Librarian
11. You're All I Need (marvin gaye) * +
12. Express Yourself (charles wright) *
13. Wonderful Man
14. Lay Low
15. Phone Went West

Disc 2/Set 1(cont):
16. Look At You
17. Dondante
18. Smoking from Shootin->
19. Touch Me Part 2->
20. Run Thru
21. The Wanderer (Dion) *
22. Dancefloors *
23. Magheeta

Disc 3/Set 2:
1. new years' countdown
2. Celebration (kool & the gang) *
3. Get Down On It (kool & the gang) *
4. Wordless Chorus
5. Highly Suspicious
6. Cobra
7. Islands in the Stream (Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers) +
8. Bring It on Home to Me (Sam Cooke) *
9. Cold Sweat (James Brown)*
10. Anytime
11. One Big Holiday
12. Auld Lang Syne (sung by Jim James over a prerecorded backing track)
13. outro music - We'll Meet Again

* = w/horn section
+ = w/Nicole Atkins
^ = w/Will Johnson

Download - MMJ - NYE 2009