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Motorhead autographed setlist & quick story

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  Was invited to the studio, where my friend and Phil promptly started smoking PCP and snorting rails of meth off a coffee table. Phil was playing guitar like he signed his name. I ended up smoking a joint outside with the producer or engineer out back since it was obvious no work was going to get done. Being high in the hills above Calabasas a vehicle was the only way out, which nearly backed off the hillside. I found this setlist for the tour starting in a few days. The reason Lemmy and Mickey's signature is not on it is when I was invited back the next day I decided I am content just being a fan. The first 2 dates of the tour were canceled in the intervening time This story cannot be confirmed or denied as the friend, who was trying to keep up with people with much stronger constitutions than he, died not longer after Lemmy, at the ripe old age of 53.    

Wynonna Judd @ Walt Disney Concert Hall 2024-10-04

WYNONNA JUDD LOS ANGELES, CA @ WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL 2024-10-04 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. What It Takes 02. She Is His Only Need 03. I Saw The Light 04. My Strongest Weakness 05. When I Reach The Place I'm Going 06. No One Else On Earth 07. A Little Bit Of Love (Goes A Long, Long Way) 08. It's Never Easy To Say Goodbye 09. All Of That Love From Here 10. Live With Jesus 11. Love Is Alive 12. Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days) 13. Tell Me Why 14. Rock Bottom 15. Only Love 16. Let's Make A Baby King 17. It's Over Yet 18. Father Sun 19. Girls With Guitars 20. Just Like New 21. I Just Drove By 22. That Was Yesterday 23. Why Not Me 24. Love Can Build A Bridge https://pixeldrain.com/u/LtcEv8NU Not even on the calendar until I got off the E line the night before at the Bunker Hill station and saw it advertised on the rear wall. Got a ticket for $10! Recorded from way in back though.

The Bellrays @ Zebulon 2024-09-06 (DVD)

THE BELLRAYS LOS ANGELES, CA @ ZEBULON 2024-09-06 1 Cam Video Master -> DVD Standalone (no setlist) https://pixeldrain.com/u/qaKsTctf

Band Of The Month: OASIS **FINAL 2024-10-10 with Round 10**

Seems like the tour excitement is catching on and a few fans have found this page. I don't have anything specifically rare but might as well put it all up. Don't really wanna clear out any of the Google drives so it has to be Pixeldrain. There is a 5GB daily download limit but I probably only have a few days worth. This collection is by no means comprehensive. Share widely if you wish. To be honest going forward - I don't like posting anything I haven't listened to. I lost track and can't really dedicate my life to Oasis right now so it's up to you to point out any flaws, most importantly CD skips from bad rips or too much diginoise - 2 things that make me trash a recording. Anyone have a complete Manchester Dec 1994? The one on Dime is heavily redacted. Can any of the experts recommend anything particularly exciting? Maybe I will make this a monthly thing with a different band. Or not. Like I said, just not feeling it anymore. RIP Douglas Parenteau aka OasisDou

Zombie Apocalypse - The Daniel Penny case

I wrote this and posted to Facebook last week, there have been more developments but I haven't had time to keep up. Posting anyway. Maybe I will make the Zombie Apocalypse the theme of this blog when I stop recording / posting as now I have to determine what worse case scenarios I have to prepare for just to see a show. They are doing everything possible to deny Daniel Penny a fair trial. They want to make it look like an isolated incident perpetrated by the defendant, minimizing the state's negligence in turning a habitually violent individual loose to continually terrorize the populace. This is the first I have heard of K2 abuse by Neely. And far be it from me to rely upon the NY Post as a source but there is absolutely nothing about these latest developments in the Times. Wonder why? This should concern anyone who uses public transportation or just walks the streets of any major metropolis. If you are put in a position where you must defend yourself or others (as just happe

Iron Maiden + The Hu @ Kia Forum 2024-10-08 (raw waves)

I don't even know if I will have any transfers of anything by Friday or if I will wanna listen to this again any time soon so here ya go. I really wanted to make up for missing half the first song at Power Trip considering that was my last bucket list song except for whatever I missed in 2005 and 2012/2013. Tickets were just too expensive and they had a year to sell them all. Low price on remaining tickets $157.15 each. $2.15 more than I spent on a 3 day Power Trip pass. This morning a friend asks if I wanna go half on a resale pair that was 195.50. More than I wanted to spend but I told him I will get the pair and if I can't sell the extra I will go. List it at a markup and it sells. A few more under $100 pairs turn up and I repeat the process until next thing you know it's not an expensive ticket for me anymore. I use to do this all day every day at volumes still unimaginable, a story that should be told someday. Now snapping up a few underpriced resale tickets to get mys

