Full Show Friday: Yuck Live In Concert: NPR Music At SXSW 2011

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...Yuck!

This week we go back to the alt-rock of Yuck in 2011. This tour came after their debut release which RtBE reviewed. Check out the pro-shot, pro-sound, set list below. Enjoy!

5:09 - Holing Out 9:13 - The Wall 13:14 - Shook Down 16:57 - Suicide Policeman 21:48 - Get Away 26:09 - Suck 31:03 - Operation 34:55 - Rubber

Full Show Friday: Public Enemy Live @ Splash 2011

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...Public Enemy!

Here comes one of the best hip hop acts ever, Public Enemy. Check them out with their full band playing to a huge festival crowd in Germany in 2011. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy:

Album Review: Sonic Youth - Live in Brooklyn 2011

Sonic Youth

Live in Brooklyn 2011

**** out of *****

The final US show the fantastic Sonic Youth ever played is captured on this special release as the August 12th 2011 Williamsburg, NYC Waterfront set from the noise rock legends is now available on vinyl from Silver Current Records. 

Having attended this show, which at the time no one knew would be the bands last, there was a sense of something special in the air. The previous few years found the band revisiting past albums with strong shows, but this career ranging affair was unique and powerfully played. Lovingly captured here, this gorgeous night from the hometown band will now live on. 

The setlist was created by drummer Steve Shelley and as he explains it:

“This show was a culmination of a run of really special outdoor summertime shows in New York City for us, starting in ’92 with Summerstage in Central Park when we played with Sun Ra. For the Williamsburg Waterfront show I wrote out the set list to present to the band and it was a lot of material we hadn’t played in a while, a lot of deep cuts, so I wasn’t sure if everybody would feel like doing it. After worrying about which songs the band might say yes or no to, I threw those concerns out the window and I just made a list of songs that I thought would be a great set. We practiced the week of the show at our space in Hoboken and put the set together. First we’d try and make sure we had a guitar in the song’s tuning, then we’d try to remember the arrangement and try and put it together, sometimes re-learning bar by bar. In the end I think the whole song list made it through. Even as early as ’86 and ’87 we stopped playing ‘Death Valley 69’ and ‘Brave Men Run’ with any regularity. We’d just get excited about new material coming into the set and songs would get ‘retired’ and wouldn’t get played again for years. So on this particular night in Brooklyn a lot of those retired songs and deep cuts got dusted off and played for this show. It turned out to be a pretty special event with a really special song list.”

The band (Kim Gordon - voc, gtr Mark Ibold - Bass Thurston Moore - voc, gtr Lee Ranaldo - voc, gtr Steve Shelley - drums) tore into this old material right off the bat with that combo of "Brave Men Run (In My Family) > "Death Valley ’69" deploying scratchy layers of guitars, feedback, rumbling low end, and desperate vocals to recall the groups early noise days with passion and energy. 

Another old warhorse noise number "Kotton Krown" found Moore singing the prophetic words for this night, "New York City is forever, kitty I'm wasted in time and you're never ready Fading, fading, celebrating". Shelley puts his powerful drums to work with the head banging "Kill Yr. Idols" while Ranaldo gets the crowd revved up to go on "Eric's Trip". The muscle car guitars and motoring sounds continue for "Sacred Trickster", the cataclysmic "Calming The Snake", and the grooving "What We Know" all off of the bands final album (the underrated The Eternal), these were the newest song played on this evening, yet all fit in with the deep cuts/classics wonderfully.    

Speaking of deep cuts, "Starfield Road" is up next with crushing bass from Ibold, while the free jazz gets rolled out for the extended screeching and pounding of old school tunes "I Love Her All The Time" and "Ghost Bitch" from the early days of SY. The slow burn of "Tom Violence" builds with sexy power while the unhinged screaming guitars and Gordon's strong vocals slam on "Drunken Butterfly" ending the main set of tunes. 

The encores on this night were special as the group continued to delve into their past with feminist force of "Flower" and a rare "Psychic Heart" from Moore's solo career. Both were nice, but it was a gorgeous rendition of the band's "Sugar Kane" that really hit the sold out summer crowd squarely in the chest, the highlight of the whole night. 

Feeling extra giving the band returned for a second encore that saw them dig deep and unleash the chugging, noise rock blast of "Inhuman", ending the night, and basically their whole career, on loud clanging feedback, just the way these legends should.  

