NICE AGGREGATOR SITE: FULL CONCERTS POSTED TO GOOGLE

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the tags could be better, some documentaries and music videos get mixed in with the search...but it's an easier way to surf google video than most

also. there is obviously some commercially available material interspersed through here, although I expect that the uploads are pretty compromised, qualitywise

# FULL CONCERT : Daft Punk @ Coachella 2006
# FULL CONCERT: The Psychedelic Furs Live (House Of ...
# FULL CONCERT: Coldplay Glastonbury Festival 2005
# FULL CONCERT: Aerosmith Live In Chicago
# FULL CONCERT: Metallica 2006 Live @ Rock Am Ring
# FULL CONCERT: Rammstein - Live aus Berlin
# FULL CONCERT: Motion City Soundtrack
# FULL CONCERT: Dio - Holy Diver Tour
# FULL CONCERT: Metallica 2006 Live @ Rock Am Ring
# FULL CONCERT: Rammstein - Live aus Berlin
# FULL CONCERT: Dio - Holy Diver Tour
# FULL CONCERT: The Smiths - Live in Madrid
# FULL CONCERT: Radiohead @ MTV 10 Spot
# FULL CONCERT: Michael Schenker Group - Rockpalast
# FULL CONCERT: Grateful Dead 04-26-1977
# FULL CONCERT: The Doors - Live In Concert
# FULL CONCERT: Beck - The Information (Live)
# FULL CONCERT: The Ramones @ Musikladen 1978
# FULL CONCERT: Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock '69...
# FULL CONCERT: Van Halen (1983)
# FULL CONCERT: Rick Danko & Paul Butterfield
# FULL CONCERT: Oasis live in Boston
# FULL CONCERT: G3 Live in Tokyo 2005
# FULL CONCERT: Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto Suite in...
# FULL CONCERT: Wolfmother - "Wolfmother" Album Liv...
# FULL CONCERT: Queen - Live Aid (1985)
# FULL CONCERT: Asia Live 80s
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# FULL CONCERT: Mother's Finest - Live @ RockPalast ...
# FULL CONCERT: Alice In Chains MTV Unplugged
# FULL CONCERT: Crossroads Guitar Festival
# FULL CONCERT: The Sex Pistols - Last Live Concert
# FULL CONCERT: Pink Floyd Live
# FULL CONCERT -Gorillaz - Demon Days
# FULL CONCERT: Neil Young - BBC Concert 1971
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# FULL CONCERT: AC/DC From 1977
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# FULL CONCERT: The Doors Live - Hollywood Bowl 1968...

I hope it's unnecessary to mention that neither I nor fuzzy tv posted any of this material...if anybody has a problem with it they should talk to google

James Brown 03/08/1971 Paris

In 1970, the musicians playing for James Brown walked out on him when he refused to meet certain demands about their employment. Brown had assembled some top notch players in his rise to success, but he was undaunted by their departure. He sent his jet airplane for the Collins brothers in Ohio, and they joined him onstage the next night without a single rehearsal. In the months that followed, the new band recorded "Sex Machine," "Super Bad," "...Get Involved," "Soul Power," and "Talking Loud..." Brown recorded a lot of hits before and and after this period, but the case could be made that this is his funkiest material. The musicians play off of one another with such attentiveness that Mr. Brown's on-the-fly intuitions about what should happen next become the structure of the compositions. The tracks from this time period are compiled in unedited form on the Funk Power CD. (I've a few dozen James Brown C.D.s, and this is far and away the most solid) On many other discs, you can hear fade out edits of these tracks. In fact, on the 45 rpm singles themselves the songs were often split in the middle to fit on two sides of the record. The full length performances are what you need. You can disagree with me, but you might as well be talking to a wall: the wall that your back is up against, while everyone else in 14+ minutes into the groove. Hipp-O's limited edition collection of the complete James Brown singles is sure to become an expensive second hand item, (And I'd really enjoy reading the extensive liner notes by the always informative Alan Leeds) but splitting these songs wrecks their momentum. What the world really needs, and I cross my fingers that they exist and that I might hear them some day, are alternative takes of these tracks. Even a few minutes of a flubbed chorus or misplayed verse. Because, of course, all you need is a good bar or two; two second fragments of JB material has been put to use to make music for thousands. If there is anything in the vaults, irregardless of its completeness. there is certainly an interest and market.



