Happy 40th Anniversary to Metallica's Master of Puppets.

40 years ago Metallica released their amazing album, Master of Puppets. 

While fans and critics can debate when Metallica reached their peak...for RtBE's money, this was it. 

Full Show Friday: The Allman Brothers Band - 07/12/86 - Starwood Amphitheatre

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 Allman Brothers!

Summer always makes RtBE think of the Allman's. Here they are from 1986 playing Starwood in Nashville, TN.  

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Full Set List Below. Enjoy!

The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert Recorded Live: 7/12/1986 - Starwood Amphitheatre (Nashville, TN) More The Allman Brothers Band at Music Vault: http://www.musicvault.com Subscribe to Music Vault: http://goo.gl/DUzpUF 

Setlist: 0:00:00 - Intro by Charlie Daniels 0:00:53 - Statesboro Blues 0:06:13 - Blue Sky 0:11:11 - One Way Out 0:20:37 - In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed 0:32:56 - Ramblin' Man 0:38:41 - Jessica 0:48:24 - Whipping Post (incomplete) 

Personnel: Dickey Betts - guitar, vocals Gregg Allman - organ, vocals Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson - drums Butch Trucks - drums "Dangerous" Dan Toler - guitar Chuck Leavell - piano Bruce Waibel - bass Jerry McCoy - bass

Full Show Friday: The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Reunion Concert 1986

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 Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem!

St. Patrick's Day is a few days away, so to get in the mood here is The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem's Reunion Concert from 1986. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, ENJOY!

 

Full Show Friday: The Bangles - Pittsburgh 1986

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 Bangles! 

This week we head to Pittsburgh back in 1986 for a full concert from The Bangles.

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

1. Let It Go 2. Restless 3. Walking Down Your Street 4. James 5. Going Down to Liverpool 6. He's Got A Secret 7. September Gurls 8. If She Knew What She Wants 9. Return Post 10. Live 11. In A Different Light 12. I Want You 13. Angels Don't Fall In Love 14. Hero Takes A Fall 15. Just Another Manic Monday 16. Walk Like An Egyptian

Full Show Friday: Queen Live Wembley Stadium 1986

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...Queen!

This week we have Queen Live from Wembley Stadium 1986

Check out Freddie Mercury and the fellas at one of their most iconic shows, Wembley Stadium 1986.

Pro sound, pro video, full setlist below. Enjoy:

1:17 One Vision 5:46 Tie Your Mother Down 10:00 In The Lap of The Gods 12:27 Seven Seas of Rhye 13:45 Tear It Up 16:45 A Kind of Magic 22:39 Ay-Oh 24:42 Under Pressure 28:20 Another One Bites The Dust 34:29 Who Wants To Live Forever 38:34 I Want To Break Free 42:12 Impromptu 45:00 Guitar Solo 54:12 Now I'm Here 1:00:47 Love of My Life 1:05:30 Is this The World We Created 1:08:19 I Don't Care (Baby You're So Square) 1:10:00 Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) 1:11:25 Tutti Frutti 1:16:05 Bohemian Rhapsody 1:21:56 Hammer To Fall 1:27:41 Crazy Little Thing Called Love 1:34:34 Radio Ga Ga 1:40:39 We Will Rock You 1:43:26 Friends Will Be Friends 1:45:33 We Are The Champions 1:49:44 God Save The Queen

Album Review: Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Dizzy Gillespie - Live In New Orleans

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here!!

It is of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band & Dizzy Gillespie's live album from 1986, Live in New Orleans.  

The smoking release is part of the Tipitina's Vinyl Record Club and an excellent addition to an already fantastic subscription series. 

Support the artists, and peep some video below:

(Video not from the album)

Full Show Friday: Fats Domino 1986 Austin City Limits Full Show

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...Fats Domino!

For November The Masters showcases the greats of early rock and roll

This is the full show that was edited to create the Austin City Limits show from 1986 for the Fat Man. As we mentioned in our top studio albums rankings, Fats Domino is the most underrated of the original set of rock and rollers. He had more hits out of anyone except Elvis out of the class of original rockers, yet he is mostly forgotten when the greats are discussed.

