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Iggy Pop And The Trolls - Huxley's Neue Welt, Berlin 1991

*THANKS TO THE ORIGINAL POSTER...

 

                                                         

   YOU'D BETTER LOVE IT DON'T SHOVE IT EVERY MOTHERFUCKER NEEDS A HOME

TRIUMPH - "Chicago '79"

 

Studio Jam Radio, Aragon Ballroon, Chicago, Illinois

August 19th, 1979

Excellent PRE-FM Recording

"Just A Game" tour

                                               https://workupload.com/file/Zs8xabgCaU6

Ted Nugent - NBC The Source 82-37, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI Sept. 3, 1982

Print ad. Hey! Carmine Appice!

Ted Nugent
NBC The Source NBC 82-37
Broadcast date: October 15, 16, 17, 1982

recorded at:
Cobo Hall
Detroit, MI
September 3, 1982

01 George Taylor Morris - NBC The Source NBC 82-37 Intro
02 Ted Nugent - Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
03 Ted Nugent - Dog Eat Dog
04 Ted Nugent - We're Gonna Rock Tonight
05 George Taylor Morris - NBC The Source NBC 82-37 Break
06 Commercial - Budweiser (George Thorogood)
07 Commercial - Levi's
08 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever
09 Ted Nugent - No, No, No
10 Ted Nugent - Fightin' Words
11 Commercial - Levi's
12 Commercial - Atari
13 Ted Nugent - Bound And Gagged
14 Ted Nugent - Good and Ready
15 Ted Nugent - Free-for-All
16 Ted Nugent - Hey Baby
17 Commercial - Budweiser (Leon Redbone)
18 Commercial - Atari
19 Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
20 George Taylor Morris - NBC The Source NBC 82-37 Break
21 Commercial - Levi's
22 Commercial - Budweiser (blues)
23 Ted Nugent - Wango Tango
24 George Taylor Morris - NBC The Source NBC 82-37 Outro

Flac files of wavs.  Includes a print ad and newspaper coverage of Nugent's car crash and a concert review. No cue sheet or disc scans.  Thanks once again to Sam Eliot's Mustache for providing a rip of the original vinyl for me to clean up.

https://mega.nz/file/zMgURBiT#hvE1_N13RMYNoIWWHyJ1qeSbB66duRdAutfSMo1M13Y


Okay, Gang! Let's talk radio censorship on the American airwaves. I'm hoping our U.K. contingent will join in and give us their perspective, too, as the BBC did something similar.

Here in the U.S. of A., we've had the Seven Dirty Words.  I shall shade them slightly: sh*t, f*ck, c*nt, a**hole, p*ss, c*cksucker, and m*therfucker.  Sorry, that last one is "motherf*cker." Or at least those were the words that comedian George Carlin put in his famous 1972 comedy routine about censorship. There are plenty of other words that are avoided.  What's avoided isn't always clear, and geography matters.  If you say t*ts on the air in Manhattan it's not the same thing as broadcasting it in Muleshoe, Texas. Syndication took the words everywhere.

What IS clear is syndicated rock radio show producers didn't want controversy.  They didn't want program directors skipping shows, they hated offending advertisers with products next to aural filth, and they didn't want angry parents calling the station.  The fear of filth ran all the way up to powerful parents in Washington: Tipper Gore helped form the PRMC just a few years after this concert.

But what do you do when rock stars misbehave?  Do you drop offending songs from the broadcast because of one word?  

There are several remedies.  There's the ham-fisted hard edit: cut the word out.  That's obvious.  Music has rhythm, and you drop a beat or three and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

You can BEEP.  You put an electronic blip over the word. That's a standard solution, and often used on live broadcasts, where the "seven second delay" keeps offending words from slipping out.  (Editor’s Note: Jeez, what a job...you have to listen with your finger poised on the beep button and you better not miss your chance to keep the kids from hearing ****.)

But there's another trick, and it's a bit of a weird choice.  Back-masking.  You reverse the word or phrase. It keeps the timing right, but boy, does it stick out.

Which leads us to the Nuge and this show.  Ted lets the profanity rip five times in "Bound and Gagged" and once in "Free-for-All" with words you can't say on the radio.  The Source fixed them. They're backmasked.

