Happy 30th Anniversary to Sonic Youth's Washing Machine

Sonic Youth celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the 1995 release of the excellent Washing Machine today. 

Sonic Youth were moving into their adult stage and this album signaled that anything was on the table for them.  

Happy 30th Anniversary to Rancid's ...And Out Come The Wolves

Happy 30th Anniversary to Rancid's career high point ...And Out Come The Wolves

The merging of punk, ska and rock on this album still holds up to this day...

Full Show Friday: Chaka Khan Montreux 1995

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...Chaka Khan!

This week we have Chaka Khan from Montreux back in 1995.

Pro shot, pro sound, full setlist and band info below. Enjoy:

Musicians: Joerg Reiter - piano + keyboard Dave King - bass Peter Tiehuis - guitar Nippy Noya - percussion Wolfgang Haffner - drums Johannes Faber - fluegelhorn Klaus Graf - saxophone special guest Howard McCrary - keyboard Ivonne Stevens - Background singer Penny Ford - Background singer Mark Stevens - Background singer Tracklist: 1. Intro - A night in Tunisia 2. Hissing of Summer Lawns 3. Alfi 4. What's going on 5. Fever 6. My funny Valentine 7. I want 8. Through the fire 9. You can make the story right 10. Ain't nobody

Live Streams: Phish: Dinner and a Rematch - NYE 95

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can. 

Today we highlight: Phish: Dinner and a Rematch - NYE 95

This one is super cool. Phish go back to one of their best shows for tonight's stream, New Years Eve 1995, but you need to watch the full video preview for the whole story....as this one is going interactive...

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Queen's Gambit indeed....25th anniversary of this great show...Join the band tonight at 8pm and to get into the mood for the show here is "Chalkdust Torture"

Full Show Friday: Jeff Buckley - Live in Frankfurt 1995

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...Jeff Buckley!

This week we travel back to 1995 and across the Atlantic to Frankfurt, Germany for a live show from Jeff Buckley. Pro shot and sound with a full set list below. Enjoy:

TRACKLIST: Mojo Pin: 00:00 - 11:53 So Real: 13:00 - 18:00 Last Goodbye: 19:10 - 23:40 What Will You Say: 24:35 - 32:00 Lilac Wine: 33:44 - 40:15 Grace: 41:40

Happy 25th Anniversary to Goodie Mob's Soul Food

Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of Goodie Mob's debut release, Soul Food.

Soul Food was RtBE's first introduction into southern hip hop and to this day it remains one of our favorite albums. This was before Outkast rose to fame, and in 1995 we were as into hip hop as we ever were and this album scratched all itches by using killer dark beats, excellent word play and conscious messaging while remaining hard hitting. It was clear the band was speaking from their heart throughout and it sounded great then and still sounds great 25 years later.

While their friends and contemporaries went on to superstardom, outside of Cee-Lo Green the band never hit those heights however Soul Food is an all-time great hip hop record that seems to get overlooked when discussing the greats in the genre. We were lucky enough to catch the band at SOB's live early in their career and loved the show that the MOB put on. 

RtBE has stayed tuned into their more recent releases, solo efforts, live streams and mentioned a new tune they put out last month, and a new album coming later this month! 

To celebrate this milestone let's return to their best record. Here are a few excellent tunes from Soul Food which turns 25 tomorrow:

  

Live Streams: Rhett Miller - Wreck Your Life

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: Rhett Miller

Rhett Miller is going back in time and performing the Old '97's album Wreck Your Life which they reeleased on Bloodshot Records back in 1995:

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Now gig-replacement is just gigs! So... Here are some notes about the upcoming week. My late show Wednesday will once again raise money for @musicares Covid-19 musicians’ relief fund. My setlist Friday has been created by Tig Notaro! Monday Memories (Wreck Your Life) becomes Tuesday Time Machine this week due to a very sweet person in my house turning 14 on Monday. As always, all shows are “pay what you can.”

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Support the artists, and to get in the mood here is some video from the album:

Happy Thanksgiving from RtBE!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving. Make sure you spend some time over this holiday doing what is truly important...Watching The Last Waltz:

For the gear heads reading this, here is an excellent run down of all the equipment used for this historic show.

Since it is a holiday, also make sure to enjoy your time with loved ones and family. As a famous man once said, "Enjoy Every Sandwich"...especially the leftover turkey, mashed potato, stuffing and gravy ones on potato rolls...

The last few years we have thrown it back to Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parades of the past and this years no different.

Here is the 1995 Thanksgiving Day Parade, now go get stuffed!

Dylan Cover #386 The Grateful Dead "Visions of Johanna" Live

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's artists, The Grateful Dead performing a live cover of "Visions of Johanna" 

Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
One of the clear high points in Dylan's poetic songwriting, "Visions of Johanna" is a complete stunner, especially the first time you encounter it. Now (on a personal note) if that first encounter just happens to be a hot sweaty night, in the heart of the urban village which Dylan roamed about 30 years before and you happened to be doing the same god damn thing, then so be it. Even if your personal take is different it is hard to wrap your brain around the lyrics and the more you listen the more the mystery deepens. It is elusive, bright, cunning, dismissive, iconic, ironic and tossed off all at once. It is mega and it is nothing...and I can't be more vague than that. Musically he couldn't get it right until he went down to Nashville and it says something that he stuck with this song (unlike say..."She Belongs To Me") and got a version that is magical musically as well, just listen to that bass line throughout from Joe South...a crowning success all around.

