Poco - 1975-07-30 - Central Park, NY

Poco
1975-07-30
Central Park, Wollman Skating Rink,
New York, NY
Audience recording, good quality
mp3 @ 256 kbps


More Poco from this middle period, about a year later than the previous post. In addition to the previous repertoire, this one adds songs from their 2 most recent albums at the time, Contamos (1974) and Head Over Heels (1975), featuring among others, Tim Schmit's superb harmony anthem 'Keep On Tryin'. As noted previously, this solid quartet format lasted for a couple more albums and tours, until Tim B. Schmit left to join the Eagles at the end of 1977 (ironically, to replace Randy Meisner, again, as Schmit also originally joined Poco to replace Randy Meisner). After that, things got a bit strange for Poco. Stunned by the departure of Schmit and facing the cancellation of the release of their next album by their record company (a planned live album), the group decided to take a break. In that time Paul Cotton and Rusty Young formed a new band, tentatively called the Cotton-Young Band, adding Brits Charlie Harrison (bass, backing vocals) and Steve Chapman (drums), and focusing their music on a more pop-oriented sound. As they began to record tracks for an album, their record company liked what they heard, but wanted to release the album under the Poco name, so they did. Unfortunately, this left George Grantham out of the group, without him ever quitting or the band firing him, as the new lineup was formed and continued without him. Perhaps not surprisingly, with the more pop, and less country sound, the 'new' Poco became much more successful than ever before, with the new album Legend (1978), producing the group's first 2 legitimate hit singles ('Crazy Love' and 'Heart of the Night') and a top 20 hit album. Poco has continued with various lineups (including reunions of the original lineup and various other guest appearances by Furay, Meisner, and Messina) over the years and is still active today (although Rusty Young is the only original member in the current incarnation, longtime member Paul Cotton remained in the band until 2010). Even with all the lineup changes over the years, Rusty Young has played on every Poco album, and has played in every Poco gig, from the beginning. 

Tracklist:
01. Keep On Tryin'
02. Sagebrush Serenade
03. Blue Water ->
04. Fools Gold
05. Bad Weather
06. Hoedown
07. Ride The Country
08. Makin' Love
09. Georgia Bind My Ties
10. Restrain
11. Railroad Days
12. Siitin' On a Fence
13. High and Dry
14. Good Feelin' To Know
15. A Right Along

Band Members:
Paul Cotton – guitars, vocals
Rusty Young – pedal steel guitar, banjo, Dobro, guitar, mandolin, vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – bass, harmonica, vocals
George Grantham – drums, vocals

New Link! updated 06/25/23
Poco - 1975-07-30 - NYC link here

Poco - 1974-06-01 - Seattle

Poco
1974-06-01
Seattle, WA
Paramount Theater
Audience recording (JEMS Master), very good quality
mp3 @ 320 kbps

Here's more Poco, from the next stage of their career. Following Ritchie Furay's departure in late 1973, Poco continued as a quartet, deciding not to add anyone to replace Furay. This meant that the rest of the band members had to really step-up to fill the shoes of someone who lead the band, was their strongest vocalist, and was one of the main songwriters. Fortunately, that's exactly what happened, with Rusty Young and Timothy B. Schmit taking on much larger roles, partnering with Paul Cotton as a triumvirate of singing, songwriting, and performing talent. Rusty, in particular, had primarily only been the multi-dimensional guitarist (pedal steel, banjo, Dobro, mandolin, etc.) up to that point, and not actively involved in singing or songwriting. Fortunately, he has a fine singing voice (which allowed them to continue to feature their 3- and 4-part harmony vocals without missing a beat), and also was an accomplished songwriter, too, contributing many fine songs to their repertoire. This quartet lineup also gave the group some much-needed stability. After 4 lineup changes in their first 3 years, this core quartet group remained intact for several more years (from 1973-1977, until Schmit left to join the Eagles). This period became the most stable and arguably most productive period of the band, as well as produced some of their best albums [5 solid albums in 4 years: Seven (1974), Contamos (1974), Head Over Heels (1975), Indian Summer (1976), and Rose of Cimarron (1977)], alas, still without much mainstream commercial success. The show featured here is from the 1974 tour in support of Seven, and it has very good sound quality, and is a fine example of how well Poco carried on without Ritchie Furay.   