By 1971, many of the prodigal players had returned to the fold. March saw the band in Paris, where the show was recorded for an album that was not released until decades later. The bootleg video that I possess is footage from a TV broadcast of the same show that appears on a officially released CD....Whereas the sound on the CD is immaculate, the DVD is muddy and noisy and is screaming out to be cleaned up and married to the "Love Power" audio. The show is a monster: When you simply hear the audio, the speed with which the band tears through the older songs make them less satisfying than the studio recordings. When you watch the concert however, you see that the band is playing to the crowd and knows exactly how much they can take, what they expect, and when to deliver it to them. This is a well-honed showtime machine, the bases covered like a Swiss army knife: a go go dancer, a string section, the driving horns, the charismatic Bobby Byrd, two drummers. and, exclusive to this brief lineup: the raw edged Collins brothers...really holding it down on the one. As for Brown himself-as of 1971 he is pushing 40. And while he exerts more energy during this concert than most people do in a month, can it be said that the peak of his physical powers are a little while past?..Honestly- on dance moves and vocal effort, this is all as good as Boston 68, and the material is better.... the show and the band itself far, far more energetic.



There are a few other films of Mr. Brown in which he himself, personally, may have been a little closer to the top of his game. Shout Factory has finally put together a disc of the long awaited TAMI show and it is going to be available in a few short days. Rick Rubin has speculated that it might not only be the greatest filmed performance of James Brown, but the greatest filmed music performance period.


The Hardest Working Man in Show Business can be seen performing on a few other DVDs- none of which I've managed to see. I got the 68 Boston show five years ago as a badly cut up bootleg, but I haven't yet taken a look at the 3 DVD I Got the Feeling, with its documentary and some 68 Apollo footage...

There is also this: ---James Brown On Television Volume 1: The Sixties - 2 hours - "Hollywood A-Go-Go", "Music Scene", , "Where The Action Is", "The Hollywood Palace", "The Mike Douglas Show",
I spotted it on a Bomp list a while back. Hard to find any more specific details or review about it anywhere.










I've heard the bootleg of Zaire '74, which is a stellar performance- a peak for Brown perhaps, he acknowledges this by denying it during the concert itself. Not yet seen Soulpower, the documentary- which I've read contains three songs from Brown's set, and one each from the other performers...

On the outskirts of odds and ends, there is a BodyHeat disc that I pulled from a torrent. 4 episodes, I believe...Of interest more for the enjoyment of the dancers than anything live show or particular to JB...
Further out than that, Alan Leeds, JB's tour manager and archivist, makes mention of complete 1966 and 1967 shows HERE. Nothing concrete is said about them beyond that they exist, but the general discussion is of interest to fans of Brown or Prince, by whom Leeds was employed for many years.

Traders with other footage have made reference to their discoveries HERE and HERE




One of the trader's lists above mentions that he has two versions of this show, one with upgraded audio. As to which I have, I can't be certain. As I mentioned above, marrying this footage to the official CD release should already have been checked off on some industrious bootleggers to-do list. I downloaded exactfile and tried to run it on my DVD while it was in the drive, but the program crashed before I got any numbers... I'd like to have MD5s of all my reviews, so those of you who are playing along at home can compare your versions. I don't want to be forced to rip my boots to my harddrive in order to do this, however. Until a solution presents itself, we are going to have to refer to the menu shots, as I expect that these would be altered in the event of an upgrade

Slayer 06/28/1991 New York City

I've been using this blog as an excuse to hear myself talk, which is perfectly fine when I'm reviewing something which is not that great, but here I'm going to lay off a bit and focus on the facts. If I used the occasion of a Slayer review to say something lame, I'd be pretty ashamed of myself. If you perform music in front of people, you should be familiar with what I'm going to be talking about here- the greatness of Slayer. I don't care what genre of music you are trying to make a name for yourself with: a live Slayer show is worthy of your respect. If you don't think so, send me a link to whatever it is that you think is so great and then I will laugh at your stupidity.

There are two currently available dvds of official Slayer product. Buy them.

Slayer - Reign In Blood: Still Reigning July 11, 2004
Slayer: Unholy Alliance Live 2006

this officially released dvd featuring Slayer is out of print.
Slayer - War at the Warfield (december 2001)

this box set features miscellaneous raw early days footage
Slayer - Soundtrack to the Apocalypse Boxset

these two VHS releases have, regrettably, never been released on DVD
Slayer- Live Intrusion 1995
Slayer- Ultimate Revenge April 3rd, 1985 you can view that HERE


Now that this is out of the way. Let's try to survey video of the early years of Slayer. First, here's a gigography, not the most interactive web 2.0 thing that I have ever seen, but some solid effort has gone into this and it feels pretty complete.

