The Maytals: It's You

Single released the same year LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion. What's changed?



Toots & The Maytals: Monkey Man

Love the guitar on this one. First heard this track after checking out The "King" Kong compilation from a Memphis library and recording everything to a Maxwell. Now many years later wish I never returned it. I'm sure the vinyl ended up at one of their yearly library sales and someone walked away extremely happy.

Byron Lee & The Dragonaires - Julianne

Cristina - Drive My Car

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Toots & The Maytals - Get Up, Stand Up

Featuring The Maytals--Jerry Mathias and Raleigh Gordon--on background vocals. From the album Pass The Pipe.

original air date: 8/1/07

for J.L.

October 1, 1992
Balch Fieldhouse
Boulder, CO

Morrissey -
Girl Least Likely To
November Spawned a Monster
Certain People I Know
Sister I'm a Poet
Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference / My Insatiable One
Tomorrow
We'll Let You Know
Suedehead
He Knows I'd Love To See Him
You're The One For Me, Fatty
Seasick Yet Still Docked
Alsatian Cousin
We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful
Everyday Is Like Sunday
The National Front Disco

BONUS BEATS to complete the I'm a Poet bootleg.
Saturday Night Live, November 14, 1992 -
Glamourous Glue
Suedehead

Claude Larson - Mosquito

...from a library record so rare, not even the great Paul Durango has it; yet this jam has been lovingly re-issued by afro-funky records.

Notes: "African orchestra-sounds including original African instruments recorded in South Africa. Original African drums played by members of the Xosa-Tribe, recorded in Cape Town South Africa."

Claude bringing some Rimsky-Korsakov-type styles to the table on this one.

David Byrne - Dinosaur

Jay-Z:
D'Evils
December 4th

Hamilton Bohannon - South African Man

Hamilton plies his hypnotic trade on this 9/4 mesmerisation experience. Thanks to zip chim for saving me from the tragedy of possibly not hearing this. Observations:

1. The bass player (which is who? Fernando Saunders, I guess?) is going fucking mental. Check out when he varies his line slightly at 1:50. Kaboom.

2. The dude (or lady) on the guiro is scraping every 4 beats, while the song is in 9, so, if my calculations are correct, they re-synchronize every 36 beats.

3. Hamilton Bohannon was Stevie Wonder's drummer from '67 to '69. Does this mean that for a time Stevie's rhythm section consisted of Hamilton Bohannon and Michael Henderson? Oh gosh.

Todd Rundgren - When The Shit Hits The Fan

Phish: Split Open and Melt

Positive Noise: Out Of Reach

Fashiøn - You Only Left Your Picture

As heard in the May 3, 1985 episode of Miami Vice. Prøduced by Zeus B. Held for maximum gloss.

The Police - How Stupid Mr. Bates

Willie Nelson: Nite Life

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.