April 27, 1983
Las Colinas Soundstage
Near Dallas, TX

David Bowie with Stevie Ray Vaughan:
Star
Heroes
What in the World
Look Back in Anger
Joe the Lion
Wild is the Wind
Golden Years
Fashion
Let's Dance
Red Sails
Breaking Glass
Life on Mars
Sorrow
Cat People
China Girl
Scary Monsters
Rebel Rebel
I Can't Explain
White Light, White Heat
Station to Station
Cracked Actor
Ashes to Ashes
Space Oddity
Young Americans
Soul Love
Hang on to Yourself
Fame
TVC15
Stay
Jean Genie
Modern Love

The Byrds - Why

"We all disappoint, eventually." -- Joseph O'Neill, Netherland

The Everly Brothers - Let It Be Me

The Kinks - Strangers

Pat Metheny Group - Slip Away

I'm slipping away for a little holiday in the sun. Back Monday. Wishing all the listeners out there a spacious Thanksgiving.

BONUS BELLS

Peter Gabriel: Lead a Normal Life

Todd Rundgren - International Feel

I know it's very 2007 of me to be posting this, but whaddayagonnado? And what is that chord progression reminding me of... perhaps this evergreen tension-fest?

Or this?

Arpadys - Mystery Rock

June 7, 2003
Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, NJ

Radiohead:
Where Bluebirds Fly / There There
2+2=5
The National Anthem
Lucky
Just
Kid A
Go to Sleep
Climbing Up the Walls
Backdrifts
Sail to the Moon
Sit Down. Stand Up.
Pyramid Song
No Surprises
I Might Be Wrong
Where I End and You Begin
Paranoid Android
Idioteque
Everything In Its Right Place
Exit Music
Myxomatosis
Talk Show Host
How To Disappear Completely

Grateful Dead - Jack-a-Roe

Recorded "live" at Chicago's historic Auditorium Theatre, May 13, 1977.

Électric Max Band - Knives, Feathers And Fire

Produced by Igor Wakhévitch. God bless ThunderBals and Mutant Sounds for their contributions to society.

BONUS BEATS

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Garden Of Eden Edition

Astrud Gilberto - Brazilian Tapestry#
Percy Faith - First Light*

Delving into the archives today for two jams apparently recorded on-location in the Garden of Eden (גַּן עֵדֶן).

#Original air date 2/20/07. Traditional ("Mulher Rendeira"), adapted by E. Deodato. Ron Carter on bass.

*Original air date 8/3/07. Written by Freddie Hubbard. Arranged by Percy Faith. Earl Palmer on drums.

Expansives - Life With You ....

Melody reminiscent of Freak Out by Chic, with some Bee Gees-style falsetto stylings on the chorus sucking you deeper into the vortex. Thanks to my imaginary youtube friend 0x51d for the tip. Ripped from the reissue on Panama Records. Also, "The Expansives." Best band name I've heard in a while.

"Listening to-night to the names of all those great singers of the past it seemed to me, I must confess, that we were living in a less spacious age. Those days might, without exaggeration, be called spacious days: and if they are gone beyond recall let us hope, at least, that in gatherings such as this we shall still speak of them with pride and affection, still cherish in our hearts the memory of those dead and gone great ones whose fame the world will not willingly let die."

--James Joyce, The Dead, 1904

Wendy Carlos:
Rossini - Overture to La Gazza Ladra ("The Thieving Magpie")
Purcell - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary

Unknown Performer: Rossini - La Gazza Ladra (organic version)

"Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair." --Gioachino Rossini

September 21, 2005
Avery Fischer Hall
New York

New York Philharmonic:
Piano Concerto #5 (Beethoven)
Don Juan (Strauss)
Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Strauss)

With
Lorin Maazel (Conductor)
Evgeny Kissin

Prefab Sprout - Technique

Jimi Hendrix Experience -
Spanish Castle Magic*
Message To Love#

* recorded live at Winterland Ballroom, 1968
# recorded live in Berkeley, 1970

featuring Mitch Mitchell

Sting - Pleasure

Jan Mayen:
1,2,3 FJÖR!
Return to Your Sad Existence of Working for the Man

Oliver Onions (Guido and Maurizio de Angelis): Zorro Is Back

Here's to being free la la la la...

Nirvana - MV

The Shop Assistants: It's Up To You

The Doors: Wishful Sinful

Love Unlimited Orchestra - Welcome Aboard

I'd forgotten all about this one; thanks to the lads for the reminder. Check out what the bass player does starting at 3:26. First class.

September 29, 1979
Stardust Ballroom
Los Angeles

Talking Heads:
Artists Only
Stay Hungry
Cities
Paper
Mind
Heaven
Electric Guitar
Air
New Feeling
Love Goes To a Building On Fire
Found a Job
Psycho Killer
Crowd
Life During Wartime
Take Me To The River

Bee Gees - Kilburn Towers

[insert celebratory picture]

Black on White Affair: Auld Lang Syne

Realize this tune is a wee early for pending New Year's celebrations but for those wishing to imbibe today this soulful elixir tastes great anytime of day.

Gene Clark - Strength Of Strings

from the album No Other

BONUS BEATS

Kris Kristofferson: Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)

As performed on The Johnny Cash Show, 1970

Tony Esposito - Pagaia

The highlight, for this writer, of this compilation.

take a little trip with me

FROM THE ARCHIVES: ELECTION DAY SPECTACULAR

Dock Boggs: Country Blues
John Coltrane: Afro-Blue
Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun
Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy
Art Tatum: Elegie

Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love (live)

La de ta ta ta

"I hope someday they'll teach rock 'n' roll history. I hope that the music on this album is among the more important elements of that class. I hope parents will still get scared when they find their daughter listening to this music."
-excerpt from Elliott Murphy's liner notes

Martin Denny: Misirlou
Seymour Rexite: Miserlou

Deepest thanks to the Gardens for Seymour's version.

Cymande: Leavert

February 16, 1977
Ivanhoe Theater
Chicago

Herbie Hancock:
Radio Introduction
Chameleon
Hang Up Your Hangups
Station ID
Maiden Voyage
It Remains To Be Seen
People Music

With
Herbie Hancock - keyboards
Jaco Pastorius - bass
Bennie Maupin - sax
James Levi - drums

I've also seen the setlist as:
Cantaloupe Island (Alternate title for "It Remains To Be Seen"?)
Hang Up Your Hang Ups
Maiden Voyage
Jaco Bass Solo
People Music
Chameleon

I don't know the right order, maybe someone out there can tell me.
I guess the radio station didn't think Jaco's solo would play well on the air, because that seems to be the only number that was cut from the radio edit.