The next thing you can do is head over to dime a dozen and pick up:Slayer - 1991-06-28 Madison Square Garden
If you are a fucking retard, stay away from dime a dozen. There is an etiquette to live show torrent sites and you need to hang back and get an idea about how it all works before you jump in and start annoying people...I keep my own mouth shut there, because I lack the technical savvy to hold forth on video compression, ripping and burning tools, checksums, encoding methods, etc. etc.

o.k. so now, here goes: five "reviews"...in my hands there are DVDRs of four slayer shows and then, of course, I've just got the show mentioned above:

dynamo festival /// eindhoven, holland 05/28/85
the stone /// san francisco 11/03/86
the ritz /// new york 12/06/86
felt forum /// new york 08/31/88
madison square garden///new york 06/28/91

For each show, I'm going to give you two screenshots, the setlist, a youtube link (which I have NOT uploaded, so the quality could be better or worse than what I possess), and then a couple sentences describing the quality of the footage on the DVDrs. Upgrades are the name of the game with Slayer boots and, frankly, I'm going to have to rewrite this whole post after I've done a little bit more research. I expect that everything that I have so far has been subsequently made available in much better quality. I guess that this review would be most helpful if I learned how to generate MD5s for my discs, that way I could establish my bearings as far as inferior versus superior versions goes.



dynamo festival /// eindhoven, holland 05/28/85

1.Hell Awaits
2.Aggressive Perfector
3.Captor Of Sin
4.Praise Of Death
5.Haunting The Chapel
6.Final Command
7.Crypts Of Eternity
8.Necrophiliac
9.Black Magic/Die By The Sword
10.Hardening Of The Arteries
11.Fight 'Till Death
12.The Antichrist
13.At Dawn They Sleep
14.Drum solo/Show No Mercy
15.Evil Has No Boundaries
16.Chemical Warfare
17.Kill Again

My copy is mastered on a standalone. It's multicamera and the image is fair...The close ups are decent, but when the camera pulls back to show the whole band, there's not a lot of detail. The sound is only a very narrow range of frequencies: all you hear are the toms and snares and washed out guitars. Evilaggression, the youtube uploader, has married this footage to a soundboard recording. This is the only way you should consider watching this.



the stone /// san francisco 11/03/86

1 Raining blood
2 Angel of death
3 Die by the sword
4 Praise of death
5 Criminally insane
6 Necrophiliac
7 Captor of sin
8 Reborn
9 Post mortem
10 Black magic
11 Epidemic
12 Hell awaits
13 Chemical warfare
14 At dawn they sleep
15 Altar of sacrifice
16 Jesus saves

I've got a standalone mastered copy of this which shares the same disc with an 89 Death angel show. It's a single audience shot. The colors and resolution are a tiny bit better than the dynamo footage. Likewise, there is a little more range to the audio, although, I think there might have been more intermittent noise on this.

once again, the few years since I've gotten this disc have seen some upgrades go by. As above, evilagression has posted bits from a much superior version of this to youtube.




the ritz /// new york 12/06/86

1. Raining Blood
2. Reborn
3. At Dawn They Sleep
4. Praise Of Death
5. Criminally Insane
6. Necrophiliac
7. Necrophobic
8. Die By The Sword
9. Black Magic
10. Altar Of Sacrifice
11. Jesus Saves
12. Postmortem
13. Epidemic
14. Chemical Warfare
15. Hardening Of The Arteries
16. Hell Awaits/
17. Angel Of Death/
18. Evil Has No Boundaries

Stand alone authored, single audience camera show; sharpness is lacking but the color range is impressive...often the fog and the lights make the stage look like the thrown open gates of hell. In front of which you can see the silhouettes of Satan's minions flying upside down through the air and caught up within complete thrash hysteria. Sound is very good on this boot- it could use a little more bass perhaps, but for an 1986 bootleg it has plenty.

if this youtube upload is an upgrade from what I have the improvements are not as extreme as those above:


felt forum /// new york 08/31/88
1. South Of Heaven
2. Raining Blood
3. Silent Scream
4. At Dawn They Sleep
5. Read Between The Lies
6. Fight Till Death
7. Mandatory Suicide
8. Kill Again
9. Behind The Crooked Cross
10. Postmortem
11. Reborn
12. Die By The Sword
13. Alter Of Sacrifice
14. Jesus Saves
15. Chemical Warfare
16. Ghosts Of War
17. Angel Of Death

My version of this has a menu and a bonus track of "chemical warfare" in 85...video is an AUD recording, shot from center rear. Taper is at a pretty large distance from the stage and his zoom can get terribly jerky at times. Graphic of Slayer logo shows up on the screen every once in a while. Sound is above average. Beginning of South of Heaven is missing, also a chunk out of Altar Of Sacrifice. This show is notorious for the finale, in which the crowd tears apart the seats and sends them flying across the concert hall.

