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July 22, 2011

RETURN TO FOREVER IV - 2011/06/25 Syracuse Jazz Fest, Syracuse, NY

Return to Forever IV - 2011/06/25 Syracuse Jazz Fest, Syracuse, NY

From February 2011, the group commences a world tour.

The line-up, billed as Return to Forever IV, is Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, Frank Gambale and Jean-Luc Ponty

Enjoy good AUD from Jazz Fest
Intro
Medieval Overture
Captain Senor Mouse
Band Intros And Tuning
The Shadow Of Lo (Intro)
Sorceress
Lenny Speaks And Tuning
Renaissance
Jean Luc Speaks
Dayride
After The Cosmic Rain
Chick Speaks And Tuning
Romantic Warrior
Spain
Show Proclamations And Happy Birthday To Chick Corea
School Days http://www.fileserve.com/file/4KSEgbN

JOAN BAEZ - THE DEBUT ALBUM PLUS!

Joan Baez’s first album was released in 1960 and it was a revelation. Here was an angelic-looking, dark-haired 19-year-old singing ancient songs, most of them drawn from the Child Ballads, a set of 305 numbered ballads from England and Scotland (and several American variants) collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century, with a soprano voice so pure and mesmerizing that it appeared as timeless as a voice in an elegant and graceful dream. She made ancient love and murder ballads seem like cool and serious business, and without Baez as a virginal-looking poster girl, the commercial end of the urban folk revival of the early ’60s might never have gotten off the ground. This release includes a remastered version…

…of that first album and adds in Folksingers ‘Round Harvard Square, Baez’s first actual record, which features her singing solo on six songs, as part of a duo with Bill Wood on four songs, and as part of a trio with Wood and Ted Alevizos on another song. The bonus set originally appeared on LP in 1959 from the little Veritas Records label and was intended as an introduction to the Cambridge, Massachusetts folk scene that was just beginning to flourish at the time. Paired like this, one realizes that Baez just didn’t suddenly appear from the heavens after all when her official album came out a year later, but that her approach and stage presence had been artfully formed and nurtured in the Cambridge folk clubs.
01 – Silver Dagger
02 – East Virginia
03 – Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles)
04 – House of the Rising Sun
05 – All My Trials
06 – Wildwood Flower
07 – Donna Donna
08 – John Riley
09 – Rake and Rambling Boy
10 – Little Moses
11 – Mary Hamilton
12 – Henry Martin
13 – El Preso Número Nueve
14 – The Banks of Ohio
15 – Oh What A Beautiful City
16 – Sail Away Ladies
17 – Black Is The Colour
18 – Lowlands
19 – Virgin Mary (What You Gonna Call)
20 – Kitty
21 – So Soon In The Morning
22 – Careless Love
23 – Don’t Weep After Me
http://www.fileserve.com/file/GSMVrGr

JOAN BAEZ - CLASSIC JOAN BAEZ

Joan Baez - The Universal Masters Collection [2000]

Simple Twist Of Fate
Dida
Diamonds And Rust
Fountain Of Sorrow
Love Song To A Stranger
Hello In There
Jesse
In The Quiet Morning
Gracias A La Vida (Here's To Life)
Children And All That Jazz
Forever Young (Live /1975)
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Live (1975))
Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer
Please Come To Boston
Imagine
Guantanamera http://www.fileserve.com/file/zEyFZvA

SWEET - Desolation Boulevard

http://www.fileserve.com/file/hRGmgMy

July 21, 2011

FURTHUR / Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY - 7/19/2011

Furthur
2011-07-19
Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY

Topspin Media Download

Disc One
Set One
1. Here Comes the Sun,
2. Cosmic Charlie,
3. Pride of Cucamonga,
4. Hell in a Bucket,
5. So Many Roads >
6. Lost Sailor >
7. Saint of Circumstance,
8. Casey Jones

Disc Two
Set Two
1. Born Cross-Eyed >
2. Caution >
3. Cryptical Envelopment >
4. The Other One >
5. Wharf Rat >
6. Eclipse >

Disc Three
1. Mountains of the Moon >
2. Uncle John's Band >
3. Viola Lee Blues
ENCORE
4. Donor Rap
5. Box of Rain

http://www.fileserve.com/file/8vTZFRK

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC - "GET IT ON... BLUES" 1968

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC
"GET IT ON... BLUES"
1968
37:56

1 Wade in the Water 6:11
2 Cry Cry Cry (Malone) 5:25
3 Motor City Is Burning (Smith) 6:45
4 Hunter (Jackson, Jones, Wells) 3:21
5 Long Handled Shovel 3:31
6 Jelly, Jelly (Cotton) 6:39
7 Stormy Times (Block) 2:43
8 Live Love (Marshall) 3:21