How they did this in 1982 is lost on me.  They're dealing with very small snippets of sound... less than half of a second.  Did they cut the tape and splice it? These days it's easy to do in Audacity: you mark the start and end of the word, highlight it with your mouse, click the Effects drop-down menu, hit "Special" and click "Reverse." 

Easy, huh?  So, that led to a small internal conversation.   My goal has been to give you guys an exact duplicate of the show as a starting point.  You can drop commercials, delete announcers, throw away promo spots...it's your choice.  What I've prepared is exactly what's on the discs.  This archival approach leads me to think I shouldn't engage in any changes to the broadcast.  I don't try to "remaster" it.

But I also am a curious monkey: what is Ted saying?  I want to know; I can't help myself. When they reverse one word in a song, it's half a second of "what was that?" and back to the music.  With Ted cursing five times in one song, it keeps poking at you.  What?  What just happened? I want to reverse the reversed word and reveal the hidden word.

Plus, it's not just a record of what was broadcast, there's the issue of preserving the actual performance. I'm undoing an edit that was placed on top of the stage performance. So... what to do?

Solution: you can have both versions.  I've prepared the broadcast "as is" in a "Censored" version, and then an "Uncensored" version with the words restored (to the best of my ability). 

Performance: Ted does his usual Motor City Motormouth Rock Glossolalia: "AWWL right, how ya doin' my friends,  I said I know what I gotta do now baby, I know what y'all gotta do, I know what I gotta do, I know what we all gotta do, I like it, I like it, I like it, I like it, I said I gotta rock, you gotta rock, we all gotta rock, Deeetroyeet!"

If you consult your English-Gibberish dictionary, you'll find this translates as "we're going to play rock music." And Ted does just that, to his credit.

Ted crashed his 1972 Ford Bronco after the front axle broke and he hit a tree the night before (Thursday Sept. 2, 1982).  He missed that night's show in Lansing due to head and facial injuries. But Ted's a trooper, and I don't hear any signs of brain damage in his guitar playing, and his stage patter sounds like that even when he hasn't hit his head. 

Commercials: the Leon Redbone "Budweiser" interests me in that it's a sixty second spot, and he lets the old-timey music run for forty-five seconds without a word about the beer.  The clarinet solo is longer than the product pitch.  Come to think of it, there's a clarinet solo on an ad in a Ted Nugent show...wouldn't it make more sense to have a hard rock band doing the jingle?

One of the Levi's commercials is a bit odd. It starts out "in the last known photo of the Dalton gang, Bob and Grat Dalton are both wearing Levi's original blue jeans." They claim this is because the pants are "honest and long-lasting."  What's odd is "we'd like to think the Daltons gave their choice a lot of thought, but they probably had other things on their minds."

The last known picture of the Dalton Gang has them stacked dead in a row in Coffeyville, Kansas, shot after a botched bank robbery.  I don't know if Levi's knew this, but there's a sly tone in the announcer's voice that makes me think they knew exactly what was on the Dalton’s minds in their last known photo:  nothing, they were dead.

What was on their minds?

The Dalton knuckleheads weren't known for giving anything a lot of thought. They ended up on display because they tried to rob two banks at the same time, splitting the gang of five into groups of two and three, and picked a town where they were known. It didn't end well.  Back then the local hardware store was like an armory and within minutes each small group faced a dozen men armed with Winchester rifles, shotguns, and pistols.  

You can read about it here: http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/daltons.htm

I hope one of Our Beloved Audience can help me here...who is it singing that "Blues" version of the Budweiser jingle?  

UPDATE:  Due to the large file size on the above download link, I'm making this available as two separate downloads.  The artwork and text files are duplicate in each download.