In this case, watching my dvdr is marginally better than the youtube footage- probably only because youtube compression has softened the contrasts and sharpness somewhat. sound's a bit more muddy as well



madison square garden///new york 06/28/91


Source/Lineage: Audience Cam > NTSC VHS (master?) > SA@XP (unknown transfer) > DVDR > TMPGEnc3 > DVDR

Attributes:
Video: 704 x 480, 9586 kb/s
Audio: AC3 48000 Hz, Stereo, 256 kb/s

Fully authored w/track selection etc.

Setlist::
1 Hell Awaits (cuts in)
2 The Antichrist
3 War Ensemble
4 South of Heaven
5 Raining Blood
6 Altar of Sacrifice
7 Jesus Saves
8 Dead Skin Mask
9 Seasons in the Abyss
10 Mandatory Suicide
11 Angel of Death

Just gave this a quick once over, but I can tell you that it's fairly good sounding, some reverb, of course, given the room size. There is a little bit of shakyness and fists in the way which occurs from time to time, but overall, it's shot quite well. The top image is full zoom out and the bottom is full zoom in. The visuals cut out for two minutes during angel of death, but other than that, most all of the show was caught. There are audience shots of the unruly NY crowd but mostly the shooter keeps his attention front and center

So there you have it, just the facts. I hope that this is of some assistance to the Wehrmacht massive...

I found some guy who loves Slayer more than me, if you yourself are a completest...this should keep you busy for a while

SLAYER 3/28/83 Live at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 44 Aud B+
SLAYER 7/1/83 Live at Woodstock Theater, Cypress, CA 27 Aud B+
SLAYER 8/27/83 Live at Woodstock Theater, Cypress, CA 29 Aud B
SLAYER 12/28/83 Live at The Concert Factory, Costa Mesa, CA 37 Aud B
SLAYER 1/21/84 Live at The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA 29 Aud B+
SLAYER 3/17/84 Live at Ruthie's Inn, Berkeley, CA 43 Club A-
SLAYER 11/19/84 Live at Blondie's, Detroit, MI (filmed on stage) 35 Aud A
SLAYER 11/20/84 Live at Ukranian Hall, Flint, MI 48 Aud B+
SLAYER 4/3/85 Live at Studio 54, NYC (4 live plus interviews) 21 Pro A+
SLAYER 5/26/85 Live at Heavy Sounds, Poperinge, Belgium (sndboard audio) 64 Aud A
SLAYER 5/28/85 Live at Dynamo, Eindhoven, Holland 94 Aud A
SLAYER 9/6/85 Live at The Country Club, Reseda, CA 72 Club B+
SLAYER 9/7/85 Live at The Country Club, Reseda, CA 90 Aud B+
SLAYER 11/3/86 Live at The Stone, San Francisco, CA 78 Aud A-
SLAYER 12/6/86 Live at The Ritz, New York City 68 Club A-
SLAYER 1/27/87 Live at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada 27 Aud A
SLAYER 2/9/87 Live at Music Hall, Cleveland, OH 31 Aud A-
SLAYER 8/24/88 Live at The Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, OH 92 Aud A-
SLAYER 8/31/88 Live at The Felt Forum, NYC 75 Aud A
SLAYER 9/20/88 Live at The Hammersmith Odeon, London, England 17 Pro A-
SLAYER 9/22/88 Live at Volkshaus, Zurich, Switzerland 84 Aud B+
SLAYER 1/20/89 Live at Sporthalle, Boblingen, Germany 79 Aud B
SLAYER 12/13/90 Live at Moda Hall, Osaka, Japan 105 Aud B+
SLAYER 2/11/91 Live at RPI Fieldhouse, Troy, NY 84 Aud A

So yeah just some brief comments on some early Slayer shows. Did you want me to provide an in depth, overall review of Slayer for you? O.K. Here goes: SLAYER RULES!!!!!

The Beatles 01/XX/69 London (get back / winter)

Decades after there being an actual band of the name, the Beatles quite recently appeared once again across the official networks of consciousness. Last September marked, almost certainly, the very last time that their catalog of recordings will be remastered as individual discs to be made available as physical items on a store shelf. (The most interesting aspect of the reissue, for golden ear, audiophile types, was a USB drive version, which includes FLAC files that were recorded/playback at 24 bit resolution: for some of the material, a sharper digital image than anything made so far- I don't think there was any DVDA/SVCD type releases in the past...) The bigger event for the marketing blitz, was that the band's music has finally arrived for the wildly popular Rock Band.

I've played Guitar Hero. At first you thought it was going to be a hula hoop/Rubik's cube type thing: but the bigger picture is that: Bands are out; games are in- as far as large amounts of money changing hands is concerned...

