Happy 45th Anniversary to AC/DC's Back In Black

The titanic AC/DC celebrate the 45th anniversary to their seminal album, Back in Black. 

Album Review: Taj Mahal - Solo - Live at Tipitina's New Orleans 1980

Taj Mahal 

Live at Tipitina's New Orleans 1980

*** out of *****

"Keep those 'shoo-be-doo-be's' going" Taj Mahal implores the crowd during the opening number, "Gonna Move Up To The Country", captured her on Live at Tipitina's New Orleans 1980. The album comes from the Tipitina's record club on a gorgeous turquoise platter with pristine sound and production that captures the artist and crowd energy on this night.

Full Show Friday: Talking Heads 1980 Dortmund Germany

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Talking Heads!!!

The NYC based Talking Heads head to Germany to play Dortmund in 1980. The core four Heads get help this show from Andrew Belew, Bernie Worell, Dolette McDonald, Steve Scales and Busta Jones. This is a hell of a set, so get ready. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Set List below. Enjoy!

Psycho Killer Cities I Zimbra Once in a lifetime Animals Crosseyed and painless Life during wartime The great curve

 

Full Show Friday: ZZ Top - Rockpalast 1980

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...ZZ Top!

With the recent passing of Dusty Hill, Rockpalast posted this full show from 1980 of the Texas trio and it is a good one.  

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, full set list below. Enjoy:

Setlist 1. I Thank You 00:00:00 2. Waitin' For The Bus 00:04:05 3. Jesus Just Left Chicago 00:06:39 4. Precious And Grace 00:10:52 5. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide 00:13:36 6. Manic Mechanic 00:18:01 7. Lowdown In The Street 00:21:35 8. Heard It On The X 00:24:41 9. Fool For Your Stockings 00:27:17 10. Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings 00:33:11 11. El Diablo 00:37:45 12. Cheap Sunglasses 00:41:46 13. Arrested For Driving While Blind 00:46:24 14. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers 00:51:14 15. La Grange 00:54:25 16. She Loves My Automobile 01:06:19 17. Hi Fi Mama 01:08:50 18. Dust My Broom 01:12:12 19. Jailhouse Rock 01:15:37 20. Tush 01:17:23 21. Tube Snake Boogie 01:23:48 22. Just Get Paid 01:26:32

Full Show Friday: Devo Live 1980

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Devo!

Today we highlight Devo from 1980. Pro shot, Pro Sound, but VHS transfer. 

Enjoy:

Beginners Guide To The Grateful Dead - Part Two

There is a lot of music out there and some artists have massive catalogs which can paralyze new listeners with overwhelming choices. This Beginners Guide series will attempt to give new listeners entry points to some of these artists. Today we will look at: The Grateful Dead.

This post was very long so we are breaking it into two parts. This first offering will discuss the five places RtBE feels are the best entry points to the band. The follow up post will dive into the different eras of the Dead and pull out some well known and underappreciated shows for further listening. 

In part one RtBE discussed live shows and albums which will ease a listener into the band. The group has such a wide range of music/sound/shows that RtBE went through the years they were active and pulled out specific highlights. While this gets long, it is literally the tip of the iceberg. The Internet Archive is a digital gold mine for amazing Grateful Dead shows, but below are are choices throughout the years for highlights and further listening. 

Let's do a deeper dive now...

Full Show Friday: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band The River Tour, Tempe AZ 1980

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band!

For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen

Here comes the Jersey Devil for our October Masters Series as The Boss has been wowing fans for decades now and his live shows are things of legends. All Full Show Friday's this month will be a testament to these and get ready because we have some doozy's lined up. 

Thanks to our resident Springsteen expert Tom Gallagher for curating this month's Friday concerts.

Like last week we are dipping into The River, but this time it is the original tour from 1980.  Bruce and the gang had a historic fiery night out in the desert as they blazed through Arizona. Enjoy:



Also like last week the video comes in play list form so if there are any issues just click here for the full list:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ3gKh8Ty5pY3c0O865FKQLzxw_mipjU1

The Masters: Bruce Springsteen - Top Five Studio Albums

RtBE loves listening to new music and prides itself on keeping tabs on up and coming artists but in 2019 we are also going to have a monthly spotlight on legendary artists who we really love. We are calling this series The Masters. It will focus on the best albums, live records, transcendent shows and other odd ways we appreciate the artists and their contribution to music, culture and our formation.

For October The Masters focuses on Bruce Springsteen

The next "new Dylan" Bruce Springsteen had high expectations and early in his career searched for his own sound which would be solidified in the mid 70's as Phil Spector  inspired grandiose rock and roll that goes for it every time.

An artist who recently pulled back the curtain on his craft, Springsteen famously said he never worked a day in his life but yet can craft a song like "The River" or "Factory" which cuts to the heart of a working man. Poetic, bombastic, country tinged and inspired by that sweet soul music, Bruce's sound is his own yet he inspired tons of others. It is impossible for RtBE to listen to Thin Lizzy and not hear Springsteen B-sides and for that matter half of E-Street went over the top with Bat Out of Hell.

The Boss remains an artist striving for the sound, his newest record went all retro-pop country, he is willing to experiment and take chances and his best successes rank up there with the greatest in rock and roll history. He became meticulous in the studio and it shows on the five albums we selected below so let's not waste any more words.

As a reminder these lists are to start conversations not end them, with that in mind let's see all that heaven will allow...

Full Show Friday: Joni Mitchell 1980 Shadows and Light

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...Joni Mitchell!