Tracklist:
01. Blue Water ->
02. Fools Gold
03. Bad Weather
04. Drivin' Wheel ->
05. I Can See Everything
06. Ride The Country
07. Here We Go Again
08. Faith In Families
09. Angel
10. I Guess You Made It ->
11. Restrain
12. A Right Along
13. Hoe Down ->
14. Railroad Days (cut in middle due to tape flip)
15. Good Feelin' To Know
16. C'mon

Band Members:
Paul Cotton – guitars, vocals
Rusty Young – pedal steel guitar, banjo, Dobro, guitar, mandolin, vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – bass, harmonica, vocals
George Grantham – drums, vocals

New Link! Updated 10/8/21
Poco - 1974-06-01 - Seattle here

Poco - 1972-02-13 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Poco
February 13, 1972
Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Soundboard recording, Very good quality
mp3 @ 256 kbps

Richie Furay formed Poco in 1968 during the collapse of Buffalo Springfiield (taking along Jim Messina and ace pedal steel session musician Rusty Young), and although Furay lead Poco for about five years and through their first 6 albums (leaving in late 1973), there are relatively few available live recordings from Furay's years with the band. This is one of the few I know of, from 1972. Fortunately, it is very good quality, but frustratingly short (probably an opening set for another headlining band). Although Poco is now acknowledged as one of the premier and seminal country-rock bands, they never became very popular in their day (no hit singles, weak album sales, not headlining tours). One of the primary reasons Furay left the band was his frustration with their lack of commercial success and inability to build up bigger audiences. In 1972 & 1973, even after critical acclaim and 6 albums, they were still primarily an opening act for other, bigger bands (This was especially crushing for Furay because of the much greater successes of his former bandmates, i.e. Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, & Nash, Loggins& Messina, etc). Surely, one of the great neglected and underappreciated bands, Poco produced much classic and quality music, but it seemed the general public was not quite ready for their hard mixture of country and rock at the time. Although the band did see some greater success (a couple hit singles, at least) a few years after Furay left, they still never quite broke through to the extent they deserved. Furay, as we know, left to join what seemed to be a 'Can't Miss' opportunity, forming the new country-rock 'supergroup' the Souther-Hillman-Furay Band, which ironically, didn't fare much better than Poco did (and were much more short-lived), but that's another story (which we have covered here previously). If we just concentrate on the music, however, Poco was, and is, a great band, and this is a fine show from those earlier Furay days of the band. 

1. What If I Should Say I Love You
2. Hoe Down
3. Just For Me And You
4. You Are The One
5. Bad Weather
6. Hard Luck/A Child Claim's To Fame/Pickin' Up The Pieces
7. Railroad Days
8. C'mon
9. What A Day

Ritchie Furay - guitars, vocals
Paul Cotton - guitars, vocals
Timothy B. Schmit – bass, harmonica, vocals
Rusty Young - pedal steel guitar, banjo, Dobro 
George Grantham – drums, vocals

Thanks to Infinite Fool (infinitefool.blogspot.com) for providing this show!

New Link! Updated 06/25/23
Poco - 1972 - Amsterdam here

Chris Hillman Band (w/Pre-Firefall) - 1975-06-03 - the Other End, New York, NY

Chris Hillman Band
(featuring members of Firefall just before their breakthrough)
1975-06-03
The Other End, New York, NY
Audience recording, Good quality
Available in both lossless (Flac) and mp3 (@320 kbps) versions
Custom Artwork provided

Here again, is the remarkable Chris Hillman, from the tour immediately following the break-up of the Souther Hillman Furay band in 1975. Chris got together with old friend Rick Roberts and members of Rick's 'new' band, tentatively called Firefall, which had begun rehearsing together but had not yet recorded or performed as a group. This was the same gig, at New York's The Other End (aka The Bitter End), where just a few days later, Firefall would be 'discovered' and offered their record contract, after Chris Hillman became ill and had to bow out of the tour and Firefall continued several shows without him, featuring their new band and songs (That first Firefall show 1975-06-06 was previously featured here). Here though we have a show prior to that day, when Chris was apparently healthy, still very much in charge, and ably leading and running the show, which features a great selection of songs from throughout his career at that point (Byrds, Burrito Bros. SHF Band, etc.) with notable and expert back-up provided by the Firefall guys.
This recording was provided to me once again by our own David M. Although he did not personally tape this one, he received it many years ago from the taper, and it has been in only very limited circulation since then. Enjoy. 