From International Business Times: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been successful in crossing the coveted $1 billion mark (£625 million) in global revenues according to its publisher, Activision Blizzard Inc. and is the latter's third "billion dollar-plus" franchise after Guitar Hero and World of Warcraft...Among entertainment franchises, the only ones ahead of it are Titanic which earned $1.8 billion, Avatar, which has raked in $1.3 billion, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King which made $1.12 billion and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest which earned $1.07 billion.

A billion dollars = 15 million disks, a long time has passed since a stereo audio recording has been taken to the register that many times....

Hard to say what the total revenue has been for five decades of the Beatles "franchise" What IS evident is that it is being forced to alter its form into a franchise in order to wrest people's attentions from the franchises which threaten to eclipse it.

For those who hardly know anything of the band. Let me introduce these discs by saying that the Beatles were to break up in September of 70...The period covered in the material of these discs captures their attempt to reconcile their differences by retreating from the method of each member recording each their own music in the studio, apart from all the others, and returning to an ensemble recording of the songs together in one take as a group. The material that resulted from this, the songs that were recorded and a movie- were not immediately satisfactory to them. The material was released as a LP and into theaters only after they disbanded.

Obviously, Wikipedia is there to flesh this out...Moving on to address those who know all of it: What is the material on these discs? To give you an informed review I would have had to have seen "Let It Be", the movie (which is itself only available as a bootleg as of this writing) and I would have had to have seen the Anthology documentary. Then, I would be able to situate what's presented here with a little more context. Unfortunately, I haven't done that for you.

There are three things on these discs: The stereo mix, outtakes, and promos/extras. The stereo mix is: If you like the group, and you like the songs from this period, you're definitely going to want this material: it's the rooftop concert plus full takes of other songs

The outtakes are a different story, while quality somewhat varies, by bootleg standards they are pristine...They mostly seem to be black and white prints of film that was shot for a potential theatrical release. They have been matched up to the actual studio recordings and the sound quality is very high. The problem is that they are too fragmentary...There will be 45 seconds from one camera- The same 45 seconds from another camera- and then no more of the material, kind of tedious. And random cut-ins into fly-on-the-wall with banal, distracted attempts at getting everyone to the same moment for accomplishing something...Lighting cigarettes or mentioning anecdotes in a small-talk-no specific message sort of way...It is kind of peculiar watching the everyday people moments which subsequently had to be edited away from ones that would be iconic and contribute to their considerable fame.
Along the way, there are glimpses of them actively working out the arrangements to the music. Just out of respect for how ubiquitous these songs became, I'd imagine anyone who has ever played an instrument would feel a spark of curiosity watching the conditions of their origin.


The Promos consist of some of this material printed to color stock for various purposes, like the Let It Be Naked thing. It makes you wonder what physical material all the masters of Beatles stuff is on...how it is safeguarded and preserved. Eventually, digital necromancy will be employed upon all of it, as evidenced by the Anthology John Lennon collaborations long after the fact. Witness Avatar's Cameron talking about how a young Clint Eastwood will be appearing in movies soon. Likewise, once everything in Apple's vault is scanned, perhaps the Beatles will come out with some new 21st century tunes, virtual Idoru style

If the tracklisting in the cover photo is interesting and you're looking for a more in depth description of the material, it's here in the BootlegZone, a site which makes a gesture towards rock bootlegs generally, but which is primarily concerned with exchanging unofficial Beatle information. The scholar, and the obsessed, have hundreds of hours of Beatles audio studio material that they could wade through. Some boffin named John C. Winn has published some books on the subject, and at least one long lived fanzine is devoted to the minutiae.

How to address the monumental popularity of the Beatles...and monumental popularity in general? I already adopted the Debord front for the Michael Jackson and Elvis entries, so it's time to let it rest. I was reading an Aquarius Records review (some very accomplished writing throughout this site, though often a little too generous and enthusiastic) of the Nirvana Box set where they come out and say : "See, everyone loves Nirvana. Everyone. Those of you who say you don't are just trying to be 'cool'. Sort of like the people who talk about how the Beatles suck. The Beatles did not suck. They wrote more perfect pop songs than any band in the history of rock and roll...It's not cool to pretend you don't like Nirvana. Not at all. In fact, it's unbelievably UNCOOL..." and it goes on with an intelligent author speaking as simply as possible to communicate a gut level candor. I can't address that directly (other than mentioning that any Aquarius record of the week is more interesting than the Beatles)- , but I can start by saying that I've heard these songs more than enough times...There's so much else that's so very great that the Beatles popularity, to radios and supermarkets, at least, is inordinate with their talent. Further than that, the tedium of the same damn songs is now the soundtrack for tedium- for what is unimaginative and normal in life...You can also take aim at the tyranny of the Beatles' legacy by imaging RockStar lives that you would rather have lived- playing along with the whole vicarious wish fulfillment nature of the whole pop star edifice...


