The Smiths: Do You Mind? (Live At El Dorado Theatre '84)

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The Smiths perform live at the El Dorado Theatre in Paris, May 9th 1984.

Notes:
Sourced from the bootleg "El Dorado". The original audio sounded a little tinny and had quite a bit of hiss during the quieter moments, so I've adjusted some levels to improve the sound and and removed any unwanted hiss to make it more pleasant on the ears. Although the sound quality here isn't as good as some other Smiths bootlegs (Thank Your Lucky Stars, Same Day Again) I thought it was well worth a clean-up.

Sadly this isn't the complete performance as the last track (an encore of Hand In Glove) is missing.

Tracklist:
01. Hand In Glove
02. Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now
03. Girl Afraid
04. This Charming Man
05. Barbarism Begins At Home - Preview Below
06. Pretty Girls Make Graves
07. This Night Has Opened My Eyes
08. Still Ill
09. You've Got Everything Now
10. Handsome Devil
11. Miserable Lie
Encore #1
12. These Things Take Time
13. What Difference Does It Make?
Encore #2
14. Barbarism Begins At Home

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Jeff Buckley: Live at The Knitting Factory '91

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 Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas live at The Knitting Factory on the 1st November 1991, plus demo tracks from the Krypton Studio demo session (also known as the Gods & Monster Demos) recorded on 17th August 1991.

Notes:
Great sound quality here, as you can hear in the video below. I remixed the demo of Bluebird Blues but I've included the original mix. The version of Grace that was recorded at the Krypton Studio session is available on "Songs To No One 1991 - 1992" early recordings compliation released in 2002.

Tracklist:
01 - Instrumental
02 - Bluebird Blues
03 - Mojo Pin - Preview Below
04 - Grace
05 - Instrumental
06 - Mojo Pin (Demo)
07 - Bluebird Blues (Demo)
08 - Bluebird Blues (Demo, Original Mix)

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Oasis: Live At Knebworth Park 1996

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 Oasis perform live at Knebworth Park 10th/11th August 1996.

 

  "The gigs which defined Britpop, and crowned Oasis as kings of the movement, this was the moment Liam, Noel, Bonehead, Guigsy and Whitey confirmed their all-too-fleeting status as the most popular British band since The Beatles. Over two nights in August 1996, the 250,000-plus people who were the lucky two million or so to get tickets payed homage to a band which was at its zenith. Knebworth was a culmination of the phenomenal world-wide rise Oasis had enjoyed following the release of their second album ‘(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?‘ and the huge global hit ‘Wonderwall’. For a short time, they were the biggest band in the world, and these two nights captured just what that meant to both the bandmates and their army of fans, still in touch with their adidas-clad heroes and still truly representing all that is great about rock and roll. The significance of the gig was lost on no-one, and was summed up perfectly by Noel Gallagher as he strode on to the stage on the second night and declared: ‘This is history!’."

Notes:
There are rumours that this will be officially released next year, just in time for the 20th anniversary of the performance but until then we have this: Sourced from the bootleg "Welcome To Planet Earth", an excellent soundboard recording (which hasn't gone through the brickwalling that mars modern mastering), I've edited out all the imperfections and gaps to recreate the whole performance. The download also contains audience recordings of the missing tracks "My Big Mouth" and "It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)", which I have also cleaned up for better sound.

Tracklist:

01 - The Swamp Song
02 - Columbia 
03 - Acquiesce
04 - Supersonic
05 - Hello
06 - Some Might Say
07 - Roll With It
08 - Slide Away
09 - Morning Glory 
10 - Round Are Way
11 - Cigarettes And Alcohol
12 - Whatever / Octopus' Garden
13 - Cast No Shadow
14 - Wonderwall
15 - The Masterplan
16 - Don't Look Back In Anger
17 - Live Forever
18 - Champagne Supernova
19 - I Am The Walrus

Bonus Tracks:
20 - My Big Mouth
21 - It's Gettin' Better (Man!!)


Tracks 1 - 16 - Live At Knebworth Park, Stevenage, England, UK 11.08.1996 .
Tracks 17 - 21 - Live At Knebworth Park, Stevenage, England, UK 10.08.1996 .

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Jeff Buckley: WBCN Sessions 94/95

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Two WBCN broardcasts of Jeff Buckley performances taken from the June 1997 memorial rebroadcast.

Notes:
Sourced from the FM broadcast but the sound is pretty clean. I've declipped the audio so the interview parts sound better and the songs have a little bit more depth.

Tracklist:
 'Nocturnal Emissions', 104.1 WBCN Live (23.10.94)
01 - Intro
02 - Grace
03 - Interview
04 - So Real
05 - Interview
06 - Lover, You Should've Come Over
07 - Outro

Mama Kin Record Store, WBCN Radio (30.05.95)
08 - Lover, You Should've Come Over
09 - So Real
10 - What Will You Say
11 - Last Goodbye

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Noel Gallagher: Sitting Here In Silence

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A one-off semi-acoustic performance by Noel Gallagher and Gem of Oasis as part of a special season of gigs from London's Union Chapel, recorded on November 26th 2006. Also included is five tracks recorded at The Chapel Melbourne, Australia on December 11th 2006 and four acoustic session tracks from around the same time.