Kacey Musgraves / Father John Misty / Nickel Creek @ Kia Forum 2024-10-03 (Raw Wavs)

  LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME Finally forced myself out to a real show. Nickel Creek was excellent, Father John Misty was ho-hum and Kacey Musgraves was really good. Note I didn't move or touch the levels at all, those disparities in dynamic range are purely house sound. She had a really wide PA array, perhaps to compensate for the mellower sound. Recorded from Sec 210 row 10. Not my original seat but plenty of empties and I didn't haul myself all the way to the top. Paid $31 on the secondary, and last minute, had to make sure I would get there in time for Nickel Creek following an instore that ended at 5:35. I blew off so many cheap tickets the last month or two (hey I LOVE the secondary market and will defend it to the death) but the novelty of going to a concert for "only" $20 has kinda worn off especially when including the massive investment of time and energy. Nickel Creek joins Kacey Musgraves on 1 song. Be sure to read the Dime NAB before posting. Not sure the po

The Raveonettes + Wild Pink @ Teragram Ballroom 2024-06-06

LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME THE RAVEONETTES LOS ANGELES, CA @ TERAGRAM BALLROOM 2024-06-06 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. When The Night Is Almost Done 02. Hallucinations 03. Lust 04. Dead Sound 05. Blush 06. Railroad Tracks 07. Love Can Destroy Everything 08. Return Of The Grevious Angel 09. Attack Of The Ghost Riders 10. Veronica Fever 11. Do You Believe Her 12. My Tornado 13. The Enemy 14. Endless Sleeper 15. Heartbreak Stroll 16. The Great Love Sound 17. Recharge & Revolt 18. Remember 19. Love Is A Trashcan 20. Aly, Walk With Me this might run a tad hot WILD PINK LOS ANGELES, CA @ TERAGRAM BALLROOM 2024-06-06 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC (no setlist) Whatever that first song is I thought they were playing Soul Asylum's Black Gold both at https://pixeldrain.com/l/NnRrX8XZ

Dale Crover Band @ Permanent Records Roadhouse 2024-09-20

LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME   DALE CROVER BAND LOS ANGELES, CA @ PERMANENT RECORDS ROADHOUSE 2024-09-20 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. Rings 02. Glossolalia 03. Jane 04. Doug Yuletide 05. Kitten Knife 06. The Bit 07. I Quit https://pixeldrain.com/u/EHwKFVcK More of an in-store than regular concert, free admission, went on around 7:15pm and I was back home by 8:30.

Uncle Ron, Forever 27

This was originally written and shared privately with relatives on Oct 1 2020. The only change made was to the age. He would have been 65 today. It's hard to imagine him being old even though he was always old to me. He certainly never grew up at least in the sense most of us associate with adulthood and maturity. He lived a short and sometimes troubled life. Like my mother and most of her siblings he grew up in foster homes. My father would sometimes derisively say he was the one relative who I took after the most. He was rarely employed and aside from a three-year stint in the navy, often lived with us. He was something of a loner and may have had what would be more politely called amotivational syndrome today. When he went into the navy, I was about 7 years old. He left his records in my room and I listened to them often. It included many of the staples of FM rock radio of the 1970's. They more than anything have formed the core of my musical tastes today as I could also dig

The Zombie Apocalypse Continues

The Zombie Apocalypse continues with 2 high profile incidents. And this is what's so scary about life at the street level in Los Angeles right now. I have been taking the bus and walking the streets at all hours since about 1990. I can live with the possibilities of crime within the normal parameters like getting robbed or hit by a drunk driver but this is an entirely different kind of threat, one that is hard to prepare for. Though I am fully supportive of an individual right to carry, I can't do it on the bus to a show. You can't even do that in Texas. I bet if the first incident happened within LA city limits, the cops likely would have just arrested the very protective father, tossing the kid into DCFS system until they can make a case. Hard to say as legitimate self-defense cases are so rare in LA. It's taking so long to ID the deceased perpetrator, probably a bit too feral even by LA street life standards. https://lamag.com/crimeinla/alleged-kidnapper-stabbed-to-d