Audiences have grown with population size, the spread of western communication technologies and the globalization/standardization of everyday life: Mccdonalds, X-Box. The Beatles...The Beatles rode in on the emergence of all this and now it threatens to be the ocean that supersedes them- though in some sense it never will. Because rock music, like portrait painting and theater, is no longer Pop- no longer some novel thing that people look to as NOW, as what's new and happening...It is dead. Programs...Games...Networks of people communicating via computers...are today.

As for Rock Band, will it ever, in and of itself, contribute to the existence of sounds that are worth listening to? DJ Little Steven chimed in with how it might be the savior for the oldies AKA rock and roll...Combined sales of GH and RB top $2.3 bill...Aerosmith Rock Band has reportedly earned the group more money than the sale of anyone of their single LPs...More interestingly, one could hope that it might dovetail into networks upon which people are actually making music. In the Harmonix foundation story, the guy relates how once he got rid of the improvisation idea- just had people trying to accurately follow along, the doors of success were flung open. Perhaps they can backpedal from there and implement some new forum for creativity. I haven't scrutinized their new Rock Band Network initiative, but Kirn over @ Create Digital Music has, which suggests that there is some possible emerging novel avenue for creativity to the whole thing.

The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black 04/20/91 07/04/92 New York City

There are, you know, times where shit gets so crazy that you don't really know where you are or what you are doing.











You try to make sense of life- but is the sense you've made really anywhere close to what the fuck is really going on?


You step outside of your understanding and feel like something broken that was in the way has been removed. Is that the aim of a rock concert- of people getting up in front of others with guitar, bass, drums, and making music for them? Not necessarily no. In fact, not generally, no... I would say, however, that this is certainly the majestic aim of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.

Words fail to do this video justice. Can you honestly tell me what any of it means or why any of it is happening? I leave in on for hours at a time to distractedly look at whenever I'm trying to get something important done. If somebody tells you they don't like it, you can fairly well safely assume that you don't want them around when you're trying to have a good time. I do have to confess that I generally leave the sound off- for in and of itself it's basically some competantly performed metal....And while it's beyond question to us that Kembra Pfahler is the extraterrestrial emissary from the one of the most genuine civilizations that has ever existed, we do also have to admit to ourselves that she was not gifted with perfect pitch...It's all of a piece, of course- the Gods have reasons that mortals can't understand.

There are songs from three shows on this disc. The first is a single camera shoot by someone who does an almost totally perfect job of keeping as much of the awe inspiring festivities in frame as possible. The second, at CBGBs, is multiple camera and is edited together with primitive effects and is of slight better audio quality. All of this documentation was done with prosumer gear, so it's definitely has the same look as somebodies high school graduation or wedding circa 1990. But probably all the more perfect for that. Finally, after a little clip of Karen Black herself good-naturedly attempting to come to grips with her confusion about the group...there is some even better quality multicamera footage of a somewhat more restrained performance of two and a half songs .

If you were wondering what do get me for Christmas, Kembra Pfhaler's recently released book Beautalism, would do just fine. You should buy one for yourself as well, as I'm sure many secrets of the universe are revealed therein. In other where are they now news, lead guitarist Samoa recently put out a disc of country music.

In a perfect world, this VHOKB video would be sold with LSD and Bodypaint at every 7-Eleven across the globe. But really, what is to be done? Fuck it. I don't want to talk about it anymore...Me, I'm going to Alaska...

Nirvana 10/19/1991 Dallas

Can you really take it with you? What's the real basis of the difference between something that is really happening, and something that is only on the screen, something that is only on a record or on a page?

This review entry is going to veer away from the rock focus of the blog and talk a little bit about the concepts of the dead and the image. One of my interests, fairly well unrelated to bootleg music DVDs, is a five year and counting attempt to make any sense out of the Spanish language. I was reading a text by Carlos Fuentes on the death of Hemingway, and figured that I could hit two birds with one stone by translating it for this blog. This arose from the consideration that Hemingway, for those of you not big on the stuff that they forced you to try and read in high school, ended his very successful career as a entertainer in the very same way as Cobain- by blowing his brains out with a shotgun. Now, from certain perspectives, when you draw parallels between the two suicides, or any two suicides for that matter, the lines are false. What could be more unique and personal than all of the private contradictions for which suicide is the inescapable conclusion? Nevertheless, we, the living, project upon these figures a sort of myth or cliché that is part of the general idea of rock and roll: the hero dying at the peak of his powers- their devotion to them is so strong that they are unable to exist after their disappearance.