1st Set
01 - Lazy Day
02 - It Doesn't Matter
03 - Bound To Fall
04 - Hot Burrito #2
05 - Heavenly Fire
06 - Sin City
07 - Fallen Eagle
08 - Rise And Fall
09 - The Race Is On
10 - Follow Me Through
11 - So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star

2nd Set
12 - Safe At Home
13 - Down In The Churchyard
14 - Bound To Fall
15 - Lies
16 - Colorado
17 - Time Between
18 - Blue Morning
19 - Hot Burrito #2
20 - Christine's Tune
21 - Follow Me Through
22 - Mystery train
23 - Take It On The Run
24 - Six Days On The Road

Chris Hillman - guitar, mandolin, lead vocals
Rick Roberts - rhythm guitar, vocals
Jock Bartley - lead guitar
Mark Andes - bass
Michael Wooten - drums

mp3 - Chris Hillman_1975-06-03_NY_mp3.rar

flac - set1: Chris Hillman_1975-06-03_NY_FLAC_Set1.rar
        set2: Gram Parsons_1973-06-03_NY_FLAC_set2.rar
New Links (Updated 12/02/21)

The Who - This Old Lifehouse-The Bootleg Reconstruction Project ver. 2.0 (Updated)

The Who
This Old Lifehouse
The Bootleg Reconstruction Project ver. 2.0 (Updated! now more complete)
Various sources, mainly soundboard, quality good to excellent
available in Lossless (FLAC) and mp3 (@ 320 kbps) versions
Custom Artwork and liner notes included

Here, finally, is the return of what was probably my most ambitious project for this blog, my Lifehouse compilation, and now it is even updated and improved, containing additional songs not included in the earlier version. I put this together more than 3 years ago, to gather together all the various songs  that were written for or originally intended for inclusion in the Who's epic, but abandoned, 1971 project, Lifehouse, because, quite surprising, this compilation was not available anywhere else (see additional notes regarding earlier compilation from original post here). It was finished and posted to the blog in fall 2009, where it has been available ever since (up until it was deleted in the megaupload debacle). But I waited to re-upload it, because I wanted to update it with songs that were not available when I first put it together. It always bothered me that I could not find unofficial versions to include for all of the songs, and thus had to leave some off ('Teenage Wasteland', 'Going Mobile', and 'Put the Money Down'). For those songs, the only available versions were Pete Townshend's original demo recordings, which at the time had been commercially released by Pete as part of his 'Lifehouse Chronicles' box set (on Pete's eelpie records, eelpie.com), so I did not think it was appropriate to include in my compilation, even though bootleg versions of the demos had been available for years. However, shortly after I put the collection together, Lifehouse Chronicles was deleted from production and was no longer available commercially, and Townshend's demo recordings have not been available at any time for these past 3 years. So, I decided to go ahead and include the bootleg versions of Pete's demos for some of the missing songs. In addition, over the past couple years, Roger Daltrey has begun including 'Going Mobile' in his live shows (and also acknowledged that this song was never played live by the Who), so I have now included Roger's live version in the compilation. So, now here it is, ver. 2.0, which is now complete, and includes versions of ALL the songs that I think should be in this compilation. I have also included Pete's demo version of 'Time is Passing' as a bonus track, which could be substituted for the live track used here (which is of poor recording quality), if desired.

Tracklist
Disc 1:

01. Teenage Wasteland (Pete Townshend – Demo recording)*

03. Love Ain’t For Keeping (Alternate Version/Mix – Record Plant Sessions 03/71 NY)
02. Time Is Passing (1971-05-14 - Liverpool)

04. Going Mobile (Roger Daltrey – 2010-07-02 – Noblesville IN) (Alt. Pete Townshend – Demo)*

05. Greyhound Girl (2006-7-14 – Locarno)
06. Mary (Townshend) (2000-3-23 – London)
07. Keep Me Turning (Townshend)(Alternate Version/Mix - Rough Mix Sessions – 1977)
08. I Don’t Even Know Myself (1970-07-07 – Tanglewood)
09. Bargain (1971-12-07 – Phoenix)
10. Too Much of Anything (Alternate Version/Mix – Record Plant Sessions 03/71 NY)
11. Music Must Change (1979-12-08 – Chicago)
12. Baba O’Riley (1975-11-20 – Houston)
13. Behind Blue Eyes (1975-11-20 – Houston)
14. Sister Disco (Alternate Version/Mix  - Shepperton Studio Sessions 1979)

15. Put The Money Down (Pete Townshend – Demo)* 

16. Baby Don’t Do It (1971-12-13 – San Francisco)

Disc 2:
17. Pure and Easy (Alternate Version/Mix – Record Plant Sessions 03/71 NY)
18. Getting In Tune (Alternate Version/Mix – Record Plant Sessions 03/71 NY)
19. Let’s See Action (2000-09-30 – Cleveland)
20. Slip Kid (1976-03-11 – New York)
21. Relay (2000-09-30 – Cleveland)
22. Who Are You Intro Jam (1st Time played – 1976-10-21 – Toronto)
23. Who Are You (1979-05-17 – Paris)
24. Join Together Intro Jam (1975-11-20 – Houston)
25. Join Together (1989-06-27 – New York)
26. Long Live Rock (1979-12-08 – Chicago)
27. Water (1970-07-07 – Tanglewood)
28. Naked Eye (1974-05-18 – Charlton)
29. Won’t Get Fooled Again (1973-12-04 – Philadelphia)
30. Song Is Over (Alternate Version/Mix – Olympic Studio Sessions – 4-5/71 London)