(YT) Gitane Dimone & Paul Roessler @ Redwood 2024-09-28 and more rambling

I know people were excited about some of the Christian Death I was posting so just wanted to let you know the Redwood streamed this set. Ended up not making it out to any of the 8 shows on my calendar Saturday including the Hoodoo Gurus which I was most excited about. But forcing myself to stand thru a show I only went to because it was almost free and a miserable experience kinda made me not wanna force myself out again in spite of my FOMOCD mind was telling me. Now if someone would have answered my call to hitch a ride to a Crowded House 200 miles away I would have certainly jumped on it. Also was definitely definitely going to go to a free afternoon bar show until it came time to leave when I decided to hold myself to my more recent standard of never going to a bar show without set times, this time regardless of it's in the daytime. I made up for it by listening to some history lectures and finally finishing up the mess that is my bookshelves in order as my former roommate left

Rolling Stones @ Aberdeen, Scotland 1982-05-26 (SB/Aud merge) **new release Kick Off '82**

A new show drops and I am in a position to drop everything and listen. First show of 1982 in the 2100 capacity Capitol Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland. It's a soundboard up to Let Me Go then flips to audience recording which sounds like standard cassette in pocket in the last row but I am glad someone put together the complete show even if only a tape side of the soundboard is available. It was posted to IORR in wav format, I re-titled tracks, converted to FLAC and wrote info file. https://musicloverjapan.com/products/the-rolling-stones-kick-off-european-tour-1982-soundboard-2cd ROLLING STONES ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND @ CAPITOL THEATRE 1982-05-26 Soundboard/Audience merge / THE ROLLING STONES / KICK OFF! European Tour 1982 SOUNDBOARD (2CD) Silver CD 1-01. -intro- (Take The A Train) 1-02. Under My Thumb 1-03. When The Whip Comes Down 1-04. Let's Spend The Night Together 1-05. Shattered 1-06. Neighbors 1-07. Black Limousine 1-08. Just My Imagination 1-09. Twenty Flight Rock 1-10. Going T

Oasis 2025 Tour Tickets

 Posted this on Facebook but worth reposting here: Oasis tour - in 2005 I had an oh shit that's tonight moment and hurried to the Hollywood Bowl, missing the openers and getting a G level super seat for $5. In 2008 they played to about 9,000 people at Staples Center with the upper deck mostly empty. Now I know there are people who weren't even born yet trying for tickets and we are in a more globalized concert market but don't let yourself get gaslighted into panic buying overpriced seats. And whatever you do, don't buy more tickets than you can use yourself. They have 11 months to pull out every trick in the book to maximize revenue and fill as many seats as possible. Now I am glad it's the Rose Bowl and not SoFi as I am much more likely to try to go assuming I am still alive, still living in CA, still have a country, etc. Also they have always been just kinda ho hum live, it's just the incredible first 2 albums / The Masterplan that kept me coming back but I e

(YT) Cosmic Psychos + Nine Pound Hammer @ Reggie's in Chicago, IL 2024-06-15

 Yet another resource with Reggie's in Chicago posting loads of pro shots by local and international touring acts. In another day where I wasn't so buried in content I would be all over this but today I opted for this double bill of Cosmic Psychos / Nine Pound Hammer. Nine Pound Hammer https://youtu.be/_cZX7CdqmQE?si=OrGB-qLZyYwodtia Cosmic Psychos https://youtu.be/X9O80DlvnPs?si=KaaYBa4ZtYcFKTex

Oasis @ London, UK 1995-11-05 (SB)

Okay I know I said I am ignoring repost requests but I woke up wanting to hear Morning Glory Oasis and this is what I gravitated to. I posted a YouTube link and the following commentary to Facebook: Morning wake up music. PEAK OASIS! Now this is a great Oasis show because they have yet to dilute the catalog with weak albums and completely forgettable songs. The show is still about the music as I would classify Knebworth as more of a mass media event targeted to kids who wanna be where the cool kids are. And in spite of the globalization of the concert market I still don't see them as a stadium act in the US. Assuming the rumors about SoFi or the Rose Bowl are valid, I would recommend holding off on buying. Just let the amateurs and discorders do their thing, then scoop them up closer to showtime. And the only thing they have is a really strong catalog when tilted to the earlier material which always kept me coming back even if they aren't particularly dynamic onstage. I still r