If you have a better grasp of Spanish than I do and you discover some errors in what I've done, I'd appreciate it very much if you'd let me know. If you're some sexy Spanish speaking muchacha who is willing to give me some private lessons, that would be even better...

.....A year before dying, Ernest Hemingway finished, in his country estate on the Cuban coast, A Movable Feast, the title comes from an expression coined by Hemingway himself:
'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.' The words not only express the nostalgia of a writer affirming the vitality of his vocation in the Parisian twenties, it also reveals the conscious of a man in search of his true image. A Movable Feast is the tragic document of Ernest Hemingway in search of Ernest Hemingway. The result, with respect to literature, is happy: the hard, brilliant, and austere style of the old author bridging the distance in order to discover another man- in order to create an objective personality. From a human viewpoint, the result is saddening: Hemingway knew that that Hemingway, the young, true Hemingway, was not the emasculated Hemingway that a year later would commit suicide. Are we only that which we truly are that single day, that day in which will, necessity, and chance: the sum of our destiny- unite themselves in order to offer us our greatest possibility? Can we- or should we -continue living after this moment? When we have arrived at a compromise with life that permits us to repeat the old gestures and maintain with them the illusion of a lost authenticity. "My new theory (was) that you could omit anything if you knew what you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood." The familiar style is present, I daresay like never before- In the posthumous book, that which is unspoken, doubts, terrible and solitary, are the material for memoirs that achieve the level of great literature.
-casa de los dos puertas p. 105 bold italics mine


Un ano antes de morir, Ernest Hemingway terminò, en su finca de la costa cubana, A Movable Feast. El tìtulo deriva de una frase dicha en conversaciòn por el propio Hemingway: " Los que tuvimos la suerte de vivir en Paris nuestra juventud, sentimos que permanece dentro de nosotros furante toda la vida y a donde vayamos, pues Paris es una fiesta en movimiento."
Las palabras no sòlo expresan la nostagia de un escritor que en Paris de los años vientes afirmò su vocacion vital. Ademas revelan la conciencia de un hombre en busca de su verdadera imagen. A movable feast es es documento tràgico de Ernest Hemingway. El resultado, literariamente, es feliz: el estilo duro, brilliante y austero del viejo escritor aprovecha la distancia para descubrir el caràcter de otro hombre, para crear un personaje objectivo. Pero, humanamente, es doloroso: Hemingway sabe que aquel Hemingway, el joven, el verdadero, ya no es el Hemingway enmascarado que un ano despuès habrìa de sauiciarse. Somos sòlo lo que fuimos un dìa, el dìa en que la voluntad, la necieisidad y el azar- la suma del destino- se reunieron para ofrecernos nuestra màxima posibilidad? Podemos o merecemos vivr dispuès ese momento? Hemos de llegar a un compromiso con la vida que nos permita repetir los gesos, y con ellos mantener la ilusiòn, de una autenticdad perdida? Mi nueva teoria- escribe Hemingway en este libro - " Mi nueva teorìa- escribe Hemingway en este libro- (era) que uno podìa omitido cualquuier cosa si uno sabìa que la habìa omitido, y la parte omitida reforzarìa la historia y harìa que le gente sintiera algo màs de lo que entendia."El famoso estilo de Hemingway està presente- me atrevo a pensar que como nunca- en esta libro pòstuma: lo no dicho, preguntas terrìbles y solitarias, son la materia de unas memorias que alcazan el nivel de la creacion literaria.



The image seems like a rather casual aspect of the world- all the more so now given that it's all just pixels raining down across the heavens. Do non-famous people even have an Image?....You and I...We post our images. Our acquaintances pretend to be interested in them for a few moments, but soon there will be mountains and mountains of digital videos and conversations...and we and our acquaintances will all be forgotten...All the words and images we post...grains of digital ones and zeros that no one will ever bring up on a screen again...

Theme From Carmen
Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
Aneurysm
Drain You
School
Floyd The Barber
Smells Like Teen Spirit
About A Girl
Polly
Breed
Sliver
Love Buzz
Pennyroyal Tea
Negative Creep
On A Plain
Blew
Lithium
Rape Me
Territorial Pissings

Those of you with a little intuition should be able to conclude by now that this Nirvana concert rocks out pretty hard...Nevermind had been released, but the momentum of its popularity was still building and the band is only playing in a medium sized club. It's single camera and not pro-shot- but the shooter is actually on stage with the band in front of the drums and facing the crowd: the chaos at the edge of the stage. A front line, really, manned by a few bouncers and steadily assailed by crowdsurfers. Sometimes. the rowdy audience gives the songs more energy. Other times, it forces the band to fuck them up- but the fact that it's not all scripted and done before it began is what makes it such an enjoyable show.