This week we focused on some of the most talented females making popular music today. So it was time to showcase Joni Mitchell live from 1980 Shadow and Light for our Full Show Friday to end things. Playing with Pat Methany and Jaco, Joni digs into her tunes with touches of jazz as all of the players are world class. Joni came up in conversation last week and while RtBE are not the biggest fans of hers we realized we never featured her on Full Show Friday so that needed to change.

This is her Shadows and Light tour which produced the live album. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, full setlist below.

Enjoy:


00:00 - Introduction 01:58 - In France They Kiss on Main Street 06:07 - Edith and the Kingpin 10:18 - Coyote 15:12 - Free Man in Paris 18:42 - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 24:36 - Jaco's Solo: The High and the Mighty Third Stone from the Sun 28:41 - The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines 33:04 - Amelia 39:45 - Pat's Solo 42:46 - Hejira 50:04 - Black Crow 54:01 - Furry Sings the Blues 59:37 - Raised on Robbery 1:02:52 - Band Introduction 1:04:03 - Why Do Fools Fall in Love 1:06:26 - Shadows and Light

Full Show Friday: The Kinks- One For The Road

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's.  These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...The Kinks!

This show comes from their 79-80 tour and while we dig them, we've never been huge Kinks fans, but it is impossible to not get into the opener "All Day And All Of The Night". What a classic piece of kick ass rock and roll. It is a bit messy here and that only makes us like it more.

"Lola", "Where Have All The Good Times Gone" are some great numbers played here and the band cooks. They made a live album out of this tour as well. Pro-shot and Pro-sound and an hour of fun for this Full Show Friday.

Enjoy:

1. "Opening"
2. "All Day and All of the Night"
3. Intro: Lola
4. "Lola"
5. "Low Budget"
6. "(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman"
7. "Attitude"
8. "Celluloid Heroes"
9. "Hard Way"
10. "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?"
11. "You Really Got Me"
12. "Pressure"
13. "Catch Me Now I'm Falling"
14. "Victoria"
15. "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)" (snippet sung)

Full Show Friday: John Lee Hooker- Live Montreal 1980

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's.  These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...John Lee Hooker!

Well we mentioned him yesterday in a post, so we figured lets let the boogie-woogie blues flow for real today...Here is John Lee Hooker from back in 1980 in Montreal.

The super cool Hooker is the obvious star here but his backing musicians are pretty legit in their own right. Gary Alongi rips it up on guitar during the first two insturmentals, getting the crowd worked up for the blues to come. I think after some research the bass player is Steve Gomes, and I couldn't find the drummers name, a tight trio even if they are a bit energetic for Hooker here.

John Lee takes a few songs to really get into it but dives in at the end  and is cooking by the end of the short set. How can you not dig "Boom Boom"? Pro-shot Pro Sound, so get down.... 

Enjoy, Set list below:

Instrumental #1
Instrumental #2
"It Serves Me Right to Suffer"
"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"
"I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive"
"Roll Me Like You Roll a Wagon Wheel"
"Boom Boom Boom"
"I'm in the Mood"
"Look at What You Did to My Life"
"Chicken and Gravy"
"We're Gonna Do The Shout"

Acoustic Grateful Dead to kick off summer 9-30-1980

Hope everyone had a happy Memorial Day Weekend, welcome to summer...we made it.  I attended a good friends lovely wedding up in Syracuse and got to experience some beautiful weather but today it is back to the desk.  It is an easy Monday (OK it's Tuesday but it is the first day of the work week so play along and Friday will arrive that much quicker...) so let's just stroll into some excellent Acoustic Grateful Dead from the historic Warfield Theater Run in the Fall of 1980.

 Today's show is the first set from 9-30-1980, listen via that direct link or right c'here:


Acoustic Dead is just perfect for summer days, and we got a muggy one here in NYC, hopefully this will cool you down.  These acoustic sets from the Warfield and Radio City Music Hall in 1980 were all recorded and the best of the best would be released as the excellent Reckoning.  None of this sets songs made the cut, but that doesn't diminish the quality of both the recording and the playing...top notch on both counts.  It opens with Bobby a bit hyped up running through "On The Road Again" and "Monkey & The Engineer" and Jerry mellowing it out with "Jack A'Roe" and my personal favorite from this set, "Birdsong".

 An acoustic "Bird Song" is a thing of beauty, this tune has been played in a variety of fashions over the bands career, but it was not present during the late 70's and was a bust out at these shows.  It can be epic or it could be simple and sweet.  This version is just a joy, a real smile of a song, and a perfect tribute to a good friend of the band, Janis Joplin.

Next come a few folk standards, "Dark Hollow" was the first.  Here is a cool performance that has a young spry David Grisman pickin' away and Peter Rowan singing, Check out Muleskinner:

Then the Dead do "Rosalie McFalls", how about this live version by The Infamous Stringdusters?:


The Dead, having started as a folk band, are right at home with these hoedowns, especially in an acoustic setting.  They then give a Bob Weir original a run through, and while I never cared too much for the lyrical version, these acoustic instrumental versions of "Heaven Help The Fool" are a joy to hear and this airing is no different. 

"China Doll" is eerie and haunting with it's harpsichord instrumentation and Jerry's cracking voice, but on this performance the backing vocals overpower the proceedings and take a bit of the sting out of it.  "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" works better with Jerry's world weary singing, and easy playing and what needs to be said about one of the simplest, picture perfect songs ever written..."Ripple", Enjoy.

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