Censored:https://mega.nz/file/PUQU3RpK#8ue4CO8kdnOjcn7BobgtYyXTf7gq_mlyZOTfrc4JKUc

Uncensored:https://mega.nz/file/6ERD2boa#8tJ10vpBfINRSu3sZ1mDwiXPY0SuZQqRtYrKFAaHgvk

John Lennon At Home Guitar And Piano Demos

 *THANKS TO THE GREAT OLD BLOG STONED FOR THIS

Back From The Dead....by request

Originally posted December 8, 2020

                  If nothing else you need this for the hilarious parodies of Dylan on Disc1 see scans

*OF NOTE THREE SONGS FROM DISC 2 ARE APPENED AND ADDED TO A DISC 3 TO GIVE   YOU MAXIUM LISTINIG PLEASURE

                                                    New Dylan song lyrics 

                           "Well Frankie's phone is ringing so he pulls his cell out"

                                            "He's eaten his apple to the core"  

                       "And says to feed everyone you have to give this to the poor" 

                                                      "But you must ration"

                            "He's singing songs, there one's he knows of twenty million"

                           "He memorized the tune from watching a T.V. commercial"        

        IT'S BAD ENOUGH ON THE BEACH BUT IT'S WORSE ON THE BEACH

         I GOT SO THIN NOW THEIR DRAGGING ME DOWN TO MY KNEES

         BUT AS LONG AS I KEEP TOURING I'LL ALWAYS BE IN THE GAME

Fleshtones, London Victory Club, Philadelphia, PA September 28, 1982 WMMR-FM

Fleshtones

London Victory Club, 

Philadelphia, PA

WMMR-FM

September 28, 1982

01 Michael Tearson - Stage Intro

02 Fleshtones - Captivate Me

03 Fleshtones - (Legend of a) Wheelman

04 Fleshtones - Screaming Skull

05 Fleshtones - Ride Your Pony

06 Fleshtones - Shadow Line

07 Fleshtones - Sting Ray Dancers

08 Fleshtones - The Drag

09 Fleshtones - What's So New (About You)

10 Fleshtones - I've Gotta Change My Life

11 Fleshtones - Boss Hoss

12 Fleshtones - All Around The World

13 Fleshtones - Burnin' Hell

14 Fleshtones - Roman Gods

15 Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Break

16 Fleshtones - Nobody But You

17 Fleshtones - Theme From The Vindicators

18 Fleshtones - Time Has Come Today

19 Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Break

20 Fleshtones - Luigi's Pizza

21 Fleshtones - Plastic Fantastic Records

22 Fleshtones - unknown

23 Fleshtones - Stop Foolin' Around

24 Michael Tearson - WMMR-FM Outro

25 Fleshtones - Family Billiards

26 Michael Tearson - End of show

27 Captain Beefheart - Ice Cream For Crow (faded out)

There's an mp3 version of this out on the Internet, but it is ever so slightly edited.  The commercials are cut out, and the little, short song (track 22) was left out.  I was also impressed that WMMR actually played Captain Beefheart after the concert ended, so I left a tiny trace of that at the end, just to document that he actually got the airplay.  

So... this one is the broadcast, as it happened. I've left in the vintage commercials.  

In my research, I found an entertainment listing from the Daily News that confirms that the date and venue of this concert. I was unable to find an ad for Luigi's Pizza that had the same address as the one in the radio ad.  I did find an article from the Philadelphia Inquirer about all the great record stores there (in 1982), and it included a paragraph about Plastic Fantastic Records.  I found a news story that said they changed the name to Gold Million Records, which finally closed down in 2018.  

Once again, all thanks are due to our pal Sam Eliot's Mustache, who paid to ship these vintage cassettes across the country so I could digitize them for your listening pleasure.  

Also...if any of Our Beloved Audience can identify for certain the name of the announcer, I'll update the file tagging and repost it.  

UPDATED THE DOWNLOAD with the correct announcer's name.

https://mega.nz/file/KMxwRZpR#EgWSPBo9GLnfSiMHTeI0jMraBijAMyQS8GYzb8-wbhs

The Temptations Reunion Tour Painters Mill Music Fair Owings Mills, MD July 10, 1982

 

The Temptations

Owings Mills, MD 1982 - (A Mexminute/TheCommish Production)

Painters Mill Music Fair

Owings Mills, MD

July 10, 1982

Soundboard Recording (from cassette master)

MP3 224kbps

Cover Art Included

Lineage: Cassette master > Nakamichi CR-7A (playback) > HHB CDR-850 (burning) > CDR, then