Charlie Allen Vocals
Joe Sample Organ
Glenn Schwartz Guitar
(?) Bass
(?) Drums

REVIEW
by John Bush
The debut album of the five-member Pacific Gas & Electric reveals a nimble little blues band with a great shouter for a lead singer. Far less lumbering than the band became on their better-known major-label recordings, the Modern release of Get It On begins with the kind of maximum R&B bang that few American rock groups beyond the MC5 or Young Rascals would have been able to muster: a six-minute version of "Wade in the Water" that careens through its six long minutes with power and just enough balance between control and chaos. (The track was billed as being recorded "live," but it was actually a studio creation with overdubs.) Lead singer Charlie Allen was a charismatic force up front, and lead guitarist Glenn Schwartz, a transplant from Cleveland and the James Gang, matched Allen's charisma with his solos. If they have a weakness on Get It On, it's the rhythm section, which despite including Frank Wilson of Canned Heat, can't always keep up with Allen or Schwartz, and sounds pretty stiff in comparison.

FORMED 1968 IN SAN FRANCISCO, CA

BIOGRAPHY
by Sean Westergaard
The seeds of Pacific Gas & Electric were sown in Los Angeles back in 1966 when self-taught guitarist Tom Marshall formed Bluesberry Jam, whose ranks included drummer Charlie Allen. Allen turned out to be such a fine vocalist that he ended up becoming the frontman; his drum chair was filled by Adolfo de la Parra in 1968. Later that year, de La Parra left to join Canned Heat, replacing Frank Cook who then joined Bluesberry Jam. After adding guitarist Glenn Schwartz and bassist Brent Block later in 1968, the group changed their name to Pacific Gas & Electric.Their first album, Get It On, was released by Kent in 1968, but failed to make much of an impact. However, following their appearance at the Miami Pop Festival in late 1968, Pacific Gas & Electric signed with Columbia, who released Pacific Gas & Electric in 1969. Their next album, Are You Ready, supplied their first hit, the title track, which made it into the Top 20 in the summer of 1970. Despite this success, all the bandmembers left, forcing Charlie Allen to build a new Pacific Gas & Electric around him. Enter guitarist Ken Utterback, bassist Frank Petricca, Ron Woods on drums, Jerry Aiello on keyboards, trumpet player Stanley Abernathy, sax players Alfred Gallegos and Virgil Gonsalves, and percussionist Joe Lala. Around this time, the Pacific Gas & Electric Utility Company asked the band to change their name, which was shortened to PG&E, also the title of their 1971 album. They also appeared in and provided music for the Otto Preminger film Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon starring Liza Minnelli.After 1972 or so, PG&E basically turned into a solo Charlie Allen vehicle. They released Starring Charlie Allen on Dunhill in 1973, then called it quits.

http://www.fileserve.com/file/2kdZM9F

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC - ARE YOU READY 1970

PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC
"ARE YOU READY"
1970
COLUMBIA
40:03

1 Are You Ready? (Allen, Hill) 5:49
2 Hawg for You (Redding) 4:45
3 Staggolee (Allen, Hill) 3:50
4 Blackberry (Isley, Isley) 5:37
5 Love, Love, Love, Love, Love (Cochrane, Hill) 3:53
6 Mother, Why Do You Cry? (Allen) 5:06
7 Elvira (Allen) 2:01
8 Screamin' (Block) 4:28
9 When a Man Loves a Woman (Lewis, Wright) 4:34

Charlie Allen - Vocals
Sherrill Atwood - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Brent Block - Bass
Merry Clayton - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Frank Cook - Drums
Venetta Fields - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Delores Hall - Vocals (bckgr)
Dolores Hall - Vocals
John Hill - Organ, Piano
Clydie King - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Tom Marshall - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
Sherlie Matthews - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Ginger Schackne - Vocals
Glenn Schwartz - Guitar, Harp
Lorna Willard - Vocals, Vocals (bckgr)
Rusty Young - Guitar