So here he is today, complete with a killer band and Dave Bartholomew who co-wrote many of Fats songs. A dynamite performance from all involved as Domino constantly brings smiles to faces of those listening to him.  For those who want the main course and not the into blues playing, Fats comes out at 19 minutes in.

Pro shot, pro sound, Enjoy:

Full Show Friday: Irma Thomas in Bern 1986

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...Irma Thomas!

Every April we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we start our monthly focus with none other than the Soul Queen of New Orleans Irma Thomas who will be playing in the Gospel Tent on Sunday May 6th.

Well we may have started off our Dylan Cover series this month with a whimper, but on the flip side we blast out our Full Show Friday lead up to Jazzfest with a bang! Irma Thomas giving it to us so god damn soulfully back in 1986 from Bern Germany. 

This is a gem filled set of tunes, sung by a legend with a drum tight rhythm & blues backing band; just press play and smile. 

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

0:00 - Thinking Of You 2:20 - Old Records 5:33 - Two Winter Long 7:55 - I Wish Someone Would Come 10:02 - I Can't Break Away 12:10 - Time Is On My Side 14:55 - Interview 17:45 - We Gonna Make It 22:20 - It's Raining 26:05 - Real Man

Full Show Friday: James Brown at The Ritz 1986

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...James Brown!

Occasionally for our Full Show Friday series RtBE decides to dedicate the month to certain topics like showcasing random years, say 1979,  or unique live venues, like CBGB's. Sometimes we combine both like Bonnaroo 2014. This month we are focusing on live shows from the historic NYC Venue Webster Hall aka The Ritz. Enjoy!

RtBE have enjoyed many a concert at the famed Webster Hall or as it was known in the 80's, The Ritz and a few weeks ago the club played host to it's last show for sometime as it will be undergoing a long renovation. To celebrate the illustrious venue we will be dedicating September's Full Show Friday's to the club, highlighting some amazing performances. 

Well we started this month's Webster Hall/Ritz showcase with the amazing Prince, and we end the showcase month with the man who he loved and emulated, James Brown. January 1986 saw Brown back in the spotlight after his performance of "Living In America" in Rocky 4 (the robot from the film does an intro here) and while we here at RtBE have never ever let JB leave out ears for long it is great to see him back and riding high here (perhaps in more ways than one).

While this isn't our favorite show from The Godfather of Soul (for that check THIS out) it is still great to see him (along with Maceo Parker and that crazy tuxedo) play and in the famed small venue as well. We hope enjoyed this monthly showcase, we sure did. Pro-shot, Pro-sound full setlist below, Enjoy!

  

James Brown - Full Concert
Recorded Live: 1/26/1986 - Ritz (New York, NY)

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Setlist:
0:00:00 - Robot Introduction
0:02:21 - Maceo Parker Instrumental
0:09:31 - Hot Pants Road
0:16:03 - James Brown Introduction / Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
0:22:02 - It's Too Funky In Here
0:26:14 - Doing It To Death
0:33:07 - Try Me
0:37:45 - Georgia On My Mind
0:43:18 - There's No Business Like Show Business / Cold Sweat
0:47:16 - (I Got You) I Feel Good
0:50:04 - Please, Please, Please / Jam (Till Your Body Gets Busted)
0:59:42 - Super Bad
1:04:23 - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
1:08:24 - Jam (Till Your Body Gets Busted) Reprise
1:13:08 - Living In America
1:26:34 - Band Exit

Full Show Friday: Bunny Wailer MSG 1986

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...Bunny Wailer!

With spring blooming in NYC and RtBE just getting back into the swing of the big city post Jazzfest we are going to chill out this Friday with some reggae. How about Bunny Wailer doing his thing at The World's Most Famous Arena?

This show is Pro Shot, Pro Sound from 1986 VHS rip, no more intro needed, Enjoy:

Happy Thanksgiving from RtBE!