*New additions

------------- a BB Chronicles Exclusive Custom Compilation--------------

Compiled by BBKron exclusively for The BB Chronicles (http://bbchron.blogspot.com). This compilation gathers together unofficial recordings of songs originally intended for the Who’s abandoned Lifehouse project. All tracks have been previously available from various bootleg sources.

New Links! (Updated 09/27/21)
Mp3 part1: This Old Lifehouse_Bootleg Reconsruction_v2_mp3-Part1.rar
Mp3 Part2: This Old Lifehouse_Bootleg Reconsruction_v2_mp3-Part2.rar

Flac-Part1: This Old Lifehouse_Bootleg Reconsruction_v2_FLAC-Part1.rar
Flac-Part2: This Old Lifehouse_Bootleg Reconsruction_v2_FLAC-Part2.rar

Note: There are a few differences between the mp3 and Flac versions of the compilation. The Flac version contains Pete's demo recording for 'Going Mobile' and 'Mary' instead of the live tracks included in the mp3 version due to the lack of availability of lossless sources for those tracks.

Additional note (for those wishing to burn to CD): With the addition of the extra tracks, disc 2 is now a bit too long to fit on a single CD. For burning purposes, one song (4 min or greater) will need to be removed from the collection in order to fit on 2 CDs (your choice). But this is the complete collection   
 

Suspended!

Mediafire has locked and suspended my account, meaning that all the files uploaded to mediafire are gone and cannot be accessed or downloaded (which is over 90% of my posts). After all the effort over the past few months to re-upload everything to Mediafire to restore my posts from the previous Megaupload disaster, now Mediafire has shut me (and many others) out too. So, it has all been for naught, as they are all gone again (Hopefully at least some of you were able to download the shows of interest while they were available).

Not surprisingly, there was no notice, warning, or justification given. It was only stated that "Your MediaFire account is suspended due to multiple Terms of Service violation for any of the following reasons:" followed by a long list of any and all of the possible infractions. I had not previously received any notice or indication of any problems, complaints, or possible violations from them. When I responded to their support department asking for a review of my account, clarification of just what was the violation, what files or uploads were considered in violation, and for what reason, the only response I received was a re-stating of their blanket statement: "This account is permanently suspended due to a Terms of Service violation." and the matter was considered closed. 

Although this is once again very disturbing and unsettling, it was not surprising. Since the closure and prosecution of Megaupload, all the other filesharing services left have been very tentative, jumpy, and unreliable, with the threat of closing down at any time. So, the question is, where does this leave the blog? Obviously, at least for the time being, it leaves the blog essentially without downloadable content. Can this blog survive, or should it survive without that as it's core function or service? I don't know. But, I do know that, for now, I will not be shutting down the blog. It will continue in some capacity. However, I do not intend to re-upload all the past posts again (I have neither the time nor inclination to start over with that again). So, at least for the time being these previous posts will remain dead and the pages a download graveyard. Sorry about that. Perhaps, at some point in the future, some will be re-uploaded (if I can find a worthwhile, relaible filesharing service). In the meantime, the available Depositfile links are still good (primarily for large lossless files), and I will still ocasionally post some new stuff to Depositfiles. But, other that that, we'll just have to wait and see whether the blog can continue, and in what form. Thanks for your support (but please do not make requests for shows to be re-uploaded, it's just not going to happen at this time).

  

Neil Young - Archives Be Damned 2006

Neil Young

Archives Be Damned 2006

Another essential compilation of rarities and unreleased songs on 5CD

Various sources, very good quality

mp3 @ 320kbps

Well,  lookee here, a new post!  And although the material may look pretty familiar, this actually is a very different collection from the previously posted Archives Be Damned 2000. Actually, I 've had this for quite awhile now, I just wasn't sure how much new or different tracks this had compared to ABD2K, so was reluctant to post it until I had a chance to check it out further. Created by someone called 'Wied' and designed to be a chronologically arranged update to ABD2K, this compilation, although has many tracks that are the same as ABD2K (particularly the studio outtakes and one-of-a-kind recordings), also has many more that are completely different, many of the same songs but taken from different recordings and different shows. So, although much of the material is similar, it has a whole different feel and sound, and thus is another very worthwhile compilation to get in addition to ABD2K. So, here it is.