Latest Rambling "Back Next Friday" post

I don't know if I am burned out and taking a semi-break or doing a fade but we will see, as it is I will be doing the minimum to keep you engaged with new releases coming every Friday if available. So I don't have to try to rebuild if I come roaring back. Or more immediate if I just want to put up a raw file or have something to say about something. Unfortunately there was very little for you this week but there are a few that are 75% done so maybe next Friday there will be a bit more? I used to go nuts when a semi-decent Cheap Trick audience recording turned up yet I can't stay caught up on Bun E's weekly soundboard releases. Listening to Nagoya 79 now. Maybe just demoting myself to passive listener? Actually been mostly watching YouTube videos and lectures. I really wish I had the motivation to become a content creator instead of content leecher. Much respect to those who can make a go of that. Beyond burned out on shows too. Forced myself out for Boris and Starcrawle

Inside the 20TB Drive

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I don't even like Elvis Costello. Got them for a friend who never figured out digital media himself. First on the chopping block. If anyone has any ideas for an easy to use program that scans folders and make lists please let me know. Of course I would post the lists here and just ignore any requests. I should also take pictures of this place. Just so you can see the kind of clutter if not squalor and havoc this hobby has wreaked on my personal living space. Still better this than joining some sports cult or playing with Star Wars toys. 

Foo Fighters + The Hives + Amyl & The Sniffers @ BMO Stadium 2024-08-09

FOO FIGHTERS LOS ANGELES, CA @ BMO STADIUM 2024-08-09 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. -intro- 02. All My Life 03. No Son Of Mine 04. Rescued 05. The Pretender 06. Walk 07. -intro- 08. Times Like These 09. Generator 10. La Dee Da 11. Breakout 12. -band intro- (with song snippets) 13. My Hero 14. The Sky Is A Neighborhood 15. Learn To Fly 16. Arlandria 17. These Days 18. -intro- 19. Skin And Bones 20. Under You 21. Nothing At All 22. This Is A Call 23. -intro- 24. Monkey Wrench 25. -intro- 26. Aurora 27. Best Of You 28. The Teacher 29. -intro- 30. Everlong THE HIVES LOS ANGELES, CA @ BMO STADIUM 2024-08-09 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. Bogus Operandi 02. Main Offender 03. Rigor Mortis Radio 04. Walk Idiot Walk 05. Good Samaritan 06. Stick Up 07. Try It Again 08. I Hate To Say I Told You So 09. Trapdoor Solution 10. Countdown To Shutdown 11. Come On! 12. Tick Tick Boom AMYL & THE SNIFFERS LOS ANGELES, CA @ BMO STADIUM 2024-08-09 SP-CMC-4U ->

Cat Power @ Palace Theatre 2023-11-08

CAT POWER LOS ANGELES, CA @ PALACE THEATRE 2023-11-08 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC 01. She Belongs To Me 02. 4th Time Around 03. Visions Of Johanna 04. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue 05. Desolation Row 06. Just Like A Woman 07. Mr. Tambourine Man 08. Tell Me, Momma 09. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Met) 10. Baby, Let Me Follow You Down 11. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 12. Leopard-Skin-Pill-Box Hat 13. One Too Many Mornings 14. Ballad Of A Thin Man 15. Like A Rolling Stone https://pixeldrain.com/u/KuziM5f7 The raw file was immediately posted after and DeathGlider tracked it out and put on Dime. Did it myself a song or two at a time too in the intervening almost year. Got a balcony ticket for like $8 Weird mix of Dylan fans who never heard of Cat Power and vice versa.

Andy McCoy, Dave Lindholm, Nicky Hopkins @ Kuopio, Finland 1991-12-16 (DVD)

LIMITED TIME / LAST TIME ANDY MCCOY, DAVE LINDHOLM, NICKY HOPKINS KUOPIO, FINLAND 1991-12-16 Trade DVD / basic menu (no setlist) https://pixeldrain.com/u/ftE1c3Bn     If you like bluesy and raw then this is for you. Acoustic and slide guitar, with Nicky Hopkins on piano. Really dark in visuals and sometimes audio aesthetic. Covers of Angie and Wild Horses with a few blues standards and a whole lotta I don't know. This is as about real as it gets without the melanin. Sadly cuts off after 71 mins. Anyone have a complete show, audio or video? I can't keep this on computer too long and am not always promptly replacing the drives after I throw them into the wall so I may not be able to respond to repost requests. FYI typo found in info file, not re-upping