Happy Thanksgiving From RtBE, to celebrate here are some awesome highlights from The Macy's Day Parade....from 1986.
Intro:

Since we normally talk about music here, hope about a marching band?

Now Here Is He-Man.  Oh hell yes, this float kicks ass!

Ok, skip to a 1:10 here and you will get a ton of the parade in some damn good quality.

Ahhh 1986, what a year, we give thanks this year to all the great music and everyone who takes the time to read this microscopic dot on the interweb.

Enjoy every sandwich all.

Dead and the Neville's Part 3

 I was originally going to end this series of the Dead and the Neville's with the classic New Years Eve show from 1987 that was released officially as the movie "Ticket to New Years Eve", (Here is Bill Graham's entrance from that night and a bit of "Hell in a Bucket" from the fella's)

However the archive doesn't support commercial releases, even audience recordings, so I am throwing a mini curve ball here with the second set from 12-16-1986 right at ya:

This show is part of a special run of concerts that saw the band do a legitimate 180 in their career.  Spring/Summer of '86 left a lot of fans wanting as performances and inspiration seemed to be running dry with the fellas.  Then Jerry fell into his diabetic coma for 5 days and the experience changed his life, here's how he explained it: 

"Well, I had some very weird experiences. My main experience was one of furious activity and tremendous struggle in a sort of futuristic, space-ship vehicle with insectoid presences. After I came out of my coma, I had this image of myself as these little hunks of protoplasm that were stuck together kind of like stamps with perforations between them that you could snap off."

Weird indeed, after having to re-learn the guitar and clean up some his notoriously bad habits he had enough strength to book these shows some 6 months post coma, pretty impressive, and even more so when you hear the playing.

This was the second show back on stage and from the tripped out playing it seems like they were not missing a beat, in fact they sound better then they had pre-Jerry breakdown.

The second set here is freaky fun, starting with the rarely played "Box of Rain" after being gone out of the setlists for over 10 years, the band brought it back in the spring of 86 and it sounds excellent here as Phil gets the opening vocal duties.  "Crazy Fingers" comes next and this is a tune I always forget how much I enjoy until I hear it.  Nothing earth shattering on display, but the grace and ease with which the fret runs flow, prove that Jerry was back in fighting shape.  "Estimated Prophet"  lets Bobby get wacky with echoes but really becomes intriguing around the 9 minute mark, with an amplified Brett coloring excellently while Garcia solos on his own, not the smoothest version, but an adventurous listen.  While the "Estimated" grew on me, the following "Eyes of The World" was odd from the get-go, super speedy, Speed Racer chaotic even.  In it comes, twinkles around a bit and is gone...it is almost as if the band wanted to get the Neville's on stage and start banging those "Drums".

  This is a fun drum jam, and even though it is 11 minutes, it doesn't get too boring as far as drum solo's go, which I grant you aren't the most exciting things in the world.  When the band comes back on stage they are joined by the Brother's Neville and start throwing down some "Willy and The Hand Jive"  written and recorded by Johnny Otis.

Tonight's version keeps the echoe-y Bobby and Art Neville's vocals, but adds a ton of strutting funk to the mix, a cool rarity from the two groups on stage.
     
The Neville's stick around to help out on a quick and exciting "Iko Iko", before letting the Dead end their set with a powerful "Stella Blue" and the "Sugar Magnolia>Sunshine Daydream" combo that must have gotten the crowd fired up with it's tropical feel lead by Brent.

The Neville's return to close the show on a high note with an bumping Steve Cropper/Wilson Pickett encore "In The Midnight Hour".     


The Dead and the Neville's had a healthy respect for each other and provided some great sonic moments on stage, as I mentioned in my first post on the subject, both bands experienced career renaissances around the same time and helped each other broaden their collective fanbases.  It was a healthy relationship and a fruitful one....so take some time and enjoy these two titans of American Music.  

Dead and the Neville's Part 1

The Grateful Dead and The Neville Brothers have been friends since both bands left their indelible marks on American music (both could be considered in the discussion of best American bands, but that is for another bar and another time...)