REVIEW
by Richie Unterberger
Anchored by Pacific Gas & Electric's sole hit "Are You Ready," the album of the same name — actually their third LP — treads a thin line between eclecticism and confusion, and is actually weaker on the whole than its predecessor, 1969's Pacific Gas & Electric. Certainly the ominous yet inspirational gospel-funk-psychedelia of "Are You Ready" was the strongest track, and to this day the only one that most casual rock fans remember. Yet other cuts on the album indicated they couldn't decide whether to be a heavy blues-rock group ("Hawg for You"), a more soul-dipped version of the Band ("Staggolee"), a swampy soul-rock outfit (a cover of the Isley Brothers' "The Blackberry"), or, least convincingly, cry-in-your-beer honky tonk balladeers ("Mother, Why Don't You Cry?"). This wouldn't have been such a handicap if the material wasn't as mediocre as it was, and any song titled "Love, Love, Love, Love, Love" is a warning that lyrical imagination wasn't in abundance on the day it was composed. They do play the James Brown-psychedelic rock-fusion card with some gusto on "Elvira," and Charlie Allen's vocals are pretty soulful, though it's only on a cover of Percy Sledge's "When a Man Loves a Woman" that they come to the fore in a no-nonsense manner.

http://www.fileserve.com/file/jh82SJG

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC - 1969

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC
"PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC"
1969
SONY MUSIC DISTRIBUTION

1 Bluesbuster (Allen) 2:55
2 Death Row #172 (Allen, Cook, Hill) 3:59
3 Miss Lucy (Allen) 2:28
4 My Women (Allen, Marshall) 5:38
5 She's Long and She's Tall (Hooker) 6:20
6 PG&E Suite: The Young Rabbits/Constitutional Strand/Fat Tom/Boy Wonder [medley] (Block, Henderson, Marshall, Schwartz) 16:41
7 Redneck (South) 3:32

Stanley Abernathy - Trumpet
Jerry Aiello - Organ
Charlie Allen - Vocals
Brent Black - Bass
The Blackberries - Vocals (bckgr)
Brent Block - Guitar (Bass)
Bud Brisbois - Trumpet
D.A. Brisbois - Trumpet
Frank Cook - Drums
Wilton Felder - Sax (Tenor)
Alfred Galleros - Tenor (Vocal)
Virgil Gonsalves - Bass (Vocal)
Wayne Henderson - Trombone
Freddie Hill - Trumpet
John Hill - Keyboards
Joe Lala - Conga, Timbales
Tom Marshall - Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm)
Frank Petricca - Bass
Glenn Schwartz - Guitar
Ken Utterback - Guitar
Ron Woods - Drums

REVIEW
by Richie Unterberger
On most of their second album, Pacific Gas & Electric play soul-rock with some dash and verve, though the songwriting isn't up to the level of musicianship or Charlie Allen's genuinely soulful vocals. Pacific Gas & Electric are really a band that would be better served by a selective compilation than any of their individual LPs, and strong candidates for such an anthology would include "Death Row #172" and "Bluesbuster," which are a little like early Blood, Sweat & Tears with more blues-rock and less bluster. Some of the other songs are closer to average period blues-rock workouts, like "Miss Lucy" and the live cover of John Lee Hooker's "She's Long and She's Tall," though the group original "My Women" finds them getting into a slow blues-funk groove with graceful style. The four-part, 17-minute "PG&E Suite" is typical of the highs and lows of many such psychedelic rock experiments of the late '60s, starting off promisingly with the cinematic jazz-rock instrumental "The Young Rabbits." But it runs off the rails with too much drum soloing, and the momentum utterly drains when the suite peters out into poor white-boy blues that's obviously trying to be drolly humorous, yet ends up being painfully lame. The closing blues-soul-rock stomper "Redneck" restores the energy level somewhat, but it's an erratic record on the whole, as would be its follow-up, 1970's Are You Ready.

http://www.fileserve.com/file/E8dSQEH

July 20, 2011

SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - Original Album Classics (2010)

Sly & The Family Stone - Original Album Classics (2010) 5cd

Sly & the Family Stone harnessed all of the disparate musical and social trends of the late '60s, creating a wild, brilliant fusion of soul, rock, R&B, psychedelia, and funk that broke boundaries down without a second thought. This 2010 box set is a collection of their first 5 albums along with bonus tracks.