CDR > EAC > WAV > Editing > FLAC Frontend > FLAC

01 I Wish It Would Rain (fades in)

02 You’re My Everything

03 Psychedelic Shack

04 Runaway Child, Running Wild

05 Ol’ Man River

06 (I Know) I’m Losing You

07 Try To Remember

08 For Once In My Life

09 The Impossible Dream

10 My Whole World Ended

11 Walk Away From Love

12 Ball Of Confusion

13 Cloud Nine

14 A Song For You

15 Power

16 Band intro (Super Freak plays in background)

17 Don’t Look Back

18 My Girl

19 I Can’t Get Next To You

20 Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (incomplete - fades out)

total time: 1hr 17mn 24sc

                                           https://workupload.com/file/gqCUpJEQsMk

Elvis Costello with Nick Lowe - Tokyo, Japan 1987

 

Elvis Costello And The Confederates
with Nick Lowe
Kosei Nenkin Hall
Tokyo, Japan
November 21, 1987
TV Broadcast @flac
aka-Do The Rumba

Setlist:
01. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes (3:02) - acoustic
02. That's How You Got Killed Before (3:34)
03. Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind? (2:59)
04. Tangled Up In Blue (0:20) - intro
05. Brilliant Mistake (4:26)
06. Last Boat Leaving (3:54) - 1st live performance
07. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love And Understanding? (4:22) - duet with Nick Lowe
08. I'll Wear It Proudly (6:12)
09. Your Mind Is On Vacation / Your Funeral My Trial (8:03)
10. Lovable (3:18)

[40:10]

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Kool And The Gang LIVE in Boston MA 1975

Kool & The Gang

Paul's Mall

Boston MA

1975-09-09

Soundboard @320

01. Stage Intro---Hollywood Swinging

02. Mother Earth

03. Wild and Peaceful

04. Spirit of the Boogie

05. Summer Madness

06. Band Intro (Fades Out)

Claydes Charles Smith - Guitar

Caldwell MacMillan - Keyboards

Robert "Kool" Bell - Bass

George Brown - Drums, Percussion

Ronald Bell - Tenor Saxophone, Keyboards

Dennis Thomas - Alto Saxophone, Flute

Larry Gittens - Trumpet

Otha Nash - Trombone, Vocals

Straight From The Fridge, Dad

 

Eric Clapton & Friends In Concert

 

  Eric Clapton

  Joe Cocker

  Jeff Beck

  Jimmy Page

                                                https://workupload.com/file/RQSpLqJWjM5          

Alex Chilton / Mountain Stage, Charleston, WV Feb. 9, 1992

Alex Chilton
Mountain Stage
Charleston, WV
February 9, 1992

01 Larry Groce - Intro
02 Alex Chilton - Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
03 Alex Chilton - Guantanamerica
04 Alex Chilton - Single Again
05 Alex Chilton - I'll Turn Your Money Green

Another low generation tape that I got in trade.  This is likely a first generation from the master, but it's not written down on the cassette or my list.  It's short, a mere four songs, but the sound quality is great and there's not a heck of a lot of live Alex Chilton out there.

https://mega.nz/file/SBR1Qa6I#VRtwinyRdIFljbIvjWUepTxavnjEpVSeIKrEXtcSk5I

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Yeah...but the real reason I rushed this post here was to give some credit to one of our readers, Rudolf.   

We've been looking into a Mellencamp promo CD that was only available in Canada:

John Mellencamp – The Garage Tapes Live in The Studio (1992, CD) - Discogs

Is it real or counterfeit?  Was there a U.S. issue?  You know...the usual obsessive collector stuff that we do here.

Well, Rudolf dug deep....

So...here's what we think we know:

The Garage Tapes Live In The Studio was hosted by Q102 (Dallas, TX) disk jockey Redbeard.  Redbeard also hosted the syndicated interview show In The Studio. This "Garage Tapes" show was distributed by the Album Network and officially issued as a promo in Canada.