The height of the show's mayhem is included in thirty seconds of the Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! vid. During "Lovebuzz", Cobain surfs the crowd. When he makes it back up on stage, one of the bouncers punches him in the back of the head and sends him sprawling. The crowd chants "...bullshit...bullshit...bullshit..." and tense confusion takes place for a good four or five minutes. The possibility of a riot crosses everyone's' mind. The band gets back up and plays for another half hour with nearly the same intensity as before.

I watched the Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! thing again in order to get in the right frame of mind for doing this all justice. This bootleg looks a lot better than how the video appeared on that product. Whoever mastered it for the bootleg did a hell of a job. As for Live sold out, if you find Nirvana even tolerable, I'd say that it is essential viewing...Again and again, you see television hosts and programs, malicious facades of human beings and life, all trying convey their only real message: that one must remain convinced of how important television is. Sometimes, the band finds it easy to make it all look stupid by not taking it seriously. Other times, they only pay some poorly thought out cliché lip service to objecting to it -winding up in the vague paradox realm of the famous Rolling Stone cover. How do you control your image and make it say what you want to say what you want it to say? What other forces threaten to take control of your image?



.......It isn't paradoxical that Hemingway, who ended by sacrificing his literary talent to his public image, is now made complete by encountering, in the lost Hemingway, his greatest fictional character. The concision of A Movable Feast, direct and realistic, effectively hides an uncanny scaffold of corridors extending by means of a game of infinite mirrors. Who is Ernest Hemingway? That is the enigma of this novel of memoirs. Old friends of Hemingway told me recently, in New York, that in his last years the writer had arrived at a total confusion of personality. Hemingway did not know if he was Lieutenant Frederick Henry, the guerrilla Robert Jordan, or the actor Gary Cooper.

No es paradójico que Hemingway, que terminó por sacrifcar su literatura a su imagen personal, acabe ahora por encontrar en el Hemingway perdido su mejor personaje. La concisión de la escritura en A movable Feast, directa y realista, esconde efectivamente un andamiaje fantástico de corredores alargados por juegos de espejos infinitos. Quién es Ernest Hemingway? Tal es el enigma de esta novela de memorias. Viejos amogos de Hemingway me decían recientemente, en Nueva York,, que en sus ultimos años el escritor habia llegado a una confusión se personalidad total. Hemingway no sabía si era el teniente Frederick Henry, el guerrillero Robert Jordan, o el actor Gary Cooper.


...So which image belongs to who? And how is it decided? By the real people beneath them all? What do they look like?




There are other aspects to move onto here, other thoughts and remarks...but they are far from Cobain, now long dead. I've no motive to omit anything, my friends, for any reason, literary, or otherwise. It's just that this disc has stopped turning in my player. Time permitting, we will return to this inquiry by means of some other rock and roll occasion.

And P.S.
Big up http://www.nirvanaarchive.com/ which looks like a nice overview of the nirvana boot universe.

PPS if what brought you through here was an interests in literature of the Spanish language - I've got another blog which is more related to this theme...some discussion of Octavio Paz and other authors: check THIS

Skinny Puppy 6/26/1992 Dallas

Tried to write this several times but, bottom line: either I don't get S.P. or they're not any good...I used a sound effect off of The Process once...but the other recordings, nothing I've heard did anything for me and this live show video didn't change my opinion of the group.








This youtube post is a fair representation of the quality of the files I found in the torrent, and will perhaps allow you to conclude with me that it doesn't make for very interesting viewing. Its youtube uploader has also put up some skinny puppy material that is a little more engaging: some of the backing videos that the group edited together for rear projection at their performances. There are some very visceral sequences that occasionally crop up throughout the montage, and it's a damn shame that it's all so terribly fucked up by compression artifacts. It's all of a sort of material that prompted me to collect video in the first place; once you do violence to images themselves it sometimes reminds you that not all control of them is official and has to be outside of your hands...
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here's an excerpt from a text file bundled in the torrent:
setlist: Addiction Love In Vein The Choke Harsh Stone White Interlude Tin Omen Worlock Knowhere Anger Interlude2 VX Gas Attack Second Tooth Killing Game Circustance Left Hand Shake Dirty Tricks Testure Janitor's Nightmare

===================== The stage show of Last Rights tour (North America, 1992) was built around a detailed narrative that involved Ogre interacting with a backing film, a "virtual reality" machine, a bleeding crucifix, and a large, rotating device called "The Tree of No Cares" from which dangled severed heads and pornographic magazines

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