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Talkin' About My Revolutions Updated : THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: BACK TO EARTH The Earth Band started adventurous but moved towards a reality check. MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND BBC “Pick Of The Pops” & “King Biscuit Flower Hour” [no label, 1CD] Tks 1-3 from John Peel’s In Concert 1972. Tks 4-9 from King Biscuit Flower Hour 1981. Ex pre-FM stereo. Some vinyl noise. “As I recall, when I briefly had the use [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:05:35 +0000 THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB Best listened alone. GAVIN BRYARS ‘Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet’ [no label, 1CD] with the Vlaams Radio Orkest, 2005 Live at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium, Sept 17, 2005. Conductor Gavin Bryars. Ex FM stereo. Jesus’ blood never failed me yet never failed me yet Jesus’ blood never failed me yet this one thing i know for He loves me so From wiki: “Jesus’ Blood [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:07:19 +0000 AMERICAN NAIFS BRINGING RUIN TO OTHER LANDS The US is planning an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Wait for a staged “terrorist” attack; which will result in a retaliatory move; the bombing will continue until a regime change and the corrupt American media will present the new puppet as “freedom and democracy.” As former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:04:11 +0000 THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: MANFRED?S ON THE ROAD AGAIN The best year for Manfred Mann’s Earth Band is arguably 1976 when Blinded By The Light hit the charts. MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND Retro Rock Concert [no label, 1CD] Likely live at the Spectrum, Philadelphia, Oct 15, 1976. Taken from syndicated radio show LP. Ex SBD stereo. “From the American radio show ‘Retro Rock’, and taken from an original [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:22:59 +0000 THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: SOFT MACHINE - SYRACUSE 1974 SOFT MACHINE Live Bundles [Banquet, 1CD] Live at Crouse College, Syracuse, NY, March 13, 1974. Very good soundboard. By the time Soft Machine recorded Bundles in 1974, they can be said to have morphed into a jazz/fusion band, or even a band that played experimental music (the sound that jumped from speaker to speaker on The Floating World [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:19:34 +0000 NEIL YOUNG AT THE WINTER OLYMPICS 2010 Long may you run. HAL WILLNER’S NEIL YOUNG PROJECT Vancouver 2010 [no label, 3CD] Live at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad, Vancouver, BC, February 18, 2010. Very good audience recording. To celebrate the music and legacy of a band, one finds, for instance, the ABBA or the Queen tribute bands. For his second Neil Young Project [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:45:18 +0000 THE SOUTH AFRICA WORLD CUP: INVICTUS IN REVERSE South Africa, a remarkable place of jagged contrasts: rich and poor; black and white, immigrant and everyone else. On a normal week, it’s the dispossessed and the self-possessed fighting for elbow room. Meanwhile, the coming World Cup has provoked the camouflage of every conflict to present the image of a united nation to the world. [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:42:07 +0000 EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER - PROVIDENCE, RI 1977 EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER Providence 1977 [Dan Lampinski Recording, 2CD] Live at the Providence Civic Center, Providence, RI, July 14, 1977. Very good audience recording. If the first half of the ’70s were good years for Emerson, Lake And Palmer (and generally to prog rock), the latter half of the decade saw a different scene. Disco was big; [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:08:09 +0000 REVENGE IS MINE A gritty rape scene, snipped-off ear, stabbed with pipes and enmeshed in a curtain made up of fish hooks, viewers may feel wasted after watching Lam Ngai Choi ’s cult classic, Her Vengeance. But there is satisfaction in seeing actress Pauline Wong dish out the goods on the people who did her wrong. Stephen Tan [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:05:08 +0000 THE PHILIP COHEN COLLECTION: LITTLE RIVER BAND - LONDON 1982 LITTLE RIVER BAND London 1982 [no label, 1CD] Live at the Dominion Theatre, London, 1982. BBC Rock Hour, broadcast February 1982. Very good radio broadcast. As Philip Cohen notes: “This show features a transitional lineup with Glenn Shorrock, Beeb Birtles, Graham Goble, Wayne Nelson, Stephen Housden, Mal Logan and Derek Pellicci. This particular lineup with both Shorrock and [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:39:51 +0000 Add RSS Feeds to My Website |