There are several bootlegs on Discogs, including "John's Garage Tape (Unbelievable Music UM 002) and Live Rehearsals (Kiss The Stone KTS 090).  Both include 11 tracks from the Garage Tapes show, plus two acoustic songs (Pink Houses, Small Town), and two tracks from the 1982 KBFH show.  A third bootleg Welcome To The Garage (Beech Marten Records BM 068) has the Garage songs plus the two acoustic studio tracks, but drops the KBFH tracks and replaces it with a live version of "Like A Rolling Stone" recorded in 1988.

The two acoustic songs did not have an identified source on any of the three bootlegs.

Our reader, Rudolf, was exploring Redbeard's www.inthestudio.net website, which features tracks and interviews from a variety of sources. He found the two mystery songs are posted there, identified as being recorded on October 1, 1991, at Q102 in Dallas. Playing with Mr. Mellecamp are Mike Wanchic and Kenny Aronoff.  He took the time to compare them to the bootleg version, and they're defitinely the same tracks.

Another musical mystery solved!

Rudolf is hereby awarded a Voodoo Wagon No-Prize! Everywhere he goes, men will envy, and girls admire! Let's have a round of applause for Rudolph; he took the time to Scooby-Doo this so you can update your file tags with the correct dates.

Bob Seger - Live Buffalo N.Y. 4-09-2011

 

                                          https://workupload.com/file/fgUpyQuBvX9

Dickey Betts, Warren Haynes & Allen Woody - Live Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

 

A rare and excellent sounding acoustic set!

https://workupload.com/file/5MR4gBev3A4

AC/DC - Live Towson, University 1979

Back From The Dead...by request
Originally posted November 26, 2014

AC/DC - Live Towson, University
Towson University

Baltimore, Maryland

October 16, 1979

aka - Living in Hell - aka - She's Got Balls

Soundboard @320

This has been around the block more than once...

tracks 1-12: living in the hell (CD)
track 13: living in the hell (double lp)

Set List:
1 - live wire
2 - shot down in flames
3 - hell ain`t a bad place to be
4 - sin city
5 - problem child
6 - bad boy boogie
7 - the jack
8 - highway to hell
9 - high voltage
10- whole lotta rosie
11- rocker
12- if you want blood
13- let there be rock



Towson '79


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James McMurtry - Live Fountain Point, Lake Leelanau, MI. 2013

Back From The Dead...
Originally posted July 6, 2015

James McMurtry - Live Fountain Point

Lake Leelanau, MI.

July 14, 2013

Soundboard(?) @ vbr

Fountain Point on Lake Leelanau, Michigan. The historic 1889 waterfront resort welcomes you to a summer season filled with great performances. James McMurtry was joined in this front porch performance by Daren Hess - drums, Ronnie "Cornbread" Johnson - bass and Tim Holt - guitar/accordion. This performance was recorded on Sunday July 14, 2013.


This is an artist as rare as snow in July. Please get aquainted with him. He writes songs that paint pictures and can also play the guiar as well as anyone out there.

Set List provided by Generous Anon!:

1. Bayou Tortous
2. Red Dress
3. What's the Matter
4. How I'm Gonna Find You Now
5. Just Us Kids
6. You'd A' Thought
7. Choctaux Bingo
8. These Things I've Come to Know
9. We Can't Make It Here
10 Copper Canteen
11 Freeway View
12 Lobo Town
13 Restless
14 Levelland
15 Too Long in the Wasteland
16 Lights of Cheyenne

@ 1:42:43

There's a one-liner that Americana singer-songwriter James McMurtry is fond of delivering onstage — at the core, musicians are really just glorified beer salesmen. "We're basically the service industry. We're symbiotically tied to the club business. Beer sales and tips, you know?" McMurtry tells Rolling Stone Country. "I've seen a lot of young bands that think they're artists and they're not there to sell beer, but we want to keep the club happy, because if the club goes under we don't have a gig."

It's a cynical observation, which, for the acerbic McMurtry, is in keeping with his character. But it is also a show of solidarity with the hard-working class, be they songwriters and bartenders or the ranchers, fishermen and farmers whose struggles he sings about on his superb new album, Complicated Game.