The Mid to Late 80's found both bands having a re-emergence of sorts, With the Dead releasing their most popular albums and the Neville's rediscovering their artistic voice.  This Monday's show pops up a bit before those high points commercially for both groups but comes on another special day, Mardi Gras 1986.

Today's show is 2-11-1986 you can click that link or listen c'here:



The sound of this recording is a perfect 10 out of 10, you couldn't ask for a more excellent capture of this historic and special night in deadistory.

The first set, and first song, is hotter then a spicy jambalaya.

 The opening "China>Rider" combo offers some intense playing, this is a money version of the popular combo. During "China Cat Sunflower", Phil in particular is all over the place with great bopping and plucking on his bass, taking the tune in new directions Jerry accepts the challenge and the 2 drummer boys start to rev up the engine.  The transition between the two tunes see's Brent catching up but Phil is still driving the train, with Jerry as his co-pilot.  They get the vocals out of the way for "I Know You Rider" and continue the majestic interplay.  I talked about a great China>Rider a Little bit ago and this version is totally different and equally great and probably even more underrated because most Dead fans don't dig on 1986...yet one more example of why this band is special.

After "China>Rider" gets the crowd alive Bobby sings (with quite a bit of echo) about those "East Bay Phillies" in "New Minglewood Blues".  The blues continue with one of my favorite versions of the sparsely played "Dupree's Diamond Blues".  Jerry's voice is struggling (It is 1986), but he gives it his all on this version as the tune shuffles behind him on the classic tale of a man stealing a diamond for his honey...and killing a cop in the process...whoops!

Bobby isn't exactly nailing the vocals either on his duo of "Me And My Uncle" and "Mexicali Blues", standard versions here, but the tempo has obviously been sped up by the band.  "The Bird Song" is noticeably quicker then lazier, more successful versions, making this one a bit unique, Phil also has some loud riffs that mix things up. It seems the band was in a hurry to get out their guest and Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez!

Once the "Drums" hit to start the 2nd set, you can feel the Cajun in the air as The Neville Brothers join the fella's.  "Iko Iko" is fleshed out and the highlight on this night with one of the Neville's trading lead vocals with Jerry, this is a monster version of this fun tune.  Then one of the coolest aspects of this show...a sped up, percussive version of "Eyes of The World" that the Neville's help push along with frantic speed.  It sounds like people are banging on everything available and still keeping time and making things interesting.  I love it when guests push the Dead, especially late in their career when they tended to get in a live comfort zone, song-structure wise.

This leads to another "Drums" with the Brothers, this is a big deal as Dead.net tells me they hadn't done 1 drum solo, let alone 2, since 10-2-1980 which is over 379 shows. These "Drums" possess tons of energy and also get freaky before sonic excursions in "Space", however on this night the drums win the battle.  The Neville's take a break for "Truckin'">"Stella Blue">"Not Fade Away" to end the show, average versions of these tunes, well, a bit below average for Stella with Jerry's Kermit voice in full effect. 

The Neville's rejoin for the Encore and with the crowd's help start back up "Not Fade Away" again before moving into the bands covering "Hey, Bo Diddley" this would be the last time the Dead played this classic standard tune, I am not sure about the Neville's, and while both bands seem to not want the jam to end the Dead really don't give it much of vocal workout...at least not like Daddy: 

As Tom Petty said, "Elvis is King...but Diddley is Daddy!" Indeed...this is intense!  May have to come back to Diddley at another point...Back to the show...

The Night (at least for the paying crowd) closed with a stretched out, organ laced "Going Down the Road Feeling Bad" but it is rumored the jam session lasted until the morning...and with the ease of mixing sounds and styles, it is easy to see why.

EXTRA CREDIT...if you read this far I got something to share...
As a special bonus, the next night's (2-12-1986) opening set by the Neville's was captured and placed on the Archive, go hear to listen to it (you need to scroll down to the end of the Dead set).  It starts with "Fire on The Bayou", and while the quality isn't the best, it is nice to have this for the listen anyhow. I almost posted this show instead today, but thought 2-11 was the better Dead Show...you can be the judge though, and then there is always next week....