Tracklist:

1967 - A Whole New Thing

01. Underdog
02. If This Room Could Talk
03. Run Run Run
04. Turn Me Loose
05. Let Me Hear It From You
06. Advice
07. I Cannot Make It
08. Trip To Your Heart
09. I Hate To Love Her
10. Bad Risk
11. That Kind Of Person
12. Dog
13. Underdog (Single Version)
14. Let Me Hear It From You (Single Version)
15. Only One Way Out Of This Mess
16. What Would I Do
17. You Better Help Yourself (Instrumental)

1968 - Dance To The Music

01. Dance To The Music
02. Higher
03. I Ain't Got Nobody (For Real)
04. Dance To The Medley: Music Is Alive_Dance In_Music Lover
05. Ride The Rhythm
06. Color Me True
07. Are You Ready
08. Don't Burn Baby
09. Never Will I Fall In Love Again
10. Dance To The Music (Single Version)
11. Higher (Single Version)
12. Soul Clappin'
13. We Love All
14. I Can't Turn You Loose
15. Never Do Your Woman Wrong (Instrumental)

1968 - Life

01. Dynamite
02. Chicken
03. Plastic Jim
04. Fun
05. Into My Own Thing
06. Harmony
07. Life
08. Love City
09. I'm An Animal
10. M'Lady
11. Jane Is A Groupee
12. Dynamite (Single Version)
13. Seven More Days
14. Pressure
15. Sorrow (Instrumental)

1969 - Stand

01. Stand
02. Don't Call Me Nigger Whitey
03. I Want To Take You Higher
04. Somebody's Watching You
05. Sing A Simple Song
06. Everyday People
07. Sex Machine
08. You Can Make It If You Try
09. Stand (Single Version)
10. I Want To Take You Higher (Single Version)
11. You Can Make It If You Try (Single Version)
12. Soul Clappin' II
13. My Brain (Zig-Zag) (Instrumental)

1971 - There's A Riot Goin' On

01. Luv N' Haight
02. Just Like A Baby
03. Poet
04. Family Affair
05. Africa Talks To You (The Asphalt Jungle)
06. There's A Riot Goin' On
07. Brave And Strong
08. (You Caught Me) Smilin'
09. Time
10. Spaced Cowboy
11. Runnin' Away
12. Thank You For Talkin' To Me, Africa
13. Runnin' Away (Single Version)
14. My Gorilla Is My Butler (Instrumental)
15. Do You Know What (Instrumental)
16. That's Pretty Clean (Instrumental)

http://www.fileserve.com/file/k7arQXc/Sly & The Family Stone - Original Album Classics (2010) 5cd.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/fCRBhuu/Sly & The Family Stone - Original Album Classics (2010) 5cd.part1.rar

BOB WEIR & Friends 1978-11-17 Loyola College

Bob Weir & Friends 1978-11-17 Loyola College
Bob Weir & Friends
1978-11-17
Rambler Room,Loyola College
Chicago,IL
Benefit Hunger Week

Starting the week with some well known and beloved musicians...

This is an acoustic show played by:
Bob Weir,Jerry Garcia,Mickey Hart,Phil Lesh

Very rare Bob Weir dominated show!

01.Winin`Boy Blues 4:10
02.Tom Dooley 3:46
03.This Time Forever 5:41
04.Deep Elem Blues 3:32
05.K.C.Moan 4:41
06.Knockin` On Heaven´s Door 8:16
07.Big Boy Pete 3:11
08.Jack-A-Roe 4:51
09.Dark Hollow 4:38
10.Oh Boy 2:33

http://www.fileserve.com/file/VQZ22FH

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - Studio Rehearsals "After Bathing At Baxter's" 1967

Jefferson Airplane

Studio Rehearsals
"After Bathing At Baxter's"
1967

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01 Martha (instrumental) 03:23
02 Spayre Change 24:20

Fillmore West
San Francisco, CA
10/26/68

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03 Fat Angel 08:37
04 Rock Me Baby 09:14
05 Somebody to Love 03:32
06 //Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon 02:32
07 White Rabbit 02:38
08 Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil > 09:47
09 House at Pooneil Corner 05:47

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Total Time: 69:54
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http://www.fileserve.com/file/KCSrEPZ

JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - The Matrix - 1968-01-30

Jefferson Airplane - The Matrix - 1968-01-30

Jefferson Airplane
01-30-1968
The Matrix Club
San Francisco,CA

Band members:
Marty Balin: voc,per,bass
Paul Kantner: voc,g
Jorma Kaukonen: lg
Jack Cassady: bass,g
Spencer Dryden: dr
Grace Slick: voc,org

Setlist:
01.Somebody To Love
02.Young Girl Sunday Blues
03.She Has Funny Cars
04.Two Heads
05.Martha
06.Won`t You Try/Saturday Afternoon
07.Other Side Of This Life
08.Today
09.Watch Her Ride
10.Go To Her
11.It`s No Secret
12.Blues From An Airplane
13.White Rabbit
14.3/5 Of A Mile In 10 Seconds
15.Share A Little Joke
16.High Flying Bird
17.Wild Tyme
18.Ballad Of You A Me & Poonell

Soundboard Recording

http://www.fileserve.com/file/pymHejK