The only objectively scummy thing Dave Grohl has done

  This is a rant I typed out after the night 1 of Foo Fighters in LA after looking at not too full pit but only tidying up and posting now. Even since I had an email for assistance in selling an extra tickets locked in at above the current market value. * * * How about instead of playing games with the pit tickets and pricing, just sell the tickets at the same price, get a full pit and happy fans?   There were major ticket scams and games at play with the Foo Fighters shows. To "fight scalping" they made the tickets non-transferable, if you can't go, the only way to get rid of the ticket is to put it back on the face value fan exchange via Ticketmaster. At first for this "sold out" show resale tickets would slowly trickle back out, with the tickets often being platinum priced in the $400 range for anything even slightly decent.  It seemed the cheapest tickets were $125 with a smattering in the furthest reaches priced at $102 and those would also trickle out, usu

Michael Monroe 60th Birthday Bash / Hanoi Rocks / Demolition 23 @ Helsinki, Finland 2022-09-23

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 LIMITED TIME / (hopefully not the) LAST TIME MICHAEL MONROE'S 60th BIRTHDAY BASH HELSINKI, FINLAND @ JAAHALLI (ICE HALL) 2022-09-23 SP-CMC-4U -> A10 -> Soundforge -> FLAC SET 1 DEMOLITION 23 01. -intro- 02. Nothin's Alright 03. Dysfunctional 04. Endangered Species 05. You Crucified Me 06. Hammersmith Palais Michael Monroe - vocals Sami Yaffa - bass Nasty Suicide - guitar Karl Rosqvist - drums 07. -video montage- (set to Hammersmith Palais acoustic version) MICHAEL MONROE 08. She's No Angel 09. Nights Are So Long 10. Shakedown 11. All Night With The Lights On 12. Man With No Eyes 13. Not Fakin' It Michael Monroe Sami Yaffa - bass Steve Conte - guitar Rich Jones - guitar Lenni-Kalle Taipale - keyboards DAVE LINDHOLM 14. -intro- 15. Telephone Bill's All Mine Michael Monroe - vocals Dave Lindholm - guitar / vocals Lacu - drums Timpa - bass Costello Hautamäki - guitar HANOI ROCKS (2001-2004) 16. -intro- 17. Obscured 18. People Like Me 19. A Day Late, A Dollar

20TB Drive Almost Full (and more musings on obsessions and changing circumstances)

My 20TB drive is getting near the limit. As the toil of managing an increasing amount of data is taking it's toll I am going to start deleting stuff soon. Just because Mike Millard recorded Yes 142 times doesn't mean I will ever listen to one. I've actually listened to a Yes 6 show times. Saw them twice with free tickets, and transferred the recordings but once I brought 2 devices like WTF would I do that. Both were with the scab singer. I donated blood to KLOS for that ticket too. Not only was I bedridden for a few days missing shows I wanted to see I had to stop making not jokes about slitting my wrists.   Now if anyone wants to me digitize my DVD collection to hard drives I am down but I am going to need an office and a salary with benefits. As if dicking around with concert video all day isn't benefit enough. I may be down for copying the whole thing under certain conditions, like US only, you must make yourself an additional copy, you must share at least a few show

The Cure @ Hyundai Pavilion 2003-09-20

THE CURE DEVORE, CA @ HYUNDAI PAVILION KROQ INLAND INVASION 2003-09-20 Trade CDR 1-01. 10:15 Saturday Night 1-02. A Forest 1-03. Primary 1-04. 100 Years 1-05. The Figurehead 1-06. A Strange Day 1-07. Let's Go To Bed 1-08. Shake Dog Shake 1-09. In Between Days 1-10. Just Like Heaven 1-11. Pictures Of You 1-12. Fascination Street 2-01. Lovesong 2-02. From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea 2-03. Want 2-04. Maybe Someday 2-05. 39 2-06. Bloodflowers 2-07. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep 2-08. The Kiss 2-09. Plainsong 2-10. Disintegration 2-11. Boys Don't Cry https://pixeldrain.com/u/9N4XvxPF One more. Just remembered this when I had to look up today's date. I ripped it and maybe fixed the index marks a year or so ago. It was still sitting in the pending folder in wav format. This was recorded by probably "Mike" on DAT. I pulled an excellent orchestra ticket and wanted to go but this is not public transpo accessible so I ended up just putting it on Ebay pretty quick. Someti