CD 1:

1. The Sultan - July 23, 1963

2. Aurora - July 23, 1963

3. I Wonder - April 23, 1964

4. Mustang - Studio 1964

5. Run Around Babe - November 1965

6. Don't Pity Me Babe - November 1965

7. I Ain't Got The Blues - November 1965

8. The Rent Is Always Due - November 1965

9. Extra, Extra - November 1965

10. There Goes My Babe - demo 1966

11. One More Sign - demo 1966

12. Raga 1 - studio 1966

13. Raga 2 - studio 1966

14. Sell Out - studio 1967

15. Everybody's Alone - March 28, 1970

16. Dance, Dance, Dance - January 31, 1983

17. Bad Fog Of Loneliness - May 5, 1989

18. War Song - studio 1972

19. Come Along & Say You Will January 8, 1973

20. Sweet Joni - March 11, 1973

21. Traces - July 21, 1974

22. Greensleeves - May 16, 1974

23. Pushed It Over The End - July 21, 1974

24. Mediterranean - hotel room 1974

25. Homefires - July 21, 1974

26. Hawaiian Sunrise - September 8, 1974

27. Love Art Blues - August 5, 1974

28. Separate Ways - July 1, 1993

CD 2:

1. Give Me Strength - November 20, 1976

2. Kansas - March 23, 1999

3. No One Seems To Know - March 3, 1976

4. Sad Movies - March 18, 1976

5. Evening Coconut - June 27, 1976

6. Guilty Train - November 24, 1976 - evening show

7. Hitchhiker - June 26, 1992

8. Windward Passage - August 22, 1977

9. Lady Wingshot - November 12, 1977

10. Alabama/Sweet Home Alabama - November 12, 1977

11. Bright Sunny Day - September 19, 1978

12. Winter Winds/Turbine - October 3, 1980

13. I Wonder Why - studio 1981

14. Rainin' In Paradise - studio 1981

15. If You Got Love - July 13, 1982

16. Johnny - studio 1982

17. Soul Of A Woman - January 31, 1983

18. Love Hotel - September 24, 1982

19. Berlin - October 19, 1982

CD 3:

1. Do You Wanna Dance? - July 28, 1983

2. That's All Right, Mama - July 28, 1983

3. Rock, Rock, Rock - February 7, 1984 - evening show

4. So Tired - February 6, 1984 - evening show

5. Your Love - February 6, 1984 - evening show

6. It Might Have Been - June 6, 1984 - late show

7. Fingers - September 27, 1984 / November 22, 1976

8. Amber Jean - June 6, 1984 - late show

9. Old Hillbilly Band - March 8, 1985

10. Nothing Is Perfect - September 5, 1985

11. Grey Riders - September 10, 1985

12. Interstate - September 21, 1985

13. Leavin' The Top 40 Behind - studio 1985

14. Beautiful Bluebird - studio 1985

15. Time Off For Good Behavior - studio 1985

16. Your Love Again - studio 1985

17. Road Of Plenty - October 22, 1986

18. Farmer's Song - September 3, 1987

CD 4:

1. Big Room - November 6, 1987 - late show

2. Find Another Shoulder - November 6, 1987 - late show

3. High Heels - November 12, 1987

4. Walking After Midnight - April 19, 1988

5. Crime Of The Heart - October 25, 1988

6. Bad News - August 16, 1988

7. Hello Lonely Woman - August 16, 1988

8. I'm Goin' - August 16, 1988

9. Sixty To Zero - August 16, 1988

10. Fool For Your Love - September 24, 2000

11. Dog House - September 4, 1988

12. Box Car - January 13, 1989

CD 5:

1. Ordinary People - April 18, 1989

2. Everything Is Broken - October 28, 1989

3. Born To Run - rehearsals 1990

4. Forever Young - November 3, 1991

5. Live To Ride - July 1, 1993

6. Dock Of The Bay - June 12, 1993

7. Stranger In Paradise - November 6, 1993

8. Made In Canada

9. Dead Man, Acoustic Theme

10. Modern World - May 19, 1997

11. Standing In The Light Of Love - June 26, 2001

12. Gateway Of Love - June 18, 2001

13. Walkin' To New Orleans - September 18, 2005 

New Links! (Updated 06/09/21)

CD1: NY_ArchivesBeDamned-2006_D1.rar

CD2: NY_ArchivesBeDamned-2006_D2.rar

CD3: NY_ArchivesBeDamned-2006_D3.rar

CD4: NY_ArchivesBeDamned-2006_D4.rar

CD5: NY_ArchivesBeDamned-2006_D5.rar