Full Show Friday: The White Stripes - Live in Sydney 2003

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 White Stripes!

Today we head back to 2003 and catch The White Stripes live in Sydney Australia. 

Pro shot, pro sound, set list below. Enjoy!

0:00 - Black Math 2:49 - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground 5:28 - I Think I Smell A Rat 7:42 - Love Sick (Bob Dylan cover) 11:30 - Hotel Yorba 13:48 - Wasting My Time 16:04 - I Want To Be The Boy 19:26 - Death Letter (Son House cover) 25:02 - Grinnin' In Your Face (Son House cover) 26:54 - The Hardest Button To Button 30:45 - We're Going To Be Friends 33:26 - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (Bacharach/David cover) 36:05 - Ball & Biscuit 40:43 - Screwdriver 44:26 - Seven Nation Army

Full Show Friday: Liz Phair - Live at Bonnaroo 6/14/03 - Manchester TN

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...Liz Phair!

Some months our Full Show Friday's will focus on specific artists, years, venues, tv shows, festivals or some combo of it all. 

This months Full Show Friday Series focuses on Female Artists at the Bonnaroo Festival.

Since we are in the teeth of summer, it gets RtBE thinking of Festivals, so let's revisit great sets from Bonnaroo's past. This isn't the first time we will be looking back at Bonnaroo, but there are tons of full sets to choose from. This month we focus on Female artists who played the festival in the past.

Up first this month, Liz Phair from Bonnaroo way back in 2003. Check it out below:

Liz Phair - 6/14/03 

Glory Johnny Feelgood Divorce Song Rock Me Uncle Alvarez Supernova Stratford-on-Guy 6'1" Fuck and Run Extraordinary Perfect World

Full Show Friday: King Crimson - Live in Japan 2003

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...King Crimson!

Prog rock from King Crimson, still going strong in 2003 as the band perform from Japan.  

Pro Shot (but no the clearest video), pro sound, full set list below:

"Introductory Soundscape" (Robert Fripp) – 01:32 "The Power to Believe (Part I: A Cappella)" (Adrian Belew) – 06:51 (Appx) "Level Five" (Belew, Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto) – 07:40 "ProzaKc Blues" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 15:03 "The ConstruKction of Ligh" (Fripp, Belew, Trey Gunn, Mastelotto) – 20:15 "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 29:10 "Elektrik" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 32:49 "One Time" (Belew, Bill Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Tony Levin, Mastelotto) – 41:34 "Facts of Life" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 48:20 "The Power to Believe (Part II: Power Circle)" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 53:40 "Dangerous Curves" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 01:02:30 "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part IV)" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 01:08:37 "Coda: I Have a Dream" – 01:17:20 "The Deception of the Thrush" 01:21:55 "The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 01:29:30

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The Masters: The Who - Best Live 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 September The Masters focuses on The Who.

A band that was a force of nature. In their prime The Who were a must catch live act. From the magical timing of the sun coming up at Woodstock as if it was a light show to the story about Monterrey Pop and the rift between Jimi Hendrix and The Who which is a classic...

Townshend says “I’ve heard Roger talk about it as a jam session, but it wasn’t a jam session. It was just Jimi on a chair playing at me. Playing at me like ‘Don’t f—k with me, you little sh-t.’” 

The musical quarrel came down to Townshend’s insecurity over The Who playing after Jimi Hendrix at Monterey, a gig that he considered to be a “critical concert.” Attempting to negotiate with Jimi didn’t go well, as Hendrix said “that’s not what you really mean. What you really mean is that you don’t want me to go first. You want to be first up there with the guitar smashing,” to which Townshend replied “Jimi, I swear, that’s not what it’s about.” 

In the end, the discussion cooled down and Hendrix suggested a coin toss to determine who would go first and The Who came out on the winning side of that toss.

Watching Hendrix’s performance later from the crowd with Mama Cass, she told Townshend, “he’s stealing your act” and Townshend said “no, he’s not stealing my act – he’s doing my act.” Explaining further, Townshend says “for me, it was an act and for him, it was something else. It was an extension of what he was doing.”

They have memorable live moments, both good and bad and as a band continue to tour with two of the original members. While their hey day is clearly behind them, their recent past gets some love on our live albums list below. RtBE was not alive to catch the group as a four piece but we have caught them a few times as well as variations of their work and love every minute of it. 

So let's get to their top five live albums below. As a reminder this list is meant to start conversations, not end them....

Full Show Friday: The Rolling Stones @ MSG, NYC 2003 Licks Tour

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 Rolling Stones!

For April The Masters focuses on The Rolling Stones.

Every April we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we will focus on The Rolling Stones who will be playing Thursday May 2nd under a tent (we shall see what that means). Get well soon Mick

The Stones were supposed to be the special guest for the 50th Anniversary of Jazzfest and for the first time ever Jazzfest actually sold out the day they will be playing. Pretty unreal, it is going to be a  special moment but also kind of the opposite of what Jazzfest does best. Either which way it will be exciting to see them down there. (Update: Due to Mick Jagger's health issues the Stones have canceled their 2019 North American tour including Jazzfest)

Here they are from 2003 playing a small venue called Madison Square Garden (no plural, no matter what the title says). This was broadcast on HBO so it is pro-shot, with pro-sound. Enjoy:

Dylan Cover #288 The Skyriders "The Mighty Quinn" Live

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a live cover by The Skyriders playing "The Mighty Quinn"

Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
Not officially released until 1970's audience and critic defying Self-Portrait "Quinn The Eskimo" first found life with Manfred Mann, before a lot of the world heard Dylan sing it himself. It had been on The Basement Tapes though and lots of bootleggers, underground fans and admiring fellow artists got to bask it its rollicking glory. A fun old ride that makes everyone from children to adults smile. A favorite purely because it is one of the plain funnest songs in Dylan's catalog one of my personal highlights regarding the song has nothing to do with the playing, it has to do with what Dylan himself wrote about it in Chronicles:

"On the way back to the house I passed the local movie theater on Prytania Street, where The Mighty Quinn was showing. Years earlier, I had written a song called 'The Mighty Quinn' which was a hit in England, and I wondered what the movie was about. Eventually, I'd sneak off and go there to see it. It was a mystery, suspense, Jamaican thriller with Denzel Washington as the Mighty Xavier Quinn a detective who solves crimes. Funny, that's just the way I imagined him when I wrote the song 'The Mighty Quinn,' Denzel Washington."

Cover:

Thoughts on Cover Artist:
We have not heard of the The Skyriders before this post. They seem to be a German band and lead singer Petra Stokkamp- Ballin has posted a few other live covers from various bands
Thoughts on Cover:

It is a sped up version that contains a jammed out midsection and is an upbeat fun take for a live interpretation of the tune. A good way to start this summer Monday.