The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the Blonde on Blonde album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up.

Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
RtBE loves the Grateful Dead. We have voted for them as the Best American Band in our favorite bar stool conversation and are showcasing them this month in our Master's Series.

Thoughts on Cover:
We went through four Dead Dylan covers this month and have yet to have one where Jerry Garcia sings lead. That ends today. While the recording is a bit hot, Jerry sings strongly especially consider he would be dead in just about five months. 95 wasn't the best Dead year by a long shot, but some of Jerry's vocals seemed to have been more passionate, and for the most part that is the case here with just a few small vocal flubs which are forgivable. "Visions of Johanna" live from Chicago March 18th, 1995 is a great way to end our Dylan Cover focus with the Dead this month. 

Full Show Friday: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 3/8/95 @ United Center, Chicago

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...Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!

Some months our Full Show Friday's will focus on specific artists, years, venues, festivals or some combo of it all. This month we focus on summer concert standby's who always played the picturesque Saratoga Performing Arts Center over the years. 

August always makes RtBE think of upstate New York, specifically the town of Saratoga. Going to high school just a few miles from the town, we would spend many August days at the beautiful horse track and hot nights in the state park watching bands from all over. A few years back we presented shows from the venue itself This month we will highlight some bands who always seemed to roll through and we (mostly) got to see live. 

Ahh, Tom Petty. While we could have picked other years and other shows, this was when RtBE felt Petty & The Heartbreakers was riding highest, right around the release of Wildflowers. We already went deep on that record so we will talk about catching them live the summer of '95 on outdoor leg of this exact Dogs Have Wings Tour surrounded by the warm woods of SPAC.

It was a great night, our first seeing the group, as well as catching up with tons of old friends who weren't into the music as much as the party, but the sounds and set list were a joy. For this show there is a distinct memory of being pressed up against the barricade between the lawn seats and the amphitheater bowl seats.

It was a fun as hell night and one we wanted to showcase on this Friday in particular with The Travers tomorrow. RtBE is back in town for Pints, Ponies and Post Time at the Spaaaaaaa! 

Pro-Shot, Pro-slightly warped VHS tape sound, full setlist below. Enjoy:


Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Chicago, United Center March 03, 1995
Love Is A Long Road You Don't Know How It Feels 4:52 Listen To Her Heart I Won't Back Down 15:03 Free Fallin' 18:24 You Wreck Me Diamond Head Mary Jane's Last Dance 32:05 Into The Great Wide Open 42:03 Learning To Fly 47:15 Don't Fade On Me 51:46 Girl On LSD I Just Wanna Make Love To You Wildflowers 1:06:46 Yer So Bad It's Good Too Be King Breakdown 1:23:06 Driving Down To Georgia Refugee Runnin' Down A Dream 1:39:00 encore: Honey Bee 1:48:30 American Girl 1:55:02

Full Show Friday: Maceo Parker @ North Sea Jazz Festival 1995

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...Maceo Parker!

Have you noticed our subliminal March theme for Full Show Friday's? March's Full Show Friday's have been brought to you by the letter M. With Metallica, Merle, Mavis, Minutemen, and now Maceo!

MACEO!  How have we not showcased him yet in the full show Friday series? One of the best shows of our life was a Maceo gig in 1997 at Irving Plaza...what a night! This isn't up to that magical level, but the man and his band are fantastic. Pro shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy:

Full Show Friday: Beastie Boys Nassau Coliseum 5-11-95

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...Beastie Boys!

For December RtBE is having a special focus with our Full Show Friday's. This month we will showcase live shows, that we were at and also were huge influences on our musical tastes. We will also be trying to get some outside perspectives when we can. This will be a fun and personal month for us, hope you enjoy.   

So it is only the second week of this series and we are already cheating technically. We were not at this nights show in Long Island, we were at the show a few weeks later at Madison Square Garden on the same tour. In doing this month's focus on shows that personally meant something to us, this had to be included because our Beastie Boy experience at the Garden was our first introduction of our next life phase, New York City. 

We were just recently enrolled in NYU and were finishing up our senior year of high school about to enter the city full time when we came down with some friends and attended the concert. This was a preview, and it was a rollicking joy to behold. The Beasties themselves were a huge influence on our fashion, musical tastes and overall style. The Garden show was a trip and our trip was just beginning...  

So while we are cheating a bit, you can and still should, enjoy:

Setlist:

1. Stand Together  2. Sure Shot  3. Time to Get Ill  4. Shake Your Rump  5. Pass the Mic  6. Alright Hear This  7. The New Style  8. The Maestro  9. Tough Guy  10. Beastie Boys  11. Sabrosa  12. In 3's  13. Bobo on the Corner  14. The Biz vs. the Nuge  15. Time for Livin'  16. Flute Loop  17. Car Thief  18. The Sounds of Science  19. Posse in Effect  20. Do It  21. Hold It Now, Hit It!  22. Skills to Pay the Bills  23. Root Down  24. Rhymin' and Stealin'  25. Gratitude  26. Lighten Up  27. Son of Neckbone  28. What's Really Going On  29. Egg Raid on Mojo  30. Heart Attack Man  31. 5-Piece Chicken Dinner  32. So What'cha Want  33. Slow and Low  34. Sabotage