Tracklist:
01 - It's Good To Be Free
02 - Talk Tonight
03 - Fade Away
04 - Cast No Shadow
05 - The Importance Of Being Idle
06 - Half The World Away
07 - Wonderwall
08 - Slide Away
09 - Don't Look Back In Anger
10 - Married With Children
11 - Slide Away
12 - Don't Look Back In Anger
13 - The Importance Of Being Idle
14 - Wonderwall
15 - Married With Children
16 - Talk Tonight (Acoustic)
17 - The Importance Of Being Idle (Acoustic)
18 - Wonderwall (Acoustic)
19 - Married With Children (Acoustic)

Password: NoelSilence

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Jeff Buckley: Live At Arlene's Grocery '97

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Jeff Buckley performs live at Arlene's Grocery, NYC 9th Febuary 1997.

Notes:
"Arlene's Grocery is a club on the Lower East Side of New York City, owned by former Sin-é owner, Shane Doyle. Parker Kindred debuted as Jeff's new drummer and made his only public performance with the band there on February 9th, 1997. This show is also significant because a bootlegged recording exists of this show. Some of the songs that are featured on Sketches, such as "Witches' Rave" and "The Sky is a Landfill," were performed at this show."

This is one of Jeff's final performances and includes some songs which may have appeared on his second album but never had the chance to develope them further. This is sourced from an excellent audience recording and not the brickwalled bootleg "The Grace Of J". The upside of that is although this version is quieter the sound quality is much better.

Tracklist:
01 - Intro/Go Ahead, Tape Man
02 - Nightmares By The Sea
03 - Talking
04 - Witches Rave
05 - Tuning
06 - So Real
07 - Talking
08 - Paranoia In The City (Haven't You Heard)
09 - Surf Guitar Noodling (Instrumental)
10 - Talking
11 - Lover, You Should Have Come Over
12 - Morning Theft
13 - Vancouver
14 - Talking
15 - Moisture
16 - Talking
17 - Sky Is A Landfill
18 - Chocolate
19 - Mojo Pin
20 - Grace
21 - Talking
22 - Last Goodbye

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Jeff Buckley: Just Passin' Thru Session (Revisited)

 

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I've noticed a worring trend recently with a few Jeff Buckley releases. I think I'm right in thinking that the last official release we got is the boxset "Grace Around The World" in 2009 but since then we have gotten a small influx of Unofficial releases. Last year we got "Dreams Of The Way We Were" which was taken from Jeff's wonderful solo performance on WFMU's weekly music programme, 'The Music Faucet' on October 11th 1992. That performance deserves a crystal clear official release but what we got was a taped FM boardcast complete with hiss and sound distortion.

Yesterday I discovered another radio broadcast release. This time a two CD set entitled "It's Not Too Late", openly admited that the tracks were an FM "remaster". I gave serious consideration to buy it but I thought I'd better checkout the sound quality before I part with my hard earned cash. I found plenty of album previews online and I can honestly say it was pretty poor listening to say the least. Some of the tracks were playing at the wrong speed and sound way too slow as well as a good amount of tape wobble in places.
I'm not sure who did the "remastering" here but it doesn't sound as if they have made any attempt to improve the sound other than some pretty heavy handed noise reduction which as left the whole thing sounding muddy and flat.

Now, I'm no expert in this. I'm not as sound engineer or a producer, I am an enthusiastic amateur with a home computer and a few free audio editing softwares to play with but even with the little skill and technology I have, what I have made available here (for free!) has a lot better quality to what is being made available in the shops. That simply isn't right.

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Track 01 is taken from my clean-up effort, found here: Jeff Buckley: The Music Faucet '92
Track 02 is taken from "It's Not Too Late".

Last week I was made aware of another unofficial release due out in May. "So Real: Live At East Orange 1992 / Studio Cleveland 1995" contains two performaces that are already available HERE and if this release gives us those sessions at a much higher audio quality then that is excellect and I welcome it with open arms (but I don't hold up much hope of that given the releases we've had so far) but what really makes me mad with this release is that on the back cover it has a photo of actor and musician Reeve Carney.
Don't believe me? Here is the back cover:

Source: Amazon.co.uk

And here is a link to the intervew with Reeve and the photoshoot accompanying it: 

http://patriksandberg.com/2012/03/22/hiding-out-with-reeve-carney/

It's just sloppy. As if they just used the first picture that google threw at them without even checking who was even in it.

How Jeff's legacy is being allowed to be treated at the moment is a little worrying but as long as this blog is still going I will do my best to treat Jeff's music and memory with the love and respect it deserves.

On that note, here is my final remaster of one of my favourite radio sessions from Jeff and his band: Live on WHFS-FM ''Just Passin Thru'' (Omega Studios, Rockville MD, 16th April 1995). I felt I over-cooked my remaster effort in the Asking To Stay... mix tape so I thought I'd go back one last time and do a final version.

Tracklist:
01 - Last Goodbye
02 - Lover, You Should've Come Over  
03 - So Real  
04 - Grace

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