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On a personal note, Sonic Youth are one of our all-time favorite acts, and  RtBE has owned an audience taped copy of this show since it happened, so the music is well loved to these ears. It is nice to now own a soundboard recording on vinyl, but it is also bitter sweet as the band was still kicking ass at such a high artistic level when they broke up. It is another reminder, like with the recently broken up Screaming Females, enjoy this amazing music live while you can. 

Support the artists, buy the album and peep some video below:

Dylan Cover #571 Sarah Jarosz "Meet Me In The Morning" 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 Sarah Jarosz playing "Meet Me In The Morning"

Thoughts on Original:

From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
A swaggering track that rose out of the ashes of "Call Letter Blues" (which was later released on The Bootleg Series Volume 1-3) "Meet Me In The Morning" is a shot of blues after the blissfully mournful "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" as it kicks off side two of the famous Blood On The Tracks. The song is one of the ones Dylan recorded in NYC for Blood on the Tracks and it pulses with the city's energy. A cool note about this straight ahead song (which is tailored made for covering) is that Jack White is a big fan, playing it at times at his shows and got Dylan to perform it for the only time ever on 9/19/07 in Nashville, TN.  

Cover:

Thoughts on Cover Artist:
This is actually the second time we are featuring Sarah in this series.  Way back in 2015 she graced cover #188, doing her version of "Simple Twist of Fate". Wow, this series has been going on forever...Oh and Jarosz is legit. 

Thoughts on Cover:

A live take from the 2011 Winnipeg Folk Festival's "If Licks Could Kill" workshop. It seems off the cuff as the players just seem to be playing together for the first time.  Great pickin', a few lost words, and good times had by all. 

Full Show Friday: Mike Patton / Mondo Cane - Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile, Sep. 21, 2011

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...Mike Patton / Mondo Cane!

The theatrical stylings of Mike Patton and Mondo Cane playing Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile on Sep. 21, 2011 is our Full Show Friday of the week. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Full set list below. Enjoy:

00:00​ Il Cielo in Una Stanza 03:32​ Che Notte! 07:02​ Ore d'Amore 09:44​ 20 KM al Giorno 13:08​ Quello Che Conta 16:03​ Urlo Negro 18:57​ Legata ad un Granello di Sabbia 23:02​ Deep Down 26:19​ Pinne, Fucile ed Occhiali 29:04​ Scalinatella 32:18​ L'uomo che non Sapeva Amare 35:37​ Ma l'Amore no 39:34​ Canzone 43:15​ Ti Offro da Bere 45:44​ Dio Come ti Amo 49:45​ Storia d'Amore 54:02​ Lontano, Lontano 57:01​ O Venezia 01:01:10​ Yeeeeeeh! 01:03:13​ Senza Fine 01:08:37​ Que He Sacado Con Quererte (Violeta Parra Cover) 01:10:17​ Una Sigaretta 01:13:50​ Sole E Malato 01:17:10​ Presentacion de los músicos de Mondo Cane Mike Patton's Mondo Cane - Teatro Caupolicán, Santiago, Chile, Sept. 21, 2011 (Via X HD)

Full Show Friday: Yonder Mountain String Band Delfest 2011

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...Yonder Mountain String Band!

This full show is from 2011 as YMSB works their bluegrass magic at DelFest. Not Pro Shot, but the sound and visuals are great from one camera. Full set list below. Enjoy:

Side Show Blues (Todd Snider cover) 
Sometimes I've Won 
Pockets 
Ripcord Blues 
The First Whippoorwill (Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys cover) 
The Prisoner's Song (Vernon Dalhart cover) 
What the Night Brings (Jeff Austin song) 
Ain't No Way of Knowing 
Rain Still Falls 
Criminal
Shake Me Up 
You're No Good (Dee Dee Warwick cover)
One More 
On the Run (>)
Death Trip (> ‘On the Run’ reprise) 
Encore: Southern Flavor

Dylan Cover #462 Ron Miles "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" 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 Ron Miles of the Dylan tune "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)"

Jazzy January has invade Mondays! All this month we will check out various artists covering Dylan with a jazz vibe.

Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we talked about this tune:
A layered and moving song, the real highlight on a mixed up Dylan album (Street Legal), "Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" is musically riveting and lyrically haunting.  Acoustic plucking, rolling drums and a forlorn trumpet color the tune musically while some straight ahead lyrics mix with the surreal and backup singers add "Oooh and Aaaah" behind the nasal delivery of the Bard.  Looking at the "Painted Wagon" and smelling the "Tail of the Dragon" are just two examples of bizarre lyrics that could pertain to nuclear war or something else entirely making it all even more enchanting.  A gorgeous music background with perplexing lyrics and a strong vocal performance...yup, I dig this one a ton. 
Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
RtBE is new to Ron Miles who has played with legends in the genre and beyond. 

Thoughts on Cover:

Like last week, not the best video but a cool, unique  jazz take on a Dylan tune, in this case one of our favorites. 

Dylan Cover #394 Pete Townshend "Corrina, Corrina" 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 Pete Townshend performing "Corrina, Corrina" 

Thoughts on Original:
Early Dylan took folk songs that had been out there forever, placed sometimes small, sometimes large changes onto them and re-wrote the suckers making history. "Corrina, Corrina" is one of those which showed up on The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan. Originally recorded by Bo Carter in 1928 the tune has had tons of covers, everyone from The Mississippi Sheiks to Blind Lemon Jefferson, each adding their own flair to the number. Bob's rendition is a short jaunty tune which has a good beat, bounces around and features Dylan's harmonica, acoustic and great vocals. Not deep, just pretty and sweet. 

Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
We are celebrating The Who all month in our Masters series. They are one of RtBE's all-time favorites. This is Pete solo, which is pretty damn great.

Thoughts on Cover:
Pete explains why he covers this song at the beginning of the video, very very cool. I wish we could hear these explanations for all of the people we have featured in this cover series which is now pushing 400!  The discussion at the beginning is even cooler than the song, which is delicate, fragile twinkling take on the folk tune.

Full Show Friday: The Radiators 4/20/11 Great American Music Hall SF, CA

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 Radiators!

Every April we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we will focus on The Radiators who will be celebrating their 40th year on the Gentilly Stage, Sunday May 6th

Look at this one, EXACTLY seven years ago this show went down. Today RtBE showcases New Orleans own The Radiators from the Great American Music Hall in 2011, on their farewell tour...4/20 indeed.

As things would have it, they regroup to play the closing Sunday celebrating 40 years in action. Not pro shot, but the sound is fantastic. Enjoy:

Full Show Friday: Bruno Mars 2011

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...Bruno Mars.

We will be honest, we love our Jazz Jan series, but reviewing the numbers each year it seems the public does not. So to recover from the low clicks, we shamelessly move to pop acts in February for RtBE's Full Show Friday features. The truth is that we do not follow the top 100 and have no idea who teenage girls (the demographic the industry directly markets too) are following so we will just go look at the numbers.

This week it is the popular Bruno Mars who seems to never leave the Billboard Top 5. He is a pleasant combination of Stevie, Michael, and Prince without any of their edge. While not a fan of his, we have nothing against him at all. In fact, if that Met shirt in the picture is the truth, we may have to start giving him some more love.

Here he is from 2011. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy:

Dylan Cover #268 Patti Smith "Boots Of Spanish Leather"

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 Patti Smith of the Dylan tune "Boots Of Spanish Leather"

Thoughts On Original:
From the first time we highlighted someone covering this tune:
One of the first Dylan songs that really bowled me over. I know on the Times They Are a-Changin' there are a ton of epic songs but this was the track that stayed with me the longest. It is ghostly in it's presentation and still just as dynamic now as when he wrote it back in 1963. My favorite show I have seen Dylan play live was back in 1999 at the RPI Fieldhouse. The whole night was great, my favorite backing band of his since The Band, a tiny venue and a setlist that was magical. One of the major highlights was "Boots of Spanish Leather", I need to break out that bootleg this week and re-live that great night.
Cover: 

Thoughts on Cover Artist:
Patti Smith blew us away when we caught her opening for Neil Young & Crazy Horse. In complete honesty we were never a fan before those performances (we caught her twice) and we were instantly turned on our ears as she is a genuine rock star.
Thoughts on Cover:

An excellent acoustic version with Lenny Kaye playing guitar and Smith singing emotionally in a live setting. Great cover