Read more at Rolling Stone

 

http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/ 

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Lake Leelanau '13

 

Eric Clapton & Friends - Tribute To Ginger Baker Live at Eventim Apollo, London, UK 17th February 2020

 

Live at Eventim Apollo, London, UK 17th February 2020

Tribute to Ginger Baker, was held at the Eventim Apollo Hammersmith in London, U.K. Some friends! Joining EC were such legends as Steve Winwood (who formed Blind Faith with Baker, Clapton and Ric Grech), Ronnie Wood, Roger Waters and Nile Rodgers.

                                                https://workupload.com/file/rjeR5bwgzF2

Jimmy Thackery & The Drivers Live At The Tractor Tavern Seattle Wa. 10/2/98

 

                                              https://workupload.com/file/tV5D5uYdwaH

The Rolling Stones - The Beggars Banquet Sessions 1968

The Rolling Stones
The Beggars Banquet Sessions   

Recording Studio Sessions @flac

4CD (Silver) Mayflower MF-198/201 (released 2022.12.14)
1968 Studio outtakes  TT 04:34:31
Excellent recordings A+
Lineage: CD-R > NCH Rip > WAV > Flac

DISC ONE
LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS March 17 - April 3, 1968
01. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 1 March 23, 1968
02. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 2 March 23, 1968
03. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 3, 4 & 5 March 23, 1968
04. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 6 March 23, 1968
05. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 7 & 8 March 23, 1968
06. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 9 March 23, 1968
07. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 10 March 23, 1968
08. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 11 March 23, 1968
09. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 12 March 23, 1968
10. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 13 March 23, 1968
11. Jigsaw Puzzle Take 14 March 23, 1968
12. Parachute Woman Early mix March 25, 1968
13. Parachute Woman Rock'n'Roll Circus
14. Child Of The Moon Acoustic instrumental March 29, 1968
15. Child Of The Moon Backing track
16. Child of the Moon
17. (Did Everybody) Pay Their Dues (aka Pay Your Dues / Street Fighting Man) March 31, 1968
18. Stray Cat Blues April 3, 1968
19. Stray Cat Blues (instrumental)

DISC TWO
LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS April 20, 1968
01. Jumping Jack Flash Backing track
02. Jumping Jack Flash Promo single
03. Jumping Jack Flash vocals April 27, 1968 Promo film 1
04. Jumping Jack Flash vocals April 27, 1968 Promo film 2

LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS May 13 or 21 - 23, 1968
05. Street Fighting Man longer outro May 23, 1968
06. No Expectations Acoustic #1
07. No Expectations Acoustic #2
08. No Expectations Electric
09. Factory Girl Alternate fiddle mix
10. Dear Doctor #1
11. Dear Doctor #2
12. Dear Doctor #3
13. Dear Doctor #4
14. Family #1
15. Family #2
16. Family #3
17. Blood Red Wine
18. Still A Fool aka Catfish / Two Train Blues
19. Give Me A Hamburger To Go aka Stuck Out All Alone
20. Prodigal Son Rev. Robert Wilkins


DISC THREE
LOS ANGELES, HOLLYWOOD, SUNSET SOUND STUDIOS May 13 or 21 - 23, 1968
01. Jigsaw Puzzle without vocal overdubs

BKR’S HOME, REDLANDS, WEST WITTERING Feb or July 1968
LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND Studios March 17 - April 3, 1968
STARGROVES, Newbury Oct 1970
02. Highway Child aka Highway Bound / The Vulture

LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS June 4 - 10, 1968
03. Sympathy for the Devil #1 Acoustic
04. Sympathy for the Devil #2
05. Sympathy for the Devil #3 Guitar riffs
06. Sympathy for the Devil #4 Part 1 to 3
07. Sympathy for the Devil #5 & #6
08. Sympathy for the Devil #7
09. Sympathy for the Devil #8
10. Sympathy for the Devil #8 without comment
11. Sympathy for the Devil #9
12. London Jam Instrumental part 1 & 2
13. Untitled Jam Instrumental
14. Sympathy for The Devil Frost on Saturday


DISC FOUR
LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS June 28, 1968
01. Family Acoustic, without bass & vocal overdubs
02. Family Acoustic
LOS ANGELES, HOLLYWOOD, SUNSET SOUND STUDIOS July 7 - 25, 1968
03. Salt of the Hearth Early mix

LONDON, UNKNOWN STUDIOS September 1968
04. Memo From Turner Mick Jagger demo
05. Memo From Turner Mick Jaegger solo
LONDON, OLYMPIC SOUND STUDIOS November 17, 1968
06. Memo From Turner Alternate vocals
07. Memo From Turner
08. Memo From Turner demo

1968 ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS REHEARSALS
09. Ruby Tuesday
10. Sympathy for The Devil
11. Parachute Woman #1
12. Parachute Woman #2
13. You Can't Always Get What You Want #1
14. You Can't Always Get What You Want #2

 

Pt1

Pt2

Pt3

Pt4

 

John Mellencamp - World Premiere / VH1 Concert - Sept. 2, 1996

John Mellencamp
World Premiere / VH1 Concert
Recorded in Rich Hosmer's Backyard, 
Grand Island, NY
on September 2, 1996

01 Mike Morrison - Intro
02 John Mellencamp & Mike Morrison - Interview
03 John Mellencamp  - Jerry (studio)

04 John Mellencamp & Mike Morrison - Interview
05 John Mellencamp  - Just Another Day (studio)
06 John Mellencamp & Mike Morrison - Interview
07 John Mellencamp  - Circling Around The Moon (studio)
08 John Mellencamp & Mike Morrison - Interview
09 John Mellencamp  - This May Not Be The End of the World (studio)
10 John Mellencamp & Mike Morrison - Interview
11 John Mellencamp  - Large World Turning (studio)
12 Mike Morrison - Concert Intro VH1 Concert Winner
13 Announcer - Stage Intro
14 John Mellencamp  - Love And Happiness
15 John Mellencamp  - Jack & Diane
16 John Mellencamp  - Lonely Ol' Night
17 Announcer - Break
18 John Mellencamp  - Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
19 Announcer - Break
20 John Mellencamp  - Check It Out
21 Announcer - Break
22 John Mellencamp  - What If I Came Knocking
23 John Mellencamp  - Crumblin' Down
24 John Mellencamp  - R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A.
25 Announcer & Martha Stewart - Break
26 John Mellencamp  - Hurt So Good
27 John Mellencamp  - Authority Song
28 Announcer - Break
29 John Mellencamp  - Pink Houses
30 Mike Morrison - Outro

Well, this one is heartwarming.  VH1 held a contest called the Route '96 Big Backyard Barbecue Summer Sweepstakes, with the prize being backyard party catered by Martha Stewart and entertainment provided by John Mellencamp.

Raymond Holcomb, Jr. won the contest.  Raymond had muscular dystrophy and beat out 3,000,000 other entries to win the sweepstakes.

The concert was held in the backyard of family friend Rich Hosmer.  The internet reveals the address was 1130 Meadow Ln, Grand Island NY 14072.  The street hasn't been googlemapped but I took a screen grab of the house from the spy telescope here at the Voodoo Wagon Orbital Platform & Secret Clubhouse.

The view from up here in orbit...

This concert is digitized from an Album Network cassette of the broadcast, and is preceded by an "album premiere" for Mellencamp's Mr. Happy Go Lucky album, which was to be released a week later on September 10th.

https://mega.nz/file/GA50hB5T#EDSNBNR8M_lKkklaTB2XPpPJ9XchI25d0FA8wSi9K6c

Also:  I am moving this comment from our reader, Rudolf Schmidt, into the post to increase visibility:

"This seems like a good time to introduce my John Mellencamp live bootlegs archive:

https://mellencamp-live.blogspot.com/2024/11/john-mellencamp-live-bootleg-recordings.html

Inspired by livepetty.com, I tried to create a site where the average joe looking for JM live recordings can find the best (IMO) versions without getting into all the minutiae we do here. Of course, most of my stuff is just draftervoi's stuff but I managed to add a few things. Hopefully, it will prevent a few people from paying to download the same recordings from greedy bootleggers. I remember reading a comment by someone who was tickled pink because he had just bought a copy of Mellencamp's 4 July 1992 concert on "audiophile vinyl".